The Warring States of NPF - The Reaper casts it's gaze at Capcom

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which means that article I found was probably false. Due to either a conversion mistake, or an attempt to bait in readers by riding the capcom hate wave.

well either way, cap seems to be doing fine now.

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Originally Posted by Bells (Post 1234700)

why'u stopped on Dead Space 1?

I think the development title for that entire franchise is "Jump scare: The Ripoff"

Dead Space 2 has less terrible controls than usual.

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Originally Posted by MSperoni (Post 1234616)

You're thinking of Resident Evil 5.

FTFY

Regarding the RE talk, Mikami's own words

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Regardless of the change in direction, RE4 accomplished something special in that it redefined what �survival� meant in survival horror. �With Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, and all the rest of the series before Resident Evil 4, I was always saying to the staff, �Scaring the player is the number one thing.� But for the first time, in Resident Evil 4, I told the team that fun gameplay is the most important thing. That�s what I said. Then the second thing [would be ] nothing. And then the third thing is to be scary. That�s what I said to the team. That all came out of the commercial failure of the Resident Evil remake. And then of course Resident Evil 4 sold really well. I have kind of a lingering trauma there, because the Resident Evil remake didn't sell � much more than people would think.�

Which is actually pretty sad, the low sales of the widely known as the scariest RE leading to RE4(Which wasn't bad) and to 5(Which was) and scarring the developer :(

Ironically their mindless commitment to "what sells" over "making good games" is what got 'em here in the first place. RE6 is a piece of garbage partially because it's aping other games for the sake of "sales" rather than keeping to its own identity.

I didn't like the turn the series took with RE4, but it was better than the subsequent games.

Also I'm kinda surprised he claims that REmake didn't sell all that well. It came out in 2002, which was when the first Resident Evil movie was made. So it's not like there wasn't any buzz for RE stuff.

The wiki article on it says REmake sold 1.5 million copies. Their source is a Capcom site.

And: "According to January 17, 2007 sales figures provided by Capcom, the GameCube version of Resident Evil 4 has sold a total of 1.6 million units worldwide."

So...100,000 fewer units = relative commercial failure?

(I hate quoting wiki but I didn't feel like doing all that much digging so I just put a link to the source they sourced)

I mean, yes, RE4 eventually went on to sell more units, but it was also released on PS2 (where I think the market was better for M rated titles), PC, and then released as an HD version much later.

Resident Evil 1 Remake only had one shot at release. Plus it was a remake of a seven year old game on a Nintendo system. Not exactly a great place for an M rated game to shine at the time. Also two other games were released on the Gamecube in Japan that year: Mario Sunshine and Windwaker.

And over in North America, a little game called "Metroid Prime" was released that same year.

So yeah, REmake had some stiff competition :P

They followed it up with Resident Evil Zero (which according to the same Capcom source above, sold 1.25 million titles), so they couldn't have been that discouraged.

So I dunno. Mikami obviously knows better than I do :P

Resident Evil is nearing twenty years old, so maybe there's simply not a whole lot they can do with it anymore.

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Originally Posted by DarkDrgon (Post 1234810)

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Capcom is dead to me.

Oh sweet, a new Breath of Fire game.

I hope it's android compatible.

OH MAN I'VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR BREATH OF FIRE 6--

wait

what

mobile phone

what

Can we rename this, the Capcom Thread?

Honestly, it being a mobile title isn't a bad thing. Since RPGs work very well with touch controls and most phones and tablets now a days out spec or at least match the 3DS and Vita.

The problem is that it doesn't resemble the BoF series at all, and is going backwards as far as points in time are concerned.

Hopefully it's gameplay will make up for it.