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Breath of Fire 6 announced for PC/tablet/smartphones
- Thread starter RyougaSaotome
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DLC was a Pandora's box that unleashed in-app purchases, F2P and item gambling. There's no putting them back in now
There is zero reason to believe it's not going to be a 'casual' game.
Stone Ocean
Member
It's online focused and browser based, there's no way this will be even remotely respectable.
Just look at how souless and uninspired the characters look like. This is freemium garbage, farmville for RPG fans
In what kind of game do you control a dog and eat your own shit ?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Deified Data
Banned
It's like a joke made real.
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I'm hoping there actually is some.
It's just used for evil and/or poorly implemented most of the time. That, and it just bothers me personally when a game is constantly asking me to open my wallet.
Karsticles
Member
Westerners don't buy enough copies of good Japanese games, so Japanese companies ruin them. -_-
Dog's life.
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BoosterDuck
Banned
One step forward with Ducktales Remastered. Two steps back with this shit.
What kind of games do you play?
Anyway, imagine the next main Call of Duty is now an online only, touch-screen shooter featuring slingshots as the only weapons.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
"inherently" doesn't really mean anything if its still implemented badly in most cases.
SilentSoldier
Member
No, Dear god no. Why Capcom, why?
My heart, my soul, all of it has just been crushed ;_;
My heart, my soul, all of it has just been crushed ;_;
Black Door
Banned
So with sadness in my heart
I feel the best thing I could do
is end it all
and leave forever
whats done is done, it feels so bad
what once was happy now is sad
I'll never love again
my world is ending
I feel the best thing I could do
is end it all
and leave forever
whats done is done, it feels so bad
what once was happy now is sad
I'll never love again
my world is ending
Valve probably. They seem to be the only ones that've made MOST people happy with their approach to F2P.
Or the "hope" is the smaller group of publishers/developers that carry on with more hardcore games and only at worst have (relatively) mild graces with F2P design, like SMTIV. And maybe that this movement will collapse on itself eventually.
WickedLaharl
Member
Actually yeah, seriously. I want to play this dog-shit eating simulator. It will be a better game than Breath of Fire VI. Immensely more amusing, at the very least.
Stone Ocean
Member
The hope is western devs
We're fucked
We're fucked
timetokill
Banned
Hahahahahaha oh WOW
crowphoenix
Banned
This is amazing! I have no idea how to process this news. It's just... My brain is full of fuck
Syph Medwes
Member
Fuck you Capcom
I don't even know where to begin.
I don't even know where to begin.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm back from my shift, but even if I'm less irritated than I was this morning (which was a complete... I don't even know), I'm still incredibly disappointed. I have to say that sometimes I don't like it when companies go in a drastically different direction with some of their series. I like to go with the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it; but if you must, add onto it for the best". But some recent games in some of these series that we like to reminisce about have simply gone into a direction that's in an extreme that people don't wish for the series to be in. It's because people like being comfortable, playing games that they're familiar with. If the change has been too drastic, and if people aren't slowly eased into it, people are going to feel incredibly disappointed or at least, people will feel mixed about the game in question.
It's not just with Breath of Fire, either. One of my friends messaged me saying that Capcom's been doing this with their higher-tier stuff for years now, and to an extent that certainly is true. It certainly feels like Capcom's squandering all of the goodwill they had towards the beginning and midpoint of this generation when they released SF4, MM9, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Mega Man ZX, Ghost Trick, bringing PW to the west, etc. And for what? Either an attempt at trying to secure wider audiences by making some changes for some of the games they release, or chasing after the emerging mobile market for a chance to increase their profits slightly.
My disappointment is rooted in the fact that a lot of the series that I loved as a kid, whether it's Genso Suikoden, Lufia, Mega Man, Contra, Commando, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, etc. have been (for the most part) reduced to current games in the series being nothing but unsubstantial playthings that you'd play for an hour or two each day, with very little sense of progression and unsubstantial game design. Or they may be IPs that you haven't heard from in a long time. Genso Suikoden is the exception, but it's become a series where the developer does not treat its legacy and what it means to its fanbase justice. Not to mention that both Capcom and Konami were my favourite companies when I was little.
I understand Capcom's idea of trying to go for a market that seems to be emerging in the games industry. It's just like how I get SE for doing the same thing. But I can't really support that idea because a lot of the games that these two companies have released on these platforms have been subpar in some way (ie: SE with the visual / UI department and lack of substance in systems for their mobile games, and Capcom with... well, you've seen Rockman xover). The fear is that Breath of Fire 6, a game that people have been waiting years for is on a platform that has controls that not everyone is comfortable with, it is an online touch RPG, and given Capcom's amazing effort with some of their mobile ventures, it's probably not going to look or play rather stellar either. It will lack substance and depth that people are used to seeing in traditional RPGs like BoF. That is why I'm disappointed.
Capcom has so many IPs that they can play around with, but they're either shelving them because they might not work in this retail environment at present, or they're making mobile sequels for that market (and, again, the real problem I have with that is that I don't think these games will have a lot of substance or depth to them at all). It just a huge shame that they're squandering their IPs in an attempt to gain a small profit at a lower cost, or they're even squandering the good will that their fans have had for them for decades. And that good will was gained due to their willingness to make their games even better, or diversify their IP so that there was something that the company had to offer to everyone.
Both Capcom and Konami are at the end of their ropes for me. It's a damn shame what they've become in the last generation or so. Very disappointing. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to be as disappointed with Capcom as I am with Konami this generation, but here we are.
It's not just with Breath of Fire, either. One of my friends messaged me saying that Capcom's been doing this with their higher-tier stuff for years now, and to an extent that certainly is true. It certainly feels like Capcom's squandering all of the goodwill they had towards the beginning and midpoint of this generation when they released SF4, MM9, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Mega Man ZX, Ghost Trick, bringing PW to the west, etc. And for what? Either an attempt at trying to secure wider audiences by making some changes for some of the games they release, or chasing after the emerging mobile market for a chance to increase their profits slightly.
My disappointment is rooted in the fact that a lot of the series that I loved as a kid, whether it's Genso Suikoden, Lufia, Mega Man, Contra, Commando, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, etc. have been (for the most part) reduced to current games in the series being nothing but unsubstantial playthings that you'd play for an hour or two each day, with very little sense of progression and unsubstantial game design. Or they may be IPs that you haven't heard from in a long time. Genso Suikoden is the exception, but it's become a series where the developer does not treat its legacy and what it means to its fanbase justice. Not to mention that both Capcom and Konami were my favourite companies when I was little.
I understand Capcom's idea of trying to go for a market that seems to be emerging in the games industry. It's just like how I get SE for doing the same thing. But I can't really support that idea because a lot of the games that these two companies have released on these platforms have been subpar in some way (ie: SE with the visual / UI department and lack of substance in systems for their mobile games, and Capcom with... well, you've seen Rockman xover). The fear is that Breath of Fire 6, a game that people have been waiting years for is on a platform that has controls that not everyone is comfortable with, it is an online touch RPG, and given Capcom's amazing effort with some of their mobile ventures, it's probably not going to look or play rather stellar either. It will lack substance and depth that people are used to seeing in traditional RPGs like BoF. That is why I'm disappointed.
Capcom has so many IPs that they can play around with, but they're either shelving them because they might not work in this retail environment at present, or they're making mobile sequels for that market (and, again, the real problem I have with that is that I don't think these games will have a lot of substance or depth to them at all). It just a huge shame that they're squandering their IPs in an attempt to gain a small profit at a lower cost, or they're even squandering the good will that their fans have had for them for decades. And that good will was gained due to their willingness to make their games even better, or diversify their IP so that there was something that the company had to offer to everyone.
Both Capcom and Konami are at the end of their ropes for me. It's a damn shame what they've become in the last generation or so. Very disappointing. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to be as disappointed with Capcom as I am with Konami this generation, but here we are.
This man right here... <3
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Online touch RPG. I doubt it's going to be very substantial at all.
All I have in my head is Rockman xover.
Capcom has 0 shame. Zero.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
Ugh, horrible. And this is just the beginning.
Cant stop thinking about the onslaught of IAPs! Which is why I hate mobile gaming because of that!
Cant stop thinking about the onslaught of IAPs! Which is why I hate mobile gaming because of that!
Jrpgfanatic
Member
Well, at the very least we have Udon bringing us the Breath of Fire Official Complete Works book next year. I'll buy that, replay my copies of the originals, and pretend like 6 doesn't exist.
As a HUGE Breath of Fire fan, I can honestly say this has ruined my day.
No hyperbole here, no exaggeration at all. This has truly ruined my day....
They cancel Mega Man Universe.
They cancel Mega Man Legends 3.
And now they announce that one of my favorite RPG franchises is going to be reduced to a pile of steamy, stinky crap.
Capcom's CEO should just come out and ask the fans: "Which other franchises do you love? So we can go on and take a dump over them."
No hyperbole here, no exaggeration at all. This has truly ruined my day....
They cancel Mega Man Universe.
They cancel Mega Man Legends 3.
And now they announce that one of my favorite RPG franchises is going to be reduced to a pile of steamy, stinky crap.
Capcom's CEO should just come out and ask the fans: "Which other franchises do you love? So we can go on and take a dump over them."