Resident Evil 6 is an ambitious game. It serves up many new ideas for one of gaming’s most popular franchises.
GF365: "The iconic survival horror franchise Resident Evil boasts a great number of popular and memorable characters. Arguably, Leon S. Kennedy is the most popular and recognizable character aside from Jill Valentine. In this article, we'll be counting down every Resident Evil game Leon is featured in, ranked."
Yeah I figured it would be ordered like this. For me Leons best game was his debut. RE2.
The modern entertainment industry has witnessed the rise of the Resident Evil franchise as one of its most renowned and celebrated multimedia phenomena. With numerous video games released across multiple platforms, it can be daunting for newcomers to determine where to commence their journey. So here is every main mainline Resident Evil Games ranked.
In preparation for the highly anticipated Resident Evil 4 Remake, let’s take the liberty to rank each of the mainline story instalments, providing players with a fundamental comprehension of the Resident Evil universe.
A rough gem that may never get the proper treatment it deserves.
It’s this thing where after enough time people start coming out to defend bad games for some strange reason
I mean hey if you liked it good for you but it was a f****** awful RE game.
Capcom are finally back on track and now people are crying about their shitty mistakes? No thanks.
I'd take a full blown remake of RE6 based around a GREATLY expanded Leon part and make it even more horror.
That might be something I would be interested in, do not care about any of the other parts of that game.
I couldn't even get through the demo.
Years later I bought it for $3 for PC. I played about 5 minutes into it and uninstalled it.
RE6 was better than 5. RE6 just took the series to the conclusion that started with 4.
RE4 was the inaugural title in the action game trilogy.
RE9 will be the likely end of the first person psychological thriller trilogy.
They'll switch it up for RE10 or more likely titled RE-X.
“But all this is solely with respect to how fans felt back in 2013 when Resident Evil 6 had just been released. The game resulted in the series getting indefinitely killed off until 5 years later when we got Resident Evil 7 and balance was restored yet again. ”
1.) Resident Evil 6 came out in 2012, not 2013
2.) A series getting killed off means no titles at all released in a time period. Silent Hill, Dead Space, Dino Crisis, Parasite Eve & Siren fans would love to see how you can say RE was on the same level of dormancy. In that 5 year time period we had a number of remasters that kept the series alive and kicking. RE1 02ms remaster even broke sales records during the period between RE6 and RE7.
3. Way to disrespect Resident Evil: Revelations 2. It was released during that RE6-RE7 period. It along with its predecessor were mainline titles that kept the horror roots of the series alive in comparison to RE5 and RE6. RE: R1 in particular even introduced the ability to walk and shoot into the series, a feature we can all be grateful for that in modern RE titles. The director RE: R1 later went on to direct RE7 and the director of RE: R2 later went to to direct the RE2 & RE4 remakes.
“Resident Evil 6 is often maligned as the worst entry in the Resident Evil series and is cited as the cause behind the long death of the franchise.”
Titles in the Resident Evil series such as Survivor, Gaiden, Dead Aim, Outbreak, Operation Raccoon City, Umbrella Corps, & Resistance we’re received far worse than RE6.
And death of the franchise?
RE6 was still one of the most commercially successful games in the series, guaranteeing the franchise’s future. Compare how underwhelming sales of Dead Space 3, Silent Hill: Downpour. Alone in the Dark: Illumination, Dino Crisis 3, Fatal Frame: Maiden in Black Water, Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2, and Metroid: Other M which caused their respective series to go into a long period of dormancy without any rereleases to even keep activity up.
RE however still had a significant number of titles released and rereleased after RE6. Not only that but development for RE7 started a short time after its predecessor came out, meaning there was never a development time that the series could be considered dead. There hasn’t been a single year that Capcom stopped either developing, releasing, or rereleasing Resident Evil games. Let’s not act like the 5 year period between RE6 and RE7 is such a longer time compared to the 4 year period between RE4 and RE5 as well as RE7 and RE8. We can pretty much expect RE9 in either 2025 or 2026, and you can be certain that Capcom will still release other RE tiles leading up to it
Man go some where with this. Only a few like this game. Why would they remake a garbage game no one likes risking money because it won't sell? RE 6 is dumpster drippings, sorry.
SOOOO very sorry folks. They meant a 4 out of 10 and not 5. Seriously this is the best selling flop of a game this year, so many high hopes seen in pre orders and now so many dissapointments.
Theirs so many basic mechanics such as jumping that the game fails on and yet they advance zombies into elite soldiers. Those horrid QTE quick time events and lol well theirs so many things that went wrong in RE6 and I was sooo hoping RE5 would of taught them that lesson but alas, it did not.
Gamers like to complain but they just want a perfect game without thinking about how hard it is to create.
Resident Evil was never scary, it was just harder. And people don't realise that if you get rid of the fixed camera, tanky controls and huge recoil on guns, which were only present because of the controllers and technology at the time, the gameplay will have to change.
They brought back the Zombies for Leons campaign and while it was good, you can just run right past them. You can pass every enemy unless it's a boss. Which I like because I was taught to conserve ammo in the old resi games by running past them.
It's a good game and all these haters are going to make the series worse by just bashing the game and not praising it all where it got things right.
The truth is that without the hardcore fans the RE series would have died a long time ago before there ever was a casual market to sell games too. With that said, gamers need to realize that the way companies work nowadays they need to sell millions of copies of a game to break even and make a decent profit.
The sad reality is that the video games industry is very much a business and the time of making games thats a developer loves is coming to an end for many companies. You still see this spirit alive and well in the Indie games community, but folks need to realize that a lot of that is because you are talking about a small team or even an 1 person team. Just look at Team Meat.
Capcom had to make a decision on rather or not a triple A true survival horror game would sell or if a triple A action game with some survival horror elements would sell well. They decided to play it safe and go after the action audience because games like CoD sold 9 million copies within 2 weeks. There isn't a similar equivalent for survival horror games. RE6 could have been that equivalent, but Capcom choose not to risk millions of dollars worth of investment on what people might buy.
RE6 is an Action game with small survival horror elements and it sold relatively well. People are upset that they didn't get their survival horror game but that doesn't make RE6 the worst game ever. In fact, RE6 is a decent game with some good concepts. I respect that people are upset, but that doesn't make it a bad game.