Capcom ending content support for Exoprimal
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It can be true but I will never know because the game was not appealing enough to even try it.
Everything on this game put me out since the first time I saw it… I don’t even like these Gozilla mecha animals lol
BTW being day one on Gamepass just killed any chance of this game success.
You don't need that if you can have a polished version of the usual within the genre.
Ultimately Exoprimal was a costly gamble that didn't pan out for them(per the Capcom leak, budget was not small.)
Back to the drawing board.
Honestly Capcom seems to be stuggling with making multiplayer games that aren't Street Fighter and/or MH that people want to play.
But there's always going to be people who trash GaaS game in the online discourse, that's just par for the course.
What the game didn't have was enough initial appeal for those that DO want to spend money and time in a GaaS game(and that's a shitload of people if we're looking at the overall gaming market)
Forums skew older, and older people love their remakes and old IPs. It's not too surprising.
Also, since Dino Crisis is pretty much RE but with dinosaur and with Resident Evil modern games selling a huge amount of copies even though they're releasing those games every couple of years.
Is it such a surprise that Capcom fans in the west are telling Capcom via surveys that they they would be willing to spend that cash to have more of the same but in a different setting?
It would also probably be quite "easy"(as easy as anything is when it comes to game development) to make since it is so similar to RE in essence. Especially with the current crop of talent with vast experience making and remaking those exact type of games in the last few years. Instituional knowledge is extremely important is faciliating a smooth and relatively brisk development cycle on a project.
Speaking more broadly, Capcom is one of the Japanese publishers which indicated some difficulty in acquiring as many new hires as they would want to continue their growth.
Meaning any project that doesn't hit is a tremendous opportunity loss for them.
They've got a bunch of dormant IPs that quite possibly would be decent financial return if the scope/budget and the expectations are calculated correctly.
wish folks were more ok with things remaining in thee past but you're rights that's reality. nostalgia is too powerful
Once again, Xbots were saying that this being a multi-plat/shooter game would REALLY benefit Capcom.
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Its not just about nostalgia, if the game is good its good. Plenty of old series have great modern games.
Dino Crisis makes sense, RE engine would do it will
Putting your title on gamepass signals you don't have faith in its quality. Sounds like most gamers thought the same, and those million who played it dropped it quickly.
It’s so sick. The game magically knows your progression and gives you new missions the more you play, more boss fight, raids, and maps. There were while missions I didn’t do until like 30 hours later. The PvP is a cool race to the end, but it’s cool because in the end it goes from pve dinofest to PvP action. You can even use dinosaurs to fight the enemy, which is deadly if well timed.
All the classes were also cool, and you needed to balance your team out if you really want to win. I loved the announcer dramatically announcing “SPAWNING A CARNOTAURUS” and then a giant dino comes to wreck your party
The raids are cool because they come randomly, you think you’re gonna do another PvP but then suddenly you realize all 10 players need to cooperate in order to deal with (quite literally) thousands of dinosaurs swarming you. I highly recommend this game, there is nothing remotely like it.
Always remember review indicate HYPE most of the time, if the hype and energy isn’t there, it’s easy to dismiss some titles, and they score lower than they should.
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It can be a good game. There were plenty of impressions of players enjoying it.
But everything else about it was a marketing disaster. They read the room wrong with everything, from the title of the game, to the dinobot slaying, to art direction … everything was rejected by players.
Take this game’s ideas and gameplay gimmicks and throw the Lost Planet IP on it and I think it would get more heads to turn (yes I know lost planet wasn’t huge either). I just don’t think the neon Dino slaying was the right call.
It can be a good game. There were plenty of impressions of players enjoying it.
But everything else about it was a marketing disaster. They read the room wrong with everything, from the title of the game, to the dinobot slaying, to art direction … everything was rejected by players.
Take this game’s ideas and gameplay gimmicks and throw the Lost Planet IP on it and I think it would get more heads to turn (yes I know lost planet wasn’t huge either). I just don’t think the neon Dino slaying was the right call.
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I liked the story of DC, liked the more action-y 3PCamera and combo scoring mechanics of 2 even better. This should have been the RE4/6 buffed out action mechanics control scheme. Where falling onto your back and shooting in the air like in RE6 might have saved you from a raptor's leaping attack.
I would also doubt the potential of a Dino Crisis reboot in some form but look what Jurassic Park is still doing. There’s definitely something there but I don’t think Exoprimal did it.
Dino Crisis and Onimusha did feel like RE spin offs into different genres but I don’t think either should resemble modern RE if capcom does bring them back.
Dino Crisis and Onimusha did feel like RE spin offs into different genres but I don’t think either should resemble modern RE if capcom does bring them back.
I'm surprised they didn't go Free2Play before ceasing support. I guess its lack of visual appeal and Helldivers 2's success did a number on the game. The MP focused gaming market is brutally competitive. Hopefully the industry goes back in time to start putting MP game modes in their SP games to bring in that MP cash while also realizing that chasing bleeding edge visuals is bad for profits.
They were hugely dependent on full lobbies for the endgame gimmicks with the surprise random quests Voke mentioned above. F2P and ps plus freebie should’ve been a Hail Mary plays but instead they ceased support.
I honestly don't understand the business decisions being made by a lot of videogame executives these days. It's like they're all willing to burn through literally billions of dollars via producing multiple high-risk games in hopes that one will make billions. Meanwhile, ignoring the fact that they can focus on quality and consistency to make sure the cash keeps flowing.
Ugh. I blame the whole infinite growth thing of publicly traded companies, Microsoft's "horse armor" initiative and the cellphone gaming market.