Why Capcom, WHY!!!

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:53 pm

I can't be certain, but Inafune made a comment that sounded along the lines of "it's PSP or nothing" for the remakes. It was in response to the confusion when so many of the promised features for X Collection got the chop, supposedly by his request (or demand if you want to look at it that way).

Yeah, but now Inafune is gone and the PSP is already on its deathbed.

M.C.Dillinger · Post by **M.C.Dillinger** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:55 pm

1up has a interview with Clover "before the axe fell"

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:12 am

Luckett X wrote:just need Treasure to stop making games and Team Ico to quit and I can give up on gaming altogether. Phew, well its been 22 years, guess it had to end somewhere!

Really, this industry is turgid shit. If a creative masterpiece like Okami can't cement a new studio's position in it, then theres not really much hope at all for the future.

Totally true, its seems nowadays the business is in making characters and licensing them...then I wonder, Why cant Sega license Sonic to a Company that can do a good Sonic game?.

Parn wrote:Actually, Atsushi Inaba and a lot of the team members left Capcom awhile ago. Capcom closed the doors on a studio that was already abandoned.

Idiots, wait, if its almost whole studio, it may have better luck than the poor Naoto...

But since they probably wonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t be together, they will suck, oh yeah, how much they will suckÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

Senbei · Post by **Senbei** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:02 pm

Clover is back!

It seems the minds behind some of Capcom's best games (namely, Atsushi Inaba) have conglomerated to create a new studio: Seeds, Inc. I don't think I need to say exactly how awesome this news is. Let's just hope that Gibbon's predictions on the last page won't come fully true.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:17 pm

Hopefully they can be lured over to the Wii. I'd love to see what those guys would do with the controller.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:27 pm

I stopped caring about what Capcom did after they stopped making Street Fighter and Darkstalkers games.

Fighting games and other arcade style games are perfection to me....innovation, meh...it's alright, because it brings games like Spore, but it's really not too much of a big deal.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:58 pm

Speaking of Clover... I've been playing God Hand. What's the deal with that game? It's like a modern Black Belt (japanese Master System's Hokuto no Ken) or something...

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:53 am

KitsuneDarkStalker wrote:innovation, meh...it's alright, because it brings games like Spore, but it's really not too much of a big deal.

Innovation is the biggest deal there is.

jenkins · Post by **jenkins** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:20 am

Only if it isn't at the expense of good ideas and traditions.

Hint hint, Sonic Team.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:12 am

I really don't think you can call having three characters at once or giving a furry combined version of the Punisher/Wolverine/Ghost Rider guns "innovation".

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:49 pm

I've read in EGM a few issues back that Capcom was thinking about releasing Street Fighter 4 in 2008. That's just from memory, so I might be wrong about that.

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:39 pm

Well, good creators will have to do what Steve Purcell did with Sam and Max, kept bugging until someone gets interested in the new videogame project.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:42 pm

gr4yJ4Y wrote:I've read in EGM a few issues back that Capcom was thinking about releasing Street Fighter 4 in 2008. That's just from memory, so I might be wrong about that.

We can hope! ^_^

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:09 pm

I stopped caring about what Capcom did after they stopped making Street Fighter and Darkstalkers games.

So you never played Phoenix Wright? If so, shame on you. Shame.

Otherwise, this clearly contradicts what you just said. Tell the truth!

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:17 pm

Yeah, what Shadow Hog said!

Oh yeah--I thought MegaMan ZX was pretty good, too.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:17 am

Megman ZX2 is on the way. Actually it's called Megaman ZXA (A stands for Axl, which is the Livemetal players start with, and for Advent, which is a typical Japanese "cool engrish word" title thing). I'm actually excited. Especially since it looks like the boy and girl stories will be drastically different this time.

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:38 am

*was the guy that first mentioned it in that "2007 predictions" thread*

Yeah, AND they're bringing back Pandora / Prometheus, which is sweet. I'm looking forwards to ZXA with great anticipation.

KitsuneDarkStalker · Post by **KitsuneDarkStalker** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:45 am

Shadow Hog wrote:
I stopped caring about what Capcom did after they stopped making Street Fighter and Darkstalkers games.
So you never played Phoenix Wright? If so, shame on you. Shame.

Otherwise, this clearly contradicts what you just said. Tell the truth!

OK, Pheonix Wright IS good...but ntohing else.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:26 pm

Resident Evil 4, and pretty much everything the team mentioned in this thread made (such as Okami).

Of course, none are as original as PW (although Okami's pushing that), but still.

James McGeachie · Post by **James McGeachie** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:48 pm

I stopped caring about what Capcom did after they stopped making Street Fighter and Darkstalkers games.

Well I guess you don't play many quality games as they're probably the strongest Japanese developer out there at the moment, or at least were before the recent staff departures. They have a huge number of quality franchises and the number keeps going up, with great recent releases such as Lost Planet. Also anyone who hasn't at least played Resident Evil 4 in some form I really don't consider a worthwhile gamer.

Arcade · Post by **Arcade** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:58 pm

What the heck, at this rate, they will never do Marvel vs Capcom 3...

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:03 pm

Shadow Hog wrote:Of course, none are as original as PW (although Okami's pushing that), but still.

What's so original about Phoenix Wright? It's a straightforward text adventure, which hasn't been "original" in... Ever.

Arcade wrote:What the heck, at this rate, they will never do Marvel vs Capcom 3...

Of course they won't, because EA currently has the rights to Marvel fighting games.

Post by **Esrever** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:16 pm

It's the story and characters -- ie: the most important element in games of that genre -- that make the game original, 'holic.

But then again, the whole interrogation/contradiction system that drives the gameplay isn't something I've ever really seen in another text adventure game, either.

I play a lot of adventure games and there's no denying that Phoenix Wright has a pretty distinct feel to it.

Heroic One · Post by **Heroic One** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:51 pm

Capitalism sure is fun!

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:59 pm

Let's just hope that Gibbon's predictions on the last page won't come fully true.

Even if they do, we should be good for at least 1 or 2 cool, non-sequel games before they go bankrupt.

What of the Ico team, incidentally? Have they starved to death yet?