Resident Evil creator staying clear of Resi 6

Shinji Mikami, the man responsible for creating the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise, has revealed he's trying to keep his distance from Resident Evil 6.

Mikami is now at Platinum Games, putting the finishing touches on SEGA's sci-fi action title Vanquish. At TGS earlier this week, the developer told VideoGamer.com that no matter how good or bad Resident Evil 6 ends up being, he'll end up frustrated by it.

[NYC_Gamer]

Capcom might as well kill off this series...because without the original creator its dead in my opinion

[Natsu X FairyTail]

Okami and viewtful joe were pretty good games and I understand why some of the devs left Capcom because capcom always rely on the same games. I'd be mad as a Dev if I would want them to explore some of my new Characters or ideas but they 1st thing they would ask me is If I have come with Some new Resident Evil stuff.

I say f1ck it and let's enjoy some Platinum Game so more!

[madao]

Those two games are masterpieces from artistic point of view but failed as consumer products. Crapcom offered to market them but Clover refused. To be fair, the company was millions of dollars in the red and it wouldn't make sense not to cut loose a studio that has complete disregard for things like cost and ROI, and blindly pursues pure artistic values in what they produce.

[madao]

Pretty sure they are already doing that by shifting focus and resource to Dead Rising series.

[TrevorPhillips]

nooooooooooooooooooo, my favorite game of all time :'(

[Dellis]

Oh no they will ruin this just like DMC, they will give the franchise to some BS devs

[Sarevok]

Don't blame him lol..

[TrevorPhillips]

How can you do this to us Capcom, you guys where awesome but now you guys are letting your fans down :(

[riksweeney]

Was RE5 actually any good? I played the demo and wasn't impressed, seemed too much like RE4 and the controls felt dated after Dead Space.

[crzyjackbauer]

Mikami wasent a part of RE5 that's why it sucked

[PS360WII]

I thought it was fun to play and good story with controls that work well for the series... but I guess I like video games to much to hate on them ;)

[cemelc]

WTH? Good Story? you didnt play the same RE5 i did.

I had also issues with controls.
I had issues with the setting in (the middle of the day, those solar burns were reallyyyyyyy scary).
I had issues with crapcom repeating the same 3 bosses 10 times during the game.

It was the worst Re in the saga im sorry thats the truth.

[antz1104]

NO. Story was crap, its all action now, and the storage system actually regressed, lol. And you have a sidekick. Lame.

[PS360WII]

Well even I'm not saying it was the best of the bunch but it was still a great entry. I won't concede that point. It continued on from 4 and gave us some more Wesker.

The controls were fine. RE was never a run and gun game so I don't see what the problem is on that front. I know it was more action oriented rather than a horror survival but that didn't make the game bad... just different.

Still if you enjoy Resident Evil I don't see any problem with RE5 unless you wanted yet another reboot and have nothing to do with any previous games. Though you might as well give it a different title than the RE one.

[KillerPwned]

I really hope RE goes on and gets back to its roots. I wanna see the younger generation of gamers still experience Resident Evil.

[Apotheosize]

It boggles my mind how Capcom could let this happen, all their dev talent just runs off. So what do they do?

Hire Ninja Theory

[redDevil87]

awwwww man ¬_¬ I'm worried about the future of Capcom

[Redempteur]

now it's official .. if the RE remake is handled to some stupid guys like Nt , then that "reboot " is dead in my mind already ..

even if this new DMC end up good ( idoubt that but oh well ) this won't be a dmc game ..

[TrevorPhillips]

Imma jump of the cliff, if Capcom continues to disappoint us

[nefertis]

crapcom has gone down the pooper.

[wissam]

Yes Totally.

[Sidewinder-]

They were right. I'm having nightmares trying to forget what a mockery RE5 was.

He Punches. A Fucking. Boulder. WTF?!!?!

[Coolmanrico]

Hopefully whoever in charge of 6 bring back the survival aspect of the game because I hate what RE4 did to the series.

[BABY-JEDI]

YOU, me, him over there & her. None of us could do any worse than Resi 5. So youve got nothing to loose. Resi 1 brilliant... Resi 5 PISSSSHHHHH.

[J-Killer15]

I swear after MVC3 I'm never buying another Capcom game until they go back to their roots. Sick of them trying to "westernize" my favorite games.

[LeShin]

I think the new 'Capcom' is going to be Platinum games. Vanquish demo was incredibly fun!

[Sidewinder-]

you know what LeShin, you may be onto something.
This wouldnt be a bad thing.

[antz1104]

Good for him! I liked number 4 alot and it revitalized the series.....but when it boils down it was turned into an action game that wasn't the same RE 1 and 2 style survival horror. And #5 just wasn't a good progression. BTW the two I would def prefer they go back to that at some point, or lead this pony behind the barn and put it out of its misery.

[Leonesaurus]

This series is never going to see any change for the better unless A) Capcom apologizes to Shinji Mikami, and offers him the chance to return to Resident Evil once again or B) Get someone with talent and vision, similar to Shinji Mikami, and get them to work on the RE series.

Right now, no one has any originality or vision at Capcom, as far as I'm concerned, to guide the series and therefore it leads it to become milked until dry. It's inevitable.

However, after reading this article, it's difficult to agree with Mikami's attitude towards Resident Evil. I can understand his attitude towards Capcom and the shit they pulled on him back when they ported the fuck out of RE 4, but for him to turn his back on RE is to turn his back on his devoted and desperate fans. That, I cannot sympathize with... And neither should any of his longtime fans...

I have the utmost respect and admiration for Mikami and his work throughout his career but turning his back on me and the RE series, from what I feel after reading his comments, leaves me to believe that he really doesn't care as much as we do.

I think, after Vanquish, he and Hideki Kamiya (DMC), and the rest of the ex-Capcom employees that joined him at Platinum, should go pay Capcom a visit and get a hold of future RE titles, especially RE6. I would much rather see him age and develop HIS characters, and develop HIS story, and HIS revolutionary gameplay. Does anyone else agree? Or even partially? Without Mikami and his passion, we're fucked....

BTW, I LOVED RE 5, but Jesus Christ, Mikami would have done SO MUCH better with Chris and Jill's character development, and the the story/gameplay. Most of all, it would have had THE HORROR!!! >:0

[Tzuno]

Resident Evil 4 is the best game in the series, END of story.

[antz1104]

Code Veronica OWNED that game, lol.

[TheCryptKeeper]

Nemesis owned both

[Bumpmapping]

I'm a huge fan of the Resident evil series if Crapcom fucks 6 up i'm done with them for good.

[TheCryptKeeper]

sad this series is getting drug through the mud like it is, but as long as theres cash it in they will

[ZBlacktt]

God did I hate the controls for this game.... stop to shoot, no auto reload meant epic death often.