Perhaps losing the numbers in the titles will help them in terms of releasing games that dive right into stories revolving around other past characters rather than being focused on a follow up story to the game before it. But I also just don’t see them backtracking too much in the timeline either to cover the many lose ends they’ve created.
Sounds amazing haha, just like the originals.Bottom line:
They must bring back old fan favorites, meaning, characters.
There is zero reason why they can't bring back those fan favorites.
We all know Jill and Claire can be brought back as playable characters, but what about bringing back Ada as a playable character?
Third person, CCTV camera angles, pre-rendered backgrounds, pretty graphics. Put me back in a big, plush mansion, clock tower, castle, palace, puzzles to solve. I loved Code Veronica because you run around in a beautiful palace and it's partially destroyed and burning with zombies roaming around. It's the beautiful and the hideous coming together to make you panic, because you can see how the evil and corrupted is slowly taking over and you have to find a way to survive. Back to basics and keep it simple.
The rest should be pretty academic.
Definitely agree with what your saying, as well as true fact that re8 was a bestseller for them, meaning that they'll probably want to stick to similar characters and concepts due to the money. I'm pretty sure everyone who's read my threads on here already knows that I'm not a big resident evil 7 and 8 fan, I understand the need for a new, younger fan base but im disappointed with the complete disregard of the old, no hate though, they did a fine job.I know I’m burnt out on guessing what’s next for the franchise and its mostly because I know it’s not gonna be what I want to hear.
That’s not to say I wasn’t pleasantly surprised with VILLAGE. But the 8th installment left us with a less than enticing setup for the next major title as all of the villains in RE8 were throwaways and they seem to be hinting at Rose being the next main protagonist… it’s just not the focal point I want.
The only way Capcom could accomplish half the things I do want to see in future titles is if they stop making the main titles coincide with the year the games are released because, at this point, we have jumped so far ahead in the timeline and all the past characters we love are getting too old to keep in this fight.
Perhaps losing the numbers in the titles will help them in terms of releasing games that dive right into stories revolving around other past characters rather than being focused on a follow up story to the game before it. But I also just don’t see them backtracking too much in the timeline either to cover the many lose ends they’ve created.
Their neglect to give Revelations 2 any proper follow up is the biggest offense for me at this time. There was so much potential with Alex/Natalia and it seems as though they’re blowing it all on forgettable/throwaway villains.Backtracking on the timeline to cover loose ends (or create more) was the Revelations premise, in a sense. I wish they keep doing that, but as you said, not using numbers can also help to give them more flexibility to go back and forth on the timeline. At least I hope so. I know our old heroes still have more stories to give us.
I remember that rumor. I wonder if they're gonna adapt the script of Resident Evil The Stage (Or something like that, the Japanese play. It was also set on a College campus) but maybe without Chris and Piers, having only Rebecca as the main character...or maybe with the pair since it doesn't need to be post 2013. That could be interesting, I guess.According to rumors, the next one is going to be RESIDENT EVIL OUTRAGE, starring Rebecca Chambers. I am kind of looking forward to it, since, while I don't like RE0, I always wanted to see more of Rebecca (don't know why, I guess it has to do with the fact the actress playing her in OG RE1 live-action videos was very cute). Apparently, it is set on a college campus, it's an OTS game, and part of its gameplay is about fighting enemies with improvised weapons (like scissors).
The rumors say the standard enemies are not zombies but 28 Days Later-style rabid humans (which is what I originally thought the ganados were going to be like when the first images\trailers for RE4's final build hit the web - one of the early trailers even had a title card reading "an infection of madness").
The game was originally supposed to be a Switch exclusive but it has been promoted to be a multi-platform release - that is because RE9 is going to take a few more years to be completed...always according to rumors, that is.
It remains to be seen whether or not these rumors are true - the source was DuskGolem (aka AestheticGamer) as usual...but it must be said most of his leaks about VILLAGE were 100% spot-on, with only minor differences that could've been due to late-development changes (and we all know people at Capcom are not very good at sticking to the program - especially now that these games are made by a committee and individual directors have less and less input). We'll see...provided that the game (which may exist or not at this point) doesn't get scrapped, like RESIDENT EVIL: HUNK (a title that was leaked by hackers who broke into Capcom's servers and got ahold of the company's released plans for the next 5 years...or what their plans actually were back in the day of the hack).I remember that rumor. I wonder if they're gonna adapt the script of Resident Evil The Stage (Or something like that, the Japanese play. It was also set on a College campus) but maybe without Chris and Piers, having only Rebecca as the main character...or maybe with the pair since it doesn't need to be post 2013. That could be interesting, I guess.
That's very Japanese - making the characters waaay too young, I mean. Even Jill and Chris' ages in RE1 (23 and 25) are unrealistic as hell, especially given their military background. Kenichi Iwao, the scenario writer of RE1, went on to say he regretted not making them older. Certainly, Rebecca being a medical officer at 18 is the one that stands out the most (at 18 you cannot even be a nurse) - they justified it by making her a genius (!!!), but that's even dumber. I personally always look at her as this young newbie (21 or something) that somehow got in the mess of RE1 and just happens to have some minimal medical training because, I dunno, her dad was a doctor or something.So Resident Evil -1: Rebecca's brief collage tenure before becoming a full blown special forces police officer at age....18(!?)
Yeah, it's all very unlikely. Actually, it's all pretty impossible: for example, Jill is a former Delta Force operator - age aside, Delta Force doesn't even allow women in its ranks as far as I know.Yup my favorite characters in gaming have extremely unrealistic backgrounds but oh well. Chris for instance joined the Air Force at 17 and instantly became a pilot? Last I checked to be an actual pilot in the Air Force you have to go to a 4 year college for that. Apparently he managed to become a pilot, an expert marksman in the Air Force (!?) all before the ripe age of 23 (The age in which he was discharged).
If he was a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army I think that would have made more sense. You don't need a 4 year degree for that AND the Army, you know, is much more fertile ground for gaining good marksmanship skills.
Delta Force doesn't even allow women in its ranks as far as I know.
It's set on a college campus but that doesn't mean it has to be during her days as a college student...and I really, really hope it's not.So Resident Evil -1: Rebecca's brief collage tenure before becoming a full blown special forces police officer at age....18(!?)
Yeah, I immediately thought of "Vendetta" myself the minute I read the leak...which sucks because it reminds me the CG movies are canon and I thought they were all pretty bad (Degeneration was decent). But, whatever: the RE lore and timeline got screwed royally from RE4 onwards and there's no way to fix them. I just finished RE2make for the first time in over a year and I wanted to cry for how good it is and because we're not going to get another game like that one ever again unless they remake Code: Veronica.It's set on a college campus but that doesn't mean it has to be during her days as a college student...and I really, really hope it's not.
I think during Vendetta she was working at a University as a professor so that's a possible timeline.
It's set on a college campus but that doesn't mean it has to be during her days as a college student...and I really, really hope it's not.