Poll: will resident evil ever go back to just being a zombie game?
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You need the old games back with the creepy atmosphere, zombies, puzzles and all that.
4 and 5 havnt appealed to me at all. Its not a Resident Evil game at all anymore its just a completely new game with the brand label stamped on it.
I hear there relaunching Resident Evil 1 and 0 on the Wi though.
Resident Evil 1 re-make on the gamecube was pure amazing, they need to go back to that!
4 and 5 havnt appealed to me at all. Its not a Resident Evil game at all anymore its just a completely new game with the brand label stamped on it.
I hear there relaunching Resident Evil 1 and 0 on the Wi though.
Resident Evil 1 re-make on the gamecube was pure amazing, they need to go back to that!
i think that they should have the infected (dawn of the dead , 28 days later) like it showed on the trailer
First of all, I feel it's important to point out that Resident Evil, as a series, has never billed itself as "zombie games." It bills itself as "Survival Horror," and used zombies as the incarnation of horror in its first several titles.
So the premise that the recent games are somehow betraying what the games are meant to be is a flawed one. So long as you remain in control of a character in a desperate, life-threatening situation, have to scrounge for ammo and fight for every inch to stay alive throughout the storyline, you remain a player of a Survival Horror genre game. Resident Evil 4 and 5 are, I don't think it can be argued, stock-and-standard examples of just that, as are their predecessors.
Secondly, evolution is a way of life (and of art, which mimics it), and I can't for the life of me see why discussions like this one keep cropping up again and again. Yes, the series has moved on rather than squatting stubbornly on its initial success model until every last dollar and ounce of fun had been leaked out. Note also that Resident Evil 4 in all of its cross-platform incarnations has sold more copies than any other Resident Evil game, including RE2. Look here to see for yourself: http://www.thegamergene.com/industry/capcom-release-lifetime-sales-figures/
Having the intelligence and will to try and make something even greater on the heels of a smash success, rather than regurgitating what has worked before again and again until it will never work again, doesn't seem like the sort of thing we should be condemning by asking questions like "Wouldn't it be great if nothing ever had to change?"
So the premise that the recent games are somehow betraying what the games are meant to be is a flawed one. So long as you remain in control of a character in a desperate, life-threatening situation, have to scrounge for ammo and fight for every inch to stay alive throughout the storyline, you remain a player of a Survival Horror genre game. Resident Evil 4 and 5 are, I don't think it can be argued, stock-and-standard examples of just that, as are their predecessors.
Secondly, evolution is a way of life (and of art, which mimics it), and I can't for the life of me see why discussions like this one keep cropping up again and again. Yes, the series has moved on rather than squatting stubbornly on its initial success model until every last dollar and ounce of fun had been leaked out. Note also that Resident Evil 4 in all of its cross-platform incarnations has sold more copies than any other Resident Evil game, including RE2. Look here to see for yourself: http://www.thegamergene.com/industry/capcom-release-lifetime-sales-figures/
Having the intelligence and will to try and make something even greater on the heels of a smash success, rather than regurgitating what has worked before again and again until it will never work again, doesn't seem like the sort of thing we should be condemning by asking questions like "Wouldn't it be great if nothing ever had to change?"
I love resident Evil
I really like the new ones as well
but theres nothing scary about 4&5
the old ones were cos you could see the Zombies coming at you so slowly, in their masses but no matter how hard you tried there was always one point when you would justget surrounded and killed
where as in the new games you find ammo on every corner for your beefed up weapons that give you the security of a fear free game!
I really like the new ones as well
but theres nothing scary about 4&5
the old ones were cos you could see the Zombies coming at you so slowly, in their masses but no matter how hard you tried there was always one point when you would justget surrounded and killed
where as in the new games you find ammo on every corner for your beefed up weapons that give you the security of a fear free game!
dont get me wrong, the new ones have been good, but they would be better if they started with zombies, then got smarter, and ran and used weapons.
just a thought
just a thought
*chuckles* Well spoken, friend. You make some good points. The "horror" part of "Survival horror" is indeed somewhat dependent on believability, which is to say relate-ability, which is to say resemblance to reality. Are not the most horrifying films and media those which initially bear a close enough resemblance to reality that we do indeed feel cold, threatening disorientation when it is suddenly stripped away? Silent Hill springs to mind.harhol said:
And while a degree of tradeoff between realism and action-reward output/input factors must be expected in order for a game to be as enjoyable as it can be, I think you're right that if it's not already out of bounds in RE5, it's being stretched as far as it likely will be able to go.
The Zombies were amazing, and they proved that there is still horror to be had in zombies games with Code Veronica. The Gamecube remake of 1 was fantastic - so it's not like we've evolved beyond the whole third person shooter concept. And even the most expected can turn out to be scary - I actually just got done playing the FIRST Resident Evil, and I was on the edge of my seat-scared because of the dangers that surrounded me.
Don't get me wrong, 4 and 5 were good games. But everyone else is correct when they say that they should have been branded as different games in a different series. (And I say "Good games" Lightly - 4 was a lot of fun and overall good, but 5 was a piece of shit. And a Short one, at that.) Zombies were and are amazing, and the only zombie games we even have right now are Dead Rising and the Left 4 Dead series. Resident Evil should come out with something new and fun and pants pissingly startling/scary. I was scared in RE:0... I'm sure they can scare me again. They just need to learn the difference between Survival Horror, and blow the fuck out of everything with you magic weapons.
Don't get me wrong, 4 and 5 were good games. But everyone else is correct when they say that they should have been branded as different games in a different series. (And I say "Good games" Lightly - 4 was a lot of fun and overall good, but 5 was a piece of shit. And a Short one, at that.) Zombies were and are amazing, and the only zombie games we even have right now are Dead Rising and the Left 4 Dead series. Resident Evil should come out with something new and fun and pants pissingly startling/scary. I was scared in RE:0... I'm sure they can scare me again. They just need to learn the difference between Survival Horror, and blow the fuck out of everything with you magic weapons.
true resident evil...
Resident Eivil is RE1, 2, 3, 0, outbreak, and outbreak file 2... Hell, survivor and dead aim wornt bad( different but not bad) NOT RE 4 and 5... Resident Evil is Zombies and survivle horror with little ammo and lots of brain scratching puzzles... Not fighting pissed off Spainerds and Blacks while the whole time you can buy guns, ammo, and upgrades... fuck that... your suposed to get eaten not stabbed by a pitch fork... and lets not get started on how much they fucked up Jill, Chris and Wesker...
Im sorry but nothing beets walking down dark tight allies never knowing when somthings gonna bust through a window at you... or the camera angles that forces the bild of suspence... or how evey time the game started giving you alot of ammo and or health you went Oh Shit because you knew you were going up againced somthing big soon... or the fact that nothing in gammer history is scaryer then running from Nemesis or one of the Tirents only to have it chase you room to room, makeing there own door if need be... point is is resident evil has no suspence anymore and isnt even survival horror anymore... it has become nothing more then a shoot 'em up game with a few shinny exesories...
TRUE RE FAN FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT MY ZOMBIES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Resident Eivil is RE1, 2, 3, 0, outbreak, and outbreak file 2... Hell, survivor and dead aim wornt bad( different but not bad) NOT RE 4 and 5... Resident Evil is Zombies and survivle horror with little ammo and lots of brain scratching puzzles... Not fighting pissed off Spainerds and Blacks while the whole time you can buy guns, ammo, and upgrades... fuck that... your suposed to get eaten not stabbed by a pitch fork... and lets not get started on how much they fucked up Jill, Chris and Wesker...Im sorry but nothing beets walking down dark tight allies never knowing when somthings gonna bust through a window at you... or the camera angles that forces the bild of suspence... or how evey time the game started giving you alot of ammo and or health you went Oh Shit because you knew you were going up againced somthing big soon... or the fact that nothing in gammer history is scaryer then running from Nemesis or one of the Tirents only to have it chase you room to room, makeing there own door if need be... point is is resident evil has no suspence anymore and isnt even survival horror anymore... it has become nothing more then a shoot 'em up game with a few shinny exesories...
TRUE RE FAN FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WANT MY ZOMBIES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm afraid I'm almost certain that Darkside Chronicles is the best that we're going to get in the zombie department although it'd be nice to be back the way it used to be. Woo RE!
I require an "Either way is fine by me" option. If they don't go back to the original formula, then you can just play the older games. If they do, that shouldn't mean you can't play RE:4 or 5.
Resi 4 was one of my favorites, aside from the utterly useless Ashley Graham. Like many people have said before: I think it would be pretty cool to add a game with a mixture of T/G-Virus, the Las Plagas, and whatever is infecting the people in Resi 5(haven't played in forever so I don't remember)