For those of you who are still upset over Mega Man Legends 3, there seems to be a lot more fuel to add to this fire. Strategies Japan seemed to have dug up some interesting quotes in an interview with 4gamer.net from former Capcom head Keiji Inafune.
So, I told them that I was going to found my own independent company and leave Capcom. However, I stated that I was ready to make a contract with them so that I could keep working on those projects that I started. I couldn’t start making contracts with other publishers for sure if Capcom agreed to the proposition, but I wanted to see those projects that I started to completion. But it couldn’t be done. They answered, ‘We have no need to do that.’
“[I went to the trouble of]…Finding the right time, gathering the team members, planning strategies, all so we could barely start on Mega Man Legends 3. I really don’t want to quit at this crucial moment…but I can’t keep going at Capcom. I am too tired to keep going. I wanted to leave Capcom to recharge my energy, and support Capcom from there, but it seems they don’t allow it. I want to make all my effort to keep Legends 3 alive, but I’m really not sure I can do it.”
Wow. That is just really depressing to hear. Inafune himself wanted to take on the completion of Mega Man Legends 3 and Capcom refused? I really don’t think this is gonna sit too well with the fanbase who will never let Mega Man Legends die, such as our resident illustrator Bay.
I bet you most of them wouldn't have bought it though.
I bet you most of them wouldn't have bought it though.
MML3 looked like shit.
Who gives a fuck.
Make a new side scroller MM that doesn't look like it belongs in the fucking 80's
and you moan about suikoden how much
and you used to moan about shenmue how much
if we were to round up the entirety of the moaning contained on this forum, you would be responsible for at least half of it, so let positive touch and raban have their little wake
almost done? ??? That thing was far from done.
When did people start hating Capcom anyway? Wasn't it just a few years back they were held up as the one shining example of a Japanese developer who got it, weren't being left behind the times, etc.?
And, just as a minor niggle, I think the thread title should be "despite Inafune's whining, Capcom will not give up their right to manage its franchise, MegaMan" -- if it wasn't working when it was developed in-house, why should they think giving him it to manage at an outside studio would work?
So what is Capcom actually doing these days?Fighting games, outsourcing to shitty western developers, Monster Hunter, and Dragon's Dogma (Capcom's biggest game ever(?))