Kotaku
DoA's creator and youth role model Tomonobu Itagaki likes to hit the sauce. Does the leather jacket and sunglasses-wearing rockstar developer wait until after work to get his drink on? Oh, no. He waits until work. Itagaki states that all of the settings for Dead or Alive 4 were thought up on a binge. So how much does the dude drink? The hooch hound explains:
I am drinking pretty much full-time. Of course, there are ups and downs, waves, of how I drink in terms of the amount, but it's a long period of time. In the last ten years - not that you asked this question - I think I had better ideas when I was drinking whisky. When I am drinking shochu, that's a conservative drink, so the ideas are not that great. Beer is just like water to me, so it just helps me and everyone else loosen up a little bit, it doesn't really contribute to coming up with ideas.
Oddly, he says that he is so serious about photography that he doesn't like to take photos while he is drunk. That game designing gig is merely fucking around.
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