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Capcom lists six series as "powerful titles", includes Devil May Cry and Lost Planet
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Ugh, the game itself didn't even scream big budget to me, but it played wonderfully. There's still a chance for the series to do well, especially since it's one of the only games that mixes western fantasy wtih japanese action gameplay.
EDIT: I can do mo-cap for male NPCs for free if they want to cut costs on DD2.
If the world, character/enemy animation and effects in Dragon's Dogma don't scream high budget then I don't know what does.
A couple months ago I randomly decided to play through the game again and was surprised that people were still playing online. Was even more surprised that these random people still playing were falling off the train non-stop.
Everyone could use more Vanquish!
AgentOtaku
Member
SEGA doesn't seem to think so
Amazing age we live in were one of the greatest shooters ever comes out and seemingly has no legacy at all
...but people will continue to eat up trash like Bros of War
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
Back in 2013 or so, Capcom claimed they wanted more DMC by 2015. With how little has been said since and how we've literally had no rumors in a year and a half ( DmC rumors were already floating around less than a year after DMC 4), I'm guessing plans have changed.
AgentOtaku
Member
Inafune championed it and then left the company under not so amicable conditions.
Now they wont go near it and treat it like the stepchild hidden in the basement
BTHR Zero X
Member
I don't know about that, He pushed a few titles into the publics eye that weren't greenlighted. Got them hype left them to fall. Then goes and makes a clone. It has always looked to me like he set Mega Man to fail so he can go and do Might No 9.
And you are not alone I am a Lost Planet Super Fan xD
Never heard of this "Bros of War". Is it a downloadable title?SEGA doesn't seem to think so
Amazing age we live in were one of the greatest shooters ever comes out and seemingly has no legacy at all
...but people will continue to eat up trash like Bros of War
A good observation, but at the same time, I feel that internal development is easier to keep under wraps than outsourcing. Leaks come quicker when more people are involved and when there's more movement/travel.
AgentOtaku
Member
Sooo, what about the X series, MM 9, 10, Legends, etc.?
It always read to me like he was one of the few left at Capcom who gave a shit about the character.
He's only making Mighty No9 because he CANT make another legit MM and is tired of seeing his former employer let the IP rot.
Jesb
Member
Isn't the father of Resident Evil no longer with the company?
Yup, which is why RE6 was...the way it was.
AgentOtaku
Member
Mikami and Kamiya (RE2 director) left a long time ago, yeah
Mikami has evil within coming out. Kamiya recently had wonderful 101...
I know it's been catching a lot of shit, but if "The Evil Within" actually does revive survival horror in a meaningful way...
I want someone to write a book about what it's like to work for Capcom. I think it would be fascinating.
CadetMahoney
Member
Dragon's Dogma was definitely high quality. Anyone who says otherwise is a. . .
You sure he's making MNo9 because he's tired of not seeing megaman games? If that was the case he would have stayed at capcom and helped get the games greenlit and made.
BTHR Zero X
Member
They have nothing to do with what I am talking about. He tried to push out Universe and Legends 3 before they were given the full ok. The public loved them hell I bought my 3DS just for Legends 3. But then what? he just dumped them so since the lead and brains behind them go they are just set up to fall.
He is making MNo9 because it seems to me he set MM to die and for Capcom to take a hit so he could go and make a new company with a similar name and a clone of a game he left to die.
You get it.
is weak to ice and fire both!
Masterpieces all, you can't go wrong.
This ignores a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT of capcom's history as related to the treatment of project leads, budgeting, and sales expectations.
Real talk, Inafune left because they weren't going to let him make the game he wanted to make. Just like why Kamiya left, just like why Mikami left.
Jesb
Member
Yeah so why would it matter if that dude left Capcom that made Megaman, if other people that created Resident Evil have left and that franchise has not been forgotten.
Because the other people who are still there don't wanna make those games.
Like seriously, the history surrounding capcom, Game republic, Tango Gameworks, Clover, Platinum, it's nuts. Entire dev teams just quitting, going off to do something new, do that for a few years, then rejoin to make the games they were making 20 years before, and meanwhile, Capcom has so little new creative talent and they push those people the same way they did those early people...it's amazing.
AgentOtaku
Member
Didnt he also say he wanted to consult/help MML3 if Capcom would let him?
He was leaving the company regardless because he got tired of upper management shortsightedness and sshouldn't be the sole person the blame for those project failures.
BTHR Zero X
Member
Or because since they took such a heavy hit and lost a lot due to someone leaving they are having to take a big step back and see where the series is going after pouring so much money into titles they were set up to die.
and that is a good way to save face after he caused it.
It doesn't take 2 years to do that. Even if you're right, that only continues to show how poorly managed Capcom is right now.
Rayven_king
Member
I for one am curious to see how they'd evolve Daddy virgil f from how he played in DMC3
AgentOtaku
Member
Dude.... what?
Those projects hardly broke that Company. Shit like Dark Void, DmC, the bloated RE6, insistance on doubling down on all things Monster Hunter, shady DLC practices, not Capcom japan not giving a shit about what the US branch thinks, etc, is what has put the company where it is.
Oh my god I had completely forgotten about Dark Void...
AgentOtaku
Member
You know, its actually a good game with a wonderful soundtrack/main theme. It just BOMBED though.... it was from some Crimson Skies folks too
Works, masterworks all. Maker save me, it's as though you've never even shopped there.
BTHR Zero X
Member
They very well could be right now.
But honestly after sitting there and running this whole MMU, MML3 and MNo9 thing through my mind its very coincidental.
Push Games that are not ready to be shown
Games Struggle because of lack of early product testing
Creator Leaves, Games die because of this
Creator Makes Clone to make big $$$$
It seems a little to perfect for Inafune to be honest.
Edit: Dark Void was amazing and I would play a sequal.
You know, its actually a good game with a wonderful soundtrack/main theme. It just BOMBED though.... it was from some Crimson Skies folks too
The most interesting thing that came out of Dark Void was that side scrolling downloadable game.
jaundicejuice
Member
But that's my point, the series has no identity. Extreme Conditions is sort of like a 3D Contra, they tried to Monster Hunter-ise the series with Lost Planet 2 and Lost Planet 3 is an awkward mash-up of an "openworld" game and a story-driven, boiler plate, cover-centric third person shooter. I don't even know what the deal is with the cel-shaded Japan only Lost Planet. Whatever potential the series had has long since been muddled.
If there's another Lost Planet, it's just going to be like Lost Planet 3 and probably developed by Spark Unlimited.
Have a Nice Day
Member
I don't understand the high amount of hate toward Lost Planet. The first two games were unique and both had fun gameplay mechanics.
You're all horrible. HORRIBLE!
You're all horrible. HORRIBLE!
AgentOtaku
Member
I think Extreme Condition has enough of an identity at this point though. Do you see anything else out there quite like it?
We sure as shit dont have any sort of 3D Contra out there. That's for sure.
I do agree with you that they shouldn't have fucked with the DNA so much though as yeah, now cats out there are confused as to what the hell IP even is anymore.
1 was great
2 was great but had super shitty netcode which made it extremely difficult to play with other people.
3 was a bad dead space clone that never should have been made.
Yo, is Jun Takeuchi even still at Capcom?
I mean, that would mean making them and not putting them out over here, which...still blows my mind, but whatever, that's Sega these days.
AgentOtaku
Member
Good question
*shrugs*
It felt big to me, definitely, just not big budget. And I was impressed with everything you have mentioned.
You just reminded me of how much I hated that boss fight. I don't think I enjoyed a single boss fight in LP2. Ugh. Just thinking about Lost Planet 2 makes me mad, way to fuck it all up Capcom.
I would fucking love that as long as Richard Zangrande Gaubert was the head writer again. Hell never mind Spark make him the lead writer again anyway, afterall they'll be telling a story regardless
Don't make me hurt you. If you want a bad Dead Space clone just look at Dead Space 3.
Seventy_X_Seven
Member
Personally I would absolutely love a next gen Lost Planet with a focus on co-op like Lost Planet 2.
And a single player like Lost Planet 1.
Shooting giant monsters with guns in a coop setting is hard to swallow? It's awesome. Come on man.