Capcom announces new titles, crowd roars!
By Gosha • Oct 17th, 2007 • Category: Nintendo DS, Playstation 3, Video GamesAccording to Games Radar, at the Capcom Gamer’s Day in London, the company showcased and announced a few upcoming releases.
The first release will be a port of the previously Xbox and PC exclusive Lost Planet for the Playstation 3. The next game featured is a new sci-fi actio nadventure game for the Nintendo DS called Dark Void. Along with this, another DS game, a sequel to Ace Attorney was announced. The game will feature an all new protagonist
The final announced could be considered Capcom’s MEGATON. At the show, they officially announced, with a brief trailer of Ken and Ryu fighting, Street Fighter 4. Not too much was shown, and Capcom stated that the game still has about another year in development before it’ll hit release. Still, some great news.
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It’s killing me to find out if SF4 will be 2D or 3D. Capcom no longer has an arcade division, so one must speculate that the game will not play like SF2 or 3. Considering their last fighter, Capcom Fighting Evolution, this could be really bad. I hope they outsource it to Arc System Works like they did with that Devil Kings fighter (or whatever it’s called).
Why Capcom. Why would you wait so long? Now the game either has to be beyond amazing or everyone who still cares about Street Fighter will mock it for eternity.
Hell, I’ll still get it even if it sucks.
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I know it is just a cutscene, but I like the teaser trailer for SFIV.
I don’t. It implies a game a little too “extreme” for a Street Fighter game. As though their target audience is no longer the arcade-going crowd. I’ll certainly agree that SF4 need to be more accessible than its previous installments to do well, but not at the cost of alienating Street Fighter’s hardcore fanbase.
Things change, world keeps on spinn’n.
No doubt you would agree that there is change for the better and change for the worse. My fears solely lie with the later. Is it truly wrong to fear such change when so many former game series have turned sour in just this way?
When new people work on an established game series, especially after a long period of no sequels, you end up with a terrible game four times out of five. Tell me I’m wrong.
Well, like Radius said. If it is good, yay. If it sucks, it’s not the end of my world.
edit: And I am trying to think of games that had long hiatuses between sequels. Metroid is the first that comes to mind, and while none have been as good as Super, I have enjoyed both the 2d and 3d sequels (Prime 2 and Fusion, not as much). Maximo is another, if you count it as a sequel to Ghosts and Goblins. It was a fun platformer. I guess there are people waiting to see how Fallout 3 will be. Problem is that games that get sequels tend to receive sequels very quickly, without that much wait time in between.
I guess I just have less cause for alarm until I actually see some gameplay footage. A stylized fight between the two main characters of the series didn’t raise my warning bells. However, I did watch it with the sound off so maybe that had something to do with it.
Final Fight both for Saturn and the PS2 game
Prince of Persia for DC
Castlevania for N64
Blaster Master for PS1
Commander Keen and Jazz Jackrabbit for GBC and GBA
Defender for PS2 and Xbox
Spy Hunter for PS2 ans Xbox
Those are the only ones that come off-hand. I’m sure that if looked at a list or gave it some time I’d think of twice as many bad sequels that came from development teams that didn’t make the original (that’s what that list is of, btw).
As for the trailer, what’s in it doesn’t worry me as what is not in it. If Capcom was making this new SF4 game for avid Street Fighter fans, I would expect them to put something in the trailer that avid Street Fighter fans will like; they didn’t. That along with the dismantling of Capcom’s arcade division and the massive decline of arcade popularity are what I base my fears on. It is of course to early to decide anything about the new game, but it’s never to early to worry ; )
What would avid Street Fighter fans have wanted to see? (Aside from gameplay, which kind of doesn’t exist at the moment). I would assume some fanservice and older characters but, eh, Ken and Ryu fighting seems like the easiest and best way to say, this is a new Street Fighter game. It is not a vs game, it is not spinoff, it is a Street Fighter game.
And yeah, your list had different dev teams working on it, as did mine. But I guess mine was shorter.
Sure, some reemergences of game series can be good. I love MGS and the RPG Castlevanias much more than their original iterations. I’m simply saying the majority are bad.
As for what an avid fan would like to see? Anything to let them know the series will follow the 2D fighting formula that Street Fighter 2 started oh so long ago, and which has been emulated to an extent by every single 2D fighter proceeding it. Yeah, you’d kinda need to see gameplay for this to happen, but lack of viewable gameplay is the first sign of a bad sequel that isn’t true to its predecessors. Even without gameplay, if they wanted to please avid SF fans, they could have shown a movie that wasn’t so cliche. We’ve been seeing that same stand-off-then-rush-each-other movie in fighting games for ten years, and it’s getting pretty old. Sure, in SvC it was Ryu vs. Kyo instead of Ken. But apart from that the only other difference was some added mud. Avid SF fans would of liked to see: other characters, new characters, an elusion to a gameplay mechanic, even old footage from earlier games, building up to the announcement of SF4 would have been preferable imo. Instead we get the series’ two most played out characters doing nothing new or interesting. What sad way to introduce what we’ve been waiting for for almost ten years.
But it was just a teaser. I’m sure most of the new characters are still in their concept art phase and are not presentable in any way. I don’t know if I would have liked to see a slideshow of old street fighter games leading to whatever the teaser (and it is a teaser, an announcement that something is coming, not a full blown trailer), that seems like it would have been too cliche. Besides, they probably don’t want to show who is coming back besides Ken and Ryu. Everyone knows they will be back, but get the fans speculating about who else is going to be in there? Hell, it works for Smash Bros. I think it is better that they didn’t go all out too early, gives something to look forward to as more info on the game develops.
A teaser can and should should reveal SOMETHING about the game it previews. If you’re going to include 0% new information, you might as well announce the game without any fanfare or videos. In my above post I listed various ways they could of pleased avid SF fans. I wasn’t suggesting they do all of those things. I was merely stating what I feel would of reassured us that they haven’t forgotten what SF is about. All that video told me was that Capcom has an IP with some recognizable characters they haven’t used in a while. Combine that with my other point that a large amount revived series suck, and I feel my apprehension is justified.
Also, when Smash Bros Brawl was officially announced at E3, wasn’t Snake’s inclusion announced along side it?
Like I said, teasers and trailers are different things. Most teasers for long running series are usually just a title with some music in the background and some quick clips that don’t really say anything but get people interested. The only reason I mentioned Smash Bros was that even though we got a lot of info with the original trailer, we didn’t really get much of anything and left most people speculating and looking forward to new info. With this teaser, I want to know more and look forward to finding out more as it is released. It would have been nice to show something more but there probably isn’t much more to show. Besides if IV is anything like III is anything like II, not many old characters are coming back, so why show them?
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Whoa, too much reading…lol. How did this happen?
But seriously, Street Fighter 4? More like four too many, m i rite?
I think Asura has the right idea. WUT WE NEED IZ ANODER MORTAL KOMBAT MIRITE?
At any rate, I see what you’re saying. You’re saying it was a teaser, and therefore one can not form any real opinions about the game since the teaser was probably composed by people that don’t even have anything to do with the game.
But perhaps you’re reading too much in to what I’m saying. I’m making a SPECULATION, that the game COULD be bad based on the fact that many games like this are bad and that they’ve yet to show me anything that it will be good. Yeah, part of it is just a feeling I got when I watched the video. But that’s often all you need to speculate. I’ve been watching games get announced and then made for about ten years. After that long one starts to see trends amongst how games are initially portrayed and how that correlates to the end product. Of course it’s way too early to form a significant opinion, but it’s not too early to have a “good felling” or a “bad feeling” about the game.
If you still feel my statement’s in the wrong, go back to my first comment. All of my speculations are based on things other than the teaser. I site Capcom’s arcade division being closed down and Capcom’s last 2D fighter being bad. I only talk about the teaser after you bring it up.
Is it true they are putting Cloud in this one??
I have a good feeling about the game mainly because I don’t think Capcom would bother with making unless they knew what they were doing. It’s not like brand new Street Fighter games are a cash cow anymore, so the only reason I see them doing it is for the fans. They have to be over 5 years old and gone through at least three iterations before Capcom starts to see a lot of money from re-releasing these games.
I guess I’m just more optimistic, as I don’t think Capcom would want to screw this up. It’s a spin-off, and it is not a Mega Man game, so I think they will be putting a little more love into it. Also, yeah Capcom Fighting Evolution sucked, but was also a quick cash. I am sure Capcom knows that if they shit out SFIV at the same quality level, there would be hell to pay.
And the only reason I said the world would keep spinning even if the game sucked, is that the only people who care right now are the hardcore fans, and they ain’t that numerous anymore. If the game is good or great, it could see a renewed interest in Street Fighter, if it sucks, the fanbase isn’t even large or loud enough for most people to notice.
I think the series is more popular than you give it credit for. That is to say, Street Fighter 2. Everyone has played and loved that game. They only lost interest when the games became too complicated for the casual gamer to play (Alpha series and everything after). Working in the game industry for fives years has exposed me to countless conversations. Every time the subject of fighting games comes up, if the person isn’t an avid fan, he always mentions Street Fighter 2. Usually he is quite ignorant and exclaims that then SNES version of SF2 is the best 2D fighter ever. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE THIS OUT THERE. People who played SF2 (and Mortal Kombat), and then either stopped playing fighting games, or went on to Tekken and Virtual Fighter. With today’s average gaming age, these people are still playing video games and they still remember and love SF2. That is why the franchise remains not forgotten and that is why I fear Capcom is trying to capitalize on their old IP. The game may not be a cash in like Fighting Evolution, but I don’t feel it’s even necessarily in Capcom’s best interest to make a SF game the avid fan would consider “good”.
What are the chances that the new SF game will satisfy both avid fans and casual fighting fans? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I don’t feel it has been done in a 2D fighter. At least not since SF2.
*Points Mad Mage to the thesaurus entry for “avid”*
Regardless, I need a bold and outright lie to stop this back-and-forth arguing.
So I hear Capcom put Clover back together for SF4. =P