Thursday, August 10, 2017

Capcom's Underwhelming Performance
























Capcom appears to be making it a divine company mission to fuck up and underperform in every release imaginable in 2016 and 2017 even more so. Capcom was once the company that defined a generation of fighting game and platforming adventure fans with the legendary, once untouchable franchises of Megaman and Street Fighter. How far the mighty have fallen indeed! Capcom's latest Megaman release is nothing more than a lackluster re-release of Mega Man 7, Mega Man 8, Mega Man 9, and Mega Man 10. How about a new Megaman game Capcom, something fresh and innovative? Oh, my mistake. This philosophy is Capcom's marketing strategy, a company that has no problems reusing old elements until the paint begins to rot, and has no issues screwing every one of their loyal fan bases to the breaking point. They rest alongside Konami, SEGA, Rareware, and EA as examples of fallen giants of the video game industry, where profits and quantity have replaced consumer confidence and quality game releases. Nowhere is this disgraceful attitude more present than in Capcom's biggest failure in over a decade, that being Street Fighter V. Where to even begin with this awful game?    



How about this! This "game" is an atrocity to the legendary name of Street Fighter. No Arcade mode, no online working mode, only 16 playable characters and you just know, they will sell you the rest of the game through DLC parasite packs to slowly drain a fool of their money in small increments. A full middle finger to the entire fighting game community and the worst Street Fighter release imaginable. Honestly, Street Fighter IV is one of my favorite games, HOW DID CAPCOM ROYALLY SCREW UP THIS BADLY?!?!?The gameplay is still in the vein of classic Street Fighter, but Capcom's unrepentant consumer greed and shameless DLC plugging ruin any potential this game could have had. All the characters should have been unlocked from the start because the online mode is such a laggy bore fest, you won't even give a fuck about playing it. Also, arcade mode is a shameful disgrace; it's so short and pointless you will want to throw your controller against the wall within an hour. Useless cutscenes and no challenge anywhere? An idle and dysfunctional online mode? Nearly no new content, and overpriced DLC for what remains included post-release? Fuck this game!!! 

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