Resident Evil VIIIage

Zero-Cool

Fear surrounds you in Resident Evil Village, unleashing a new chapter of survival horror on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC in 2021!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26tay8lMZW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffox_C_DWpU

Mr Crispy

Very excited for this. I love the series and how it manages to stay fresh by reinventing itself, whilst still retaining that certain RE charm. I also had a fascination with werewolves as a kid, so this ticks a lot of boxes!

Thecageyone

Nice, my PC is crying out for something just like this

BeerWolf

Why does Christ Redfield keep changing his appearance? He looks like a stocky East European / Russian in this...

And is Black Phillip the antagonist?!

Azza

I hope this game comes equipped with Ballistics! :pac:

Skerries

just needs someone saying "what're ya buying stranger?"

nix

Skerries wrote: »

just needs someone saying "what're ya buying stranger?"

God no, keep it survival, not the OTT action bullsh!t RE4 and beyond brought.. :pac:

FGR

nix wrote: »

God no, keep it survival, not the OTT action bullsh!t RE4 and beyond brought.. :pac:

I don't know - there's what looks to be a castle in the trailer. It's already screaming thousands of ganados for target practice and another gigantic running statue of Salazar.

Hopefully they'll keep it low key a la RE1/2/3 and 7 - a compact story as opposed to anything over the top where the protagonist somersaults and kung fu kicks everything that moves.

panevthe3rd

Hard to know what they are going for but there is a lot of resi 4 vibes.

Pretty sure that's an executioner from resi 5 at the 2.10 mark.

Minime2.5

FGR wrote: »

I don't know - there's what looks to be a castle in the trailer. It's already screaming thousands of ganados for target practice and another gigantic running statue of Salazar.

Hopefully they'll keep it low key a la RE1/2/3 and 7 - a compact story as opposed to anything over the top where the protagonist somersaults and kung fu kicks everything that moves.

Re4 is the best game in the series

Azza

Not sure its the best game in the series but damn was RE4 good.

nix

Minime2.5 wrote: »

Re4 is the best game in the series

Wrong, its RE2, RE4 is a cheesy OTT action shooter. Might be a good game, but its a terrible survival/horror game and has aged poorly.

The changes they took with RE4 made a lot of people happy at first, but really they were just the beginning of the franchises nose dive into the hot garbage it turned into.

Notice how they returned to their roots to make the franchise good again :pac:

Greyfox

nix wrote: »

Wrong, its RE2, RE4 is a cheesy OTT action shooter. Might be a good game, but its a terrible survival/horror game and has aged poorly.

The changes they took with RE4 made a lot of people happy at first, but really they were just the beginning of the franchises nose dive into the hot garbage it turned into.

Notice how they returned to their roots to make the franchise good again :pac:

Nonsense, RE2 is an amazing game but RE4 is easily Capcoms best game, I'd put RE4 up their with the likes of Zelda BOTW as one of the best game ever made.

The gameplay of RE4 was superb, it had much more variety than any other RE game and a brilliant upgrade system.

Yes RE4 was more action than survival horror but it was action done right. The people been unhappy with the action direction only started with RE5.

Minime2.5

nix wrote: »

Wrong, its RE2, RE4 is a cheesy OTT action shooter. Might be a good game, but its a terrible survival/horror game and has aged poorly.

The changes they took with RE4 made a lot of people happy at first, but really they were just the beginning of the franchises nose dive into the hot garbage it turned into.

Notice how they returned to their roots to make the franchise good again :pac:

I agree with a lot of what your saying . I love the old survival horror style and hate RE5 and RE6. But having played RE4 through recently I realise it's a master piece . We both have our opinions but the general consensus is that RE4 is the best in the series

Azza

RE4 gets alot of flak because of the legacy of RE5 and RE6. I think at the time the series peaked at RE 2 or the remake of RE1 and was getting stale, Code Veronica brought nothing really new to the old formula but better graphics nor did RE 0.

RE5 is actually a decent enough game. But its basically a co-op remake of RE4 and simply wasn't as fresh as 4. Hell its opening village scene is straight up ripped from 4 in how it plays. Having a partner accompany you and having a lot of the game set during brightly lit days in Africa further reduced the survival horror aspects of the series even more than 4 did. Still it was a decent enough third person action game particular in co-op, it had decent DLC adds on and its unlockable bonus game was great.

RE6 was poor, but it wasn't from a lack of trying. Leon's campaign was actually decent in my opinion, and its Mercs mode was fantastic. But yeah I'd rather not see an RE game in this vain again.

I get why some people dislike RE4 but I think its absolutely fantastic game.

Zero-Cool

I loved 4. I loved 2. But Resi 1 was the best of the series. The OG version is melted into my brain.

Rob2D

That old mansion has a lot to answer for.

Markitron

RE4 isn't just the best game in the series, it is the greatest game of all time.

On topic: Village looks like a cross between RE7 and RE3.5, which sounds amazing to me. I am a little disappointed that they have changed Chris' look again, I liked the RE7 redesign cos it made him look like an actual human again after the boulder-punching roid rage Chris of RE5/6

Mr Crispy

Dusk Golem, the guy who leaked all the correct Village info initially, has been chiming in on why RE8 is skipping current gen.

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1271904090092523520?s=20
https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1271904367386320896?s=20
https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1271904564342472704?s=20

The most noticeable thing there for me is "bigger focus on exploration". Creeping around the woods surrounding the village at night, playing in a dark room, wearing headphones.... muah!

Zero-Cool

Love that decision! Cut off the dead weight to make a better game.

Mr Crispy

Yeah, me too. The game will still be there for people who only upgrade their machine later on down the road. And I like Capcom's bravery (for want of a better, less arse-licky word). Would have been very easy to target the existing 150m consoles already out there.

Zero-Cool

Yupp, is amazing that resi broke 100mil sales. Horror genre isn't the biggest seller and would be easy to succumb to the more money/sales road.

Markitron

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Yupp, is amazing that resi broke 100mil sales. Horror genre isn't the biggest seller and would be easy to succumb to the more money/sales road.

You may find it slightly depressing that the action games, RE5 and RE6, were the biggest sellers by large margin.

Personally I put this down to the series being on a high from the impact of RE4 but its still a travesty RE6 outsold RE4 (and that is including its many rereleases).

Rob2D

Markitron wrote: »

You may find it slightly depressing that the action games, RE5 and RE6, were the biggest sellers by large margin.

Personally I put this down to the series being on a high from the impact of RE4 but its still a travesty RE6 outsold RE4 (and that is including its many rereleases).

It's because they're such good co-op games.

Markitron

Rob2D wrote: »

It's because they're such good co-op games.

Exactly, they were pandering to the trends in gaming at the time and lost their identity as RE games. I still think RE5 is a decent game in and of itself.

RE6, on the other hand, is a crime against humanity.

Robert ninja

Instead of seeing potential for a new IP, CAPCOM decided to use established IP to be safe on the safe side and in doing so permanently compromised the Biohazard franchise from ever being pure survival horror again.

Markitron

Robert ninja wrote: »

Instead of seeing potential for a new IP, CAPCOM decided to use established IP to be safe on the safe side and in doing so permanently compromised the Biohazard franchise from ever being pure survival horror again.

Thankfully they have mostly corrected that in the last few years.

Robert ninja

They've made moves in the right direction but from what I can tell it's one step forward two steps back. I mean I'll play the better ones like Bio 2 Remake when they come out but I have zero faith in the series anymore. 2 Remake was a pleasant surprise but I played it for free from a friend's shared library. It's safe to say I'm not a customer of the series anymore. I actually think 4 was the last one I ever spent money on.

Homelander

RE5 and RE6 are both solid games, just not good Resident Evil, or even horror, games. Incredible co-op experiences. There's no wacky explanation for it, they sold the most because they appealed to the widest base and were good games.

Personally, I didn't really like RE4 for example. Though I do like the franchise in general. I even loved Operation Raccoon City which was horribly under-rated - the co-op and online multiplayer were incredible even if the main game was totally average, yet most reviews barely mentioned these huge features.

Another game that sold several millions copies despite mixed reception, as like RE5 and RE6, it was a decent game in its own right, but judging it harshly based on the expectation that it would be a survival horror was unfair.

Still haven't played the Resident Evil 3 remake. RE2 remake was pretty good.

Markitron

Homelander wrote: »

RE5 and RE6 are both solid games, just not good Resident Evil, or even horror, games. Incredible co-op experiences. There's no wacky explanation for it, they sold the most because they appealed to the widest base and were good games.

Personally, I didn't really like RE4 for example. Though I do like the franchise in general. I even loved Operation Raccoon City which was horribly under-rated - the co-op and online multiplayer were incredible even if the main game was totally average, yet most reviews barely mentioned these huge features.

Another game that sold several millions copies despite mixed reception, as like RE5 and RE6, it was a decent game in its own right, but judging it harshly based on the expectation that it would be a survival horror was unfair.

Still haven't played the Resident Evil 3 remake. RE2 remake was pretty good.

I don't judge the spin-off games for not being true RE games, that is the whole point really. I can enjoy them for what they are. I can do this to an extent with RE5 as it still maintains at least some of the DNA of the series, but not RE6. RE6 was a collection of every fad in gaming at the time, thrown against a wall to see what would stick.

Skerries

The RE Revelations games were waaay better than Resi 5 and 6 imo

Markitron

Skerries wrote: »

The RE Revelations games were waaay better than Resi 5 and 6 imo

Yea they were pretty good, considering handheld/budget origin. I would rank them as

RER1
RE5
RER2




Contracting Ebola







RE6

Azza

The Revelation games where pretty average fair. Nothing too bad in them, just quickly forgettable.

Markitron

Azza wrote: »

The Revelation games where pretty average fair. Nothing too bad in them, just quickly forgettable.

The first one was the first legitimately horror-based RE since RE0 10 years before it. The story was actually decent as well, I rate it quite highly.

Rob2D

REV1 is cool but the hardware it was made for lets it down. Very strange to control.

I REALLY enjoyed REV2. Way more than I thought I would.

Markitron

Rob2D wrote: »

REV1 is cool but the hardware it was made for lets it down. Very strange to control.

I REALLY enjoyed REV2. Way more than I thought I would.

I actually played it on the Switch for the first time, which I think is the perfect platform for it. You can still play it handheld as was always intended and looks and runs great

FGR

Azza wrote: »

The Revelation games where pretty average fair. Nothing too bad in them, just quickly forgettable.

I have to agree here. Although the gameplay was good the storyline was dreadful. Made up floating city-states and organisations to deal with bio terror just pushed it too far for me.

This isn't taking away from the fact that Raccoon City was also a made up city..

It's bad enough when they use a made up town or city - but it really bugs me that the makers are nearly afraid to use a real country for a setting. It's what bugged me about RE: Damnation movie as well.

Markitron

FGR wrote: »

I have to agree here. Although the gameplay was good the storyline was dreadful. Made up floating city-states and organisations to deal with bio terror just pushed it too far for me.

This isn't taking away from the fact that Raccoon City was also a made up city..

It's bad enough when they use a made up town or city - but it really bugs me that the makers are nearly afraid to use a real country for a setting. It's what bugged me about RE: Damnation movie as well.

Blame RE6 for this.

Azza

Leave RE6 alone, the PC version had some great bikini mods for Ada!

Markitron

Azza wrote: »

Leave RE6 alone, the PC version had some great bikini mods for Ada!

If someone found the chemical formula of the cure for C19 written on a wall in one of the labs in RE6, that game would still be one of humanity's greatest ever crimes.

The fact that I am only kinda joking should effectively convey just how much I hate that game.

Mr Crispy

There are a few tidbits doing the rounds after a Famitsu interview with the lead designers. Some RE superfan on Twitter translated the Q&A.

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278348017527996416?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278349157854412800?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278350100889100289?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278351987768098818?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278353163146256384?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278354890327113728?s=20

https://twitter.com/cvxfreak/status/1278356307892858880?s=20

Markitron

Mr Crispy wrote: »

There are a few tidbits doing the rounds after a Famitsu interview with the lead designers. Some RE superfan on Twitter translated the Q&A

CVX Freak is a decent guy, his info is reliable and he actually works with Digital Foundry sometimes too.

Rob2D

CVX Freak been around for a LONG time. He started off writing guides on gamefaqs years ago.

Another good one to follow is:

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1

Mr Crispy

Rob2D wrote: »

CVX Freak been around for a LONG time. He started off writing guides on gamefaqs years ago.

Another good one to follow is:

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1

Yeah, he had all the Village info early doors. Seems like he has good contacts.

daheadonu

Apparently this started off as revelations 3

Rob2D

daheadonu wrote: »

Apparently this started off as revelations 3

Yeah that's right.

daheadonu

Meant to write more after that...was gonna say I wonder how much of revs 3 story is staying in and being repurposed for 8

Markitron

daheadonu wrote: »

Meant to write more after that...was gonna say I wonder how much of revs 3 story is staying in and being repurposed for 8

Just guessing but I would say it was the setting and enemies that they retained from Rev3. If it was working out well they probably decided to put Ethan/Mia/Chris in there instead of the original characters.

Mr Crispy

Dusk Golem is saying Village will be the longest RE Engine game to date. I hope ta fuck it isn't bloat for the sake of it, after complaints about the RE3 remake.

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1293601609260228614?s=20

Markitron

Mr Crispy wrote: »

Dusk Golem is saying Village will be the longest RE Engine game to date. I hope ta fuck it isn't bloat for the sake of it, after complaints about the RE3 remake.

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1293601609260228614?s=20

Longer than RE6? Not sure that is a good idea. That game was about 25 hours, although it was so awful it felt like it took 3 times that.

Edit: oh wait, RE engine. Ok that's cool. RE7 felt like the perfect length so hopefully they don't load it with bloat. I will leave my original as is cos I will take any opportunity to slag off RE6.

Mr Crispy

Awwww yeah.

https://twitter.com/dev1_official/status/1300693250412486656?s=20