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Megaman Creator Leaves Capcom!
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In an abrupt turn of events, Keiji Inafune has announced his resignation from Capcom via blog post. Inafune has been with the company since 1987 and is most famous for creating the video game character Megaman (or Rockman in Japan). The series is one of the most iconic and recognizable in the game industry. He has also worked on several Resident Evil titles, Onimusha series, and Dead Rising among many other games.Within the past few months, Inafune has stated publicly that he does not have the same goals in mind with his games as his fellow Capcom employees. He wishes there to be more creative process put into games as well as to target the global audience more aggressively. It was hinted by him last month that he was unsure if he would be staying with the company if they didn't start sharing his vision about how the company should handle games and audiences. Now he has made good on that comment.So after 23 years at Capcom Keiji Inafune has officially declared his resignation from Capcom, he will leave by the end of the month (which is only a couple of days away). This will no doubt be a major blow for Capcom. Inafune has stated that he intends to continue developing games however. He may even start his own company or join another. At any rate, i guess the real question is- what could this mean for the games he has a huge hand in making? Such as the upcoming Megaman Legends 3... We shall see, but Capcom probably isn't very happy to see that the creator of their mascot has left them. It's not only a big loss, but Inafune's comments about Capcom won't do well for the company's image.
Wow...so this means no more megaman games? T_T
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personuserArticle:"Within the past few months, Inafune has stated publicly that he does not have the same goals in mind with his games as his fellow Capcom employees. He wishes there to be more creative process put into games as well as to target the global audience more aggressively. It was hinted by him last month that he was unsure if he would be staying with the company if they didn't start sharing his vision about how the company should handle games and audiences."
I think his philosophies have collided with the teams main message of establishing the Teen/Mature rating of what CAPCOM stands for. He obviously wants to remain with them, but he seems more into that futuristic type stuff with robots and whatever.
I am a big fan of the series, ever since and I will miss his games. I think I understand why he is going to leave and try to go solo.
*Sigh* just like with how Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square-enix because the company has lost its luster now this guy leaves Capcom because the company is just fucking with his brain child :P Yeah, there I said it :PI dislike how Capcom is milking off Megaman with their corny & stupid remakes *cough*Megaman Powered Up*cough* & making the series darker with each new game :P
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Yeah, I hear ya. The new megaman universe is (supposedly) a MM2 remake taking the sonic route of "MOAR PEEPLZ!" So far, Megaman, Rockman (animegaman) Shite U.S. box art megaman and RYU are playable. (and who knows who else, probly roll, dante, every robot master in the previous games and every other capcom franchise ever.
They better not make us quarter-circle hadouken every time we need to shoot with ryu.
As for MM getting darker, yah, it is, and it got ridiculous with the later X/Zero/ZX series. The bosses have two-line emo backstories. When you try to give the robot masters personalities and backstories, capcom, don't have them just say it in a few lines right before the bossfights, actually give them some goddamn screentime and relation to the overall plot! That, or just shut them up and let us kick robotic ass without delay.
Anyway, that's my rant.
Damn. I was hoping that eventually Megaman 100 would come out.Oh well. All things must come to an end sometime.
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I would like to become the next head honcho making the next megaman, I would do a complete overhaul of the original version and add some epicness into it
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Hypr · #6Damn. I was hoping that eventually Megaman 100 would come out.
It's still a probability, remember the Mega Man franchise is owned by Capcom so they could just easily churn out more albeit very crappy games. It's just like with when Hironobu Sakaguchi left Square-Enix, the Final Fantasy franchise was left with Square-Enix but lacks Sakaguchi's genius.
This sounds familiar. Remember Bill Roper from Blizzard North? Creator of the Warcraft games. This is just like what happened to him.
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Scandal!?\\They can easily bring in new talent to replace him though.
Perhaps, with him gone they might even be motivated to make the next games better to show the world that they're not an empty shell without Inafune.
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WUUUT?!?!?!?
your saying mmsf is dark? and bad then? lol...
i thought that was a great series...
and now one of my all time fave games are going to go... RIP!?
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