Capcom: Resident Evil can't please everyone

That's the problem, Capcom shouldn't be trying to please everyone. They should be pleasing the true fans of the series. Celebrating over whether the game will sell that much or not and having this mentality of; "This is our BIGGEST and BEST in the series YET!" seems like an ignorant approach. They couldn't put that much money into the game and its advertising to see those kinds of numbers, if they didn't ride on the shoulders of the original series that laid the groundwork in the first place. Some talented folks re-envisioned Resident Evil with RE4, and while it changed the core of it, that didn't necessarily have to cancel out the possibility of the original style being used in future projects. Now, you have some other people trying to re-envision and reinvent, and failing miserably at it, and taking a crap on something that really rocked at one time.

@alenth

I didn't say anything about annual releases read before mouthing off.

why why bad score!

its the best game of resident evil serious

Well, I guess these two parents...

*puts on shades*

are going to have a divorce. YEEAAAHhh.......sigh..  :(

The game is growing on me a bit, but RE4 was classic for the ages and RE5 while not magical, was a perfect follow up and was a great game.  If they made RE6 using the same strategy, it would have worked better.  This game reminds me too much of the Wii FPS games which were fun, but a whole different genra from masterpieces RE4 and RE5. 

It's crazy. It's like this guy has no concept of completely opposite Resident Evil 6 is from the Resident Evils and 2 that made that series so big in the first place. Yes, Resident Evil won't please everyone. But it's pleasing less and less with every new release.

Resident evil 6 is (QTE Tap B repeatedly) absolute garbage. I was hoping for more of the classic (QTE circle stick clockwise) game play. Too much of these newer games focus on the generation run and gun. There is no strategy or scare factors with the newer (QTE hit X at the moment the marker lands on it ) design, It feels like a generic shooter with horror elements sprinkled in. Many fans would enjoy a style of the first 4 with the options of upgrading weapons and scarce saves to think out your next move, but instead we have (QTE hit start button and exit game)

It's not one game, the entire franchise is a mess. The story is all total nonsense now. It's pretty much that way with every Capcom franchise. It's bad when Dead Rising has a more coherent story than Resident Evil.

Angry Opinion! 

Crapcom is crap and are completely stupid to expect to sell 7 million copies. Oh and wanting the CoD audience is NOT what is best for RE.

I prefer ORC to RE 6 and that is very sad

capcom is right they can't please all gamers who don't support mediocre garbage like re6

I really don't care about the bad reviews. I will still play Resident Evil no matter what other people think about it.

This guy's argument is pretty weak, especially where he says "It's our job to create a new gaming experience and to offer them something that's fresh" Sure, almost every Resident Evil title from the main series has introduced a new gameplay mechanic, some of which made it into subsequent games, and some which didn?t. But Resident Evil 6 may be the exception.

For example, with original as the benchmark, Resident Evil 2 expanded on that by giving us two playable characters with separate, yet overlapping paths through the nightmare, with one character's decisions influencing the experience of the other. Nemesis mixed it up by introducing a virtually unstoppable adversary, who had mastered the workings of the door handle, and relentlessly pursued the player throughout the course of the game.

Although running short of new ideas by the time code Code: Veronica was released Capcom did give us backgrounds fully rendered in 3D, plus the ability to dual-wield some weapons and therefore annihilate two zombies simultaneously. Resident Evil Zero introduced the ability to switch between two characters on the fly, and the capability to simply put unwanted items on the floor, rather than searching for magical wooden boxes all linked to each other through subspace, or something.

Then came 4 which, for better or for worse, changed the way Resident Evil would be played forever, with it's over the shoulder third person perspective and more action heavy gameplay, where as in 5 the big focus was on the co-op experience. Finally Revelations, went some way to recreate the slower paced horror of the early games and gave us the Resident Evil experience in stereoscopic 3D.

Then we arrive at 6. Don't get me wrong, although initially disappointed with the failure to return in any way to the suspense driven scares of old, I've enjoyed playing through 6, taking it at face value as a rather over the top shooter. But I'm hard-pressed to find gaming experience here that hasn?t been done before. Correct me if I?m wrong.

 LOL this is why I didn't bother buying RE6. I watched several friends go through the game after it came out and they all said the same things, it's just so far from the series that we all grew up with, it's sad. These developers can pretend all they want that the resident evil fans are so divided on what they'd like to see in the series, but all I've ever heard from fans is that they want it to be engrossing and suspenseful like the resident evil games of old. 2 is still the pinnacle of the series. I grant you the fact that you can't keep a series fresh forever, there's only so many times you can have a zombie crash through a window, or a licker to leap from behind a corner. However, the moment you just shrug off an attack of a zombie horde by just saying "not this again..." you know you've lost something. If the characters aren't really feeling the threat, neither are we.

Translation: Capcom can't expand the market for RE without chasing other gamers and the fans can take what they're given.

i dont think its a comparison of the games as a whole, but aspects of the game... i think the key to this discussion is "to each their own".  in my opinion RE died a long time ago, almost revived w/4, but then killed off again w/ 5. They keep creating decent games and calling them RE. which i think is the biggest mistake capcom has made... but then again that is just my opinion... i could be wrong 

Anyone who compares RE6 to CoD is a moron. 

Don't fix something that isn't broken Capcom. You have the fanbase that is massive and is just waiting patiently on you to make a survival horror game true to its roots and true to the epic story that is RE. Stop trying to make it something its not. I bet your sales would be even higher if you did this instead of making a RE meets Call of Duty!!

How about ......you please your fans. That might work.

capcom should go back to their roots and make the next RE game in racoon city make the player feel like they are really stuck in a city full of zombies make the player grab any ammo med kits ect in my opinion that is what made RE popular the new ways they are making the story line is almost like murder i mean in my opinion its like watching tv without cable its just not right!!!!!

RE games were never scary to begin with, so what is the real problem?

i have not liked resident evil games since code veronica. after that game i hated the direction they went, and still are going, so no big lose there,

If they were doing what's best for the series, wouldn't the games be getting better instead of worse?

So why did you try, Capcom? Bunch of hypocrits.

Sadly, this is what this world's turned into, trying to please everyone, regardless the circumstances.

No matter what I think about the game, it's good to hear this after the "We put in bigger boobs because some fans wanted" spinelessness despite devs saying they want the characters to be real instead of the shallow caricatures of past.

They make games for the fans, but if they don't have their own vision and passion, the games will truly please no one. Capcom has their own big negative quirks, but their games also have something that is impossible for me not to like.

what is it with the gaming industry now?  Hiroyuki Kobayashi has just summed up for me what is the only thing that matters to these people now, money. 'We do listen to the fans, but we can?t be beholden to them at every turn or I don?t think we?ll ever make progress in terms of the series? development. the progress? seriously? what was the progress? adding a jet? well done capcom for your sterling interpretation of 'horror' and well done Hiroyuki Kobayashi for showing me that greed is all that capcom seem to accept as progress.

yeah people complained but still headed out and purchased the game. that will surely let capcom know how bad the game is lol.

Stop trying to please everybody , and just pick one direction to take the series and run with it.

Simple as that.