Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: 1UP still unafraid to ask the tough questions

[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]James Mielke (1UP) <a href="http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172019">interviews</a> <i>Time Pilot</i>-creator Yoshiki Okamoto (YO), with help from translator Hiroko Minamoto (HM). [quote]HM: James has been studying Japanese. He's going to propose to his Japanese-American girlfriend next month. <a href="http://caltrops.com/pointy.php?action=viewPost&pid=91869">[Editor's note: She said yes.]</a> YO: [Applauds] I had a Japanese wife once, too, but we got divorced. [To Hiroko] Make sure to tell him that they're [Japanese women] scary. [Laughs] Korean women are even scarier. Really, really scary. 1UP: [In Japanese] They're a little scary. YO: You see! He said it too! Everyone knows! After you get married, they change into another person entirely. Like if you were looking at them through a scouter in Dragon Ball, you would see their power level start to skyrocket, [Makes rapid beeping noises] then it breaks. That's what happened to my ex-wife. Like Frieza. 1UP: I think that usually applies to the mother-in-law. YO: Where does your future mother-in-law live? 1UP: In Japan. YO: That's good, you want her to be far away. Are you planning on living in Japan or America? 1UP: Japan, one day. YO: That's not good. Right now, you're at the peak of your happiness, but it's all downhill from there. Relationships have good points where they go up a little, but in general, it's all downhill. [Okamoto to Hiroko] You're not married yet, right? HM: No, not yet. YO: For women, there are always lots of men who want to be with them. Figuratively, they have a truck full of guys that they could choose from. For you, the truck's been in an accident, that's why no guys have arrived at the moment. HM: Is that so? Game Republic PR lady: My truck hasn't come in yet, either. YO: Yours has been held up by the one in the accident. Game Republic PR lady: That's what I'd thought. YO: Anyway, I've never been very popular with the ladies. I'm single now, but that's normal for me. I just couldn't get dates growing up. I didn't have anything to offer, not even money. I just stayed at home playing videogames all day, every day. Now, I live in a company apartment where I live with a couple other Game Republic co-workers and we hang out on the weekends and just play videogames all day, or watch anime or DVDs while drinking sake.[/quote] [quote]1UP: The president of Dimps [Takashi Nishiyama] lives in the same apartment complex as you. Do you guys ever talk? And who else from the industry do you hang out with? YO: He actually lives in the same building, on the same floor, right next door to me. Mr. Nishiyama used to work at Capcom as well, so we bonded over the hard work we shared there, and we've been good friends ever since. Both of us had long stretches where we weren't in a relationship, but he would always be sharing a room with some guy. Not me, I mean we were friends. Just friends. I'm pretty sure Mr. Nishiyama is bisexual. But I'm straight. I only like girls, but he likes both. Mr. Nishiyama taught me how to turn my ideas into game design documents, but he didn't teach me about men. 1UP: That's interesting, because I don't know who said it, but a long time ago, at least six or seven years ago, and it might've been from either the editorial side or the development side, but someone told me that you were gay. YO: [Speaking English] No way! I'm straight! [In Japanese] I think it's just a misunderstanding. I might've said I was working on the "GameBoy," and they heard "Gay Boy." [Laughs] 1UP: That's...interesting. I don't remember who told me that. I mean, it doesn't matter, but somebody mentioned it, and I was like, "Really?" Because every time I saw you at a Capcom Gamer's Day in Las Vegas, you were surrounded by hot Capcom girls. YO: [Puts on deadpan face] I have to keep up the impression of being an unpopular guy in my office, so you can't talk about me surrounded by hot girls. [Okamoto to the Game Republic PR lady] The other weekend, we had to go out and rate some videos for work. That was kind of like a date between us, right? Game Republic PR lady: No. That was work.[/quote][/quote]