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Mighty No.9 Kickstarter (PS4/XB1 & Vita/3DS are GO!) (Inafune/IC, $4M FUNDED)
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HP_Wuvcraft
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I never thought $2.2 million or even $2.5 million was anywhere near an impossibility, but now we're definitely hitting those doldrums where it might only do $50,000 or less a day.
8-4 Play will probably have an episode with this next week, so that should help. As well as other stuff like the interviews with Mr. Inafune going up and whatnot.
astarisborn94
Member
The Classic Mega Man gif looks really awkward, but I love X's reaction.nearly 1.6mil in 5 days with 26 days to go and you guys are worrying? Damn, relax guys lol.
Randomly found this nice gif
After it reaches the documentary, I'm hoping that they do reveal their other potential plans to help encourage more funding. I don't think they should wait until the PS3/Wii-U/360 stretch goal is reached.
Screw that. Have Keiji Inafune do a developer commentary on his own games! As a student, I'd be interested in learning of his stories of development in earlier days.
They probably do not have the rights to officially show Mega Man content beyond fair use terms.
Mind you, I'd love to hear that too.
I was meaning to ask; in the video, before Keiji looks over at the construction worker, there's a scene with him, 'Roll' and 'Rush' in front of a large gate. I've got a nagging feeling the gate looks familiar, too, but I can't place it.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Yeaaaaah...they can't do that.
RussellXV
Member
Better hit $2.2M. I want this on PS3/PS4.
It will. The last few days of a KS are usually the most fun of the campaign.
Brainiac 8
Member
Man, this just won't stop.
If Inafune needed any confirmation that people still love him and Mega Man, this should ease all of that.
Also, Capcpom better be sweating bullets right now.
If Inafune needed any confirmation that people still love him and Mega Man, this should ease all of that.
Also, Capcpom better be sweating bullets right now.
I said it before, but I'm worried they kind of sacrificed their momentum by rearranging the goals and placing a 450k-gap between the documentary and the console goals. We won't see the documentary stretch goal reached at least until the day after tomorrow, and I guess we'll get the console goal at some point after the day counter goes single-digits.
They do not care, I m guiessing. Capcom wants mega man to be pulling people like mario or sonic. Megaman wasn doing that, so they dropped it.
They do not care, they are probably, more concerned with money they have been lossing en masse.
I love the rewards for donating. Dropping $60 on this gets you some good stuff.
Well done finding it because that is just hilarious! lol
Well done finding it because that is just hilarious! lol
BassForever
Member
Capcom just wants these big AAAA checks, mega man games would be profitable on a much smaller scale. It boggles my mind how they can justify a strider game from double helix but not Mega Man
Some odd sense of pride mixed with not knowing what to do with the franchise, if I were to guess. And yes, they do want them big checks. It isn't working out too hot through. They have been killing of series for a while, maybe justb maybe instead of killing them off they could have made a bunch of reasonably budgted games and made money. And then used that to fund the bigger ones. Eh I dunno I do not know the ins and outs of buisness so I can't say too much.
I wanted a megaman mmo though in a zx kinda style or battle network
Hey, I wonder what happens if you Skype MightyNo9 and leave a message with your question or thoughts on the game...?
:O
Warrior_Keoni
Member
GAFers tend to be the most pessimistic about games anyway.
KojiKnight
Member
Inafune loved Zero. I'd be very very surprised if we don't get a zero-a-like. Either via stretch goal or as a "surprise" in the final game.
KojiKnight
Member
This is the thing that confuses me... Budget titles can and DO work when advertised correctly (see Farcry 3's standalone expansion). Episodic gameplay didn't work a few years ago (with a few exceptions) but small stand alone titles can.
Right now there is a huge gap between indie titles ($5-15 range) and AAA games ($50-60) that isn't being filled. Instead sales in the $20-40 range are being taken over by older AAA titles which we all know only accounts for a small portion of overall sales. This would be the perfect area for the big players (EA, Ubi, Capcom, SE) to pull in business on.
The fact that MN9 falls into the low end of this category and is already very well received leads me to think it's going to do great sales wise at $20. Especially with the name recognition and level of polish we'll be expecting.
As stated before, the irony is that the EXE/Battle Network series was doing just that for Capcom throughout the early-mid 2000s. It was only after they ruined shit by a) too many sequels and b) replacing the familiar EXE cast with the Ryuusei/Starforce cast that nobody liked as much that things really went sour for them.
It's sad, but I always thought it to be true. As much as some "purists" may have hated the "hobby style" EXE games, it was the main thing that kept Rockman relevant to Capcom for many years, and likely was the main reason that X and Zero games kept getting made on the same token in that time frame.
Notice how as soon as the EXE well dried up, that's when Capcom started to get a bit more funny-acting with the Mega Man brand. Beginning with 8-bit cash-ins that were marketed towards the retro crowd, without also having something that kept the franchise in the minds of kids and have them running out to buy merchandise.
Capcom needs a Rockman that either can a) recapture that EXE market and/or b) play up the "play together" aspect that MonHun built up in the worst way, if they have any ambition of bringing the brand back. The "AAA" model just isn't a good fit, and thus, why I rejoiced in the death of the FPS idea.
BrokenFiction
Member
Mighty No. 9 got blurbed on a TV show called EP Daily. In my market, it comes on after Craig Ferguson. It's generally a tech/gaming/movie show that could use a little work, but during a daily rundown they mentioned Inafune so my head snapped up. Lo and behold, it was a short segment on MN9.
http://epdaily.tv/all/spotlight/september-4-rundown-guardians-of-the-galaxy-star-wars-episode-vii/
I couldn't link to the direct timecode for the mention, so it's a minute or two into the video. Sure it's late night, and sure it's what-the-hell-show-is-this, but it's nice to see the TV shout out.
http://epdaily.tv/all/spotlight/september-4-rundown-guardians-of-the-galaxy-star-wars-episode-vii/
I couldn't link to the direct timecode for the mention, so it's a minute or two into the video. Sure it's late night, and sure it's what-the-hell-show-is-this, but it's nice to see the TV shout out.
The FPS idea was seriously stupid, I was disappointed Inafune thought that was even a good idea. It wouldn't capture the dudebro market and it certainly wouldn't win over the fans. It was for the best it got cancelled.
2:23 is exactly where he starts talking about Inafune. Pretty awesome this is getting attention!
2:23 is exactly where he starts talking about Inafune. Pretty awesome this is getting attention!
I just started laughing when I saw that in my email inbox, wish that he was chosen.
Kenji Inafune HIMSELF does more promotion for his games than Sega does for their entire line up.
Loyalty.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Speaking of alternate Beck designs, someone made this:
His main points are different color and silhouette than Mega Man and less details.
this is nice!
I found this little gem amusing on Capcom-Unity's forums. It's not inaccurate, but sounds a bit dismissive and defensive:
Question:
Answer:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_cap...thinks-mega-man-is-unpopular-on-the-west?pg=1
Question:
Answer:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_cap...thinks-mega-man-is-unpopular-on-the-west?pg=1
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Not that I exactly dislike the guy, but Inafune alone is certainly not the reason I'm backing this. I think it's safe to say this particular team would not have been assembled, especially for this kind of project, without him though. Regardless of what you think about his ego or his creative talent, the guy has clout and vision as a producer.
KojiKnight
Member
I get the website admins probably don't know crap about crap... but the way this was answered came off really bad. Like Capcom of Europe blaming the fans bad.
Geez. I know the higher ups in Capcom probably secretly thought that. Never would've thought the admins would try to say that outright to defend themselves though.
And here is a video from Maximillian (also gaffer!) about Mighty No.9. He hits it on all points,we need these platformers, even i missed it so mutch for a new age.
Can MIGHTY No.9 Save Mega Man? PPM13
Can MIGHTY No.9 Save Mega Man? PPM13
I see what you are saying, Battle Network was their taste of that coveted legendary pokemans like money. After they messed that up, and by focusing on that soo much ruined the X series, and letting off the two best additions to 2D megaman Zero and Zx fall relitivly unnoticed onto hand helds. Well they didn't really think megaman was worth that sort of investment, sad thing is I actually think it was.
You remember that megaman MMO that was suppoused to happen, I think if advertized well along with a T.V show and the game being geneally good. It may have gotten more people like capcom wanted into megaman. I think they should have went the Zero Zx aesthetic though. Back to my point, I play DCUO I like super heroes comic books and what not. I find that that MMO got a lot of people into comic books, or atleast reaserch the source material. I dunno I think Megaman online would have done more good than harm.
MML3 wouldn't have hurt eithe.
But its gone, just like so many other capcom franchises since mid ps2 era
Those all-digital tiers are pretty good. Most likely I'll end up upping my current $20 pledge to either the $60 (digital) or $99 tier by the end of the campaign.
I don't think a MMO would have done as much as it could have, especially considering that Rockman's main appeal should always be with kids (and the kids at heart).
What I think MM needed was something akin to MonHun, utilizing the EXE aesthetic. Create your own NetNavi, and go "hunt" Viruses and bad NetNavis in CyberSpace. It's the kind of thing that makes you wonder why nobody sprung on this type of idea long before now. Especially by the time the "MonHun-like" started getting popular.
Winterfang
Banned
That's a lot of money on concept art and faith alone. I'm happy gamers are still willing to dream, even if the game might not look anything close to that concept art.
Well, it's not like this is a team of inexperienced designers and developers we're dealing with, I'd say there's a certain degree of confidence that this game will be good based on the fact that Inti Creates has a pretty solid development history, same for Inafune. I would hardly call it faith.
I'm perfectly aware that the end product might not look at all like the concept sketches. Is that the game I'm backing? No, I'm backing a new platformer game designed by Inafune and developed by Inti Creates in the vein of Megaman, because that alone sounds like something I'd really like.
He looked quite freaky:
I migth be late posting this but damn that looks like a gundam