Capcom might bring back the most deserving Resident Evil

All of the Resident Evil video games are a bit bizarre. Even the extra serious-looking remakes are sometimes goofy as hell, however that’s what makes these horror games so particular. Because of this so many people followers need to see much more of the traditional Resident Evil video games remastered, even outdoors the numbered entries, and Capcom has heard us.

Earlier this yr on Tuesday, June 20 Capcom held its forty fourth annual shareholders assembly, with all of the paperwork relating to that assembly being made public earlier this week on Thursday, June 6.

In the course of the query and reply portion of the assembly, Capcom was requested by shareholders about plenty of IPs, however a really attention-grabbing query referring to Resident Evil got here up.

“Will you be offering high-end visible remakes of solely the primary numbered entries within the Resident Evil sequence?” one shareholder asks. That’s a question that Capcom itself has put to Resident Evil fans recently too.

“We’re finishing up discussions relating to the longer term enlargement of this sequence so it may be loved by a large viewers,” Capcom responds, in an initially innocuous response that really has much more happening.

Since 2019’s Resident Evil 2 remake, Capcom has been making its approach by way of the traditional numbered entries, utilizing the mechanics and core gameplay really feel from Leon’s time in Raccoon Metropolis as a base for additional remakes. Naturally, the belief could be that Resident Evil 5 and 6 are to observe this yr’s Resident Evil 4 remake, however the shareholder query appears to level to 1 recreation that desperately wants a revamp: Resident Evil Code Veronica.

Initially billed as the right Resident Evil 3, this spin-off not solely supplies a direct follow-up to Claire Redfield’s seek for her brother Chris from RE2, but it surely additionally supplies a large quantity of context for the Ashford household, one of many Umbrella Company’s co-founders.

For my cash, both Resident Evil 5 or Code Veronica is sensible as the following steps for the remake sequence. Ever since these remakes began popping out along with the Ethan Winters storyline, Capcom has been performing some minor retcons and lore expansions to the Resident Evil universe (which I received’t spoil right here), and Code Veronica is without doubt one of the finest locations to tie all of this collectively.

I feel video games like Resident Evil 5, 6, and Code Veronica are going to get the remake therapy in some unspecified time in the future both approach, with the very first recreation purposefully being left at the hours of darkness.

My guess is that when all of the lore has been integrated into these remakes, Capcom will return to the place all of it started and provides the Spencer Mansion the swan track it deserves. Not solely making the very best model of a Resident Evil 1 remake it might probably, however one which additionally ties the lore of video games like 8 straight again to the place all the things began.

The Capcom Q&A holds a whole lot of actually attention-grabbing solutions for the place the developer behind Resident Evil, Avenue Fighter, and Mega Man needs to go subsequent (through GamesRadar).

Within the meantime, you will get a repair of video games akin to traditional Resident Evil with a fast take a look at our breakdown of the very best zombie games, or you will discover some fellow historical past that embraces its limitations with our picks of some important old games on PC as effectively.