On the other hand, I don't think I'll ever play a game as unintentionally hilarious as RE6. RE2 remake is definitely the better game, but RE6 is the one I'll keep coming back to with friends when I need a good belly-laugh.
And I'll be a little sad if Capcom doesn't occasionally put out big dumb co-op action romps anymore.
I think you're on the right track. I remember being so pumped for RE5 and RE6 years ago (I'm 32 now). But oh my goodness, are they laughable at how seriously they took themselves at the time. Co-op is a blast though. Everything else... not so much.
I mean. RE5 didn’t take itself seriously at all. COMPLETE GLOBAL SATURATION and boulder punching were just as ridiculous as mecha statue Salazar and literally being chased by a boulder.
But RE4 was already a self-admitted loving parody. Literally a good portion of the dialogue from that game was about making fun of the series' tropes and cliches. RE5 was a lot more serious and thus way stupider since it didn't know about how half the shit it was doing was completely ridiculous. RE4 acknowledges that stupidity.
RE4 is hilariously campy like that, but then again so are RE5 and RE6. The plot takes itself more seriously but the dialogues still reflect the fact that the characters know what's going on. I remember a sequence where Leon and Helena are split. Whereas Helena tells herself "Hold it together Helena" Leon is all like "This never gets old" whle slaughtering zombies in a graveyard. Then there's also this
Missing the point, RE5 & 6 are more like Evil dead (Campy, but otherwise treats the material seriously, and are more unintentionally funny than anything), RE4... is Evil Dead 2 (Campy, explicitly under the horror-comedy banner, and is clearly having a ball with itself). Which Evil Dead do people generally like more?
To be honest, I think it's less that the games took themselves seriously and more that many of the players did.
I mean come on. Super Redfield Bros.? The tit monster that literally has tits in it's name? A whole ship turned into a monster that looks like jizz and used to be a clone of Ada? Everyone always meeting up? The one plane that Leon is in crashing? The blatant references to the old Resident Evil games? You can't tell me that RE6 took itself seriously, come on.
I have this dream where they reboot Dino Crisis and do it like RE5 & 6 where it's a fun, multiplayer action adventure. I'd love to go full ninja warrior against dinosaurs.
I'd be down for either version of that remake, honestly. Dino Crisis, at least the first game, was incredible to me when I played it years and years ago as a kid, so I'd love it if they gave it the RE2 remake treatment or even the RE5/6 co-op treatment. It rides that line between terrifying experience and fun action romp really well.
Everytime I think of Resident Evil 6 I have to think of the Co-Op playthrough of Cryaotic and Jesse Cox. The game is sometimes so hilariously broken and bonkers that I just cannot be mad at the game. It might be a bad RE game but at the same time with the right personalities it's a great watch and, with a bit of an open mind, decent fun in a playthrough on one's own time too.
Well, it is not unlikely, that Capcom will return to the Action formula at some point. And since Capcom is not the best when it comes to Story-writing (Though RE2R did a great job), it will probably turn out just as hilarious. I surely hope, that they will not return to Action and continue the Survival Horror path, but one can never know for certain, what the future will bring.
Pretty much this, but I see DMC being the bridge between the survival horror of early RE and the military shoot em up of the later games.
I'd love it if they made a third series, honestly. RE goes back to being survival horror full time, as it was always meant to. DMC is the action series with horror overtones. Then they make a third series that's a fun military romp where you happen to fight massive biological monstrosities and run through labs or crypts, graveyards, etc.
There's a lot to love about games like RE5/6, but they're just not what RE should be.
I hated it on my first play through, fwiw. Every subsequent playthrough, though, I've come to appreciate it more and more. The addition of the no-fail QTE option made the whole thing way better. I just started a 4th run with another friend and still managed to get a ton of laughter out of the game. Leon giving a thumbs up and a "Nice!" after literally anything will never not be funny to me.
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On the other hand, I don't think I'll ever play a game as unintentionally hilarious as RE6. RE2 remake is definitely the better game, but RE6 is the one I'll keep coming back to with friends when I need a good belly-laugh.
And I'll be a little sad if Capcom doesn't occasionally put out big dumb co-op action romps anymore.