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[OMFG] Capcom Confirms ‘Resident Evil’ Will Return To Its Roots With Possible Reboot
Resident Evil fans rejoice! Capcom has heard your pleas for help and they’re acting on the dissatisfaction many of you felt while playing Resident Evil 6… and Resident Evil 5. Masachika Kawata, who has been a producer on the franchise for some time now, recently spoke with IGN about Revelations’ upcoming HD port to consoles. I think a lot of what people want now is to have Chris and Jill in a game, or they want it to look like Resident Evil used to look like. That’s what makes the game work for them. We should be able to start from scratch and reboot it. It would still be Resident Evil. We wouldn’t lose the essential nature of what makes it a good game just by changing the characters.” Kawata told IGN.
Did I hear you say “start from scratch and reboot it” Kawata san? My oh my, I do believe I’ve fallen in love (that sentence is best read in a breathy Victorian woman’s voice). More after the break.
Capcom has said they want a piece of Call of Duty’s big, tasty money pie. Like any company they need to make money, and survival horror doesn’t make enough to justify the cost of developing a AAA Resident Evil game. As good as games like Silent Hill and Amnesia are, they’re never going to make as much money as your annual blockbuster shooter. However, this doesn’t mean Capcom isn’t willing to try.
“Survival horror as a genre is never going to be on the same level, financially, as shooters and much more popular, mainstream games. At the same time, I think we need to have confidence to put money behind these projects, and it doesn’t mean we can’t focus on what we need to do as a survival horror game to meet fan’s needs.”
I think Capcom is in a perfect place to help bring about a survival horror renaissance, of sorts. We’ve seen it already from indie developers and the recent success of Slenderman inspired video games. Capcom has the money and the perfect brand — Resident Evil — to take a risk. If they create a top tier survival horror game with the Resident Evil name and it’s hugely successful, that could lead to many exciting things for fans of the genre.
“I think it’s undeniable to say the series returning to its roots is important, and those roots are horror.”
Well said.
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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