Vampi;263032 said:
I'm not saying you're racist or anything, but in sum way it does sound racist. I just think since nowadays Western games are more dominant in sales and more successful that the Japanese want to adapt. Thus why Capcom hires Western developers to make their already established games (Capcom said they'll handle new IP's).
I don't think it's fair to insinuate that I'm racist when I've made a very valid point, Western developers are RENOWNED for pumping out game after game, going for the quantity > quality approach, and most of the games tend to be crap.
Activision being the worst of the publishers out there, and everyone under them doing the exact same thing, Infinity Ward and Treyarch with ENDLESS instalments of COD which have only reduced in quality since number 2, the god knows how many Guitar Hero games, Rock Band, the Halo games, hell, even Left 4 Dead is supposed to be getting a new instalment soon, and it's not even been a year since the last one.
All of these games have been pumped out year after year, or every two years, and each game has degraded in quality by quite a significant amount, but it'll stay this way because people will buy them, people are idiots, so long as these companies have a market, they'll just milk existing franchises to death, it's a nasty habit that Western developers have adopted, it's the simple truth that the Western gaming doctrine seems to be Quantity > Quality.
I just think we have to see what Ninja Theory has to offer with DMC. At least Ninja Theory is known for concentrating on the narrative alot (Heavenly Sword and now Enslaved come to mind). DMC needs a dedicated team just like how DMC 1 had with Team Little Devils. Cause right now, ever since Bayonetta came out, DMC's gameplay is beginning to get cobwebs a lil. And Nero's Devil Bringer isn't going to cut it anymore. I'm not saying they should reboot the series like RE 4, but they need to do sumthing (like oh...bring back a character everyone wanted in the first place and giving him his own game *ahem*).
I've always been in constant support of Ninja Theory adopting the Devil May Cry series, they're one of the few developers I have any faith in these days, I'm hoping they'll add a MUCH needed breath of life into the series without slaughtering it.
The gaming industry is very cutthroat nowadays, with studios closing when even one single game doesn't sell well.
GRIN studios being a perfect example of that.
I just think taking the Activision Guitar Hero route and milking their franchises and not going into their back catelog of games (like oh...a new Strider or a Megaman Legends 3) that RE is just going to be stale in a few years. I rather have the series end to be honest. Once Shinji Mikami left, RE was done for.
I agree entirely, as I said above, Activision is one of the worst culprits for things like this, the thing is though, if Capcom start outsourcing to Western devs like that news article suggests, then it's likely at least one of their games will come under jurisdiction of an Activision run company, so it'll be milked to no end until it's stale as hell.
