Look I played fear. The girl In RE7 did not hold a dam candle to alma. Especially in 2.
Different teams, different games, Resident Evil is stuck in a perpetual cycle of somewhat more grounded/serious release and then a goofier one to match. I think RE4make is still plenty silly but a lot of it was pushed to the background.
I feel like a lot of RE4 was unintentionally camp as well. Most of the series actually takes itself pretty seriously, 4 is the odd one out. Even 5/6 are serious in presentation.
Remaking 2 at all was purely to court fans what the fuck are you talking about? Resident Evil 7 and on has been one big apology tour for 6 abandoning the horror fans that built the franchise from the ground up. Even the action focused remake of 4 and 8 are more horror centered than their inspirations.
I just want more new faces in general. I didn't even like reusing Ethan for 8. His whole appeal was being a normal dude then he gets turned into mold Jesus. Just make a new character, please, I don't want RE9 to star Chris in the old folks home.
REMAKE 2 wasn't made to appeal to the oldschool fans, it was made to appeal to the "modern audience". just like every other modern reimagining and try to make lightning strike twice to make them even more money without getting creative. The old fans were milked dry and most left around RE5 or RE6. If anything, RE7 was the big apology tour as you said. Oldschool fans didn't like RE7 because it felt like a completely different game(and tried to ape the "walking sim horror" trope that was popular at the time with streamers), RE8 just felt confused and I think it didn't really satisfy either camp(except maybe for coomers), and REMAKE 2 was shunned because it removed content and tried too hard to be "grounded". Both problems would follow REMAKE 4 and especially REMAKE 3. If it was Capcom's intention to make these remakes to "appeal to fans", then mission failed because the only people I found that praised them were people who never played older tank control titles, and in case of REMAKE 4 those who didn't even play RE4. Those who liked all of the above titles, including originals, are few and inbetween, at least from what I've seen. I should note that while it is mostly forgotten by now, REMAKE 3 came with a co-op mode with lootcrates and microtransactions, that PVP RE game came out not long after, I think that alone goes against "trying to appeal to normal fans" and instead helps my case where Capcom is blindly following trends and trying to appeal to "modern gamers" instead.
Set in a classic location, starring classic characters, full of classic iconography, with classic monsters, with slow and methodical survival horror gameplay and resource management, harsh difficulty, one of the most hotly requested remakes of all time BY classic fans, it's pretty much modern audience poison.
You must not have looked very hard because there's plenty of classic fans who've played through all of them that still enjoy the remakes, myself included. Majority opinion is that people are just glad the series has returned to being horror centric.
I yearn for a return to zombie outbreak myself. I want a nice coastal city overrun with the T virus and mutated monsters. That, or just give me a solid Outbreak remaster or remake or something that has deeper scenarios in Raccoon City. I hate that RE3make barely showed us any of the new RC.
While it is true that pretty much everybody was happy that the series was going back to being slower, more methodical and scarier, what did you expect from a remake of Resident Evil 2? The remake of the original also stayed faithful to it's horror roots, so there were no expectations that the new remake wouldn't follow suit. Unfaithful/incomplete remakes in RE are a relatively new thing, starting with REMAKE 3 that cut out most of the game and the entire concept of choices that matter.
No, I'd say it took itself seriously, especially in the beginning. The fact that it came across as cheesy was never intended.
As do I, but what type of RE game do you want?
just give me more re4 original, tbh.
F.E.A.Rs atmosphere was elevated so much by it's lighting and the clever contrast in its lighting and environments, that honestly more games in general should be taking notes from it.
Don't forget the music. That really sold the experience in my mind.
No, every remake is awful and if Capcom really knew what they were doing, they would hire one of us as a director, writer, and programmer so we could make the perfect Resident Evil game according to our personal vision.
No, that was just the wrong people. TRUE Resident Evil hasn't been implemented yet, but it could be if they just had one of us make the game and/or media.
