Comments on: “Spending decades working on one thing only to realize you can’t do anything else.” Guilty Gear creator discusses dangers of modern AAA development’s “overspecialization” of staff

By: JoeMama00

JoeMama00 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:24:52 +0000

Have fun Ishiwatari. I bet the modern audience was worth the adventure

By: JoeMama00

JoeMama00 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:23:04 +0000

In reply to Aoguroi. Bridget is a boy. You and your ilk can look up the beautiful night view on a certain "Bridge"

By: JoeMama00

JoeMama00 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:21:07 +0000

In reply to Mentally ill comments. I agree, you're a Mentally ill comment

By: JoeMama00

JoeMama00 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:20:03 +0000

In reply to The truth. Yet here you are, crying and seething about his opinion. Bridget is a boy, no amount HRT that killed this franchise will change that fact

By: Anonybleep

Anonybleep — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:45:11 +0000

Praying for all the dorks in this comment section to find a woman who will care to put up with them and a personality outside of just video games, so they can stop bitching about fictional video game characters and actually experience life outside of their computer for once

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:40:10 +0000

In reply to Meow meow meow. This is exactly what is said in the article. He states that he believes that smaller projects where teams are given more agency over the end product are important because they help develop a broader skillset through accumulated experience on different projects. His example with the placing grass was an example of what having these big AAA projects with large teams does. Tasks are broken into such small parts that those working on them aren't learning anything new and feel like they have little agency over the project they're working on.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:57:39 +0000

This is exactly what is said in the article. He states that he believes that smaller projects where teams are given more agency over the end product are important because they help develop a broader skillset through accumulated experience on different projects. His example with the placing grass was an example of what having these big AAA projects with large teams does. Tasks are broken into such small parts that those working on them aren’t learning anything new and feel like they have little agency over the project they’re working on.

By: Ergos

Ergos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:54:27 +0000

In reply to biruta.

Bridget was the icing on the cake, but the shit was written on the wall since Strive first came out. Hard rock was replaced by generic pop music, iconography and personalized hud thrown out in favor of boxes you’d see in a flash or bootleg game, “fights” that go at a snail’s pace. And, of course, eveyone had their movesets torn in half to not offend the gaijin.

Everyone had been castrated at that point anyways, why not castrate the groomed boy too?

By: Aoguroi

Aoguroi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:51:59 +0000

“afaik he said it was more of a censorship thing in the west. which is why in japan people still say he’s a boy”

That’s a lie. The Japanese script as clear as the English one, she’s a trans girl now and people need to get over it already.

By: Ocelit

Ocelit — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:52:45 +0000

I love how people complain when creatives do something new, but also complain when they do the same thing. Eventually, brilliant studios die and dissappear in stagnation just to make fans happy…

If you want repetition of unchanging worn out elements… go play Madden or Call of Duty. Or even better just keep playing that one game that you loved and shut up about it. We don’t care about you stupid opinions.

By: The truth

The truth — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:07:35 +0000

In reply to biruta. No one cares about your opinion.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:37:32 +0000

I’m glad they’re taking this chance to explore a different genre of gaming. If they have the same flair and music style from Guilty Gear then I’m here to support the dev team!

By: Blade

Blade — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:29:46 +0000

Ignoring the children in the comments, Ishiwatari’s got a point about handling staff in modern game development. At this point though, a lot of work he was once credited with is handled by new staff. People complaining about Bridget need to realize the pandering decision probably wasn’t entirely his to make. Globalization and Wokist Pandering is an ongoing issue with lots of entertainment media in the West and other regions. Some hands are tied in that regard if they want games to sell.

By: Dogma

Dogma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:30:45 +0000

I don’t think the guy that turned his unique metal and anime coded style into a generic pandering style should be giving tips to other people.

By: Jojoautoma

Jojoautoma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:59:12 +0000

This from arc sys, the devs who have promised over ten years of post release dev for that overpriced touken crap?

What a hypocrite.

By: Meow meow meow

Meow meow meow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:41:11 +0000

What the fuck are you talking about? My biggest problem with AAA games is they all feel identical. I fucking wish someone would make a AAA game that’s so unique it’s staff can’t find work elsewhere.
Sounds more like these staff members just suck at there jobs so much they get handed stupid tasks that take them forever. Like putting grass into a game taking so long? That’s called incompetence not some issue in the industry.
No the problem with AAA games is they are ran by greedy idiots who don’t want good games at all just good profits. Hence why AAA games are losing to indie games.

By: Mentally ill comments

Mentally ill comments — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:41:04 +0000

So many mentally unstable people in those comments. Ya all need to touch some grass and get a hang of reality.

By: Super Chud

Super Chud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:11 +0000

What the hell are most of the comments talkin about, its like the “human authentication” checkbox before filling a comment is irrelevant to em?? Its like they get personally attacked by the AAA developers for ruining their lives or smth… When youre a Chief Creative Officer and not some some lone cowboy who could do anything he wants, you have to think about the future and co-workers well beings, its hard to strike a balance even when i wasnt the intended audience for this new game its still very commendable. Talking about censorship in GG theres still resembelence in their games like how all the characters are overall “bigger and curvier” and despite cultures differences theyre still are willing to tell a different character indentity, its just not on-the-nose anymore like seeing underwear 24/7, its understandable since they are an AAA whos trying to sell their games

By: Saleri

Saleri — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:25:04 +0000

In reply to biruta. afaik he said it was more of a censorship thing in the west. which is why in japan people still say he's a boy

By: ICE

ICE — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:11:40 +0000

Glad that this slop is going to flop ever since they censored their games and retconned them to pander to mentally ill groomers.

By: poi

poi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:58:14 +0000

In reply to biruta. Ruined how?

By: nope

nope — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:54:04 +0000

In reply to biruta. Cry about it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:34:00 +0000

lol

lmao, even

Have fun Ishiwatari. You had a loyal audience that loved your works for what they were, and you decided to shit all over them for minimal gain. Now you’re destined to wallow in your own feces and I think that’s a beautiful thing.

By: biruta

biruta — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:54:05 +0000

daisuke deserves to fall from disgrace after ruining bridget