| Airaku said: As a hardcore long time RE fan. I need to agree to disagree. 5 and 6 was very much liked by the average gamer. RE5 in general was hailed as one of the best games last generation. It was a real technical advancement and even stands up to many games of this generation. The game it self was very good despite the horror elements not being there. I would actually place it in the top 5 RE games. The co-op was great and the story was fairly good. The problem was is that it was very focused on Albert Wesker, which means it had to be a bit more action based due to the direction of the plot. The story with Resident Evil is taken very seriously and will likely continue to do so moving forward. Resident Evil 6 was a decent game, but it fell flat for a fair few reasons. The story was good for the most part, but then shit the bed with the whole Ada bullshit. I've talked to a lot of people who actually say that RE6 is their favorite game in the series, and even very much one of their all time favorite games. So RE6 is hailed with a certain crowd. I think this is more due to the story and the game really excelled here and there with the gameplay, but shit the bed a little more at times. It's by no means a terrible game. Also the game was a critical commercial success. Capcom was just hoping for 10 million sales, which is unrealistic. Especially since they consider anything over 800k sales as being successful. Of course the budget of RE6 was out of this world. So no. In the end the games were not failures or can they even be considered "bad games" no matter what anyone will argue. The fans maybe vocal about it, but unfortunately we are a minority and that is a fact. Luckily Capcom is looking at us and wants to appeal more to the fans. They did this very well with the Revelation games and many fans well normally top the best 3 games as RE2, Revelations 2, and RE4 depending on who you ask. RE7 success will likely come from both it's gameplay and story. Capcom has created a pathway and a way to bring us a fantastic story and great horror gameplay if they don't fuck this one up. Albert Wesker was about the bad ass action. Alex Wesker is about the fear and horrors. If Capcom plays their cards right, they have a very good villain and the last "leftovers" of Umbrella.... ugh if you even consider her to really have much to do with Umbrella... The whole game could even take place within Natalia's consciousness with Alex haunting her and they could literally create a acid trip of horrors. There is also Shenya Pharmaceuticals to deal with. Which wiped out Tri-Cell and is likely the company that Ada was working for in RE2. They also are Umbrella's rival company, and is based in China. So there's that. Oh and Alex Wesker also worked with them, this is all current canon btw. RE7 will hopefully take place in 2017, 20 years after the Raccoon City event. |
Capcom is looking at us because of the reasons I said, RE before RE4 fell into decline because after RE2 the ideas were running dry and each new installment with the exception of CV was inferior to the last. The reason for this was because Capcom was only developing with the mindset that the average gamer liked this and that but they found out that the average gamer doesn't stick around and consistently buy the games of the series, the result is that by the time RE4 came along the series was in trouble and even people at Capcom didn't want to wark on the series as a result.
The average gamer may like RE5 and RE6 but as seen the was a decline in sales from the former to the latter and the may be another decline between RE6 to RE7 as a result of the inconsistency after RE4. To put it bluntly the average gamer is nothing more than a short term fix if fundamental issues aren't really addressed. RE5 wasn't hailed like you say it was it was seen as a decent game with a great co-op aspect, without the co-op the game was very average and would have been panned while RE6 was panned universally by both fans and critics.
