i think capcom is trying different kinds of horror with RE, but one thing you cant take away from RE is some sort of combat as gameplay. it cant be like pure non combat horror games like outlast or other walking sims or it wouldnt be RE
It's weird... it's almost like all the people who were given
I agree to an extent, a what if timeline would be good, and could avoid the "must happen in the year thr game came out" shit, which is the core of our problem here
I get the feeling Capcom regrets doing away with Umbrella. And that they REALLY regret killing off Wesker.
I mean, the problem with a game about lovecraftian horror is true Eldrich horrors don't even recognize humans exist, nevermind perceive them as a threat. Making Resident Evil with a villain so powerful he can't even fathom such weak and pathetic creatures as us could even exist while being older than our universe while frightening makes the idea of fighting it and still having the feeling you cannot truly win impossible. Like, how would we end it? Fuck it we all die? Or somehow this gigantic monstrocity so powerful and so old it can't even fathom the characters who were practically born yesterday to it exist gets taken out with an RPG-7 or a .50+ calibur handcanon?
I like Leon and Chris, they remind me of the cool action heroes of the 80s. And though I did really enjoy Requiem, and I'm on my third playthrough to complete challenges, I totally understand why people say the ping ponging between Grace and Leon, horror and action makes it feel like a disjointed mess, but I do think each do their parts very well. I just wish they could find the sweet spot to make the action parts feel like horror as well. I hear Dead Space did it well, but I didn't really play much of that.
Umbrella collapsing made sense after Racoon City, but they could've preserved that Umbrella vibe by having all the executives splinter off into their own evil companies instead of killing them all in spin offs or flashback cutscenes. Wesker definitely should've been preserved longer though.
But we have Wesker at home
Or have Umbrella deny everything, the heroes aren't believed and now Umbrella is trying to take them out to silence them.
While I completely agree about the eldritch abominations beyond human comprehension part, I'd argue that RE never really does the Lovecraftian horror thing. Yes, you have megalomaniacs that want to ascend to what they think is godhood, but they're still mortal in some way and can be killed.
It's fun when it wants to be but much like 7-8 once you're done the first area it implodes.
That's what the Connections is, its just all the loose ends and business end of the shit taking Umbrella's shit, and has been doing so since 1999 (and likely before, Ada likely did jobs for them).
It's because they grew up on the classic RE games. When the franchise pivoted away from "survival horror" and leaned harder into action, some people felt betrayed by it.
this is some of the dumbest shit you've ever said here, Wesker coming back solidified RE for what it really is, Body Horror game with heroic and villainous caricature soap-operas, you can't have the big Damn Hero without his Cobra Commander.
I kinda get it though. It was by then a year over the ten year anniversary. I don't think Wesker's death would make the series feel so empty ever since as much if they replaced him with someone worthwhile.
Too realistic, I don't want to have to be blackpilled on how society in the RE canon is just as beholden to the interests of a handful of self important trillionaire larpers as real life society is.
The problem with all that is 8 felt like those shitty straight to DVD Hellraiser sequels, like Hellraiser: Inferno or Hellworld where you could obviously tell those movies were NOT made to be Hellraiser films but the distribution company just had to something with the Hellraiser series or risk losing it, so they just slapped the name on the cover and shoehorned Pinhead somewhere in a movie that had nothing to do with it originally.