Early last month, the video game community around the globe found out Street Fighter executive producer, Yoshinori Ono, would be leaving Capcom after almost 30 years at the company.
In a message on Twitter, he said the new generation at Capcom would continue to expand the Street Fighter series over the coming years. Now, in a new series of tweets, Ono has reminded fans he will leave the company within several days - once again thanking all the world warriors:
Within several days, I will officially leave Capcom. I understand it’s standard for a general employee to make a resignation announcement AFTER the fact. Capcom has agreed that I am allowed to make the announcement approximately one month prior to my actual last day at the company
I am truly grateful that the company gave me a chance to spend the time with many Street Fighter fans while I am still with Capcom. Also I was able to reach out to those individuals and companies I’ve worked with closely.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to reach out to all the people I’ve worked with in the past, but I’d like to take this opportunity to show my gratitude to them. Thank you very much to All World Warriors. I look forward to meeting you all again someday in somewhere around the globe.
To see his original goodbye message, check out our previous post. Thanks again for everything, Mr. Ono.
[source twitter.com]
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Now he is just walking the earth. Like Cane in Kung-Fu.
@Yanina Imagine him just roaming around, going to arcades and just schooling people at street fighter.
Street Fighter will be not same like used to be.
My tribute of Street Fighter 2 parody on Jackie Chan movie. Street Fighter 2 was really phenomenal back during 90's era.
And let's not forget of Andy Lau's movie Future Cop with his role as Vega Fabio and heavy parody of Street Fighter contents.
I like the guy, really, but sorry, I think the Street Fighter saga will be better without him.
It's notorious that his take on SF4 (first main entry he produced) was not good and saved by Capcom by another producer (don't remember the name) before the release of its first entry and giving birth to the game we loved.
THEN he took the reigns on SF4 and, sorry, but some additions to the next SF4's entries are ... strange.
Then he produced Street X Tekken, an abomination.
Then he produced Street Fighter V who has a lot of qualities (some graphic designs, some musics, the gameplay as a whole) and an awful lot of problems (like the lack of general fun, lack of life in the graphics especially the backgrounds, lack of life in the animations or sound effects or even in the menus, and the general "plastic look").
Bring another producer to the Street Fighter saga.
One that has faith, good taste and the energy to resurrect what made Street Fighter once a great game. I want to have as fun on SF6 as I had on SF3 or SFZ3.
@smashboy2000 This, people really need to stop thinking he ever did anything remarkable to the franchise, or that he even created it, Ono has been nothing but Keiji Inafune 2.0
Ono isn't Mattrick-Xbox era bad but he was part of the creation of games like vanilla SFIV and V, Street Fighter x Tekken, and Marvel Infinite.
It's about time Capcom fighting games got some fresh blood in the staff like what happened with Resident Evil and Devil May Cry.
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