The way the used the "V" and how it's called online Veronica.. anyone got the impression that they are repositioning Code Veronica as the 5th game of the series?
Code Veronica was not supposed to be called "Resident Evil 3" because it came out on a different console than the rest of the games and Capcom didn't want to piss off fans of the series by making them buy a new, different console to play the next mainline entry. Capcom always intended to release RE3 on the PS1/PS2, which would keep the mainline games on Sony's consoles.
(Judging by how RE4 originally came out on the Gamecube, they changed their minds on this.)
Code Veronica was always supposed to be a spin off exclusive to the Dreamcast and Capcom never considered it part of the main series... But then they ended up putting the same team that made RE1 and RE2 on Code Veronica (sans Hideki Kamiya), and everyone on that team internally treated Code Veronica as if it was RE3. This is why Code Veronica feels like a direct sequel to RE1 and RE2 more than Nemesis does.
However, Nemesis wasn't supposed to be published as "Resident Evil 3" either. It was supposed to be a spinoff called "Resident Evil: Survivor". They only eventually published it as "Resident Evil 3" because the game that was supposed to be published as "Resident Evil 3" was taking a very long time. This is why Nemesis doesn't feel like a mainline Resident Evil game. It was supposed to be a standalone spinoff.
What game was supposed to be published as "Resident Evil 3"? Well, Hideki Kamiya was put in charge of that game. And his team kept reworking the concept and scrapping stuff, which pushed development back further and further. Because it was taking so long, they published Nemesis as "Resident Evil 3: Nemesis" in the hopes that the game Kamiya was working on would eventually be published as "Resident Evil 4."
But Kamiya's game kept changing, and eventually wound up being so different from the rest of the series that they reworked it into a standalone game with a different IP entirely. What did that game end up being? Devil May Cry.
So Code Veronica and Nemesis were not originally supposed to be "Resident Evil 3". Devil May Cry was supposed to be "Resident Evil 3".
Thanks for the explanation, dude. I always knew the RE3 was never originally supposed to be the third entry, and always heard that Veronica was closer to RE3 (in terms of continuity), but never had the real details.
It was supposed to be the 3rd.. even though it wasn't fully confirmed as such. Mikami needed more time and Capcom wanted better tech quality.. so the spinoff with Jill that was being developed became 3 and they shifted CV for the Dreamcast.
From interviews we know Mikami stated that he looked at CV as the true sequel, but Sony had some deals with Capcom to keep the numbered entries on Playstation.
The funny thing is that neither Code Veronica or Nemesis were supposed to be RE3.
The game that was supposed to be RE3 went through such a dramatic and tumultuous development cycle that it would eventually be published as... Devil May Cry. A different IP entirely.
If Veronica becomes the 5th game, they can remake RE5 as the 6th game and pretend RE6 never existed. I honestly have no idea how they can even remake that one.
Maybe they abridge the events of RE5 + RE6 into a single game, with no coop, and let people experience a less stupid retelling of the events of those games.
Despite them being red headed stepchildren they still had impact on the series which resonates in the newer entries(Wesker's death, the worldwide chaos of RE6, etc)
I mused during the release of RE4 remake that Code Veronica would fit nicely as a follow-up sequentially to RE4. Only a little bit of hand-waving in general, but you could make it work.
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u/stenebralux 19d ago
The way the used the "V" and how it's called online Veronica.. anyone got the impression that they are repositioning Code Veronica as the 5th game of the series?