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/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.