thesaunderschild
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This isn't really a discussion about the RE2 remake, but you can mention that if you want. As it is a remake though, it shouldn't really count in a topic about the canonical side of the series, because we don't know enough about it yet. But with that said, I just think that the series has generally not been going anywhere since, what year? 2005? 2009? 2012? Who really knows when it went weird...
Technically, I don't think the franchise is dead overall. Capcom ain't gonna shoot a cow if it still makes them milk, huh? However, it could be argued that certain aspects of it is already dead, perhaps. My point is that I just hate how every game (even if it's fairly good) is its own thing, distinct from other sequels. Like, they can do all these side story games and all, but that's all they really will be remembered as. Then they do another sequel or spin off game sooner or later that uses the same tactics. They may bring back old-school characters, but the plot and all is otherwise complete nonsense. It doesn't really tie into the rest of the games in the series a great deal either and while it sets up a possible follow-up that we don't get, I really hate that. They usually never resolve that stuff, unless it's done via some other forms of interconnected media that few people know of. Manga books?
When the characters fought Umbrella all those years ago, we should have got a proper game to end that rather than what 4 was with Leon fighting the villagers. That's just my opinion. I'm not talking about this Red ("Umbrella Corps") Umbrella vs. Chris' good Blue Umbrella crap that they made up in 7 with Shemp Redfield now in the mix. To me, even if they do further "Revelations" type games or more animated films, the stories don't usually lead anywhere anyway. To me, it's like Capcom just does it mostly to milk it more and bringing back characters that is what fans want is like a ploy to get people suckered in, but that wouldn't be so bad if the story was meaningful like it was from 1996 up to 2005 when it still felt like Resident Evil. It's like they just bring them back and dig bigger plot holes. I'm aware that it's just a game. It's not the end of the world when a franchise ends up like this and people give me grief for saying all of this stuff, as if I'm nuts or something, but it's kind of embarrassing that they cannot just stick to one story, instead of introducing too many plot aspects all at once. Because games do take years to make and we do have to wait a long time, but then as I said, we practically have a repeat whenever a new game comes out. The characters are sent away on some mission and it's like I'm in The Twilight Zone now or something, because they're just there and it's like it just feels forced. To me, 7 didn't feel like an actual sequel to 6. That was not their intention, sure, but they are almost completely separate games. It also doesn't help that a lot of modern games in the series are action games pretending to be horror games, while copying other titles made by different developers. Even when they try to make a horror type game again, it's not that original, because you can tell they cut and paste stuff from movies. After so many years of that kind of stuff, I began to catch on to what Capcom was doing and my interest in my #1 saga has been declining.
Also, how many replica mansions does this Spencer guy even have? RE1. RE5. RE: Vendetta. RE: Code Veronica. That's one other thing that tends to bug me. It's just so cheap to take what was the best parts of something from the past and convert it into something new for to make an easy profit. As in recycling it all. Maybe that's why we get so many spin off games set in 1998. But, anyway, let me know what you think the future holds for this franchise.
Technically, I don't think the franchise is dead overall. Capcom ain't gonna shoot a cow if it still makes them milk, huh? However, it could be argued that certain aspects of it is already dead, perhaps. My point is that I just hate how every game (even if it's fairly good) is its own thing, distinct from other sequels. Like, they can do all these side story games and all, but that's all they really will be remembered as. Then they do another sequel or spin off game sooner or later that uses the same tactics. They may bring back old-school characters, but the plot and all is otherwise complete nonsense. It doesn't really tie into the rest of the games in the series a great deal either and while it sets up a possible follow-up that we don't get, I really hate that. They usually never resolve that stuff, unless it's done via some other forms of interconnected media that few people know of. Manga books?
When the characters fought Umbrella all those years ago, we should have got a proper game to end that rather than what 4 was with Leon fighting the villagers. That's just my opinion. I'm not talking about this Red ("Umbrella Corps") Umbrella vs. Chris' good Blue Umbrella crap that they made up in 7 with Shemp Redfield now in the mix. To me, even if they do further "Revelations" type games or more animated films, the stories don't usually lead anywhere anyway. To me, it's like Capcom just does it mostly to milk it more and bringing back characters that is what fans want is like a ploy to get people suckered in, but that wouldn't be so bad if the story was meaningful like it was from 1996 up to 2005 when it still felt like Resident Evil. It's like they just bring them back and dig bigger plot holes. I'm aware that it's just a game. It's not the end of the world when a franchise ends up like this and people give me grief for saying all of this stuff, as if I'm nuts or something, but it's kind of embarrassing that they cannot just stick to one story, instead of introducing too many plot aspects all at once. Because games do take years to make and we do have to wait a long time, but then as I said, we practically have a repeat whenever a new game comes out. The characters are sent away on some mission and it's like I'm in The Twilight Zone now or something, because they're just there and it's like it just feels forced. To me, 7 didn't feel like an actual sequel to 6. That was not their intention, sure, but they are almost completely separate games. It also doesn't help that a lot of modern games in the series are action games pretending to be horror games, while copying other titles made by different developers. Even when they try to make a horror type game again, it's not that original, because you can tell they cut and paste stuff from movies. After so many years of that kind of stuff, I began to catch on to what Capcom was doing and my interest in my #1 saga has been declining.
Also, how many replica mansions does this Spencer guy even have? RE1. RE5. RE: Vendetta. RE: Code Veronica. That's one other thing that tends to bug me. It's just so cheap to take what was the best parts of something from the past and convert it into something new for to make an easy profit. As in recycling it all. Maybe that's why we get so many spin off games set in 1998. But, anyway, let me know what you think the future holds for this franchise.
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