Yu Suzuki, the legendary former Sega game designer who has yet to be arrested for his role in the creation of the Shenmue series, has been given a new job. VGC (opens in new tab) Suzuki reports that Suzuki has partnered with Oasyx, “an NFT project developed on the Oasys gaming blockchain,” to create a series of compelling JPEGs based on the Virtua Fighter series he created. increase.
The partnership means that “fans will be able to acquire a limited edition ‘VF MAYU’ NFT of a ‘special Virtua Fighter character’ that will, uh, ‘hatch and reveal’ next month. The hype-sounding process will generate 1,000 Virtua Fighter NFTs featuring “11 characters from the first three Virtua Fighter games,” spending a lot of money on someone, somewhere. . Of course, they “will also serve as the base for future metaverse avatars”.
It’s not entirely clear what Suzuki’s role in the project really is. I don’t think it’s an overloaded statement in the sense of where it is. Blockchain-based NFT format that includes 3 titles from the “Virtua Fighter” series. It seems to me that Yu Suzuki’s role in this effort was for him to tell Oasyx that this effort could be named after Yu Suzuki. Sega doesn’t seem to do much more than license Virtua Fighter.
If there’s a silver lining to all of this, it’s that Oasyx is a proof-of-stake blockchain system, not proof-of-work. This means that it does not require the same energy-hungry, environmentally damaging computational power that networks like Bitcoin do. His NFT in Virtua Fighter is worth a look, but at least it’s not earth-eating. So don’t worry.
Last year, we said that NFTs had successfully been kicked out of mainstream gaming. (opens in new tab), and I still think it’s true. But it’s always a little disappointing to see the swamp bubbling up and spitting out stuff like this and Square Enix’s awful NFT games. (opens in new tab)even if it wasn’t the same NFT gold rush that seemed to temporarily dominate the management of video game companies around the world for a while. I understand you seem to have made a deal to reward him, but it saddens me to see a once great creator giving his name to this nonsense.