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[IbizaPocholo]

Looking back on the RE Engine Era of Resident Evil + thoughts on the upcoming Requiem and the future of Resident Evil.

The RE engine era of Resident Evil has been an interesting one. One that got the series back on track after moving as far away as possible from its roots. A welcome return to its survival horror beginnings. It's not to say they abandoned action altogether. They did experiment with a blending of the two. Of course, we also saw remakes, remakes, remakes. Ones of various quality. Some much lesser than others.

With REquiem and the series 30th anniversary on the horizon, I wanted to take a look back on this era of Resident Evil that started with 7. I'll give my thoughts on each title, along with ranking them.

I'll also give my thoughts on the upcoming Requiem with what's Capcom's shown so far.

Finally, I'll give my thoughts and concerns of the series moving forward. Spoiler alert - one of those concerns involve the rumored future remakes. With that, let's dive in.

00:00 - Prelude
01:25 - Resident Evil 7
11:10 - Resident Evil 2 Remake
20:59 - Resident Evil 3 Remake
28:08 - Resident Evil Village
34:50 - Resident Evil 4 Remake
40:30 - Ranking the RE Engine Titles
42:33 - Thoughts on the Upcoming Resident Evil Requiem
44:42 - Thoughts & Concerns on the Future of Resident Evil Series
51:56 - Post-Video Q&A

 

[Generic]

Easily the worst era.

 

[Loomy]

Easily the worst era.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Easily the worst era.

The actual worst era:

 

[Abysse]

How did they manage to make the protagonist's face modeling worse in Requiem?

 

[freemandos]

The actual worst era:

Exactly. Not just because RE forgot its own identity, also it made the mistake about trying to please everyone and not being enough confident in any area. And the bad anime direction started by Code Veronica became too much. I was seriously losing interest in RE.

 

[MagiusNecros]

The actual worst era:

Rachael Foley deserved better.

But hey Raid Mode was cool.

 

[Arsic]

Easily the worst era.

 

[Loomy]

The actual worst era:

The Great Brown Depression era of video games lmao.

 

[squidilix]

For me, RE with RE Engine always look "cheap" instead of games AAA Capcom games running on MT Framework at their time. I don't know why.

And this engine have a shitty problem of Brightness / Gamma, this is so ridiculous.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Easily the worst era.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Easily the worst era.

 

[Doomtrain]

The actual worst era:

Revelaitons isn't bad, but I mostly agree.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

He was tho.

The only RE games worth anything were the first three. Period.

 

[March Climber]

Revelaitons isn't bad, but I mostly agree.

Agreed on Rev (and especially Raid mode).

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

The actual worst era:

Save for the fact that Revelations 1 and 2 are peak, to me those are the real RE5 and RE6.

As for RE engine, personally I love it, it's the modern graphics engine that looks the most "Japanese", like a clear evolution from games like the RE Outbreak games.

What exactly makes it "look" Japanese? I couldn't tell you exactly, except you know it when you see it.

 

[Soodanim]

He was tho.

The only RE games worth anything were the first three. Period.

That's extreme, but the first three are still my favourites so I get it.

 

[paolo11]

I like the RE engine. Easily makes the best character models in this era.

 

[deeptech]

7>2>4>8>3...

I wish they went for more interactivity, gameplay feels too limited and on rails for this era of RE games to me.

 

[Barakov]

7>2>4>8>3...

I wish they went for more interactivity, gameplay feels too limited and on rails for this era of RE games to me.

 

[Hudo]

Revelaitons

I understood that reference.

 

[genesisblock]

Save for the fact that Revelations 1 and 2 are peak, to me those are the real RE5 and RE6.

As for RE engine, personally I love it, it's the modern graphics engine that looks the most "Japanese", like a clear evolution from games like the RE Outbreak games.

What exactly makes it "look" Japanese? I couldn't tell you exactly, except you know it when you see it.

The willingness to put attractive people instead of woke is a clear sign it "looks" Japanese.

 

[Erebus]

The actual worst era:

lol just no.

 

[Liopleurodon]

Save for the fact that Revelations 1 and 2 are peak, to me those are the real RE5 and RE6.

As for RE engine, personally I love it, it's the modern graphics engine that looks the most "Japanese", like a clear evolution from games like the RE Outbreak games.

What exactly makes it "look" Japanese? I couldn't tell you exactly, except you know it when you see it.

Characters aren't ugly.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

The actual worst era:

100% this

It lacked the cool old school charm of the originals and the new advance age of the current RE engine.

 

[Roni]

8 was meh, trying too much to be RE4.5, but the rest has been great. Hopefully 9 delivers in the survival horror and the puzzles.