guys classic RE was a very serious drama horror game that absolutely had not gone stale until capcom completely fucked it up with 4
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but seriously guys, RE5 & 6 multiplayer >>>>> outbreak 1&2 multiplayer
I have nothing against 4, but it and CV turned the series into an actiony super-hero flick and that's not my bag for a series that was "this mega-corp is testing viral weapons that turn people into monsters" sci-fi stuff. Nemesis was the furthest the series needed to go with Monster designs, instead we get Wesker who then becomes this tentacle monster that is able to flail about in
fucking magma in a volcano in Africa until Chris and Sheva put two special RPG rockets into the magma to finally kill him.
Like, as much as I want to class formula of camera angles to come back, I'll admit that the series needed a change: 4's over the shoulder is fine. What isn't fine is how action-y and over-the-top it went while jettisoning the horror/monsters out.
The best part of 4 is still the opening Village, everything after that -- while good--, isn't Horror.
7 was nearly a return to form, but the mold-monster designs wasn't that scary or frightening/surprising since most of the time you knew where the mold was going to spawn.
Outbreak is where the series multiplayer should go: Back to Raccoon City, having people co-op or be dicks to each other to screw each other over in the attempt to escape the scenarios. The series lost it's way as soon as Umbrella was killed due to the nuke. Tricell was only in one title (5), Neo-Umbrella which was fucking "what" city was only in one title (6) and then 7 brought back Umbrella but as the good-guys. The series needs to focus on biological hazards (aka: It's fucking original title) and drop the supernatural strength/tech shit that isn't within reason (Operation Raccoon doing future tech in
fucking 1998).
The main series should always be single-player horror focused. Any side games can do co-op or PvP (which are fucking horrible generally, Umbrella Corps. *gag*) with action if they want (like this new 4v1 title coming out) but the main series should focus on what it did best: Horror and survival in it that isn't "punch punch punch, punch the bolder, punch the bolder."
I mean even the CGI movies they did during this decade of action shit was fucking dumb, look at this shit:
How the fuck did Capcom look at that and think "Yeah, that looks good. Ship it!"
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Not to mention the creepy waifu-ism of Rebecca.
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At this point, if Capcom put out BH:Outbreak File #1-2 with community server files/tools on Steam, the SourceNext Bio2-3 PC ports that are Japanese only, I'd buy those and live in the past.