Games You Won't Be Playing This Halloween: Capcom Edition
More accurate title: Resident Evil Edition.
This entry here is going to be a little more boring, since Capcom seemingly revels in missing this time of the year every year for some reason. And it's not like Resident Evil scares anyone anymore these days, though you could viably make the argument that it never did. But! That doesn't mean that they shouldn't try, at least. That's a shame.
I'd say we're far beyond the stage where developers need to test the Wii's market to see how receptive it will be towards a "mature" game. We're three years in, and the console is still getting games that aren't quite main games in the series though aren't quite phoned it. But that's not to say that a game like Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles will be bad at all, but at this point, it would be nice if Wii fans received a nice, new main game in the franchise. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition proved that the controls would definitely be best with the console's Remote and Nunchuck, so what gives?
Blame conservatism. While Nintendo will tout how many third-party titles have been sold at their press conferences, some of the best ones go unloved, even when they're backed by a serious advertising campaign (like Madworld). You almost couldn't blame them for not with them having a current business strategy that they find profitable. So, uh, the point of this is that you should give The Darkside Chronicles a try if you're a fan of on rail shooters. It's one of the better ones. Well, if you're not too busy with Modern Warfare 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
(Boy, that went off on a wild tangent.)
And, wouldn't you believe it, here's one of those phoned-in games I was indirectly referring to. Like the remake of the first Resident Evil before it, Resident Evil Zero is also getting a re-release for Wii, complete with a revamped control style. Zero, originally released on Gamecube in November 2002, was the last "old-style" RE game in the franchise. It's also the worst received game in the franchise. Capcom USA is actually going back on their word a little on this one, claiming upon its Japanese announcement (a year-and-a-half ago) that the game wouldn't released outside of Japan. Yet here it is, and they just announced that it would release in America on December 1.
Speaking of older Resident Evil games, I figured that Capcom and Sony were holding the long-time-in-coming PSOne Classics versions of Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and Dino Crisis until this week. Guess not, since the store didn't update with them yesterday, or any PSOne Classics. Saying this is a missed opportunity is an understatement.
Even though the franchise can hardly be described as "frightening" anymore, especially its later iterations, I think there's something unsettling in every Resident Evil game enough to qualify here. So if you have any of the older games in the series, now's probably a good time to revisit them! Well, if you haven't started already.
P.S. To be honest, I didn't know this would be all about Resident Evil games before I started this post. Funny how that happened.
This entry here is going to be a little more boring, since Capcom seemingly revels in missing this time of the year every year for some reason. And it's not like Resident Evil scares anyone anymore these days, though you could viably make the argument that it never did. But! That doesn't mean that they shouldn't try, at least. That's a shame.
I'd say we're far beyond the stage where developers need to test the Wii's market to see how receptive it will be towards a "mature" game. We're three years in, and the console is still getting games that aren't quite main games in the series though aren't quite phoned it. But that's not to say that a game like Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles will be bad at all, but at this point, it would be nice if Wii fans received a nice, new main game in the franchise. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition proved that the controls would definitely be best with the console's Remote and Nunchuck, so what gives?Blame conservatism. While Nintendo will tout how many third-party titles have been sold at their press conferences, some of the best ones go unloved, even when they're backed by a serious advertising campaign (like Madworld). You almost couldn't blame them for not with them having a current business strategy that they find profitable. So, uh, the point of this is that you should give The Darkside Chronicles a try if you're a fan of on rail shooters. It's one of the better ones. Well, if you're not too busy with Modern Warfare 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
(Boy, that went off on a wild tangent.)
And, wouldn't you believe it, here's one of those phoned-in games I was indirectly referring to. Like the remake of the first Resident Evil before it, Resident Evil Zero is also getting a re-release for Wii, complete with a revamped control style. Zero, originally released on Gamecube in November 2002, was the last "old-style" RE game in the franchise. It's also the worst received game in the franchise. Capcom USA is actually going back on their word a little on this one, claiming upon its Japanese announcement (a year-and-a-half ago) that the game wouldn't released outside of Japan. Yet here it is, and they just announced that it would release in America on December 1. Speaking of older Resident Evil games, I figured that Capcom and Sony were holding the long-time-in-coming PSOne Classics versions of Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and Dino Crisis until this week. Guess not, since the store didn't update with them yesterday, or any PSOne Classics. Saying this is a missed opportunity is an understatement.
Even though the franchise can hardly be described as "frightening" anymore, especially its later iterations, I think there's something unsettling in every Resident Evil game enough to qualify here. So if you have any of the older games in the series, now's probably a good time to revisit them! Well, if you haven't started already.
P.S. To be honest, I didn't know this would be all about Resident Evil games before I started this post. Funny how that happened.
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