• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Hiroki Kato (Vanquish/God Hand lead designer, RE:CV director) has become a farmer

R

rvy

Banned
I can't even.

ibawdgXTzrMGKs.gif
 
T

The Boat

Member
That's an interesting and bold choice. I saw in a documentary that here in Portugal there are some young people moving to farming too, although I doubt this is a significant phenomenon and probably just reporters blowing it out of proportions with a few cherry picked cases, I wonder if this is something that's happening in several places around the globe.

Being too attached to technologies and all the trappings of modern society, sometimes I stop and wonder if a simpler life could be much more fulfilling.
 
E

Empty

Member
<3 this. even if it means missing his amazing design work with mikami, this choice - of boldly changing your life so radically to hopefully realize a more harmonious existence - is so awesome. what a guy.
 
C

CrackPebbles

Member
With his new life experiences he should design the most badass crazy harvest moon spin off of all time.

BREAK THE LIMITER ON YOUR CROPS
 
B

BRocknRolla

Member
Good for him. Get out and have a simpler life. This industry seems pretty toxic and I imagine it can wear on you, even if you're generally loved.
 
B

Bronetta

Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Applying his expertise towards the Character Action Farming genre, I see.
 
X

Xpliskin

Member
Sitting in front of computer screens for that many years can burn someone out. The games he worked on won't be forgotten :D
 
K

Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
The Boat said:
That's an interesting and bold choice. I saw in a documentary that here in Portugal there are some young people moving to farming too, although I doubt this is a significant phenomenon and probably just reporters blowing it out of proportions with a few cherry picked cases, I wonder if this is something that's happening in several places around the globe.

Being too attached to technologies and all the trappings of modern society, sometimes I stop and wonder if a simpler life could be much more fulfilling.
Click to expand...

When we moved to rural Pennsylvania, we started growing some food every season to take advantage of farmable land we're on. Nothing major, just for ourselves to eat. It does provide a contrast to, and a break from, the bullshit that people invent in the so-called civilized world.

I think there comes a point when one may realize most of what we are presented with as a "productive" life isn't actually producing anything and amounts to moving paper around or putting boxes in boxes. Growing some food has restored a bit of perspective. While I'm not planning on starting a working farm, I think I can now see the attraction.
 
R

_Ryo_

Member
The irony is he probably has more creative freedom as a farmer than as a game designer. Sell more product too.
 
T

The Smoking Bun

Banned
Kai Dracon said:
When we moved to rural Pennsylvania, we started growing some food every season to take advantage of farmable land we're on. Nothing major, just for ourselves to eat. It does provide a contrast to, and a break from, the bullshit that people invent in the so-called civilized world.

I think there comes a point when one may realize most of what we are presented with as a "productive" life isn't actually producing anything and amounts to moving paper around or putting boxes in boxes. Growing some food has restored a bit of perspective. While I'm not planning on starting a working farm, I think I can now see the attraction.
Click to expand...

You know I never understood the romanticized view of Farming, a good portion of America seems to have since here in India, farmer suicides due to poverty is a thing and they are little more than beggars who have to pay for expensive imported seeds the government forces them to buy

....

and you thought Grapes of Wrath was bleak.
 
M

massoluk

Banned
Ein Bear said:
This feels like the start of an action movie.

Ten years from now, when all that remains are mobile F2P games...
"I gave up that life a long time ago."
"Mr. Kato, gaming needs you.

Then God Hand 2 comes out.
Click to expand...

In a world where game industry was taken over by generic shooters and mobile game ripoff, in a world where heroes and pioneers were lost in the sand of time and changes and bankruptcy and unstainable business models, one man will return to save the industry.

"I gave up that life a long time ago." Kato put down the hoe, swiping down his sweat.
"Mr. Kato, gaming needs you."

*Explosion.*
"Shit, EA just killed another developer."
"What do we do?"
"We make Vanquish 2."
*Fade to Black*

The Developer
A Michael Bay Film
Coming Spring 2016.
 
T

The Smoking Bun

Banned
massoluk said:
In a world where game industry was taken over by generic shooters and mobile game ripoff, in a world where heroes and pioneers were lost in the sand of time and changes and bankruptcy and unstainable business models, one man will return to save the industry.

"I gave up that life a long time ago." Kato put down the hoe, swiping down his sweat.
"Mr. Kato, gaming needs you."

*Explosion.*
"Shit, EA just killed another developer."
"What do we do?"
"We make Vanquish 2."
*Fade to Black*

The Developer
Coming Spring 2016.
Click to expand...

The dialogue is the same if he became a pimp instead of a farmer...
 
G

Grisby

Member
As someone who used to spend his summers working a farm, good luck. Hard stuff but it is nice to be outside most if the day.

And thanks for Code Veronica, one of my favorite re's and a hell of a dreamcast game.
 
H

Hag

Member
he's gonna be prolly the most badass motherfucker farmer of japan.

I wish him all the luck.

rip vanquish 2
 
T

Totobeni

An blind dancing ho
Hag said:
he's gonna be prolly the most badass motherfucker farmer of japan.

I wish him all the luck.

rip vanquish 2
Click to expand...

I don't think there was a chance for Vanquish 2 even before this news, Vanquish bombed, Mikami went to Tango and SEGA (IP owner) seems to not even want remember their time with P.G.
 
V

Vilix

Unconfirmed Member
I wish him the best. Vanquish has to be one of the most underrated games of all time.
 
D

doemaaan

Member
I wouldn't be able to do it. I assume he was living in a city-like environment before. Now I picture some guy living out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but wheat fields and cows. I don't have the mental strength to change my life-style that drastically.
 
H

h#shdem0n

Member
SmartBase said:
Yes you do. A lot of the different forms of farming in Japan are heavily subsidised.

Still, an interesting career change.
Click to expand...

I don't know anything about Japanese agricultural politics, hopefully they are less fucked up than they are in the US. I hope I'm wrong and he is happy and fulfilled, spiritually and materially.
 
F

Fehyd

Banned
Ein Bear said:
This feels like the start of an action movie.

Ten years from now, when all that remains are mobile F2P games...
"I gave up that life a long time ago."
"Mr. Kato, gaming needs you.

Then God Hand 2 comes out.
Click to expand...

Replace it with Vanquish 2 and I'm on board.
 
N

Neiteio

Member
Ein Bear said:
This feels like the start of an action movie.

Ten years from now, when all that remains are mobile F2P games...
"I gave up that life a long time ago."
"Mr. Kato, gaming needs you.

Then God Hand 2 comes out.
Click to expand...
This sounds amazing.

Also, must be the most exciting farm in the world, Kato rocket-sliding everywhere
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup for May: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Humanity, Watch Dogs: Legion
2 3 4
198
13K
bender replied
"Director's Hazard" Interview Translation (Mikami, Kamiya, Kato, Aoyama, Karatsuma)
11
4K
News Bot replied
Mikami may direct Tango's next game, talks about his changing views & studio history
31
4K
MiamiWesker replied
Why I'm still excited for The Evil Within!
2 3
118
15K
kiri replied
Wired (Chris Kohler): "The Era of Japans All-Powerful Videogame Designers Is Over"
3 4 5 6 7
305
39K
NolbertoS replied
Top Bottom