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I was never into Resident Evil, but sounds like they're doing the same thing they do to other old titles in movies, games, etc. It's sad, really. Seems they're lacking creativity and originality, and instead they want to piggyback off the success of major past hits.
RE has been on a downward spiral since RE 4 was released in 2005.
RE 4 is a good action game, but it has hardly anything to do with the older games, and it is not even a real survival horror game. Like the era that began with RE 1 in 1996 and either ended with Code: Veronica in 2000, or RE Zero in 2003, was when the series was at its best.
RE 4 also disregarded the main story, rendering the old games essentially a waste of time. The whole idea that Umbrella went "bankrupt" is so dumb. Umbrella is the company that made the various viruses that created the different zombies and monsters. The first game is set in a mansion above a lab, and RE 2 and 3 focused on the virus spreading to the nearby Raccoon City.
But with RE 4, the story begins, with a recap. But all they do is say that Umbrella was put out of business. So what happened to the big war where all the survivors would band together and fight Umbrella? All you do is run around a village in Europe, shooting the locals. They are not even zombies. They all got parasites injected into their brains, so they basically act kind of normal, and set traps for intruders.
Well, okay. In 2007, they made a co-op shooting game called The Umbrella Chronicles which sort of wrapped up that story. But considering RE 4 was released 3 years earlier, they screwed it up.
RE 5 was garbage. They killed off Wesker, the main villain. He was what made RE so great to begin with. RE 6 was a stupid Call of Duty clone where various people would team up and shoot terrorists, that are also infected. But that is not RE at all.
And then Capcom ran out of juice. With Revelations 2, they stole the ideas from The Last of Us. Capcom did not make that game. It was Naughty Dog.
But what they did is, they ripped off the story about an orphan girl. There is a similar boss that launches giant fireballs, and it is pretty much the same kind of boss. The design is slightly different and it has a different name. But even so. Plus, both games have girls in the winter, hunting rabbits in the snow. That is so stupid of Capcom.
The last straw for me was 7: Biohazard. They copied The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Grudge, Trancers, Evil Dead, Silent Hill 2 and Saw all in the one game. Not to mention, they redesigned Chris Redfield in a very crazy way.
How is this supposed to even be the same guy?
In RE 6, Chris looked 50.
In RE 7, he looks like he is down to the age of 25.
RE 4 is a good action game, but it has hardly anything to do with the older games, and it is not even a real survival horror game. Like the era that began with RE 1 in 1996 and either ended with Code: Veronica in 2000, or RE Zero in 2003, was when the series was at its best.
RE 4 also disregarded the main story, rendering the old games essentially a waste of time. The whole idea that Umbrella went "bankrupt" is so dumb. Umbrella is the company that made the various viruses that created the different zombies and monsters. The first game is set in a mansion above a lab, and RE 2 and 3 focused on the virus spreading to the nearby Raccoon City.
But with RE 4, the story begins, with a recap. But all they do is say that Umbrella was put out of business. So what happened to the big war where all the survivors would band together and fight Umbrella? All you do is run around a village in Europe, shooting the locals. They are not even zombies. They all got parasites injected into their brains, so they basically act kind of normal, and set traps for intruders.
Well, okay. In 2007, they made a co-op shooting game called The Umbrella Chronicles which sort of wrapped up that story. But considering RE 4 was released 3 years earlier, they screwed it up.
RE 5 was garbage. They killed off Wesker, the main villain. He was what made RE so great to begin with. RE 6 was a stupid Call of Duty clone where various people would team up and shoot terrorists, that are also infected. But that is not RE at all.
And then Capcom ran out of juice. With Revelations 2, they stole the ideas from The Last of Us. Capcom did not make that game. It was Naughty Dog.
But what they did is, they ripped off the story about an orphan girl. There is a similar boss that launches giant fireballs, and it is pretty much the same kind of boss. The design is slightly different and it has a different name. But even so. Plus, both games have girls in the winter, hunting rabbits in the snow. That is so stupid of Capcom.
The last straw for me was 7: Biohazard. They copied The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Grudge, Trancers, Evil Dead, Silent Hill 2 and Saw all in the one game. Not to mention, they redesigned Chris Redfield in a very crazy way.
How is this supposed to even be the same guy?
In RE 6, Chris looked 50.
In RE 7, he looks like he is down to the age of 25.
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That's nuts. Haha. Not sure if you have ever been into Call of Duty, but they're very stale. Every year. Each new release is virtually identical to the last, but with different characters, story and environments. Otherwise, they all feel and look the same.
In a manner of speaking, RE 4 etc are the reasons practically all the big horror gaming franchises went to pot. They just turned them all into third person shooters, and claimed they were survival horror at the core. In my view, they weren't.
Once Capcom cannot do any more remakes, I reckon they will go back to doing sequels that blatantly copy things that we have had before, in other games or movies. This is the pattern.
With the RE Engine that Capcom created, they need a model to portray these characters. Fair enough. But the problem is that they hired a guy who looks nothing like Chris at all. Jill now looks like a tranny.
Once Capcom cannot do any more remakes, I reckon they will go back to doing sequels that blatantly copy things that we have had before, in other games or movies. This is the pattern.
With the RE Engine that Capcom created, they need a model to portray these characters. Fair enough. But the problem is that they hired a guy who looks nothing like Chris at all. Jill now looks like a tranny.
