As others have said, Capcom would royally screw it up. They are incapable of making a game that is worth even 15 dollars at this point in time - that includes everything, MM, MVC, RE, DMC, Dead Rising, and Lost Planet (And I like some of those games and have them). It would be AWESOME, I think, to have an updated RE2 with modern graphics and aiming. It would also change the game entirely if you had co op and could actually aim, but that wouldn't make it garbage. RE1 kind of did need a remake but the way they did it they added so much retcon to the story.
I guess we'll just cross our fingers and hope RE6 isn't as god awful as we're all probably right to think it will be at this point, with the information we now have. We'll find out in a month when the demo comes out.
Raccoon City has been overdone, kind of. ORC - which is NOT as terrible as people like to cry that it is (just needs some major work on the guns) - is pretty awesome for it's re-make of a lot of the city. On top of that you have DSC and UC which, despite changing things to work as a rail shooter and co op game, did bring us back and it was awesome. Then you also have RE2, RE3, and Outbreak 1/2. Leave RC well enough alone.
Let's just hope that they stop with this action game steroid-nonsense and get back to the point. Unfortunately they aren't going to, or at least aren't learning lessons. As you saw in Rev, they fell back on the old "New game = New virus strain, right? Is 15 different viruses enough guys? Do they love us yet? Please tell us they love us." formula, with a little bit of backstabbing and double-crossing like the old days.
If there were a court that could legally take Resident Evil away from Capcom and give it to a company who would treat it with the respect it deserves (unlike Capcom and what they have done in the past 13 years), that would be boss.
What they need to do is stop regurgitating. They have so many characters sitting in limbo. Rebecca could get her own game again. Claire definitely needs her own game because frankly, CV was good but it wasn't that good. Jill needs some more exposure too - or at least they should stop being utterly illogical and if she's going to be Chris's partner, actually have her team with Chris. Ada can definitely use her own game. I'm sure if you asked me I could BS a better story idea together off the top of my head than Capcom would if they actually made an Ada game, but the point is she is at this point more developed than Jill, Barry, Rebecca, and many other characters, and could use her own game. They have a bad habit of treating fans like they don't have memory - there are so many one time cameo characters it's pathetic at this point in time. Literally so many I can't even name them. Billy, Excella, Yoko (or whatever), Jim, Ryman, Carlos, Josh, Sheva, Jessica, Kirk, Rachel, Cindy, Alyssa, Marcus, Alfred, Rodrigo, it's just silly. Barry has been entirely absent from the storyline for 16 years. He showed up in RE3 to fly a helicopter depending on the conditions. So where is he? What's he up to? Retirement? Did he make it out of RC? What about Angela? Why bring back Sherry after 14 years in apropos of nothing when it could have been Ashley Graham (though at least they brought back Sherry) and probably should have been considering she has a personal interest in the fact that her dad is dying in the next game?
Game designer and producer Jun Takeuchi said that Capcom has been considering a complete remake of Resident Evil 2.
