"I deserved to be fired from Nintendo", Chris Pranger says.
Sept 4, 2015 8:34:30 GMT -5
Post by Joseph Joestar on Sept 4, 2015 8:34:30 GMT -5
Heh, I still have the Lunar guide that Meston did. It's actually very helpful, since the Sega CD version doesn't even say what spells do.
I believe there are only 3 or 4 Gaijinworks employees total, including Ireland, so when and if (and I'm being generous saying "and if") Gaijinworks goes under, at least he won't take many people out with him.
I'd be curious to know how many people were on with Working Designs at their height.
As for Gaijinworks, I hope they're able to expand their presence some - to be honest, I almost missed the Summon Night 5 one, which would have seriously pissed me off.
A nice fellow on Twitter reminded me of this - does anyone remember the name or address of Zach Meston's website? I remember that was what started the bad blood between him and Ireland. The only thing I remember from his site though at the moment was him talking about getting a VD from some publicist woman he met at a trade show.
web.archive.org/web/19990601000000*/http://home.earthlink.net/~zmeston/
I remember writing to Zach when I found that site. He contributed to Video Games and Computer Entertainment, and his reviews were a lot funnier than the other's more straightforward style, so I was a fan of his writing when I was a kid.
I interviewed him like ten years ago for a 1up article on localization when he worked Atlus, he gave some really candid, funny answers but I'm not sure what I ended up using. All I remember is him saying they punched up a lot of dialogue in Metal Saga since the core game was kinda dull looking otherwise, and commented that they changed the US name of Bumpy Trot because it sounded like some kind of disease.
Also I can appreciate about the VG&CE link because besides WD and various guides that's where I knew him from too. He was still around at the "reboot" stage (Video Games) before they transitioned into Tips & Tricks, which IMO is a really under-appreciated magazine.(1) A lot of people gave it shit, but they'd do cool stuff like retrospectives on games - for instance, talking about all of Spider-Man's appearances in games, including stuff like Gekisya Boy and Revenge of Shinobi - another example is that they were also the first US magazine to show screenshots of Sweet Home, when someone wrote in asking about it after that GameFan interview.
(1) Fun fact: it also featured one of the first "fake gamer/geek girls" in the form of Betty Hallock(sp?), who apparently hated video games (although that's supposedly the case for most game journalists) and was just kind of put on the magazine (again, you can't help where you work) because she was an attractive woman that wore glasses. Not that it really mattered, she was rather interesting and wrote well on the subject.