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Horror Is Not Mainstream

Kotaku: With each new year, it feels like I’m watching another horror series becomes less horrific. Resident Evil, Alien, and most recently, Dead Space. What started out as pure, hardcore horror becomes a fun, popcorn-munching good time.

But hey, that’s OK. It’s the natural way of things. Horror isn’t mainstream.

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user54670075052d ago

Is this guy actually trying to justify the co-op and the over the top acrion pieces in DS3....wow iust wow

Give them the benefit of the doubt.....why, they must of saw the backlash from RE5s co op and yet they still did it. Come on, your basically bringing the backlash on yourself. They should olf learnt from Capcoms mistake.

Lord_Sloth5052d ago

In defense of Dead Space 3, it's co-op is optional and they don't stick an AI with you if you go it solo. I don't care for the Cover Based shooter aspect of it at all but the co-op is kinda justifiable in that regard.

user54670075052d ago (Edited 5052d ago )

You know I hear that argument a lot but it dosen't matter

Optional or not the game is still built up around co-op meaning if you play solo it's most likely to be crap. Imagine if RE5 had optional co-op it still would be bad because it was designed for two people.

Lets not forget that god awful character who is your partner, the typical soldier grunt who tries to be funny with his one liners but ends up being annoying, is still in the games story during cutscenes. It wouldn't be so bad if it was Ellie.

WeskerChildReborned5052d ago

All i know if if DS2 and DS1 sold well, we probably wouldn't have any co-op in Dead Space.

--Onilink--5052d ago

well you can hardly blaim them.
RE5:
Backlash from some fans VS Biggest sales in the franchise history

We may not like it, but from a bussiness perspective, they are not really doing it wrong

Lord_Sloth5052d ago (Edited 5052d ago )

What if it's built like a single player game that just drops in a second dude which just spawns more enemies though? I know this is just speculation on my part but still...

I'm not arguing that it's still a survival Horror since it's obvious that it's not, I'm just saying the problem might not to be the co-op.

user54670075052d ago (Edited 5052d ago )

Co-op is either the problem or part of it

The feature has always got to be the problem someway...you just can't have a survival horror game with the feature.

So it has to be the problem or part of it in someway.

If you want to fix something in life you must first get rid or remove anything which stands in the way of it being fixed.

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Kyosuke_Sanada5052d ago (Edited 5052d ago )

People need to realize that some gamers actually have "fun" being immersed in a well-tailored frightfest. Is it impossible for gamers to gain the same amount or even more enjoyment from playing a great survival horror by themselves, far from it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so please don't get the idea that you have to be with someone in order to increase "fun" factor......

WeskerChildReborned5052d ago

One of my favorite genres is survial horror and i dislike how their are barely any for consoles.

BitbyDeath5052d ago

Pretty sad that Sony is one of the only publishers left that let developers take chances.

Bathyj5052d ago

Horror never was mainstream in any medium.

Abandoning your horror roots for not being mainstream is just a weak copout.

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Best Selling Resident Evil Games US Revealed by Circana Data

Circana data shows Resident Evil 5 as the best selling Resident Evil game in the US, ahead of Resident Evil 4 remake and Village.

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SimpleDad84d ago

So the most successful RE is the one where a white man is killing Africans.
This can't be real.

bryght83d ago

i love resident evil from 2006

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Insider Reveals Cancelled Resident Evil Projects, Denies RE5 Remake

New leaks from Dusk Golem detail cancelled Resident Evil projects, including a Rebecca focused Revelations game, while stating no Resident Evil 5 remake is in development.

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__y2jb100d ago

Capcom's willingness to invest in experiments and scrap them sets them apart form many other developers (Nintendo have a similar methodology). Far too often companies push a game setting or game mechanic that is just not that good and the final product is middling or poor.

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No Resident Evil 5 Remake Announcement This Year as Code Veronica Remake Is Scheduled Next

Dusk Golem claims a Resident Evil 5 remake is not coming this year, with a Code Veronica remake expected instead.

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Neonridr123d ago

I mean 0, 1 and Code Veronica should be way before we get into 5 or 6.

Darkseeker123d ago

5 and 6 are so bad that even Capcom want to pretend they don't exist.

Levii_92123d ago

Dude Code Veronica is bad too but RE5 and 6 were mega successful and to me it makes much more sense for Capcom to do them instead. Nobody cares about Code Veronica except niche fixed camera era RE fans, i bet most modern RE fans probably don't know Code Veronica even exists. Based on all that i don't believe CV remake is coming but we will see i guess.

MehmetAlperTR123d ago (Edited 123d ago )

Actually RE5-6 was not Classic RE game.. They are not even Survival Horror game.. They are just an action game with coop and named by RE... And for me RE Code Veronica was masterpiece.. I remembered the first time i played it in Dreamcast.. It was absouletly excellent game. And specially for RE6.. I was quit from game after the camera shakes when Leon's kick to zombies.. There's a video about RE6 and they are telling the truth about that shitty game https://www.youtube.com/wat... here it is.. Enjoy it..

Neonridr123d ago

people are DYING for a Code Veronica Remake. Not sure who you are talking to, but the die-hard RE fans of the series are very familiar with every entry. That's what it means to be called a die-hard fan.

neutralgamer1992123d ago

Levii

I am sure If they were to remake CV that it 2ont have fixed camera angle. I hope whatever they do they take their time like RE2/4 remakes and not rushed with cut content like RE3 remake

Before they should do RE5 they should go back and remake earlier games. In a perfect scenario we would get CV and RE/Zero before RE5/6

Tapani123d ago

Code Veronica on Dreamcast was absolutely AWESOME.

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LucasRuinedChildhood123d ago (Edited 123d ago )

It makes more sense for them to remake earlier games like Code Veronica. RE5 is a good game though - it's not THAT different from RE4.

RE5 just doesn't really need to remade in general. The co-op element makes it tricky - you'd probably add more moments where Chris is by himself enhance the horror but some would want co-op to stay.

thesoftware730123d ago

RE:5 Was and still is a great game, with hands down the best Merc mode, that I still play from time to time with my brother.

RE:6 blah, I agree, it was awful.

Redgrave123d ago

Other than Code Veronica, 6 is the one ai want to see remade the most only because pretty much everything has to be redone; can't streamline that hot mess.

DarXyde123d ago

6 was pretty bad. 5 just tried too hard in being an action-oriented RE4.

In some fairness to Capcom, 5 was the first Resident Evil on then-new hardware for them (X360 and PS3). And it was pretty damn hard to follow up RE4.

Imagine everyone's surprise when EA of all companies dropped Dead Space.

Alos88123d ago

The first half of 5 wouldn't be too hard to do in the more grounded style the remakes have gone for, but the second half gets pretty silly and uncomfortable at parts.
6 is a wash. You'd have to basically make a whole new game to salvage that one at this point.

__y2jb122d ago

6 is garbage. 5 is excellent.

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_Decadent_Descent123d ago

Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.

gerbintosh123d ago

I need a Parasite Eve remake

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