Here's the thing about RE7. I've just played REHD, 0, 6, 5, and 4, in that order. The roots of RE are in Mikami's common use of motifs. Him and a very specific group of people, who aren't at Capcom anymore, made the first and the most iconic games in that series, their use of certain themes is clear when you compare RE4 and 5: Yeah, the basics off a list are there but the personality is clearly different. Yeah, you have guns, you have items and you have puzzles but look at the narratives, RE5 is an action movie with a stern and serious tone, RE4 is a B movie, so was RE1 and 2, cheesy and filled with impossibilities and impracticalities, rusty keys, lion emblems, dudes in dumb wardrobe, needlessly complicated and old fashion security systems. None of that is in RE5, it's too grounded by contrast, too attached to what would be realistic to be like the original games and that's because the people who made 5 are just interpreting what the games are meant to be and an interpretation is still only an interpretation, not progression.
RE7 isn't going back to the roots of the series, it's not, it's simply interpretation of what the people making it think as those said roots. There is no going back, the people who made the most iconic RE games are gone and so is that formula that made it what it was.
Oh no, Shinji "Subtly Absolutely Escapes Me" Mikami is gone. A "master" of survival horror who let's be honest, was never that good at the horror part. Hell, The Evil Within pretty much proved that to everyone being one of the worst horror games in recent memory.
Ugh, screw The Evil Within. Such a piece of crap excuse for a horror game. You don't know good horror if you think that was good.
And here's the thing, how you define RE here, is how YOU define it so stop acting like you know what you're talking about. Over Resident Evil's like 20 (?) year legacy, it has dabbled in experimentation quite often. Don't get me wrong, I still
absolutely adore RE 4 as it's one of my personal favorite games of all time, and even still love stuff like Code Veronica and etc. But we've had this stuff for years.
You want the same old crap? Go back and play the originals which still exist or the slew of remakes the series is now getting. I'd rather a HORROR franchise, actually try to be a very HORROR centric game for once. It's about time for something fresh right? Considering also the series has lost its way quite a bit this past decade.
Is something like RE 7 really going to hurt a franchise that ultimately has been dishing out utter garbage for years? Who knows, maybe this new thing will be something it needs. It's being done by the dudes behind stuff like Spec Ops The Line which actually delivered surprisingly a great story.
Overall, come up with your own thoughts for once instead of just parroting what you think fans should be saying. We hardly know anything about this game still, and you're all already condemning it. That says a lot right there.
If this were called something else, you'd probably be all over it but it's Resident Evil so you think you have to moan and complain about what you think Resident Evil should be, when really it is exactly what you THINK RE should be and not what it's actually become or is overall.
I've been playing the series since the beginning too, and you don't see me coming up with the crap you're all coming up with. Let's wait to play it first before we criticize. You still got your RE 2 remake coming anyway so why should you really care? You stubborn fanboys are just as much to blame for series going to crap as the developers are. You don't know what you want, you think you do, but you really don't.