wats more heartbreaking, a bad sequel like Resident Evil 6 or a "eh fuck that" reboot like Resident Evil 7?
Everyone has a local food place growing up that changes hands/styles like every few months, right?
One of those when we were kids was the joint at the corner where our local arcade (you may have heard us refer to it as “40th st”) was. Place was always swapping around. Sometimes over a manner of months. At some point, the spinner for this real estate landed on cheesesteaks for, like, a year. And it was a really good year. A satisfying time, trotting out into the cold night air after a game of Gigawing and right into some my favorite cheesesteaks ever.
Then, quiet as it’s kept, one day there’s newspaper in the windows and it’s gone. Comes back as a burger place. Actually, not a bad burger place! Especially for West Philly at the time. And that burger place stuck around for a long time, too. So I was okay with it. It wasn’t this mythical cheesesteak dimension, but it did the job. Eventually, to a certain extent, the cheesesteak stopped even being a thing, because the burgers were right in front of me. The cheesesteak stopped being an object of desire, because it was so far gone, and more like this pleasant feeling of nostalgia–a time I couldn’t take back, and who knows if I’d even want to.
I guess that’s how I feel about Resident Evil(&survival horror). It was my cheesesteak place. Then Resident Evil 4 came and overnight, I knew–I knew! right back when it came out, the instant–that survival horror was pretty much done-zo. But the burgers were pretty good too, and, eventually, I’d had so many burgers that I was like “I guess burgers must be my favorite food, because it seems like all I want to eat are these burgers, even when they’re dressed up in some pretty racially insensitive aesthetics…………………..”
Then Resident Evil 6 came out and it was like someone made a burger out of a turd and I woke up like WTFFFFffffffffff Man from Inception dropped me in the cold bath. YO JGL, SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS BURG. ESPECIALLY HOW THE LAST BOSS OF CHRIS’S MISSION IS A CHASE SEQUENCE AND IF YOU FLUB ONE SLIDE MOVE IT’S AN INSTANT FAIL–ONLY IT’S NOT AN INSTANT FAIL, YOU JUST CAN’T MAKE UP FOR THE TIME YOU LOST AND FAIL LIKE THIRTY SECONDS LATER WHEN THE BOSS CATCHES UP.
So here we are at Resident Evil 7, which, to me, is like Capcom sayin’ “hey, we’re opening up the cheesesteak place you loved again!!!!” and I’m like “aw fuck yeah! is the guy that chatted you up and gave you extra meat still manning the grill?”
Me: well like… did you at least shut the valve labeled “Resident Evil 6 Emergency Turd Delivery Main For Rapid Deployment of Shitty Shit”?
Me, squeezing Jill Valentine STARS Uniform w/ Official Beret plush: …
Capcom: …it might have ghosts though………………….?
To answer your question directly, I’m more likely to stomach a bad or middling survival horror game than I would be another game like Resident Evil 6, just because I miss survival horror so much that my nostalgia will probably fill it whatever blanks there are from the taste on my tongue. However, it’s also like… that ship has so far past sailed, I’m not sure if I could seriously get my animus up for either failing. Resident Evil left me way back when (and also, those old ones still exist and I can still play them!)