The story of Capcom’s PS4 exclusive Deep Down has been quite the odyssey. The game was introduced with great fanfare in February 2013, at the same PlayStation Meeting event in which Sony introduced the PS4, and it impressed many with its fantastic graphics, that were supposed to be Capcom’s new engine Panta Rhei’s showpiece.
Former Sony executive Shawn Layden has "no idea" what happened to Capcom Deep Down game, which disappeared after announcement.
From what I have read, they wanted to delay the game to make the graphics "realistic". Imo, the game already looked good as it is. My guess is that perhaps they shifted their focus for a ps5 release but only time will tell.
considering it looked basically better than any other game in that trailer, they were probably too ambitious. They also wanted to have endless dungeons, have several historic periods that they wanted to realize, infinite randomly generated loot. its not being made for ps5, it went in the dumpster, no way capcom would let them work on it from then on until now. it was like 9 years ago or something that trailer came out?
I remember seeing demo footage of this game on the PS4! It already look like one of the best looking games on the PS4, like a prenext gen game before PS5.
This was never meant to be a game and it was more like a showcase for their engine "Panta Rhei" that they never used in any game ( which probably named RE Engine now ) , yes this project was meant to be a low budget free to play game for the PS4 and planned to release in Japan but all of that was canceled in a matter of few months , this whole project has been silently canceled long long time ago and people does not know Capcom well when it comes to sideswiping projects
@Shinox if what you said is true then that's a big shame really. I was really looking forward for the game, and it had some cool ideas and mechanics that caught my attention (though making it a F2P title was somewhat worrisome).
I always thought it was because of this games questionable development that they were able to do the deal for SFV in its place.
As far as I'm aware not a single game was developed with the Panta Rhei engine. Some aspects of the engine may have been folded into Capcom's current engines, but who knows, really?
I thought it looked really good at the time it was shown.
Agreed. The game had a lot of promise, jankiness aside. Plus, I sorta loved the survival horror aspects of the game in certain areas.
Still sucks we haven't heard much from it. Really liked the concept behind it, and I feel like I was one of the very few who liked the game's music. A shame it's in hiatus as of now.
I think Platinum has been overextending itself for a good while now. Scalebound was canceled after missing deadlines and Bayonetta 3 has shown nothing since its announcement in 2017.
Like Darkborn said, you still have a good point, even if it's not related to this newspiece.
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I think Deepdown's disappearance is simply due to Capcom focusing resources on their already established IPs ( Resident Evil, Monster Hunter and too a lesser extent Devil May Cry). Despite the vaporware nature of Deepdown, Capcom has been doing quit well for the past 4 years or so.
Honestly, I want to believe the game will happen but after what happened with Wild, who's to say Capcom won't consider on pulling the plug on the game?
A shame cause the game looked very interesting.
Deep down seemed like Vaporware from the start. There was never anything shown beyond the initial reveal trailer.
There is always games like this that look cool and excites everybody...and then it disappears. Look at "8 days", everything about that game looked as cool as hell, The Story, Ving Rhames as one of the characters and pretty cool game mechanics (of what video leaked out of them) That game still stings to me, I really wanted to play it.
Same thing with The Getaway for the PS3. I always wanted to try out English GTA from Sony, but it sadly never came to be.
While the game never came out, I don't think it was time wasted. If you look well at how the camera follows the character and how it moves around during "gameplay", you'll notice it's spot-on identical to the camera in Resident Evil 2 Remake. Deep Down might have been cancelled, but it most likely became a proof of concept for Capcom in development of the REngine.
I always thought it was a tech demo never intended to become an actual game. Pretty sure it's just them showing off what would eventually become their proprietary engine Reach For The Moon Engine or "RE Engine" as most people call it.
To quote from the other guy, it's definitely likely that Phanta Rei probably transformed into the RE engine. Still, it sucks the game might not see the light of day, especially considering how ambitious Capcom was with it.
Don’t count this game out just yet. Are we going to see Deep Down release on PS5?
Hopefully its still in development and will be released on ps5 because deep down trailer looked amazing when showed years ago
i hope this to transform to " Dragon s Dogma 2 Deep Down" ....would be smart move and excellent to revisit DDogma elaborate world
Capcom is really sitting on Dragon's Dogma and I don't get why. It was an out of nowhere fantastic game.
They need to come out with the sequel already.
That's actually what I always thought, that it was just a code name for a Dragon's Dogma game.
heard good things about DD.
didnt have a chance to try it, so i hope the series gets some love cause i think it was successful.
I will agree Dragon's Dogma is an excellent game and having the ability to climb on huge enemies is fairly unique, however, I really hope that Capcom (if they make DD2) reduces those "escort missions" or at least makes them much more interesting. Of course, if I hear "Harpy!" one more time I am going to scream.🤪
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Absolutely, I'm more interested in games that exist like Pragmata and Resident Evil 8.
Renewing a trademark is a sign of life because they cannot just indefinitely renew it, they only get so many renewals before it is rejected and open to the market again.
I kind of have a feeling that Deep Down was put off until new hardware because the Quality of what we saw in the trailer looked like it was causing major frame issues and stutters on the PS4 the time.
The PS5 may finally be able to handle the visual goal of what they were going for.
Hopefully it maintains the technology (like their fluid/particle simulations) and 4 player co-op
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maybe waiting to show it off running on the ps4 neo? This game looked liked it wouldv'e kicked ass. The video where your'e battling the dragon was sick.
It died for me deep down when they revealed that it would be a free2play game.
Holy sh**. I forgot about this...
It's pretty strange how long this game is taking. I imagine it's problems with the engine more than anything else. Square had the same issues when developing 13/ versus 13.
I really can't imagine it being anything like that trailer. I think thats the problem they had this awesome trailer but forgot they had to make an actual game and a f2p one at that wonder if we'll ever see this game at least as we know it as deep down