#what did capcom mean by that

[spiritsandwhatnot]

i hear "he doesnt love you. i can make him love you" "dont- dont hurt him" in my head randomly

[riverin-stories]

i'm back from hiatus here 1 million years later to say: that okami sequel announcement had me in shambles

[valentineredfield]

[Nicole Tompkins reading Elena/Daniela Dimitrescu lines as Jill] "Hey, kiss me?"

[preheville]

they thought they could just casually drop these two lines of dialogue and i wouldn't say anything about it. HELLO!

[valenfield-inspo]

Jill Valentine & Chris Redfield - Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles/Umbrella's End Moodboard

[autumnoakes]

i think re6 could have been really good if they'd just let it cook longer

[todayisafridaynight]

what are your interests that aren’t yakuza

uhm. a lot !!! I think !!!

[rockturbot]

apologies is this comes off as weird but I'd literally die for mvk and his wife. your take on her is so good and excellent and wonderful and AAAAA I find myself looking at her like SHE! QUEEN! so invested into those two

Not weird at all. I'm very glad you like her, and them together!! I think about them all the time honestly. <3

[brodorokihousuke]

celebrating a decade of being stuck in lawyer hell by drawing my favorite baffling concept art. What do you mean his father was supposed to be "returning from Egypt"....?!?!? What do you mean "Egypt power"?!??!???!?!?! Capcom please i'm desperate for info here

Also kind of became a game of "how close can I get to official (as of DD) styling"... I think I did ok..?

Concept art itself under the cut. If you're interested in more of my art feel free to check out @brodartrokihousuke

Interestingly I think this is the only time he's ever depicted without a vest or jacket on? anyways... wacky shit.

[iamtherlan]

Let's get into a massive deep dive into developing S.A.M - The Strong Arm Machine from Jetpack Joyride!

We wanted to add something that kept people engaged with the game, and kept the game relevant in a sea of "runner" games. We also wanted to own the game ourselves - this was the first big update from a new team taking over from the original "Ninja Pack" group.

Our first attempt was to build into - what was all this stuff was actually for? So the thought was an agent that you had to knock over and get their briefcase. This is a quick mockup I made.

And here's the prototype!

And.. it's not very fun! Kind of boring to deal with. So.. let's try something different!

What about a Sonic styled Egg-O-Matic? Looks more fun, but doesn't feel right. Barry smashing his face into it doesn't look right - especially when the game is about avoiding things.

So then we asked - what's the COOLEST thing we could do? What about a Scientist police squad? You have to avoid the rockets, while hitting the squad. Okay, but still felt a bit meh, and not great for smaller phones.

What about.. a T-Rex chase, Jurassic Park style? A quick mockup I had done.

In this case, a T-Rex would be behind you, and you're trying to destroy it with missiles. But avoiding missiles is super difficult.

What about... A Mega Barry? Some kind of Rock, Paper system mechanism? Eh, too complicated.

Let's simplify! What if you were in a giant robot that you need to shield? Some mockups I made using Metal Slug sprites.

And here's a prototype! Marvel Vs. Capcom Cap shield and T-Rex fit in well. It's a new Jetpack Joyride mechanic - you have to hit everything, rather than avoid! We have our mechanic!

Some concepts. First it was a big Barry, but why would the scientists make this? Something more menacing, more "Legitimate Industries".

An early version with a fire cannon instead, but it didn't really fit either. Needed to be a shield!

Let's talk about the S.A.M building sequence! We wanted to make sure that this felt epic, so it's built in 3 different sections!

S.A.M has 21 pieces in all, and a lot of destructibility. I feel for the people now who make skins for him!

And here's a bit of final gameplay! Big robot, bashing through stuff. He's got 3 hits to him, which makes him very useful, and hopefully get you back every day to play him again!

Using S.A.M means you got a daily challenge! Collect 5 and get a unique piece of clothing!

We added 16 new costumes at the time - so 32 unique pieces. To collect them all means playing for 160 days! That'd be great retention! Plus you could buy a present directly, which increased our spending too!

One of the fun things about S.A.M is his name. In other languages, we made sure his name also also used the S.A.M code.

How did this go? Huge! Our retention went up by 10%, and people loved it! It was a great addition to the game, and has been expanded upon a lot since.

And that was S.A.M!

[ieetbeez]

Small Rant About RE

Hello gang... This has been on my mind for awhile. Today we're talking about Resident Evil and particularly Leon stans. Now I'm gonna come out and say I am one of them! I love that silly little blonde man and he's like number 1 on my favorite capcom white boy tier list next to Cody from Final Fight/SF.

tw: mentions of rape, pedophilia, incest, abuse, and my opinion

Let me make it clear, I'm not kink shaming, I'm not advocating for censorship. Art and literature shouldn't be censored. Sex is cool. Kink is cool (when safe and consensual).

I'm gonna be one of those fans real quick and say, I've been an RE fan since I was like 7. That doesn't really mean much since I can't drink legally but I've been in love with Leon since elementary school. I watched my Dad and brother play RE6 co-op and man... Aka I've been in the fandom for a fat minute. Before the RE2 remake came out I'd see the occasional Dead Dove fic but that's whatever. But I have never seen this much dark romance about Leon of all people!

Like. Call it the T-Virus the way it's everywhere I swear I can't scroll down the damn tag without getting hit with a sexual crime. And let me say, I'm not new to fandom culture. I take don't like don't read to heart (I'm super picky LMAO). And I understand that, that's just how big fandoms are, more people, more bad eggs. I'm sure the majority of y'all are sweet people.

BUT I feel like I shouldn't have to say that romanticizing things like pedophilia, rape, abuse, and incest is disgusting in the big year 2025 but here we are. Honestly, I feel this way about a lot of the fics of other fandoms I'm in. I feel crazy seeing it everywhere and it makes me feel like some sort of sexual puritan. Am I insane for wanting freaky smut and not ...freaky smut??

There for sure is a bigger conversation here about how easily accessible porn is and how quick people to fall into these pipelines. Or how booktok caused a rise in the normalization of dark romance troupes and just pure porn writing (I still hate icebreaker). Or how quick form constant content is slowly leaking it's way into everything. But we’d be here for forever…

And like, it's just completely out of character?? Like if you're gonna write about that can it at least be in character? Wesker fits the dark romance thing LEAGUES better. But LEON?? THE POLICE OFFICER?? Did you even watch a walkthrough? Leon is a sweet upstanding guy with lots of trauma, that is the last thing he'd do to ANYONE! Not saying fics have to be completely accurate all the time but there's literally nothing fun about "Omg what if Leon RAPED you!?" HES NOT THE EVIL RESIDENT HERE GUYS! At some point it's not even about Leon (or whoever the fic is about) anymore, it's just someone wanting to share their sexual fantasies online.

These topics are almost never written with any care and are insanely insensitive to the survivors of these acts. I don't know, sexual crimes are literally some of the most deplorable acts of hatred and depravity someone can do onto another person. I can't imagine getting off to the suffering of others (in a heinous crime way not BDSM way) (BDSM is cool). Have some fucking empathy and stop thinking with your goon wad guys <3

Like at least take it to AO3 so that I can filter it out or smth...

Edit: I just woke up and remembered what else I was gonna say.

You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their fictional characters. Another thing I don’t like are the Gooner mods for the games. Like they’re fun every once in a while and like if it’s a capcom game you have to expect it. At some point though, it just stops being sexy and feels gross or uncomfortable.

Idk maybe I’m in the minority here but there has never been a single time where I was playing any RE game and thought to myself, “man… I wish I could see Leon’s end rod whipping in the wind rn…” Obviously, I wanna see that man oiled up butt booty naked doing jumping jacks like as most normal people do but… zawg…

That’s also like an actual person?? At least for the remakes. Maybe this just isn’t my dove to eat but the treat Leon like some sort doll. I know it’s kinda weak to be like this for a fictional person but yeah </3

[i-live-here-in-my-house]

Thinking about a world where Sega and Capcom came together and gave us what we all deserve: a Sonic X Ace Attorney crossover game. I would think it'd lean more into a visual novel style, maybe with some parts more similar to the Investigation games where you play as Sonic in kinda an isometric platforming stage? Honestly that part isn't as fully formed in my mind.

Some sort of Eggman plot ends up getting everyone accidentally sent to the world of AA while he's on the search for some kinda spirit channeling maguffin to aid him in a take-over-the‐world-plot. And of course Phoenix "luckiest unlucky man ever" Wright ends up getting himself stuck right in the middle of it all.

For the first/tutorial case I think Sonic would absolutely need to be the defendant. I would think the events of the case probably take place either the same day of or the day after the Sonic cast gets transported into the world. Something along the lines of Sonic not having an alibi because he was moving too fast for them to see him would be a perfect kinda turnabout twist to combine the logic of both series together imo.

Also throughout the whole game there would 100% be a running gag about people mistaking Phoenix and Sonic for eachother purely because of Wright's hair and Sonic's quills

Case two's defendant is a toss up between Knuckles or Tails imo, I lean more towards Knuckles being the one though for one very important reason. Tails would be perfect for the Ace Attorney 'weird girl assistant' role. Obviously Sonic would be tagging along too (because no way in hell would you not be able to have both protagonists hanging out together) but Tails would be totally down to help and Sonic, while he totally wants to help Knux, is very much in a "I could just break him out and be back before they could even notice he's gone" mood which is causing Phoenix just SO much grief.

I think this would probably break from the general mold of AA and not be a murder case and instead be a larceny case, with Knuckles being accused of the crime due to his digging skills, and the fact that tunnels were found all around the property of the stolen object. This is where we learn about this spirit channeling macguffin through either a Pearl cameo, who we learn through fluff dialogue is now an honorary member of Team Rose due to how well she gets along with them. It turns out to actually be Rouge who stole the macguffin under orders from G.U.N to keep it out of Eggman's hands meaning she doesn't sentenced for the crime since she technically didn't break any laws.

Case three's defendant would be Big the Cat because I think it'd be funny. Something along the lines of Big looking for Froggy and ending up at a totally unrelated murder scene. You play as Apollo in this case because he's my favorite boy and I think it'd be funny to watch him struggle with having to deal with Big. Just a general silly case full of wacky crossover fun before getting more seriously into the plot with the final two cases. Also the Chaotix are there because you can't have a mystery game without detective. Are the helping? Are they against you? Not really sure. But it'd be a massive missed opportunity to NOT include them.

Amy would be case four's defendant, with her piko piko hammer being found at the scene and Omega's body being found in pieces. That's right! I think it'd be interesting to have a named character be the victim of one of these cases, but obviously I'm not gonna kill anyone off. I think Omega would be the best pick though since he's a robot and it'll take time for Tails to fix him from the totally wrecked state he's in. I think it'd be fun to have Shadow as a key witness in this case, believing Amy did it. He doesn’t want to suspect she did something like this, but claims he saw her in the act of tearing Omega apart with her hammer, take the macguffin and then bolt.

It goes without saying it's obviously Eggman trying to frame Amy for this, using Metal Sonic to frame her by using his shape shifting powers from Heros to disguise himself as her, take apart Omega to retrieve the macguffin, and get it to Eggman. Leading into the final case.

The final case would be a continuation from there with out heros all joining together to try and stop Eggman from using the machine being powered by the Macguffin. Maybe something about Phoenix needing to come with because his magatama is able to counteract it...? Idk. Get that mandatory Edgeworth cameo in there with it being revealed that him and Franziska were teaming up with Team Dark the whole game to help put a stop to things (Giving us fun Phoenix + Sonic and Edgeworth + Shadow parallels). Of course the heros manage to put a stop to things and everyone goes back to their own world yadda yadda happy ending.

This came out way longer than I expected haha but I hope y'all like the concept! If I had the patience I'd totally write this as a fan fic but I know I don't so if anyone wants to take my idea and expand on it absolutely do it! Just let me know so I can read it too. :3

[elendsessor]

OKAY SO BECAUSE OF @nibwhipdragon (and their excellent taste because 4u is peak) I’M TALKING ABOUT THE COLOR DIVERSITY THING BC HOLY HELL IS IT BAD AND I THINK WHAT THEY DID TO NERSCYLLA REFLECTS THIS SO WELL.

they also did gore and shagaru dirty by dulling the gold hues so yeah not forgiving that either

my biggest hot take in all of monster hunter is that some of world and wild’s designs? they’re boring. not in a framing structure way, but color-wise, they’re boring. rise was better at it but they did dull some colors and i stg this is all because of the western realism angle.

let me show you both 4th gen nerscylla and 6th gen nerscylla

they removed aspects of the color palette, and because of the shade of purple they’re going with for the gypceros hide, the actual poison spikes don’t pop nearly as well.

this isn’t to say you can’t make a restricted palette work because in some ways you can. why? because the designers took liberties to compensate, be it through a more cartoonish/wild design or having enraged states that add a splash of color, plus they make the solid colors as bold as possible. some great examples of this are the fatalis trio, yian kut-ku, akura vashimu, gogmazios, the aforementioned magalas, seregios, even basarios. of course there’s exceptions to this (first two gens had pretty meh looking rock monsters save for basarios and diablos), but the vast majority of them do something unique.

this isn’t to say world didn’t have any stand outs—ignoring iceborne’s subspecies, standard pukei pukei and odogaron, kulu ya ku, dodogama, bazelgeuse, along with xeno’jiva are genuinely great. issue is that a lot of these colors do get washed out, save for dodo and xeno. this isn’t to mention how world’s lack of variety hurts it, as a majority of monsters take influence from some form of reptile. this makes the introduction of older monsters even more jarring. there’s an argument to be made about that being the point, but this isn’t in a good way. they look like they belong in two separate franchises, not monster hunter.

you can also say what you will about frontier’s monsters because yes some lean too heavily into spikes, but they’re at least memorable.

it’s hard to describe what makes world’s monsters not hit as hard. the fights themselves are memorable, but designs are consistently generic, and that makes me so upset.

but the color dulling is very obvious when pinning renders of returning monsters next to one another. look at old rathalos. now look at new rathalos. look at old color palettes. now look at new color palettes. i genuinely think the washing makes designs like magnamalo and primordial malzeno lack the extra oomph needed to be truly fantastic.

these don’t make or break the games but i have to stress there is a heavy “realism” push which means god forbid we have color.

it’s especially weird because surprisingly enough, plenty of real world animals do have a wide array of colors, body shapes, or boldness! bright colors are just as important as camouflage, as they can signal “stay away” or attract mates. if you want to argue it goes against camouflage completely, your average red/orange pelted tiger does well in a jungle. so do pandas.

what i’m trying to say is this is genuinely frustrating. i remember seeing a criticism towards rise being “too cartoony” as if the series has never had goofy or standout designs. good stylization will forever and always be more memorable and impactful than total realism. games have shown that a good way to make it work is through color.

new gen mh has really neglected its visual design and i really think that needs to be recognized.

as i’ve said in many posts, this won’t make or break the games, i’m sure wilds will be great, capcom can do whatever with the series, blah blah blah. this doesn’t mean the personality isn’t being sapped, or that there’s no problems whatsoever with frankly increasingly bad color design. the last thing i want is for a series as good as monster hunter to be overlooked because it looks like just another triple a title, but with the rate it’s going on a visual and style front, that might end up being the case if there isn’t any push for change.

(this also isn’t to say you can’t do bad stylization either, but i’d argue the realism without style angle has become a bigger issue.)

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Alright time for the "I am not ready for the circumstances that will lead to Apollo and Trucy finding out they're related" explanation (a day late but it's fine)

I am fully convinced that Thalassa's going to be murdered and the Wright Anything Agency is going to take the case. This would inevitably lead to Phoenix panicking, because "oh shit they never even met her after she got her memories of them back and HOW DO I EVEN EXPLAIN TO THEM THAT THEIR MOTHER WAS MURDERED" (assuming Trucy doesn't know Thalassa was alive in the first place) and when he does tell Trucy and Apollo they're siblings Apollo's freaking out because what the fuck and "what do you mean Trucy's my sister????" and Trucy's freaking out because "what do you mean she was alive and Apollo's related to me by blood???" which inevitably sends the WAA into chaos because Phoenix and Athena (presumably, because I am quite sure after finding out Thalassa's his mom Apollo would refuse to touch the case) are defending the person accused of killing Apollo and Trucy's mom (maybe if this does happen the investigation segments on this case switch between Trucy and Apollo's investigation and Phoenix and Athena's investigation because you can't convince me Apollo wouldn't pull a Dual Destinies with Trucy if this happened).

Alternatively, Phoenix is spending the entire case trying to keep Thalassa's identity a secret from both Trucy and Apollo by never mentioning the case's victim by name and ends up giving them both trust issues because that's not something he usually hides and THAT'S THEIR MOTHER (maybe we still get separate segments for a Trucy and Apollo investigation and a Phoenix and Athena investigation).

Why am I convinced this is what's going to happen when Trucy and Apollo find out they're siblings? Ace Attorney has a habit of orphaning characters by killing off parents and it's Ace Attorney, this feels like something that would actually happen in an Ace Attorney game. You can't tell me this doesn't feel like an official Ace Attorney plot line and I'd be genuinely surprised if Capcom doesn't at least go a similar route for Trucy and Apollo finding out they're siblings because Ace Attorney is just Like That. Also they already basically did this with Dhurke. I wouldn't be surprised if they do it again. I think I'd be more surprised if they don't actually

[lesbianlongsword]

what did capcom mean by this?

[randomthefox]

SO MUCH TO COVER ON THIS ONE! Been waiting for this

So Morrison is actually a character from Devil May Cry The Animated Series! He's Dante's "agent" bringing him in non-standard jobs that entail a little bit more than just Go Here And Kill Demon. And in the show HE WAS A WHITE DUDE

Capcom took the character from the show, but raceswapped him to be a black guy. And nobody cared lol. The people who knew he was a pre-existing character either didn't care, or thought it was an improvement. Because he does have a bit of a Morgan Freeman vibe going for him now don't you think? And like in the animated series, he's constantly skimming off the top and taking expenses out of Dante's "cut" of the job payment. You'll notice Dante is so down and out for cash that he isn't even paying his electricity and water bills, which is also taken from the show. You might think business isn't good, but the truth is Dante just constantly turns down payment. The entire idea of Devil May Cry being a business is practically a formality. Most of his hunting is done pro bono.

Patty gets a voice only cameo! She is also from The Animated Series! She's a cute little girl that Dante takes in in the first episode, and functions as the shows audience surrogate character since she isn't aware of what demons are until she starts hanging out with Dante. So she's an easy excuse to give exposition on the lore of the video games to the audience. She was also, like, eight years old in the show. And as you might notice, she mentions it's her 18th birthday in the phone call. Meaning DMC5 is set ten years after TAS, which is set at least a year after the events of the original Devil May Cry video game.

(I assert once again that it is laughably implausible that Vergil was wandering around in a state of being near death after the events of Mallet Island for ten fucking years, and no piece of supplementary material has ever bothered to explain this)

Anyway I think it is beyond cool that this game is acknowledging so much of the expanded material from the franchise. Paying mention to Nell Goldstein from the DMC1 novel. Cameos from characters from The Animated Series. Now it doesn't mean those expanded bits of material are hard canon, after all Morrison doesn't look anything like he did in the anime. But the games are still readily accepting the contributions of the other artists who have made contact with the series and incorporating their own version of it into the source material of the video games, which is so cool to see.

Dante doesn't want to go to Patty's birthday party but it isn't because she's the Amy to his Sonic or anything like that. Although the first episode of TAS had this line which didn't age particularly well.

It was 2007 grade it on a curve. It wasn't creepy back then.

Anyway it's clear if you watch the show that Patty views Dante as more of an older brother figure. Dante is avoiding the shindig because it'll be an event that OTHER human friends of Patty will be attending since she's quite a socialite. And Dante feels a disconnect from humanity due to his own self loathing of his demon heritage. One figures he might be more amenable to attending a smaller get together of only himself Patty and a few mutual acquaintances though, but he definitely doesn't want to hang around with a bunch of fucking teenage humans. Relatable.

so yeah, DMC TAS, go give it a watch sometime.

ASIDE FROM THAT we see V's introduction to the narrative in this scene. Please take note of how he says he has no name, just like what Urizen said to Nero in the pre-boss fight cutscene of the level right before this one. It's also a William Blake quote, and yet serendipitously V literally was "born" two days ago on May 1st.

Now please take note that when V tries to convince Dante that the demon he's coming to him about is a big deal, he says "this demon is your reason for fighting." If you'll recall from DMC1, Dante says the only reason he's in the demon hunting business is because he figures eventually he'll get the one that killed his family. The game red herrings Urizen's identity to make us think maybe he might be Mundus for a while, but that's really only going to work on people who aren't paying that much attention. Or paying the wrong kind of attention. Take note that when Dante asks if this demon has a name, look at the mouth shape V's lips take to answer.

He IS NOT saying "Mundus." And he is NOT saying "Urizen" either. He is CLEARLY telling Dante that the demon he needs to take this job to defeat is VERGIL. Urizen was just the name that he told Nero, probably because V assumed Nero is Dante's son and he probably assumed Dante told Nero about his big bad evil uncle Vergil. The name just sticks even after the intended reason why V told him that was the name becomes obsolete. Dante knew from the very beginning that Urizen = Vergil though, and you need to look at every single line of dialog Dante has about Urizen from this point on with that context in mind.