Capcom's Inafune Declares Japan Game Industry 'Finished'

[Mr Khan]

Xxain said:

Larad said:

Xxain said:

Mr Khan said:

This attitude is exactly what's wrong with Capcom's development right now. They're just trying to whore themselves out to their perception of what "western values" are. This is why we got RE5...

have they not been successful??? you act like it was a failed idea, so its been helping them alot

Maybe financially, but not artistically.

wat do u mean?

Not at all saying RE5 was a bad game, since many people seemed to sincerely enjoy it, and the sales do speak for themselves, but there were also many who contended that there was something "off" about it. RE5 and Dead Rising were both good games, but were also developed with an initiative to appeal to westerners. It's the idea that we need to go out of our way to appeal to these westerners, it's a betrayal of your values as a developer, like when Retro Studios caved and tacked on that multiplayer element to Metroid Prime 2.

 

Whether or not the results are good games (as RE5 and Dead Rising are), is besides the point. They're betraying their own values purely for commercial purposes, similar to the charges leveled against Nintendo in this generation, except that what Nintendo is doing is more like getting back to their own core values (but i digress).

 

It's an issue of integrity, despite the ultimate output.