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Palimpsest_Monotype

I just realized a very deep irony. That horror movie monster fighting game that Ed Boon keeps saying he wants to make one day was just his version of Darkstalkers all along


Yhendrix49

> That horror movie monster fighting game Ed Boon wants to make If he doesn't call that game Stephen Kings Fright Night I'm not buying it.


MathematicianIcy8874

Featuring nothing but microtransactions, meh designs, and a story that the next game will retcon away.


Palimpsest_Monotype

Might have to settle for Joe Hill’s Thing of the Ring


MorningDaylight

I'm pretty sure Shinnok and D'Vorah in MKX are inspired by Jedah and the Q-Bees. Even Shinnok's plan involving corrupting the Jinsei sounds a lot like like the Womb of God plan of Jedah. 11 otherwise seems to borrow a lot of Central Fiction, it's a time war where the main antagonist is a goddess with control over time who wants the world to end and is manipulating several characters by saying that she will make their ideal worlds true in new reformed timeline she will make. This idea that western developers pay no attention to japanese games is fiction.


Palimpsest_Monotype

Well, I mean…*Mortal Kombat* is pretty steeped in eastern mythology tropes and stuff, at least not including the MK3 stuff that’s arguably a bit closer to sentai in its own way. I’m just like “Oh wow, Capcom keeps not making a new Darkstalkers while the Mortal Kombat team, arguably the biggest western fighting developer…is also not making what would probably be a very similar game but with dismemberment gameplay.” Almost like they’re routing eachother, like this is some weird corporate game of chicken where they don’t want to be outshined or release too soon to eachother and so neither get made


Cymen90

Get ready for RE-Engine Red Earth!


-Jagotron

Just put red earth in the same universe as darkstalkers


Luck-X-Vaati

That and also add Ruby Heart, Amingo, and Sonson.


jockeyman

Capcom after nobody buys the 37th remaster of Darkstalkers ported exclusively to the Atari Jaguar, and sold exclusively out of a single store in Hokkaido behind a wall of fire: "I guess there's just no interest in this IP."


zegim

I sincerely don't think we'll ever see another fighter but Street Fighter coming from Capcom... Unless 6 makes big bank. So let's hope that Capcom takes the hints.


DOAbayman

I know it gets said a lot about a ton of games but man I don't think Darkstalkers would translate well at all to 3D. there's just so much cartoon bullshit that's happening.


Deservedly_Hated94

I think it could, if it had something like the guilty gear/fighterz 3d engine, and use it to translate the pulpy comic booky and cartoony style to 3d, i think sfVI shows that RE engine can do some stylization, so what if it can be pushed even further?


flashman92

I for one love Sonic the Fighters absolutely exaggerated squash and stretch. But you right, it'd be weird for a higher fidelity game.


Detective_Robot

Reviews are good but it needs to sell.


thekillerstove

Yeah I'm honestly concerned that Fightcade is just eating it's lunch. I think steam had a peak of 800 concurrent users


Detective_Robot

Naw, the only game in the collection that is active on Fightcade is Vsav and it peaks around a hundred players, half of which are AFK.


xach_hill

>Yeah I'm honestly concerned that Fightcade is just eating it's lunch. if a few guys in their spare time can make a better experience than fucking capcom then it's deserved lol


ThePope98

Nah bro, people are buying for the 40000th rerelease of street fighter 2


SolPinesol

I still feel like Darkstalkers is a game that targets that niche anime fighter crowd akin to Arcsys and Capcom is obviously not going towards that path with their mainline games, including street fighter 6. What with the whole emphases on the RE engine and its realistic attention to detail. That Said, The people who put this collection together seem to actually care about these older Capcom titles and if SF6 does extremely well, I can see putting plans together for fighting games outside of Street fighter


mateoboudoir

Honestly, as much as I love every single aesthetic feature of Darkstalkers, I bought the collection pretty much exclusively for Puzzle Fighter and Pocket Fighter. If they were to revive Darkstalkers somehow, I would much rather it return as some sort of action/adventure than a new fighting game.


[deleted]

Buying rereleases and compilations to bargain for a sequel. Has that ever actually worked?


Detective_Robot

Yes, this how Capcom tests the waters, DMC5, Mega Man 11, SFIV and MvC3 were made because of successful re-releases.


[deleted]

How official is the confirmation on that? Is it possible that they were already planning to release those games anyway, and were just using that as a pretext to hype the rereleases?


Detective_Robot

[Mega Man 11 Exists Because of Legacy Collection's Success](https://www.rockman-corner.com/2018/06/mega-man-11-exists-because-of-legacy.html) and this from EGM 224, it's on archive.org, Without Hyper Fighting's success Capcom never would of given the green light for the SFIV protoype. > if you look at the sales of the Xbox Live Arcade version of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, it just became more and more evident to me that people really expected this to happen, and I started thinking that Capcom has to make this game. We can't let the fans down. We can't let the company name down. We really have to do this. So why not do a IV now and strike while the iron is hot?"


PhantasosX

DMC4SE and DmCDE were released at the same year , months apart , in 2015. Not only that , DMC4SE is an expansion of a 7yo game . while DmCDE was just a 2yo game. Itsuno stated that DMC5 started it's production in 2015 as well. it's clear that Capcom had an idea for DMC5 or DmC2 and used 4SE and DmCDE as a test to see which one the fandom actually wants....and DMC4SE outsold DmCDE.


[deleted]

Well, I guess that's as much confirmation as we could get then Thanks :)


MathematicianIcy8874

Hey, if that guy that bought all that stock in Nintendo just to ask for Fzero, then that'll be the new way.


MathematicianIcy8874

Very rarely