GameBlurb, "For those of you who are still upset over the Mega Man Legends 3 debacle, there seems to be a lot more fuel to add to this debacle."
It's only been a few days since Capcom officially canceled the fan-driven project Mega Man Legends 3, and already the backlash has begun, and it's only getting worse. At first, it was just hundreds of bitter comments by fans on the cancelation notice at Capcom's official blog, but then the punches started to swing. ~ Nick Tan, GameRevolution
Scrawl: "Get ready! Bayonetta director and Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya has made an interesting Twitter update regarding Mega Man Legends recently."
Not all games make it out of the development; some meet untimely ends. Here are some of most notable games that have been cancelled in the last few years.
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It was reported just recently by Capcom over on their Unity boards that the highly anticipated 3DS title, Megaman Legends 3, has been cancelled. This cancellation may not seem like a total surprise because many had speculated that this would happen after Megaman Universe was also kicked to the curb once Infanue left Capcom.
When Capcom unexpectedly cancelled Mega Man Legends 3 last month, fans flooded the internet with questions. What went wrong? Why was the publisher abandoning a project it’d announced only one year earlier? Was the community to blame since this was partially a community- developed games? Was this the end of Mega Man, period? We don’t know - not yet.
Hot on the heels of all that "fans will be happy soon" teasing by former Capcom staff member Hideki Kamiya, The Shadow sends word that a Mega Man Legends sequel is indeed currently in development at Capcom...
If you're a Mega Man fan, you might remember the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3 in 2011. While fans were encouraged to show their support for a new entry even after the project had been axed, it's now 2020 and nothing seems to have come of it. Now, out of the blue, the Mega Man Legends composer Makoto Tomozawa has asked fans on Twitter if they would be up for crowdfunding Mega Man Legends 3.
It was a sad day, when Capcom decided to cancel the Mega Man Legends 3 project. Gamers from all over came together to post/rant about it. Now's your chance to tell Capcom they should continue development. All you have to do is join the dev room and sign a petition. It'll only take a few minutes, wouldn't it be nice for this to become green lit again?
For a third-party multiplatform publisher and developer, Capcom has enough popular franchises to create their very own video game system.
Mega Man Legends 3: A canceled series with lots of potential. Imagine if Spyro was flat out canceled. Here, CoG talk Mega Man Legends!
SCRAWL: "Capcom's been going all out lately, having recently announced sequels to their first shots at next-gen development, Dead Rising and Lost Planet. Combine those titles with their already announced Bionic Commando, Dark Void, Resident Evil 5, and their recently released Street Fighter IV, and Capcom has one hell of a line-up for 2009. But with all these games, we've yet to see one character make his jump to next-gen, and his name is Mega Man."
Rockman dashes into the 3D realm. Although we don't see much of Mega Man these days, his legacy lives on in many classic series.
David" of the 100,000 Strong for Bringing Back Mega Man Legends 3 Campaign has reported that a Facebook user by the name of "Zeri P Bishop," had supposedly received information from a source within Capcom of possibly reviving the MML3 project. According to Zeri P Bishop, fans may actually still bring back Mega Man Legends 3 into development. The message posted here on 1UP.com has been edited by me, for it is essentially instructions to help get the game back in development, and clarity and understanding is essential. For the Zeri’s original post, see here.
Capcom is allowing unprecedented fan input in the design of the upcoming Mega Man Legends 3. How much value does fan input have in the game industry?
GP Editor Marshall Henderson writes, "For fans monitoring the condition of the latest Mega Man Legends 3 news, the recent cancellation may have felt like a slow in the pulse for the Mega Man Legends series. Capcom wants you to know that this isn't the case. In an an interview with Kotaku, spokesman Brian Keltner made it clear that the Mega Man Legends 3 project is definitely, totally, and without a doubt dead."
Have you ever imagined what it would be like if your favorite video game characters grew up and went to school together? PWN or DIE has, and the way they picture it is much like their own experiences growing up. There would be pep rallies and proms, jocks and nerds, and of course yearbooks.
Since the beginning of the Mega Man Legends 3 Project, Capcom has put forth the impression that the 3DS game is in danger -- that it hasn't been green-lit, and needs lots of interest and participation from fans to avoid being axed at any second. Even with the impending release of a playable demo, that hasn't changed. In a Capcom-Unity blog post, director Masakazu Eguchi explained that the "Prototype Version" being released on the 3DS eShop is based on the prototype the team built to convince Capcom to let development continue, being released to the public after an "unprecedented agreement." "Furthermore," Eguchi said, "the heat and excitement surrounding this downloadable title would determine whether or not the full game could be green-lit. If hype is strong, the full title will be a go. If not, it's a no-go." With Prototype Version, it'll be easy to measure "hype" in sales.
Capcom’s cancellation of Megaman Legends 3 was the last straw. Legends 3, the long-awaited sequel to the reasonably-popular spin-off Megaman series, was evidently close to completion. A demo version of Legends 3 was released on the Nintendo eShop in 2011. Oddly enough, the demo cost $2.50.
Neocrisis: Here are new screenshots for Rockman Dash 3, also known as Megaman Legends 3, coming to 3DS.
El33tonline writes: "...One of the projects that Inafune had been working on, and had expressed extreme enthusiasm in, was Mega Man Legends 3, a project the luminary said had remained a dream of his since the last game. Now that Inafune isn’t at Capcom anymore, and can no longer work on Mega Man Legends 3, who is left to take his place?"
IGN: "The first Dragon's Dogma was a wonderfully unique RPG back in 2012, but it was held back by technical limitations that prevented Director Hideaki Itsuno from realizing his true vision for the project. Find out how things have changed now with the upcoming Dragon's Dogma 2."
