Resident Evil is dead.

Shinji Mikami has left the team, so yeah, i'd say Resident Evil is done.

Undead.

Why do people always rant before even trying the game out?  It does seem like there's things I don't agree with in the formula of RE5.  I think Capcom is using RE as a money machine, what with all the RE rails shooter spinoffs for the last few years.  All the remakes and ports.

Isn't this the first game in the franchise to be given to a Western developer? There ya go...

Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays.

"Why do people always rant before even trying the game out?  It does seem like there's things I don't agree with in the formula of RE5.  I think Capcom is using RE as a money machine, what with all the RE rails shooter spinoffs for the last few years.  All the remakes and ports."

"Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays."

"Diamond said:

"Why do people always rant before even trying the game out?  It does seem like there's things I don't agree with in the formula of RE5.  I think Capcom is using RE as a money machine, what with all the RE rails shooter spinoffs for the last few years.  All the remakes and ports."

In defense of RE, not everything with the franchise name slapped on it is bad. I've enjoyed plenty of the RE spin-off games, particularly Outbreak I &II and Umbrella Chronicles."

"Isn't this the first game in the franchise to be given to a Western developer? There ya go..."

You thinking of Dead Rising 2?"

"Dead Rising 2 doesn't have a western developer does it?Neither does this..."

Maybe it does have something to do with us RE Fans living in the past but back then RE games were scary with its outdated Pre-rendered Camera Angles.  What made Resident Evil Resident Evil seems to been  taken out of Re4 and RE5. Not that I had no problem with the series we reinventing itself  with RE4 which it kinda had to.  

"Arkthemaniac said:

"Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays."

Dead Space"

"Diamond said:

"Arkthemaniac said:

"Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays."

Dead Space"

Dead Space isn't survival horror. The Fatal Frame games, on the other hand, are good examples of recent, awesome survival horror games. If they would just localize the fourth one..."

"I understand that the fans of RE4 are not fans of RE Series or better yet they never played a single RE title till RE4."

Okay, I'm sick of this.  We all KNEW this was coming.  With the fall of the Umbrella Corportation in the main storyline, we all KNEW that the horror aspect of the series was over.  Resident Evil 4 presented very few scares, which really isn't a big deal.  How many more cheap dog-through-window jumps do you want?  Really?  Resident Evil 5 is very close to what Resident Evil 4 was, and Resident Evil 4 received an enormous amount of positive reception from critics and fans alike.  Now this game comes out, essentially the same game with a new story and several improvements and it's suddenly a total departure from the series.  What the hell?

It's sad to see the survival horror theme of the series pass, but that doesn't make the game bad for taking a more action-oriented approach.  It makes it different, but not bad.  It really just sounds like you WANT to hate the game.

Resident Evil as one of the founders of the Survival Horror genre, should never become an action-oriented franchise. NEVER and NEVER, that's simply unacceptable. Unfortunately, that's irreversible at this point.

The Survival Horror genre is dying very quickly and only very few Survival Horror franchises are still there: Silent Hill, Siren (which was created by one of the developers of Silent Hill), Fatal Frame... ummm...

I don't really care anymore about the Resident Evil franchise. That's it.

I'd say that Resident Evil 5 looks like a great game as a whole, but not really a Resident Evil game per se.

"Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays."

How about you focus on the gameplay and not the title?  If this game wasn't called "RE5," it wouldn't be bashed nearly as much.  It's still at least a solid to great game.

"How about you focus on the gameplay and not the title?  If this game wasn't called "RE5," it wouldn't be bashed nearly as much.  It's still at least a solid to great game."

"liquidsol said:

"How about you focus on the gameplay and not the title?  If this game wasn't called "RE5," it wouldn't be bashed nearly as much.  It's still at least a solid to great game."

Yeah, I was reading a review and they brought up an interesting point; most of the negative things about the game is due to expectations not being met. It is very difficult--near impossible, in fact--to improve upon Resident Evil 4, for those who enjoyed Resident Evil 4. But, if you go into Resident Evil 5 without incredibly high expectations, you will find yourself enjoying it quite a lot."

Dead to you maybe. Everyone else will be buying RE5 and having a blast. I couldn't play the old Resident evil games. I liked them somewhat but I got tired of moving like a tank, shooting down hallways I couldn't see because the camera was pointed at my face, and finding multiple shapes of keys. Capcom brought the game to modern standards with RE4 which is one of my favorite games of all time and are continuing it in RE5. The fact is you are a minority, a niche. Capcom wants money so they will appeal to the majority. At least it is still a great game in it's own right. If you hadn't played the old games you might like this one. They could of gone whole hog and made it a gears clone but they didn't. I personally can't wait to play this game. By making Resident Evil modern they are making it continue to live and not die. Had they not done what they did with RE4, Resident Evi would of been dead a long time ago.

"Dead to you maybe. Everyone else will be buying RE5 and having a blast. I couldn't play the old Resident evil games. I liked them somewhat but I got tired of moving like a tank, shooting down hallways I couldn't see because the camera was pointed at my face, and finding multiple shapes of keys. Capcom brought the game to modern standards with RE4 which is one of my favorite games of all time and are continuing it in RE5. The fact is you are a minority, a niche. Capcom wants money so they will appeal to the majority. At least it is still a great game in it's own right. If you hadn't played the old games you might like this one. They could of gone whole hog and made it a gears clone but they didn't. I personally can't wait to play this game. By making Resident Evil modern they are making it continue to live and not die. Had they not done what they did with RE4, Resident Evi would of been dead a long time ago."

I have to say, making resident evil an action game can only go wrong, since TPS has been done better pretty much everywhere

"Icemael said:

"Diamond said:

"Arkthemaniac said:

"Let's just face it. There's no good Surrival Horror games nowadays."

Dead Space"

Dead Space isn't survival horror. The Fatal Frame games, on the other hand, are good examples of recent, awesome survival horror games. If they would just localize the fourth one..."

People have different definitions of survival horror.  Actually I take back what I said about Dead Space, I agree that isn't survival horror.Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead are the only 2 survival horror games ever."

Game first, judgment later.

Resident Evil was never scary. Unless not being able to aim worth a damn is your idea of horror.

Most of yall are correct about Resident  Evil  needing to change and RE4 brought that change and put it on top of everything else.  I am not saying Resident Evil needed to keep the tank like controls or pre-deterimined camera angles to make it scary. I am saying they need to make the game what the first trailer  was shown to us. Remember that trailer folks the one where Chris was walking down a hallway or alley way and then a swarm of enemies came to rush him. That was tense because it was implied that the enemies would rush u and not stop then attack. 

No, it's not dead. RE5 may be disappointing to some, but RE6 is supposed to "revamp" the formula. Also, Darkside Chronicles for Wii . . . and this isn't me preferring Wii or anything . . . looks pretty awesome.

Maybe, but i don't anticipate it being much of a problem.