Whoa. It's Inafune's fault for leaving, not Capcom's fault for not giving a shit about Mega Man? I really don't think that's fair, nor is it accurate to say that Inafune "had an obsession with western developers". He's hardly the only or even the first Japanese developer to point out the fact that Japanese developers just flat out lack the skill sets of western developers, or that it's like pulling teeth to get publishers to do anything but crap out sequel after sequel. He had to actually force Capcom's hand on making Lost Planet and Dead Rising by dumping so much money into the prototypes that they pretty much had to greenlight the games, and since Capcom wasted no time in canceling both of their Mega Man games as soon as he was out the door, you can see he probably had a constant struggle on his hands. So it's pretty hard to blame the guy for finally saying "fuck you guys" and going to do his own thing.

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Whoa. It's Inafune's fault for leaving, not Capcom's fault for not giving a shit about Mega Man? I really don't think that's fair, nor is it accurate to say that Inafune "had an obsession with western developers". He's hardly the only or even the first Japanese developer to point out the fact that Japanese developers just flat out lack the skill sets of western developers, or that it's like pulling teeth to get publishers to do anything but crap out sequel after sequel. He had to actually force Capcom's hand on making Lost Planet and Dead Rising by dumping so much money into the prototypes that they pretty much had to greenlight the games, and since Capcom wasted no time in canceling both of their Mega Man games as soon as he was out the door, you can see he probably had a constant struggle on his hands. So it's pretty hard to blame the guy for finally saying "fuck you guys" and going to do his own thing.

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Your right in a lot of ways, but it's his fault Lost Planet 2 was a piece of turd and it was just plain luck that Dead Rising 2 wasn't.  I personally think he was just over worked and just started going senile.

Inafune wasn't involved in LP2. Takeuchi took over for him.

As for Dead Rising, we'll just see how well the series fares without him.