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Onimusha12 said:

Let's face it, who didn't love Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, God Hand... and if the last few titles on this list have you saying, "hey wait" then I think you've grasp where I'm taking this. With some of the big movers and shakers of Capcom lost to Platinum games (the artistic successor to Capcom's sub-studio Clover), does Capcom really have what it takes to make the same games they once did last generation?

Devil May Cry 3, the inarguable best in the Devil May Cry series lost its director to Platinum Games who is now working on the upcomming game Bayonneta. Devil May Cry 4, the much anticipated successor, showed us a return to mediocrity and a lack of direction in the series after it had struggled so hard to overcome the salvage job of a RE4 prototype that was the first game and the tragedy of a rush job that was the second. DMC4 is a bitter dissapointment, a game that doesn't even trust you to play most of the first couple hours, argued by some to be a ploy to make the game look good to developers playing it for just a few hours before writing a review. And the game's asinine dice rolling system coupled with a complete recycling of the first half of the game to make the second half just leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. And this is after the game had already been pushed back nearly a year.

Resident Evil 4 was no doubt the opus of the Resident Evil series, a complete detour in direction and style but a much needed breath of fresh air. However its director has left Capcom as well for Platinum Games in much the same respect that DMC's director left. Now with the highly anticipated RE5 looming over the horizon, what can we expect from it? With promises of a return to the style of the earlier RE games, will this too turn out to be a dissapointment or lack luster successor?

The creative talent behind games like Viewtiful Joe, Godhand and Okami is obviously lost now too. And even with liscence to these franchises still intact Capcom doesn't even have the free resources to make ports of games like Okami for the Wii because of all the effort being put into their massive HD gaming projects and have to outsource such side projects to smaller studios like Ready at Dawn.

What has Capcom done since the dissapearance of Clover to warrant our former respect for them? Zack & Wiki, a fun game but nothing to the calibur that was once Clover. Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, a fun rail shooter painfully symptomatic of being a rush job. Lost Planet was mediocre, and I appreciate some of you love the game, but let's be serious its not game of the year material. Dead Rising was a fun concept, but it's not AAA material. The evidence stands that they can make good games, just not great games like they used to.

I suppose you can always say hooray for Monster Hunter, but it'll take more than that for them to earn my respect as one of the best developers.

Am I just being overly synical, or do some of you have the where with all to see what I'm seeing here? Is the one-two-punch of losing Clover coupled with the higher investment required for HD gaming wearing down the Capcom we once knew?


 I'm sorry but that bolded right there just makes you entire argument look like a giant joke.



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Wow...seems like everybody jumped on Onimusha12 for his opinion pretty quickly...I think people need to give the guy a break...I mean, it is his opinion right? Doesn't anybody else want to shed their opinion without being jumped on for allegedly being a fanboy? Gotta give respect before earning respect, as they always say.

Anyways, after reading his posts, I get the feeling that Onimusha12 does have a point. Yes, he may be in my opinion a bit pessimistic, but he does have a point: when good talent and innovators like the directors of RE 2, RE 4, Viewtiful Joe, Okami and the DMC 1-3 leave, then its not hard to worry. Does that mean DMC 4 sucks and that RE 5 will also suck? Not necessarily.

Mind you, I haven't played DMC 4. I tried playing DMC 3 once and I found it boring, repetitive, and utterly boring. But that doesn't mean I don't deny that it isn't a good game. In fact, I believe what you all say that those games (minus DMC 2, of course) were all good. However, over the past few years, I have noticed that many people have stopped quoting it as a great franchise on the internet. When people played the first DMC game for the very first time, everybody called the game as legendary. Everybody. There was no denying it. Then DMC 2 came and that franchise almost looked like a goner. When DMC 3 came along, it was considered alright. Not as good as the first one, but at least it did not tank like the second one. When the fourth one was coming along, everybody was excited, just like when the first one came. The graphics was great, looked cool, everybody was excited....and then when it came, it came and gone. It seemed very few people were all that excited anymore about the game. It was the same reaction like towards the third DMC. And I think that is where the problem lies in.

Though these games that Capcom made this gen and the future games that will come out may be good, and may be fun, will they be like DMC 1? Or RE 4? This may be what Onimusha12 is worried about. And I am a little bit worried as well. Not so much as to not have any faith on Capcom anymore and to boycott their games forever. But I might just look at their games with more attention before buying them and do some more research before falling into the hype train. But remember, this is just my opinion, so I am fully open to disagreements from people. Yet at the same time I still would like to see nice responses from everybody. We're all friends, right?



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This is the only place I've ever heard anyone say Dead Rising didn't get repetative after the first half hour. But then again I've never heard much said about the game to begin with. I thought it was a game that people just bought because there was nothing else on the 360 at the time. But What do I know. Nothing obviously.


@ Pakidan

It feels sometimes like you're in grade school where you're not allowed to say anything bad about anyone, "if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all". Remember Children, there is no such thing as a bad game, just different games. Essentially as long as a game is released people here are happy, they could care less what console it is on, how much it sells, or what reviews it gets.

Either way, I digress. Thank god I didn't call LAIR a bad game, I would have been hung from the gallows.

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Better late than never.



Capcom is a GREAT developer. No need to expand on this.



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Onimusha12 said:

It feels sometimes like you're in grade school where you're not allowed to say anything bad about anyone, "if you can't say something nice then don't say anything at all". Remember Children, there is no such thing as a bad game, just different games. Essentially as long as a game is released people here are happy, they could care less what console it is on, how much it sells, or what reviews it gets.

Either way, I digress. Thank god I didn't call LAIR a bad game, I would have been hung from the gallows.

 


lol, funny. Comment of the day.

Yes, you probably would have been hung then as you are hanging now lol.

I agree with what you're saying about chriticism and grade school. There are a lot of over-sensitive people out there who will interpret an opinion as flaming and flame you back (although as a thread-starter you will also experience a similar feeling simply because those who disagree with you tend to reply more often than vice versa).