The State of Capcom Today

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Off the top of my head is the feeling that they need to create a "new" property linked to an old one, like what they did with MegaMan X and ZX but to a larger degree. Take something like the MegaMan universe and create what appears to be a wholly new world and style of gameplay, don't give it the name of the old series, but then just include nods and hints that indicate its in the future or some such. Imagine taking something like Vanquish and including information in the game that reveals it's also like 100 years in the future from the original MegaMan (yes, I know MM has a crazy long history written out with all the games, just an example). Fake edit: The Maximo games are actually exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of.

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I love this idea and also thought of Maximo as you were describing what you want before I got to the end and saw it came to you too.

Resident evil 6 leon's campaign was really good actually. Just food for thought.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Dragon's Dogma did alright, but I really think they should have put it on the PC. I think the RPG audience would've been quite receptive on that platform.

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I think what really killed it was the no multiplayer. It looked like it was going to be this awesome console Monster Hunter type game with the group hunting, but then it turned out the groups were just dumb AI followers. Bad move.

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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

Though not developed internally, Remember Me by all accounts seems to be a pretty competent game.
Who here bought it?

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I got it day one, I'm a fan of it. Need to finish though but that's just my personal issue with games.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

I think what really killed it was the no multiplayer. It looked like it was going to be this awesome console Monster Hunter type game with the group hunting, but then it turned out the groups were just dumb AI followers. Bad move.

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I think they've missed out on just about every opportunity to capitalize on the online maket. Every single fighting game they've made is underdeveloped garbage online. Nothing in Dragons Dogma. No Monster Hunter on PS3/360. PSO2 stranded in Japan. It's so silly. Cut that 600 man RE6 dev team and hire some network engineers or something.

Isn't there some standardized network middleware companies can use?
If not, why?

Didn't somebody at Capcom try to rationalize it by saying they wanted all of the network games to feel different? Or something to that extent. I've never understood it.

Those were their fighting games. And they did try middleware GGPO but they still need to both work on a standard and use it for more of their games.

SSF4AE had a baseline acceptability in terms of online features and how well it worked. Unfortunately it's also by far the best setup they got. No excuse for SFxT and UMVC3's shoddy work.

Look at games like SC2 and DOTA2, good online features sell themselves.

Much easier to compensate for lag in those sorts of games, but perhaps you are referring to match search time? Also remember, searching 1 min for a 25 min game is considerably more acceptable than searching 1 min for a 2 min game.