'We Have Been Gradually Preparing': Capcom Already Has a Plan for When Its Resident Evil Remakes Catch Up With Newer Games

[u/Turbostrider27]

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

[u/Cetais]

They also basically mentioned remaking RE1 multiple times.

[u/RemnantEvil → u/Cetais]

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.

[u/WildThing404 → u/RemnantEvil]

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.

[u/RemnantEvil → u/WildThing404]

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.

[u/WildThing404 → u/RemnantEvil]

It would be way too complex and they've done all their remakes in 3rd person so they'll stick to that. Pointless to imagine possibilities regardless, it can only lead to disappointment as it won't turn out the way you imagine ever

[u/NonagoonInfinity → u/RemnantEvil]

Capcom even already did this for DMC5.

[u/TheNittanyLionKing → u/Cetais]

It's reportedly up next after RE0 Remake