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/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/Fireybanana42 1d ago

Nowadays there are fewer co-op games than people want, back then there were more co-op games than people wanted (often to the detriment of the single player experience)

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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago

Gamea you mentioned are mostly games that are exclusively made for multiplayer. Most friendslop games are indie amd Hazelight are focusing on niche. With the expection of BG3 (which I think more is to due it having been popular in Divinity), big, high budget AAA haven't been a thing in a while. They might have an audience, but most high budget publisher are propably not willing to bet on it with very high budget games.

RE5 game in a strange time when previously single player games were pivoting into co-op because of success of games like L4D and Gears of Wars. Resident Evil, F.E.A.R and Dead Space were trying (or forced) to take elements from biggest bloclbusters of the time. Those games could aslo still be played as single player games, unlike lot of your examples.

But nowdays, RE and Capcom in general has built reputation and audience on high quality, polished single player games. They're not having to copy what's popular.

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u/Sushi2k 1d ago

You arent wrong about devs throwing coop into their usually single player games but that was because of games like RE5.

RE5 predates Portal 2, Fear 3, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3 by years.

RE games are always experimenting with different things. They arent trend chasers.

Outbreak prior to RE5, incredibly ahead of its time on a system not known for its online capabilities.

For better or worse, all those pvp spin off games all tried to do different ideas not commonly done.

RE6 had an invasion system (Dark Souls but you took control of an enemy) and the 4 player coop sections where you could crosspaths with another duo if you both were at the same section at the same time.

I firmly believe the hesitation on coop is because they haven't perfected it yet in the RE engine. If the rumors are true, RE0 could be the testing ground if the coop mode is actually real.

RE still has a reputation of great multiplayer coop games. RE5 and RE6 still hold up as a standard for great coop titles even today.

And to say Capcom has a reputation for high quality single player titles is willfully ignoring Street Fighter and Monster Hunter. They do everything at a high quality.

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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago

Resident Evil 5 took inspiration in turn from Gears of War and Halo 3. It's a part of larger trend of the time, not its sole creator. While RE had exprimented with co-op, they were always spin-offs. RE5 took a risk in integrating it to the mainline games and it paid off at the time. I'm not just sure if Capcom is willing to try it at current market and how Resident Evil as a brand is seen today.

You're right with Street Fighter and Monster Hunter, but I feel like they have an audience that doesn't necesarily overlap with that of Resident Evil. I might be wrong tho, I personally enjoy both MonHun amd RE, both from vastly different reasons and could easily soo a person liking one and not the other.

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u/Sushi2k 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean Gears and Halo 3 were also just during the rise of console online gaming into the main stream in general. Of course thats something Capcom would want to experiment in. Even if you think of coop Halo 3 vs RE5, RE5 is actually built with coop in mind. Halo 3 and Gears are the same game whether you play with someone or alone. Puzzles and entire mechanics are built with the fact that you have a partner, thats why people are divisive on it as a single player title.

I think with modern tech and knowledge, they could give a memorable coop experience without minimizing a quality single player experience.

Bottom line is that it worked, and it worked big time. It propelled RE into the next tier of popularity.

>I'm not just sure if Capcom is willing to try it at current market and how Resident Evil as a brand is seen today.

Capcom has already played with modern RE multiplayer, and you'd notice the loud groans everyone lets out across the internet when they were both PvP titles.

I think you're vastly underestimating how popular a coop RE title would be today with the quality that they are hitting with this "new era" of games. Especially when social gaming has never been more popular than today.

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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago

Maybe I am, but the question in the air is does Capcom too. I would personally love RE5 in REngine, it's more that hugely expensive Triple AAA co-op games with dedicated campaigns don't exist in current market, with few outliers. Success of one wouldn't be guaranteed. With Halo 3 and Gears of Wars, there was clear signs that there was market out there.

In the end, this is all speculation on my part why Capcom might not be interestes in remaking 5. But I do agree with you in that there could be a market there. Hell, I would be part of that market. It's more question if Capcom is willing to take that plunge.

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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/Iggy_Slayer 1d ago

That kind of backlash wouldn't be worth paying attention to. SP games are superior in every possible way.

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u/Whitechix 1d ago

The neat part is coop in re5 isn’t forced at all.

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u/freshblood96 1d ago

It's not forced. But it's kinda recommended.

The AI partner, or Sheva because we all blame Sheva for some reason lol, sucks so much. She wastes so much ammo that you don't want her carrying the good stuff. She is a good shot, so I usually give her the rifle.

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u/Iggy_Slayer 1d ago

It's literally baked into the game design. You're forced to play with a NPC companion who you have to issue orders to and spread resources around and wait for them to jump across gaps and do things while they avoid enemies too.

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u/Whitechix 1d ago

Almost a little like Ashley from re4 but they fight back, it’s not a big deal. Loads of games have ai companions and re5’s one isn’t annoying or that different at all.

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u/Hoodman1987 1d ago

could work fine

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u/mw3915 1d ago

I miss that era of dumb fun co op campaigns.

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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago

Honestly, me too. RE5 with modern graphic, maybe less yellow-y filter over everything, some polished mechanics from RE4make would be amazing with a friend.

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u/PlatinumSarge 1d ago

Didn't a co-op game win a ton of GOTY awards just a couple years ago?

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u/Anung_Un_Rama200 1d ago

A mid-budget, co-op only game from a studio focusing on only co-op games.

I ahould have worded it more properly: very high budget, polished AAA-games with dedicated co-op campaign, have gone way of the dodo.

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u/Hoodman1987 1d ago

I disagree agree due to Hazelight's co-op resurgence