Nathan Grayson: ''Resident Evil‘s been expanding its increasingly action-oriented empire for years now, but – while the gesture’s much-appreciated – it hasn’t exactly seen many of its finest hours on PC. Resident Evil 4 was a brilliant scare-’em-up chainsawed in the clavicle by one of the worst ports ever, Resident Evil 5 was profoundly mediocre, Operation Raccoon City was execrable, and Resident Evil 6, well, it’s not out yet. But cries of agony from consoletropolis’ direction don’t exactly bode well. So yes, the once-legendary survival-horror series is in a pretty bad place at the moment. But there is hope. Well, sorta. If nothing else, DICE at least saw Capcom saying the right things.''
Capcom has announced and released the original Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on Steam.
With the ninth mainline installment looming, it feels like the right moment to rank every mainline Resident Evil game from worst to best.
At first I was like, No Code Veronica on the list!? But then I seen Mainline. The list checks out, but I would personally put 2 over 4.
I'll take 2 over 4 also. And even without a number, I don't see how Code Veronica, my other favorite in the franchise, isn't mainline when it's the actual sequel to RE2.
The original RE was the best. Its not on the list which makes no sense.
The remake of it was alright but should be higher on this list.
i’m fine with people calling it “mainline,” but leaving out the original re1 entirely is wild, since it basically defines the whole series. i’d still put re2 over re4 for pure pacing and atmosphere, even though re4 is the more replayable game. also, the “mainline” label gets messy with code veronica since it feels more essential than some numbered entries. i swear half the time i’m reading these rankings i get derailed by random gambling tabs i opened earlier, including https://monopolybigballerli... and https://football-studio-dic... and https://red-baron.org/ which is a weird contrast to talking about survival horror.
Capcom has launched a new website to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its long-running survival horror series, Resident Evil.
Focused on what?
If he means focused on what actually made the game Resident Evil then I'm sorry but what a load of bullcrap. They said the same after RE5
If the game has the main character, the sidekick, NO CO-OP, No AI following you, horror, scares, creepy locations....THEN I'll believe them
But after they said that after RE5 and the whole co-op thing what did they do...added co-op in RE6 but made it 10 times worse.
They won't go back you know, they are too proud that their ideas failed them again. Instead of admitting they we're wrong, something they still havent done yet, they'll keep trying to please both audiences.
EDIT
Oh look at that, got to the end of the article and it confirms what I've said
"Well, you have to understand, we have a couple different sets of Resident Evil fans,” he explained. “We have those who love Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, Code Veronica, and Zero, and then we have those who came along during the RE4 era and like things a little more action-oriented, and RE5 even more [action-oriented]. And then RE6 was even more action-focused than that"
"and figuring out how to make something for everyone. That was especially the aspiration of RE6"
Stop making things for everyone, those people who played on RE1-3-CV, WE, are the real fans. You brought in more people with RE4 but still there was a LOT more old RE fans then new fans so you should of went with the majority of fans and the new fans would of soon liked RE for what is was, if they didn't then tough.
Shut up capcom, please .
Focused, again?
They said RE6 would "return to the franchise's roots" yet failed miserably.
Just let it die.