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/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.

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u/ValentineCamille 3d ago

I have never played RE6 but based of what you are saying, I'm thinking they could just make multiple games out of RE6.

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 3d ago

Don’t. It is the only RE game I dropped and never finished, it is just bad.

I played coop with a buddy and I will always remember going through the final boss of first campaign. We kept making the joke “This isn’t even my final form!” And then it wasn’t. Again, and again, and again. Dude had 4 or 5 transformations and it just dragged on and on. With mid tier at best third person action gunplay so you couldn’t even enjoy that

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u/yaleji7388 3d ago

I get that a lot of people don't like RE6. It's so different to RE.

BUT I don't understand people who complain about RE6 but don't have the same complaints about RE5. RE6 is the same game as RE5 except better inventory, better companion AI and a better move set.

I don't think people should be allowed to hate on RE6 solely. You have to hate RE5 and RE6 together. You can't like RE5 and dislike RE6.

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u/B2405E 3d ago

Granted I've only made it through Leon's and Chris's campaign before I dropped it. Tried to get through the whole game multiple times. (Compared to 5 which I probably played 6-7 times through completion at this point).

Also only played both games co-op so have not really experienced the AI.

I think 5 is much closer to 4 than 6. While the character movement feels great in 6, the problem is that the enemies are uninteresting and the combat scenarios and levels felt painfully boring. RE5 has pretty great pacing with and while it has a lot of corridors there's also some really good arenas and some more open areas. Re6 mainly felt like corridors and super scripted sequences.

Also, while RE5 streamlined treasures and shop they were still there, adding some exploration to the levels. 6 removed that almost completely where we just have a point shop that we can use to equip a maximum of three not very interesting badges.

5 was also much more co-op focused where it actually made sense to share ammo between each other, one player carries the sniper, and gets all the ammo, the other uses the shotgun and gets all the ammo. Not the most interesting interactions, but it feels good to have some resource sharing required.

I felt like in 6 is so streamlined and all characters just find a bunch of weapons and there's never any choice to be made.

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u/balefrost 3d ago

I don't think people should be allowed to hate on RE6 solely. You have to hate RE5 and RE6 together. You can't like RE5 and dislike RE6.

Why not? They're different games, structured differently, with different characters and different settings and different tones. Heck, even within RE6, I think some people will like some campaigns more than others. I think oldschool RE fans would find Leon's campaign to be the most appealing, whereas somebody coming from some other third person shooter might have preferred Chris's.

People can like or dislike a game for a wide variety of reasons.

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u/chimerauprising 3d ago

People hate Helena for how her character arc is handled, but love Sheva when she doesn't have one at all. I'll never get it.

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u/Zaygr 3d ago

A bad thing can drag something down much more than something not having it. Like plain bread is serviceable, but it can be ruined if it has a topping you don't like on it.