Resident Evil has had a bit of tumultuous past, that much is without doubt. From a rock solid introduction and critically acclaimed fourth outing, to the letdown that was Resident Evil 5, things for the late-90’s-born franchise don’t seem to be traveling too well. That’s completely neglecting Operation Racoon City, because let’s be honest, who’s really counting that?
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.
Zombies with guns....
ugh.
5) Co-op - Yes it's still in the game as a major feature
6) Too many characters you won't give a crap about - Instead of adding characters we havent seen for ages like Barry, Rebbeca, Billy, Carlos who Umbrella have obviously been trying to track down so they can kill them we don't know what they've been up to. Even characters like Claire and Jill where even though we know what they've been up to should be here in the game because of certain characters they relate to, Jill with Chris and Claire with Leon/Sherry. It goes against the story in a way
Why would Chris be in this massive fight against global bio terroism without Jill, Barry and Rebbeca his former STAR squad mates who all survived the first Umbrella incident. If Chris was drinking his life away in a bar after going to a dark place the person who should be there the most to comfort him is Jill, not Piers.
Why wouldn't Leon team up with Claire instead if he is being blamed for the Presidents murder. The one person who he should be able to trust no problem is Claire and since Sherry is in this it would of made a nice reunion.
Jake should of been in the game but not as main character, just a guy who they need to get to before Neo Umbrella get a sample of his blood.
7) Too many differnent scenarios - Having multiple characters is bad but having differn't stories is worse. Instead of having RE6 revolving round Leon/Ada and maybe a third character (Claire/Sherry/Rebbeca) they have too many things going on at once that ruins the flow of the game. You want to know why RE4 was so good, well one of the reaons, was because the story was gripping and focused on that one man vs an entire "army". Too many things going on is going to ruin what the game is about.
8) Lies - Capcom lies in general with all the PR bullcrap is really starting to bug me. They keep lying about what you can expect with this game, now when this was first revealed Capcom must of thought that this is what the western market would want so they glady went onto say it was too attract the COD crowd however now that they have a ton of blacklash about the new direction they keep trying to come up with differn't ways lie to us.
Example
"Oh RE6 will go back to it's roots"
<Backlash>
"Oh Leons sections is devoted to the old games, it goes back to RE roots"
<Backlash>
"Adas campaign will be classic RE like the good old days"
See what I mean
I could go on...but it's all been said before.
I honestly thought the only good Resident Evil was the fourth one. I thought the rest in the series were boring but then again that was just me.
It won't be like the old Resident Evils but I still think it will be a fun game at least.
I have no reason to be worried, I dont buy crap.