Originally posted by ShinYojimbo:
<strong>The choices for just about every year of recycled trash are as follows...
*Crapcom
*Crapcum
*Crackcom
*Crepecom
Show your "respect" and choose your name.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Speaking of fanboys...
Originally posted by SPINMASTER X:
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What kind of evil has capcom done to make you wish ill on them? Its just plain crazy and immature even. One of that last great companies holding the 2d flag and you want them to go down. Playmore/SNK Neo Geo can't hold it by themselves(its been proven). If they go down then there is no hope for 2d.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Dude, what do you expect? Im a SNK and neo geo fanboy.
Originally posted by 60 Second Assassin:
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Dude, what do you expect? Im a SNK and neo geo fanboy.
So lemme guess you have no shame in making statements that make you look like a total dumbass(and i'm not calling you a dumbass cuz i got respect for you)? Its great that you admit to it at least but its just plain crazy.
Originally posted by 60 Second Assassin:
<strong>From my childhood I remember Capcom very well because games like Megaman and SF were the only games I played since there was nothing else. 8 years running and they still make the same games. Sequel after sequel after sequel, they keep hitting us with repetitive garbage. Now I know what your going say but all this mainstream garbage gets to me and makes me angry for some reason. Capcom is all about the money, porting every game to every system possible to make a little profit. I know its a business but this is just stupid. Companies like Konami or Namco are great because they dont use the same idea's other and other again but if they did like Soul Calibur, they would rearrange things, mix it up.
I have more to say but I got a giant headache, I finish this later.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Wow... I'm about to defend Capcom!
Every game company that you have mentioned are just that... corporations. And ALL corporations will work a concept to death until it can't make money anymore. You say that companies like Konami and Namco don't do this...
Namco owns one of the most OVERLY USED characters in all of video gaming history. PAC-MAN! Let's see... Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Jr. Pac-Man, Baby Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Pac Man Plus, Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal, Pac-Land, Pac-World, etc... Seems as if Namco was doing this FAR before Capcom and the Street Fighter franchise. I remember playing Pac-Man for the first time when I was 6 years old... here I am at 29 and they STILL make even more Pac-Man games to this day! Even Tekken has 5 installments and is still going... Namco is FAR from innocent.
Konami may be slightly different... but am I slightly correct for saying that Life Force (Salamander), Gradius, Gradius II, Gradius III, Parodius, Parodius Da, Twin Bee, etc... all follow basically the same formula as a shooter with just different characters? Again, a company "wearing out" a concept that works.
While it's true that some companies listen to their customers more than others, every game company is in it for the cash. Capcom isn't doing anything different than ANY other gaming company in existance.
Porting games to other systems is NOT a bad thing... in fact, if SNK applied more energy into getting their major games to more third party machines instead of Pachinko Slots, then maybe they wouldn't have had as much financial trouble. All that a port does is allow other people to see and possibly purchase your games. If I was making decisions for SNK, I would have made sure that the majority of their games got licensed and released on ALL shores for more than just one system.
I'd rather see my favorite games being played by more people than less.
[ July 16, 2002: Message edited by: VinylBoy ]</p>
Originally posted by 60 Second Assassin:
<strong>Yes Pacman is over used but thats one thing. I dont see another title being abused for its popularity, maybe Tekken since theres 5 games out already but its something new everytime am I right?
Capcom uses the same stuff over and over, what new aspect have you seen in the sequels of Resident Evil? Nothing, its just shoot, and kill stuff. SF, some characters are really stupid looking, not crafty stupid but just plain ugly stupid. How stupid is Necro or Gill? I play Third Strike a lot and at the arcades I see people only pic 5 of the 18 characters. As Alpha, check out number 3. Just cause you put in some new fighting mechanisms and new supers and crappy looking characters dont mean its great does it? The animation is wicked but thats not enough to save it in my opinion. Im not preaching to you guys, Im just saying how I dont enjoy Capcoms working ethics. Im just answering Spinmasters question.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Please don't think I'm beating up on you...
The whole idea of a sequal is to cash in on a formula that works. That's why we see eight KOFs and only one Agressors Of Dark Combat. Some ideas in a sequal are not always the best, but at least it's something. The character you found stupid in SFIII is the character that made me want to play it (Necro). With Third Strike (or any game in general), the most "popular" characters are going to be selected more than others, whether it be due to their look or their advantages over the rest of the cast. That's not necessarily due to bad character design or lack of ideas.
Sure... making certain unselectable characters playable shouldn't constitute as a sequal. But, when you're introducing totally new characters and a new fighting mechanism that somehow radically changes the way a game is played, it should be released as a seperate game. SFII to SFIICE... no. SFII to Super SFII... yes. Super SFII to SFA... of course.
SNK is guilty of doing everything that you dislike from Capcom... just some people are able to "milk the cow" without making it moo so often.
[ July 16, 2002: Message edited by: VinylBoy ]</p>
Originally posted by VinylBoy:
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Please don't think I'm beating up on you...
The whole idea of a sequal is to cash in on a formula that works. That's why we see eight KOFs and only one Agressors Of Dark Combat. Some ideas in a sequal are not always the best, but at least it's something. The character you found stupid in SFIII is the character that made me want to play it (Necro). With Third Strike (or any game in general), the most "popular" characters are going to be selected more than others, whether it be due to their look or their advantages over the rest of the cast. That's why a fraction of the cast is being selected in most neighborhood. That's not necessarily due to bad character design or lack of ideas.
SNK is guilty of doing everything that you dislike from Capcom... just some people are able to "milk the cow" without making it moo so often.
Im obviously playing favorites.
Originally posted by 60 Second Assassin:
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Im obviously playing favorites.
I have my biases too...
If forced to choose, I'd pick SNK over Capcom any day. But I'm more thankful that I have both to look towards for my 2D fighting game fixes.
