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Capcom's gaming output during gen 6 was fucking INSANE
- Thread starter mrmickfran
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Gen 6 Capcom was OP for sure.
They don't get enough credit for the first half of Gen 7 though. DMC4 and Resi 5 following up on revered Gen 6 predecessors, Mega Man getting a classic-styled game that capitalized early on the new surge of nostalgia, a brand new Street Fighter and Marvel game after a decade and fucking Bionic Commando being revived.
God damn I miss Bionic Commando.
They don't get enough credit for the first half of Gen 7 though. DMC4 and Resi 5 following up on revered Gen 6 predecessors, Mega Man getting a classic-styled game that capitalized early on the new surge of nostalgia, a brand new Street Fighter and Marvel game after a decade and fucking Bionic Commando being revived.
God damn I miss Bionic Commando.
Barry Burton
Member
No third-party publisher has ever hit a higher peak than Capcom during Gen 6, IMO.
TheTylerRob
Member
They had some pretty godlike remasters last gen too. 3SOE and MvC2 were so good.
FalsettoVibe
Member
A lot of companies were not prepared to take on HD development.....both from a cost and time perspective.
letmetrythisname
Member
I just bought Killer7 a couple nights ago and played a bit of the prologue. This is some really mind-blowing stuff. I actually wish more developers used this style of gameplay when making "cinematic" adventures.
Sora the Cat
Member
Games take more time and more money than they used to, also they aren't as big.
Capcom always makes good games regardless.
Capcom always makes good games regardless.
WhateverItTakes
Banned
Definitely another Dev hurt by the decline of mid-range games. I miss that era.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Yeah, Capcom was pretty much the perfect storm of lame shit happening. They bled a ton of talented developers for various reasons, arcades started dwindling, the HD console era got too cutthroat, and things in general just got too corporate. It's a real shame. Itsuno and Takumi are still there but it sucks that the latter's AA games don't even get localized anymore.
In a perfect world Capcom would swallow their pride and hire PlatinumGames to do Viewtiful Joe 3 and Okami 2 but that's never happening.
In a perfect world Capcom would swallow their pride and hire PlatinumGames to do Viewtiful Joe 3 and Okami 2 but that's never happening.
MiamiWesker
Member
Yup their gen 6 was legendary, they were at their best. They were making groundbreaking games with DMC and RE4. They set standards.
The have never been the same since Mikami and Kamiya left.
The have never been the same since Mikami and Kamiya left.
Barry Burton
Member
It's Suda's masterpiece.
He's arguably been even more disappointing than Capcom since then.
shaowebb
Member
What did you expect? For titles made for next gen to pump out equally as fast and as memorable even though they take a LOT more time and money to make?
You should weep more for folks snubbing anything less than photorealistic models/animations and puking at the thought of anything less than 1080p and 60fps. Theres the real issue.
You should weep more for folks snubbing anything less than photorealistic models/animations and puking at the thought of anything less than 1080p and 60fps. Theres the real issue.
Killer7 completely changed my perception of what's possible with games. A few years later since I first experienced it and my LTTP topic here and I still find myself discovering new things about it.
I have a hard time expecting Suda to ever get the opportunity to make another game like that, let alone any major publisher greenlighting it. It's one of those lightning in a bottle moments.
Hyperactivity
Banned
Their gen 4 was waaaay larger, and more important than this. Think it's comparable to gen 6
I haven't played a Capcom game since Dragon's Dogma, and before that was Lost Planet 2/Monster Hunter. They just don't output games I want to play anymore, haven't made a Breath of Fire game, I don't care about their fighters as much as since I was a kid, and at this point I'd need to be paid to be convinced to play Monster Hunter on a portable.
God Hand and Okami were some of the best ps2 games period, so they.... destroyed Clover. I think it was about then that I was feeling less happy about Capcom that I had been in years.
God Hand and Okami were some of the best ps2 games period, so they.... destroyed Clover. I think it was about then that I was feeling less happy about Capcom that I had been in years.
mrmickfran
Member
It would help if you gave examples. I wasn't really gaming in gen 4
He's only directed one game since then, to be fair. But it is depressing that he ended up in a position where he wasn't really able to do more, or have as much freedom - hopefully his Switch project is both something he's actually involved with to a significant degree creatively, and a return to form.
The Spoony Hou
Member
More like Inafune was a mistake.