Having been a fan of Capcom for most of my gaming life, I've noticed a trend of Capcom to shift away from their flashy style of development and turn to low budget, cheap work that are extremely safe games during this PS4/XB1 lifecycle that's a far cry from their PS3/X360 work, even when their PS3/X360 work was heavily subcontracted.
Dead Rising 4: Cheap, awful knockoff with a huge quality gap between the first game and this one with interactivity, voice acting, animations, story, pretty much the whole package is just awful quality from start to finish thanks to penny pinching and more.
Street Fighter V: Probably doesn't even need to be explained. The intro video is a low quality piece of junk. The UI looks like it was made in a day. Everything from transitions, to optimization, launching with far fewer features than its predecessor, broken matchmaking that worked worse than SF4 (still does)... I could keep going but just go and find any neogaf thread about SFV from the past year. If it wasn't for DR4, this would be the poster game for investing as little as possible into a mainline game for Capcom.
Resident Evil 7: This game actually looks and plays nicely for what it is (though you might be able to argue that graphics could be better). But there's no denying the overall scope has been greatly, greatly reduced to achieve that. So rather than a "low quality" issue, it's a "playing it extremely safe financially" issue.
Then for the other part of low-budget investment... an extremely high focus on remasters, remakes, ports, and collections to pad the budget. Not going to complain as a fan of those games, but when you show such a huge amount of focus on these, it speaks to me that you are playing it extremely safe as a company.
Then they released the Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite cinematic trailer (the game is releasing this year)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOgJ9y0Ots
Compare this to the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 cinematic trailer. Not only is is almost three times as long and looks way better... but this is Episode 1, with 4 episodes in total!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9L4_zKNrM
After looking at the MvCI gameplay trailer which is full of reused animations and shoddy graphical work compared to the MvC3 gameplay trailer which looks absolutely amazing despite amateurs playing thanks to the extremely coherent graphical style, sound effects and more.
Doesn't this mean this MvCI is going to follow the same recent trend of Capcom putting out low-quality junk from all aspects to UI, story, graphics and netcode/matchmaking while banking on people's hype and familiarity? Isn't that pretty much a guarantee at this point? I'd like to hear your thoughts if you think that MvC:Infinite will buck Capcom's trend of investing as little as possible in their games and thus us getting a shoddy product on release.
Refrain from "they're a business, they're here to make money, not a charity" meaningless blabber. "I'm a consumer, they have to interest me" is the viewpoint you need to approach this thread with, since as a poster I'm 99% certain you are a consumer and not an investor in Capcom stock. If you're okay with low quality / extremely safe work just say so, if you're less permissive of it just say so, if you can't tell the difference and don't give a shit just say so.
Dead Rising 4: Cheap, awful knockoff with a huge quality gap between the first game and this one with interactivity, voice acting, animations, story, pretty much the whole package is just awful quality from start to finish thanks to penny pinching and more.
Street Fighter V: Probably doesn't even need to be explained. The intro video is a low quality piece of junk. The UI looks like it was made in a day. Everything from transitions, to optimization, launching with far fewer features than its predecessor, broken matchmaking that worked worse than SF4 (still does)... I could keep going but just go and find any neogaf thread about SFV from the past year. If it wasn't for DR4, this would be the poster game for investing as little as possible into a mainline game for Capcom.
Resident Evil 7: This game actually looks and plays nicely for what it is (though you might be able to argue that graphics could be better). But there's no denying the overall scope has been greatly, greatly reduced to achieve that. So rather than a "low quality" issue, it's a "playing it extremely safe financially" issue.
Then for the other part of low-budget investment... an extremely high focus on remasters, remakes, ports, and collections to pad the budget. Not going to complain as a fan of those games, but when you show such a huge amount of focus on these, it speaks to me that you are playing it extremely safe as a company.
Then they released the Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite cinematic trailer (the game is releasing this year)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOgJ9y0Ots
Compare this to the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 cinematic trailer. Not only is is almost three times as long and looks way better... but this is Episode 1, with 4 episodes in total!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9L4_zKNrM
After looking at the MvCI gameplay trailer which is full of reused animations and shoddy graphical work compared to the MvC3 gameplay trailer which looks absolutely amazing despite amateurs playing thanks to the extremely coherent graphical style, sound effects and more.
Doesn't this mean this MvCI is going to follow the same recent trend of Capcom putting out low-quality junk from all aspects to UI, story, graphics and netcode/matchmaking while banking on people's hype and familiarity? Isn't that pretty much a guarantee at this point? I'd like to hear your thoughts if you think that MvC:Infinite will buck Capcom's trend of investing as little as possible in their games and thus us getting a shoddy product on release.
Refrain from "they're a business, they're here to make money, not a charity" meaningless blabber. "I'm a consumer, they have to interest me" is the viewpoint you need to approach this thread with, since as a poster I'm 99% certain you are a consumer and not an investor in Capcom stock. If you're okay with low quality / extremely safe work just say so, if you're less permissive of it just say so, if you can't tell the difference and don't give a shit just say so.