oh god wtf boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo and why were they going to skip 4 is 4 that bad?
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Capcom really isn't utilizing Onimusha in this day and age?
GeorgioCostanzaX
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Reboot? Yeah I’m still waiting on just the remasters but might just resign myself to trying them out on Steam Deck PS2 emulators.
Danjin44
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CamHostage
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...Because the last entry in the series came out almost 20 years ago and the brand has had no cultural presence since then?
I'd like to see it myself, but I don't see how a few samurai-era game successes would prove bank for this brand. Capcom has done a good job adapting old RE overhead location designs for third-person combat/exploration mechanics, but Onimusha (and Dino Crisis, for that matter) would have some challenges RE didn't deal with in the perspective shift and the increase of tactical awareness / aim accuracy. (Dino Crisis at least has the iconic Regina and also kids buy dinosaur products, so that one's weird to not remaster even if it would change the game a lot to leave the locked camera system.) Onimusha 4DoD did a 3D world / behind-the-back camera but it was clumsy (and a remaster/remake would still need that tight-to-character camera design if it went third-person since the combat zones are so small and limited,) and it's unlikely an old-school top-down camera would be used in a AAA game today.
This makes remakes a difficult option (albeit not impossible,) leaving choices of continuing the series with Onimusha 5 or rebooting the franchise. Neither of these sounds like a billion-selling proposition unless there's a compelling new idea to build upon. Just banking on a small run in samurai titles from other publishers (many of which are very different games, aside from the setting, ) doesn't lead Onimusha directly to the top purely on nostalgia.
I'd like to see it myself, but I don't see how a few samurai-era game successes would prove bank for this brand. Capcom has done a good job adapting old RE overhead location designs for third-person combat/exploration mechanics, but Onimusha (and Dino Crisis, for that matter) would have some challenges RE didn't deal with in the perspective shift and the increase of tactical awareness / aim accuracy. (Dino Crisis at least has the iconic Regina and also kids buy dinosaur products, so that one's weird to not remaster even if it would change the game a lot to leave the locked camera system.) Onimusha 4DoD did a 3D world / behind-the-back camera but it was clumsy (and a remaster/remake would still need that tight-to-character camera design if it went third-person since the combat zones are so small and limited,) and it's unlikely an old-school top-down camera would be used in a AAA game today.
This makes remakes a difficult option (albeit not impossible,) leaving choices of continuing the series with Onimusha 5 or rebooting the franchise. Neither of these sounds like a billion-selling proposition unless there's a compelling new idea to build upon. Just banking on a small run in samurai titles from other publishers (many of which are very different games, aside from the setting, ) doesn't lead Onimusha directly to the top purely on nostalgia.
The first two games weren't particularly fast,I think Onimusha should be like Bloodborne with regards to combat.
NeverYouMind
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I want to see demon carnage in Paris with modern graphics, whip Nobunaga's ass, and give them all a taste of lead. Sign me up.
I think it would have more mechanical similarities to Sekiro.
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I'm referring to the weapons transforms because of the limited amount of weapons , also the staggering system.I want to see demon carnage in Paris with modern graphics, whip Nobunaga's ass, and give them all a taste of lead. Sign me up.
I think it would have more mechanical similarities to Sekiro.
SkylineRKR
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I liked the trilogy and never played 4. If I were to guess, remasters might be problematic since they used actors like Jean Reno.
Dacvak
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HYDE
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I know this is a bumped (not by me) necro thread, but has your opinion shifted since you saw the new reveal?
HYDE
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No! Remake DMC 1 then follow it up with a DMC6 in that OG Castlevania style please?
RagnarokIV
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I’m still cautious at the moment. The brief glimpse of gameplay we saw looked a bit soulsy with the large boss enemy.
If it is a soulslike I will go mental.
If not I will be happy.
Fahdis
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Bro, isn't Oni sort of a Souls Lite in the first place?
Saturn Dragon
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I might boot up my ps2 to play original Onimusha. Ori-musha
the remaster on ps4 is really good
the og oni is re like
Fahdis
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OG yes. I do remember enemies stop spawning unlike in Souls. But the higher the difficulty the enemies do respawn. Then there's parries, item management, buffs and that orgasm inducing epileptic seizure giving Issen that blinds you for a second. You just don't lose your items when you die. Or co-op.
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