Yuji Naka to leave Sega?

Naka doesn't do that much at all these days.

 

Interesting... I didn't see any mention of when he was planning on leaving, though. I get the feeling it's not for a good long while, because didn't he say he was working on Sonic Next-Gen? Or did he just say his team was?

 

This remembers to me to that rumours about the Sonic Team being separated from Sega, some months ago. What if this has something to do with that? Well, anyways, it says that it'll still be allied with Sega... Meaning that we don't have too much to worry yet...

 

I don't know wether to laugh or to cry, but if this is true, then time will tell wether or not it was for the best. However, my personal experience tends to show that the Sonic games Naka had nothing to do with, for the most part, always turn out great, if not better, than the ones he was involved with. Like Sonic CD.

 

This would definitely make me sad. I know there is a lot of disappointment around here with the newer generations of Sonic games, but this man was the main programmer of the classics that we love so much (minus Sonic CD and such). We at least owe him that.

 

It's Iizuka that's stinking up the scene.

 

So, Naka left SEGA Of Japan after Sonic 1, left the STI after Sonic 3, threatened to quit when X-Treme was in progress, and now this. I wonder what happened this time. =P

 

Well, if they want him back so badly, they'd better pay a visit to the local Porsche dealer :P

 

Is this the end of Puyo Puyo Fever!?

 

Well, all I have to say, is that it'll be a dream-come-true for me if Naka actually does leave.

 

I don't just look at naka alone when looking at the old sonic games, to be honest, I appreciate the works of the origonal Sonic Team, one man can't make a great game, it takes hundreds of individuals being slave drived and being whiped late into the night by that one man. Yuji doesn't program the current gen games, and its a good thing he doesn't because his reputation as a good programer would have gone down the craper.

 

Maybe he heard about what happened over Xtreme this time around =P

 

Of course, there's also the chance that if he had programmed the current-gen games, they would have turned out better.

 

Look at sig.

 

Creator of Sonic my ass.

 

There's a difference between "not being the best" and "being better than mediocre", and mediocre seems to be the general opinion regarding the recent Sonic games.

 

Agreed. And I think that Sonic Next-Gen will be sucky, too. They may solve all the bugs, remove all the characters, etc., but without the original designers, or new designers that have their style (or something similar), the game won't have the effect Sega is expecting. I don't think Sonic Next-Gen will be as good as we think...