Comments on: Capcom: Resident Evil 5 is “new direction” for franchise “going forwards”

By: hitnrun

hitnrun — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:06:36 +0000

Michael O’Connor: it’s a shame the game’s actual content isn’t scary and doesn’t really attempt to be, otherwise that view of the, well, horrific design decisions might make some sense.

I understand the whole “it makes it scary that you’re made to suck at your task” concept. It was great in earlier entries, truly terrifying in RE2. Now it feels like the result of a heated argument in Capcom’s marketing department.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:28:08 +0000

Nevermind az, he’s a great chap, just has a bee in his bonnet because he loves Resi but can’t handle people liking Dead Space more.

People like me that is. Who also think RE4 and 5 are a bit pap.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:53:24 +0000

saying fuck in my comments doesn’t make them any less valid, mister er, absolutezero. on the other hand, nonsense is always nonsense, even with good grammar.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:48:27 +0000

funny how it’s you who’s asking this.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:41:30 +0000

Just out of pure morbid curiosity how old are you Mr DaMan?

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:45:00 +0000

albeit still better than RE5.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:44:19 +0000

FEAR is shit. the second is better though.

By: Trivi4l

Trivi4l — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:30:58 +0000

And RE5 > RE 4.
Also Dead Space sucks, get back to me when they actually have something scary in that game and when they fix the melee attacks.

The only scary game to me is Silent Hill 2 and possibly FEAR 1 & 2.

By: Trivi4l

Trivi4l — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:28:38 +0000

I agree with their decisions on the controls and camera.
Basically what Michael O’ Connor said.
Although I wish the game would have more of a scary atmosphere. For starters make the zombies more gruesome, they just look like crazy Zulu warriors with tentacles.

By: wz

wz — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:44:49 +0000

\o/

By: Prof Power Glove

Prof Power Glove — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:01:39 +0000

I concur, bring back the goddamn purple robe wearing cockney pirate!! Why ditch him for a highly unoriginal “shop”? Hate it.

Resi definitely needs to get back to basics in the next one. A minority of Resi fans complained about ‘too much action’ in 4 and now 5 takes that one step further in what seems to be a re-hash with a co-op mode bundled onto it.

For the love of Satan, please bring back the SUSPENCE and ATMOSPHERE of the old ones. A mix of the spanish horror films ‘REC’ and ‘The Orphanage’ would be ideal.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:36:25 +0000

what the fuck? RE4 had a merchant, in 5 you just buy it.

Dead Space is scary, RE isn’t.

By: absolutezero

absolutezero — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:26:15 +0000

Dead Space was less of a survival horror than RE 4 + 5. Theres no survival in there, I can buy ammo from a fucking shop for Christ sake.

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:25:18 +0000

Michael O’Connor , your comment makes me think you haven’t played a single RE game until RE4..

By: Zarckan

Zarckan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:21:19 +0000

@Michael O’Connor: Well it doesn’t work. As someone who’s played and finished EVERY ResEvil game (bar light gun twaddle) It does nothing like that, infact this is the least scary of the series!

By: DaMan

DaMan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:14:32 +0000

Dead Space>RE4>>>RE5

By: Soong

Soong — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:40:17 +0000

Because Dead Space fell off the track again by becoming an on-rails shooter on the Wii

By: Freek

Freek — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:38:03 +0000

Dead Space already putt survival horror back on track, why do we need RE again?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:27:28 +0000

It might sound like heresy, but I suspect what they really need to do is take it first-person.

Sticking the camera so close to your character generates the effect you want but also restricts your view of what’s in front of you. Perhaps it’s time to give up on the third-person view altogether, like Left 4 Dead did.

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:24:05 +0000

“For the love of god, DROP the sidekick, and move the camera a bit, why the feck does Chris need to take up 1/3 of the screen real estate!?”

Because having a constricted feel of vision makes it harder to see what’s behind or to the side of you. It’s meant to make the atmosphere more intense, make you nervous about what you can’t see.

You know, the whole “horror” aspect of the the franchise.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:54:36 +0000

Gods, “real world” locations in RE sounds like a terrible idea.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:51:25 +0000

The series as it is has pretty much spun into non-sense so a full restart is probaly the best thing that could happen to it, either that or just leave the story at that and live of remakes and spin offs.

By: Soong

Soong — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:48:51 +0000

RE4>RE5

RE5 doesn’t even come close to RE4 unfortunately, hopefully the next game will be better again

By: Syrok

Syrok — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:45:36 +0000

@Xephon: Oxfort Street is a foreign location 99,99999% of the world population.

By: rix0r

rix0r — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:41:18 +0000

RIP RE

By: Xephon1970

Xephon1970 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:39:53 +0000

The foreign locations need to be dropped, I’d love to see a return to an urban setting (racing through Soho or down Oxford Street with a crowd of zombies chasing you…recognisable locations are the way to go). Left 4 Dead has shown the way forward in that regard, but I’d like a long single player adventure, with the emphasis on the survival horror, rather than the action. Proper puzzles too please.

Actually watched Dawn of the Dead yesterday (the remake), and the decent from normality to “end of the world” can be just as horrific if done right. A mix of flesh eaters too, fast and slow to please everyone.

Mind you, they’re never going to please everyone are they? I know Resi fans who think 4 was the wrong way to go.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:22:35 +0000

I still haven’t played it. It does seem to me, however, that they need to either go one way or the other. I think they may have been nervous about pissing “fans” off with 5, hence the weird camera and control decisions.

By: Zarckan

Zarckan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:07:58 +0000

For the love of god, DROP the sidekick, and move the camera a bit, why the feck does Chris need to take up 1/3 of the screen real estate!!!!!?!?!??!?!?

By: Blerk

Blerk — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:07:10 +0000

I think a full reboot is precisely what this series needs. I’d like to see them pull back a little on the ‘full-on-action’ route and come up with something more uniquely Resi. They need to get the atmosphere back in there, for a start.