My first thought was, what games did Capcom release again?
The answer: LOTS
Here's rooting for Mega Man, Gun Smoke, Bionic Commando and Ghost's and Goblins
I loved those back on my NES
Man, Capcom had a lot of great Disney games back in those days.
I have yet to play
Mega Man 11, but I'm really iffy on the series since original creator K. Inafune is gone. Most of the time when I play Mega Man games these days, I focus on 3, 4 and 6. Sometimes 7.
MM9 turned out ****ing great, and
MM10 was okay. From the X series I only really liked
Mega Man X 1 and
2, but good gawd to this day I still play those games
A LOT. The series has been so used and abused that I actually do NOT want them to make any more X games. Just ****ing let it rest in peace.
I certainly wouldn't want another
Bionic Commando like the one that came out in 2009. I don't know how
Bionic Commando Rearmed and
Rearmed 2 turned out cuz I didn't play them, but they seemed to be more in the style of the original games.
Didn't
Ghost N Goblins already get a remake in 2006? Or was that just a new game and not a remake? A new entry could be interesting. Just, you know, balance the games better Capcom. I'm not saying pussy-out and make the games super-****ing-easy, but dear gawd the traditional difficulty of this series is just too ****ing brutal and frustrating. I know there's a good middle ground in there somewhere.
Gun.Smoke is one of the many games I threw onto NES Classics for various friends and family, was having a blast with it last year. Been a long time since I last played it before that. Would be interesting to see a modern interpretation. I also mess with the arcade version via emulation.
mega man Legends 3, please.
I remember that big-*** giant effort to make
Mega Man Legends 3, and how that whole situation turned out in the end. Wish they hadn't given up on it.
Gimme a new darkstalkers game !!
...I can't see a new Darkstalkers game happening
Which is very unfortunate. I didn't grab the re-release of the arcade versions on PS3/X360, but to this day I still enjoy
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampires (which I think is the 3rd Darkstalkers game) on Sega Saturn. Didn't touch
MvC Infinite and I didn't care for
MvC3/UMvC3. I prefer
MvC2 but honestly my favorite games in the Capcom-Marvel VS series are
X-Men vs Street Fighter and especially
Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (games I still play a lot on Saturn). I was hoping when
Street Fighter was revived with
SF4 that we would be getting a high-res pure 2D one with exquisite animation, but that didn't happen sadly.
SF4 was okay but I never really got into it.
SF5 I've barely touched. Anyways it would be awesome if we could get another Darkstalkers game, a new game, and with beautiful high-res pure 2D art.
Dino Crisis seems like it could be a good choice for a revival.
1942 got a new game in 2008 (Joint Strike) and I enjoyed it enough.
The
AvP beat-em-up released only in arcades (CPS2) was ****ing awesome, and I wouldn't mind a sequel or a home release. MAME is the main way I play it these days. Bring a laptop to a friend's house, hook up to HDTV, bust out 3 controllers, and away we go. I've been trying to convince my friend to grab the real version for his CPS2.
The
Armored Warriors/Cyberbots universe could also be an interesting one to revisit. I picked up the Saturn version of Cyberbots a couple years ago or so. Arcade version is better but Saturn version ain't bad at all.
I don't know much about the
Breath of Fire series, but I wonder if this counts as another long-dormant franchise that Capcom could revive.
Really enjoyed Capcom's two D&D beat-em-ups (which were released as a collection called
Chronicles of Mystara in 2013), a new entry in that franchise would be cool if done well. My friend actually owns
Tower of Doom for CPS2, and I been telling him he needs to get his hands on
Shadow Over Mystara.
Isn't it about time we got a sequel to the 3rd
Gargoyle's Quest game,
Demon's Crest? Still a great ****ing game. One that was requested often when I was modding SNES Classics for friends/family. My brother recently played through the Japanese version (
Demon's Blazon) on the actual hardware.
Wasn't there an
Onimusha remaster recently? I know fans have been calling for a new
Onimusha game for quite some time. I myself have never played any of them.
I would not mind seeing a new, properly-done
Final Fight game. My experience was really only with the first game (the arcade version), which had a sort-of-remaster not too long ago (
Final Fight Double Impact, which also included the arcade game
Magic Sword). Last year I spent some time with
Final Fight 2 and
3, and I enjoyed those games as well.
At the very least I would love to see remasters of all the PowerStone, Rival Schools, and even more niche titles like Tech Romancer.
Gonna have to agree with all of those. I still **** with
Tech Romancer on Dreamcast from time to time. My buddy actually picked up the arcade board for
Rival Schools not too long ago. He also got the sequel
Project Justice, but it didn't work so he had to return it to the seller, who I think will be attempting repairs on it. Not sure what was wrong with it. Loved the **** outta
Power Stone 1 and especially
2 on Dreamcast. I even grabbed the 2-game collection on PSP. When friends come over for some local multiplayer action,
Power Stone 2 is one of the games that always gets busted out. Too bad there weren't enough levels in that game.
Steel Battalion seems like it would work out well as a VR game.
I used to play my friend's copy of
Star Gladiator on PS1 back in the day. One day I would like to check out the sequel
Plasma Sword. Another dormant franchise to potentially be revisited, although I don't think anyone is really calling for a revival of this IP.
I enjoyed original arcade
Strider, the Genesis version, and especially
Strider 2 on PS1. However the 2014
Strider, which was a Metroidvania game (a genre I usually really like), left a lot to be desired.
Wouldn't mind another
Viewtiful Joe or
Okami, but only if Hideki Kamiya and his crew are behind it. He didn't exactly leave on good terms with Capcom though.
Anyways I could go on and on and on, but yeah Capcom does have a wealth of IPs they should be falling back on. Many of these haven't had new games in a very long time. They're not the only company we can say this about either. I'm looking at you Konami. Konami are a bunch of dicks though, and they are no longer interested in making real video games. Just mobile crap and pachislot "games."
