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It's alright, probably the weakest of the Resi games.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Weaker than 5 and 6??

They never happened.

I don't think there's any one left in Capcom that understands Capcoms old design philosophy which is what informed Resi 4 and made it so good. When you are farming your game out to multiple studios across the world including work horse Chinese ones you're going to end up with an awful game like Resi 6 which totally lacks any sense of identity.

The Capcom we knew is pretty much dead and only really holding out in their two least important viable franchises, street fighter and phoenix wright.

They're so dictated now by stockholders that it'd really hurting them creatively and they've made some decisions that will end up hurting them in then long run. They fired Inafune for being outspoken but everything he said turned out to be true. It lead Capcom into the PS360 gen and they were the only japanese developer ready for that generation becasue of him. He really had to push for the creation of the MT Framework engine but in the end it ended up being one of the very best engines this gen, making development for capcom simple and produced stunning results.

All Capcom really have now is Monster Hunter and if that falls out of favour they are pretty much screwed.

Konami seem to be the same. They are only really pumping money into mobile, PES and Kojima studios. There's no room for the smaller offbeat developments they used to be known for.

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Wasn't Inafune also the one responsible for Capcom to push outsourcing its franchises to western studios?

Which isn't a bad idea if you pick the good developers and don't fire/haemorrhage all your in house development.

He knew that most Capcom staff would be tied up in projects needing massive teams so outsourcing is a smart idea. However oursourcing to cheap bottom of the barrel studios like Spark Unlimited is never a good idea.

Strider was a surprise for me. Double Helix are a dreadful developer but they put out two great games with Strider and Killer Instinct, then got bought out by amazon just as they finally did something good.

DMC wasn't a bad game. New Dante's juvenile writing was nearly as embarassing as Duke in Duke Nukem Forever but they very nearly got the combat system right. The bosses were ****e, the sections where the level changed were nothing but eye candy that could be broken by... uh not moving to see that there was no actual danger, and some awful gameplay decisions (30fps and colour coded enemies) hampered it somewhat but they might have made something a lot better with another stab at it.

I'd recommend them, excellent books and very comprehensive.