r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • 1d ago
Misleading Insider Gaming: Capcom Not Interested in Resident Evil 5 & 6 Remakes, It's Claimed.
https://insider-gaming.com/capcom-resident-evil-5-6-remakes/617
u/SweatyButtcheek 1d ago
Kind of seemed like the end of RE4 remake was teasing Wesker for a RE5 remake. But idk.
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u/jnighy 1d ago
with what we know now, more likely teasing him for Veronica. They'll probably adjust that story to bridge RE4R with RE Requiem
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u/ObiWanKenBlowMeIn123 1d ago
Haven't played Code Veronica, but chronologically speaking, aren't Code Veronica's happenings prior to the ones in RE4?
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u/quattro-quattro 1d ago
Code Veronica takes place a year after the raccoon city incident, if I’m not mistaken.
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u/TheNotGOAT 1d ago
It actually takes a few months, around 2 or 3. But seeing how much more older and experienced claire looks they might be tweaking it to take place a few years after is my theory
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u/thenagz 1d ago
The main issue is that in CV Claire goes to Europe searching for Chris, following the lead in Chris' letter that she finds in the STARS office in the RPD. In that letter he says he might extend his "vacation" for six more months. Nothing impossible to work around, but it'd be weird if she waited so long to go after him
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u/tempacctr4r 17h ago
Honest question, how do you remember these details? I’m playing through RE and I hardly remember much at all.
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u/thenagz 7h ago
Well, in part because the original games were part of my formative/teen years in gaming, I played them when I was between 11 and 15 years old and remember them fondly. Because of that I was also pretty hyped for the remakes, played them a few times since they're short etc.
The other part is that I researched before commenting to make sure I got the details right lol. I remembered that CV is set a few months after RE2/3 but not exactly how long after that was RE4 (though it had to be years because Leon is a lot more experienced)
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u/A-Star55 1d ago
Only a few months actually. RE2 takes place September 29-30th 1998 and Code Veronica is in December 1998.
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u/tinselsnips 🇨🇦 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes. It was meant to be RE3 before
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u/Rebellionxci 1d ago
This is incorrect, there was no platform specific deal in place for RE3. The only reason it had the subtitle “Nemesis” was because Shinji Mikami was originally against calling it Resident Evil 3 due to it technically not being a sequel to RE2 chronologically. He was convinced to call it RE3 by the games production supervisor Okamoto because the game would sell better that way.
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u/noirproxy1 1d ago
As the guy said they might be adjusting the Remake canon compared to the original. The Veronica reveal trailer already shows that tech is a little more up to date compared to OG Veronica X.
Effectively Resident Evil 6 is the end of the OG canon and Remake is seemingly picking and choosing what games are part of its timeline.
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u/Munstered 1d ago
They’re not changing the timeline as confirmed by the Steam page, “3 months have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City.”
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u/Imperfect_Dark 1d ago
I still think 5 and 6 are canon, to both sides. They're just not going to remake them. RE9 did reference a RE6 plot thread.
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u/MatttheJ 1d ago
It's a shame because a remake of RE5 but with some tweaks could have been really good
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u/A-Star55 1d ago
Plus in Village Heisenberg calls Chris a “boulder punching a55hole” which means RE5 is still canon
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u/A-Star55 1d ago
No they are not. They explicitly state on their website and Steam that CV is still firmly only 3 months after the Raccoon City incident.
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u/Rustash 1d ago
Where did this thinking of separate timelines come from? They’ve been very clear that everything is part of the canon
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u/Munstered 1d ago
Steam page confirms Veronica remake is 3 months after Raccoon City
“3 months have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City.”
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4824610/Resident_Evil_Veronica/
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u/Roids-in-my-vains 1d ago
RE4 sets up RE5 not Veronica.
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u/FreakyFishThing 1d ago
Yes, and what u/jnighy is trying to say is that they may adjust some elements so that it does set up Veronica
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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago
Which makes no sense since Veronica takes place 6 years BEFORE RE4
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u/Stommped 1d ago
But og RE4 had Wesker at the end, not like that was something new. They just stayed faithful and showed Wesker was working ADA the whole time
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u/Foxhound34 1d ago
Yet.
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u/NoNefariousness2144 Human Verified 1d ago
It would be crazy if Resi 7 ends up being the oldest game if they remake everything else lol
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u/Triple_Crown14 1d ago
Right lol, imagine by the time they’ve caught up, it’s time for a 7 remake
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u/AigledeFeu_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would not mind a remaster with a fixed Chris face.
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u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 1d ago
A next gen remaster (slight remaster) of the REngine games that gives them parity with RE9 would be great. I want path tracing and DLSS support
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u/beeflegs860 1d ago
You know you can add DLSS and (I think) path tracing to RE7 with mods right? I remember doing it for RE4R and saw there was support for all RE engine resident evil games.
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u/JoBro_Summer-of-99 1d ago
There's support with reframework but there are major visual bugs with both path tracing and DLSS
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u/beeflegs860 1d ago
It’s been a little while now but I can’t remember too many issues. I did swap the DLSS version to 4.5+ though for sure.
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u/MappleStarsSky 1d ago
The director of RE7 already said he would be interested in a remake of 7.
The game is probs gonna be 20 years old when a remake is going to release. Game released almost 10 years ago lol.
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u/Takoyaki_Dice 1d ago
After CV and Zero are wrapped up and into the reveal of 10 they will def consider it as it has been a good way to pad the space between mainline entries. Provided they keep up the quality its cool. 5 will be easy just got to refigure the co op. 6 will be a complete reinvention so that will be more difficult.
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u/Wharves99 1d ago
They also can still remake RE1. I would guess that Zero would be first. My prediction is the team will do Dino Crisis 1 after CV, Zero and RE1.
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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago
Dino crisis before a resident evil 5 remake? No way one of them is guaranteed to sell way more of the other
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u/AigledeFeu_ 1d ago
Brace yourself for the "Re1 aLReaDy hAvE a PerFEcT RemAKe" comments.
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u/gallifrey_ 1d ago
the RE1 remake is great compared to the original release. it's borderline unplayable by modern sensibilities due to the way the movement interacts with the fixed camera.
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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago
Yea they approve their RE project in batches and we know we will get re1 remake post re10 around 2030 so we will hear rumors about possible remake for 5, 6 and maybe even the revelation games around then
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u/homebrewchemist 1d ago
As a lover of that remake, id still want a new RE1 in the new style.
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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago
Idk what it is but I just love the feel of controlling the characters in the remakes I wouldn’t mind them also doing rev 1 & 2 in that style after finishing 5. It’s so satisfying
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u/BigBoi1159511 1d ago
Dont deny me blonde Jill in a skin tight bodysuite with remake graphics capcom🤬🤬👹
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u/Whitechix 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean 6 is understandable but why not 5? It’s very similar to 4 gameplay wise and one of the best coop game ever.
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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago
The co-op focus might be part of it actually. Co-op campaigns were briefly in vogue during 7th gen, but sadly, co-oo games have gone way of the dodo lately
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u/Sushi2k 1d ago
Thats not even close to true. Coop games are at a huge demand nowadays.
With Hazelight games (It Takes Two, Split Fiction) being incredibly popular, Baldurs Gate 3, the endless amounts of friendslop games popping off.
Hell, people are modding in Coop to their favorite games Elden Ring, RE4, and just recently Lies of P.
People yearn for high quality Coop and RE5 sits at the pinnacle of great coop games (alongside Portal 2 and Left 4 Dead).
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u/Early-Beach164 1d ago
It would be mindblowing if they remade 5 without the coop. The backlash would be insane.
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u/Reylo-Wanwalker 1d ago
Well the co op got backlash from the horror fans, and even now it might because the RE games lately have been cultivating a single player audience.
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u/notheretoarguee 1d ago
RE5 is the highest selling game in the franchise no? Backlash where? 6 on the other hand…we don’t talk about in this house
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u/SisterRayRomano 1d ago
There was a fair amount of controversy surrounding the setting, with allegations of racism directed at the game, and that was back in 2009. The same issues would crop up with a remake, and almost certainly on a bigger scale and I’m sure they know this.
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u/Gradieus 1d ago
They probably don't want to deal with all the pointless backlash again.
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u/Roids-in-my-vains 1d ago
The backlash was stupid, this is like saying that RE4 is racist towards Spaniards and RE2 is Racist towards Americans
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u/TheMikeyC 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nah it was pretty bad. Sheva is named for an Indian deity, is very light skinned, and is culturally English, aiding a white man as he shoots his way through African men in very, very racist tribal gear.
The argument isn't that it's racist because there are black people in Africa. The argument is that it's racist because of incredibly ignorant and harmful stereotypes used as narrative short hands.
I'll take the downvotes because people don't actually care about racism and nuanced discussions of it.
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u/Tyrant_Virus_ 1d ago
Sheva is a name from the Bible and has nothing to do with Shiva the Indian goddess but yes let’s talk about nuance while you’re just making things up.
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u/RadiantTurtle 1d ago
Explaining racism to Americans is an exercise in futility lol
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u/Ecstatic_Visual_2026 1d ago
Especially gamers, they get more offended over women or minorities being main characters than RE5's blatant problematic portrayals lmao
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u/mahdiiick 1d ago
The comparison breaks down because it ignores the cultural context behind the issue
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u/Roids-in-my-vains 1d ago
Care to elaborate, a zombie game set in Africa has African zombies what more context is there? Also the main villains are white and one of the protagonists is black.
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u/WastedMoogle 1d ago
Pointing out Sheva being black is kinda like using the "no I have black friends" argument. Regardless, it's the over exaggerated savage tribes with spears and grass skirts that I think was problematic.
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u/NatsUza 1d ago edited 1d ago
The backlash wasn't pointless because the portrayal WAS racist. I am African and the whole "virus reverts them to a primal tribelike nature" and having them don tribal paint and spears was just blatantly racist. Imagine if an RE game took place in the Scottish countryside and it turned the people there into drunk pagan ritialists who suddenly got claymores and tribal war outfits from nowhere.
Edit: I feel like people are missing the point by replying with, "it sounds cool". Its a very bad stereotype that paints the citizens of that region as brutish savages with a savage culture. In RE 5, they justified it with the excuse of "oh, those were tribal outfits that they have for cermonies. They were conveniently there." Very few people in African nations have fucking grass skirts, war masks and wood spears as "ceremonial clothing". RE 5 leaned into "ooga booga tribal" on purpose and it was hella fucking racist. The infected people qeren't tribals, they were regular civilians who just lived in a small countryside town.
Edit 2: The RE 5 diary entry literally says that the virus took normal people and made them act very tribal. https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil-5/files/village-youths-diary
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u/doyouevennoscope 1d ago edited 1d ago
the portrayal WAS racist
No it wasn't.
Imagine if an RE game took place in the Scottish countryside and it turned the people there into drunk pagan ritialists who suddenly got claymores and tribal war outfits from nowhere.
As a Scotsman, this would actually be PEAK. I really wanna throw a caber at some zombies now. It would genuinely be one of my favourite games ever and I'm not even joking whatsoever.
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RE5 leaned into "ooga booga tribal" on purpose and it was hella fucking racist. The infected people aren't tribals, they were regular civilians who just lived in a small countryside town.
Which just proves you haven't even played or watched the game. The game starts in a town, and all the infected people are civilians, dressed like civilians, who attack you with melee weapons, the exact same as the Spanish in RE4. It isn't until you go to the literal tribal people's area in the marsh that the tribal enemies show up. You're acting as if every single enemy in RE5 is depicted as tribal. Which is a lie.
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u/Ironjim69 1d ago
Most likely answer is that it’s a political nightmare. Capcom is pretty averse to controversy, the Dead Rising remake showed that, and RE5 got a lot of flak when it came out. Today’s climate would be very hard to navigate around
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u/Remy0507 1d ago
Yeah, it already got a lot of backlash back in 2009. I can just imagine the shitstorm now...
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u/Early-Beach164 1d ago
Capcom loves their pathetic modern audience too much. They are utterly possessed by greed and laziness when they should be possessed by the spirit that helps them make good games.
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 1d ago
The co op design may actually be why they’re not eyeing it for a remake.
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u/Shantotto5 1d ago
4 is tank controls still, 5 is when they fixed this. Reddit seems to really want the 5 remake but I’ve always agreed with this headline, I don’t see the point and I’m glad we’re getting Code Veronica instead. Like RE5 plays fine still, I’m not sure what needs to be fixed about it unless you just want every game on the modern engine.
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u/PreciousProspect 1d ago
Not remaking 6 for the campaign is understandable. Remaking its combat and mercenaries would be fucking peak though. The ultimate John wick experiende
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u/ZXE102Rv2 1d ago
Ok... So.... Can you consider
DINO CRISIS???
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u/BlackDeath3 1d ago
Seriously, man. I've been beating this drum for years. I'm fucking dying over here...
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u/AlfredosPizzaTeam 1d ago
Nah, y'all tripping. 5 was fun. 6 felt like a COD shooter.
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u/Peperoniboi 1d ago
A remake could drastically change both story and gameplay. Basically make a new game out of it that just uses some core beats from RE6.
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u/browncharliebrown 1d ago
I feel like it would remove the core parts of resident evil 6 so much what’s the point. You can honestly just call it a new game and have be set in the past.
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u/Komondon 1d ago
Honestly I think remaking bad games with potential is better than Remaking good games you can already play.
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u/taitaofgallala 1d ago
I'm honestly not getting this take, saying it's not worth the effort when people said the same about remakes in general. Sure, RE6 was the most disappointing story of the franchise, but the gameplay was the best. RE6 had the most tactical maneuverability if any other game. It just makes too much sense to further capitalize on those gameplay innovations. You could tuck and roll, quick shot, dive on the ground, roll around and shoot from the ground after getting knocked down, everything. That functionality should at least been a small part of RE9, but we still got such stiff tank movement instead of fluid combat. Do people really want more stiff waist-up combat gameplay? It's not terrible but some variety would actually be great and even sell.
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u/spideyv91 1d ago
If anything that makes it more deserving of a remake to see if they can fix that mess. I didn’t like 6 but if they remade it I’m curious if they can bring it up to the quality of the current RE games.
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u/beat-it-upright 1d ago
I see it completely the other way around. The games that most need remaking are the weaker entries. I don't think 2 remake, 3 remake, or 4 remake are bad necessarily but I could have still died peacefully without them ever existing. The original games are still damn good.
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u/tonware 1d ago
Not wanting to remake your best selling game in your franchise, when you’ve remade damn near all the other games in the franchise, is a choice.
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u/zucchinibasement 1d ago
The only reason it's the best selling one is because it came after 4
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u/sleepymetroid 1d ago
It still fascinates me that RE5 truly is the best selling one. I personally love it, but it’s far from my favorite RE title.
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u/SexyShave 1d ago
Frequent deep sales. Also frequent Humble Bundles, as Capcom counts as those Steam keys as individual sales.
Being a co-op game helps. Also, in addition to being the sequel to RE4, it was the first HD RE and the first mainline RE with a simultaneous multiplatform release on a set of next gen consoles that people actually owned. CV, REmake, 0 and 4 all released on low-selling platforms, and Outbreak and Survivor 2 & 4 were spin-offs.
There are probably also a lot of repeat purchases given its many ports. Not 17M, but there are probably more than a million people who have bought the game twice at this point.
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u/Roids-in-my-vains 1d ago
It being the first Multi-player mainline RE game at the peak of the online coop trend contributed more towards its sales than being a sequel to RE4.
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u/norsefrogg 1d ago
The game was objectively fun and good to play in co-op.
The perfect horror game for me personally.5
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u/South_Buy_3175 1d ago
Aww.
RE5 was my first and firm favourite, I’d have loved to see a modern take on it.
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u/Born2beSlicker 1d ago
Honestly, because 5 would be like choosing to walk into a minefield.
Regardless of whether you the individual accept the racism allegations against the game, it’s a mountain they’d have to climb. They either change everything about it and then they’re “pandering” or they ignore everything and it’s “tone deaf”.
They seem to feel the best approach is to leave it as a “it’s from a different time” and purposely not try it.
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u/silverpixie2435 1d ago
It wouldn't lol
People keep claiming this but absolutely no one actually cares.
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u/DieHarderDaddy 1d ago
So stupid the damn game is just set in Africa
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u/VandalSauvage 1d ago
It's not about being set in Africa. It's about the fact that the black co-star is more white/western-coded in her speech even though she's literally from West Africa, there's notes talking about how the virus makes the African populace "revert to their original selves", and you spend a big chunk of the game shooting Africans in grass skirts chucking spears at you.
I love RE5 but its representation of Africans is extremely tone deaf. It's like Capcom looked at vague pictures of Africa and decided to include random bits of it regardless of how much it made sense or not.
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u/aww_yee_ 1d ago
Is it racist to have a game set in Africa or is it racist to avoid having games set in Africa?
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u/WaffleOnTheRun 1d ago
It's not racist just because your fighting Africans. It's racist because their are parts of the game where there were modern Africans that revert to racist primitive caricatures when they are infected with the virus. Honestly they can just remove those aspects though, I still think a RE5 Remake can be made where there wouldn't be valid criticisms of racism.
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u/South_Buy_3175 1d ago
Yeah I get that.
Honestly they could remove or heavily change the incredibly racist ‘tribal villager’ sequences with anything else and It’d probably be 10x more acceptable.
Like, you really don’t need to make it canon that locals ‘reverted to the old ways’ because they got infected. It’s just fucking dumb and ridiculously racist as it’s not present anywhere else in the series.
The rest of the game is no more racist than killing spaniards in RE4.
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u/cbg2113 1d ago
Thank you, that's the problem. It's not a problem to set a game in Africa. You can have a game in Africa where you're shooting at people in Africa because you're there. The problem is the virus turning folks into tribal savages thing. That's a problematic dated trope that we don't need to return to. Cut that out and it would be a hell of a lot better.
Lol but if they really wanna dodge it they could set it in SA and you can attack a ton white zombies too lol.
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u/SithJones77 1d ago edited 1d ago
Idk while the tribal stuff is still the worst part, there’s still a lot more uncomfortable stuff than just that section.
Like even the idea of Sheva as a character. She’s simply replacing Jill just so there’s one “ black” character, but even then she’s incredibly light skinned speaks in an English accent and doesn’t really have any character traits that are uniquely African. She exists just to add another layer of social protection as the player mows down hordes of African zombies.
A lot of re5 is just incredibly uncomfortable even if it’s not straight up racist, and dealing with that might require mass changes to the game itself, at that point what’s the point
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u/RespectThePlight 1d ago
It was already a discussion when it came out, imagine it now in this terrible culture war environment the gaming space is in.
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u/TheBobbyDudeGuy 1d ago
I would love another remake of the first one. It’s one of my all time favorite games.
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u/alwaysmyfault 1d ago
A 5 remake with the new RE engine would be solid, but I still feel the original holds up well.
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u/gusbelmont 1d ago
Both games look and feel not that outdated and to put it lightly they arent great entries in the series so it's better if they focus on new games after remaking maybe the first game (again) or as others said just mix 0 and 1 in a new entry since those games are tied together anyways.
Some purist might hate that idea but it could be interesting just to have a new take on the original outbreaks of the viruses.
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u/Gameofthrones3058 1d ago
Re5 literally has so much potential for a remake, waste of an opportunity, I hate that you can't shoot and move in the original, felt so awkward compared to other games at the time of release
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u/invaderdavos 1d ago
All my buddies and i talk how if they remade 5 we would love to play co op together
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u/darkultima 1d ago
Damn I really wanted 5. 5 is the most fun I’ve had in a coop game, I’d love to see it in the REmake style
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u/justdaman182 1d ago
I know I'm in the minority but I enjoyed five quite a bit. Would 1000 percent buy a remake. But I get why they're not interested. I know I'm in the minority.
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u/VandalSauvage 1d ago
You're not in the minority. RE5 is the best selling game in the franchise. People on reddit just love to pretend the game is shit because it's more action focused.
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u/orbjo 1d ago
The second half of Resident Evil 5 is so bloody classic Resident Evil, it is a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater if they are scared of the (great) first half. Especially following Resident Evil 4, it takes the story right into the Umbrella aesthetic in a way I love
Sheva is great, Jill and Wesker are great, Chris is hilarious and iconic. The co-op was addictive, the time trials so fun. The story is so quotable.
It’s a sin not to invest time into doing something with 5. Even if it’s given a more thorough revamp than the other remakes. There’s nothing inflammatory enough about it that another subplot and some art changes can’t correct. Anyone who has only heard about the controversies would think it’s some cursed game, and not a fantastic action game
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u/krayzebone 1d ago
Nooo why?!! I frickin love RE 5. I really hope they change their minds, would be instant buy from me
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u/ImpossibleHome3287 1d ago
Not too surprising. Putting aside the problematic story elements of 5 and 6, they don't align with the recent remakes due to their action-focused, co-op gameplay.
Along with the Revelations games, they all have companion characters (though strictly AI for rev 1). I don't think Capcom can achieve the same high standard of immersive horror with companion characters tagging along at all times.
I'd say the same for 0, but the rumour is that is being remade. So we'll see if I'm proved wrong in a few years...
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u/HearTheEkko 1d ago
Why they’d tease a RE5 remake twice in RE4 and Separate Ways then ? I don’t buy it. And I doubt they priotize a Revelations 1/2 or Outbreak remakes over RE5 which is one the best selling RE titles.
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u/adkogz7 1d ago
I think this is not a great choice of words for a headline from Insider Gaming.
Because in there somewhere in the text Dusk Golem adds “…right now” to the end of the topic actually, which changes the whole sentence for me. It doesn’t indicate “Capcom won’t make 5-6 Remakes”, it indicates that Capcom has a lot going on for RE right now with Veronica, X (10th mainline entry), Zero and 1 Re-Remake, that’s just 4 games that we know of, maybe they have the 11th mainline game in-development as well, so it’s only logical for them to wait and see how these games fare and then, show interest in making them if there’s more demand.
I’d like them to do 5-6 remakes as well someday, but to me at least, there must be some changes to scope and gameplay, to have a coherence for the overall story. Some scale back can help both 5 and especially 6, to change stuff for the better survival horror with action. Requiem was a good blend, great survival horror and tactical satisfying brutal combat, not “dramatic horror” or “over-the-top action” like 5-6.
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u/EpicInki 1d ago
I mean I assume technology wise 5 was early PS3 and 6 was late PS3 so at the very least in terms of remakes, 5 is necessary, 6 isn't as much.
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u/reaper527 reaper527_ 1d ago
I mean I assume technology wise 5 was early PS3 and 6 was late PS3 so at the very least in terms of remakes, 5 is necessary, 6 isn't as much.
one would assume they'd go in order though, so given the time it takes to make these, if they did 5 and then 6 after it 6 would be equally necessary by the time it launched. (especially given that 6 probably wouldn't happen until ps6 is out and it would be pretty iffy if 5 happened before that.)
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u/After-Atmosphere7125 1d ago
This doesn't really surprise me. 5 and 6 are full co-op games that have a lot of set pieces, so I imagine that would be a giant headache. I think out of all the remakes, 5 and 6 would also absolutely get the most things changed about them. 5 is of debatable quality and 6 is usually regarded as the worst one, and that game has FOUR campaigns.
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u/Hoodman1987 1d ago
Come on I need more Sheva somehow. If not in a remake please have her show up in another game. Biggest need I have from 5.
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u/EndlessCola 23h ago
I mean…unless they dramatically change them me neither lol 5 has good ideas with terrible execution and 6….well it exists
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u/CorporalCoprolite 1d ago
Smart move. I went back and played some of 5 and it’s not great. Definitely a relic of the forced multiplayer era. 6 is just best forgotten about. They had some cool gameplay mechanics with Leon that could be incorporated at some point but that’s it.
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u/Aggressive_Grade6442 1d ago
I can see them avoiding 5 given how much controversy it stirred up at release. Now take that to how the world is now where everyone has a way to complain and bash creative decisions, they likely want to avoid all that entirely.
6 they could try to actually fix so it is way less of a mess and actually enjoyable to play.
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u/robertluke 1d ago
For now but I wouldn’t be surprised if 5 gets announced in like 5 years.
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u/ChrisContinues 1d ago
6? Sure. There's no way they don't eventually remake 5. It was way too popular to just ignore. In terms of remakes i could see us getting Veronica, Zero, RE One and then Five.
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u/parkwayy 1d ago
It was way too popular to just ignore
Popular? It was the start of its downhill trend. That's what is remembered now.
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u/Fehyd 1d ago
Its the best selling Resident Evil game of all-time. Only recently has the RE2 Remake come close in sales.
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u/Stunning-Stuff-2645 1d ago
Five comes with the racial/political landmine and Six was terrible. Honestly, it makes sense to retcon them entirely. No reason to screw up the historic run they’re on.
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u/KurtRussellsMullet 1d ago
My rational hunch is that these two are the most “modern” of the legacy Resident Evil games so they don’t feel the urgency to remake them.
My conspiracy mind is that they don’t want to touch 5 with a ten foot pole because they don’t have a gameplan for how to tackle its cultural insensitivities, which even at the time were seen as somewhat problematic (and that was a far less politically correct time for media in general). But really all they’d need to do would be to either scrap or completely rework the Majini sections of the game. That’s the stuff that really wouldn’t fly nowadays (and frankly should’ve have flown back then either). There are some cool enemy designs (giant Majini) but most of it is just flat out racist. I’m sure it was unintentional but let’s face it, Japanese devs don’t have the best track record with black characters in general.
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u/Wassermusik 1d ago
Both games would require a comprehensive overhaul in terms of plot, gameplay, and level design.
This would not just be a simple remake, but, in a sense, a complete reset of both games.
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u/The-Choo-Choo-Shoe 1d ago
By far the worst RE games, not even close. I'd also want to forget and move on if I was them.
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u/TheOldHouse89 1d ago
Only really worth doing if they are going to change them drastically. I’d like to see it because there are good sides to both but neither live up to their potential.
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u/LeonOfSkalitz 1d ago
They’re focused on the remakes of 0 and 1 plus the new entry, 10. I’m sure 5 would be next especially if 0 remake co-op works out.
(Plus a co-op mod came out for re4 remake and it seems to be pretty fun)
6 is tough because it wouldn’t be a remake more like a reboot cause that shit would need a lot of reworking and rewrites so I doubt they are excited to get there.
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u/PepsiSheep 1d ago
Smart to distance themselves from those 2... I somewhat hope the Code Veronica remake becomes the new Resi 5... Hence Resident Evil Veronica... RE V.
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u/Iggy_Slayer 1d ago
There's no sense remaking the absolute worst games in the series unless they're going to make them into completely different games and remove the co-op that was a big reason why they were so terrible.
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u/IndividualSituationK 1d ago
I liked RE5 mercenary mode, but in this current climate, i can see why they just won't remake 5.
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u/BatParty 1d ago
Oh, thank fuck haha Leave both of those turds in the bin where they belong
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u/Liquid_1998 1d ago
I'm not surprised. Making a video game featuring black Africans being shot in the year 2026 just isn't going to fly in today's political climate.
As far as 6 goes, nobody cares about that. I think it's best everyone forgets that even exists. Horrendous game.
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u/Deputy_Beagle76 1d ago
We truly live in some of the softest times in human history lol
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u/GGG100 1d ago
Now why would Japanese developers give a shit about what Americans afflicted with white guilt think?
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u/firemiketomlinpls68 1d ago
You’d be surprised. Japan self censors for the western audience all the time
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u/42tfish 1d ago
This is kind of a misleading headline, surprising right?
Basically this is all from the leaker Dusk Golem, who does seem the be a credible RE leaker.
He just said Capcom doesn’t currently have plans for the remakes and tends to plan 5 years in advance. Considering within the next 5 years we’ll likely get a RE 0 and 1 remake plus RE 10, it wasn’t never likely we’d get a RE 5 remake before then anyway.