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Resident Evil: Code Veronica is Being Remade & Deep in Development. Target of Release is First Half 2027 (NateTheHate)

Hawk The Slayer said:
This sounds absolutely perfect!

Good thing they learn their lesson after RE3 Remake which I still like a lot but was definitely disappointed by it. So we'll get the expanded Gravedigger like experience and the semi open exploring that was suppose to be for RE3R before they half ass it.

No enemies being cut is very good to hear so we'll even see the Black Widow. The "greatly" reimagined parts gets me hyped a lot too as I can see massive improvements for enemies since as the Sweeper, Bandersnatch, Moth creatures, Tyrant, Nosferatu, Steve, and Alexia.

It seems to combine the best possible features like having the story change a good amount to give us a lot of surprise since it won't be a 1.1 remake while also not making it short and not cutting out any enemies.

I really think this has potential to be the best Resident Evil remake of all times. While not a lot of people view the original CV as the best but it always has that potential because of the material it had like setting, characters, enemies etc. So this Remake could very well show CV's true potential and become the best RE remake or even RE game.
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It seems like Capcom is substituting the 'cross dressing' thing for being more Nazi-like... which sounds kind of boring to me. I really liked Alfred as a villain in the original Code Veronica, he had a great level of insanity to him. Otherwise, if this is true... the open world aspect seems interesting.

I will say the zombies were one of the bigger disappointments in the original Code Veronica overall. You couldn't dismember them like you could in RE2. No decapitations via head shots or missing limbs for some reason. That was always one of the bigger head scratchers, really.

I do think Code Veronica has a lot of room for re-imagining. Which might make it a good remake candidate. It is a much more divisive game than RE2 or RE3.
 
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MrCunningham said:
It seems like Capcom is substituting the 'cross dressing' thing for being more Nazi-like... which sounds kind of boring to me. I really liked Alfred as a villain in the original Code Veronica, he had a great level of insanity to him. Otherwise, if this is true... the open world aspect seems interesting.

I will say the zombies were one of the bigger disappointments in the original Code Veronica overall. You couldn't dismember them like you could in RE2. No decapitations via head shots or missing limbs for some reason. That was always one of the bigger head scratchers, really.

I do think Code Veronica has a lot of room for re-imagining. Which might make it a good remake candidate. It is a much more divisive game than RE2 or RE3.
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My worry for Code Veronica is Capcom has largely cut out sections in their remakes and Code Veronica already felt incredibly disjointed and needs the opposite treatment.
 
bender said:
My worry for Code Veronica is Capcom has largely cut out sections in their remakes and Code Veronica already felt incredibly disjointed and needs the opposite treatment.
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All we can go on is speculation via one person who claims to know what's going on internally at Capcom. I agree with some of the omissions with RE2R and RE3R... it seem like with this one there may be an effort to make Code Veronica feel more cohesive? The original game always felt like it had a rushed development scheduled. I do like the open ended island and motorcycle idea. I hope its not too needlessly open ended. It seems like there will be more emphasis on Wesker. I would imagine that they would keep the entire Antarctica section.
 
MrCunningham said:
All we can go on is speculation via one person who claims to know what's going on internally at Capcom. I agree with some of the omissions with RE2R and RE3R... it seem like with this one there may be an effort to make Code Veronica feel more cohesive? The original game always felt like it had a rushed development scheduled. I do like the open ended island and motorcycle idea. I hope its not too needlessly open ended. It seems like there will be more emphasis on Wesker. I would imagine that they would keep the entire Antarctica section.
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It's been a while, but Antartica is about half of the original game, no? Seems like that would be hard to cut. I just worry about how much effort is put into Code Veronica as its' statue is much less than even RE3 which felt incredibly rushed.
 
bender said:
It's been a while, but Antartica is about half of the original game, no? Seems like that would be hard to cut. I just worry about how much effort is put into Code Veronica as its' statue is much less than even RE3 which felt incredibly rushed.
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Yes. The original Dreamcast game takes up two GD-ROM's. The first disc is on the prison island. The second disc shifts to Antarctica. But Chris becomes playable in disc 2 and you do return to the island.
 
Danjin44 said:
All I know 100% GAF going to hate on the game once it's officially announced.
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Truth.

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The island is probably 70% of the original game. I'd happily have that trimmed down a bit in the REmake, and the Antarctica section expanded.
 
NeoIkaruGAF said:
It's be hilarious if the one thing that everyone hated in MP4 made its way into Resident Evil.
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Village, even with its much smaller semi-open world area was already a bit of an overkill. Capcom doing the same with CV and Requiem would be a huge bummer.
 
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All they need to do is to write Steve in a way that the player doesn't have to feel second hand embarrassment when he speaks

Please Capcom
 
YES this is going to be great, I have loved every remake Capcom has done and Code Veronica is long overdue. Cant wait to see how they bring it across to new platforms, hopefully they get the balance right with ensuring fans of the original are happy whilst at the same time pulling in new gamers.
Capcom has shown great ability on modernizing their games and bringing them up to date without losing the essence of the original games.
 
People that think REmake doesn't need a ReREmake are cuckoo en la cabeza. Add third person over the shoulder perspective and make it play like RE2R & RE4R. That would make the game timeless and forever end shitty tank controls and crappy ass shooting mechanics. Perfect anniversary game.
 
HYDE said:
People that think REmake doesn't need a ReREmake are cuckoo en la cabeza. Add third person over the shoulder perspective and make it play like RE2R & RE4R. That would make the game timeless and forever end shitty tank controls and crappy ass shooting mechanics. Perfect anniversary game.
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I think that is the longer term goal here. To remake all off the mainline (including CV and 0) as third person over the shoulder survival horror games, into one consistent narrative. I could imagine RE0 and RE1 being remade at the same time. Given how closely connected these two games are to each other. Both games were originally made for the GameCube at the same time. Shared a lot in common with video style and game engine.

RE2R and RE3R both make callbacks to Code Veronica and RE0. So CV and RE0 are in the 'remake cannon'. Resident Evil 4 already has a remake that retcons' story elements from RE2R and RE3R. Those games are already covered. Code Veronica was already borderline remade with the Wii Lightgun game: Resident Evil Chronicles. Storywise it does continue Claires story arc, it kind of connects what happened to Chris before Resident Evil 5. The current GameCube Remake really doesn't fit in with this new line of remakes. So it seems likely that a re-remake would happen.
 
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MrCunningham said:
I think that is the longer term goal here. To remake all off the mainline (including CV and 0) as third person over the shoulder survival horror games, into one consistent narrative. I could imagine RE0 and RE1 being remade at the same time. Given how closely connected these two games are to each other. Both games were originally made for the GameCube at the same time. Shared a lot in common with video style and game engine.

RE2R and RE3R both make callbacks to Code Veronica and RE0. So they are in the 'remake cannon'. Resident Evil 4 already got its remake to retcon story elements into RE2, RE3 and RE4 are already covered. Code Veronica was already borderline remade with the Wii Lightgun game: Resident Evil Chronicles. Storywise it does continue Claires story arc, it kind of connects what happened to Chris before Resident Evil 5. The current GameCube Remake really doesn't fit in with this new line of remakes. So it seems likely that a re-remake would happen.
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Yeah I basically see all these remakes as them taking the opportunity to write all the story arcs in the series. They have a chance to tell the stories and make them more connected and make more sense of everything. I feel like RE9 is such a big game because they gotta nail the history of the series and all the story arcs that connect to it.
 
viveks86 said:
Why though? Haven't played CV so I have no idea what the issues were.
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The deepest of lolz. It has no issues, but the plot of that game will have like 70 pages of a thread of folks triggered lol

It is a plot twist worthy of a NeoGaf thread... So if you know the things that trigger GAF, this game has a ton of em.
 
One of the few RE games I just never bothered to play through.

Capcom has done really well with the Remakes for the most part so I'm looking forward to this as well. So long as RE5 is after.
 
I think at this point it would be a much bigger revelation if Capcom where not remaking an older Resident Evil game, they will milk this cash cow dry till the udders fall off.
 
EDMIX said:
I don't want to spoil the game for you cause the twist is amazing. You are in the right direction lol
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I hope the twist is Alexia falls in love with Chris like some of those shows where the villainess falls for the Hero. Alexia ends up surviving and beat the crap out of Wesker together.

The other twist is Afred turns out to be a lady and is the twin sister of Alexia and that she's been pretending to be a man in the first half of the game.

I don't know about here but I know a bunch of folks on the RE board in gamefaqs are going to have a meltdown over this and this is also something I seriously wouldn't mind.
 
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