Officially he’s been working on Dragon’s Dogma for over three years, but the original idea for the game arose during his childhood. Itsuno’s faith is understandable given his personal attachment to the project. It’s a unique experience, and there are a lot of elements that are very different to other RPGs.” “Of course, if you ask me who’s in the lead in the RPG world, Skyrim has a huge influence on the rest of us! But we think our game will turn heads as well. We’re trying to make a new genre: We’re using our action heritage and putting that into an action RPG.”Īnd while Itsuno is fully aware that Skyrim will take some beating, there’s no questioning his conviction in Capcom’s efforts. At Capcom, we’ve made Dragon’s Dogma and come up to this point through our experience of action games. “Skyrim has become what it is now through the whole Elder Scrolls series. “Skyrim has had a big influence on the RPG genre, but we’re trying to do the same thing,” he says. Still, the man himself remains undaunted by the scale of his task. Itsuno-san has directed the Devil May Cry series since the second instalment in the franchise, but even for a developer of his calibre, this is no minor undertaking. And to top it all off, Dragon’s Dogma is an open-world action RPG – something the publisher has never attempted before. Follow Skyrim too closely, and you invite unfavourable comparisons do something different, and… well, you’re simply not Skyrim, are you?īut Capcom’s Hideaki Itsuno faces a double challenge: not only is he tasked with squaring up to the Dragonborn, he’s also at the helm of one of the biggest games Capcom has ever made. In the wake of Bethesda Softworks’ behemoth success, there’s a clear dilemma for other purveyors of dragon-n-swashbuckling.

Who would want to be an RPG developer right now? Last November the world watched as Skyrim marked its territory, changing forever our expectations of an entire genre.

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