Capcom won't compromise RE5
Sean Ridgeley - Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:06am (PST)
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Balls to age ratings
The game industry is no stranger to sleaze: one of its practices is developers altering game content to obtain a lower age rating so more people will play their game (in theory). Understandable, if not completely selling out.
Happily, Capcom is one company with balls still intact and ain't afraid to show 'em:
“We’re never going to create a gore-free Resident Evil title to try and get a lower rating as it’s a game about the horror experience and gore is part of that,” said Rhys Cash, Capcom UK's research and planning manager. “We’re primarily about making great games and if it’s appropriate to the title we won’t shy away from making a 15+ or 18+ title.”
About time someone said it. Capcom, of course, has been one of the few to still push the mature titles within the supposedly casual realm we see in Nintendo's corner with past RE games. Cash went on to say they still believe in that:
“As we’ve shown with Resident Evil 4 Wii and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles there’s still a market for more mature titles even on these formats. There’s no reason why an appropriate adult title should be seen as something to be shied away from. What I do see publishers moving away from is titles whose only raison d'être is ‘adult themes’ and only goal is to shock."
Sounds good to me, and really, those titles kind of give gaming a bad name anyway, right? Don't know about you, but shock for the sake of shock is boring as hell to me; I need a message with all that gore. Delicious.
Source: Vooks
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i don't really agree 100%, something doesn't need to be all goth-zombie-freaky-dismbembering-dracula-like to be spooky
If your going to make a violent game, make it violent, don't "dumb" it down for the young ones.
But I agree with x_revenge: gore doesn't always mean spooky. Just look at Hollywood hack n' slash flicks... not as scary as psychological thrillers in most cases.
To be honest, I haven't found Resident Evil frightening in a very long time, and I'm hard pressed to believe anyone else still does too. Oh, and co-op? Cool, but since when do scary games allow co-op?
For those who didn't know already, the ORIGINAL Resident Evil for playstation was originally planned to have Co-op mode. Jill and Chris were to play through the game together. I've seen screenshots. It makes the storyline make much more sense that way. After all, the "true" ending was a combination of the endings for each character...
That's right, I agree that Resident Evil: Code Veronica X was the scariest game in the series along with the Classic Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil 4 is still a good game, but not enough of scary things.
I hope Resident Evil 5 will raise the bar, or if it's not, wait for RE 6!!!!