10th August 2011, 2:10 AM
So yeah, that exists now. Is it just me or do Japanese companies in general just not "get" this whole patching and downloadable content thing? I mean sure US companies are abusing it left and right at times, but then there's THIS.
Why exactly are things like "balancing", "spectator mode", NEW STAGES" and "New characters!" things that warrant an entirely new game instead of just as patches and content for the already existing game? There's no reason for that in modern gaming. Oh sure, feel free to release "Ultimate" AFTER the content is released as downloads as a "get it all on one disk" solution, sort of like Bethesda's "Game of the Year" editions. That's fine However, this just is abusive. Apparently, if you already bought the game, screw you, the new characters and stages are off-limits to you. Heck, for that matter, the preview advertised "DOWNLOADABLE CHARACTERS", and showed the two characters one can already download for the previous version. Apparently, those won't be getting packaged with the Ultimate edition. That's just insulting. If they want to add this content and balance things, just do that to the version already out, that people already bought. This is like those "international" releases of White Knight Story and the latest Star Ocean. There's no reason the additional content in those couldn't have just been released as DLC.
So according to some "leaks" of the characters that'll be added, Megaman is still missing. Apparently Capcom's frickin' mascot isn't as important as some raccoon with a gun.
Mind you that's a whole other issue. With Inafune gone, it looks like Megaman from Megaman Legends fame is still stuck on the moon (yeah, don't forget that the second one ended on a cliff hanger). So if they never pick that up, or Inafune never gets the rights to Megaman from them, it looks like the vast library of cliff hangers the series of series has produced are never going to get resolved. We'll never know where Megaman classic went before X awoke (as well as the rest of those robots). We'll never really know what happened between the X series and the Zero series (the game that SHOULD have set that up got retconned in the very next one). The ZX series ends far too soon going nowhere, and Megaman Legend's ties with the rest of the series, while hinted at, are never getting resolved while Megaman is stuck on the moon.
Yay.
Why exactly are things like "balancing", "spectator mode", NEW STAGES" and "New characters!" things that warrant an entirely new game instead of just as patches and content for the already existing game? There's no reason for that in modern gaming. Oh sure, feel free to release "Ultimate" AFTER the content is released as downloads as a "get it all on one disk" solution, sort of like Bethesda's "Game of the Year" editions. That's fine However, this just is abusive. Apparently, if you already bought the game, screw you, the new characters and stages are off-limits to you. Heck, for that matter, the preview advertised "DOWNLOADABLE CHARACTERS", and showed the two characters one can already download for the previous version. Apparently, those won't be getting packaged with the Ultimate edition. That's just insulting. If they want to add this content and balance things, just do that to the version already out, that people already bought. This is like those "international" releases of White Knight Story and the latest Star Ocean. There's no reason the additional content in those couldn't have just been released as DLC.
So according to some "leaks" of the characters that'll be added, Megaman is still missing. Apparently Capcom's frickin' mascot isn't as important as some raccoon with a gun.
Mind you that's a whole other issue. With Inafune gone, it looks like Megaman from Megaman Legends fame is still stuck on the moon (yeah, don't forget that the second one ended on a cliff hanger). So if they never pick that up, or Inafune never gets the rights to Megaman from them, it looks like the vast library of cliff hangers the series of series has produced are never going to get resolved. We'll never know where Megaman classic went before X awoke (as well as the rest of those robots). We'll never really know what happened between the X series and the Zero series (the game that SHOULD have set that up got retconned in the very next one). The ZX series ends far too soon going nowhere, and Megaman Legend's ties with the rest of the series, while hinted at, are never getting resolved while Megaman is stuck on the moon.
Yay.