To celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Street Fighter, Capcom released a massive, fun-filled collector’s edition. Area 5 produced the feature-length documentary included in that set, and this episode, we sit down with three of the guys who made the retrospective. The video-production house’s Cesar Quintero, Ryan O’Donnell, and Jason Bertrand join GamesBeat editor-in-chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu to try to fit a quarter-century of Hadoukens into an hour. They almost make it.
This episode’s topics:
-Japanese vs. U.S. arcade culture
-Area 5′s favorite interviews from its Street Fighter documentary
-Interesting stories that didn’t quite make it into Area 5′s movie
Industry insider Dusk Golem reveals that there is no Resident Evil 1 Remake in the works. Instead, Capcom are reportedly in active development of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica.
RE Zero would be better to do first over RE1 because they can tie the story into RE1 more.
The original RE Remake was weird because Rebecca never mentioned anything about what happened in Zero and it felt so disjointed because Zero was developed during the Remake and they clearly didn't share any notes with one another.
By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.
Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!
Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one
Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.
They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.
Many details for the upcoming rumored Resident Evil 1 remake have already leaked online. Capcom appears to have huge ambitions for it.
While I want another modern remake of 1, I think code Veronica should be first. The first re1 remake holds up amazingly well. Give CV it's due.
Some good stuff here, especially about different personalities around the fighting game scene. They talked to some cool folks both here and in Japan. Also there's a really scary story about a truck with a busted gearbox. Recommended!
Oh man, this is really making me want to play Street Fighter!!
I need to visit one of those giant Japanese arcades.