I was entirely unprepared to meet From Software’s Masanori Takeuchi. When I arrived at Devolver Digital’s Gamescom booth to see Metal Wolf Chaos – the 14-year old, Japan-only Xbox mech game about a vengeful American president – I expected to interview someone working on the current-gen port, not the producer of the 2004 original.

As I was ushered into a separate room to meet the senior managing director of quite probably the most well-respected developer in the world right now, my prepared questions about exactly how many guns I could make the mech-president shoot, and how many the mech-president could shoot all at once, seemed woefully inadequate.

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Source: IGN.com Metal Wolf Chaos, and Why From Software Isn’t Releasing New Mech Games (Right Now)