The Current State of Every Capcom Franchise 

Join the Legends Club: ru-vid.com/show-UCNPO5imMXg9ukckhbGQvasQjoin Hey everyone sorry for the delay on this one, both my PC crashing multiple times while editing/exporting and other copyright stuff held it up a little bit but glad to finally have it released. Can't wait to see what you guys grill me for this time ;) But interested to hear what everyone else thinks and where they'd place certain things. I think most of us will probably agree that Capcom needs to start reviving some of these dormant franchises though. Please do consider subscribing if you enjoyed!

I didn't realize just how many franchises Capcom had until I saw this video. It's pretty insane to see how much Capcom has grown since the arcades, and they're definitely one of the best Triple A devlopers/publishers in the modern era with many of their recent games

48:25 OBJECTION! The first Ace Attorney game originally came out in 2001 on the GBA (only in japan). (The DS wasn't out yet in 2001.) The same goes for the second and third game. The DS port was the first version, that made it to the west. This is, why the fifth case of the first game suddenly makes so much use of the touchscreen, it was a bonus case for the DS port. EDIT:grammar

I like how the Nintendo video was "Yeah Mother was a franchise about aliens I guess idk it's on life support" while the Capcom video is "Here's a detailed description on every Rival Schools game"

Damn Phoenix Wright is so powerful he managed to make a DS game back in 2001

We Mega Man fans may not be starved for content in the past, but considering most of those sub series end of rough cliffhangers (especially Legends!) it's been pretty rough. I feel we'd be more okay with the lack of games today if most of their stories were tied up better personally.

Basically, if it's not "Resident Evil", "Monster Hunter" or "Street Fighter", then good luck getting a new instalment.

AA definitely isn't dead. With the recent trend of Capcom Collections (Megaman) as well as Great Ace Attorney finally getting localized, Investigations is liable to get a duology collection as is the 2nd Trilogy featuring Apollo. And storywise, there's still room for another Athena-centric game seeing as she never got her big growth moment like Phoenix and Apollo in their 3rd appearances. Maybe not a Mainstay, but it exists.

Darkstalkers Resurrection did not flop, it actually sold really well despite being yet another remaster (something Capcom has done way too many times) just because the fans did NOT want the franchise to die, even if it meant buying the same game for the 5th time. Thorgi's Arcade made a great video on the subject, Capcom just refuses to make a new one, despite insane demand.

Street Fighter Alpha is actually considered the mainline games, it's known as Street Fighter Zero in Japan, even though its story takes place between one and two.

I need Ace Attorney 7 so bad it’s literally been almost 7 years since Spirit of Justice 😭😭😭

I feel like one day Monster Hunter franchise will sell more than Resident Evil. It’s inevitable really

Mega Man Legends is stuck in freaking limbo, and my boy Volnutt still hasn’t found his way home. Bring him home *NOW!*

Darkstalkers never met CAPCOM'S ideal expectations of money they wanted the game's to make people litteraly made a petition that was literally more than enough but it wasn't good enough for Capcom. People bought the new Capcom fighting collection just to get a new DARKSTALKERS GAME and they turned thier backs on the fans and the fans retaliated and refunded CAPCOM fighting collection.

I think Marvel Vs Capcom can be safely assumed to be dead. Not through any fault of its own, but because of the legal issues. The development cycle of Infinite showed that after the acquisition by Disney that Capcom was forced to do the heavy lifting on budget (so many returning characters from 3 is because the budget was quite low and they needed to recycle assets) and also had a ton of requests that they had to deal with with regards to things like the roster (things like "no X-Men" and "no Fantastic Four" were clear requests from Disney's wanting to push the MCU). With Infinite leaving a bad taste in Capcom's mouth on the production side and general poor sales, I don't think Disney will be licensing out the IPs to Capcom again. Dino Crisis can PROBABLY be said to be also dead since Capcom is making a new "dinosaur shooting" game and not attaching it to the Dino Crisis IP in any capacity. I think on the off chance Exoprimal succeeds they'll stick future dinosaur games into that branding. I don't really have confidence that Devil May Cry will get much in the future. At least, the plot of 5 seems to indicate that Itsuno might not have confidence he could get a sixth entry greenlit, because he wrapped up basically every character arc that was going on within that game and didn't pull a Megaman by leaving a sequel hook. Not even in the Vergil DLC's new cutscenes which probably were made once the sales figures came in and Capcom could have seen the potential for more entries in the franchise. The framing of DMC5 very much seemed to be Itsuno accepting that it likely would be a grand finale to Devil May Cry, with all the celebrations it did to the history of the franchise and the ending being fairly conclusive. I can't read minds but considering both how Capcom treats its franchises and the way DMC5 was constructed it's very much possible that Itsuno may not have expected to get another DMC game made, and he might not even want it made given how he's actually very mindful of the DMC story and he has more or less concluded Dante, Nero and Vergil's stories. Dead Rising would probably be in "Exists" level. It hasn't had any new games for almost a decade now and the most it's getting is just ports on eshops. Capcom has not really been interested in having multiple games of similar "styles" in recent years which is probably why Street Fighter has been their only fighting game getting new entries (because Capcom is very squeamish when they make a mistake in the market and in the 2010s they oversaturated the market with fighting games which led to the bubble they created with SF4 bursting). Lots of higher ups might think, "Two zombie franchises is one too many." It's honestly sad. Capcom has so many beloved and iconic games that they could make a full-on Capcom vs. Capcom (not Fighting All-Stars, I mean a big budget Versus title) with multiple seasons of DLC and the largest issue with the roster would be not being able to fit ENOUGH of their classics onto it... That they completely neglect.

Man, with the recent amount of SEGA games that returned from the graveyard (Super Monkey Ball, House of the Dead and Samba de Amigo) now I need one of these videos for SEGA, love to know what happened to Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5 and NiGHTS into Dreams

Capcom gave us the Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy, meaning it isn't dead. If it were dead or finished, they wouldn't have put the work to localize The Great Ace Attorney games or bundle the next 3 main installments releasing in 2024. That deserves higher up...

Ironically Monster Hunters success is credited to nepotism, one of the series heads is related to a high up Capcom, allowing a greater bearth of time and creativity. My fave megaman,(and arguably the face of the company) has the greatest understandable example of franchise fatigue, hopefully the decade off and collections gave em some direction.

ALL I want is Megaman Legends 3 and a new Dino Crisis.

An interesting thing about all the Megaman is that all of them hace a lot of cancelled games, even Megaman 2, the 2nd best selling game in the series adter Megaman 11 (yes, it took them over 30 years to neat that record), and this not only applies to sequels but for new spiniffs such as one that resembled a realistic first person shooter, and spinoffs for the spinoffs. Megaman is full of bodies in the closet.

Would love to have a new Breath of Fire game so bad. I got my wish with Dragon's Dogma 2 coming out, I just need a turn based game to bring Capcom RPGs up to the point they should be~

Here before Ghost and Goblins is in life support tier

Dragon's Dogma 2 keeps me going. An Onimusha remake would be pretty rad also.

You dont know how long i waited for this Capcom is my childhood and i have always wanted a video where someone would appreciate what capcom did many years ago

Capcom really does have an incredible lineup of series'. 👏👏

It's crazy that this is only the *series*. Capcoms sheer amount of quality one offs is similarly insane. I dont care about most of what they make now, but I grew up with this company. I love Capcom.

Ah, Okami. Probably my favorite game of all time. Truly sad not enough people had the pleasure to experience it, but…it’s been almost 20 years. I think I prefer it to have a legacy of one excellent game than possibly ruin it so far down the road.

Dark Void also technically counts because of the Dark Void Zero spin-off game, which people actually liked more than the actual game

This video was really well done! Was genially shocked when I checked your subscriber count because this video feels like it was uploaded from a channel with 100K+ subscribers! Can't wait to see what other content you make in the future as your videos are really good!

56:15 OBJECTION! I never heard of this franchise until I saw the trailer of the anime. (It just appeared randomly on my recommendations) I didn’t even know it was a Capcom franchise, so you aren’t alone. :) Anyway, I really applaud you for all the effort you gone through to cover all these Capcom franchises, even the humor. Great job. The company sure has a knack for saying certain franchises would comeback if there’s enough demand for it.

Sengoku Basara was the franchise that itroduced me to the Musou genre. Played the games like crazy; 175 hours in SB3, and 350 in SB4. I also watched every anime of it.

Sad for Asuras Wrath😢

Thank you for making this! I love capcom, Namco, and other Japanese companies. And its always good to hear the obscure franchises that hasn't been talked about in a long time. KONAMI has so many IPs now, it makes me so sad that they don't do anything with them

You should do the "current state of every Sega franchise" next.

You forgot to mentioned that Darkstalkers got in the latest port, Capcom Fighting Arcade Collection!

I come from future. Your optimism regarding Dragon's dogma has officially been repaid 👀

Solid video mate! If you want true depression you should cover the state of Konami franchises

Love the production quality and organization of these vids!

I started in gaming with 2 Capcom games back in the 90s: Street Fighter and Rockman I really loved your video, I appreciate the hard work, subbed, and thanks !

It's nice to see Capcom has returned from their dark ages as of recent. They might be more willing to experiment with reviving franchises now that consumers look at them more charitably.

This video is awesome! So happy to see Sengoku Basara get some mention here. I think their second round of localizing it was done well but it just didn't catch in the west. I hope they try again by some means or measure. And I think it's due for a sequel.

Final fight had a fighting game, then after that just became street fighter. Its safe to say it is dead, as if they make a new one it will probably be called Street Fighter: Final Fight subtitle.

I don't think I'd genuinely change any of your placements, excellent video and excellent opinions and coverage :)

We need another Lost Planet *ASAP*

Although none of them share a name, I wonder if Armored Warriors, Cyberbots, and Tech Romancer could be considered as games in the same series...

Another great video! I'm definitely looking forward to what you go in store next.

Now that i see this i feel that Capcom doesn't have JRPGs.

Megaman X was supposed to be finished with X5 leading to the story in Megaman Zero. But they retconned it and kept it going, giving us the abominations in the form of X6 and X7

As much as I love Sengoku Basara, and as a very longtime fan, (in fact I'm one of the creators of the 4Sumeragi translation patch) I'll say this: I think it sadly fits more in the life support\zombie category than the mainstays one. It hadn't had a new major title or anime released since 2016, and that means 7 years of inactivity from the franchise, besides the mobile game which in all honesty doesn't count, and with the creator, Hiroyuki Kobayashi leaving the company rather recently, I don't think we'll see a new title any time soon. Besides that, this is a really damn good video! keep it up!

You missed Toraware no Palm (Imprisoned Palm) which had 2 instalments with DLC packs and was on iOS, Android and ported to switch. They still get merchandise every other month as well

You've earned a new subscriber. Very well done. I was entertained through and through.

Capcom's latest venture into the otome genre is Toraware no Palm (captured palm) with technically 3 games that came out in 2016. First a mobile game then ported to switch in 2019. The game is definitely unique in the genre for having investigation elements and 3D interaction with NPCs. Again no English translation but the otome market is strong rn in the West so never say never.

I really think they should make a sequel to strider. The reboot they did some years ago was very good and I think it sold well no? It would be awesome for it to be their premier side scroller

I hope with all my soul that Okami gets revived, super somewhat underrated gem 💜

I always loved the music in their CP System 2 & CP System 3 games!

You forgot Slam Masters, though there are ownership issues with it, and Black Tiger/Magic Sword/King of Dragons can also be considered a franchise, as well as Cyberbots/Armored Warriors/Tech Romancer. Adventure Quiz is also missing. All can be considered dead. Megaman World can be considered a sub franchise to the main series, consisting of 5 Game Boy games and a spin-off called The Wily Wars for Genesis (called Megaworld to reinforce it’s collection) and is dead. There’s also Xtreme and Power Battle, which have 2 games each. Capcom’s Disney games can be considered Dead as well.

I watched the whole vídeo just to get to the Sengoku Basara segment. Sengoku basara is my favorite gaming franchise ever and so it pains me to correct you about its current state. It actually made me happy watching you consider Sengoku Basara a mainstay but i don't think it is and we can see there is a lack of research from you part about this franchise. Before any explaining, just want to tell you that you did a good job overall, very enjoyable video. Sengoku Basara had a nice run until the spin-off Sengoku Basara Sanada Yukimura-den. Sengoku Basara 3 was the best selling game of the franchise even though here in the west the success wasnt much cause of poor marketing. The franchise still had a prosperous future ahead but the sequel Sengoku Basara 4 (which btw is a greater game) sold less, it was maybe because of poor advertising for new fans and there was no anime to promote it. Still i believe the game had success, it got nice reviews, won a award and even was the best selling game of the week in japan. But then came the spin-off Yukimura-den and it was a failure, game had almost to no content and for what i searched, people in general did not enjoy the story. There was no reason to play this game if not for the poor story and new characters, the content was so poor that you really didn't have much reason to play with thoose new characters. (This game was the only one who was not produced or directed by the fathers of this series, maybe thats one of the major reasons for the failure) Next we have a low-budget anime (Gakuen Basara) which was fun but i don't how well that went and a mobile game that after 1~2 years was shut down. Then we have the 15th anniversary of the franchise and they announced Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi Anniversary Edition, basically a deluxe edition (with no new content) of the same game released 5 years ago. If they gonna re-release a 5year old game in the same goddamn console, atleast translate it. Fast foward and we have the sad news that Hiroyuki Kobayashi, creator and producer of this franchise, left Capcom. The director of this series, Makoto Yamamoto still works on capcom so we still have that going for Sengoku Basara. Thanks to this turn of events, Sengoku Basara is probably Zombie or even dead. With a bad localization, bad marketing, bad spin-off, bad re-release of a goddamn 5 year old game in the same goddamn console, failed mobile game, producer gone, its pretty hard to see this series continue. I don't know how well it sells on japan but there is alot of merchandise, on their official twitter its all they promote about plus game promotions. It may have been a flagship in Japan but nowadays i dont think it is anymore, people still ask for a Sengoku Basara 5 but i don't think capcom will care. Last time there was any type of news related to Sengoku Basara was Aug 12, 2022, when Kobayashi announced his depart from Capcom. So in reality, we dont have any Sengoku Basara news for almost 3 years. The last hope we have its on the 20th anniversary (July 21, 2005) but take in mind that our last hope was actually on the 15th Anniversary.

Man I loved this video, and I watched your previous video too "the current state of every nintendo franchise" and man I hope you continue with this section, with companies like sega, playstation, konami, bandai namco, etc.

Capcom's turn nice. Many favorites from them though one really big ommission in this video is the SonSon series, one of their earliest that started on arcades. You probably didnt because you likely just assumed there was that one arcade game, but it should be here as it has a sequel on PC Engine, has been referenced in various crossovers with the most prominent being having a playable character in marvel vs capcom 2 and of course the first game being a mainstay in basically all of Capcom's classic arcade collection releases. Now despite its importance to the company's history and frequent releasing of the first game, the series definitely is zombie tier at best since no one at Capcom or who has left the company previously has expressed interest in finally making a SonSon 3 after 40 years. They seem content in just letting it be those cute couple of journey to the west inspired games from their early years that they love to reference now and then. I'd love to have some kind of power to convince them to get to it since despite nothing new in decades it's a favorite of mine from them. But ah well, at least MvC2 SonSon is a great waifu lol. Also for dead rising, I'm just paraphrasing off of memory from Matt Mcmuscles video on the topic, but from what i remember that series is definitely not coming back despite its previous success. It's a lot of drama between the studio that made it and Capcom. Like, genuine one going behind the other's back type stuff and just overall burn out with the IP. It made mad money but it's definitely dead. A prime example of "sales figures aren't the end all in deciding if a game series continues" for sure.

Not seeing Auto Modellista (first and only racing game by Capcom as far as I can tell) in the video really breaks my heart. I really love the aesthetics. It's so unique seeing cel shaded cars in such a style. They really messed up with the handling and controls at some regional versions. It failed so much that Capcom never attempted to do another racing game ever since.

no power stone entry recently is criminal

The quality and research is amzing

the captions when he said "Genma souls": Gen muscles.

The way things are going I'm hoping Onimusha Bionic Commando, and Strider series gets a remake, Darkstalkers gets at least 1-2 more installments, and if they go rando and bring back Plasma Sword, i think that'll be Capcom's answer to soul calibur.

In conclusion Capcom has way too many neglected franchises just begging to be resurrected.

Not gonna lie, seeing Mitsunari's angry face at the start of the video made me smile.

After watching your excellent 2-parter on Sega I’m now watching this one. Again, good work!

Capgoat is on the rise again. Gimme my new battle network with good cell shade graphics and online with balanced battle chips please! 🙏

I personally think you should have included games with only one mainline entry. I get you didn't want to have to talk about a bunch of old one-off titles from 20+ years ago, but in some cases like Asura's Wrath I think the titles were recent enough and/or notable enough to include

I really enjoyed watching this! Subscribed! I would like to see your take on other companies like Sega.

Final fight is heavily tied into the street fighter universe, so it will always be around

If there is one developer that is on par with nintendo in terms of amazing franchises it’s definitely Capcom. Monster Hunter is my all time favorite franchise

Okami neeeeeds to be revived!!

Me that only knows megaman:

Without devil may cry, Capcom wouldn't have a lots of fan like me 🥲😍😉

Interesting look. I expected just the current big ones not the older, even the niche ones. Respect the effort put in for footage and script/whatever thoughts and such a lot of work in this video for sure. Obviously no one offs (Under the skin, Godhand I mean Ryse Son of Rome/Hellblade and modern God of War entries have that camera angle and combat somewhat and it came out in 2006) because of them being series/franchises but still some one offs do deserve better. Okami Den when is it getting put on platforms other than the DS then just HD version of the first game. If Neo World Ends With You from Square can happen there is no excuse for other DS entries to get to modern consoles. Whether to single screen scale it for the UI. Whether to keep it the same. Whatever else. If Cosmic Smash can be in PSVR2 then only arcade and Dreamcast, if Klonoa gets a second chance besides the Wii attempt. If Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy among other AA/B grade IPs can return. If subgenres can return. Where is Pitfall (like the last console entry was a 3D Metroidvania following Prime 1&2 somewhat who does that really and it's good and very fun to replay) Activision hmmm? Where is Red Steel 2 in VR Ubisoft. Could think of so many situations and places to revive them. I mean even Muramasa and GrimGrimoire surprised me going to other consoles. So many IPs that are niche I never expected but people find a way for licensing with a different publisher, original publisher, source code, whatever the case. Under the Skin is a one off we will never see again when it already holds up and could easily be ported as a cheap party game, market the RE3 content even. Dragons Dogma surprised it's even getting a sequel but glad it is. Lost Planet ah what a trilogy.

Great video man and the current state of every capcom franchise :]

Great video you should do one on Namco or Ubisolf next.

This was a well made video learn a lot good job.

I loved Mercs when I was a kid but I never realized that it is as a sequel to Commando. I learned something new

Do one for Square Enix and Sega. Love these.

Not to be that person coming in like a year later, but there is no way Ace Attorney is a Mainstay but Devil May Cry is a Flagship WHAT?!

amazing video! had me interested and hype the whole way through:) so much nostalgia❤

Humble Bundel just recently gave away a couple of Capcom games for a buck. I actually liked Lost Planet 3 a lot and I feel like it had potential. I wish It would be possible to get a remake of the first game similar to the Dead Space Remake but I guess this is really unlikely and probably a stupid idea. The Megaman collection is also fun (I abused the rewind option).

Woah! I thought you were going to do the video on only one of them. You're going full ham on them all?

It would be cool if u made a video on some of the PlayStation developers like Insomniac, NaughtyDog, Sucker Punch, and Santa Monica. Great vid btw

What, no Haunting Ground?

please make a current state of every square enix franchise next!

I still believe they'll resurrect Megaman...and it's gonna be big. Just not now....but before I die (I'm 25, so in the next potentially 65 years)

I love Capcom just hope for some Dino Crisis and Megaman comeback ♥

Really good video. I think you could do th4 same for sega, square enix abd a lot of jp companies for the state of their franchises. Your Nintendo and Capcom vidros are great for the history and financial

Sengoku Basaras s1 anime opening is a bop😭still in playlist TO THIS DAY

These franchises videos are so well-made, you deserve much more subs! Waiting for a Sony episode 🤠

Resi: Healthy Monster Hunter: Thriving Devil May Cry: Healthy Street Fighter: Thriving Everything Else: *Dead.*

When capcom was hacked it showed a lot of plans for the company including re4 remake and re4 vr port street fighter 6 and onimusho REMAKE alot of those happened still onimusho didn't get announced but we are waiting

pretty good video man

Dead Rising it's on life Support or Zombie

First and foremost I would really love Megaman Legends 3. The Marvel vs Capcom series need s a return to form ala MvC2. A new MvC with the animation style of DragonBall Fighter Z/Gulity Gear/DNF fighters would look amazing. Dino Crisis in VR would be great. A new Project Justice would also be refreshing. A new Breath of Fire would be welcomed as well. Lastly, a Lost Planet collection seems to be in order.

You missed the Slam Masters series: Saturday Night Slam Masters Muscle Bomber Duo Ring Of Destruction Slam Masters 2. Its also one of the franchise connected to Street Fighter Universe like Final Fight & Rival School. You also missed Cyberbots & Armored Warrior.

Would love to see a Bandai Namco one.