After focusing on Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma for 20 years, Capcom's Hideaki Itsuno says 'it would be fun to create something new'

[John Elden Ring]

If Dragon's Dogma 2's director gets to follow his "gut feeling," maybe his next game will be an original creation.

"Back in my day, because of the much more limited resources teams had, out of the blue you were appointed director of a game even if you didn't have the experience to go with it,"

Itsuno told in a interview with PC Gamer. It's more difficult to be a director of a game now without that experience, Itsuno said, because the scale of games has increased, and with it the time and resources it takes to complete them.

While that's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why Itsuno has spent two-thirds of his career shepherding these two series, it struck me that Dragon's Dogma 2 does not represent that same exciting prospect of making something wholly new the first game did. How many ideas for games has he been sitting on for decades, at this point? Does Itsuno crave that creative freedom again?

"Obviously we're not going to make an announcement right here, right now—it's a decision that would be made in consideration of all surrounding circumstances," Itsuno said. "But if I was to ignore all of that and go by my gut feeling, it would be fun to create something new."

Dragon's Dogma 2 has been gestating for long enough that making it is quite a different experience than developing back-to-back sequels,

"If you make a sequel immediately after you make a game, the priority goes to what was left behind, what you couldn't do. Ten years gives you enough time to look back and figure out 'what did I really want to do? What was I really trying to achieve? Both for Dragon's Dogma 1 and 2, one thing I really wanted to create is these worlds existing on their own, and then you as a character penetrating those worlds and impacting them.

"With Dragon's Dogma 1, the best we could do with the technology of the time was making it look like a world of its own. But this time, by focusing more on the AI and taking advantage of current technologies, I believe we were able to create a world of its own with people who live in it, monsters that live in it, and then have your character impact all these elements. I really wanted to think of this as a simulator, and I think we've gotten there."

 

[Kokoloko]

There has only been 2 dragons dogma games from its initial release in 2012.

Wasnt Pragmata meant to be a new ip?

The other dinosaur one failed bad

Id rather see a new onimusha, breath of fire and dini crisis. And remakes of them

 

[AllBizness]

Meh, since Capcom announced they ditched PlayStation (they used the word console but we all know PlayStation was their bread and butter and where they released most games) for PC as their main platform I could care less.

 

[AllBizness]

Meh, since Capcom announced they ditched PlayStation (they used the word console but we all know PlayStation was their bread and butter and where they released most games) for PC as their main platform I could care less.

Case in point Dragons Dogma 2 is an uncapped 30fps on console. Capcom took Nvidia money and PC will be the only version with stable framerates. Capcom is wack this gen, SF6 blows also.