Cliffy B Offers to Help Capcom Fix Resident Evil

[Beryl77]

I'm not his biggest fan but I'm sure he can make more than just the GoW type of game. I really don't mind him trying his luck with the next RE game. It's at such a low, it can't get any worse.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

No series is bad because it's holding back gaming. However, this industry is built around rip-off-sploitation these days. Gears of War was successful? Now every other third person action game tries to copy it.

And let's face it, if Cliffy was given the driver's seat for RE7, it would be because some big shot at Capcom said "He can make RE7 a better Gears clone than RE6 was," not because he had some new or neat ideas to revitalize the RE series.

Then it shouldn't also be considered bad just because it set an influential standard (which it really didn't, if you think about it).

Also, whether Capcom would bring him on for that reason or not (and I doubt it would be, RE6 was panned for that very reason), the main issue people have been bringing up is the fact that Cliff made the Gears series, thus in their minds he is not qualified to offer anything else to a series like Resident Evil.

To be honest, I almost believe that Cliff was being facetious with that tweet considering the third-person-shooter genre that he capitalized on was initially made popular by RE4.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

Oh ho, good one Cliffy, you disgusting turd. We're talking about the man who had the balls to suggest multiplayer for Fatal Frame here. A man who is such a titanic black hole of talent and taste that the mere off-hand suggestion that he should be involved in a franchise from my childhood sends shivers down the back of my neck, down my spine and up my sack.
Even as broken and revoltingly fucked up as Resident Evil has gotten (and it is fucked up, don't anyone try and convince me otherwise), Cliffy B (still a shite name) could always make it so much worse. This puddle of piss really needs to fuck off someplace inhospitable and stay there.

Well, that's that rant over. I'm gonna go lock myself in the red room for a while.
(come to think of it, I didn't actually make a point here did I?)

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

piss off, Cliff. One problem: I actually found RE6 to be FUN, something I could NEVER find in GoW which is why I didn't bother with 2 and 3. It was a boring, mediocre, macho masturbation fest that felt like it was written by an insecure teenager and didn't at least have fun gameplay to alleviate that. I at least had fun with RE6 (some parts of Chris' campaign notwithstanding). So, no, do not approach the series because you would just damage it.

 

[Vivi22]

Oh yes, because Gears of War is so well known for its psychological development, deep characters, subtlety and atmosphere.

Are you trying to imply that Resident Evil is known for those things? Because I might agree with you if we were talking about the first two, maybe four games (up to Code Veronica perhaps), although I wouldn't say any of them had deep characters or much subtlety. But either way they left that behind so long ago that there's really nothing left of any of that since RE4.

But on the plus side, at least if Cliff Bleszinksi got his hands on the series it probably wouldn't control like complete ass. Even if all it did was play exactly like Gears of War, it would be an improvement over what it is now: a game trying to be GOW but without any of what makes it even somewhat fun.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Everyone coming here to display hate about Cliffy B is making me laugh real hard. They forget that Resident Evil has sucked for a longer time in much worse manners than Gears of War.



Guys it was a joke relax. Cliffy B isn't going to touch your beloved mediocre Resident Evil games.

 

[47_Ronin]

I was ready to hop on this thread to crack a humorous comment on how Cliff would in fact further ruin the series thusly making some references to his past work. I see now my services are not, in fact, needed.

 

[Korzack]

Actually, Cliff in charge of a Resi game would probably be awesome if they went down the self-satire road, like the game itself's face-palming when a scientist who should know better decided "Yeah sure, I'll inject myself with hideous bastard mutator-virus, because nothing at all will go wrong"
...
While behind a chest-high-wall.

 

[Shirokurou]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic?
Cliffy makers action games, exactly the type Resi is trying to be.
In a sense, Cliffy already fixed RE into the point it is in now.

 

[Nimzabaat]

Oh yes, because Gears of War is so well known for its psychological development, deep characters, subtlety and atmosphere.

Dom is better characterized than any Resident Evil character. Play the GoW series in order and you'll see that it's true.

 

[Erttheking]

Oh wow, the Escapist really has a lot of pent up hatred.

 

[Shadowstar38]

It's obviously but joke. But really, if he did get a shot to help with the next Resident Evil it could go either way. There are probably plenty of guys that can work on more than one genre. He can't make it worse than what it is at the very least.

 

[MortisLegio]

So Cliffy B. offered to help Capcom with the Resident Evil franchise. I don't see what the big deal is.

 

[fozzy360]

What started as a tongue-in-cheek joke meant to poke fun at RE6 for its numerous shortcomings and deservedly tepid reviews has now escalated into a full-on Cliffy B hate train.

That's why I love the internet. All aboard!

 

[Tradjus]

I don't think that what the Resident Evil series needs is more Steroids, and people wearing refrigerators for armor.
What it needs is a total reboot that completely obliterates with fire the entire ridiculous lore they've built up, restarting with actual, survival horror.
No more ridiculous B.S, just straight up Slender/Amnesia style Survival Horror. Actual effective Survival Horror that doesn't leave everyone angry and depressed like the last couple Resident Evil Games.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

How CliffyB would fix Resi6

-Map as many actions as possible to the A button
-Include more chest high walls
-Cancel the PC port

That's it, 10/10 GOTY material.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Considering how well the entire Gears of War series did and that there was no steady decline in that series (i'm looking at you Bioware!!!) It's really funny to think that anyone would consider Cliff's input into the next Resident Evil as a bad thing. I mean he already stated that the overly muscled COGs weren't part of his initial concept for GoW. I think he could bring a lot of good ideas to Resident Evil. On the other hand, RE couldn't get possibly any worse...

Gotta agree with this. Underneath the ham fisted aspects of Gears, there was a real sense of character and atmosphere, especially in the first game. At the very least, Cliff would ensure RE was actually a solid action game instead of a weak cobbled together survival horror action game mess.

 

[revjay]

Let me guess...

Resi 7 will forget what color is, will have hyper-masculine male characters with hyper-masculine idiot lines, and will be even more poorly written?

Cliffy B isn't in a position to talk about fixing things, he's better at breaking them. Maybe that's the joke.

Don't forget corridors full of waist high walls for cover and 3rd person shooting "action". Oh and a shotgun with a chainsaw attached. And fist bumping.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Oh wow, the Escapist really has a lot of pent up hatred.

Yeah, this is especially sad because these people who are coming on this thread just to harp on Cliffy B are most likely to claim that "opinions are subjective and there for can't be measured" when its something they like.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Sadly with all of this talk of adding "chest high walls to Resi 7" its clear that most people on this thread are just here to hate on CLiffy B like he was the new EA. Clearly not one of them has played Resi 6, which hasn't its fair share of chest high walls...