• We've completed one of the biggest updates to our forums in years and have pushed the update live! New forum structure that's all inclusive, prefix system categorizes topics per game title. More thread options such as articles, questions, deep dives, etc. Read more in the pinned thread!

OT OT Game Discussion

C

Caffeine Addict

According to "Nemesis" on YouTube, the Resident Evil franchise really belongs to Shinji Mikami. But Shinji may not own GhostWire: Tokyo either, because would it not be Bethesda?

Um... I think that if you do a game, and a company has the rights to it thereafter, it's still your ideas, of course, but they still own these IPs.

Like how Sylvester Stallone is bitter over not owning the rights to the Rocky series, but he still in fact is the guy who made Rocky Balboa.


 
Evil Resident

Evil Resident

WR is right - Mikami wanted RE to have no story and to be about cyborgs. Kenichi Iwao is essentially the father of the story - he created the characters, Umbrella, the virus, etc.
But Iwao doesn't own it either - a lot of different writers and developers have expanded upon the series since then. It takes a lot of people to create a game, especially a game series.

Mikami, being the director, organized things. But he didn't create any of the things that make RE1/REmake great. For all I know, the same could possibly be said of TEW.

A lot of this Mikami-obsession in the fanbase came from TEW marketing, calling Shinji the "creator of RE" because it sounds impressive. Plus, being director, his name is more prominent in the credits.

I really mean no personal disrespect to Mikami, and he's probably contributed a lot, but the father of RE he is not.
 
C

Caffeine Addict

I think The Evil Within is a great horror game, along with its sequel, and it has just about everything you could want in a survival horror game. Improved controls, awesome graphics, a crafting system, and it is actually a scary game. Yet a lot of people are like, "RE is still teh best ever. TEW is a poor man's RE substitute!!!111" ;)

Boulderdash! Both this and The Last of Us have impressed me so much, to the point where they have almost overtaken RE as my favorite series, because until 7: Biohazard, RE hadn't been a terrifying franchise in what felt like 100 Y-E-E-E-E-E-A-A-A-A-R-S. The only good ones were 'Revelations' 1 and 2, IMO. The others were just... meh.

Anybody who thinks RE6 was scary is... I don't know. Easily scared perhaps? RE6 was just NOT scary at all.
 
C

Caffeine Addict

I need to catch up. I haven't watched it since they delivered Murphy to those people. I was busy and too stressed out over things. But it is a very entertaining show. 10K is a cool guy.
 
Yama

Yama

Owner
1996...
One of my favorite horror series of all time. Kind of like what happened to Silent Hill, the original trilogy (and to some degree the fourth despite the localization mess) hit quite differently than the later games. Sadly the Nintendo exclusivity really hurt the series in the long run, through limiting hardware at the time and localization mishaps through out. The original trilogy still stands tall however, especially when emulated at 4K at 16:9. I still hope to see the series return one day.

592
 
Weskers Report

Weskers Report

Never got into this series.
I have always been one for conventional weapons where as this game you point and click a camera to defeat your enemies.
 
C

Caffeine Addict

That's kind of what I didn't like it about it either. You couldn't run, or moving around the rooms was too slow. But with Japanese games, the atmosphere and quietness is usually what happens in place of gore, guns, and bad language. I can't say this series ever "sold out" though, unlike RE. RE hasn't stayed true to its roots throughout its duration, but Project Zero has.
 
Yama

Yama

Owner
1996...
Weskers Report said:
Never got into this series.
I have always been one for conventional weapons where as this game you point and click a camera to defeat your enemies.
Click to expand...
I actually really liked this feature as it had lots of depth. The upgrading reminded me a lot of RE4’s weapons, so that was kind of addicting to me. I love leveling up and upgrading things. The just frame mechanic for Fatal Frame was also really addicting, kind of like a fighter timing wise. The controls in the original were a bit wonky when in first person using the camera, but the Xbox releases eventually added normal FPS controls for the camera. That’s when it really came full circle for me.
 
Yama

Yama

Owner
1996...
Ghostcall20 said:
just curious question why the games are exclusive to Nintendo?
Click to expand...
The IP is currently co-owned by Koei Tecmo and Nintendo. Really the worst thing that could have happened to it. :cautious: Nothing at all against Nintendo as a company, but they obviously have little ambition when it comes to this franchise.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom