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Ono, Not Again! Another Darkstalkers rumor drops on the internet

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So yeah, the buzz of a new Darkstalkers game (known as the "Vampire" series in Japan) hit the internet some time over the weekend, as I'm sure fighting game fans like me probably know. Considering how I'm reacting to the news, I wonder if I can consider myself as a fan anymore. When I heard about this, I got that sinking feeling....for some reason, I don't want a new Vampire game. At least, not from today's Capcom.

I don't know about you, but I haven't been very happy with Capcom's fighting games as of late. For Street Fighter IV, it just didn't keep me engaged, and I don't think it's because I have less time to play games overall. I still can't believe I did it, but I sold my copies of Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV last month. What's more unbelievable is that I really don't feel any remorse for doing so. Where have things gone wrong???

While it's not accurate to hold him solely responsible, I feel that Yoshinori Ono is at least a representative of the current Capcom fighting game era....and I don't mean this in a good way. I feel that the current era is an ugly one. All of the fighting games made under Ono's charge have lacked soul in comparison to their predecessors. Furthermore, Capcom has taken advantage of their fans by extorting them into buying almost every small update and forcing them to pre-order for exclusive content. When SSFIV came out, I thought they were doing it right by giving it a $40 price tag, but when I saw that Capcom gouged customers for unlocking costumes that were on the disc, that $40 lost its appeal. I REEEALLY want Street Fighter x Tekken (Zangief and Hug Zero, baby! Team Ton-o-meat!!), but I heard they're shipping discs with locked content again. If I'm buying this game, it ain't for $60.

To be honest, there was a time when money was no object, and I would make a Capcom fighting game purchase happen, no matter what the cost. But, the way things are now in my life and in the game industry, if it costs this much for a fan to cash in on a game they're not sure about, then I can no longer be a fan. I got better things to do with my money.

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So yeah, the buzz of a new Darkstalkers game (known as the "Vampire" series in Japan) hit the internet some time over the weekend, as I'm sure fighting game fans like me probably know. Considering how I'm reacting to the news, I wonder if I can consider myself as a fan anymore. When I heard about this, I got that sinking feeling....for some reason, I don't want a new Vampire game. At least, not from today's Capcom.

I don't know about you, but I haven't been very happy with Capcom's fighting games as of late. For Street Fighter IV, it just didn't keep me engaged, and I don't think it's because I have less time to play games overall. I still can't believe I did it, but I sold my copies of Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV last month. What's more unbelievable is that I really don't feel any remorse for doing so. Where have things gone wrong???

While it's not accurate to hold him solely responsible, I feel that Yoshinori Ono is at least a representative of the current Capcom fighting game era....and I don't mean this in a good way. I feel that the current era is an ugly one. All of the fighting games made under Ono's charge have lacked soul in comparison to their predecessors. Furthermore, Capcom has taken advantage of their fans by extorting them into buying almost every small update and forcing them to pre-order for exclusive content. When SSFIV came out, I thought they were doing it right by giving it a $40 price tag, but when I saw that Capcom gouged customers for unlocking costumes that were on the disc, that $40 lost its appeal. I REEEALLY want Street Fighter x Tekken (Zangief and Hug Zero, baby! Team Ton-o-meat!!), but I heard they're shipping discs with locked content again. If I'm buying this game, it ain't for $60.

To be honest, there was a time when money was no object, and I would make a Capcom fighting game purchase happen, no matter what the cost. But, the way things are now in my life and in the game industry, if it costs this much for a fan to cash in on a game they're not sure about, then I can no longer be a fan. I got better things to do with my money.

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It's not happening, at least not this or next year. Capcom has pretty much enveloped themselves within supporting SFxT (and subsequently TxSF) for the next 2 years. If they release another game during that push, it'll end up being a sloppy rushed mess (much like MvsC3 was).

Ono's just trollin', like he always does.

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@Mesoian: The thing is, I don't want this to happen. At all. Well, at least not with the current team at Capcom.

Personally, I don't know if the Darkstalkers/Vampire series would move to 3D very well. I don't know if Vampire's quirky animation style (streaky, stretchy, deformation, etc.) will translate well in 3D. If there's no way around moving to 3D, I do NOT want DIMPS to design the models. The models for SFIV are pretty ugly.

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I always mix Darksiders and Darkstarkers names up.

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Persona 4 Arena, dog.

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@Marcness said:

@Mesoian: The thing is, I don't want this to happen. At all. Well, at least not with the current team at Capcom.

Personally, I don't know if the Darkstalkers/Vampire series would move to 3D very well. I don't know if Vampire's quirky animation style (streaky, stretchy, deformation, etc.) will translate well in 3D. If there's no way around moving to 3D, I do NOT want DIMPS to design the models. The models for SFIV are pretty ugly.

I doubt DIMPS would handle the transition. If anything, I'd expect the same cats who did the MvsC3 transitions to handle it. And, thankfully, the biggest problems MvsC3 had had nothing to do with the artstyle. The darkstalkers in that game are (visually) well represented. I think it certainly could be brought to 3D fairly easily.

It's the gameplay that I'd worry about. The current Regime of Capcom has a very "FUCK IT! PUT IT IN WE'LL CHANGE IT LATE-OOPS WE FORGOT TO CHANGE IT!" mentality. It's the core reason why we've had so many iterations of SF4 and MvsC3 over the course of the past 3 years. What's depresssing is that the nice steps they took with SF4 to SSF4 seem to be going the wayside if UMvsC3 is to be any indication.

Of course those are handled by different teams, so who knows. Internal Capcom teams need to actually talk to each other while making games instead of trying to internally compete with one another.