Recently they released news that they were remaking Resident Evil 2. This remake not just being like the RE1 remake on the Gamecube back in those days, but a full on remastering where it's all new fangled over the shoulder stuff now and basically nothing like Resident Evil 2 at all. Sarcasm aside it doesn't look too bad, even if it's not the remake I wanted or hoped for, it'll probably still be, at the very least, a good game. However the hype surrounding the remake has set off some money alarms at Capcom headquarters and they have realized that remaking old games=BIG BUCKS. They have said they are going to "explore" the idea of remaking more of their older games.
This may be exciting for some people that we may be getting nice shiny new versions of Dino Crisis or whatever but to me this news screams that they now have an excuse to be lazy. Now that they know that remaking old games will generate hype AND dollars, why bother trying to make anything new? If you google "upcoming Capcom games" the three titles that appear at the top of the search are Devil May Cry 5, Megaman 11 and Deep Down. So two sequels and Souls-looking dungeon crawl. Google that in six months and it'll probably just be a list of remakes and a tweak to Street Fighter.
Maybe I'm just mad and cynical because I'm sick of seeing remakes and sequels EVERYWHERE. Of course, gaming isn't devoid of it's original IPs, there's plenty of indie devs and other companies putting out original stuff but I just feel that it's a shame that a big lad like Capcom isn't using the piles of money it has to try something different. Let's at least hope that if they do start churning out remakes, they are at least of good quality.
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