I've. I never understood the resistance some people have with certain games being remade, especially when they'll no doubt be there playing those remakes day one. I know personally, these new remakes have been the most exciting and appealing games to me in this franchise in a long time and I'm at a point where I'd just like to see them remake all the classic games now, including Resident Evil 5..
I can't speak for anybody else on this subject. I can say why i personally am not jumping on the
"Hey let's remake every game we've already made" bandwagon. I'll try and make this a
compliment sandwhich, something positive, something negative as filler and top it off with a positive. Here we go.
RE2R i believe was superb, i very thoroughly enjoyed it. OG RE2 is an amazingly classic game I've played through so many times on Ps1 and Gamecube. I also enjoyed the Darkside retelling of RE2 In the
"Memories Of A Lost City" scenario. Paul Mercier(
Leon in RE4, Degeneration, Darkside Chronicles) and Alison Court(
Claire in RE2, Code Veronica, Degeneration, Darkside Chronicles) voicing their respective characters, even Jack Krauser's voice actor reprised his role. And while RE2R did change those details, fresh new voices, characters look and sound slightly different it seems to me it stayed pretty loyal to the OG, my complaints on that one are very few and far between.
Now, what i take issue with very simply put, they're gonna mess it up. It won't make the OG games not exist anymore like some kind of Mandela Effect, but I'm a devout RE fan and yes I'm going to play it and i don't want to see my favorite game put through the ringer and be a crappy poor excuse for a remake of a masterpiece. I couldn't help but to notice how you mentioned with
how incredible both Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 were, but no mention of RE3R. RE4R is one i haven't personally played but it
looks good. The gameplay, graphics, mechanics the whole 9 yards. Some of the characters 'new' voices sound like ass and nothing like their character...that is especially annoying to me. When i heard and saw Ada and Wesker in RE4R holy hell what were they thinking!? And most of the baddies sound pretty bland like Ramón Salazar, Osmund Saddler and Bitores Mendéz.
One of the RE's that people seem to be creaming their pants over the most is Code Veronica, arguably my favorite in the series...and while the
"Game Of Oblivion" scenario in Darkside was cool overall and I'll give some of the discrepancies and mess ups a pass for what it is, a rail shooter and a retelling, not a full on remake. If that however gives any insight into what a CVX remake would come out like...Alexia and Alfred sound horrible, especially Alexia.
But the
coup de grâce is Resident Evil 3 Remake I could make an entire thread on this one alone, but I'll just give the cliff notes version: I don't like it. I don't hate it, and i think it's undeniably baaaadddd...they managed to ruin my favorite character probably, she hardly looks or behaves/acts like Jill Valentine. She looks like 'The Quiet Man', her iconic outfit that she was wearing during the infamous Raccoon City Incident replaced with essentially the Tomb Raider reboot Lara Croft attire, successfully relegating Jill to the desexualizing of a strong female character. Like Lola Bunny in the new Space Jam movie with LeBron James, kind of like how Star Wars made ~Rey "
I Am All The Jedi" Skywalker~ a Mary Sue who is all of a sudden is the most badass Jedi ever. I only bring the SW comparison up as a very plausible reason for Jill being changed so drastically. This WOKE thing going on nowadays. And Nemesis was kind of a let down. Nemesis hasn't been a real badass since RE3:Nemesis the OG. He was just slow in Umbrella Chronicles and sounded like a robot, I vaguely remember him using a minigun in ORC, but this RE3R version, filled with scripted events, Nemesis easily able to be taken down, we really hardly see him before he skips his original mutation and turns straight into a giant rabbid dog thing. And he got
no respect, hearing Jill say, "It's My Turn Bitch!" When she tries to run him over...Jill doesn't talk that way in the games. Maybe in a live action Paul W.S. Anderson film like Apocalypse. First time we see Carlos and he shows up with a mazooka and exclaims, "
Hey F*ckface!!". THIS is the big bad Nemesis from RE3?? Even Jill's line at the end in the final Boss fight...just, no. and
Brad "Chickenheart" Vickers was lame IMO, lacked the same panic he had in the OG, we only see him oh so briefly, and come on, Nemesis is there for ONE THING.
S.T.A.R.S. What happened to Brad's kind of iconic and memorable death? Nemesis gets
zero kills against
S.T.A.R.S.? Wow. Worthless. And come on Nemesis has a flamethrower, that would've have been a cool and welcome addition IMO if he would actually use it correctly. When Jill climbs back up to the street Nemesis just stands there with the flamethrower point-blank in her grill and....doesn't light her up? Then for some reason the '
smart move' is to climb up to the top of a building under construction so that you're stuck up there with a stupid killing machine burning everything but you. Including himself. Smh
Okay top bun of this Jill Complimentary Sammich. I really actually DID like basically all the other characters in RE3R namely the UBCS, Carlos Oliveira, Mikhail Victor, Nicholai Ginovaef, and Tyrell Patrick. Also nice to see Robert Kendo considering we've read plenty about him in Files in the past. I really liked how they dis the intro instead of trying to simply recreate the
iconic(weird how that word keeps coming up as i describe the OG) opening with the RPD trying to fend off hordes of the undead while simultaneously the UBCS being deployed and being massacred, it's like a war zone. Kind of bittersweet when it turns into a bunch scripted events reminding me of the annoyingly slow pacing at the beginning of Leon/Helena's chapter in RE6.
Sorry if this was particularly lengthy iay have to retract calling it a cliff notes version lol almost a full on review. Anyway that generally my two cents in why I'm against can't natant REmake demands and requests. But also everybody is entitled to their opinion and i respect that. Hopefully after you digest this Jill Complimentary Sandwhich it answers your question.