I originally appreciated the idea of moving the needle story wise after a lack of doing so in RE4, especially when at the time we were looking forward to “taking down Umbrella” in the early RE 3.5 promo footage. But after the dust settled it was done horribly story wise and inside a soulless RE4 clone that outside of a few engine enhancements never came close. Fun videogame not a great Biohazard. 6 triple downed on that sentiment.
ALL FACTS.
5 and 6 have some redeeming qualities when it comes to a very few specific things, but none having to do with being "good" Resident Evil titles.
RE5's cutscenes were very nice to look at. Whoever handled the cinematography did a great job, and presented the slop in the best way it possibly could have looked. I still think RE5 shows just how good the MT Frameworks graphical engine really is. It's a great looking game and I did enjoy its aesthetics. I believe any fondness that some have for 5, comes more from its presentation, rather than the quality of its story or its terrible level and overall game design.
I will also say that the backstory lore for RE5 was better than its main plot - being the only thing story-wise that I can compliment it on, with the origin of Progenitor and how it tragically affected the natives/Majini.
But Wesker (and even Spencer's) death, alongside Tricell's introduction/collaboration with Wesker out of nowhere, was a hard fumble. Between Code Veronica, 4 and 5, it became incredibly unclear who exactly Wesker was working with, and Capcom just eventually settled for Tricell - not really knowing how to progress the main plot forward at that point, so they decided to drop the ball/plot by killing the dude off, completely.
And I will say that RE4 was at least a self-contained diversion from the series' main narrative. Las Plagas aside, it didn't fundamentally change anything for the future of the plot, while still planting more seeds with Wesker's shadowy involvement for would-be future titles, which I liked. RE4's story on its own is still fun and interesting, but RE5 flat out KILLED all momentum the series had narratively built up to that point, for the reasons I stated in my last comment. RE4 might've slowed the main plot down, but it still didn't outright destroy all story progression that started with Zero/1 like 5 did. RE5 completely sabotaged everything while riding the coattails of 4, and 6 was just the insult to injury.
I fucking hate 5 and what they did to Wesker - then randomly giving the guy a bastard son in 6 that we knew nothing about before... which sabotaged Wesker's character even further, from beyond the grave. There's NO way Wesker would be interested in anyone but himself. He was WAY too self-obsessed and megalomaniacal to have those kind of interests to be sexually procreating. The way Wesker casted Excella (of all women) aside said that enough. Wesker would've cloned himself before he ever had a child. He was as cold as cold could be and hardly acted human. The fact that Capcom was trying to convince us that he had such interests, resulting in a child, was just narrative slop/fan-service at its worst - only because they wanted to keep Wesker "alive" in some way.
5 and 6 absolutely destroyed the series, especially the main plot - and it's nothing short of a miracle that we've had some great titles since then, especially with 7 and the 2 and 4 remakes.
Give Wesker and the Resident Evil series the major pre-7 retcon overhaul it deserves and so needs!
Hearing lots of yapping about Wesker potentially being mentioned in the trailer. I can see the resemblance perfectly, especially the Uroboros version. 
