Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game

Hatta writes "Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3D for the Nintendo 3DS will be an experience that can be completed once per customer. Using a single, unwipable save slot Capcom ensures that a second hand customer gets a second rate experience. If you buy this game used, you will be stuck with the previous owner's progress, unable to start the game fresh."

Re:Book?

[WillAdams]

That would be William Gibson's _Agrippa_ a memoir of his father:

http://www.dissemination.dk/research/books/postcard-from-a-dead-future/ [dissemination.dk]

It contained aquatint etchings which would degrade when exposed to light and a _floppy disk_ w/ the text which would encrypt itself as it was displayed (naturally this has since been broken).

William

Re:Will anybody buy this lemon?

[SilentStaid]

The game has already been out for a month. It was not published clearly on the outside of the box, just in the manual (and who RTFM around here?).

They're treating it as a success at capcom because Gamestop is paying 6$ for it used in the UK and in Japan.

Source. [digitaltrends.com]

Re:What about corrupted saves?

[mingot]

I can't speak for all games, but I am very familiar with the save structure of one particular series, and each game in this series stores a backup of the save file and will always revert if one of them is corrupt. I would guess that this is not the only series where the developers take this approach.

Re:First!

[glassware]

A more nuanced description of the save game system is here:
http://gamasutra.com/view/news/35476/Capcom_Used_Sales_Not_A_Factor_In_The_Mercenaries_Save_System.php [gamasutra.com]

Just keep in mind this isn't an RPG, where saved data prevents you from seeing the beginning. This is a shooter game where your high scores and unlocks are permanently saved to the card. I suppose it's sad that you can't restore everything back to its original locked state and get the pleasure of unlocking each item individually, but I doubt it's as bad as everyone fears.

Re:The Bickering

[Tharsman]

One important thing missing from the summary:

This is an arcade game were the save file only keeps high scores and unlocked content, similar to unlocking characters in a Street Fighter game.

Although some may prefer to unlock everything themselves, I can also see many would love to buy a used and fully u locked copy of the game over a new one.

This instance of the feature does not deserve any real doom crying.

Re:Siblings...

[KDR_11k]

What part of Resident Evil sounds like a game that children should play?