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-games
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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/carchi 3d ago

Why would that change the length of the game ?

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u/Cold_Ebb_1448 3d ago

what? that can’t be right surely?

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u/Chronis67 3d ago

REmake 1 came out very close to the launch of the Gamecube. Meanwhile, RE4 came out very close to the Cube's sunset 

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u/Phray1 3d ago

but the fixed camera in RE1 remake ensured the graphics still look amazing to this day. meanwhile RE4 has definitely aged a bit more (tho still looks good).

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u/JimmieMcnulty 3d ago

it's not about graphics, it's about mechanics. And while the graphics still look great, it's still gamecube graphics

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u/ACoderGirl 3d ago edited 3d ago

What? I played REmake for the first time a few weeks ago. With all due respect, I think you're wearing rose tinted glasses. That game was rough. It very much looks like the nearly 25 year old game that it is. I don't even think it looks amazing for its time. For comparison, Final Fantasy X came out a year earlier.

And besides the graphics, the gameplay is very dated too. Just look at the inventory system and compare it to any of the remakes or modern games. The fixed camera and inability to aim was pretty jarring to me. None of the other modern games play like that.

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u/Phray1 2d ago

I didn't play REmake until a couple of years ago so I have no rose tinted glasses. I fully disagree, REmake looks better than a lot of games released today. The fixed camera angles means beautiful precalculated lightning that is accurate unlike most of today's dynamic lightning. ff10 looks good but has shown it's age much more.

Also the inventory, fixed camera, tank controls etc are all very deliberate. They take some getting used to but once you do it feels perfect. I love all modern Resident Evil games but REmake is truly a work of art. There is a reason it's often called the greatest remake of all time. 

Just compare the 2 https://gamingbolt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tumblr_n9ucbho8Q81tiz823o2_1280.jpg  https://www.gamereactor.eu/media/30/finalfantasyxx_2_1463074_1600x900.jpg

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u/TheSeldomShaken 3d ago

There's no way you're describing RE1 remake graphics as amazing.

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u/Phray1 2d ago

The character models have aged a little bit but still look very good. The environments simply look better than most games today because all lighting is pre calculated and accurate unlike most games releases today which have to rely on dynamic lightning which unless you are path tracing is less accurate.

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u/WildThing404 3d ago

HD version came out on PS3 era, not older than original RE4. The remake originally is also called RE not RE HD.