Resident evil will return to it's roots

[Guest]

We want new characters who'd never been in these kind of situations before, i'm sicking tired of leon, chris etc.. fighting monsters like an ordinary job, it's not scary anymore !

[Guest]

Does someone actually believes this?
They say that every year just to get the old fans to buy their action games.

[News Bot]

Nothing in the series prevents horror from taking central stage again. Bioterrorism? Okay, change the angle from being a hardass soldier fighting monsters to some poor civilian bastard trying to survive them. You're also not bound by contract to use any older characters. Jill? Let's just say she retired after BH5. Chris? Stayed on for a bit, then retired. Jake hopefully died when a backflip went tragically wrong.

Tone down the budgets and make them smaller-scale horror-focused games with new characters in the same universe and timeline, if you really need to. There is absolutely no need to piss away 16 years of work on one of the most viable and consistent fictional universes in the industry.

Easy to see the lack of creativity and imagination in some people.

[Rick Hunter]

What they should do (but won't), is remake RE2/RE3 as one game, and continue the new canon from that game (as RE1 2 and 3 are very well established now). People want to see what REALLY happens after Raccoon City, and play it.. not a series of novels/videos/movies and games in between or whatever they did.

I would love that.

[News Bot]

To be fair, the story for the Castle version of BH4 was pretty damn good and tied things up for the series up until that point rather nicely, while leaving space to continue on. The series probably wouldn't have lasted as long as it has, though.

[Darkmoon]

Oh, it's stupidly easy to make a semi-decent for a horror game that negates such things as the BSAA or the t-virus vaccine. Set it in a remote region with communication issues (perfect place for a top secret lab, really) or some other, equally inaccessible location or simply make the conflict too big for the BSAA to stop and it's done.

However, it doesn't matter how easy it is to do because it will always, always be secondary to back flipping ninja cops, boulder punching and broken condom bastards named Jake (thanks for that one, Wrathborne).

My problem is reboot or continuation, as long as Capcom is running after Call of Modern Battlefield 9 plays with there pants off screaming, 'But we can do action too!' the games are going to be naff. You'd think after RE5, RE6 and ORC they'd reconsider...but how long have people been complaining bitterly about the Capcom standard 'Soon after release, we'll release a new version with stuff the original buyers have to re-buy the game for!' business strategy? Honestly, I don't believe that interview any more than the ones saying ORC was really keeping the horror theme or RE6 was going back to the horror roots.

[News Bot]

I think they had the right idea with keeping the canon main series more like Revelations while keeping a non-canon parallel series more like Operation Raccoon City. However, that strategy would probably weaken the brand.

[Pikminister]

Well from the replies here its obvious more people are concerned about the convoluted plotlines and iconic characters and not having their classic collector's items become irrelevant due to a possible reboot, than ever seeing Survival Horror in the actual gameplay.

LOL It figures... that's what most fans care about these days.

IMO Capcom should focus on the gameplay not the silly-ass plotlines and characters. Because we already had at least 2 games use up the same old characters and similar plotlines. And yet the Survival Horror was nowhere to be found in the gameplay itself.

You see, making up a horror story or setting is one thing. But quite another is the survival element. Which will always be found on the gameplay itself. That is something that is experience based. Meaning that you have to live it/experience it. Not shown through cutscenes, long-winded exposition or character's motivations or whatever passes for a story these days.

Trying to get back to RE's roots by way of the characters or trying to regurgitate more of the same old stories is not going to take us there. Capcom has already tried that with RE5 and RE6. But because they were focusing the gameplay on being actiony and more of a shooter, they killed any chances of the SURVIVAL element ever surfacing in them.

If what most want is a reboot in terms of plotlines, then fuck it. Might as well not happen at all and it will be a useless endeavor.

Luckily, Masachika Kawata gave enough hints that he was talking about gameplay. Both by mentioning an open world type of game, and by using Revelations as the type of game they are looking closely to possibly base the future entries in the series on.

[News Bot]

The plots are fine and are not the reason Survival Horror isn't around. They accommodate the gameplay, not the other way around. The only plot that has actually proven to be a bit fucked is BH6, but that was a problem mostly caused by Eiichiro Sasaki being a complete nonce. I agree that some characters should be given a rest, though.

Try playing Metal Gear Solid if you want something genuinely convoluted. There's nothing wrong with the plot in the BIO series. The plot in the games usually suffers because things are cut to help the flow of the gameplay, which is why they release so much additional material to add clarity.

[Pikminister]

The plots are irrelevant in the sense that they can reboot the shit our of them (using new characters and settings), but if the survival element is still missing from the gameplay, then we will get the same old results as RE5 and RE6.

That is, we will still have games that have convoluted plotlines (or even well written ones) and more fugitives from a fashion runway as characters, but no actual SURVIVAL in the gameplay.

Trying to reboot the series by way of doing some fine writing, translations and giving us more fine details about the characters, will be alright to fanfiction writers, fan-art artists and cosplayers. But if the gameplay is more of the same (they actually sold us RE6 as being MORE of what was in RE5), they we'll just be going in circles and no actual reboot will be performed. And more importantly, the SURVIVAL element will still be missing from the games.

But like I said, I believe Kawata was talking about a gameplay reboot. He even hinted as much, with what he said to IGN.

[Mrox2]

To be fair, the story for the Castle version of BH4 was pretty damn good and tied things up for the series up until that point rather nicely, while leaving space to continue on. The series probably wouldn't have lasted as long as it has, though.

Yeah, what are they thinking when they scrap such good games, Seriously Mikami started the whole turn into Action genre with RE4 Final, Bet he was jelous from Shibata's work lmfao ...

[Dark_Chris]

I think it all depends on who will be chosen as producer and director for the next main RE game. If it will be Kawata then we might get reboot, if not who knows. Does anyone know who pick them? Capcom's CEO or producer of the last game?

[Kegluneq]

There's nothing wrong with the plot in the BIO series. The plot in the games usually suffers because things are cut to help the flow of the gameplay, which is why they release so much additional material to add clarity.

I disagree with you there. The biggest problem that BIO series is facing these days is precisely the plot. Things have progressed to a point where you need a virus that causes your body to transform into an elephant on steroids to keep the audience on watch. This worked perfectly fine until 4 because Nemesis and Alexia were still within the realm of what was humanly possible to defeat. But it gets progressively worse with the designs of 4 onwards. It just looks too far fetched, to the point where you got to ask if what you're fighting is massively huge but that is inversely proportional to the size of its brain, or if these antagonists have their abilities dumbed down for the sake of giving the main character at chance at fighting it. Because we sure aren't playing as super-humans yet.

This is mainly the reason why the series needs so desperately a reboot. You keep seeing more of these insane designs that are intended to top the previous ones. It works nicely for a series such as Devil May Cry, but it feels terrible in something like BH. Dino Crisis committed the same mistake with the alterations to the gameplay style in the second game and it was a blow to the nuts of the fans of the first game, because Dinosaurs were so intimidating in the first one. Take it one on one with an handgun, doable. Take two of them with a shotgun, holy shit. Take three of them without a grenade launcher, you're literally fucked. Enter Dino Crisis 2 and you're blowing hordes of them across the screen. BH took a little bit longer to get there, but eventually made the same mistake.

[Wrathborne]

. There is absolutely no need to piss away 16 years of work on one of the most viable and consistent fictional universes in the industry.

Easy to see the lack of creativity and imagination in some people.

I like how you assume a reboot would throw away all the lore the series has built up, you don't have to be so worst case scenario over this dude. the 16 years of lore does't become Null and void by default, ya know unless They hire Paul W.S Anderson to write and produce the game and shove Alice into our faces.

In all honesty I don't see them answering any questions you've brought up Newsbot.
Revealing Umbrellas rival corporations, Alex Wesker, or Tricell, they may end up putting out a supplement book but in game, I doubt it.

They haven't shown any real interest in pursuing these story concepts and its likely not to happen. If they do the full reboot they have a huge plotline they can still follow and strengthen the series narrative among other things.

Sorry to disagree with ya dude, I know you want them to finish up the story arc, but I dont see them doing that. If they did, I dont see them doing a decent job at it either.

[Det. Beauregard]

IMO Capcom should focus on the gameplay not the silly-ass plotlines and characters. Because we already had at least 2 games use up the same old characters and similar plotlines. And yet the Survival Horror was nowhere to be found in the gameplay itself.

I couldn't agree more. I do care about the characters and the plot, but it matters to me far less when it's told in a summer action blockbuster fashion with Michael Bay explosions all around me. The first few games in the series had so much more atmosphere; you wanted to take your time and methodically explore the locations and read the files! This is opposed to the later games, which seem like they have an invisible wall pushing you forward, giving you an arsenal of high-powered weapons and screaming "kill as much stuff as you can!"

Gameplay should be at the core, first and foremost. Anything plot-related should be molded around the gameplay, not the other way around.

Things have progressed to a point where you need a virus that causes your body to transform into an elephant on steroids to keep the audience on watch. This worked perfectly fine until 4 because Nemesis and Alexia were still within the realm of what was humanly possible to defeat. But it gets progressively worse with the designs of 4 onwards. It just looks too far fetched, to the point where you got to ask if what you're fighting is massively huge but that is inversely proportional to the size of its brain, or if these antagonists have their abilities dumbed down for the sake of giving the main character at chance at fighting it. Because we sure aren't playing as super-humans yet.

Well said. You could see BOWs getting larger and more ridiculous with every game. Cave trolls? Mutated Irving? Whale BOWs? Simmons? Carla? I laughed so unbelievably hard in 6 when Simmons mutated into whichever monster flavor of the moment and then somehow transformed back to human form! I literally could not believe that I was playing a Resident Evil game! The whole danger of these viruses is that once you mutate, it's final - there's no going back, no regaining your humanity. Darkside Chronicles showed that spectacularly with the Javier battle at the end, as did Code Veronica with Alexia; 6 made it all look like a joke.