If you "need" to change camera perspective to save your franchise? You should consider retiring from game development. Since when is an aspect change a requirement to save any good franchise? Hilarious.

How about, bad games killed RE? That sounds more accurate.

With how many copies the Resident Evil Remake and Resident Evil 0 sold when it was re-released on the PS4/Xbox One despite being games from the early 2000s it was defiently NOT a needed change

All they had to bloody do is what they did for the Remake back in 2002 and apply that logic to a 2017 game with the new tech available.

Not that hard

FPS Resident evil never worked and never will ... i hope this mess of a game dont have any continuation and die as the first and last RE of that kind ...also who else after played FF XV with its over the top beautiful Luminous engine and world setting got vibes of a REsident evil game? ...especially in dungeons with its excellent colors , lightining and amosphere was perfect demo of a survival hor game, proof that a game doesnt need idiotic holywood cliched filters to be atmospheric and scary

Revelations was good because it was good not because of the perspective.

Third person is not that immersive, it always reminds you that you are playing a videogame as you see everything happen to an on screen polygon guy instead of you. Plus wonky cameras and the character blocking your view kind of ruins it. To make everyone happy they could give an option like Fallout etc where you can choose the perspective.

Says you. There are various immersive games with third person perspectives. Just as you name cons for it, I could easily name cons for first person.

@ Lamer Tamer

Perspective is subjective when it comes to horror especially when Silent Hill 2 still is regarded to be one of the best horrors ever. I do agree that there should have been an optional mode for the views due to the existence of VR however the current gamescape is up to its gills in first person horrors. Capcom demonstrated that they are just they are just throwing things to the wall to see what's sticks instead of a new artistic vision (REVII is obviously cashing in on the PT craze just like how Revelations' inclusion of Moira Burton was due to the praise Last Of Us) I guarantee you that if ReMake 2 surpasses RE VII in sales, the mainline series will fall back to the third person perspective followed by a half hearted PR response.

What really irks me is that they could have placed the effort in Deep Down which already housed first person options from early trailers but Capcom wants to sell new games under familiar names instead.

waayyyyyyyy more then the last 3 games were.

@Corndog-100% agreed.

This is RE to its core. I've noticed a lot of the um..."young" fans seem to not even know what RE is ie those RE4-6 gamers lol From what I've seen and read, its very, very RE. 1 place (or 2 depending on dat lab doe), puzzles, limited ammo, health, weapons, no BUYING stuff, zombies etc. This is very, very classic RE. A perspective never actually SIMPLY made RE. RE never even felt good lol, it played like utter crap, but what made it so awesome to me as a kid was the limited items and having to survive the game. By no means would I say physically playing RE was (fun) as it never felt right until RE4 (ironically the RE that actually started removing its basic core features)

Perspective does have an important part in established games believe it or not. If the new Doom was locked into third person or if Final Fantasy XV was locked into first, there would be a huge backlash regardless if both games played the same.

@ Kyosuke Sanada

Resident Evil has had multiple titles with different perspectives. It started off as fixed camera with tank controls, went over the shoulder, there was a light gun game, there was already a game in first person...

It isn't like every RE game has used the old tank controls or even been in 3rd person for that matter.

Also, Doom basically created a genre. I understand Wolfenstein 3D came first, but Doom is what put 1st person shooters on the map, and it is a genre that has not aged over the years, so it would make no sense to change it.

But with Final Fantasy, thisnis really no different than changing from turn based combat systems to the more action oriented combat that Final Fantasy has adopted since FF12. There are plenty of people that will say the old turn based combat is dated and needed a revamp. I don't agree with that but I also recognize I'm in the minority and accept it.

RE is no different. A lot of people feel the old tank controls are dated and it needed a revamp. Thats why they went over-the-shoulder to begin with. That perspective became synonomous with being more action oriented and RE lost its identity due to that. So now its time to try something else.

Look, I would love a new RE game that looks and plays like Until Dawn's areas where you take control of a character. That would be ideal in my opinion. It would be tank controls updated enough to feel fresh. But I'm also willing to try something new, especially since everything else about this game screams RE and is a massive return to what was missing from 4, 5, and 6. Its a step in the right direction when it comes to the important things that define RE.

I know of the light gun games (I have a copy of Survivior and Dead Aim in my collection.) and I accepted because they were spin-offs. Then there was the case of Resident Evil 4 which I believed roped the bigger majority of actions than actual horror (Adding to it being one of the best action games ever made.) which even though it was a financial success but pretty much paved the way for the current conundrum they are in with the series. What truly bothers me is they never needed to cement these radical changes especially when there are games with less budgets that manage to pull of feats using two perspectives to draw fear (e.g Deadly Premonition which uses both OTS and fixed camera angles or Silent Hill Downpour for doing the same) and the influx of support that re-releasing ReMake to other consoles proved that there is a substantial fanbase forn some of the classical mechanics. They obviously took notice which is why Remake 2 is on the horizon but they have little faith in sticking to what made them great. Instead they are just hopping on the latest critically acclaimed trends from other games hoping for the best. I still stand to what I said about how Capcom will react if Remake 2 outsells Resident Evil 7 and I will gladly eat crow if I am proven wrong but I still feel that this was not an artistic choice, just another half hearted attempt to cash in on the latest craze.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse