What's happening to the Japanese gaming industry? Such great franchises going to waste? Final Fantasy and Resident Evil...back in PS1 days stores opened at midnight for these gems, and now they've become victim to their own shadows...I'm glad the Souls games are out there that proof that not all is bad though.
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Actually, FF really hasn't changed that much and has for the most part stuck to it's roots while trying to keep things fresh. For some reason people call them Linear now when in reality all the old ones were quite linear as well, they just seemed non linear because they gave you a world map... but you couldn't really visit half the places due to level contraints and in reality had to follow the story line up until the last part of the game where you could then do side quests. Personally I have liked all the FF games, minus 11 and 14 as I hate mmos. Most of the FF fanbase is stuck in Nastalgia land and can't seem to realize the FF games really haven't gone down hill. Sure, some are better than others but are still quite good.
It's all opinion, personally I think FFXIII and XIII-2 are better than the dark games, I'm not a fan of the real time combat and lack of story and personable characters.
As for Resi I just don't know, I think I may still get 6 just because I have the anthology colection preordered. I get a discount on it, plus it has 1-5. I would pretty much spend 60 bucks alone on the past games, it would be nice to actually play the old ones on my PS3 instead of having to track down the old Gamecube or PS1 titles and still pay around that same amount.
But I agree, RE 6 so far I am having very mixed feelings about. Revalations was good, I wish 6 was like revalations and just starred 1 character. In other words, I want RE4-2 with a bit more suspense thrown in. I am a fan of RE4/5's control scheme. I don't get why everyone is whining that you couldn't move and shoot. RE6 does play kinda odd and seems clumsy, but I want to play the full game before I make my final verdict.
As for capcom fighters, I am done with, they have rerelased their games way to many times, put out too much DLC. I will support Namco and Team Ninja for fighters from here on out as they release full games and don't release 3 versions of the same game within a year of the original.
DMC is looking good though, I think Capcom may have done right by giving the series to a western developer. While I'm not the biggest fan of the new look for Dante, the gameplay looks solid.
And thats all I can think for capcom right now though, never been a fan of Monster Hunter so I can't really say much about it. I didn't like Dead Rising either. Dragons Dogma does look interesting and I may try it out someday.
But I hope these Reviews may make them take a look back and look why 4 and below were so well liked. RE4 was the ground breaker, the best balance between the series. It was a bit more action like, giving a much superior way of aiming and such, but still kept things slow. RE6 does feel way to fast.
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