Resident Evil 5 obviously takes many things from Resident Evil 4 (to some previewers' dismay). What would you like to see Resident Evil 6 do to separate it from the pack and not be seen as a simple "RE4 rehash?"

Also, what would you like to see be done with the franchise on Wii?

Should we still be calling Resident Evil survivor horror? It makes more sense with the earlier games, but with the last two iterations theres more of a focus on action and combat instead of horror and survival. There might be a little scare here and there but overall its not really all that scary of a game. If you agree with this, what genre would you instead define them under? Is it its own thing, or is just third person shooter with horror elements?

"Dead Space," "Resident Evil 4," "Silent Hill: Homecoming," "Boner Quest: The Moist Nightmare," and "Alone in the Dark," are all recent games that have failed to generate even a little fear in me.

What do games today have to do in order to become genuinely frightening again?

What do you think of peoples worries that RE5 might completely lack the horror elements of the first games, and instead rely on Gears of War style action?

I remember being terrified in Code Veronica until I got to a safe room in which case my tension completely lapsed.

Is there a way for the player to save their progress without resetting their tension levels? Or is a rest point important in order to keep the game being scary without being frustrating?

Which character did you enjoy the most?
Also would you like it if the Resident Evil series went back to its Silent Hill gameplay, or do you think that it cant go back? or cant come back in a successful way

Where would you like the RE franchise to go next? Do you want it to keep up the RE4 style or go back to it's roots? Or do you want something new, and what?

If you all were Zombies/Tyrants in RE, what kind of undead monster would you be? List examples of abilities and special talents.

Also, do you all subscribe to the Jim's idea that survival horror has evolved itself into the point of extinction?

Did anyone else shit their pants when that dog came flying through the window?

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Is it really rape if you get to choose?

We've had gritty urban alleyways, eastern-european villages and african shanty towns. Where should our heroes go next?

Perhaps the moon?
Or maybe the centre of the earth...

Have you ever been so happy to see a typewriter than you were in the Resident Evil series?

What are your thoughts on the whole zombies/las plagas divide? Has the series moved on from the shambling corpses of days past? Do you even bother making the distinction between the two?

People seem to like the newer control scheme (or at least those who played RE4 do/did). Do you think older Iterations would benefit from it, if the game was balanced for it, for example, ammo availability was slim/none (with slim out for tea) to create that nervous tension and feeling of helplessness.

Also, did you ever run out of typewriter coils?

With Resident Evil 6 would you like to see the Resident Evil series stick with it's more action horror slant that it adopted in recent games, return to it's B-movie survival horror roots or adopt a new style such as the more viseral Event Horrizon style horror found in Dead Space or psychological horror of Project Zero and Siren: Blood Curse?

Is there any certain Resident Evil character that you prefer playing over the others?

I had much more fun playing Leon than anyone else, and not because Resident Evil 4 was incredible, but because he had this mantra of 'normalcy', where Chris or Jill both remind me of super soldiers.

What do you guys think of the offline multiplayer? Is the splitscreen in the demo a nice joke or were they serious about that?

Do you think that big horror series have lost their fear factor with time and that now developpers think fear=tension about action or they just think that horror games don't scare anymore ?
Also do you think it is better to play a RE or Silent Hill alone or with buddies ?
Finally, what were your favorite RE moments ?
(If my questions don't have a right structure, it is because I'm a lazy French)

My friend and I played the offline co-op for RE 5, and we had a blast. I didn't have a single problem or complaint with the split screen mode. I actually enjoyed it.

My question is simple:
Am I crazy for liking something no one else does?

erm, when I said "night and darkness" in my last post, "I meant perpetual night and darkness".

Why do most demos suck? It seems as though most of the demos I play do not entice me to buy the final product. A few weeks ago, on Podtoid they were saying how little they liked the F.E.A.R. 2 demo and then Jim ends up liking it. It seems as though the companies don't put the best foot forward and give a piece of the game without much context. The RE5 demo did this to me as well, I really didn't want to play it because I felt that I had no clue what was going on and that I was just plopped in there to kill zombies without much motivation.

This is sorta related.

Does the attempt at creating a canon or have continuity in between games just make them more ridiculous or incomplete?

It seems like some franchises like Ninja Gaiden are just taken down a peg when put together with Death or Alive. The single great experience of a Resident Evil game is usually doesn't seem that great when you realize the amount of loose threads the storyline has.

Other franchises just try waaaay to hard to create a story where there isn't one (Sonic)

Should some franchises just ditch an overarching storyline and just keep the name like Final Fantasy does or should they continue with their poor narrative and character development?

If you could make a Resident Evil spin-off game in another genre, what would that be?

One example is Resident Evil Wars, the zombies could be uint spammers (Zerg/Tyrranids), Umbrella the mysterious stealth faction (Nod) and "the main character faction (I'm not the biggest RE fan) could be the heavy hitters with few units (Space Marines/GDI).

Do you think capcom will ever finnish the Resident Evil franchises?

Is William Birkin one of the most underrated RE Villains out there?
Nemesis is cool and everything (albeit a tad 'Xtreme'), but the tale of Birkin's infection and progressive mutation as his humanity slips away is a very memorable and tragic one.
By then end of the game you feel as if you're putting him out of his misery.

Your thoughts?

After just purchasing Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection (its awesome and totally worth $30) and playing the games on that collection, I noticed something. I totally got my ass handed to me even on "easy" difficulty on some of the games.
Have we as gamers got so accustomed to games being dumbed down to the point that "hard is the new normal" that almost all skill is taken out of a game and the only thing stopping us from beating a game is just time?
While I know that "retro" games are more difficult just by design and mechanics, but has the catering to the so-called "casual gamer" have actually taken top priority into devs/pubs ways of making games that it almost disregards the fundamental challenge of a game and makes it too accessible. I mean how would it feel if everyone that plays Monopoly starts with a absurd amount of cash and "get out of jail cards" to start and the risk of "losing" is diminished to the point of not being fun anymore?

I've been hearing rumors that Capcom would be adding the option in RE 5 to be able to run while shooting. I think that's fucking stupid.

Do you guys think that Capcom is going to sell-out and employ a "run and gun" mechanic to Resident Evil 5, as opposed to having to stand still while shooting?

This is unrelated to the topic of the podcast but I have a question: What are your thoughts on Namco-Bandai using the sales of Retro Game Challenge to judge whether or not to bring over Fragile and other Namco-Bandai related titles that have to this date only graced the shelves in Japan? Is this like measuring the sales of Halo 3 to decide whether or not to bring over Shadow of the Colossus or are Namco-Bandai just being a bunch of stuck up pricks?