Only games I played were OG RE1, OG RE2, OG RE3, 4, 5, and some of 6. As I was born in '82 I grew up on it "in real time," if you like. "The magic" (whatever that may have been) which admittedly felt a tiny tiny bit strained in OG RE3, was CERTAINLY back in RE4 but some silliness had come in. Slightly. And RE5 (yes rock-punching Chris has clearly been on the dianabol for this one) made it proper ridiculous.
I felt unhappy at the prospect of wading through the garbage my previously treasured series had become to find out more of the "lore" - thin though that had sometimes gotten. It all seems like the subtleties of the sinister underground complexes and abandoned halls telling their own stories as they're quietly discovered in those ambient moments where oppressive silence now hangs over vast, complicated busy labs and corridors got taken away - and that was the charm. The Marie Celeste of it, The Shining... your presence in a space you shouldn't be being such a glaring violation and affront to it - it had that filtered out and replaced by cutscene "press X to double triple-backflip kick zombie's head off spinning knife juggle" and all to find out they're now magical leeches anyway or some shiz.
I'd rather pretend it all stopped at RE4 and we all went home.
Still, I thought, I've always got Silent Hill they can't mess THAT one up too. Then Homecoming came out and that was enough computer games for me. Oh but wait I think I can still like MGS ah no, they made Sons of Liberty; uniquely indecipherable and inaccessible yet top-tier retardation anyway.
In fact all three series became a bit like abusive relationships. You swear you'll never go back after the last time, and then a new one comes out, and you think "oh maybe they can change, maybe they need one last chance" and it just lets you down again.
Somewhere, there is a boardroom. In this boardroom are rich folks who have decided what computer games should be and we should all be putting more action into our horror games and that's how we sell games. And now all we have is executive consensus marketing-team led masturbation and box ticking. Thankfully there are engines powerful enough and simple enough that PC games can still be made by OH I DON'T KNOW ACTUALLY CREATIVE PPL and not suits.
But the art has long left mainstream gaming. Or if it did it came back long after it shooed me away.
It's still disgusting - remaking them too? REALLY? LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE. Remaking RE1 and RE2... it'd be like re-making Schindler's List with Schwarzenegger and a musical number because the boardroom reckons audiences respond 23% more positively to f-ing Disney.
TL;DR an old man rants about games a bit and doesn't like anything. Not really a confession but there are, like, words I made.
EDIT - you know what else grinds my gears while I'm at it? Resorting to YouTube summaries of the timelines, just so I could find out vaguely what went on. If I have this right then the Arklay mansion got retconned into being called the Spencer Mansion at some point, is that even right? And a man called Edward Ashford and Marcus and some other bloke built the mansion (lord knows how) and then they pretty much all killed each other with silly virus-based pranks for no good reason other than the very old one wanted to be all immortal or something and then I think the/a Wesker did that guy in. And then the architect who designed the place they thought "nah he knows too much we'll do virus experiments on him a bit" and did, and his wife, and his kid I think is some kind of monster in it, before everyone at the Arklay/Spencer lab gets done in anyway in a supposedly engineered accident.
WHERE DO THEY STOP?? They get all these top secret folks in doing top secret research and suddenly all have a flap about not trusting anyone and kill them all off?? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??
"Oh but it'd be a great idea to test out our new T-virus/G-virus/Progenitor virus/magic leech/KY jelly" - NO IT WOULDN'T what WOULD be a great idea is going "hey this secret lab should actually get on and make some virii properly and not kill folks off as they might get wind of us doing that and it'll put off the new recruits." They could have been STREETS ahead by now without that stupid testing fetish and periodically mistrusting everyone from the milkman upwards.
CHRISTTTT...
