Dear Capcom

Dear CapCom,

I want to take a moment to explain to you why, just WHY it was a bad mistake to can the MegaMan Legends 3 Project. Take a look around your fans for just a moment. During the past year, you have made many questionable decisions that have angered many your fans or outright confused them at best. Many have gone to stop giving support to your company. I am soon to be one of them. This isn’t just about MegaMan Legends 3, oh no. It is about a lot of things. Like how you have all this on-disc DLC anymore. When we gamers buy a disc, we expect the full content available in-game. Unless the DLC is to unlock it early, it is not fair for any company to do that to loyal fans. This is about charging us for demos. You charge us to TEST your game for you and see if we will like it or not? This is about taking a character loved by many fans, Dante and letting some company deal with the Devil May Cry series and dare say “its not cool and good enough anymore.” Fans, most, say they are 100% wrong in their direction and they tell us that WE’RE wrong, and then you back them on this? The fans are never wrong about what they want. IF sales are wanted, it is their demands you must please.

This is about forcing us to have an online connection to play games. This is about release multiple versions of the same game within the same year with minor tweaks and a few new characters we know were probably already completed. This is about denying us, the fans, the most popular asked character, Megaman X, for Marvel vs Capcom 3. While many of those other top characters got in. WE know your talented team can fit him in creatively, no doubt. This is about denying the rest of the world some games because you fear they won’t sell enough. Look at so many fans pleading for games like the Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton Crossover or the new Ace Attorney Investigations game. Is translated a game and reusing the same sounds you have for a while with the Ace Attorney games that hard? Does translating text and shipping cost that much? I do not believe that, nor do many others. Those games will sell.

This isn’t about Megaman Legends 3 alone. But for me, it was the end of the line. We were teased and teased from day one announcement. Many went and bought a 3DS JUST for this game alone. This game was my main reason for wanting one. Thank heavens I found TWO other games to play on it so far and I hope more come out for it or else it would be a worthless system. You say the fans have to make it? Excuse me? And then CapCom make all the money? What is even the point? We pay for games that you guys make. You drop this game for next to no real reason at all, claiming no real audience. Look on facebook. Nearly 30,000 people have assembled and is gaining momentum to reach 100,000 strong for this game. You deny that audience when that is only a small fraction of megaman legends fans? Hell even Megaman fans alone? This game is important for many of us. This game is a mush wanted sequel since the near end of the Playstation 1 era. This is a sequel of a series that holds a special place in our hearts.

I remember playing this game as a kid. All I did was play games. MegaMan was my favorite. I had to have every MegaMan game. But I spent so much more time in the Megaman Legends game than any other of the franchises. I loved the story. I loved the characters. I loved the gameplay. ALL of it. I loved finding out in the first game you could get extra cash by kicking a soda can into the bakery. Something even as little as that. If I still had working discs of these two games, I would be playing it even today. But alas I do not and they are not even on the PlayStation Store where they should be and would easily collect downloads. I would buy BOTH of them. I even await the X-series but the Legends Games are 2 I await with much more anticipation. The announcement of this game lit a spark in my heart I had not felt in years. Such excitement over a Megaman game I haven’t felt in a long time. The cancellation of this project hit hard. I don’t get real angry over games being made and such, but this was a move I can not forget. Heck I was even willing to pay for the prototype even when paying for demos was one thing I was really against.

This is me alone. My sadness over this runs deep. Now multiply that sadness into all of those fans that felt betrayed and left in the dust by this. This can easily turn to scorn and some even start boycotting CapCom. I have met people who are not even Legends fans but still claim this was a deep scarring move made by CapCom and said CapCom should feel ashamed of doing this to their fans. I am hear on behalf of so many to beg you, on my knees begging you while losing my pride, to continue this game. I am now 21 years old and I want this game because it takes me back to an easier time where I felt free. This series always takes me back to good times. This is how deep the cancellation runs for so many people. I implore you to understand our plight as your fans for so long. I have been a fan since I was 7 years old! That is 14 years of my loyalty of buying so many of your games. For my playsation 1 and 2, for my gameboys, for me DS, and up to today with recent systems. 14 years is a long time for gaming. It is a long time for me. My childhood was filled with many of CapCom’s game and it sad that I must look away now for such a thing. CapCom had made a lot of decisions I had not agreed with recently, but this was it for me. I can not continue a to support CapCom if they will not work for their fans like they have for so long, making only great games for us. Not keeping them from us. I implore you to reconsider this.

Thank you,

A Fan

Art Direction

Bizarre

Attitudes

GENRE

COMEDY




Matt Thacker
N190 Spring 2010
2/22/10
Target Audience and Attitudes




Target Audience Analysis


Gender: Male

Age: 16-30

Interests: Gaming, Tuna, money, comedy, adventures, the bizarre

Habits: eating bad food, sleeping, getting food poisoning

Other things they like to watch or read: Internet shows, comedy, anime, adventures

What they do in their spare time: eat tuna, fight evil, gaming, watch internet shows, hang on da web

Things they buy: games, fast food, tuna, milk, soda, eggs, muffins

Where they live: apartment, with parents, dorms

Income level: 0 - $50,000

Maximum education level: Bachelor degree

Anything else that is relevant: likes or hates tuna

Bad Tuna

After eating dinner, Bob heads to bed feeling awfully sick. Apparently, he ate that darned tuna in the back of the fridge even though he knew it was bad. So he falls asleep. However, this is where the TRUE STORY BEGINS. Bob wakes up suddenly in a weird land. At first he thought of it as a dream, but it felt so real. Unless that it was that tuna doing it. Bob tries jumping off a ledge to try the falling method to wake up, but he just ends up hurting himself. Frantic, Bob starts running around like a crazy kid, but runs into this big guy who tells him that he ate mystical tuna to transport him to the Tunaverse, a land of weird and complex individuals. The only way to get back to his home is to travel to Tunawell and jump down it. However, it was miles away through several areas containing some of those…………..individuals. Bob sighs and continues on his way, jogging like an idiot. He first runs into a forest where he meets a dumb farmer kid named Willy. After exchanging some very unneeded conversation, Bob asks where he should go, but only gets a prolonged “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………” Bob just goes the same direction and arrives in an open field. He meets a family of cannibals, though he doesn’t really know they are. They invite him in for some drinks and bread, all the while they stare at him with watery mouths. Leaving although asked to stay the night, calling them a nice group of people, and heads into a cave. It got darker as he went in until it was darker than black itself. Trying to see where he was, he lit a match. Suddenly, from behind, two big, round eyes slowly open from behind him and let out a creepy “Hi.” With bloodshot eyes and a high pitched scream, Bob got the heck out of there while the creepy being just laughed it up all the way. He ran past a Speed Racer reject and eventually smashed into a sign. Looking up at the sign after losing a tooth, the sign indicated he was at Tunawell. Bob did a funny dance when the muscle guy from before walked up, saying “welcome back.” Bob realized he was where he started. Asking why he was sent around in a circle for no reason, the big guy’s reply was “it was funny and you learned a lesson……Eating tuna with green fuzz is a bad idea.” Bob’s eyes narrowed and jumped down the well and lands in his bed. Bob sighs and smiles as he just simply goes back to sleep. Except when the screen dims, he hears "Welcome Back!!." Knowing the same voice form the caves, a little girl scream can be heard when the screen is black.

Obituary

Bob “The Tunanator” Daniels

Bob Daniels died in Las Angelus, California on October 21st, 2004 after he choked on a bad rutabaga that he had removed from his pantry. The rutabaga seemed to have been several weeks, maybe a month old and has some moss growing on it. This contributed it to being too big to swallow and thus leading to Bob’s demise.

Bob was born January 30th, 1944 in Austin, Texas. Bob was an orphan until being adopted by Jack and Jenna Daniels in 1950. He was an average student and did not go to college. Bob worked as an office supervisor for 20 years for the Gerald Company. He also had a few freelance voice acting jobs here and there, earning some extra cash. Bob was well known in the country for his actions in the Tuna Rebellion, where he slaughtered many of the Tuna Beasts before their leader, Popo Tuna, retreated back to his domain for the time being. He gained the nickname, the Tunanator for this event. Details on the Tunaverse are still unknown to the world.

Bob has no spouse or child, and his parents and their family had passed on without any known relatives to him as his parents were distant. However, bob did have an apprentice which he trained to fight the Tuna Beasts. Young Tunar now takes on his master’s duty to fight Popo Tuna.

There will be a mourning day at Ground Tuna on November 1st, in memorial to the day when the Tuna Rebellion ended. Tunar will also being accepting worthy ones after the service to build up a force to fight the Tuna Beasts as his master, died before he could do the same.

Short Story

Bad Tuna

After eating dinner, Bob heads to bed feeling awfully sick. Apparently, he ate that darned tuna in the back of the fridge even though he knew it was bad. So he falls asleep. However, this is where the TRUE STORY BEGINS. Bob wakes up suddenly in a weird land. At first he thought of it as a dream, but it felt so real. Unless that it was that tuna doing it. Bob tries jumping off a ledge to trie the falling method to wake up, but he just ends up hurting himself. Frantic, Bob starts running around like a crazy kid, but runs into this big guy who tells him that he ate mystical tuna to transport him to the Tunaverse, a land of weird and complex individuals. The only way to get back to his home is to travel to Tunawell and jump down it. However, it was miles away through several areas containing some of those…………..individuals. Bob sighs and continues on his way, jogging like an idiot. He first runs into a forest where he meets a dumb farmer kid named Willy. After exchanging some very unneeded conversation, Bob asks where he should go, but only gets a prolonged “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………” Bob just goes the same direction and arrives in an open field. He meets a family of cannibals, though he doesn’t really know they are. They invite him in for some drinks and bread, all the while they stare at him with watery mouths. Leaving although asked to stay the night, calling them a nice group of people, and heads into a cave. It got darker as he went in until it was darker than black itself. Trying to see where he was, he lit a match. Suddenly, from behind, two big, round eyes slowly open from behind him and let out a creepy “Hi.” With bloodshot eyes and a high pitched scream, Bob got the heck out of there while the creepy being just laughed it up all the way. He ran past a Speed Racer reject and eventually smashed into a sign. Looking up at the sign after losing a tooth, the sign indicated he was at Tunawell. Bob did a funny dance when the muscle guy from before walked up, saying “welcome back.” Bob realized he was where he started. Asking why he was sent around in a circle for no reason, the big guy’s reply was “it was funny and you learned a lesson……Eating tuna with green fuzz is a bad idea.” Bob’s eyes narrowed and jumped down the well and lands in his bed. Bob sighs and smiles as he just simply goes back to sleep.