This could be the beginning of Capcom doing just that the series has definitely taken a turn for the worse over the recent years and needs to go back to being a survival horror game I welcome remasters and a remake the RE universe is still one of my all time favourites. (still buzzin about the remaster news can't wait 2015 is looking awesome)
Yeah, here's hoping it's the start of a more savvy Capcom who look at what made the original games tick while incorporating new ideas, rather than trying to please everyone in the entire world.
I would not necessarily call it a remake. It is a rerelease of a remake that came out 10 or so years ago.
I agree with the article though I think the old RE mechanics are to outdated for a newer audience. Old fans might enjoy it but the games have not aged well, sadly.
I'd personally like Capcom to finally realize there's probably going to be more excitement over this re-re-release than any potential action explosion fest Resident Evil 7 and come to the conclusion that fans (what's left of them) want traditional survival horror.
I hope more people play it and that it shows Capcom (once again) that we want survival horror and now boring generic old action games.
It's not really a remake of the first. It's just another HD port or the GC version, which is an actual remake of Resident Evil 1. All they're doing is the same thing they did last gen which is slap a cheap coat of paint to repackage the game, then selling it at an absurd price.
I bought those "HD remakes" they put out and they are by far the worst of the HD remakes. All they're doing now is calling it a remaster.
I'm sorry but I don't agree with the controles are outdated, this is the one thing that made you think before entering a room, they made them that way for a reason, to make you panic & crap your self as a hunter is hurtling towards you down a corridor.
Kids now a days have it to easy, check points every 20 steps, save game in the start menu, god unlimited continues! I miss the good old days where you had to master a game to be good.
I just hope they don't modernize this game to much, we need the typewriters & the controles or it won't be resident evil.
I loved RE1 & 2 not so much 3 & loved Code Veronica.
I'm not a fan of RE4, I didn't like the path they were heading & I was right. 5 & 6 were terrible games. I'm glad there going back to the roots of RE.
The old RE gameplay mechanics are indeed outdated. Most of what you're clamoring for were products of the technology Capcom had to work with at the time they made the OG RE games.
The tank controls were a choice the developers made, not a limitation in technology or the engine, like I said above they invoke panic & shit your pants syndrome, because there so cumbersome & they stop you running round the zombie shooting & making the game a doddle.
Its why they kept these controls all the way up to Res5, (maybe in 6 dont know after 5 i lost faith in the Res games) they dont want you running about like a headless chicken shooting everything in site.
Maybe thats what kids now a days want? Cannon Fodder Evil.
I will stick with what I grew up with & what makes the game so shit your pants tastic.
I dont mean to sound like a d*ck so if I do sorry.
Im also sure they added dualshock support into the directors cut.
If ever there was an IP that needed a full fledged reboot, it is Resident Evil. It has just gone completely off the rails, to the point where it is just lampooning itself. Take it back to base principles and start again.
So it is true?! I know another game I'll be getting next year then! I can't believe the article has to talk about Capcom getting reacquainted with the game. They let fame and money get to their heads IMO. I don't know if it even needs a reboot, just end the series and move on.
Also, everyone complains about the controls. I played the originals and loved them. The controls didn't bother me like everyone else says they do. Makes you focus more on what you're doing.
I don't like the RE games anymore. I bought 5 thinking it would be cool and was disappointed as hell. I have no idea what came over me thinking 6 would be good. It wasn't. I'll buy this remake though. Only because I never had a GameCube. I know there's emulators and roms out there too, but never made it that far. I hope this game is good! I miss the old RE games.
I can just barely imagine the horribleness of a Resident Evil reboot. Picture RE6 + the infamous RE Operation Raccoon City. Oh and it would also be handed off to Ninja Theory!
Resident Evil 4 was basically a Resi reboot and that was awesome. The key, I think, will be splitting and lowering the 'risk' for shareholders; maybe a downloadable episodic series to test the waters, perhaps the prequel to a full-sized game.
Or something. Either way, reboots don't have to suck. Just look at XCOM: Enemy Unknown, or Fallout 3 for a mechanical (but not canonical) example.
RE 4 was not awesome it lost all aspects of the survival horror genre and started the action based RE games. If anything RE4-6 should of not been called RE.
The Resident Evil remake was one of the best in the series and worth owning a Gamecube for. Great graphics, great gameplay, solid control updates and new features like the Crimson Heads and defensive moves were all excellent. This is one of the best remakes/remasters ever. Can't wait to play this again.
I always wished they would've given Resident Evil 2 the same treatment, imagine how amazing that would look. Even RE 3.
Speaking of survival horror reboots/remakes, I'd love to play a Silent Hill 2 remake. I am very excited about this game though. Loved it on GameCube. One of the main reasons I bought it.
It doesn't need a reboot. Just put a new main character (a civillian without kung-fu acrobatic skill) that has nothing to do with Umbrella / Raccoon City / BSAA, a new setting like an island full with zombies and all those horrible experiment, some cameo from a character that not overused (example like Rebecca Chambers), bring back puzzles and limited ammo / herb, and put a RE 7 logo. Job done.
Personally i doesn't fully agree with a reboot. It's a double edge sword and i prefer to continue what the original creator already build rather than destroy and make it worse...
people don't see this but by doing this HD makeup Capcom is only aiming for the easy money, Capcom knows it will sell. Theres no other motives on why they doing this HD facelift.
This could be the beginning of Capcom doing just that the series has definitely taken a turn for the worse over the recent years and needs to go back to being a survival horror game I welcome remasters and a remake the RE universe is still one of my all time favourites. (still buzzin about the remaster news can't wait 2015 is looking awesome)
We asked for a remake of the first. They're giving us a remake of the first. I'm happy about it.
If ever there was an IP that needed a full fledged reboot, it is Resident Evil. It has just gone completely off the rails, to the point where it is just lampooning itself. Take it back to base principles and start again.
So it is true?! I know another game I'll be getting next year then! I can't believe the article has to talk about Capcom getting reacquainted with the game. They let fame and money get to their heads IMO. I don't know if it even needs a reboot, just end the series and move on.
Also, everyone complains about the controls. I played the originals and loved them. The controls didn't bother me like everyone else says they do. Makes you focus more on what you're doing.
I can just barely imagine the horribleness of a Resident Evil reboot. Picture RE6 + the infamous RE Operation Raccoon City. Oh and it would also be handed off to Ninja Theory!