Comments on: Bond Game Producer Joins Capcom http://gigaom.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gadgetgiant Your Gadget Source! » Scot Bayless becomes Capcom’s essential limb http://gigaom.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135736 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:11:15 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135736 [...] gigagamez Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover [...]

]]> By: Jason McMaster http://gigaom.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135734 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:58:38 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135734 To be fair to Bayless, though, he was a developer on Curse of the Azure Bonds and early SSI games.

]]> By: Jon R. http://gigaom.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135735 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:32:39 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-135735 I always get worried about things like this, since it sounds dangerously close to the massive damage early-Nintendo (and later, Bernie Stolar) wrought on the Western gaming world. In fact, i dread that it’s kind of why fans have to translate Mother 3 on their own.

You look at Resistance, and it’s a pretty mediocre shooter. The only thing it really has going for it is that it has a Japanese take on an FPS. Anything else has more to do with a lack of other games to choose from. Is this their idea of what we want?

And Dead Rising? Zombies. Who doesn’t fuckin’like zombies?

But Bayless? What the hell? What has he done that’s indicative of him knowing what the Western market wants from Capcom? The shitty Sega CD Jurassic Park? 007: Everything or Nothing? Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah, whatever. You want an idea for an American push? Stay the hell out of Clover’s way and do some advertising for the stuff that’s actually interesting, like God Hand. Actually, stay the hell out of everyone’s way; one of the biggest mistakes anyone in the industry has ever made is assuming that, to a generation that grew up thining of Japan as the magical land of mist and videogames, there ever WAS a divide requiring this sort of move. The only thing this really did was lead to a lot of fan translations.

]]> By: Jon R. http://gigaom.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-168658 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:32:39 +0000 http://gigagamez.com/2007/02/24/curse-of-the-azure-bonds-developer-joins-capcom/#comment-168658 I always get worried about things like this, since it sounds dangerously close to the massive damage early-Nintendo (and later, Bernie Stolar) wrought on the Western gaming world. In fact, i dread that it’s kind of why fans have to translate Mother 3 on their own.

You look at Resistance, and it’s a pretty mediocre shooter. The only thing it really has going for it is that it has a Japanese take on an FPS. Anything else has more to do with a lack of other games to choose from. Is this their idea of what we want?

And Dead Rising? Zombies. Who doesn’t fuckin’like zombies?

But Bayless? What the hell? What has he done that’s indicative of him knowing what the Western market wants from Capcom? The shitty Sega CD Jurassic Park? 007: Everything or Nothing? Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah, whatever. You want an idea for an American push? Stay the hell out of Clover’s way and do some advertising for the stuff that’s actually interesting, like God Hand. Actually, stay the hell out of everyone’s way; one of the biggest mistakes anyone in the industry has ever made is assuming that, to a generation that grew up thining of Japan as the magical land of mist and videogames, there ever WAS a divide requiring this sort of move. The only thing this really did was lead to a lot of fan translations.

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