Remember how we ended all of that ridiculous coverage of ‘Resident Evil 6’ with a gazillion trailers, sets of screenshots, and additional information that kept getting released about the game?
Well all of that has happened before and not it’s going to happen again. We all knew it was going to happen but according to Capcom ‘Resident Evil 7’ is coming!
Not only is it coming but in a recent interview with former Capcom marketing head hancho Michael Pattison (more details on the bloat of 6 and more in the quotes below) it was noted that Resident Evil 7 is going to be a return to it’s survival horror roots! (This was also promissed for 6 but the more I’m reading on this the more it sounds as if we’ll see it in 7!)
I mean it’s only been 4 games since they’ve done it clearly it can’t be that much of an issue to bring it back, right?
With Resident Evil 6 specifically, we probably put too much content in there, there were comments from consumers that said it felt bloated. The Leon missions went down very well, and because we did Resident Evil Revelations on 3DS, there was a cry out for us to focus our attention on survival horror, rather than be too many things to all people. You’ll find where we go next will likely be more targeted at our core fan base.
“A lot is said about the saturation of this zombie, post-apocalyptic survival horror. But it is still alive and well. The Last of Us shows a good direction of what the consumers want. Tomb Raider as well, we spoke to R&D and they looked at that and they enjoyed that experience. I think that proves there is still a strong market for that sort of content.
What do you think, are we finally going to see a return of what was great about Resident Evil? Or are we just going to get a zombie/demon/monster shooter using their engine?
Source: Bloody-Disgusting.
