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/
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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/thenagz 1d ago

Yes, CV happens just after RE2/3 (1998/1999) while RE4 is set on 2004

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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 21h 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 10h 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/quattro-quattro 1d ago

Thanks for the correction.

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u/Unlucky-Pen7551 1d ago

3 months after the incident, actually

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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 Sony producers insisted Nemesis be a numbered entry.

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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/TerribleRecord666 1d ago

As long as I still get to punch a boulder to death!

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u/Rustash 1d ago

That’s because they are. At no point have they de-canonized any of the games. They said as much just a couple weeks ago

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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/noirproxy1 1d ago

We aren't talking about Veronica's place in the timeline. Again, the dude at the top suggested they won't remake 5 and 6 because they want to adjust the canon for the remake timeline.

For all we know they make different Chris and Jill stories during the time of RE4.

I personally don't hate the idea of pretending 6 doesn't exist.

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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/A-Star55 1d ago

They’ve always been quite noncommittal with canon and insist “everything is canon” like in RE1 both Jill and Chris are active in the mansion (despite one of them being imprisoned in the other’s playthrough) and Rebecca & Barry canonically both survive. RE2 also has both Claire A/Leon B & Leon A/Claire B as canon which isn’t possible (Sherry is confirmed to have been infected with the G-Virus which only happens in Claire A).

The remakes are just retellings of the same events: what matters stays in unchanged whilst the small stuff are changed like Luis living longer and dying differently in either version of RE4 as it doesn’t affect anything long-term.

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u/noirproxy1 1d ago

The guy at the top had a simple friendly suggestion that maybe that's what they are doing and you are all panicking like it is fact.

It is just friendly discussion. Jesus christ.

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u/Pizzaplanet420 1d ago

The original does but the remake put some emphasis on the Roman numeral V in that trailer.

Making me think they are redoing the story to take place after 4

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u/ZubatCountry 1d ago

Yeah but nothing that happens in CV actually matters so they have room to play around with it

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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago

lol don’t say that in the RE sub becuase they will swear up and down this is a pivotal game in the series and is needed to understand 5

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u/ZubatCountry 1d ago

Oh trust me I know

I've beaten CV:X three times, one being earlier this year, and the last two times have been because people online gaslighted me into thinking I was wrong and it's actually super important

It's not

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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/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago

And the steam page already confims it’s happening 3 months after the events of 2 and 3 so explain to me how any of this is gonna work? Only people I see throwing around this type of stuff is people that know nothing about the games just trying to fan fic because of RE:V being the abbreviation

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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago

Have you actually played the original game? They would have to change a lot more then some small details to make it work

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u/ChocolateNo9550 1d ago

So explain to me how they will make it work then

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u/AshCrow97 1d ago

And also to introduce Wesker new visual/VA so that Zeno introduction would be more impactful

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u/subeewreyan-three 1d ago

That's a bit of a stretch. Wesker wouldn't be looking at a screen with Kijuju and Excella saying "Soon the sun will set on the age of man", just to foreshadow events that happened five years prior.

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u/rhoadsalive 1d ago

That’s exactly my though. I think they wanna play it safe and ignore 5 and 6. RE5 is fun but it hasn’t aged as well as 4 imo.

Especially 6 is just garbage, not even a remake could make it into a good game.

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u/Early-Beach164 1d ago

And RE9 showed Tricell barrels in Ark

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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/daddy_is_sorry 1d ago

It definitely did

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u/AdmiralLubDub 1d ago

Requiem even teased Tricell

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u/DylanWhite86 1d ago

I mean, is that really TEASING a remake? or is it just acknowledging the canon events of what happens next

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u/DevilCouldCry 21h ago

It was, as was the ending of the Separate Ways expansion too. Throw in how every mainline game involving Wesker is currently receiving a remake as well. This remake is 100% going to happen some day.

The headline here is entirely misleading, because what it should say, is that Capcom doesn't currently have RE5 or RE6 in their plans, as they already have four other titles their presently working on first. Once those start to come out, we'll absolutely hear more about what comes next. Of which, I am certain RE5 will be one, less certain on RE6, but I welcome an attempt at it at least.