Summary
Capcomhas revealed the results of its months-long Capcom Super Elections fan survey that asked, among other things, which of its series is most deserving of a new game or sequel, showing the result that most fans want a newDino Crisisgame.Capcombegan hosting this survey in February and received more than 254,000 responses.
TheDino Crisisfranchise launched in 1999, and although it encompasses five different games, three of which are in the mainline series, it hasn’t seen a new game sinceDino Crisis 3in 2003. In February, the company had hinted at the possible revival ofDino Crisis, as well as several otherabandoned Capcom franchises, ahead of the publisher/developer’s 45th anniversary celebration, by including it as an option in the Super Elections survey.
While thesurvey resultshonorDevil May Cry 5as Capcom fans' favorite game andResident Evil 4as the company’s most influential, the dinosaur-themed survival horror series held true to the survey’s early reports of theCapcom game fans want to see return the most, capturing 80,769 votes, or roughly 31.8 percent of the total votes cast in that category. Those results beat out second-place classic platformer/shooter seriesMega Man, which received roughly 24.9 percent of the vote, and action-adventure seriesDevil May Cry, which trailed at about 23.8 percent of votes cast. Votes in the survey came in from 220 countries around the world, with the United States contributing the most at 28 percent of the total, followed by Japan at 21 percent and Brazil at 11 percent.
Top 10 Capcom Franchises Fans Want a Sequel To
Although the top three series were the only ones to break the 20 percent mark of the total vote, there was a tight race for fourth, as fewer than 5,000 votes separated fourth placeResident Evilfrom eighth-placeAce Attorney, withDarkstalkers, theVS. Capcomfighting series, andOkamiplacing fifth through seventh, respectively. While theResident Evilseries tops the influential Capcom games chart, the three series outranking it as deserving a new game have all seen a drought of at least five years since a release, not counting the mobile-onlyDevil May Cry: Peak of Combat. Meanwhile, theResident Evilseries is still going strong, having released six games since 2019 and withtwo moreResident Evilremakes leakedin May.
While Capcom has not announced any official plans for revivingDino Crisis, it seems like series fans are still holding out hope. After the announcement of the 2023 dinosaur shooterExoprimalleftDino Crisisfans frustrated,and now the survey results, it may only be a matter of time before Capcom gives its fans what they clearly want.
Dino Crisis
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A covert mission to investigate an isolated research facility goes awry when a world-renowned scientist is found alive three years after his reported death. Shockingly, he’s not the only thing back from the grave. Experience the thrill of survival against prehistoric threats in this horror classic!
