It’s just absolutely awful that someone at Capcom would even think of revitalizing Darkstalkers in any way shape or form. We should just let the tumble weed continue to roll over the series just as it has for years now. Since there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY this game could be good, let alone better, Capcom should not even try to make it. Those people who may gain interest in Darkstalkers and play it’s previous releases (which I have already deemed superior in every way due to my powers of precognition) because of a brand new release? Fuck 'em! We don’t need people encroaching on my scene, MAN. Any new Darkstalkers game would impede me from playing the older games and possibly make them worse!
Oh and since it’s on the same engine, that means the art style and gameplay will be the same. Look at everything made on the Unreal 3 engine, all the same shit. DC Universe Online, Lost Odyssey, Mortal Kombat vs DC, etc. are all brown and bloom SHOOTAN just like Gears of War.
Talbain fo lyfe. I hope they keep the cel-shaded look of street fighter 4 to be honest. I can’t wait to see the crazy backgrounds of darkstalkers come to glorious 3d.
I don’t care Darkstalkers being 3D as much as it being in the hands of Ono.
Darkstalkers focuses on its presentation a lot more than SF and content like visual gags, exaggerated blood and multilation haven’t transferred well outside Eighting’s games.
Personally, I think that’s just laziness on the developers part. They all see Gears doing well and decide to that that’s what the kids want, that and they’re probably just sticking to the default palette of UE3. IMO, they could make the game look different if they wanted too (wasn’t there a cel-shaded Unreal Engine game some years ago).
IMO, the look of SFIV was all down to copying Ikeno’s artwork as well as keeping that ink effect. IMO, if this does gets greenlit, they should use some other artist for reference, heck I’d take Shinkiro’s work over Ikeno’s any day.
I agree. They can use the same engine and make aesthetic adjustments to match the sensibilities of the Darkstalkers universe. I don’t think that would be much of a problem and a matter of common sense really. Then again, the game industry hasn’t always been synonimous with common sense.
How about we get a port of Darkstalker collection already. That game is long overdue… As other people had said… I’m not sure how it would go… But you won’t know until you try I guess.
Actually, we were also petitioning for that at Unity as well. Port over Vampire Chronicle for Dreamcast since that’s what they’ve been doing for the download-able fighters anyway and maybe add some graphic filters and GGPO netcode.