Resident Evil Requiem PS5 Was Open World, Online in Early Tests

I suspect Leon if he's in the game will feature like how Chris featured in Village. The fact they explicitly talked about Leon means he's clearly in it and i wouldn't be shocked if Jill, Claire and Chris feature giving its been 30 years and it features Raccoon City.

Great! Games that pivot midway through development always turn out great, right? What's that?

EDIT partway? halfway? It means the same result; a disjointed mess.

Please do a poll for the 'are you happy?' question.

I'm wondering if we could get the most one sided result ever.

Good I'm happy love resident evil games

Definitely a good call.

I’d have loved open-world 😡

Thank God they saw sense. The series has always been at it's best when focusing on smaller well designed areas and survival horror

Now that's a smart decision. They tried it saw that it didn't work and went back to the drawing board. Perhaps next time they can use the feedback to do an open world. But this is 100% the better call. Also I feel Horror games dont suit an open world. Horror inspired or perhaps horror elements? Sure but straight up pure Horror needs a tight design to work. Imo

They were basically developing an outbreak 3 from what I can see, example being the virus gague in the corner.

@Medic_alert It’s now live in the article 😂

@Alps_Stranger Did you even read the quote? They had some concepts and test footage but quickly realised it wasn't working and that players didn't want that.

Thank God they changed it back. Not every game needs to be a open world online experience.

@DennisReynolds Yes, I read the quote. What part of the pivot didn't you understand?

Definitely prefer single player but they would be successful with a side game like outbreak in today's live service environment

@DennisReynolds I think it's time to retire those characters. They have to be in their 50s now

Footage looks a bit like Resi 6 to me, which was kind of maligned, and didn't really feel very much like a RE game, even if a somewhat fun coop experience.

The new direction seems a better fit for the genre, but it would be good to have a nice spin off series that could use some of the coop stuff they've been experimenting with.

That would have been the beginning of thrones end for resident evil for sure,

Given the Technical issues MHW (which I believe is based on the same engine) had/has, I think its a very good choice not to try open world. Maybe by PS6 with some extra work on the engine itself - an open world but SIngle player RE does sound interesting if done right.

No interest whatsoever in any online element except maybe the leaving of messages as per some soulslikes.
(Ah, but would using that 1 mechanic make it a soulslike?)

"But we realized that it wasn't what fans wanted to see or play"

Finally a developer gets it

Kinda wanted to to vote no I'm not happy not gona lie, but I just couldnt do it to me or youns

@LiamCroft amazing! 56 votes - 100% yes.

@Americansamurai1
Maybe they qualify for early retirement based on their records, but if not, they have at least 10 years to go yet!

Open world REngine game

Yeah I'm glad it's linear lol

I've never seen 100% on a vote before. 73 votes cast at the time of writing this. My guess is this won't be close... 😂

@Alps_Stranger In what way did they part midway? They clearly decided to do something else very early on. This is pretty common for gaming and even movies/TV. Like seriously check out the original versions of Baldur's Gate 3, check out what the first Alan Wake was going to be, Devil May Cry was originally a Resident Evil game. Again all of this is pretty standard and its cool Capcom are being open about it.

Those 2% voting for online multiplayer must be lurking Concord devs.

Christ we dodged a bullet.

@Alps_Stranger There's plenty of games that change drastically midway through development and turn out great. Take Infamous, for example. Sucker Punch originally envisioned Infamous as a cartoony Animal Crossing simulation game, but then they changed their minds midway through development. A similar thing seemingly happened with Resident Evil 9.

The "changing midway through development" thing typically only results in bad games if the original version of the game was already finished and the devs were trying to salvage its scraps. From the looks of it, it doesn't seem like the multiplayer open world version of RE9 was close to being completed.

@Rich33 zombie killing deserves early retirement lol

@Alps_Stranger you’re taking a lot for granted as well as demonstrating that you don’t understand how pre-production and creative endeavors usually work. Pick your top three favorite games and there’s an excellent chance you’ll find concept art and early builds that stray from the final release.

@Alps_Stranger also its many of the same people who have been doing an excellent job with Resident Evil for over a decade now. So it’s kind of absurd that they should be disregarded over a looking into a direction they didn’t ultimately go in when they’ve launched multiple full games that are really good.

Open world online for a main RE game? Capcom almost stop their winning streak if they continue that prototype.

@Alps_Stranger Village and RE4 Remake have very open level design, it stands to reason Capcom might have tried to go full open world with it.

@UncleByron I'm being piled on for going against the groupthink which is "Yay! They're giving us what we want!" I'm saying that exploring open world/online options was a waste of time regardless of how long it took them. You're disagreeing with me. What part am I getting wrong here?

I actually had a ton of fun with Outbreak but this is almost certainly for the best.

@Alps_Stranger I don't know it's worked out fine for Resident Evil, half of the games went through that dev cycle. RE2 and 4 being the famous examples.

@Orpheus79V If I recall correctly, the initial version of RE 4 became Devil May Cry which is nuts to consider. But I admit that I'm less familiar with the story behind 2s development. I'll check it out.

Also it’s worth noting that Capcom uses its RE engine for most of its first party releases, including Monster Hunter so looking into open world or online features is something that can pay off elsewhere while not necessarily derailing Resident Evil 9 or wasting resources.

Giving the fans what they want, rather than chasing continual growth through attracting new kinds of players. What a brilliant concept!

Ashcroft? Reminds me of Ashford from Code Veronica

Might wait and see. That fact it pivoted from a live service to single player doesn't give me confidence day one.

Thank god they decide to switch directions because main entry res online open world wtf was Capcom smoking at that time

@AtlasLivesAgain

It's the daughter of a character from Outbreak, but yeah.

@Lup I only played File 2 a lot, but I think I managed to run-through the first one once.

@Alps_Stranger The only thing you're getting piled for is being wrong and also annoying.

This is a good decision. I found RE8 and the RE2, 3 and 4 remakes to be highly replayable because of the fairly small, linear structure. I’m hoping 9 will be the same.

@Alps_Stranger
Countless iconic games have seen major pivots mid development including but by no means limited to; Bioshock, Doom, Team Fortress 2, Splinter Cell, Borderlands, Conker's Bad Fur Day, The Last of Us, Half Life 2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Red Dead Redemption, Overwatch and Assassins Creed. Just to name a few. Games changing during development is not a bad omen for anything. It is an extremely common practice because development is about constantly trying things, ditching what doesn't work and keeping what does.

@Alps_Stranger I’m all for condemning messy development and overpriced games, and am plenty vocal on here about my general discontent with the industry at present. But the phrasing used (back to the drawing board) indicates a complete restart of development. That’s a good sign, so unless there’s some issue with communication I’d assume it won’t have leftovers from the earlier ideas.

@PegasusActual93 yep. Sounds like they tried to figure out how to present the open world and online approach to players in a way that resonates, and since they felt they couldn’t they just said “well, let’s do what we do best then”. I support that choice, if the developers feel a more “mainstream” design approach wasn’t good enough then there s a good chance it was pretty damn bad. No one wants to make a game that fails, and Capcom has been doing well so I can imagine they’re willing to sabotage that goodwill.

This of course ignores the issues with RE engine and PC.

Resident Evil wouldn't work as an open world title as it would instantly lose the scares/claustrophobic settings of the best games in the series. They could still attempt it though via a brand new IP or bringing back the much missed Dino Crisis franchise...