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Capcom: "there is a possibility" of Resident Evil series reboot"

m100t8s

m100t8s

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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-a-possibility-of-resident-evil-series-reboot

RE Revelations director talks about a possibility of a RE reboot, And how it might be an open-world game with the reboot and some stuff. Also, He's talking about the positive feedbacks they got after the fans were happy with RE REvelations port to the consoles, And how RE REvelations sales will effect the Resident Evil series direction, If it sold well, They will keep the horror and the atmosphere, If it sold poorly, They will go back to work on RE games like RE6 and RE: ORC.


Thoughts?

Now after the DMC's reboot fans reaction, What would you think about an RE reboot being made by RE Revelations team?

For me, Nothing is wrong with a reboot if it was good, Especially that RE REvelations team know how to make good horror games.


I don't really know if this is relating to DmC or what, But I think rebooting RE might be after the good reviews DMC reboot got? We're dealing in the same case here with DMC, What do you think will happen if they rebooted RE?
 
It Needs it badly, probably waaaaaaay more than DMC as RE is one of Capcom's most valuable, important franchises. Oh and the games keep getting more horrible and not fun to play. I shudder at the thought of a RE7 with the way the series has been going
 
RE7 would be awesome! It could be like Modern Warfare Co-op, every character could have unlimited ammo, and Chris would be able to punch the ground to end the game after 25 consecutive kills. These kinds of changes would certainly bring in newcomers, that's where the money's at! :troll:
 
Resident Evil needs a reboot and anything else just isn't an option at this point. Open world Resident Evil sounds pretty freaking cool but they need to really take advantage of the idea of an open world horror game. I've always had in my mind an open world horror title.
 
Ether0 said:
It Needs it badly, probably waaaaaaay more than DMC as RE is one of Capcom's most valuable, important franchises. Oh and the games keep getting more horrible and not fun to play. I shudder at the thought of a RE7 with the way the series has been going
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I think that they should end the series in RE7, Then reboot RE in next gen.

They really screwed up the story, Leon is an agent in RE4, Wesker's death in RE5, Jill's​
brainwashed in RE5, Sherry is agent in RE6, Wesker has a son out of the blue in RE6, Ada has a clone in RE6.​
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They're just screwing everything up. They should end everything in RE7, A game focusing on Claire as the main character. And showing some of the main characters deaths, and some of them retired. Then reboot the RE series after that.​
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Especially that the reboot will be handled by RE REvealtions team, These guys know how to make good horror games afterall.​
 
Chancey289 said:
Resident Evil needs a reboot and anything else just isn't an option at this point. Open world Resident Evil sounds pretty freaking cool but they need to really take advantage of the idea of an open world horror game. I've always had in my mind an open world horror title.
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I can see what RE REvelations director meant by the open-world. Leon is in Raccoon City, you can go to wherever you want, Find keys to inter buildings, Get your s*** together and find guns and supplies to survive the out break. More replay value and playing detective. That would be amazing. He for sure didn't mean an open world game like GTA or something.
 
m100t8s said:
I think that they should end the series in RE7, Then reboot RE in next gen.

They really screwed up the story, Leon is an agent in RE4, Wesker's death in RE5, Jill's
brainwashed​
in RE5, Sherry is agent in RE6, Wesker has a son out of the blue in RE6, Ada has a clone in RE6.​

They're just screwing everything up. They should end everything in RE7, A game focusing on Claire as the main character. And showing some of the main characters deaths, and some of them retired. Then reboot the RE series after that.​


Especially​
that the reboot will be handled by RE REvealtions team, These guys know how to make good horror games afterall.​
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One thing I worry about as far as story is the fact that at this point it's so crazy and all over the place and it seems like they are just making it up as they go and doing a poor job at it, like REALLY poor, I wonder if they should just let it go and be done with it all together before they **** on it anymore.

I think RE's biggest problem however is that it does not know what it wants to be. Is it a survival horror game? An Action shooter? Does it want to be somewhat of an RPG now?? I think if they want to be a horror game, stick to making people scared, be more subtle and nuanced, stop making the characters feel like gods because being too powerful is not good in a horror game. If you want to be an action game, be an action game, and be as good or better than your competition. Dont just rip them off and do what they do only worse and make 1893242 QTE's to compensate for the fact that your game is average at best. and If you just want to make a movie staring these RE characters do that, otherwise make a game and not an interactive movie.

A reboot is a welcomed change imo just get it out of the hands of Capcom because they have shown they don't know what they are doing anymore.
 
m100t8s said:
I can see what RE REvelations director meant by the open-world. Leon is in Raccoon City, you can go to wherever you want, Find keys to inter buildings, Get your s*** together and find guns and supplies to survive the out break. More replay value and playing detective. That would be amazing. He for sure didn't mean an open world game like GTA or something.
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As a Resident Evil fan I wish I could have my shot at developing a Resident Evil game. First and foremost would be to slap just about all the people at Capcom in the face and say it's going to be the first scary Resident Evil game. I'm not so sure yet myself how a story would be but I know how silly Resident Evil is and it would be a priority of mine to avoid that. Most likely feature a new protagonist and even kill off some of the major characters in the series like Chris Redfield. but the idea of open world is a fun one to mess around with.My Resident Evil would have to consist of:

-NO QUICK TIME EVENTS

-Capturing the real tension of a survival horror situation. Limited resources that have you resort to using just about anything and everything around you to survive. Accessing a situation but having to think fast about it.

-Atmosphere that will give you the creeps even when nothing is happening on screen. Let the player scare themselves before we deliver the big scares that would probably shred into some rather disturbing territory not only in visuals but tone. It will probably be pretty dark.

-Great voice acting and lack of cheesy lines to really deliver an emotional punch to the player to a very disturbing Resident Evil where zombies aren't the only threat.

-Your protagonist is not some superhero. "Horror" games nowadays give you the option and ability to kill everything in sight so why should you be afraid of them? There will be enemies which you will not be able to take on and your only option is what you would do in real life, run.

-You determine how you will survive. The open world levels and variety of options and tactics you pick will be entirely up to you and any mistake you make might come back to haunt you. You forgot to block the entrance and you made a sound to attract attention to a building you walked into and now you're upstairs trapped in a bathroom with zombies outside the door. Your only option now is to basically die. Hey we won't hold your hand, time for common sense and think exactly how you would really behave if the survival horror situation was real.

See where I'm going with this?
 
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Chancey289 said:
As a Resident Evil fan I wish I could have my shot at developing a Resident Evil game. First and foremost would be to slap just about all the people at Capcom in the face and say it's going to be the first scary Resident Evil game. I'm not so sure yet myself how a story would be but I know how silly Resident Evil is and it would be a priority of mine to avoid that. Most likely feature a new protagonist and even kill off some of the major characters in the series like Chris Redfield. but the idea of open world is a fun one to mess around with.My Resident Evil would have to consist of:

-NO QUICK TIME EVENTS

-Capturing the real tension of a survival horror situation. Limited resources that have you resort to using just about anything and everything around you to survive. Accessing a situation but having to think fast about it.

-Atmosphere that will give you the creeps even when nothing is happening on screen. Let the player scare themselves before we deliver the big scares that would probably shred into some rather disturbing territory not only in visuals but tone. It will probably be pretty dark.

-Great voice acting and lack of cheesy lines to really deliver an emotional punch to the player to a very disturbing Resident Evil where zombies aren't the only threat.

-Your protagonist is not some superhero. "Horror" games nowadays give you the option and ability to kill everything in sight so why should you be afraid of them? There will be enemies which you will not be able to take on and your only option is what you would do in real life, run.

-You determine how you will survive. The open world levels and variety of options and tactics you pick will be entirely up to you and any mistake you make might come back to haunt you. You forgot to block the entrance and you made a sound to attract attention to a building you walked into and now you're upstairs trapped in a bathroom with zombies outside the door. Your only option now is to basically die. Hey we won't hold your hand, time for common sense and think exactly how you would really behave if the survival horror situation was real.

See where I'm going with this?
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I cannot like this enough!!! it's funny you would think these changes would be common sense for Capcom. I sometimes wonder if the RE movies actually being big hits and bringing in profit has negatively effected the game series as more and more the games are becoming as crazy and bombastic as the movie counterparts. I think Capcom sees those movies being successful and make the connection that, that kind of stuff needs to be in their game.
 
It needs a reboot but I would be disappointed that the 15 year story line wasn't wrapped up at all. I am even more annoyed that Leon and Ada's "romance" could have reached some climax in Re6 but it ended just like it did in RE2.
 
DMC needed a reboot badly as well, yet alot of the fans raged about it. I'm sure the same will happen to Resident Evil, even if it needs it badly as well.
 
I don't want a reboot of RE. It is not messed up chronologically like DMC. There are no giant plotholes either. Jus good sequels should do the job. If at all they want to reboot, I would have psychological elements like fear from movies like hostel.That kinda horror can replace the generic viral zombie horror. Also open world would be fine with me.
 
aoshi said:
I don't want a reboot of RE. It is not messed up chronologically like DMC. There are no giant plotholes either. Jus good sequels should do the job. If at all they want to reboot, I would have psychological elements like fear from movies like hostel.That kinda horror can replace the generic viral zombie horror. Also open world would be fine with me.
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Rebooting Devil May Cry had nothing to do with the story. The decision to reboot Devil May Cry was how DMC's popularity and sales dropped over the years as it was at once a major franchise. Devil May Cry never did anything particularly new and that stagnation started to show. A company does not reboot if everything was going right because there is no point to take that sort of risk especially with a series like Devil May Cry. Also Capcom's current state of affairs are really pushing them to be more ambitious as of late. A reboot also doesn't mean it's starting over because DMC 3 was a reboot in its own right. Chronologically sequels can substitute as reboots as well and yes Resident Evil NEEDS ONE.

Resident Evil with the god awful 6 totally abandoned just about everything that made Resident Evil a survival horror game and turned itself into a generic action title with far too many QTEs for its own good. I have no clue why you think Resident Evil doesn't need a massive overhaul. 6 was one of the worst RE titles out there and it was just a big dissapointment to everyone. RE needs to get its sh!t together.
 
Totally agree with Chancey289, they have butchered the series over the years & its almost unrecognisable from the original I played. Im not really a survival horror game fan but the original was a classic & id say this is one series that is in desperate need of a back to the drawing board reboot.
 
We could just reboot everything. And when that all goes crap, we'll reboot it again.

I always see the same argument in regards to things like this. The 'was the reboot really needed?' conversation that goes on for about twenty years. We could accept flaws in every type of story, that doesn't mean we should just consider to 'start again'. Everybody wants to take something that's pre-existing and turn it into something slightly different with a twist. This irritates me to no end.
 
I'm not sure about the reboot (if it's done well then I'd welcome it I think) but I'm going to laugh if there's like a new generation of fans causing an uproar over it like DmC. (That's not Chris! He doesn't smoke-oh, wait a minute...)

For me, ever since Resident Evil Code Veronica X, I've been waiting for that plot to continue on from that. And it's just been sequel after sequel of all this other stuff...when all I really wanted to know through all that was what the hell happened to STEVE!? :'( Really, don't tease a character's possible return at the end of your game and then ditch the concept entirely and leave some fans hanging for 10 or 12 years.

But it's not just that, characters like Barry and Rebecca haven't really make much of an appearance much beyond the RE1 timeline. New ones keep popping in, and although I don't mind a new face (although some weren't as welcoming, Rachel) I just miss seeing more of the original cast.

If they do a reboot, that's what I'd want. More focus on Chris and the gang, and more development in their characters so we get them a bit more.
 
Sieghart said:
Another Reboot? For god sakes capcom at least have a decent conclusion for the original RE first.
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I don't know, the RE plotline was once really interesting but now just seems like Capcom is going through the motions and just giving us generic action movie plot A B and C these days. It's a tough choice, would we as fans rather have anther RE6 with a story that was just pure balls and did not add anything to the series other than confusion and imo boredom or have them start with a clean slate without all the baggage that a giant series like this has attached to it and potentially give Capcom or who ever they allow to handle it the ability to do something new and interesting for once.

If not a reboot of the entire series, Perhaps they should have RE7 star a completely new character with little to no attachment to the regular cast so as to not completely destroy the series cannon. That would at least give them the freedom to do some different stuff with the plot and not **** off fans
 
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