Drizzlehell
Banned
This is just a general appreciation thread for current day Capcom.
Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter... and a bunch of other, franchises that haven't gotten a lot of follow-ups recently, but at least they're still being kept alive and available for purchase on most platforms. Games like Lost Planet, Bionic Commando, Dragon's Dogma, Mega Man, and so on.
Whenever I fire up one of their games, it's like they always make sure to stick to their roots and only update the things that should be updated, such as graphics, controls, and maybe some minor mechanics. But everything else about them feels like I'm still playing those good 'ol games from the PS2 era that were sick back then and are still sick today. None of that bullshit with dumbed down mechanics so that babies could play those games, or some annoying, monotone, and pretentious "cinematic" storytelling or whatever. Yeah, their games can still be cinematic, but they never do it in a way that would overwhelm the entire experience and put you to sleep on your couch at the same time. No, their way of doing a cinematic game is exciting, tension-building, atmospheric, or just a pure spectacle with plenty of charm to it. And most importantly, it only serves to give some context to gameplay, which is always the primary focus.
Even if the games themselves have their ups and downs (not all of them are 10/10 bangers after all), they at least feel like fucking video games, and that's what I appreciate about them the most.
And now, let's look at this fucking guy again:
Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter... and a bunch of other, franchises that haven't gotten a lot of follow-ups recently, but at least they're still being kept alive and available for purchase on most platforms. Games like Lost Planet, Bionic Commando, Dragon's Dogma, Mega Man, and so on.
Whenever I fire up one of their games, it's like they always make sure to stick to their roots and only update the things that should be updated, such as graphics, controls, and maybe some minor mechanics. But everything else about them feels like I'm still playing those good 'ol games from the PS2 era that were sick back then and are still sick today. None of that bullshit with dumbed down mechanics so that babies could play those games, or some annoying, monotone, and pretentious "cinematic" storytelling or whatever. Yeah, their games can still be cinematic, but they never do it in a way that would overwhelm the entire experience and put you to sleep on your couch at the same time. No, their way of doing a cinematic game is exciting, tension-building, atmospheric, or just a pure spectacle with plenty of charm to it. And most importantly, it only serves to give some context to gameplay, which is always the primary focus.
Even if the games themselves have their ups and downs (not all of them are 10/10 bangers after all), they at least feel like fucking video games, and that's what I appreciate about them the most.
And now, let's look at this fucking guy again:
