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Itagaki VS Kamiya - Who Makes The Best Action Games?

There can only be one king of the action game genre and in the last few weeks, words have been traded between rival game developers, Tomonobu Itagaki and Hideki Kamiya. In the latest publication of Edge magazine, Kamiya states that since his last game the action genre has become stale and that his upcoming title, Bayonetta, will deliver the type of action only his team, PlatinumGames can provide. In the other corner, Itagaki-san states that Ninja Gaiden 2 is the definitive action game, that only Team Ninja can develope. So the question is, who makes the best action games? Itagaki or Kamiya?
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1 Spydiggity | 570 days 1 hour ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Breakfast - 570 days ago
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How is it a console war? What does this have to do with xbox vs ps3?
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sonarus - 570 days ago
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Can't believe this article made it through it was already failed. If Xboxkings $hit is allowed then so is sony defense force and wii 60 and nintendo alliance
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Breakfast - 570 days ago
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To be far Sonarus, i tried my hardest to get the Haze review from SDF approved :D

And this is not console wars, since both these dude's games are multi-console.
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sonarus - 570 days ago
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Its not console wars and it is a valid discussion but its from fvkin xbotkings. If we let one of their articles thru we might as well let all of them. As long as the mart is an admin, its a BS story. You may have not been here when the mart was in his prime but he basically started the fanboy wars on here. He was the original fanboy
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Rikitatsu - 570 days ago
1.5 - LOL of course Kamiya wins
Kamiya :

Okami : HUGE Success +one of the best games on PS2
Devil May Cry 1 : best 3D action hack and slash ever
Viewtiful Joe : 2D + 3D + Beat em up + Platforming Puzzles = 93/100 on metacritic
Resident Evil 2 : Arguably the best Resident Evil in the series

Itagaki :

Dead or alive series: Erotic version of Virtua fighter
Ninja gaiden 1 : a great action game that copied a lot from DMC1 , didn't bring anything new to the table
Ninja Gaiden 2 : a huge critical flop

KAMIYA WINS!!
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Breakfast - 570 days ago
1.6 - lol...OF...Original Fanboy
straight from the mean streets of N4G.

I dont have a problem with anything being approved from anywhere...as long as its not being a fanboy, which this is definitely not.

LOL!!!...look at the alternative link.

Nasim at his finest.
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gta_cb - 570 days ago
1.7 - @ sonarus
wow you really dont like TheMart do you lol! hes not that bad (yes i was here in his prime =p lol) infact hes quite unique as when he argued with someone at least he would go get urls etc to prove his point, i have seen fanboys from both sides just talk talk but no proof, just cant remember their names as for a while i stopped coming to this site so much and now they seem to have gone/ taken a break/ changed name.... ohwell only time will tell me where they are :p
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LJWooly - 570 days ago
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Lol, Sonarus is making theMART sound like an seasoned N4G veteran or somehting. "When he was in his prime"... haha.

Seriously though, he's right, Xboxkings isn't exactly a credible site, and the actual quality of the journalism is... questionable, at best.
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sonarus - 569 days 23 hours ago
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We all know the mart has fallen off and his associate power of green(possibly the mart himself) handles the n4g crowd nowadays. I have seen power of green say stupid $hit like NG2. When i first got here, the mart was the first person i knew. The mart is THE original fanboy. Everyone else came after the mart. Sure he has cooled off because he has a site to run but he still sends out power of green to do his bidding. Mart may not have been as random as Nasim but fanboys evolve if we had to look back and say who is the one fanboy you all remember you know its the mart.

That being said, its a decent article but if you look at some of the garbage written as recent as last week, you will understand why nothing from that site should fly
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barom - 569 days 18 hours ago
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I think Hideki Kamiya wins easily. He's so creative. I think only Miyamoto stands a chance against him in terms of vision and creativity.
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DEADEND - 570 days ago
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Your right Kamiya wins this match hands down, right now Itagaki is one of the most over rated developer around. He only made one good game and thats it but yet he talks so much sh1t about other developers games.
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gunnerforlife - 570 days ago
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i sooooooooo loved dmc1 and still do lol i still play it sometimes, ive put in more than 200 hours into that game:D:D:D addiction to the next level;) and nothing since that game has grabed my attention like it:(

cmgbe BELOW: daaaam i agreed with u before i read ur whole comment:@:@
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deeznuts - 569 days 23 hours ago
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Jaffe!

He's so good, he left the framework for his team to make a very worth successive game, GOW2
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tplarkin7 - 569 days 23 hours ago
2.4 - NG is the best.
NG2 is not a "flop".

DMC was always underwhelming. DMC4 still has a fixed camera and ancient level design.

Itagaki is by far the superior action man. The original NG is still the example for all action games.
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Closing - 569 days 22 hours ago
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To say a game that gets a metric score of 8.1 is a flop is not only incredibly fanboyish, but also just plain stupid. An 8 is a good score no matter how you slice it.

A game that gets a 6 for a metric score is however a flop. We all know which game I'm talking about.

Are you fanboys that desperate for revenge that you have to make total false claims? Just wait to see what Too Human, Fable 2, Banjo, or Halo Wars gets at least. None of those games are looking so hot right now.

Anyhow learn to be gamers, and not brand loyalists.
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Mr Fancy Pants - 569 days 22 hours ago
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Kamiya

Devil May Cry = Success
Devil May Cry 2 = Flop (a real one)
Devil May Cry 3 = Success
Viewtiful Joe = Success
Okami = Success

Itagaki

Ninja Gaiden = Success
Ninja Gaiden 2 = Success
Dead or Alive = Success

Winner? Who you like more?

Ninja Gaiden > every Devil May Cry game in my opinion...
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joe382 - 569 days 4 hours ago
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ninja gaiden 2 is no way a flop. It might not sell very well but it got good reviews.

Kamiya wins no question IMO.
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cmrbe - 570 days ago
3 - DMC
Offcourse. NG copied alot from DMC. However. God Of War owns all action adventure games.
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juuken - 570 days ago
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Um...Kamiya kicks the living crap out of Itagaki.
Nuff' said.
Disagree with me all you want. Itagaki is good but Kamiya is the reason why DMC and Dante exists. And Dante is very, very cool.
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1stKnighT - 570 days ago
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Devil May Cry is a fun game, God of War can be beat with one weapon pressing the same button, Ninja Gaiden Black took some serious skill to beat. And after reading the reviews of the sequal, it looks like it's a hard game. Some reviewers even took points off it because it was to hard. I personally like the challenge.
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TheExecutive - 569 days 20 hours ago
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Play god of war 2 on Titan mode and tell me if you can still beat it with one button. The great thing about GOW is that its accessible to everyone. I have played each GOW 2 times. I consider myself very good at the game and I can tell you that Titan mode in GOW2 is hard to beat.

NG is a harder game, thats a given. But dont act like GOW isnt a challenge if you want it to be.
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Rikitatsu - 570 days ago
8.1 - lol
that Explains the 7s and the 6s reviews that are pouring out
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juuken - 570 days ago
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...And this is why NG2 isn't as good as it's counterparts?
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juuken - 569 days 23 hours ago
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thenickel, I will admit that NG has some kick ass gameplay, but DMC is truly badass. It takes just as much skill as you would use for NG for DMC. It's not a button masher at all.
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tplarkin7 - 569 days 23 hours ago
8.5 - @Rikitatsu
NG2 has a Metacritic score of 81. If anyone gave it a 6 or 7, they weren't skilled enough to finish the game.
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Mr Fancy Pants - 569 days 18 hours ago
8.6 - thenickel
very true
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Bigrhyno - 570 days ago
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Ninja Gaiden wouldn't have evolved into what it is today, if it weren't for Kamiya making DMC. I have to give my vote to Kamiya.
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Rikitatsu - 570 days ago
9.1 - thats true
NG copied a lot from DMC1
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Tetsuryu - 570 days ago
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A sword is only as great as the wielder.

Here are some of the best players pushing these titles to the limit. Most them have a great handle of both franchises. The quality of the videos might not be that great.

(Devil May Cry Series)

http://youtube.com/v/umrmVO...
http://youtube.com/v/zeA7wW...
http://youtube.com/v/5ST-pX...
http://youtube.com/v/_Iv8ud...

(Ninja Gaiden Series)

http://youtube.com/v/w--zz0...
http://www.iberiansngrealm....

Just give a moment to list some more, I'm having connections problems at the moment.
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Rikitatsu - 570 days ago
10.1 - Kamiya
only made DMC1 only
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Tetsuryu - 570 days ago
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I know he directed the first title.

He layed the ground work for future DMC titles. If it wasn't for him, the series obviously wouldn't be where it is today. The same goes with Itagaki, even if he hasn't participated in every project.

Where did I say that Kamiya was involved with the other installments of the franchise?

I'm simply providing videos. Note the word 'series'.

I can't find many of the older Ninja Gaiden videos, though tatsumarublack and Pokey86 have some of the best one's. These guys are really insane. For some reason, it's a pain to find their NG videos, though they're worth watching.
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Hellbringer - 569 days 21 hours ago
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Nice Dragonforce in the first NG video.

To tell you truth I might be better then those people in the NG videos. They aren't that good.
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Tetsuryu - 569 days 20 hours ago
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For some reason that was the only decent NG player on youtube, just about everyone else reeked. The best ones are hard to find. But Pokey86 is insane, he's mastered both franchises. The same goes for tats. What sucks is that I can't find a single NG video (streaming or downloadable) from either of them, even though I have the original video files in my computer. The old links are gone.

-Downloads-

Pokey86
http://hosted.filefront.com...

tatsumarublack
http://hosted.filefront.com...

All of them are DMC stuff, unfortunately there's not a single NG vid, both these guys have a preference for DMC over NG.

EDIT: LOL, I just noticed there's some NG footage about 3/4's of this video that I posted earlier. This is a remix of the original.

(tatsumarublack)
http://youtube.com/v/_Iv8ud...
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eagle21 - 570 days ago
11 - David Jaffe
cause God of War kills both! :)
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beavis4play - 570 days ago
12 - this is only a battle for second...
dave jaffes' god of war series whips both of them.
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TheExecutive - 570 days ago
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A little group called Santa Monica Studios, thats who.
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ngg12345 - 569 days 23 hours ago
14 - Uhh
Only a rampant fanboy would say Itagki. He kind of made only one action game, while kamiya made 3 of the best action games ever made. Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and DMC(which kind of ng is a clone of), he is by far more influential and produced better games.
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Sephiroushin - 569 days 23 hours ago
15 - Hideo?
Definitively Kamiya makes better games.NG is a copy of DMC; but Hideo is the best.
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Dark General - 569 days 23 hours ago
16 - Kamiya wins
He made Okami, original DMC and Res2. Versus DoA extreme beach volleyball, Ninja Gaiden and DoA (never been a fan of DoA ever since DoA2 on the Dreamcast).
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ErcsYou - 569 days 23 hours ago
17 - R u Joking??
A story from XboxKings? They only have like 10 users.... The original story only has one comment ... What am i talking about, this isn't even a story..... It says nothing new... I think i heard all of this before in the comment section of a NG2 review on N4G....How in the world did this pass?
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Unknown - 569 days 23 hours ago
18 - What do you look for....
in an action game? If you want action game with an epic story and really good gameplay then then the GOW series wins. If you look for a game that challenges you to use your brain when you kill and actually DEFEND yourself from SMART A.I. then the NG series wins. If you're looking for an action game that has a metro sexual hero with stiff game play and corny one liners then the DMC series wins. But since this topic isn't about Jaffe's wonderful GOW series, that leaving NG and DMC. Ninja Gaiden gets alot of flank for its story and bla bla. Cool. Some people aren't philosophical or whatever. I thought the first one made sense. It reminded me of a good ole ninja movie where the ninja gets protrayed by a memeber in their clan. The premise of DMC is cool but when I played DMC 4(after playing NG) I was left TOTALLY underwhelmed. Your enemies just wait for you to hit them and the gameplay was stiff as h3ll. I'm sure and hope that in later levels of the game(the game was on hard) the enemies would prove more difficult. But the reason I didn't even attempt to play further was because of the slow running Nero and stiff animations of the characters. It just didn't feel fun to me. Not to mention how cool they TRY to be with their corny one liners. It almost felt like I was controlling the dude from Lost Planet. Anyhow for some people that type of gameplay is right up their alley. I just like a little challenge with my action. And even though I like GOW...in terms of gameplay RYU would destroy KRATOS. But he fought the GODS and he did this. So what. RYU has defeated GREATER FIENDS which is equalivent to a GOD in his world. Story wise...GOW wins. Gameplay...NG wins. DMC...who cares.
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TheExecutive - 569 days 20 hours ago
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I agree that its different strokes for different folks. Personally I like the GOW series more because of the story. For me, in an action game I need a reason to fight from place to place. I really like the gameplay of GOW the best out of the three. However, I do see and understand the argument for NG. In NG the fighting system is much deeper and much much more diverse.

So, when it comes to the depth of the fighting engine NG blows away GOW. But this isnt reason enough to say that gameplay is better in NG than GOW. One great thing about GOW is that its incredibly accessible to the Noob and at the same time the difficulty settings make it a challenge for everyone.

The GOW fighting engine may not have the depth of NG but in many ways it surpasses the NG engine if not for the simple fact that I stated above. The combination of the story, immersion factor, and the tight tight gameplay of GOW helps it to surpass NG.

On to DMC, and obviously this is an opinion. I personally dont like it. I agree with the many points you stated. The story of DMC would be a lot better if it wasnt so da*n corny. The gameplay is fun but the animations are terrible. The backtracking in DMC4 made me quit playing it. Half of the game was backtracking through the previously beaten parts. It just felt gimmicky.

I wouldn't discount the series because of the backtracking of one game and the impact of the DMC series was felt for quite a while but I cant help but feel that its a little outdated.

Anywho thats my opinion.

Who wins? Who cares! both have something unique and fun to offer.
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