{"id":99548,"date":"2019-09-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/capcom_considers_dragons_dogma_to_be_an_important_franchise"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:30:00","slug":"capcom-considers-dragons-dogma-to-be-an-important-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/02\/capcom-considers-dragons-dogma-to-be-an-important-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom Considers Dragon&#8217;s Dogma &#8220;To Be An Important Franchise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/593dcc8f90750\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/593dcc8f90750\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dragon's Dogma\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/593dcc8f90750\/dragons-dogma.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/593dcc8f90750\/dragons-dogma.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon's Dogma\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Originally released in 2012, Capcom&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/dragons_dogma\" class=\"external\">Dragon&#8217;s Dogma<\/a><\/strong> is one of the company&#8217;s most successful new IPs of the modern era, although it&#8217;s worth adding that it didn&#8217;t sell <em>quite<\/em> well enough to assure an instant sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Still, given that it was updated in the form of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragons_dogma_dark_arisen\">Dark Arisen<\/a><\/strong> (which has been released on all current-gen formats, including Switch), it&#8217;s safe to assume that it&#8217;s still in the mix as far as new instalments are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, creator Hideaki Itsuno has spoken to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/09\/02\/dragons-dogma-the-most-influential-game-no-one-ever-copied\" rel=\"nofollow\">IGN<\/a> and revealed that the series is &#8220;important&#8221; to Capcom, but that&#8217;s as much information as he can give at this time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We consider Dragon&#8217;s Dogma to be an important franchise&#8230; But there&#8217;s nothing more I can say right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s no denying that it is rough in parts and really could have done with a full remaster rather than a straight re-release,&#8221; is what we said when we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/dragons_dogma_dark_arisen\">reviewed the Switch version of Dragon&#8217;s Dogma: Dark Arisen<\/a> back in April. &#8220;But Dragon\u2019s Dogma nonetheless remains a fantastically gripping role-playing experience that manages to straddle the divide between exhilarating real-time action and stat-based adventuring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A new game in the franchise would make sense for another reason \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/netflix_announces_anime_based_on_dragons_dogma_series_by_capcom\">Netflix<\/a> is currently working on an animated series based on the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally released in 2012, Capcom&#8217;s Dragon&#8217;s Dogma is one of the company&#8217;s most successful new IPs of the modern era, although it&#8217;s worth adding that it didn&#8217;t sell quite well enough to assure an instant sequel. Still, given that it was updated in the form of Dark Arisen (which has been released on all current-gen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}