They also threw Viewtiful Joe into the Phantom Zone, disavowed all knowledge of ever having created Mega Man, held Darkstalkers for ransom, tried to turn Street Fighter into a Pay to Win game, and publicly executed Devil May Cry and made a snuff film out of it…
Capcom is better at killing franchises than anyone, although Konami is giving them a run for their money.
Didn’t Capcom Japan straight up sell the rights to SF (and maybe Final Fight) to Capcom USA like 10 years ago? The latter of whom then proceeded to just use it for comics & memorabilia (EDIT: and CFE )? That’s probably as close to being left for dead as you could get. Look at them now :lol:
In retrospect, it seems like they’re exploiting the Mega Man IP in a similar way (i.e. just merchandise) as of late.
No it doesn’t. Street Fighter was in that position ten years ago. As Gren said, they sold the IP to it’s US branch who merchandize it and was content in porting Alpha 3 in every platform under the sun. All it takes is a persist developer or a change in management. Once Dinosaurs become cool again Dino Crisis will rise from the ashes.
They dropped Clover Studios. Would you want for Capcom to put another dev on Viewtiful Joe? As big of a Mega Man fan I am, the series current hiatus doesn’t bother me. There’s over hundred Mega Man games out there and there was a point where Capcom were releasing two or three games a year. Concept got your Mega Man fix covered.
Don’t get me wrong-- It’s probably a good thing Capcom isn’t using those franchises, as recent history has shown they would more than likely fuck them up badly.
It’s the constant teasing and trolling with all the cameos and “maybe we have something in development… possibly…” that really pisses me off.
Just be upfront, say, “We have no fucking clue what to do with these franchises and until we do, we won’t say shit,” instead of all this Ono-style trolling.
They have no excuse on the Darkstalkers’ Resurrection hostage taking and DmC, however…
It’s basically Goku v. Vegeta at this point… I only spar with him on occasion to protect his precious pride, because he definitely can’t hang with me at full-power.
Dino Crisis was Awful, Let the series stay dead. Dinosaurs, the whole craze after Jurassic Park that carry on for almost 7 years needs to stay dead.
That said, Dino Crisis is just Resident Evil: Jurassic Park Edition. And Capcom does not know how to make Resident Evil anymore.
Lets hope the double team of Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro can resurrect Silent Hill.
That what Capcom needs, get someone like lets say Shigeru Miyamoto to work with I don’t know maybe James Gunn at some old Capcom IP.
Eh, I just don’t take myself so seriously, unlike Mr. Fuck You Capcom over there. I happen to share Po’s sentiment about sparring as well. I honestly feel like we’d be friends IRL. Just friends that argue all the time about everything (I have such friends because I’m opinionated and petty).
Word lol. My closest friends and I don’t agree on SHIT. We sit in the house arguing about absolutely everything from what video games are good to how you’re “supposed” to wear Retro Jordan’s.