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Shinji Mikami is the creator of Resident Evil and, more or less, the modern survival horror game genre. Capcom, publisher of the Resident Evil games, has recently announced that the Resident Evil franchise will move away from its survival horror roots to stick with more traditional action games, like Resident Evils 4 and 5. So what's a survival horror gaming pioneer to do?
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Jump ship and make a survival horror game -- a real survival horror game -- for Bethesda, publishers of Fallout 3 and the Elder Scrolls games. Nice, right? All we know about the game is that it's codenamed Zwei and the above image is some kind of collage of locations in the game. I don't know if the spooky-looking house on the left-middle is a mansion or not, but I'm crossing my fingers. (Via The Escapist)
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Call me when the original team from Silent Hill 2 pops up again and decide to make a real SH sequel or a new game with a different company. RE series never achieved a masterpiece like that, because, to be honest, is a different kind of gameplay.
Mikami + Bethesda = the greatest gaming news I've heard in years. I now actually have a game to look forward to. Thanks for the info!
I would love for this to severely impact Capcom negatively, but they'll probably sell more.
So, wait... if Bethesda is doing it, does that imply that this will be a Survival Horror sandbox RPG?! Because that could be awesome.
Though... usually a big part of survival horror is the feeling of being isolated and alone. It's difficult to do that in a sandbox RPG since they require, like, NPCs and such.
Will be interesting to see where this alliance leads.
If it turns out to be developing that way, the only thing that would make it even more awesome would be if they got the guys reponsible for Condemned 2: Bloodshot's combat system to work on it.
I could die happy if I could play that game...
Nope, you'll just have to survive the horror of crashing inexplicably and cursing that the game is breaking quests and filling your inventory with dead space as punishment for you having had the audacity to explore. And, maybe, Lydia going, "*resigned sigh* I guess I can take a few more things, if you need me to..."
Go play yourself some Fallout 3 and go into Vault 106. Trust me, horror can work in sandbox RPGs.
Right, but that was just one tiny section of a colossally huge game.
Imagine Fallout 3 in its entirety without ANY NPC interaction at all. Doing something like that seems like it would be a herculean task.
"Shinji Mikami is the creator of Resident Evil and, more or less, the modern survival horror game genre."
(Puts on hat of Super-Pedantry and whiny nasal voice) BUT WHAT ABOUT ALONE IN THE DARK?!! Though that said, I though Mikami himself was the one behind the series' tonal shift from Survival Horror to Action Horror? I'm not complaining about the change in direction mind you, I'm just saying it's not like Capcom forced him into this position (or perhaps they did).
Thank you! I read the same line and immediately thought Alone in the Dark. You beat me to the whiny nasal pedantry.
Shinji, huh? Maybe we'll be playing a game where we have to survive waking up to the horror of the littlest Ikari wanking on our comatose faces.
And I just realized why Asuka has an eyepatch in the Evangelion 2.0. "Mmph...huh...hi Shinji, you came to visi- *Plurpt*"
Wait, they're still making RE games? Color me surprised.
But it's good to see this man sticking with his creative guns. Also glad to see Bethesda backing him, I can't wait to see more info on the game.
I love survivor horror and I will always support it. But it does seem to be a dying genre. Maybe this can bring it back.
