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[Arsic]

Normally threads I make have a poll. This one doesn't. It's not even up for debate.

It's a royal Capcom circle jerk thread.

Have they had their moments of slip ups? Sure. But think about companies that used to be the goats and how far they've fallen. Blizzard, Bethesda, SquareEnix, Bioware, etc. Companies that had iconic franchises and characters all but left in the realm of nostalgia.

Then you have Capcom who not only has arguably the biggest pool of iconic franchises and characters in the industry, but keeps feeding players new entries, remakes, remasters, and new IPs. For every RE remake there is a game like Exoprimal, and for every new Monster Hunter, you get a risk like a Dragon's Dogma 2 or a fan service megaman legacy collection. The portfolio is staggering for all the genres they touch and do so damn well. Oh, and an in house engine that blows past the competition? Yes please.

Not only do they deliver on what players want these games review well, leave great impressions with actual players, and sell well. Capcom has withstood everything the industry has thrown at it for all these years and remained a beacon of excellence.

Praise be.

Some Key Franchises:
Megaman
Street Fighter
Marvel vs Capcom
Devil May Cry
Resident Evil
Monster Hunter
Ace Attorney
Onimusha
Okami
Viewtiful Joe
Dragon's Dogma

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Always enjoyed their Resident Evil games with the exception of a few. The RE comeback since RE7 onward have been really good. Super hyped to see what their next announced RE game would be like whether it's another remake or RE9.

 

[GymWolf]

Hit and miss for me, but when they hit, they are probably the best japanese dev around.

I'm gonna be very harsh if they don't fix the multitude of problems in wilds in time for the release tho.

 

[ssringo]

 

[BossLackey]

Many many MANYYYY of my favorite games of all time are Capcom games.

More than any other dev, they just know how to make games fun!

 

[Represent.]

Ive come to respect them more over the past few years (since RE2Remake)

They will never get my full respect for what they did to Lost Planet.

 

[Sethbacca]

I don't know if they are THE goat, but they're absolutely GOAT tier.

 

[Celcius]

They've always been one of my favorite devs, especially for their fighting games and megaman

 

[Arsic]

I don't know if they are THE goat, but they're absolutely GOAT tier.

Who can compete?

Don't say Nintendo. They do not have the same output as Capcom at this point.

 

[cireza]

They are fine. Not great though.

 

[clarky]

They need to get a grip on the shitty PC ports. DD2 was fucking dogshit.

 

[Represent.]

Who can compete?

Don't say Nintendo. They do not have the same output as Capcom at this point.

Sony destroys Capcom

 

[SkylineRKR]

Capcom has always been one of the best out there, pretty much from the 8-bit era onwards. Their darkest hour was during the 7th gen, which they still began promising with their MT Framework engine being one of the few Japan located developers that got along well with HD development. Their rate of output was good, and started out impressive with Dead Rising. But then they got a fascination with western co-op games, and chased this trend to mixed results. They ran some franchises in the ground, notably DMC, Lost Planet and Dead Rising. 2 of those IP were just conceived during this gen. They cancelled MM Legends 3. Resident Evil hit a low point with 6, and 5 already disappointed a lot of long timers though the game was succesful. Still, they did have some good games like Dragons Dogma and SFIV.

But they rebounded. Resident Evil 7 was top quality, RE2R was excellent. DMC5 was good. Monster Hunter translated well to consoles. SFV was a dud at first though. From PS4 onward they are back on track, with some misfires like Exoprimal. I hope Pragmata will become a thing.

 

[Arsic]

They need to get a grip on the shitty PC ports. DD2 was fucking dogshit.

DD2 is really the only shitty PC port though isn't it? I've played all the RE games on PC day one without issues for example. DMC 5 ran flawless too. Exoprimal on gamepass was without hitches.

DD2 seems to be the outlier oddly.

 

[Arsic]

Sony destroys Capcom

That's capcom's chris redfield in the back, and Sony's games taking it up the back side in the front.

 

[clarky]

DD2 is really the only shitty PC port though isn't it? I've played all the RE games on PC day one without issues for example. DMC 5 ran flawless too. Exoprimal on gamepass was without hitches.

DD2 seems to be the outlier oddly.

Like my dad used to say "you're only as good as your last port."

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Currently they're my fav publisher after Sega/Atlus.

 

[tommib]

I think they’ve been subpar lately.

RE4 remake was a massive disappointment to me. Sorry, GAF.
Their remaster of Dead Rising is a complete inferior version full of censorship and worst graphic technology compared to the original release.
Dragons Dogma does absolutely nothing for me and is a jank swamp.
Village was a resident evil through a Tim Burton theme park lens with no horror.
Tekken 8 is a much better fighter than Street Fighter.

I don’t know. I find them super overrated at the moment.

 

[Represent.]

Not gonna lie, back in 05-06, when I first saw this, I was fucking mezmorized. Lost Planet was one of my top experiences on the 360. I think at one point for about a year it was my GOAT. Brought the Alien Invasion genre to life in videogame form. Fantastic single player game, amazing bosses, still one of my favs.

Then they decided to change the tone completely in the sequels, and make it multuplayer/co-op focused.. which you can say is not their expertise. Tried to be a western game and they fucking ruined it. Now the franchise is dead.

And they'd rather remake every single RE game in existence than give us a simple Lost Planet: Remastered

 

[Kamina]

 

[Gonzito]

Agreed. Although Dead Rising Remaster was a bad joke

 

[light2x]

Sony destroys Capcom

Just.... huh????

 

[Big Baller]

I bought MM11 for SD last week and man does it still look good. How bout a new game Capcom?!

 

[Sethbacca]

Who can compete?

Don't say Nintendo. They do not have the same output as Capcom at this point.

Honestly, when I think Capcom I'm more a fan of their classic franchises than most of their current stuff. I get that modern RE and Dragons Dogma and whatnot has its fans, but when I think Capcom its absolutely Megaman, Street Fighter Marvel Vs XX, Darkstalkers, Ghosts and Goblins, etc etc etc and to a lesser extent Monster Hunter and Ace Attorney that I've had fun with periodically. Modern Capcom is overly reliant on the RE series honestly.

Yeah, their current output is high, but doesn't do me much good if it's high output of stuff I don't really care about. If I'm thinking GOAT I'm thinking output over multiple generations and decades and Nintendo and Sony first parties have absolutely killed it for multiple decades constantly putting out stuff I want to play even if the output hasn't been quite as high.

 

[Hrk69]

Nope. Capcom is not the greatest of all time.

 

[AJUMP23]

I love Capcom they are amazing, and they have had quite the resurgence. But they are no Nintendo.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Lord willing, the great Konami shall come back

 

[tommib]

Lord willing, the great Konami shall come back

I’m more interested in the future of Konami at the moment than Capcom.

 

[Kronark]

It's hard to call them the GOAT. Capcom is generally excellent but also weirdly inconsistent. They've clearly produced a ton of games that fit into the best of all time category and have a hell of a legacy, but they still put out a number of flops and mismanaged some of their franchises. Off the top of my head:

- Dead Rising 1 was excellent, 2 was ok, and everything after has been bleh.
- Devil May Cry 2 and Donte...
- Resident Evil 6 was a mess and the RE 3 Remake was under whelming.
- Exoprimal

There's probably dozens of other examples from the weird 2007-2013 period where Capcom was trying and failing to be a western developer (Dark Void, Bionic Commando, etc) and a lot of people had given up on them as a dev / publisher.

 

[The Cockatrice]

All companies make/made/will make good games. Stop swooning over one corporation. Just enjoy the games thats it.

 

[Dacvak]

I’ll declare them the GOAT as soon as they make Viewtiful Joe 3. Or at least rerelease the first two.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Normally threads I make have a poll. This one doesn't. It's not even up for debate.

Good. Corny polls are for Lakeof9 only.

 

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Sony destroys Capcom

 

[cireza]

Sega/Atlus

Yeah, they are definitely above Capcom. Personally I would also rank Koei Tecmo above, and would probably tie with Square-Enix. Because despite all the shit they release, they also have some gems and sometimes excellent efforts towards their old games. Much more than making bundles of roms, which is quite common with Capcom with little value added.

RE4 remake was a massive disappointment to me. Sorry, GAF.

I just couldn't get into it either. Controls and aiming are absolutely terrible. How do you fuck up this much after releasing R3R is beyond me.

 

[Loomy]

DMC5 was damn near perfect.

 

[PJX]

Sony destroys Capcom

 

[TintoConCasera]

Yeah they are great. They had their ups and downs but overall the history of videogames wouldn't be the same without them, so many iconic franchises and characters.

They need to get a grip on the shitty PC ports. DD2 was fucking dogshit.

It's not a bad port since the game also runs like shit on consoles. More like the game was coded by hacks, specially whoever was in charge of the NPCs.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[IDKFA]

Capcom is dead to me until they remake Dino Crisis and port the Alien vs Predator arcade game to PC/consoles.

When they do that, then they'll be the GOAT.

 

[xenosys]

Dragon's Dogma was a dog's dinner of a release, so I'll hold my praise for now.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

They need to get a grip on the shitty PC ports. DD2 was fucking dogshit.

Capcom hasn't actually made a pc port since 2005, they've been building PC first and then porting down to consoles for parity for nearly 20 years in-house, only outsourced projects had pc ports; as undesirable as dragon's dogma's pc performance might be, it's a fuckton worse on consoles.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Love em.

That said, Breath of Fire 7

 

[BennyBlanco]

Capcom, Sega, and Nintendo are the top 3 right now to me.

 

[xVodevil]

Resident Evil is the greatest horror franchise for me, so cheers to Capcom to keep going strong!

 

[Johnny Concrete]

They’re pretty good.

Also rarely miss a release date, at least, that’s my perception. I feel like they announce a title 1,5 years before release and they always hit it.

Edit: there are exceptions, I just recall they announced that game with the space dude and the psychic powered girl, don’t know the name anymore…

 

[NeverYouMind]

I think they’ve been subpar lately.

RE4 remake was a massive disappointment to me. Sorry, GAF.
Their remaster of Dead Rising is a complete inferior version full of censorship and worst graphic technology compared to the original release.
Dragons Dogma does absolutely nothing for me and is a jank swamp.
Village was a resident evil through a Tim Burton theme park lens with no horror.
Tekken 8 is a much better fighter than Street Fighter.

I don’t know. I find them super overrated at the moment.

Come to think of it... outside of Resident Evil Remakes and their amazing game collections I have had no interest in their recent output. Those remakes are fantastic, but everything else is meh.

Street Fighter has been in the shitter since Capcom decided to approach it as a service. There is something really underwhelming about their visual design and pace/flow of combat. The production values and coolness factor of Tekken 8 somehow has me playing with relative frequency even if I am not a fan of its service approach either. I am even playing characters that I have barely touched before like Lars, Yoshimitsu, and Kuma.

 

[MacReady13]

Nintendo easily beats them but Capcom are still fantastic. They have produced 2 of some of my fav games of all time in Resident Evil 4 and Mega Man 3.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

I just couldn't get into [RE4 remake] either. Controls and aiming are absolutely terrible. How do you fuck up this much after releasing R3R is beyond me.

it feels super weird and stifled for a while, but it starts clicking.

 

[Danny22]

People say Metacritic numbers shouldn't matter and yet Capcom is precisely putting out these critically acclaimed games because they target meta scores directly and its been very obvious for years they're hyper focused on it.

 

[IAmRei]

Capcom does lot of thing to inspire me

- Rockman 4 is my first game, I am inspired to be gamedev by it.
- Monster Hunter series is always time skip for me, spent lot of times with them especially rise and 3rd
- Dragon's Dogma series eat my time as well, among the top of immersive ARPG ever for me
- BoF4 among the best RPG i ever played and their fishing game is the best for me
- I like most of mainline RE, including 5 & 6 dont much care about story, but i like their gameplay (don't bully me) the 2nd and the 4th are also top of among the best action survival horror game for me.
- spent lot of time with Street Fighter zero 3 when I was younger, and inspired to get illustration style by Daigo Ikeno
- Viewtiful Joe, DMC 3 & 4,BoF4 also inspired my artstyle

I like Capcom a lot, i am inspired by them.