Fandoms - Resident Evil
So, you must be thinking "Mizu, why the post on fandoms in a gaming blog"
Simple answer, my dear Watson, fandoms exsist everywhere, especially the gaming world.
I bring this to view on the concept that Resident evil HD Remastered came out on the 20th and being a dedicated player to the game, I decided to view comments in the community on steam and what I saw disappointed me.
Reading the titles made me go "No, just no" to reading further into it.
I mean, how could other players dictate who is a 'True Fan' or not, I mean, that is just unfair, especially those who came into the series at a far later time and were unable to play the first few.
Many posts start with "I am the biggest fan" or "I am the number one fan" and really, is there a need for that? I been a huge fan since RE1 (Director's Cut came out the next year) was released back in 1996/7 on the playstation. I am no way the biggest fan but this game is dear to me. After that, everytime a new RE was released, I generally got it in that year and finished it within a few days due to being a young student.
Enough about my personal experience, I can add it in as I go along below.
Now, this part really annoyed me, this post is what triggered this blog entry.
Like JFC, being a 'true fan' in my honest opinion is appreciating a game for what it offers you, as the player and just because it had a major genre change, doesn't make it any less worthy of being under the RE banner and I played many RE games in my time, including the really terrible ones that everyone overlooks, like Survivor, Dead Aim and Outbreak.
Considering the above poster neglected to even mention these side-titles is laughable, considering some were FPS and other's introduced a more action feel to it. This was back in the '00s and they were probably test dummies for the later of the main series.
Now let's take a look at the titles.
Resident Evil came out in 1996, it was the first game to pin Survival Horror on the map of gaming genres, apparently it drew a lot of inspirations from games such as 1989's Sweet Home, this could also be dated back to games like Haunted House in 1982. Later that year, Silent Hill was released and has been somewhat of a competitor of RE. The next year, Directors Cut was released, which only had a few additions and also possibly due to the fact that RE2 was suppose to be released around this time, not only that but it was more extended and had uncensored cutscenes, which is always such a nice bonus. Now, in 2002, they released a GameCube edition of the game which completely revamped everything about the original title, which was exciting for me but apparently, fans felt betrayed and demanded that the creators don't do that again and yet, here we are, at 2015 a HD remaster of the GC version, which saddens me, since I would like to see a revamp version of 2 and 3.
Re was one of the first RE games I ever played on the PS console and introduced me to the horror genre and to this day, I still own my copy of this game, as well as the DC version. It be fair to admit that I have most of the RE game collection.
RE2, one would think that it would be almost exactly after the events of RE but how wrong are you. Trivia Fact; RE2 is set 24hrs after RE3 has taken place but both finish at the same time, amazing ain't it. Anyway, this game was released in 1998, during which it still was the golden child of the Capcom franchise and the leader of the Survival horror genre.
Like with RE4, the Survival Horror was on a decline and FPS or Action is what gamers wanted and for a game to live in a time, it had to change to suit the audience and around this time, new gamers were coming out of the woodworks and this won them into the series. During this time, RE4 had to compete with Devil May Cry 3, Call of Duty, F.E.A.R., God of War, Battlefield and the list can go on and in this industry, you had to keep up or go home.
Another thing I like to point out about one game in particular, which I actually like, which is Operation Raccoon City. Sure it is not the great but I like the alternative view it offered on the whole outbreak and another thing, IT WAS DONE BY ANOTHER COMPANY ALTOGETHER, so Capcom is not fully for the change or alteration for the RE universe, you can somewhat say that it is an AU situation of Resident Evil, which I personally find is a brilliant idea.
You probably wondering why I feel so strongly about this. If you asked which RE is my all time favourite, it would be RE3, since it basically brought in a whole new system and mechanics to the survival horror genre.
In my opinion, you are a true fan to the series if you played 1 or more and enjoyed what it offered, who cares if you never played the original. As long as you left feeling satisfied and happy after playing then you are a fan. That is how my opinion is and I am sorry if it seems off or like a long ramble.
I may write a better one in the future after some research.
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