Capcom explain why Darkside Chronicles is on-rails

Capcom explain why Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is an on-rails shooter instead of a traditional RE game.

[mrmikew2018]

Capcom is just not innovated anymore, they're suck.

[SinnedNogara]

The real reason why Capcom put this game on rails. LAZINESS.

[mastiffchild]

No not just laziness-it's just cheaper to do. They can also gloss up the looks more while the gameplay makes so little processing demands. It's a disgrace the way Capcom have teated us Wii gamers this gen. After RE4 was so great they just stopped caring and the excellent OKami port aside their output has been insulting, imo. Not even any SF love for the Wii either? Capcom have relly let their Wii games suffer and apart from MH3 where they hoped to make a killing online(but proved they CAN make us great looking games with ACTUAL gameplay too for the Wii-so why DC Capcom?)it's been all downhill.

Rail shooters offer no value to the gamer and are only worth a rental unless priced cheaply-and this won't be.

[ChickeyCantor]

"They can also gloss up the looks more while the gameplay makes so little processing demands"

I dont entirely agree on this. Looking at RE:DSC, you can clearly see that the camera moves back and forth in several levels. Usual onrail shooters just have the camera focused on whats infront of you, so everything behind you can be disposed from the memory.
Same goes for DEADSPACE:E.

I do think they could have given the player free-movement.

But as much as i want to agree, i still disagree with the fact peole say its "lazy". Every idea or concept needs time(including trial and error) to give an atleast good/fun experience. In our eyes it seems lazy, but do keep in mind that an onrail doenst offer much, so you better come up with some good stuff to actually make it good.

"Rail shooters offer no value to the gamer "
Actually rail shooters are all about highscore, its a main thing of gaming "gamers" are after.

[n4f]

i though they did it to push the gfx(cause i read it somewhere)

[infamous_27]

For me it tightens the experience. Kinda like an action packed movie.

[kaveti6616]

They don't need to explain. We understand the Wii. We know that its major competition in hardware performance is the DS.

[quantumriian]

Ayn Rand is what is wrong with the world.
John Galt is an asshole.
Your comment demonstrates the extent to which we can take your opinion seriously.

[DrRobotnik]

You have the power. You have the technology. Just build a damn good Resident Evil already. And bring it back to its roots.

[DevastationEve]

Well I personally liked where they've been heading. You have to let go of what RE used to be and realize that it changed. Capcom adapted to the times and the hardware. Think of the standards that Xbox Live and PSN have brought to gamers. Games today are such an awesome experience online.

RE 5 is one great game.

[mastiffchild]

No, it's the worst RE game ever made and a disgrace to the series. If you have a crappy internet connection or no online it's worthless, imo. Sheva is awful, fails to work as an AI partner in SO many ways that it's more of a cacysitting sim in SP than a survival horror game. Even the co-op, which is OK, is only any hood ONCE and even then doesn't feel like suvival horror at all. You have a mate FFS! And don't start me on the joke of the Vs mode!

Massive let down for me and another rail shooter for Wii is just as poor. Capcoms games this gen just don't measure up to their stellar efforts of the past. focus moves wreck SF4 making it weaker as a game than SF2THDR, DMC4 is a joke compared to DMC3 and RE4 is a million times the game that RE5 is. Not that their PS360 games bad but they're not as good as the older ones. Nowhere near.

[DrRobotnik]

When I mean "bring it back to it's roots" I mean that I would like for to be what the title says it's suppose to be. "Resident Evil" Not "Out in the open action shoot-em up". It lost it's sense of direction some were. I'm not saying that their recent games were bad. But that they need to stop calling it resident evil, because it's not any more.

[AWBrawler]

My all time fave was 0. I like 4 and even bought both the cube and Wii one, but i saw there that they were straying from what it use to be. More action and less puzzles. I loved the suspense, horror, and puzzles of the old ones. i even liked the crazy camera angles and odd walking method. it hightened the fear factor.

[DatBoiDrew]

Can you imagine what a new HD version of Resident Evil in the style of 1-3 would be like??? AMAZING

RE5 = Army of 2 with zombies

[ozstar]

Screw Capcom. That they can stare us in the face, after what Capcom Japan did with MH3, and lie about their frank lazyness regarding the Wii, is no surprise.

[airportwest]

so he means that next re will be off-rail; back to the tps. come on capcom don't be lazy, u have done it before and re4 was great

[AEtherbane]

equals less sales...

just watch, when the game bombs in sales, capcom will say "oh, nobody likes hardcore games on the wii, were not making any more for you!"
I think its cheaper for a compony to make an on rail game for the wii that is "hardcore," then not make anything else after that because it didn't sell well.
why don't developers listen to the consumers anymore? isn't that a huge thing in the gaming industry?

[lizard81288]

"if this game does good enough, wii owners might see the main series on the wii." then everybody will rush out and buy it, then the next RE game will be another RS >_>

oh-wait...

well, i'm looking forward to TvC, capcom worked pretty hard to bring it over, and are adding more stuff too it, so i may pull a blind eye for this being a RS.

[quantumriian]

I think the concept of an on-rails shooter has begun to change in the minds of developers, and needs to in the minds of gamers. Dead Space: Extraction is a great example: the entire game feels like a cut-scene that you are actually playing. The sections in which you can choose which path to take I think can be expanded into a type of hybrid between traditional rails shooters(Time Crises, House of the Dead; "shooting gallery" style; "scene-by-scene") and the free-roaming of a first-person shooter. Giving the player a degree of freedom of exploration for upgrades, extras, etc. but retaining the cinematic presentation and control that the developers have over what the player experiences. In reference to this game, I'm just saying "don't knock it 'til you've tried it," everyone cried over Dead Space being on-rails and in reflecting on it, I think I had more fun with it than I did Conduit.

Another point that I think should be made is that the interviewee mentions completing the story in terms of what was brought up in the Umbrella Chronicles. This could mean that the next (hypothetical) Resident Evil game on Wii will have the more traditional third-person form a la Resident Evil 4. I just hope that if this is the case, they will create an original game for Wii and not, for instance, port Resident Evil 5. I mean, these two rail shooters are the only original Resident Evil content for the Wii, the rest are ports from the Gamecube.

[airportwest]

if the wii only suit for onrail why sony wants to bring out their ps wand. When it does woul capcom makes more onrail or less for ps3?