With the recent release of Resident Evil 6 to, shall we say, less than stellar reviews, I thought it only appropriate to join in the fevered frenzy of proclaiming: Capcom is dead!

OK seriously, while the herd is almost always mistaken, it's difficult to deny that something has gone very wrong at Capcom.  I'm no insider.  I'm just a schlub with a couple of consoles and an aging PC rig.  But it doesn't take a whole lot to see that the magic is, if not gone, then seriously in hiding.

When I started to make the transition to mostly console gaming, I found some of my most satisfying experiences with Capcom games.  I sort of realized this after the fact.  I remember browsing through my modest collection and thinking, "I sure have a lot of Capcom titles!"

Resident Evil Remake, RE 0, RE 4, Code Veronica, Okami, Devil May Cry, Onimusha (Oh Genma Onimusha, I loved you so much I played you on my original XBox which forced one to use the D-pad for movement).  And others I'm forgetting.

Has Capcom, as many have claimed, focused too much on "Westernizing" itself?  And how would that necessarily make for poorer games?  I suspect it's simply a matter of lost or mis-managed talent.  It seems to me that if you have the talent, with sufficient motivation and direction you can make something good no matter what your focus.

What do you all think?  What's going on with Capcom?