It's no secret that Japanese game maker Capcom has been on a bit of a hot streak lately - the team has basically had a GOTY contender in the running for the last half a decade or more. In and amongst that hot streak have been complete reinventions of famous franchises like Monster Hunter and Resident Evil - something the team has touched on in a new feature over at IGN.
Capcom's Ryozo Tsujimoto — who heads up the Monster Hunter team — says that the company "is going through a golden era" right now, and that it "has to do everything we can so that this lasts one more year, one more year,"
"Capcom is going through a golden era, and, well, now we have to do everything we can so that this lasts one more year, one more year, and every year, one more year. Hopefully we can extend it as long as we can."
Street Fighter's Takayuki Nakayama went close to saying the same thing - but ultimately said that it's up to interpretation as to whether this was a "golden age" for the company. What they did say is that it's "a very exciting time" to be working there at the moment.
"It’s a very exciting time to be at Capcom right now. A lot of us are able to get excited about what we’re working on and are able to focus on things that we think are fun. So, yes, I guess a golden age may be one interpretation of that."
Elsewhere in the extensive interview feature, more specific details were discussed regarding those big franchise reinventions we mentioned at the start. With RE, the team decided that after Revelations 2, the series "needed to go back to its origins, to its roots" - and that Resident Evil 7 ultimately came to be because it was "critical for the series to be scary and about survival". As for Monster Hunter, well, even the name of the 2018 hit Monster Hunter: World was a hint at what Capcom needed to do with that franchise.
"The fact that we called it Monster Hunter: World is really kind of a nod to the fact that we wanted to appeal to this worldwide audience that we wanted to really dig into and experience Monster Hunter for the first time."
All of this thought, care and attention has led to Capcom rising right to the top of the AAA gaming tree, at least in the hearts and minds of core gamers who really value what the Japanese developer is serving up right now. If you want to read a little bit more about how the team has achieved this, the full interview is well worth checking out via the link down below.