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How Capcom has affected the audience and industry.

 How Capcom has affected the audience and industry

Capcom have released a huge range of video games aimed at audiences form platformers to fighting games. Capcom have managed to create popular titles for various genres of games, their games are as well known as the company itself. the Resident Evil game series dominated the competition in the horror genre of games, the Street fighter fighting game series is the most known and played fighting game title out there almost everyone has heard of it at some point and the Devil May Cry series is doing quite well I the action game genre.

Capcom is also very active in interacting with their fans to find out what the fans want and they usually deliver everything based on he fans. With this we can see why Capcom games are so popular in almost every game genre that they make games for. Although sometimes and more recently Capcom have been doing the exact opposite and the fans have reacted badly.

Because Capcom is usually the top in whatever game genre its games are in other games must compete against them, and many newer games find it had to do well when a title such as street fighter is so popular.

When Street fighter 3 was released only the other popular games of the genre such as Guilty ear and Marvel vs Capcom 2 which was also a Capcom game was able to compete and these where the 3 top games of the time and are still regarded at the best 3 of the genre. These games where also popular for tournaments, because they were so competitive and popular.

Further effect on the media, industry and the people

People’s lives have changed because of Capcom’s popular fighting game series Street fighter. People quit their jobs and earn their keep by participating in tournaments.

Here is a interview with a man that goes by the name Triforce, he is a professional street fighter player who runs he’s own team he calls empire arcadia aka. The ARC and they all win tournaments to pay the rent and to pay for their food.

                                             Professional player Triforce and hes team in an interview

 

The best street fighter player Daigo Umehara has been crowded the best at street fighter countless times over the last few years. Daigo Umehara goes by the nickname “The Beast” because he’s level of skill is levels above even the professionals. He’s famous enough to have he’s own merchandise and to be admired to the point where people will ask him to sign their items. He’s got a sponsorship with MadCatz and travels all over the world to take on the best for the experience of fighting new warriors and for the well earned cash prizes.

Here is Daigo Umehara’s personal website

 http://daigothebeast.com/

Daigo Umehara

Daigo Umehara with a $10,000.00 cash prize that he won at a tournament

Tournaments

EVO Championship series

This is where the people who play professional train to end up at the end of each year, just to qualify to enter a player must win a number of tournaments. In the end there are still thousands of people entering for the cash prizes of around 20,000-10,000 dollars for first place depending on the games. 

Here is a video that will show the sheer numbers of professionals that gather just for one of the 2 tournaments they have running 

 

Here is a link that shows Daigo performing an extremely difficult series of moves and turning the situation around completely. See how the large community reacts.

 

Link to the Evo Championship series website for more information on the event

 http://evo2k.com/

 

Rise of Crapcom

The fans have dubbed Capcom as “Crapcom” because of their poor performance recently.  Recently they have cancelled the long anticipated release of the next Megaman game, Megaman Legends 3 and not only that but blaming the fans for it.

Here is a post on a popular games forum with some comments by the community

 http://n-europe.com/news.php?nid=15938

And here is the twitter post done by Capcom themselves

http://twitter.com/#!/CapcomEuro/status/93720826087620608

Here is AlphaOmegaSin a YouTube game reviewer who posted a video informing people of what’s happened along with he’s  thoughts on the matter, he’s videos get over 24,000 views and is very trusted by the gaming community.

                                                 AlphaOmegaSin on Capcom cancelling Megaman

I think that Capcom is trying to get rid of the franchise by not featuring the character in any of their titles and the community thinks the same.

                                                    Megaman fan sharing the news and hes thoughts

Another thing that Capcom has done is outsourcing their famous game series Devil May Cry to Ninja Theory a western game company that hasn’t done well in the genre. Ninja theory have completely changed the character and some fans call it ruining the game.

Here is EventStatus another very popular YouTube game reviewer and general new podcast. In this video he dubbed (fans may cry) he brings about the discussion that every Devil May Cry fan has been talking about, which is the changes for the series.

                                                EventStatus on NinjaTheory and new Devil May Cry

We can see by the comments that the people don’t really seem to like the new design and would prefer the old design for the character main Dante.

Dante(Left) and Ninja theory version Dante(right)

People have also gone as far as to make videos complaining about it, this one musician that goes by the name GodsImmortalGauntlet made a YouTube music video ranting about the game.

                                                    GodsImmortalGauntlet's ranting music video

 

 Another recent thing that Capcom has done to frustrate their fans is releasing a sequel to the game Marvel vs Capcom 3 and calling it Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 after only a few months of the original being released. The changed the interface, added 12 new characters and re balanced the game.

                                               Here is one fan from YouTube expressing he’s feelings

Here is a video by Eventstatus talking about how one of their best men Keiji Inafune leaving Capcom because of the way they treat their workers. Keiji Inafune is the creator and genius behind most of Capcom’s successful games.

Street Fighter X Tekken

Street Fighter X Tekken
calibration between Capcom and Namco. both are big fighting game companies and they have come together to give us a cross-over game.

 Street fighter X tekken

 the trailer in-particular is especially well done 3d animation, featuring 2 characters from street fighter and 2 fighters from Tekken. fighting each other in a tag-team battle. the animation itself is wonderful and the special effects make it even more enjoyable to  watch.

MegaMan

MegaMan 

Introduction to Mega Man

The Mega Man franchise started in 1987 with the release of Mega Man/Mega Man1 and now has over 50 releases, with various spin-off games. The Japanese name for Mega Man is Rockman. There are 6 different Mega Man timelines where the many different games are set these timelines being Mega Man ,Mega Man X, Mega Man Zero , Mega Man  ZX, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man battle network and Mega Man Star Force.  The original Mega Man is possibly the most recognizable and is a icon in the video game scene.

                                         

Here is a time line of Mega Man game releases

                   

Here is an image of some of the various Mega Man’s and ProtoMan’s

                         

Sprites used in Mega Man

 The game is a side scrolling shooter game that traditionally uses 2D sprite animation. The animation in the Mega Man series has improved drastically over the years.  The sprites sued for Mega Man were originally 8-bit but over time they improved.

    Here is a sprite sheet of the original Mega Man game

here is a sprite sheet showing the upgrade in sprite in Mega Man X series

Mega Man animation and Development

Here is Mega Man 2 sprites in the game. Mega Man changes he’s color palette to show that he has changed he’s form giving him new powers.

                                                                Classic Megaman gameplay

                                 

In the Mega Man X series they have stuck to the basic Mega Man gameplay style but they added various improvements to the gameplay two examples being the ability to dash and to cling on-to walls, they also improved the animations used in the games. Here is gameplay from Mega Man X, it uses more sprites in-between to make it look smoother.

                                                     Megaman X gameplay

 Capcom made various 3D Mega Man games one of them being Mega Man X Command Mission. The gameplay was changed completely and was made into a turned based RPG in this installment. There are 3D animated cut scenes which are quite interesting to watch but the animation isn’t the greatest because sometime the characters talk without their mouths moving. Also the 3D models are someone blocky and weren’t as appealing as the 2D ones.

                                             Mega Man X Command Mission
 

Some fans of the Mega Man series have been developing something they call Mega man 2.5D. Mega man 2.5D is a game that has the story and 2D graphics from Mega Man 2 but also features 3D rendered graphics and has Mega Man moving through a 3D environment but he himself is 2D.

                                               Fan made Megaman game

Capcom looking at other Markets with Mega man

Online gaming market

The amount of people online gaming is always increasing, Capcom had decided that they would create a Online Mega Man game so fans of the series can play with their friends. The trailer for the game is in 2D but there are sneak peak videos that show the 3D gameplay it will have. The high quality animated trailer shows Mega Man from various series, this tells us that Capcom is trying to make a game that would appeal to the largest target audience. 

                                                                    Megaman online game

 trailer for the upcoming Megaman online game

i think the trailer looks impressive, usual Capcom quality but with a Megaman art style

 

Anime & Manga market

A lot of gamers also enjoy watching anime and reading manga. Capcom have release a manga series for most of their Mega Man series and various anime series. and they have made various Megaman anime and cartoon series.

Megaman manga cover

Megaman EXE anime opening