According to an insider, it’s not so certain that Capcom can repeat what it did with the Resident Evil 4 remakes last year…

In fact, the Resident Evil 4 remake was excellent, maintaining the style and atmosphere of the original, but thoroughly modernized with the RE Engine. But Dusk Golem on Discord summed up why he doesn’t see much chance that the next two Resident Evil remakes won’t be on the same scale. But which two will Capcom remake? Not sure which one you’re thinking, but first let’s look at the last little over a decade of the franchise: “A relatively accurate timeline of events would go like this: 2012 sees the release of Resident Evil Revelations and Resident Evil 6. Resident Evil 6 mostly fails their metrics for the title, while Revelations 1 mostly succeeds. Capcom releases a Revelations 1 HD that once again mostly succeeds. Resident Evil HD Remaster came out in early 2015 and is a HUGE success, bigger than Capcom ever expected, becoming one of the best-selling digital-only titles on PlayStation to date, selling several million copies between platforms. Resident Evil Revelations 2 was also released in early 2015 and was a bigger success than expected.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was rebooted in 2014 after a scrapped version of the game had set Leon and Sherry in a fictional floating city in Italy. The new version is now being directed by the person who directed Resident Evil Revelations 1. It tries to be more in line with the original Resident Evil, which became especially clear after the huge success of the remaster. Resident Evil Revelations 2 comes out, as a success for what it was. Its director went on to become one of the directors of Resident Evil 2 Remake, the title greenlit in 2015.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard comes out in 2017 and has a year, while Resident Evil 2 Remake needs a year’s delay. In 2017, Capcom had been in talks for the Resident Evil 3 Remake, it happens and gets greenlit. Then Resident Evil (8): Village actually gets greenlit from a test demo they started working on in 2016. Resident Evil 4 Remake was greenlit after several talks in 2018. Village also gets into a confusing situation in 2018, and Resident Evil 9 gets greenlit at that time instead of there being two versions of RE8. There’s a longer story there, but it’s a whole other can of worms…”, Dusk Golem wrote. Interesting, what was going on around Resident Evil: Village?

Let’s take a look at what happened recently: “Jumping ahead a few years, in late 2022, they’ve released several Resident Evil games. Resident Evil 4 Remake is on the horizon, Capcom has another big meeting about the franchise and the direction to take it. The revival has been a huge success, so they definitely want to move forward with plans to keep Resident Evil going. The only titles left of what they had greenlit at the time were Resident Evil 4 Remake and RE9, so now is the time to start making plans as these games take several years to make. A couple of things are happening, and I don’t want to give it all away yet, but as far as remakes go, as far as I know right now, Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica are the only remakes that are actively in development. They were chosen for several reasons. Of course, RE9 is also in development.

Capcom isn’t really planning for these two remakes to be as “ambitious” as Resident Evil 4. In many ways, that was the crown jewel of the remakes and the most challenging to tackle in terms of scale, scope, and expectations. Resident Evil 0 and Code Veronica were chosen for a number of reasons, but I think a big one is that they’re good titles to “improve” on their originals, allowing for more horror-focused design in the vein of Resident Evil 2 Remake, which was a huge success, and continuing the remake train that’s been very successful for them. It’s partly fan demand, partly creative intent, and partly other reasons.

Personally, I think RE0 was greenlit in part because a lot of the people who worked on the original are still at Capcom or M-Two. It has a reputation as a game that could be improved with a remake from the community. I think it was chosen in part because there’s not really a better window than right now to do a remake, so if they’re going to do it, they might as well do it now. I know a lot of people thought that Resident Evil 5 Remake was next because of the 4 remake, but I think RE4R was mostly just trying to tie in more with Resident Evil 5 since that’s the sequel to 4, but if the fans really want a RE5 remake, I think it will happen eventually.

But I also think that Capcom wants to sit on it longer, because the longer they wait, the further away we get from Resident Evil 5 technically. It can still be argued that it is mostly in line with the current era of games graphically, mechanically, etc. They’ve improved a bit, but not in a huge way. You can still play the original today and it still feels pretty good, all things considered. The longer they wait, the less that’s true, though I wonder if they might be planning a “deluxe remaster” treatment like they’re doing with Dead Rising. I guess time will tell! If there are any Resident Evil games that I personally think could benefit a lot from a Deluxe Remaster treatment, it’d be the two Revelations. Making changes to those games, improving the graphics, making them feel better to play, I think it would add a lot…”, Dusk Golem added.

So we should not expect too big a project?

Source: WCCFTech