What's The Point Of Another Resident Evil 1 Remake?

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Peter Hunt Szpytek

Published May 2, 2025

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I love revisiting older games. It feels like it’s always a gamble to see 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:which ones have aged like milk and which ones play just as well as they did when they were new. The remake of the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil falls into the latter category. It’s just as tense and horrifying now as it was when it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:remade for the GameCube in 2002, and its 🌃current-gen console ports add a modern control scheme so you don’t have to deal with the awkward tank controls (if you d🉐on’t want to).

Despite ho🍌w well the remake holds up when compared to the current crop of modern triple-A horror titles🐻, .

While I understand wanting to capitalize on the original game’s legacy in an era packed full of remakes (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and packed full o🦩f Resident Evil remakes𓄧, no less), I think a remake would do a disservice to the original game, to the games෴ industry at large, and to Resident Evil fans’ intelligence.

A Remake Is Bad For Fans

Jill, Chris, and Albert enter the Mansion in Resident Evil.

The Resident Evil remake feels a little old, it’s true. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The game uses static camera angles, whic♔h can feel a little jarring when compared to the free-moving, third-person cameras standard in modern gaming. Is it unplayable? Not by a long shot. There’s a bit of a learning curve to how movement works in the game, but after about 30 minutes of being inside the Spenꦓcer Mansion, I don’t think anyone would have trouble with its old-school camera system.

Despite this, the fixed camera is one of the main complaints I hear from people who want a remake of the remake. “It feels so bad to play,” “the camera is awful,” “it would benefit from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Resident Evil 2-style remake.” I understand that people tend🐟 to write off Resident Evil because it doesn’t feel like a modern game, but I believe that a modern remake of the gam🐼e is a bit of an insult to fans’ intelligence.

Anyone can play the original remake. It might be a little different than what you’re used to, it might push you out of your comfort zone, but at the end of the day, there is a modern remake of Resident Evil that you can buy and play on the PlaySt♌ation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch. The only thing stopping people from doing that is their willingness to engage with systems that they might not be 100 percent familiar with.

A Remake Is Bad For The Industry

The Resident Evil remake is a di❀fferent kind of game than what most people are used to. It’s not an over-the-shoulder shooter, in fact, it’s not really a shooter at all. It’s more of a horror puzzle game than anything else, and its strange perspective makes those puzzles and scares more interesting.

If Capcom releases a second remake of Resident Evil, it sets an unfortunate precedent for how older but perfectly playable games will be viewed by publishers. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:All of the Res🃏ident Evil re🥂makes sell well, so it would likely incentꦡivize other publishers to consider remaking their older-but-still-good titles.

I’m reminded of a Tweet I saw recently about one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the original God of War games that reads:

I can’t understand this opinion. If it plays well and looks great, then what point is there toremake it? I feel the same way about Resident Evil. It’s not a modern game, but that doesn’t matter. It’s still extremely well made, and I’d recommend i🌃t to anyone who wants to experience the first game in the series, despite its older control scheme.

Remaking Resident Evil incentivizes players and publishers alike to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:conform to the industry standard and rej﷽ect anything that challenges those modern systems in any way. It results in games f♛eeling less unique because publishers see that people react poorly to anything that isn’t an over-the-shoulder thiℱrd-person action game, meaning that they start to become the only thing that gets made.

A Remake Is Bad For The Original

If another remake is made, it will become the ‘definitive’ way for most people to experience Resident Evil. When this sort of thing happens, the original game is often seen as obsolete and not worth bothering with since a ‘superior’, more modern version exists. By taking something that stands out amongst the sea of third-person horror games – the sea of third-person Resident Evil games – and making it exactly like everything else, the original game loses a major part of its i😼dentity.

If the Resident Evil remake remake is real, I’m sure it will be fine. Perfectly passable, at times great, but just another Resident Evil remake. It’ll lose what sets the original game apart from the rest of the series and from the rest of the industry. It’ll be forgettable and blend in with everything else. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sm🀅ashed into the middle of a Jill sandwich. A terrible fate for one of the most groun𒁏dbreaking games of all time, don’♑t you think?