Dango said:
I actually like Resident Evil 6 quite a a bit. I'd rank it, or at most of it, above 5, which became a pretty tedious slog. I never really understood the hate for 6, which I think mostly came from bitterness over being focused more on action than survival-horror. To me Resident Evil never was survival-horror though, it was a series of adventure games wrapped up in nonsense. I didn't mind 6 because it was just another silly game in a series of games that were always hard for me to take seriously, not to mention 6 is somehow the peak of writing for the series, as it actually feels the dialog was written by humans who at some point have interacted with other humans.
Actually, I agree with you. I liked Resident Evil 6 quite a bit, and there are some genuine criticisms that can be leveled at it, but for all of those critiques (which I'll fairly address), the
only thing I heard people bitching about when the demo first came out was the increased level of action. "It has tanks! It's become Call of Duty!" which is what everyone used to say about everything back then if the game happened to have guns in it. Did you think the BSAA would be under-equipped for the task of fighting bio-terrorism? At this point in the canon, everyone knows what they're up against. Tanks would be mandatory. A team of soldiers armed with automatic weapons? Makes sense to me.
Now what you could rightfully hate about the game is it's inconsistent difficulty level and goddamned quick-time events that can't be stopped by your partner, even if they're right goddamn there. And the failures for said QTEs are a long cut-scene where we are shown without a doubt that our character is now surely dead. Some of these sequences took as long as 45 seconds, and I already know I'm fucking dead
just let me hit continue so I can try your stupid QTE bullshit again. I think the most infamous of these set pieces for me was the one where the discount Regenerator attempts to shove Leon into a meat grinder, and you gotta waggle that analogue stick like you're going to break it if you don't want to be met with a fucking long death-sequence.
But lets face facts - Resident Evil has been pretty stupid for a long time now. Resident Evil 4 may have been a great game all on it's own, but that's where shit got goofy for the series as a whole. Helicopter support, running from boulders all Indiana Jones style, a villain who was seriously just a Spanish Napoleon, and a weird hooded cult with unclear motivations, complete with a castle filled with death traps.
I'm not so sure a reboot would save the franchise however, since Capcom seems pretty intent to ride the Revelations series and continue to sell the older games back to us as many times as they can. I mean, this is a company that knows for a fact that there is a huge fanbase chomping at the bit for a new Mega Man game so hard that they were willing to Kickstart a new franchise just to get it, but Capcom would rather hold a grudge than release any new content.
