Where will the Resident Evil Remakes Lead Us?

January 21st 1998 this is the original release date of the original Resident Evil 2, a game that was very special in the video game industry, as the Resident Evil series became huge and with this sequel, it changed the video game industry, unlike the first one it was slightly more open and had fewer puzzles. It was the first sighting of the legendary character of Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop that got sent to work during a bad day. A virus was accidentally released into Racoon city and with few survivors, Leon teams up with another stranger in the city, Claire Redfield who at first seems like Leon, someone who was just there and having a bad day, but anyone who had played the first game, you would recognise the Redfield name, so something must have been going on here. All this adds up for a very interesting game, but not “unspooky” as infected jump out at you from random corners as well as broken windows, and as an oversized grey man in a trench coat bursts through hard brick walls like butter. Yet a very amazing game for its time was made even better later on, as nearly 21 years later a remake was released and it truly made the game better. An unfixed camera and a much needed graphical update.

 

And then a year after that remake came the next one, the Resident Evil 3 remake, which we knew was coming as the RE 2 remake sold and reviewed amazingly so why wouldn’t this one? Well, it did sell well, not as well as the RE 2 remake, but well enough. And in my opinion, it was simply not as good as RE 2, but since its a remake we can’t blame the new version but the old one. But still one must think. When will these remakes end? How far can we go until we go too far? Some think this remake age we live in is bad for the industry, I don’t think that way. As some games from the past deserve a new coat of paint and even these amazing games can age badly. On the other hand, it can stagnate change as we live in the past, stagnate minds as new ideas won’t be allowed in. Whichever side you fall on, one still must think if Capcom will just realise the whole RE series again, and eventually throw out another RE 6? And unlike me, most people won’t want that. And so after the success of all these remakes, a rumour of an RE 4 remake was thrown around. Which in a way was sad.

The reason I felt sad for this remake is that I truly believe RE 4 is a perfect game and you can find many people over the internet that feel the same as me. The story is a cheesy movie like an adventure with evil zombie cults and deep government conspiracies. Unneeded backflips are thrown around whenever the game director wanted. And so realism is not what this game needs, which I don’t think a modern AAA games industry understands. RE 4 was a perfect game at a perfect time, just as the interest for creepy games like RE 2 was dying down, action games like RE were only just setting off and Shinji Mikami could see that. So I don’t think the RE 4 remake will do well, they simply won’t understand what made a game like this special. It understood what it was and played into it. But there is always the chance the RE 4 remake will be just as good. And I wouldn’t want anything more than that.
 

Archil Ninua,
Junior Editor, NoobFeed
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