God Hand reference in new season pass?

[Mystical Spork]

Does this mean Capcom is aware of the fans for this game and that they might port it to modern consoles one day?

[Sixtyfivekills]

With God Hand's unhinged sense of humor that would never fly nowadays..... I wish.


A re-release would do, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but I wouldn't want a remake. Original is too iconic man.

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

With God Hand's unhinged sense of humor that would never fly nowadays..... I wish.


A re-release would do, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but I wouldn't want a remake. Original is too iconic man.

Screw "modern audiences". Biggest load of made up bullsh*t I ever heard come from corporate think tanks who want to sanitize the video game industry along with turning every video game into live service slop.

Capcom should just port this game to modern platforms like they did with Killer7, just give us the basic enhanced features for current and future displays and they won't have to spend a whole lot of money just to port the game which many fans have been asking for a while now.

Also, more people need to ask Capcom to also bring Haunting Grounds for modern consoles. That game is severely underrated and has close ties to the development of the original Resident Evil 4 before getting turned into it's own game like DMC 1 did.

[Vixenvania]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

With God Hand's unhinged sense of humor that would never fly nowadays..... I wish.


A re-release would do, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but I wouldn't want a remake. Original is too iconic man.

Exactly.

[Peddie]

Killer7 was a modest success commercially, God Hand was an abject failure. I also think God Hand just left a sour taste as Mikami cashed in on the fame and reputation RE4 got him to make a vanity project with little oversight from Capcom that, by his own admission, was designed to only appeal to him.

So while yes, it is undeniably a cult classic, it ended up being quite a headache for Capcom because they dared to trust Mikami to do whatever he wanted and still deliver a game that would at least break even.

But as it stands there is little reason for Capcom to believe a rerelease won't tank as hard as the original. Especially now that gamers expect even more in regards to intuitive controls than they did in 2006. (See also the MGS1 rerelease on Steam having tons of negative reviews where gamers are upset it looks and plays like a PS1 game, even though the Steam page literally says it's a PS1 game)

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by Peddie:

Killer7 was a modest success commercially, God Hand was an abject failure. I also think God Hand just left a sour taste as Mikami cashed in on the fame and reputation RE4 got him to make a vanity project with little oversight from Capcom that, by his own admission, was designed to only appeal to him.

So while yes, it is undeniably a cult classic, it ended up being quite a headache for Capcom because they dared to trust Mikami to do whatever he wanted and still deliver a game that would at least break even.

But as it stands there is little reason for Capcom to believe a rerelease won't tank as hard as the original. Especially now that gamers expect even more in regards to intuitive controls than they did in 2006. (See also the MGS1 rerelease on Steam having tons of negative reviews where gamers are upset it looks and plays like a PS1 game, even though the Steam page literally says it's a PS1 game)

Where are you getting this false information from?

God Hand was neither a major success or a failure, it sold moderately okay but didn't do RE4 numbers of sales. The sales projections for that game were fairly modest. The only thing that soured that game's reputation was that infamous IGN review which people have been memeing on still to this day. The game itself deserves to be released on PC platforms like Steam and GOG for purposes of preservation. No other game comes close to the depth of gameplay that game offers.

[Peddie]

Spoken like someone that's never played Virtua Fighter.

And better go tell Mikami he's been lying about his own game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr-v4CAnHE

[Sixtyfivekills]

Regardless of how the game performed, it really deserves a re-release, obviously uncensored, that goes without saying.



I mean hell if something like Lollipop Chainsaw can get a re-release and only suffer from lack of licensed tracks then God Hand deserves its moment to shine too. These two nowadays feel so fresh and are some of the funniest games ever made.

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:

Regardless of how the game performed, it really deserves a re-release, obviously uncensored, that goes without saying.



I mean hell if something like Lollipop Chainsaw can get a re-release and only suffer from lack of licensed tracks then God Hand deserves its moment to shine too. These two nowadays feel so fresh and are some of the funniest games ever made.

Considering how grimdark the atmosphere of most Devil May Cry games are, God Hand feels kind of refreshing in the modern day to have some crude jokes and slapstick humor and not so many corny MCU jokes.

[Lysamus]

I don't imagine Capcom is going to port God Hand (and they really shouldn't unless Shinji Mikami is onboard and leading it, given how personal the game is to him). I have a few theories as to why.

- Capcom has more lucrative IPs to mine first (Rival Schools. Mega Man. Dino Crisis apparently)
- Even as a cult classic, God Hand's fan base is probably not large enough to warrant a profitable port.
- Modernizing the game would require substantial effort. The tank controls were novel in its time for a beat-em-up but modern audiences would probably find them inaccessible.
- Some of its humor aged poorly. Clown me if you must.

I love God Hand. I replay it almost annually and it's a treat every time I do. I'm lucky Mikami was given a green light to make a game essentially for me. However, if I'm being realistic, it's never coming back.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Originally posted by Lysamus:

- Some of its humor aged poorly. Clown me if you must.

I won't clown you but I'll object against it, it aged like finest wine and is twice as funny nowadays.

Pff, twice, thrice, if not more.

Two gay bosses and their portrayal? Comedy gold. One of them having an accident during a war? Absolute madness.

Mad Midget Five, their name alone is insanity, and the fact that Gene mocks the red one with a baby voice and the fact that he can STOMP them is making me laugh so much harder.

Making fun of overweight? Yep, its there alright, Gene even calls one goon out by saying he could never be a ninja due to his weight.


I don't care if someone gets offended by it, its funny and I'll never pretend its not.

[Mystical Spork]

Originally posted by Lysamus:

I don't imagine Capcom is going to port God Hand (and they really shouldn't unless Shinji Mikami is onboard and leading it, given how personal the game is to him). I have a few theories as to why.

- Capcom has more lucrative IPs to mine first (Rival Schools. Mega Man. Dino Crisis apparently)
- Even as a cult classic, God Hand's fan base is probably not large enough to warrant a profitable port.
- Modernizing the game would require substantial effort. The tank controls were novel in its time for a beat-em-up but modern audiences would probably find them inaccessible.
- Some of its humor aged poorly. Clown me if you must.

I love God Hand. I replay it almost annually and it's a treat every time I do. I'm lucky Mikami was given a green light to make a game essentially for me. However, if I'm being realistic, it's never coming back.

Good word-of-mouth can really make a difference when it comes to reviving classic games.