Games in Asia: There’s been a lot of talk recently about the need to re-introduce horror into the Resident Evil franchise, which has recently become more of a third-person shooter than a survival horror. I agree but before the series can go forward it needs to get back to its roots.
RESIDENT EVIL (1996) Original Cast Reunion & Interview with Linda - Rebecca Chambers, Charlie Kraslavsky, Greg Smith & Eric Pirius.
A fan-made Resident Evil short film has been released, and it tells the story of one of the original game's most terrifying and iconic diary entries.
Fantastic homage to a memorable part of the original. The authenticity to the source material is outstanding and blows away all of the pathetic Hollywood adaptations that we've had to endure as fans. The addition of Chris Redfield's original actor AND (separate) voice actor is fantastic! Heck, even the CGI was pretty good given the total budget of $55k to make this.
Yeah this seemed so much more like cannon to me. I’d watch more of it if / when it’s available.
Thank GOG for that!
I feel like they should have included the original games with the remakes they've been doing.
The Evil Within. That's what we need. Straight from the creator of the so famous RE series, Shinji Mikami.
Resident Evil is holding on to the final straw atm, and i doubt it's ever going to come back. Mainly due to the generation we live in, which expects games like RE 5 and 6.
Thanks to RE4, this is where it headed.
I haven't played an RE game since RE4. RE4 stuck to the same sort of style. I know the camera angle wasn't fixed in the corner of the room like in the original trilogy, but you couldn't see behind you which made it more terrifying. It was slower paced, less ammo and the whole atmosphere was great.
I didn't like the look of RE5 and RE6. Looked too colorful, way too much action and looked like you could get plenty of ammo.
This is why I am looking forward to The Evil Within, looks amazing, I'm hoping it can bring me to the edge of my seat and make me panic a bit.
RE definitely needs to be rebooted, get someone or a team in that know what survival horror actually is.
RE4 is as far as they should have gone in terms of horror to action ratio. While it is much more action oriented than the one's before, it still had plenty of scary moments (try doing the dog maze, insect sewers, or Regenerators at night for the first time without wanting to turn the game off after the first minute of said event)
RE5 was really fun but didn't have any scary moments, the pacing was tuned to incorporate as much action as possible at the expense of tension or strategy. When you plsy the RE1 remake on Gamecube you can't help but wonder how it all changed so much
Keep the 3rs person, over the shoulder camera (I love it) but use the design process of 0-4. Capcom should do a remake of the second with RE4 style to test the waters. Capcom just needs to accept RE was best when it was survival horror, not a 3rd person shooter with zombies in it
No, they need better writers, Japanese writers are some of the most prolific horror authors, Capcom should hire them to fix up the mess. It will be a feat if they can continue the story and bring back to horror roots.