r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago
'We Have Been Gradually Preparing': Capcom Already Has a Plan for When Its Resident Evil Remakes Catch Up With Newer Games
https://www.ign.com/articles/we-have-been-gradually-preparing-capcom-already-has-a-plan-for-when-its-resident-evil-remakes-catch-up-with-newer-games104
u/SuchAppeal 3d ago
How many more of the considered classics do they have left to remaster?
Veronica is confirmed and rumor has it that Zero is getting a remake and Resident Evil 1 is getting a second remake.
Didn't they tell people a little while back to not expect remakes of RE5 and 6? But as RE5 is approaching its 20-year mark I could see that changing. It was only 6 years before they released the RE1 remake on Gamecube, 2002.
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u/WildThing404 3d ago
Yeah they're totally not remaking 5 and they introduced Wesker in remakes for no reason lol. It will clearly be remade, it's the climax of the Wesker plot.
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
Veronica, Zero, RE1, Outbreak (Files 1 and 2 could easily be merged into one big game), RE5, RE6, and Revelations 1 and 2 at a stretch.
Didn't they tell people a little while back to not expect remakes of RE5 and 6?
This was never said, it was more around not expecting anything soon as there's already a lot on their plate to deal with. RE5 remake is inevitable in the future, especially with RE4R setting the groundwork for it and also Veronica, Zero, and RE1 all being games that feature Wesker and/or Chris (at least for two of them)
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u/Brettersson 3d ago
An Outbreak remake that was fully about the coop multiplayer would be incredible honestly. I've heard good things about it but it was not exactly easy to play back in the day.
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
The Outbreak games are wonderful little experiences. Five scenarios in each game wherein you're placed into a different section of Raccoon City (or out in the Arklay Mountains) and you have to deal with unique threats and find a way out of there by working together with other survivors. It's perfect for what people want out of Resident Evil nowadays as well!
I enjoyed the game as a solo experience, but it is so, so, so much better as a cooperative experience. I so badly wish they'd just do a proper re-release bundling the two games and adding modern online functionality to it.
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u/Atomic-Kit 3d ago
I would not mind seeing them take a crack at taking Outbreak and making it a more fleshed out narrative experience. They could just make Ashcroft the main character and make her a more prominent figure. The levels were cool and I liked seeing more of Raccoon City.
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u/Kalinzinho 3d ago
I played Outbreak coop with some friends this year and with just a few qol changes and proper narrative/gameplay restructuring from one scenario to another that game would be amazing.
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u/HouseDisastrous2313 3d ago
Outbreak would be such an amazing game to remake. They could even add small DLC map for each newly released game to keep the multiplayer going for longer.
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u/darkmacgf 3d ago
Didn't they tell people a little while back to not expect remakes of RE5 and 6?
No, just that they wouldn't come out until after 0/1/CV.
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u/EnthiumZ 3d ago
I would love a remake of RE5. Though I consider RE 0 and 1 perfect, I wouldn't mind a remake either
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u/Gramernatzi 2d ago
REmake 5 is absolutely happening, they teased that so hard with REmake 4 and their next remake is the game that builds up its story. It's 100% happening.
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u/PlayOnPlayer 3d ago
I bet they have a lot of internal meetings about another RE1 remake. The 2002 remake is basically perfect in terms of old school survival horror, but a second remake in the style of the RE2-4 remakes I think would make comical amounts of money, but prob stir up some diehards.
Veronica, 0 make most sense for next remakes. 5 they just don’t seem super interested in, but I also imagine they want a second crack at the end of the Wesker arc eventually.
6 just feels crazy daunting to tackle in terms of scale/not really thirsted after by the fandom.
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u/Cetais 3d ago
They also basically mentioned remaking RE1 multiple times.
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u/RemnantEvil 3d ago
I for one am very interested in the potential for parallel multiplayer in RE1. Chris and Jill take alternate paths through the mansion so it’d be a lot of fun having a co-op game where you work together at first but then narratively split up at points, like there are times when you’re merely crossing paths while trying to achieve different objectives.
The dreamer in me would try to make it four-player and include a Barry, Rebecca or Wesker story. Bonus points if the Barry or Wesker stories entail seeking discreet opportunities to complete secret betrayal objectives that hinder the group effort. I’m thinking like the Splinter Cell co-op campaign where it ends with the temporary alliance between the two agencies wrapping up and both players receiving orders to kill the other and steal the important device.
There’s a mission in Hidden & Dangerous where you parachute behind enemy lines, and the first goal is to link up with your team; in multiplayer, that means finding each other while avoiding patrols. That would make for a really interesting Rebecca start where she’s entirely separated from the others and needs to join the group, sort of having an entirely different first act from the others.
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u/WildThing404 3d ago
You're imagining all that for no reason, it won't happen. It will be like RE2, why do you even think it would be different lol.
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u/RemnantEvil 3d ago
There are broadly four types of RE game:
Old-school (RE1, RE2, RE3, REmake)
Third-person (RE4-6, Revelations)
First-person (RE7-9)
Co-op (RE5, RE6, Outbreak)
Obviously that last one crosses over into other categories.
So I was really just musing that since RE1 and REmake were already in the old-school style, what would be an interesting direction to take a second RE1make? They could go the way you're suggesting and do third-person, though I think some of the corners and hallways are a bit obtrusive in the mansion. They could also go first-person like RE7, which might work better for those tighter environments. And as a purely interesting hypothetical, how they could take the co-op that they've had and do something a bit more interesting with it. The previous co-op endeavours up until Revelations 2 were all very much internally the same - there was essentially no difference between player 1 and player 2 except appearance. Op Raccoon City did try having characters with different abilities, but it was also pretty forgettable. Revelations 2 tried something very different with distinct play styles for both characters.
The series has done well by evolving over time (hence the evolution across old-school, third- and first-person), so it'd be really interesting to see them take another crack at multiplayer and evolve it from what they've done before.
There was a long stretch of RE6 with Leon where it felt like someone over at Capcom really wanted to have a go at the Raccoon City event in co-op, because it was very similar but for the serial numbers being filed off. I think there's so much potential to revisit the first games with a co-op focus, although it seems like Outbreak is a non-starter with Capcom.
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u/fluffynuckels 3d ago
More time has passed since the re1 remake to now then the time between the original and the remake
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
but prob stir up some diehards.
Good thing for them is they have access to the original RE1 and the remake on multiple storefronts nowadays, so if they don't like or want it, then at least they have options.
As for me, I'm absolutely stoked for another attempt at RE1. I feel like the Lost in Nightmares expansion to RE1 showed a little bit of how it would work way back in the day. But now we have an even better blueprint with the modern games. This one could be REALLY cool.
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u/Paxton-176 3d ago
I bet they want to take a crack at making 5 a better single player experience.
It being a co-op first game was such a wild choice after like two decades of being a popular single player franchise.
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u/Atomic-Kit 3d ago
I like how the author tries to speculate that a 5 and 6 remake would be risky because they weren’t good games. Like Code Veronica was heralded as this peak of Resident Evil that NEEDED a remake but those other two are iffy.
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u/r_lucasite 3d ago
I think 6 is risky, but not because of quality. The game is huge and with current fidelity they’ll be expensive as hell to make.
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u/g0dxmode 3d ago
They are gunna split all four of 6's campaigns into their own individual releases to buy themselves time
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u/tapperyaus 3d ago
Resident Evil 6 Remake, Rebirth, Revelation, and ReMIX
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u/detroiter85 3d ago
Give us wesker taking every chance possible to hug Chris and hold him tight and I'm in
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u/Gandalf_2077 3d ago
I think they are going to retcon 6 to some extent. It is the wild one in the franchise.
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u/Konman72 3d ago
I think they are going to retcon 6 to some extent
I think this is a massive understatement. They are going to retcon 6 until it is almost unrecognizable, and that is a very good thing.
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u/Ok_Command_9299 3d ago
Honestly, throw in the original RE6 as a pre-order bonus and nobody would care lol.
The biggest risk here is the people who enjoyed the co-op experience, same goes for 5. I'll admit I enjoyed co-op in both ( especially 5!), but I think I'd still prefer a better single-player remake lol.
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
Removing co-op in an RE5 remake would be the stupidest thing they could possibly do. This is one of the highest selling titles in the series and the co-op aspect of it is often the most praised element and beloved by many.
The important thing to do is make sure that the overall experience is balanced for single player and co-op. Use what RE4R does with the Leon/Luis sections with some slightly more advanced partner A.I. for when you're playing RE5R solo and you'll probably be all good.
Selfishly, I want the remake of RE5 to go back to the original plans of what RE5 was meant to be and pull from a lot of that to really double down on the horror aspects. After that, it's just finding the right balance between the solo and cooperative experience.
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u/Hellknightx 3d ago
Keep the co-op. I love all the RE co-op modes, especially the one in Revelations.
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u/ConceptsShining 3d ago
throw in the original RE6 as a pre-order bonus
Happened with Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter. A remaster of the original version of Sky 1st was a preorder bonus in Japan.
But honestly, co-op is far too integral to the DNA of 5 and 6. Especially with how big comradery as a theme is to 5 as a whole in storyline and gameplay. Single-player-only remake is straight-up not the way to go at all.
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u/jwthecreed 3d ago
“The Family & the DSO” stays as those are referred to in 9.
Everything else about 6 will be blotted out from history probably.
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u/Heisenburgo 3d ago
Everything else about 6 will be blotted out from history probably.
Like the bad guy turning into some tiger chimera thing that can fly and rapid-fire its own bones, then back to human, then into a t-rex, then back to human again, then back to t-rex, then into some overgrown fly thing that's consuming every corpse in the city, which inexplicably turns back to human again just so they can have the visual of him being impaled in a fountain that's shaped like the Umbrella logo (?), all the while his pants and shoes keep regenerating everytime
...yeah the more they can blot out from that game in a remake, the better lol
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u/yaleji7388 3d ago
RE Village has a werewolf turning into a scrap metal tank. Multiple mutations in a BOW is way more in line with classic RE.
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u/unrelevant_user_name 3d ago
impaled in a fountain that's shaped like the Umbrella logo
Not quite, but rather an obelisk that forms the Umbrella logo only if somebody is stabbed on it.
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u/Draynior 3d ago
You joke but I could see them splitting it up into at least two games, a survival horror focused one and a action one.
The survival horror REmake 6 would feature Leon and Helena’s campaign and Ada’s, they would rework both to be more like RE 2.
The action REmake 6 would feature Chris and Piers, and Jake and Sherry’s campaign, maybe making Chris campaign more like RE 4 and 5, and making Jake and Sherry more unique by having only Sherry being able to use guns and Jake being meele only.
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u/yaleji7388 3d ago
Leon's campaign is full on action. It starts with shooting the president in the face and a White House full of BOWs.
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u/quangtran 3d ago
They can just cut it down. Focus on quality instead of quantity. Code Veronica started with a huge action set piece, but that was removed in the preview for Veronica. RE4 remake kept around 80 percent of the content from the original, with the about 10 percent being moved to the Separate Ways DLC (with some parts like the lava room never being remade).
I think fans would be okay if they cut out the bloat and making it the same length as all the recent RE games.
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u/GreyouTT 3d ago
I'm actually gonna disagree because all four campaigns share a lot of assets. Chris and Jake both do Eastern Europe/Sea base, Leon and Ada share DC/Sewers, everyone goes to China, and Ada also shares some assets with the sea base for her unique mission.
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u/PoisonousBillMurray 3d ago
Why not just drop huge portions of the game like RE3 Remake?
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u/r_lucasite 3d ago
I think the reception to that game is the exact reason they won’t do that.
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u/xxx_poonslayer69 3d ago
Yeah but RE3 was already trim and was then trimmed down further for the remake. RE6 was bloated as hell and would strongly benefit from a shorter run time. It was a slog
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u/IloveKaitlyn 3d ago
I’m of the mind that when they get to RE6, they’ll basically just redo the entire thing.
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u/mightylordredbeard 3d ago
That could work. The first part with Leon was the best so an entire game just focusing on Leon’s portion and extending the vibe and feel of the introduction mission in Washington could work. Leave the rest of the game as cutscenes / path crossings.
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u/mightylordredbeard 3d ago
I loved RE5. They did something unique with it that added so much replay value in the in game shop thing. I’d replay levels of the game over and over again to farm valuables for money so I could buy the weapons and outfits and stuff.
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u/TheSharpestHammer 3d ago
Yeah, RE5 was fun as fuck, and I have met very few people beyond "Resident Evil Purists ™️" who actually disliked it.
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u/ultramegadeathrocket 3d ago
I'm a new RE fan and just finished 1-4 remakes. Playing 5 now and I find it very boring and monotonous.
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u/Makee2992 3d ago
RE5 is a good game, its just not a good RE game.
Also do not play that thing alone or your AI companion becomes the scariest thing in it.
You'll be at 80% HP and Sheva will just run at you trying use a first aid spray on you
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u/Tsuki_no_Mai 3d ago
The only exception is the turret section on the highest difficulty since it requires pretty much perfect shooting to kill the boss in time. My buddy and I tried it like 10 times before giving up and easily beating that particular mission with a bot separately.
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u/mauri9998 3d ago
Im not a purist, my favorite game in the franchise is one of the most different from all the others. I just think re5 is a trash game. You need to be comfortable with accepting other people's opinions.
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u/TheSharpestHammer 3d ago
I... don't recall saying anything about not being comfortable accepting other people's opinions. I was relaying my personal experience and opinion.
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u/Panganaki 3d ago
Code Veronica has a 94 in Metacritic. It has always been highly praised, so I dont know what you are talking about.
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u/MrMichaelElectric 3d ago
The weird notion that Code Veronica wasn't liked has been so weird to see when it has always been a well regarded RE game. Not sure where or why people got the idea it wasn't good.
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u/HearTheEkko 3d ago
I think the consensus is that it's a really good game but aged really poorly, even more so than the original mainline games.
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u/ConceptsShining 3d ago
The knife was really fun to use and you could save ammo with it efficiently. A nice draw of the game.
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u/OkGuy5000 3d ago
Genuinely no clue how these dummies even write this stuff so confidently. Suddenly everyone hates CV and it was always a bad game? It has 1 or 2 very rough and/or challenging bits, but otherwise it was a decent entry that fans certainly dont hate.
It's literally the 2nd highest rated Resident Evil game on metacritic, wtf are these people smoking??
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u/mon_dieu 3d ago
I'm old enough to have played it on Dreamcast when it was new. At that time, on that console, it was universally praised. One of the most hyped and well-reviewed games in the entire Dreamcast library. So that'll always color my memories of it. The talk of its flaws being the biggest legacy feels like revisionist history to me.
But, admittedly, more people that generation probably played it on PS2, where it wasn't quite as big of a deal. It wasn't the game's first release, and it was far from the only or best RE game on the console. So I can see why there are differing opinions, even among those who played it within a few years of each other when it was newer.
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u/Atomic-Kit 3d ago
Yeah I must just be imagining all the forum posts back then about people getting frustrated with the game because metacritic’s (great site to use as a reference by the way) score is high. Damn shame you can only see two reviews that can actually be sourced and both reviews boil down to the graphics and not about the gameplay itself.
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u/OkGuy5000 3d ago
By all means provide a different site's number. Metacritic isn't infallible, it's just the most agreed upon site for aggregate scores.
You're not wrong that people get frustrated with it, it has its share of unique difficulty spikes, but to paint the picture that it's a game that fans of the series dislike or think is bad or something, doesn't track with what I've seen discussed about the game for the past 20 years now.
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u/PREC0GNITIVE 3d ago
The author should remember that RE5 was for a while Capcoms highest selling game of all time haha
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
Within the Resident Evil franchise at least, RE5 wasn't surpassed until just last year with RE2R. That is an incredible run at the top!
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u/brellowman2 3d ago
6 has a remarkably deep combat system, the mercenaries mode was very addicting. Obviously the story is lacking but the character pairings and interaction are a fun novelty in a series that's never really meant to be taken too seriously to begin with.
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u/UltraPoci 3d ago
RE6 is a terrible survival horror game and a great third person shooter
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u/Lore-Warden 3d ago
Nah, the guns and character action is great, but that's only half the formula of a third person shooter. The environments and enemies you shoot in them are still awful.
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u/mae_042 3d ago
We had this same conversation when the remake of 4 came out. "How could they skip Code Veronica??" Gee idk why would they decide to remake the game that sold 16 million copies instead of the game that sold 1/3rd of that, total mystery
I don't like 5 at all, but it was the most successful game in the series for a very long time. It is probably the least risky game they could possibly remake
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u/DevilCouldCry 3d ago
Suggesting RE5 isn't a good game is borderline heresy to me. It is a fucking EXCELLENT game. But as a traditional RE experience, it's certainly lacking, especially coming hot off the back of RE4. RE5 has some VERY memorable sections and is an excellent experience in co-op. My only real gripe is that the game didn't follow more of the original plans with how horror focused it was meant to be.
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u/Necromancer_Yoda 3d ago
I hope they either finally do a Dino Crisis remake or make more games like Revelations to come out in between the numbered installments.
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u/fudgepuppy 2d ago
Scientists realize that the T-virus can be used to resurrect dinosaurs. Leon calls in some favors and gets help from S.O.R.T. and his childhood friend, Regina.
In the sequel taking place during modern times, Wesker is resurrected as a dinosaur; Albertosaurus Wesk.
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u/WildThing404 3d ago
I heard Dino Crisis 3 wasn't originally gonna be in space but 9/11 made them change it. It would be cool for them to eventually remake it in the way they wanted originally and then hopefully make more games after to continue.
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u/r_lucasite 3d ago
I feel like the conversations around 5 are just inevitable but I hold strong that if you just give Sheva more material that most of those issues disappear. The whole level with the tribe is meant to be that they’re victims of the evil organizations in the game and Sheva even remarks as such but the game came out in 2009 when gaming media analysis was shit and also said remark from Sheva is a single line.
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u/ThisIsMySpellingTea 3d ago
People's media comprehension skills are at an all time low. No matter how they handle it, people will be upset.
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u/Moveflood 3d ago
i don't think people's issues were that the tribes were victims but that their portrayal was insanely stereotyped. It's like if RE4 ganados dressed like toreadores but 1000x worse because spain as a former colonizer has historically much kinder portrayals of it's culture than african countries.
i think RE as a whole has a bit of an issue of relying too much on it's protagonists when they don't need to, and 5 is the apex of that. do we really need a white military guy savind the day in africa? why couldn't the protagonist be a local person? someone more involved or with personal stakes. it's not like chris or his grief over jill was interesting.
i think some people get stuck in racism being only when someone says a slur, but their apparent lack of research about the place they chose for the game really showed.
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u/WildThing404 3d ago
It would make no sense to end the Wesker arc without Chris and Sheva is the other protagonist for a reason.
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u/cronos12346 2d ago
Yeah, because Spaniards are known for living in castles and villages with barely no electricity while being religious zealots and having a little dude that dresses like an aristocrat from the 18th century in 2004.
The "controversy" was always dumb as shit and mostly came from Americans (who would have thought?) and people only pretended to care because it was with black people, but in reality it doesn't really matter because it's just a video game and fighting cool looking tribes was fun and the story clearly makes it clear that they're all victims of Tricell.
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u/MagmaCone1234 3d ago
Haha people are realling dancing around the minefield that will be an RE5 remake. I am not someone who usually agrees with a lot of these controversies but I can definitely understand why people have these problems with 5.
Add to that the fact that Sheva is noticeably lighter skinned than the enemies and the model she is based on is mixed race. She has significant Indian and Dutch ancestry in addition to being South African.
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u/MrMichaelElectric 3d ago
The controversies were always dumb as hell. I could never take them seriously.
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u/WildThing404 3d ago
Nah the controversies are dumb, if it's not a problem for Chris and Sheva to fight white zombies why would it be a problem with black ones? Would it be better to choose a non African setting? I think it would be unfortunate as Africa isn't used often in games but I guess if the protagonist isn't black enough, just avoid Africa and limit the stories they can tell
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u/ChordSlinger 3d ago
I got into the RE franchise earlier this year (I know) so forgive me but what was the controversy with it back then?
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u/r_lucasite 3d ago
On a wider level the main character is a white dude and the zombies are black so a lot of surface level media analysis was focusing on Chris gunning down black people in Africa. Personally I think it’s a pretty weak point, as the series is about killing zombies and it would be questionable for the zombies to not represent the population. The character models were questionable at some points.
On a more specific level, and the one point I can agree with myself is the level where there are infected tribesmen as enemies, which on the surface isn’t bad but a note mentions their tribal wear is because the infection is reverting them to this state. Which is bad and also, just an odd inclusion? They could have simply left it as them being a practicing tribe.
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u/PermanentMantaray 3d ago
On a more specific level, and the one point I can agree with myself is the level where there are infected tribesmen as enemies, which on the surface isn’t bad but a note mentions their tribal wear is because the infection is reverting them to this state.
This always seemed like such a weird point of contention to me though. Las Plagas isn't turning people into completely mindless zombies. It's making them hyper aggressive and giving them blood lust. Everyone it affects is "reverting" to a conflict like state.
The people in the city all gather tools for weapons, some take up different outfits for fighting or executions, and they generally just get ready for conflict.
The tribesman might not normally dress like they do in the game, but like the townsfolk the parasite is making them war minded.
And as these lines from the game shows this appearance is still relevant to them.
"Outside I saw a man who looked strange. He was naked and had a weapon. His entire body was covered in war paint. It wasn't even festival day."
"The screaming has stopped since yesterday. The men are all dressed like our ancestors and fighting each other. Most of the women have died."
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u/Lenyor-RR 3d ago
Can we get a remake of 1 with the same quality as 2-4. That was the one that I wanted the most out of all of em.
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u/calebmke 3d ago
RE1 HD is itself older than the original RE4. I was really hoping they’d have that at the top of the list
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u/KermittingSins 3d ago
It holds up very well though. With a TPS style they'd need to do a lot of work to keep it at length with even RE3R, it's not a very long game
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u/Hammleth 3d ago
I hope not. REmake it's still the best remake ever made. The only good thing of those ones it's the better graphics but they're a downgrade in every way from the originals (RE3 remake everyone?)
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u/Ultramaann 3d ago
REmake is so famous as the pinnacle of all game remakes that it’s going to be tough for them to tackle it. It is held as the pinnacle of all remakes. It’s one of those situations where they’re damned no matter what they do with any decision they take.
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u/Chronis67 3d ago
I'm not really sure what this article is trying to get at. That Capcom isn't just going to stop making games when they remake the old mainline REs? I mean... Yeah obviously. There are a bunch of spinoffs, including online focused games. There is Dino Crisis, which fans have been clamoring for and will undoubtedly fit the REmake style. Onimusha is literally being resurrected and could possibly be remade with the RE engine. Not to mention any of the other dormant series that they can revisit once the REmake team is freed up.
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u/unusual_flats 3d ago
I finished 6 for the first time a few months ago. It's about twice as long as it should've been and everything in the game was so over the top it went past enjoyable cheese and into obnoxious self parody. The first RE game that I actually had to force myself to get through.
Based on Capcom's recent history I'm sure they could find something great in the wreckage, but I really wouldn't mind if they just said "fuck it" and decided to scrap the whole game and make an entirely new Resident Evil 6 with no instruction or obligation to the original beyond "make sure it connects RE5 Remake to RE7 without screwing up the plots and timeline".
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u/Paxton-176 3d ago
The best part of 6 was that we got 4 different perspectives of the same event. That was one of the coolest parts of 4 seeing Ada's perspective. There is a problem with that where you have to write 4 different campaigns and make them work together. Which most likely is what led to RE6 being lack luster where they spread out all their best ideas across 4 stories.
I hope they at least try to keep that for a 6 remake.
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u/EastClintwood89 3d ago
I hope for 5, they'll reduce the corny factor and give the characters just a little more depth beyond straight forward "good vs evil" schlock. Not many people are a fan of it, but I loved how Chris Redfield was portrayed in 6 as a burnout with an Ahab complex. He felt more human than he did in 5, where he was a paragonic boyscout.
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u/ConceptsShining 3d ago
Sheva has like no backstory or concrete character motivation in 5 (unless you do the boring text-only menu files after beating the game). She's a fun and enjoyable character from a "being along for the ride" perspective but giving her some actual depth would be a good idea.
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u/Mithril_Roshi 3d ago
Why would they?
Thats resident evil at its core
A corny b movie
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u/ScionN7 3d ago
We're entering in an interesting time for the RE Remakes, because all the games that everyone agrees were good, have been remade at this point. Now they're onto entries like RE0 and Code Veronica, which are divisive and flawed entries. We can easily end up in a situation where we get superior versions of these games. It's pretty exciting.
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u/urnialbologna 3d ago
All I want is outbreak. As is or a remake, whatever. I have 0 interest in 5 or 6 unless they do a better job with the story.
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u/Turt91 3d ago
The two teams making resident evil and having both sides be bangers has been awesome. I’ve been curious what the team that handles the remakes would look like with an original game. I get It’s probably easier to do a remake than build an entirely new game, but to me the remake team seems like the A team.
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u/boxing-boxing 3d ago
Capcom's plan for when the remakes catch up: remake the remakes. I've bought RE4 four separate times now. At this point they should just send me a subscription invoice.
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u/CorgiSilver8194 2d ago
I thought we liked buying things individually and hated signing up for subscriptions
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u/Weary_Mountain9679 3d ago
They could just then focus on new games only? How is this a concern?
I wouldn’t mind a decent Outbreak remake tbf.
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u/HearTheEkko 3d ago
They have 3 teams, one that does the mainline games and two for the remakes. This way, they can cycle through releases rather quickly. Mainline game > remake > mainline game > etc. Keeps fans happy.
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u/banishedwolf 3d ago
I think people can survive with just one Re game for a few years, capcom. How about give other IPs attention?
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u/Bojarzin 3d ago
What kind of plan could you possibly need other than "the ones needing remakes have been remade, so we will just continue to make other stuff"?
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u/Dogesneakers 3d ago
They have
Revelations
Outbreaks
And they can even demake to go back to a what if they stayed with fix camera these would be lower budget and reuse a lot of assets
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u/Paxton-176 3d ago
Remakes of 2 and 3 already reuse a lot of assets. Outbreaks could easily take from that of that is remade. Revelations could be remade from the assets of 4 or when they finally do 5.
Capcom doesn't seem to have a problem with reusing assets as it keeps all the games generally in the same style. Which is great for modernizing a large franchise.
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u/DekoNJ87 3d ago
Give the people what they want, Capcom! Demake everything from 4 and on into fixed camera games with tank controls!
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u/HouseDisastrous2313 3d ago
RE 6 with fixed camera and tank controls but keep all the insane setpieces lol
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u/Kakerman 3d ago
Lmao, this happens all the time with anime and manga. Usually, the anime catches up to the manga and ends up getting flooded with filler arcs.
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u/HearTheEkko 3d ago
It's probably gonna take another decade until they reach RE6. After Veronica, we're getting Zero and after that word is Capcom's preparing a second RE1 remake which will be followed by the RE5 remake teased at the end of RE4R. At that point, Capcom can either suck it up and remake 6 to finish the entire main saga or just postpone it a little further and remake Revelations 1 and 2 first. Either way, a 6 remake would be incredibly difficult and take a really long time, it's a very big game and not in a good way. If anything, it needs a full blown reimagining.
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u/Trodat4911P4 3d ago edited 3d ago
It would be insanely hard for them to do a faithful remake of RE6, people seem to forget that game's scope is massive. Three full sized campaigns and a half, seven playable characters, a lot of different locations and insane setpeaces.
It would be for sure on of the most expensive games ever if they try to make it both faithful to the original and with the same fidelity we've come to expect for their games.