Made the decesion to say Lost Planet games before the third were great. The 2nd one was good stuff, and it was the first time we saw how bad journalists can ruin something with a bad score because they weren't paid off to love a game, or simply learn how to play it. That and several obviously have a skill check issue worse than mine, even after my nerve damage.
Until we get fixes for the Lost Planet games they've said they would do, a new LOST PLANET like the 2nd game, Power Stone, DarkStalkers, Cyberbots, or a return of the beat em up game ideal of what came before Cyberbots and put it into a form of ongoing adventures that could last a while with replayability unto new co op missions, and have one of these turn out, you know, actually GOOD, I think I'm kinda done with buying Capcom games.
Sure I'll play some SF6 again, but that was a gift from a friend. Meanwhile, Capcom has utterly ignored the requests to go back to other IP's or things comparable to them for such a very long time and many ventures have had simply terrible outcomes since like, well, anything after Monster Hunter World which was also a bit sour cuz people stopped playing with me for being a HeavyBowgun users cuz people thought working with a team to read their needs and using special ammo to help with status effects was skillless and yet others wouldn't bring you along because you couldn't deliver enough damage after it was nerfed to hell.
ANd yet still I played through pretty much all of the game that way out of dedication. Eventually I got sick of the treatment though, seeing how even a co op community could get so toxic, and now sadly some of them show up in Helldivers 2 but are being actively dealt with, people could really get.
It's a shame so much has gone this way, but hey. Least there's some decent games shaping up or coming out of interest in other places. And with prices like 17 dollars for a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ninja Turtle Skin, and the lies about how all content before in FIVE could be unlocked without money, and yet a game like HELLDIVERS 2, at least for now can make it come true... Well dayum...
70 dollars tittles and the best out of the lot they can muster is Skull and Bones and even that doesn't seem to avoid the 70 USD price curse. It's like being the player who shows up on the front of the Wheaties cerial Box or the myth about being on the MADDEN game cover. It just kinda falls to pieces after.
But i digress. The game here it's self, it's good! But Capcom's playing ball with Microsoft, and then failing to fix the issue of the service going away or changing after, completely unforgivable when they said they would and it's like a decade later. Pitiful. I dont like how USA and other governing agencies have basically turned consumer protection into a laughing stock in the modern age, and with that mixed with the companies like this that just dont want to make good on promises, have no repercussions for pulling road maps out from under people like table cloth tricks flubbed as if we wouldn't notice the glasses all falling over, and continuing to not only ignoring the requests for returning IP's, but then doubling down on past mistakes saying how they don't care when their new games come out, and then wonder why things like the recent Spider Man game lost every award.
So with all that, and CAPCOM's major hand into turning similar I say, No DarkStalkers, PowerStone, Lost Planet, or otherwise good mech game, I'm done. no more just this medievel open world stuff but perhaps something that feels like a mecha band of brothers kind of game roaming the land town to town co op with friends to take lobs and missions, just a thought, well.... I could even think of a couple of other IPs, but something like the above mentioned, I think that's what it's going to take for me to even ATTEMPT to get something out of capcom again.
For now they just keep re selling the old IP's doing the wink when no one is looking despite saying it's not really a thing that if a re sale sells well they'll bring it back, but know it's our only hope, they'll just use the other IP's for cameo appearances. Or sell them too us yet again another five years from now. Abandon our hopes, welp, abandon enough of your customers. And I've finally reached the end of good faith to a few companies.
So Capcom, you can take your sale, and kindly realize that a small percent of what I wasn't interested in, or re purchased already like...three or four times... that's just it for me.... And the good gameplay in this game, and especially Lost Planet 2, makes me further fortify this thought process.
And so here it is. My very broad review of other things, along with this game, that were good in the past, but now gone from us for many years. A decade of failures and large levels of being foresaken that only, to me, Monster Hunter World felt like it progressed and kept something un usual, and yet happened to fail me a bit as well in what became a rather toxic co op community. How is it that even Warhammer 40K which is a great franchise but known for some intolerant people in some of their communities happen to have a fairly good natured co op community with Darktide, and then other things just get so.. bad?... And other things wanted just left by the way side because they don't have the last few years big sale's numbers because, news flash, you haven't made them again inlike over a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decade?.....
But hey, plenty else out there for me to catch up, some past games worth playing, you just need to pick them up on decent older hardware like Capcom vs SNK 2 on a ye ol PS2. That's the good stuff right there...
Shape up CAPCOM, look to Lost Planet 2 and realize it's slow start was because of bad journos while others who actually bought it, like myself, cherrish it to this very day. So much that we bought it on consoles, then PC, then you ripped away the PC version from us through lies of fixing it. Maybe one day we will look eye to eye again, but this day ain't it. Maybe that PowerStone collection in the mix will prove to be true, and MAYBE I'll get that. But again. No games that I mentioned above? This is goodbye. At least for now. You were great in your time, but now you have me less interested in what you have than even SEGA that's now realizing it's time to pick up the things we been asking for once more... What are the odds?
You've used up your 'once in a while company saver' Resident Evil franchise by over miking that now too. So you'll have to look to one of the above. SOme interesting designs for armors in ExoPrimal, but then the rest of the game just doesn't really breath of impact. But hey, make a Cyber Bots witht he kind of adventure, open world or otherwise, and the explosive kind of impacts that HellDivers 2 is bringing, and maybe you'll have a chance.
But what do I know? I'm just an aging gamer now who sees the trends over many years, can call whats looking good and coming, gaming since 1984, and managed an arcade for 16 years, and followed the industry pretty close for a very very very long time. Indeed, what do I know?
I'd say stay away from CAPCOM folks, unless you wan to spend a horrid amount of a lot of money for less, have those things run out of access before their time, have them sold to you again if you're lucky, then three more times, and all their live service games come with terrible caviots as they ignore their communities for anything other than Street Fighter for even longer than the YEARS they stuck you with SFV.
This isn't just my review of a game... but of a company that was once grand, but has fallen from grace into trying to be the next EA... And that's just filthy...
