3 Resident Evil games in one year

[Megpoid (Gumi)]

I have no idea why but I've completed every single RE game (excluding RE: the Mercenaries for the 3DS, although I have played it), even the much maligned RE: Deadly Silence for the DS, but 3 games in one year is really fucking pushing it if you ask me and unequivocally desperate/insane when you think about it.

The games:

Resident Evil: Revelations (3DS)

IGN Reviews - Resident Evil Revelations - Game Review (8.5/10) - YouTube

Resident Evil: Operation raccoon City (multi-platform)

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Triple Impact Trailer - YouTube

Resident Evil 6 (multi-platform)

Resident Evil 6 reveal trailer - YouTube

Anyone else think this is overkill even if Capcom is probably going to be able to pull it off without much backlash?

RE Revelations seems to be a return to form, it's just a shame the game has to be saddled onto a system that has such terrible controls for first-person shooters and action games that it requires an extra control stick peripheral and stand just to make the games slightly less infuriating and easy to play on a 3DS.

[Doomsday]

Originally Posted by Megpoid (Gumi)

Anyone else think this is overkill even if Capcom is probably going to be able to pull it off without much backlash?

Resident Evil 1 was awesome, an incredibly unique and innovative game that basically created a genre. Resident Evil 2 took everything the first game did and improved upon it. For me after that it all became a bit dull. We got Silent Hill (One of the better Survival Horror games of that era) and a bunch of other RE-inspired games of various quality. I played most of them.

That's probably why by time Resident Evil 3 came around I was burned out on the genre, It had gotten really boring. I did play Code Veronica which added a few minor improvements to the way the games played but ultimately was more of the same. After that I stopped buying RE games completely. The newer ones are trying too hard to be first person shooters but if I want a horror FPS I'd rather play something like Left 4 Dead or Killing Floor.

I think the fans will still support the games and there wont be too much backlash but those who are already bored with Resident Evil will probably just ignore them. Are they REALLY on version 6 now?! And that doesn't even include the spin-off games or handheld titles.

[SirSuperSouthern]

The Resident Evil franchise has become a mockery of itself. Not only is the gameplay action-heavy, but they insist on following the same goddamn characters around. Having survived The Mansion, or Raccoon City, the rest of my life would be spent lying on a psychiatrist's couch and taking HEAVY medication, not fucking hunting down the rest of Umbrella.

The series needs to return to its roots and make us play as average Joes fighting/running/hiding for their lives. Not going to foreign countries and killing the entire populace single-handedly while popping wise cracks. Sadly I'll probably be suckered into buying part 6 after it gets great review scores and I'm bored of the games I have, which is self-defeating because I'm telling Capcom "I, SSS, support your crappy action games with my money." Ugh.

Silent Hill: Downpour comes out pretty soon, and I'm cautiously optimistic about that. Silent Hill 2 is still probably the best console game ever made, story wise, and I'm hoping the team at Vatra can tap into that without fucking it up too much. I dunno if you guys played Silent Hill: Homecoming, but I think it's pretty good. It got murdered in the reviews but the last 30 minutes of that game are mind blowing! I still can't believe they got away with putting that shit in a video game...

[Ignore Ignore Ignore]

First 3 silent hills were better than any resident evil. Now they both suck, but RE worse if only by all the movies alone.

[Doomsday]

Silent Hill 2 is similar to Resident Evil 2 in that both games vastly improved upon everything that made the originals great. My preference is Resident Evil 2 but whatever, they're both good.

[Megpoid (Gumi)]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/122/1221156p1.html

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City got a 4.

[pepefeliz1980]

amazing info & videos

[V-Agent]

Originally Posted by Doomsday

Resident Evil 1 was awesome, an incredibly unique and innovative game that basically created a genre.

Alone in the Dark would like to have a word with you.

Capcom's marketing department did come up with the term "survival horror", but essentially, at it's core, Resident Evil is an Alone in the Dark clone. It's a shame that franchise went downhill as much as it has, it exploded on the Amiga like a mininuke.

Originally Posted by SirSuperSouther

(Silent Hill: Homecoming) got murdered in the reviews

Never. Ever. Listen to reviewers. They are the lapdogs of the majors, little show poodles who sit up and beg to get pre-release copies and advertsing revenue. They are literally paid to lie. Small advert buget games are murdered, high advert budget games get a free ride. Kill that addiction. Nothing good can come of it. Trust me on this.

[Ignore Ignore Ignore]

Looks like capcom was still first Sweet Home Famicom horror game (1989) trailer - Video Dailymotion

but still outdone by silent hill at the end. And all this new shit like FEAR is just generic zombie shit.

[V-Agent]

1983

The focus here is third person story-based tactical horror. The "survival horror" genre that's caught on. Horror games have been around almost as long as affordable microcomputers. Hell, one of the best was Splatter House and that was 1988.

[Ignore Ignore Ignore]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was more like the prototype to Grand Theft Auto than any 'survival horror'. The player is leatherface.

[V-Agent]

The point is 'Survival Horror' in a form recognisable today was birthed by Alone in the Dark. Top view aRPGs, action shooters, etc are their own form, whether horror or otherwise.

[Ignore Ignore Ignore]

'Survival Horror' was just a made up genre to sell games, and that wasn't even done by alone in the dark. The point is that apart from being 3d, the basic notion of a horror game such as alone in the dark is not new. It didn't exist in that form before because technology wasn't available and I only see a genre as something that's a deliberate design choice. But if we want to go by arbitrary criteria, then sure, 'survival horror' means a 3rd person horror game (where the player fights the monsters/evil) and nothing else. Either way, that old famicom game is a lot more similar to that than that atari 2600 game. It's horror and the point is to survive.

[confessionsofamaniac]

Originally Posted by Megpoid (Gumi)

but 3 games in one year is really fucking pushing it if you ask me and unequivocally desperate/insane when you think about it.

just ignore the first 2, they are unimportant

RE6 is the real deal, in fact i'm surprised it was even released this year

and plus 2005 had 3 Resident Evil games in one year

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RE4 PS2 (the complete version)

[Megpoid (Gumi)]

Interesting article about the backlash of Raccoon City and RE6 and a possible reboot:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/...n-to-its-roots