Veteran Resident Evil developers Shinji Mikami and Jun Takeuchi recently sat down to discuss 25 years of developing various games in the franchise (as reported by ). According to their discussion, Resident Evil 7 was originally planned as a live-service game. Takeuchi mentioned that there was a 'big marketing push' at Capcom happening simultaneously.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil 7 launched in 2017 and was the first game to use 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Capcom’s RE engine. It's also one of the best-selling games in the series' history, paving the way for Resident Evil Village. It also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recently received curren𒉰t-gen upgrades for PS5 and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Xbox Series X/S. But it was nearl༺y a much different step for the series, embracing a growing🌜 modern game trend.
“We have to make games players are asking for. So, we were being told to ‘make this, make that’. It was really hard on the directors at the time. ‘Online Multiplayer’ this, ‘downloadable content’ that, ‘Ongoing services game’, microtransactions!” Takeuchi said. Capcom had basically asked the devs to develop a Resident Evil title that checked all these boxes. Takeuchi even mentioned that there were just too many demands by the management and that he also felt bad for the directors. Eventually, Capcom president Kenzo Tsujimoto had to intervene to rectify the situation💙 after hearing about the problems the game was facing.
Takeuchi recalled the conversation with Tsujimoto, “It was January 4, the first working day of the year, the president called me to his office. ‘Resident Evil 7 is in pretty bad shape. Takeuchi-kun, step in and help make it!&rs💞quo; So that’s how I ended up working on RE 7”. He also 𒐪mentioned how they pushed for Koshi Nakanishi to be the director and regarded him as the best director on the staff at that time.
Eventually, the team scrapped the idea of multiplayer for RE 7, since they wanted to stick to their horror roots. Eventually, they ended up with a single-player game that Takeuchi also referred to as the ‘marketing team’s worst nightmare&🍸rsquo;.