Resident Evil Is a Child, Capcom and Fans Are Its Parents

[Loonerinoes]

The poor response to footage of 2K Marin's 1950s XCom FPS reboot seems to have prompted the hasty release of a more traditional XCom game from Firaxis.

Actually, there was nothing hasty about that at all. It has been stated, in many interviews with Jake Solomon (the lead designer) of XCOM: EU, that the game has been in production for 4 years at least, largely due to Jake's desire to create it. So it was being made for 3.5 years (or starting from 2008/2009 which is way before the XCOM FPS announcement) and only this year was its existance finally revealed.

Please do a bit better research before writing something like this.

 

[Raidenko]

Quick time events, sooo many quick time events...God I hope Yatzee rips the game a new one...

 

[vun]

I find comparing a game to a child a bit silly.
You raise a child as best you can so that it will be able to live on it's own when it grows up.
You make a game so that people will buy it. If we're calling the game a child then this would be having a child and raising it simply to please your wife, and then telling the wife you know what's best for the kid and not letting her have much of a say in it. Which pretty much defeats the purpose of the child in the first place. Like buying a car for your daughter's birthday and not letting her drive it while you drive around in it instead.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Jesus Christ this is demeaning. I'm not even a Resi fan but this just seems insulting to the fans. "Me and you are the parents, RE is the baby, and we're right and you're wrong."

 

[Brandon Logan]

It's pretty clear with a quick glance at the Metacritic User scores that some people are jumping on the Hate Bandwagon.

The critic reviews however are mixed. Which is what I would expect for a Resident Evil title.

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

There's a thalidomide joke in here somewhere...

 

[The White Hunter]

I don't blame the fans so much as I blame the all the generic military shooters and their fans. I mean, Resident Evil is a big series, but RE4 is one of their highest sellers and it didn't move so much as a fifth of what the Call of Duty games sell within their first week. Capcom likes money (as do we all), and wants to make more of it. So there you go. Besides, I think the 'fans' they did listen to are the CoD fans complaining about the controls and slower pace of the older games for being 'gay' and not 'hardcore' and since they're the ones dictating things these days, that's how things have gotten to the way they are. I enjoyed the demos, and will get RE6, and though I lament the loss of horror, it's still a good game in my opinion. If you have to be mad at anyone, I'd be mad at people like my best friend who won't even so much as look at a game if it isn't a brown 'n' gray military shooter.

Yup, you've hit the nail on the head. I personally prefer the direction 4 took, because it didn't look and control like arse or take itself too seriously, while maintaining an excellent atmosphere and being a chilling but thoroughly enjoyable experience. 5 less so, 6 even less so.

Though I'm fine with some action, it may have been better to launch spin offs or NEW IP's FOR IT CAPCOM!

 

[The White Hunter]

It's pretty clear with a quick glance at the Metacritic User scores that some people are jumping on the Hate Bandwagon.

The critic reviews however are mixed. Which is what I would expect for a Resident Evil title.

I read the user reviews on metacritic and a good 25% of them were about those islands being disputed between china and japan and a bunch of racist gibberish.

The rest was fan ire.

I stepped back from my RE4 fandom and replayed the demos, they're a passable and enjoyable action thing, but a poor horror thing. QTE's are fucking annoying though.

 

[FoolKiller]

Holy fuck 0.5 user score? I thought it would be getting a mediocre score, but not that bad, either that or people are just zero bombing it like they did with Mass Effect and such.

No. If you read them (and I got tired after about 20 to 25 of them, they have valid reasons for disliking the game. I too found the game to be utterly weak. I rather go back and play 4 and 5 again. The camera is something to die from. The biggest problem I have is not that its an action game... its just not a good action game either.

 

[GAunderrated]

Well if resident evil series is a child to capcom, then they are the mother who keeps getting pregnant so she can get more money from welfare. She doesn't give two craps about the kids and only sees them as a way to get more money for trying to support a child she cares nothing about.

captcha: full house

Yup if she keeps having all these kids it sure will be.

 

[Tallim]

"The way I always think of it is that if Resident Evil represents a child, then the fans and us as creators are the two parents," he told the PlayStation blog. "The resulting games are like the children that are born between both of us. And just like real parents, you're not always going to agree on what is best for raising that child."

With the what now?
That's such a weird analogy to use. Because in this case one of the parents (capcom) presumably wants to make a child that the other parent (the fans) wants to buy. Any way you choose to deconstruct that analogy yields a broken home and a screwed up kid.

His analogy works better for things like Elder Scrolls where Bathesda and the modders both shape what it ultimately becomes.

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

If capcom wants to sell their product at a chance of making decent revenue then they have no choice but to adapt what actually sells in the market

So essentially, turn your product into a shell of it's former self. Got it.

Then tell me how do you expect capcom to compete in this market anymore?? Games with pre-rendered backgrounds and tank controls "which i loved about most of the games" do not sell on the current market. This has been coming since the massive change in re4 which was more action oriented with qte's so either we learn to accept this or the franchise will die off completely. Hell maybe that would be the best thing after re6's story wrap up...

 

[oldtaku]

'the franchise's new, action-packed direction.'

Action, schmaction. I know some people have been complaining since RE4, but RE4 and RE5 were decent games (if hardly horror). RE6 is a sloppy turd that can't figure out what it is, decides to throw in every single mechanism from every previous game and all the spin-offs, and does none of them well.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Resident Evil Is a Child, Capcom and Fans Are Its Parents

Actually Resident Evil is a child, Capcom are the parents and the Fans are social services. It just so happens that the parents won't listen to professional advice, resulting in the child's suffering under the weight of it's parents' neglect.

 

[MrBaskerville]

I wouldn´t mind these new RE games if they weren´t so bland and boring. I highly enjoyed the old games and i highly enjoyed RE4, but RE 5 was just an annoying and unpleasant game to play. RE 6 seems to be both worse and better than the 5th game, Leon scenario seems decent, but i´d rather not play the rest, hated those parts in the demo. Unfortunately you have to suffer through 20 hours of Re5 gameplay to get to Adas scenario, which seems to be the most promising part of the game.

I´m defineately staying away from this one, i´m only interested in 2/4 of the game, and not interested enough to give Capcom any money. Personally i´d prefer if they stopped making AAA RE games and instead made some smaller games with a more defined and focused target audience. I hate these AAA games that are made to please every gamer in the world, just doesn´t give as good results as something made for a niche audicence.

 

[antipunt]

Soooo basically the typical K-drama bipolar relationship?

Also, the condom broke.

 

[antipunt]

I'm sure that people have played enough of the game on the day it was released to score it honestly/accurately and come up with a 0.5 average.

Sounds super legit.

Indeed. There are not really many well known games that are so bad that they deserve a score of less than 5/10, and none are so bad that they have absolutely nothing redeemable like a 0.5/10 would suggest.

People love to go to extremes though.

Hold up. Your avatar. What is that from? Is that a grown up version of Edward Elric?? :0

 

[masticina]

I think that if this game WASN"T a resident evil game it would work better. Why? Resident Evil is a label that comes with a few things. Obviously RE6 fails the RE test.

If it wasn't an RE.. sure.. sound interesting. As an RE it just hurts the fans giving it less a chance to shine on its own.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

That's an interesting way of looking at things. I haven't played the game yet, but the demo left me feeling a little down. Mainly because I couldn't figure out the controls. 1/2 a second on the loading screen to memorize all those buttons was not enough time. Also, the laser sight may as well not even be there because it's so faint.

You can move and shoot now though, which I seem to recall EVERYONE complaining about the lack of that feature in 4 and 5. Now though, the game's too action-packed. So...we go back to not moving and shooting then? Stand and shoot?

 

[JagermanXcell]

This is way to silly not to role play!: "In that case I want a divorce Capcom! Do you enjoy screwing up our child telling him he should fit in with the in-crowd action games instead of being unique a horror game?! And you wonder why our Dante is a smoker! Its your fault! You ruined this family! D':<