To be honest, and I don't mean to sound narky, moody, or whatever, but I think
Resident Evil has seen the best days left behind it long ago. I'd personally rather not see any more crappy remakes, and as for sequels, I think Capcom has just ran out of good ideas for where to take the series going forward in general.
I don't care much for these remakes as it feels like the gameplay is becoming way too casualized, or whatever the word is. The guns don't feel impactful. Every area is too dark. The character models are awful (for the classic characters, anyway). And most of all, the cut content is annoying, and the plot is horrendously convoluted now. So this comes across as incredibly confusing, silly, or boring. Not to mention all the shit Capcom enjoys ripping off from other games, movies, and whatnot.
Unfortunately, I don't think Capcom's fanboys could give two shits about any of that stuff. They'll keep on defending the games regardless. I know personally, I've pointed out the franchise's flaws on so many occasions for years, to the point where even I wanted to stop caring about doing so. They weren't listening in any case. Especially on lame forums such as GameFAQs. Because I recall trolls just posted a lot of flame bait, and were even admitting that they didn't like the classic titles because they found fixed camera angles too intimidating. Seriously!
OK. It's an opinion. No-one has to like a specific viewpoint in a game. Right? But most old school fans of the survival horror genre openly love the camera perspective, cheesy voice acting, and the music and textures. It gave the genre a lot of personality in the good old days, whereas newer horror games are mostly action games with minimal creepiness, where you may or may not even be able to retaliate physically against your foes. You barely get any good music or terrifying moments in RE games these days.
And I get it. RE is Capcom's biggest ever IP, so they crank out more games because they're money hungry. But it's stupid in my opinion, how they had the darn audacity to copy
Silent Hill with that dumb 'Shadows of Rose' DLC last year. Because RE was never really about supernatural type bull crap. And I just think they're making Chris Redfield into such a dumb fuck asshole, not truly capable of keeping anybody safe. After RE6, the character just got altered into some laughable has been. It's truly embarrassing.
Sure, zombies were never supposed to be the staple enemy either. But here's a newsflash. That's how it ended up playing out. Now having these other enemies like villagers and vampires and mannequins, where even enemies with no guns can dispense ammo, it's all just not really making up RE how I remember it, from the early 2000s.
And Jill Valentine has been gone for years. If you really think about it, her last up to date appearance was actually way back in 2009. Everything else she has been in has been a prequel, a movie, a spin off, or another dull remake. So this mess is just incredibly nippy, and that's kind of why I just told people on
biohaze.com that I don't care much for RE any longer. Maybe it's my age as well, but it's mostly because the unique storytelling isn't there anymore.
