Possible Capcom merge with Sega

Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Bob, I regard Sega as being a has been. Its not a case of once the greatest always the greatest, they, IMO, haven\'t proven themselves for awhile, considering the only thing they have to do these days is dev games and not dev hardware.

Either that or they have just ran out of ideas.

Could it be that since they no longer develop for one piece of hardware they are trying to get use to the multi-platform thing?

IMHO each console has had atleast 1 good game with varying degrees of success.

JSRF was cool, but without enough audience.

Super Monkey Ball 1, and 2 are just awesome. I think it is probably their best success in quite some time.

Shinobi , and Virtua Fighter 4 are great. To me it seems as if though Sega has alot of problems working with the ps2. You could not ask anymore so far as the gameplay goes. If only the graphics were better.

Point being they just have not hit a comfortable spot yet. Once they get the programming on all the systems becomes more natural. I hope to see the Sega of old once again.

As a side note I think that the reason some of their newer games being short is their learning curve. They have not been weined into this situation. They were thrust into it!

Originally posted by nataku
Geeze, don\'t be homophobic.  How can it be "gay" to say something stinks?

"OMFG! Your gay! You said shemnue 2 stinks! OMFG!"

Do you realize how stupid that sounds?

Anyway, after the Square Enix merge, I wouldn\'t count anything out.

IMO, Sega merging with a company like Capcom would be the best decision they have made in a long time.

I guess it sounds as stupid as to say that Shenmue 2 stinks

hmm, I wonder how that would turn out seeing that Capcom is pro GameCube and Sega is pro Microsoft. :/

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Capcom takes over Sega - would be nice. Maybe Sega could get some better games out - as they have been lacking lately.

Hmmm.... Sega bashing on a PS2 board... either there are a lot of bitter PS2ers mad because they aren\'t getting Sega\'s best, or there are a lot of people who have no business playing videogames period. Sega games wise and worth wise are way huger than Capcom. This deal would benefit Capcom more than anyone.

Originally posted by EThuggV2
Hmmm.... Sega bashing on a PS2 board... either there are a lot of bitter PS2ers mad because they aren\'t getting Sega\'s best, or there are a lot of people who have no business playing videogames period. Sega games wise and worth wise are way huger than Capcom. This deal would benefit Capcom more than anyone.

yeah they could now get round to making a decent Resident Evil game.

As long as it doesn\'t use DMC\'s controls, I\'m fine with any RE. REmake and RE0 kick ass!

Originally posted by EThuggV2
Hmmm.... Sega bashing on a PS2 board... either there are a lot of bitter PS2ers mad because they aren\'t getting Sega\'s best, or there are a lot of people who have no business playing videogames period. Sega games wise and worth wise are way huger than Capcom. This deal would benefit Capcom more than anyone.

Amen

actually, sega is the one that needs a crutch

thier long term projects have achieved piss poor [© 2001 ooseven] sales

and this coming from sega whore, no less

Originally posted by mm
actually, sega is the one that needs a crutch

thier long term projects have achieved piss poor [© 2001 ooseven] sales

and this coming from sega whore, no less

:eek:

Sega will be wanting you to turn in your Gun & badge for a coment like that .

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Sega has been in debt for how long now? And the average sales of their games equal out to what? They barely have a pot to piss in  - and I like Sega. I\'m just open to the fact that since Sega went third party their quality for the most part has went completely down hill.\'

Capcom on the other hand is a company that constantly provides excellent support to multiple consoles and has great sales.

The only way I see it helping Capcom is the fact that they may be able to get ahold of some classic Sega franchises and add a \'special touch\' to \'em.

Sega hasn\'t been in debt for awhile now, and sales aside, some of the best games they *ever* made have been on Xbox and GC. Oh, and Segas financial assets (ie worth) are easily 3x that of Capcoms. Capcom is a franchise whore, that milks everything excessively. Maybe you all forgot how shitty their finances were not that long ago that forced them to cut staff and sparked the 1st round of MS buyout rumors? Convenient.

Sega is profitable once again and their games are selling well. The problem is that Sega expected to become the #1 3rd party publisher very quickly and it just hasnt happen. They are making money again just not the amount they were hoping for.

ANd all this talk about Sega not making quality games is rubish. Sega games are as good as the player is. If you arent a very good gamer ur not going to enyoy most Sega games. Sega is an old school gamer\'s company if your gaming skills arent all that good u will never thrive at their games. If u want easy accesible dumbed down games go play the games of the competition and leave Virtua Fighter 4 and Shinobi to the hardcore gamers.

Astro :P

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Sega has put some of their best games out on the Xbox and NGC? What are you on? Other than  Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 , they\'ve put nothing compelling out on the NGC.  As for the Xbox - the only decent game so far has been Shenmue 2 and I still prefer the DC version. There is always Panzer Dragoon: Orta - but after that, what? The rest has been crap.

Since Sega has went third party they have only put out a handful of good games.

VF4
Shinobi
Monkey Ball 1 & 2

As for Capcom\'s finances - yes they took a hit earlier in the year due to other reasons . The whole Japanese market is in turmoil and everyone is taking hits. However, Capcom is still doin\' pretty damn good and are still providing AAA games for more than one system - which equals sales and sales equal money.

lol... Gun Valkyrie, JSRF, HotD3 and PSO all kick ass. More ass than any you mentioned except Shenmue 2. Well.. ok, HotD3 doesn\'t kick more ass than any of those, but it\'s good. JSRF was a masterpiece, and Gun Valk. was one of the best \'sleepers\' of the year.