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Re: Another strike for Blizzard, DiabloIII!
All very true, but Activision-Blizzard is the largest publisher on the planet. One would think they would have a good reason to cultivate new IPs - and also nurture their existing ones, instead of retreading them so frequently that everyone gets so disgusted that the entire franchise and genre falls into a gaping pit in the ninth circle of Hades (see: Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, and potentially Call of Duty soon).
Square-Enix may trot out a ton of remakes for nostalgia, but they also turn out really amazing things sometimes like The World Ends With You. They've also done a reasonably good job at reinventing or innovating in franchises (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and the upcoming Tomb Raider looks to be a breath of fresh air for a franchise that most everyone had written off in the dustbin of video game history).
Capcom's outrageous DLC and "update" policies are definitely outrageous and I wouldn't dream of defending them there, but you still have to give them credit for more or less single-handedly reviving the fighting game genre back into the mainstream with Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter x Tekken / Tekken x Street Fighter is anither example of fanservice done right, and seriously who would have expected MvC3 before it was announced? I think Capcom needs to do some serious soul-searching at the management level to get rid of some truly moribund policies, but despite that they're still doing some things right and there are still Capcom staffers who still remember that pleasing fans is good for the pocketbook too.
Activision, on the other hand, has everyone so scared with their corporate culture that no one can really get anything done without the bean-counters coming in and ruining things. Inafune may have complained that he had to use dirty underhanded tricks to get something like Lost Planet made, but the cogent point is that he still got away with it, and he wasn't fired over it. If someone tried a similar trick at Activision, they'd never get even halfway there before they got shut down. Ever wonder what happened to the Guitar Hero franchise (specifically Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the last entry in the series)? That's what happened.
Icemage
Originally posted by Armando
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Square-Enix may trot out a ton of remakes for nostalgia, but they also turn out really amazing things sometimes like The World Ends With You. They've also done a reasonably good job at reinventing or innovating in franchises (Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and the upcoming Tomb Raider looks to be a breath of fresh air for a franchise that most everyone had written off in the dustbin of video game history).
Capcom's outrageous DLC and "update" policies are definitely outrageous and I wouldn't dream of defending them there, but you still have to give them credit for more or less single-handedly reviving the fighting game genre back into the mainstream with Street Fighter IV. Street Fighter x Tekken / Tekken x Street Fighter is anither example of fanservice done right, and seriously who would have expected MvC3 before it was announced? I think Capcom needs to do some serious soul-searching at the management level to get rid of some truly moribund policies, but despite that they're still doing some things right and there are still Capcom staffers who still remember that pleasing fans is good for the pocketbook too.
Activision, on the other hand, has everyone so scared with their corporate culture that no one can really get anything done without the bean-counters coming in and ruining things. Inafune may have complained that he had to use dirty underhanded tricks to get something like Lost Planet made, but the cogent point is that he still got away with it, and he wasn't fired over it. If someone tried a similar trick at Activision, they'd never get even halfway there before they got shut down. Ever wonder what happened to the Guitar Hero franchise (specifically Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the last entry in the series)? That's what happened.
Icemage
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