Anime Hideki Kamiya leaves Platinum Games

[DJOGamer PT]

All of Capcom's major game directors from their PS1/PS2 era have willingly resigned lol

 

[Ezekiel]

Can't blame them. Not only because they're old, but because it's such a boring company to work for. All the hype about the Resident Evil 4 remake last year distracted from the fact that Capcom will never make anything as big and ambitious as the original version again, let alone with more intricate map progression (with all the key items that you carry back to prior areas) of older games in the series. You find progression like that only in a few indie games like Yuppie Psycho now. Priorities are totally messed up over there.

 

[Odoryuk]

Didn't they want to release a DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2? How will they do it without the director?

 

[mediocrepoet]

Didn't they want to release a DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2? How will they do it without the director?

ChatGPT

 

[Elttharion]

Capcom itself is in a pretty weird place right now. They managed to claw back their reputation when it was in the gutter only to start making the same dumb mistakes again a few years later.

Looking at some of their decisions for new games and remakes, leaked internal presentations, marketing in the west x Japan, etc I get the feeling they have several groups vying for influence inside the company. Dude probably got fed up with all their corporate meddling and decided to go somewhere else after finishing DD2. Godspeed to him and all that.

 

[Ezekiel]

Didn't they want to release a DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2? How will they do it without the director?

Evil Within 2 never happened because Tango never found anyone to replace Mikami as director.

Spoiler

Evil Within 2 was substantially worse without his style.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Didn't they want to release a DLC for Dragon's Dogma 2? How will they do it without the director?

The same way they did it for the first Dragon’s Dogma.

Kento Kinoshita was the director on Dark Arisen. After the first Dragon’s Dogma finished Itsuno and some of his team moved on to Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition, while Itsuno also was a supervised DmC: Devil May Cry to some degree...although I think he was kind of hands off until the Definitive Edition update. Kinoshita did Dark Arisen, and then did Dragon’s Dogma Online. My guess would be if Capcom does more Dragon’s Dogma that Kinoshita is the one doing it.

The surprise with Hideaki Itsuno leaving is it seemed like he was finally going to return to doing fighting game stuff at Capcom. He’d been talking about wanting to return to fighting games during press for Devil May Cry 5, and the Capcom 2020 hack revealed Capcom had a new Power Stone slated for release. Power Stone being a Itsuno series, I assumed back in 2020 that he’d be going into development of Power Stone (or something like Power Stone) after Dragon’s Dogma 2 wrapped.

But now he’s leaving, which makes me wonder if the new Power Stone game is still happening. It also seems odd because it seems like we’re entering a new phase of Capcom going in on fighting games. They’ve already talked about a future Capcom vs SNK game. And I really would not be surprised if they’ve been developing a new Marvel vs Capcom game for a bit now.

I kind of wonder if he does over to SNK and heads up the new SNK vs Capcom game, or Art of Fighting. There’s some Capcom fighting game people over there.