Is Resident Evil shite nowadays?
No, it's not. Resident Evil 7 gave the series a new lease on life, and really gave Capcom some confidence to try new things. By all means RE7 and RE8 were successes. The success of RE7 lead to RE2-3-4 Remakes which successfully brought those games into the modern ERA, with RE2 Remake in particular being absolutely incredible for me. That's one of my favorite games of all time and they did an incredible job of remaking it.
I think with the latest REmakes they've found a style that works for them where most people are happy, and I would not be surprised to see RE9 continue in that style and no longer the First Person style of 7 and 8. I wasn't a huge fan of 8 either, but it's not a terrible game or anything. RE7 was genuinely good and scary IMO, and if you played it in VR, you definitely had an incredible experience with that game. It's good for Capcom to be able to try new things with their core franchises.. and the fans were rewarded for it. It worked for Sony Santa Monica and God of War too.
I think with the latest REmakes they've found a style that works for them where most people are happy, and I would not be surprised to see RE9 continue in that style and no longer the First Person style of 7 and 8. I wasn't a huge fan of 8 either, but it's not a terrible game or anything. RE7 was genuinely good and scary IMO, and if you played it in VR, you definitely had an incredible experience with that game. It's good for Capcom to be able to try new things with their core franchises.. and the fans were rewarded for it. It worked for Sony Santa Monica and God of War too.
I absolutely loved 7 and 2 Remake as they both capture the survival horror element. I would love to see a first person with Zombies to see how that would play out but also would love a third person game. I own 8 but didn't start it yet. I only tried the demo. The demo just didn't feel right for me, but maybe the full game is great.
I am confused with all the vampire and werewolf elements though in a Resident Evil universe. The series is risking mixing too many elements that don't necessarily blend and they might end up with the mess that 6 was. Not sure how I will receive 8 once I eventually finish it.
But it could be another case like Resi4 which I played to death since it was a great game, but also felt too different and silly as a Resident Evil game.
Too much weapons and action doesn't fit quite nice with the survival horror element that made us like the series in the first place.
PS: Resi6 was one of the worst garbage I ever finished and even bought the collector's edition since I didn't know. I was so disappointed and full of regret. The demo at the time barely communicated what a piece of garbage everything about it was. When I was 1/5 into the game, I couldn't believe how worse and worse it was getting. It was a parody of itself. Almost like the movie garbage. Plot, atmosphere, controls, art, game performance, acting.....everything was just so bad
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It's set before RE5.
You missed out the essence of the franchise. Capcom tried to make it, in their perception, more commercial but at the end it was only alienating it and turning it into something more generic. I wouldnt have been surprised if their business plan was to bring people who never played the game but were introduced to the Jovovich movies into the games. It looked as if it was borrowing more and more elements from that mess as the franchise was progressing.
Try Resident Evil 2 Remake for starters
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Yeah I have 7 in the backlog and will play 2/3/4/village at some point.
I always talk about how they take the plot back to Raccoon City. Just feels incredibly underwhelming how that stuff should be done and dusted since the original RE3 saw the region being obliterated, but they keep giving a new take on it. They do games, movies, and other shit that covers the same things, as if they are stuck in 1998. Much of it ain't actually canon, mind you, so it probably shouldn't bother me. But it's really pretty pointless to repeat it all the same.
I know that's the heyday of the series. But I feel like they've wrecked it in a way by churning out such garbage that if I were a developer, would know is a big 'screw you' to the fans. I thought The Umbrella / Darkside Chronicles games did a way better job at retelling RE2 and 3 than the actual remakes, but there was things they changed in those Wii shooters, so you can tell it isn't supposed to be totally canon. It felt like it was trying to be a parody as well. Which is a bit strange, giving the serious tone.
I know that's the heyday of the series. But I feel like they've wrecked it in a way by churning out such garbage that if I were a developer, would know is a big 'screw you' to the fans. I thought The Umbrella / Darkside Chronicles games did a way better job at retelling RE2 and 3 than the actual remakes, but there was things they changed in those Wii shooters, so you can tell it isn't supposed to be totally canon. It felt like it was trying to be a parody as well. Which is a bit strange, giving the serious tone.
I think one of the worst things they did with the franchise was recycling the same characters way too often and making them way too bad ass. It is not survival horror if the characters play like action heroes. The games started focusing too much on the characters and less about the harsh scary and threatening situations they are placed in. It's evident in the movies, life action and CG alike. Resident Evil 1 and 2 were so good because in both cases it involved humans that played out more or less like common folk. Unfortunately they evolved later to veterans without a sense of fear. Resident Evil 7 was so good in emulating a common person lost in an unexpected scary situation, that despite that the game did not choose a traditional setting, it did wonders. In the same game though where you could choose some side games like Chris navigating and killing monsters, it went back into mediocr
That's the problem I had with it too. I felt that they knew Ethan could not carry the game on his own, so they were just like, meh. Add in Chris for some fan oriented fare. It didn't make a lot of sense. There was little build up when Chris just arrives.
You just have him fly in, save Ethan from the mutated Eveline, then start running around these tunnels, meeting doomed soldiers in a Saw like setting. Just didn't seem like it made much sense. Giving also that Chris had a pretty awful redesign, nobody could tell if it was even him. No wonder people were assuming it was somebody from Umbrella just pretending to be him. Then we discovered that, sigh, that wasn't even the case at all.
I felt that even with this new engine where everything is about this new 'photo realism' and whatnot, they should have been more than capable of finding an actor - any suitable enough actor - to portray Chris more appropriately.
You just have him fly in, save Ethan from the mutated Eveline, then start running around these tunnels, meeting doomed soldiers in a Saw like setting. Just didn't seem like it made much sense. Giving also that Chris had a pretty awful redesign, nobody could tell if it was even him. No wonder people were assuming it was somebody from Umbrella just pretending to be him. Then we discovered that, sigh, that wasn't even the case at all.
I felt that even with this new engine where everything is about this new 'photo realism' and whatnot, they should have been more than capable of finding an actor - any suitable enough actor - to portray Chris more appropriately.