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There Needs to Be More Co-Op Resident Evil Games Like Resident Evil 5

Co-op has always been a fun gameplay approach in Resident Evil titles, and a Resident Evil 5 remake could reintroduce it to the franchise.

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Flawlessmic846d ago

No thanks, not everything need to be multi or co op or gaas.

You lose all fear and tension with a second player, totally defeats the purpose of what Resident evil tradtionally is.

thesoftware730846d ago

I do agree that it's not scary, but it can still be tense if you play with an actual person, I never played it with AI.

So, while not scary, there are tense and memorable moments, on top of that, the gameplay is just really well done.

Flawlessmic846d ago

Resi 5 is actually a great game, just not Resident evil to me is all.

Resi needs to be steeped in horror, I just hate seeing my fav ips turned into something else, that's what new ips should be for.

Resi returned to its horror roots and its never been better since the rubbish resi 6

gold_drake846d ago

what exactly is resident evil "traditionally" ? cause there have been so many games, so many genres that "traditionally" can be anytbing.

Flawlessmic846d ago (Edited 846d ago )

Survival/horror/action

Survival/horror

Horror/action

No horror no resi for me anyway, there's a reason why it was going downhill as a series until they went back to its horror roots even if the gameplay was totally switched up.

I never played the spins off's so if you want to include those and say resi can be whatever it wants to be then so be it.

Different strokes for different folks but you knew what I meant.

gold_drake846d ago

actually i didnt, thats why i asked.

horror can be anything, depending on who you ask, so your argument has no validity.

its not going downhill either. its actually been rly successful. but, if thats your opinion, dont play them

Flawlessmic846d ago (Edited 846d ago )

Yea sure, everyone absolutely loved resi 5 and 6 lol best in the series according to you.

Resi is Back since 7, I was referring to 5 and 6 as going downhill.

Not sure why ur so but hurt about it lol

lucian229846d ago

dead space nor any resident evil is actually scary, so it's fine to dedicate some games to multiplayer. this article is about co-op games, not a game being scary.

Flawlessmic846d ago

This article is about resident evil hence my opinion on is valid.

Yep cool so now neither dead space or resi game are horror games lol funny same thing happened to dead space went down the train as they shifted further and further from what made everyone love the first one.

Pls do go on

lucian229846d ago

I didn't love the first one but again, horror games don't scare me, nor do movies, so I just care about fun.

All that said, obviously they should keep re the way its been with the remakes, but would be nice to see a resident evil mercenaries only spin off, that has combat and coop like 5&6. Then keep the main games like the remakes.

Mercenaries itself is better than all the poor spin offs they have been making.

redrum06846d ago

I guess you haven't played RE5 with a friend then. It's literally one of the best couch co-op experiences I've had, only to be let down by RE6.

thesoftware730846d ago

RE:5 was one of the best-selling RE games, it was the fastest-selling at the time.

6 sold really well, even though I'm not a big fan of 6.

gangsta_red846d ago

"No thanks, not everything need to be multi or co op or gaas"

And not everything is multiplayer, co op or GaaS.

Horror can be just as tense with a friend, the need to worry about each other and survive together adds a another level of survival as well as tension.

gold_drake846d ago

i never talked about 6 actually, but i know that reading is a skill not many possess.

and im not hutthurt at all, i cant ignore blatant idiocy

JaY_B1012844d ago

I don’t know. Facing the berserkers in the first Gears of War had me and my friends scared shitless when that first released. I’m sure there’s a studio that can recapture moments like that in horror games as well.

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MADGameR846d ago

Yes except, DON'T call it Resident Evil...

Slappy McGee846d ago

If they could make a good version of Operation Raccoon City it could work.

hotnickles846d ago

I had a blast with co-op RE5. I don’t know why people dunk on it like it’s one of the worst.

thesoftware730846d ago

An absolute blast! the game is still fun to this day.

I have it on Xbox and Playstation lol.

Snookies12846d ago

It was a fantastic time co-op, but all that unused screen space was awful haha. Assuming that was done to preserve framerate.

hotnickles846d ago

What do you mean by unused screen space? It has been a looong time since I played re5 lol

Snookies12845d ago

@hotnickles - They basically shrunk the screens for both players, and had a huge chunk of black space on each side. It was just an unused blank space while playing co-op.

thesoftware730846d ago

All I have to say is.....YES PLEASE!

I Love RE:5, Mercs is awesome, and the DLC was great.

My brother and I still play and were talking about doing the campaign again.

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New ESRB rating suggests a classic Resident Evil is getting an Xbox Series and PS5 re-release

A new rating of Resident Evil 6 for Xbox has been spotted, which could suggest that it's getting a current gen port for Xbox Series X/S and PS5.

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-Foxtrot113d ago

Oh….wow, RE6 huh….urm, cool, just what we always wanted.

1Victor113d ago

EW
NOOOOOOOOOO
In what mind make sense to do this with the worse game on the series 🤦🏿

DivineHand125113d ago

I loved Resident Evil 4 back in the day and enjoyed Resident Evil 5 even though I had to do co-op to beat the final boss. Shiva was just too dumb.

Resident Evil 6 on the other hand, was so bad that I stopped playing after an hour in the game. That was before I even played any high-quality single-player games outside of Mass Effect, Portal, and Skyrim. I can't imagine playing RE6 now.

Chances are their next remake will be 5.

Profchaos113d ago

I just don't get why it's already on the platforms via BC unless it's a remake which would piss everyone off as fans are hoping for either the original game or code veronica to get the remake treatment

CrimsonWing69113d ago

Isn’t it already backwards compatible?

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Resident Evil 5 - 15 Years of Being the Most Misunderstood Resident Evil

Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.

TheBrainZ433d ago

One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.

Knightofelemia433d ago

I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.

thesoftware730433d ago (Edited 433d ago )

5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.

6 was awful.

CrimsonWing69433d ago

I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷‍♂️

chobit_A5HL3Y433d ago

it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol

-Foxtrot433d ago (Edited 433d ago )

What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.

You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.

Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.

It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.

franwex433d ago

At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.

chobit_A5HL3Y432d ago

like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.

people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.

5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.

RNTody407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.

@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.

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The Best Co-Op Horror Games You've Missed in Halloween

Try to cope with your friend through terror with this list featuring the best horror Co-Op games you can play today.

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