shikamaru317 said:
Are you implying that there wasn't a market for the last few Resident Evil games? 5 has the highest sales in the series, 6 sold nearly as well, and 7, in spite of it's radical change to the formula by going first person, has still sold nearly 6m copies and is Capcom's 5th bestselling game of all-time. Even the 5 and 6 ports on current gen have sold over 1m with no graphical upgrades aside from higher resolution: http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/finance/million.html But I agree that Res 2 Remake looks good for sure. This might be the first horror game I play myself instead of watching a Let's Play of (I'm usually too chicken to play horror games). |
There was a market for sure, but the fans of the original two were mostly quite disappointed with the direction the modern ones took. I for one enjoyed RE7 though, even though it technically deviates the most from the established structure of RE overall, as far as gameplay and narrative are concerned, it was the first truly scary RE game in ages and had an incredible atmosphere.
It's kind of like WoW, it had a big fanbase, and this grew only larger, but the original fanbase didn't like the directions it started taking, these are now thrilled to have WoW Classic released, which returns to the roots.
