No Hope Left?

You probably can't tell from my name but I am or at the very least was a hardcore Resident Evil fanboy, I was so into the series that I would consider it the contender with others being pretenders. I loved the series, I knew the whole story, I would dump out info in my head like, addresses, names, numbers, and basic motor skills just so my head could be a an archive of RE lore.

I owned all the main games in the series and played the side off games, pretty much you couldn't find a bigger Resident Evil fan than me hell my first video game crush was Ada Wong from RE2.

My fanhood of the whole series was so big that it was literally the reason why I bought a next gen system, at first I wasn't going to I was done with gaming for whatever reason I can't remember. Anyway I got my PS3 because of it so that's why when the day came that I got to play the follow up to my all time favorite game (at that time) RE4, my excitement levels where so far up they had gone through a black-hole and traveled to other dimensions.

That's also after a week or so of letting the experience sink in and the hype wore off that my excitement for the series dropped so hard that it burrowed it's way to China. Resident Evil 5 was my first biggest disappointment I have ever experienced in my gaming life that it opened the door for cynicism because up until then I never knew what it was like to not like a game to actually feel upset about what I had just played.

Up until then I've enjoyed everything I had played and I've played some questionable games up until then, Haze, Star Fox Adventures, The Hulk (the one based of the Ang Lee movie) and Lord of The Rings Return of The King. Up until then I didn't know what playing a bad game felt like nor how to nit pick at certain things in a game.

In many ways RE5 helped shape up how I see games now by just sucking so hard, now I can go on a long rant about why that game sucked so much but I'm not or at least not here and save that for a review later on. No what I want to talk about is can this series be good again.

Now I am sure a lot of you will say well you can't have such a pessimistic way of thinking because one game in the series sucked and that's true but here's the thing everything after that game sucked.

Of course you can argue Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles and Revelations don't suck but I disqualify Darskide Chronicles on the basis that it's not a normal RE game. So that leaves us with Revelations and true that has been legitimately the best RE game since 4.....but here's the thing that game came out BEFORE Resident Evil 6.

I have always thought that RE5 was the lowest point the series could get to, that no matter what came after it could not be any worse than RE5 just couldn't happen....yet Capcom set out to prove me wrong. RE6 bordered between mediocre to just plain broken in just about everything it had to offer, again I could rant on about why I feel that way towards it but like before wait for the review.

If you ask me which game is worse I'd say 6 but what's sad is I find RE5 to be an irredeemable piece of garbage but my hate for RE6 is bigger simply because it's a gem covered by $#!+. I feel RE6 could have been a good game but because of Capcom's fear of success and praise they purposely ruined something that could have been good.

Again you may state that Revelations was a good sign but the thing is that Capcom knew that game was good, that people loved that game and was exactly what people wanted minus all the forced action scenes and all they had to do was do that again but for consoles and they choose not to.

Right now there are rumors and by rumors I mean a pending confirmation that Capcom are making a Resident Evil Revelations 2 for last gen systems and while I'm eager to see what it's going to be but I can also beg the question if at this point should there be another one.

Can Capcom be trusted to handle their own award winning, cash cow series with the care it needs when time after the time after time they have shown that they can't because they would rather make a generic hodgepodge co-op game to appeal to everyone over making an actual Resident Evil game to appeal to the fans of the series and fans of the genre.

Revelations was just some glitch in the Capcom system that caused it to be what it is simply because I think Capcom couldn't fit in something like RE6 or ORC onto the 3DS. I want to be hopeful for the series future but at the same time I think at this point making a game that pleases it's fans are just a marketing ploy at this point to get people to buy the RE6s and ORCs of the future.

I hope I'm wrong I really do simply because I don't want the first thought coming to mind when I hear a new RE game is in the works is "Good god I hope they don't make another mess like RE6."

Well that's what I wanted to say hope you enjoyed my little rant about this, please leave a comment and have a discussion about it and if see my comment somewhere please bubble me up I'd like to have more than just 2 bubbles.