Do you still believe in the quality of Capcom games?

People continue to give eastern developers a pass for subpar technical games largely as a bludgeon against western developers...

FromSoftware, Square Enix, Capcom... they're all subpar technically. It's why Konami farms out their development and even then they leave a lot to be desired...

Outside of Kojima Productions, I'm not sure of any eastern development studios pushing the bounds of technical sound games with high fidelity graphics.
Which Japanese Developer has ever exceeded in the graphics department since the Wii? Japanese are the kings of this hobby and they always put gameplay over graphics.
 
Which Japanese Developer has ever exceeded in the graphics department since the Wii? Japanese are the kings of this hobby and they always put gameplay over graphics.
And currently western devs are struggling exactly because they are focusing too much on expensive graphics.
 
Which Japanese Developer has ever exceeded in the graphics department since the Wii? Japanese are the kings of this hobby and they always put gameplay over graphics.

What Japanese development studios have better gameplay mechanics than western studios?

What has deeper gameplay mechanics TLOU P2 or RE8?

What has more refined gameplay mechanics FF16 or God of War Ragnarok?

If Guerrilla made a Monster Hunter clone it would be far superior.

I'm not trying to take the piss out of Japanese game development, I'm not, but the level of glaze they get, especially on GAF is unfounded.
 
Generally, yes. I think they are masters of their craft and are among the best in the industry.

That said, there have been some stinkers over the years. For me, usually in the performance category. MHWilds had issues, and I couldn't for the life of me get a decent framerate in Dragon's Dogma 2, even on potato settings (PC). Whereas, something like RE2/4 remakes I can max it out and get solid 60+.

(Admittedly, I'm running on a now dated RTX3080 but still guys. DD2 was horrendous.)
 
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Generally, yes. I think they are masters of their craft and are among the best in the industry.

That said, there have been some stinkers over the years. For me, usually in the performance category. MHWilds had issues, and I couldn't for the life of me get a decent framerate in Dragon's Dogma 2, even on potato settings (PC). Whereas, something like RE2/4 remakes I can max it out and get solid 60+.

(Admittedly, I'm running on a now dated RTX3080 but still guys. DD2 was horrendous.)
IIRC isn't it because of the RE Engine? Both MH Wilds and DD2 are more "open-world" compared to RE remakes.
 
Obnoxious fans have overrated them for most of this gen. Stale output consisting of more remakes and remasters than almost anyone. Resident Evil 4R is the height of it for me. Game is worse than the original and it was actually getting GOTY nods and people angry at people for just comparing the games side by side. Capgod is accurate because their fans are a bit cultish. MH Wilds demo told me all I needed to know to skip it and DD2 didn't live up to its potential at all. Doesn't matter if it's a crappy Dead Rising remake, people just repeat Capgod, Capgod and convince themselves it's great until it comes out and then they act surprised.

Still though, they're one of the only gameplay first studios out there besides Nintendo and when they do nail it, it's awesome. I think they're going to finally hit their stride for the first time this gen with Pragmata and Onimusha. Resident Evil 9 should be good too, but I've definitely played a lot of those.

I did enjoy Exoprimal and Kunitsu-Gami but it seems almost no one else did.
 
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I think they have good formula for games, but execution can sometimes be lacking.

Overall a good developer, will play future games for sure.

Sometimes can be overrated like RE2 Remake, which I felt was inferior to RE7 & 8.
 
Do you believe in life after Itsuno ?

90s believe GIF
 
It was in a real bad spot, and it got so much better. But it still feels kind of hit or miss for me personally. But that's an improvement from where they were at years ago during their rough patch.
 
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