dilent hill needs to be metaphorical again. it was never straight horror so much as it was a psychological thriller. Silent Hill needs depth, and a lot of it, not the trend of putting nurses into every game. Nurses were a reflection of sh2 protagonists feeling about objectification of women.

Start with an interesting main character and go from there. Maybe a grifter who swindled people out of fortunes or a gameshow host who killed his parents. Then come up with a backstory and enemies that fit his twisted views of the world. It's so simple.

RE: re4 was great but you need to stop the over the top bullshit. Isolation is a central part of the mood and it's just been lost. IMO re should function somewhat similarly to super metroid. Be able to rummage through set areas and blow out walls to find caches of money and dog tags or powerups, and keep the feeling as isolated as possible. No overaching villains. A smart villain is not a compelling rival, it is the unstoppable overwhelming sense of dread that accompanies the horde of mindless zombies and animals that makes resident evil feel scary.

Resident Evil: No problem, it still sells a shit ton. But they've been overmilking it lately. Counting HD ports, I think there were something like 38 Resident Evil titles released in the last 12 months. Maybe take a year off or something, focus on making Resident Evil 7 for PS4/Nextbox super awesome, and rake in the moneys.

Final Fantasy: Farm this bitch out to Mistwalker. Buy Sakaguchi a new surfboard if he's still butthurt.

Silent Hill: Get Grasshopper to make Silent Hill 5. I'd love to see what Suda and Yamaoka could do with it. Yamaoka's music IS Silent Hill, and it would be nice to see Suda make something twisted and fucked up again instead of comedy-horror.

Devil May Cry: Hire Platinum. All problems solved.

Thats the thing. The companies wich those people left are too proud to hire them back.

Devil may cry is the obvious one. Capcom would let them make the game and bam you have DMC5. But, do Capcom execs swallow their pride and go ask them that? I doubt it.

Lol. You lost all your credibility when you listed Resident Evil 4 as a bad RE game. I don't think any of these series have died except Silent Hill, where I most certainly agree with you. But that has more to do with the horror genre dying.

I can only really comment on RE. I Agree on most of what you said. But 4 had the best balance with classic and modern (if you can call it that), than 5 or 6. I do want them to return to the core elements of RE. Except the camera angle positions, and typewriter saving.

Companies really shouldn't try to always go for everyone. You end up losing the core people that loved the series the way it was. This can cause a backfire. And make the game look bad over time. I wouldn't touch FF anymore. Once I saw a lot of people complain about it. RE is meant to be a horror game. I got scared in all the RE games till 4. That has to come back. 6 was a joke. I just ran past most of the stuff. It wasn't fun.

Where did i write resident evil 4 was a bad game? i said i lost faith from 4 onwards, and i said, they arent bad games, they're good actions games, but poor resident evil games...I didnt say it was a bad game at all

They can't be "saved" in terms of internet acceptance. After a certain point, people complain about ANYTHING you produce. That's the flaw with IPs that go on for 6+ versions.

With Final Fantasy, for example, a lot of the people who buy the game don't even like RPGs. I mean, seriously, think about that for a second. Millions of people who don't like RPGs buy Final Fantasy and then they complain about it, then they do the same thing with the next version. A large number of people won't be happy no matter what.

With most of these series, people will pick out their favorite version and say "make this over and over and over"; after awhile, of course, they'll start to complain about it being stale, but if you change, THEY WILL STILL COMPLAIN. It's amusing but it's also kind of sad.

With older IPs, it's always a lose/lose scenario, but the sales are always better than new IP, so publishers milk something as long as they can, knowing that it will one day reach a point where the fanbase will be impossible to please.

Personally, I hate it when I see this happen. Many people stop being objective. I've played so many games that I thought were good, only to look on the internet and see that I'm supposed to hate it because it's different from other games in the series.

Wait a second so you lost faith in Resident Evil when you played RE4? LOL dude that is not only the best RE it's one of the best games ever!

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Then how come it sold less than Resident Evil 2? Yes it was a good game, im not deneying that, but I don't think it made a good "Resident Evil game"  I Don't agree with it being the Best RE game either, Resident evil REmake on the gamecube will always be my favorite... and thats coming from a Sony fan boy