Topic: Resident Evil Zero

[Nick DiMola]

According to Famitsu, Capcom is porting RE0 to the Wii and adding waggle. Hooray for more waggle.

[Mario]

Hooray? Why? This game can already be played on Wii. It's going to be made for one handed Wii Remote play. It's going to be EXACTLY the same. It will cost Capcom 10 cents to make. Nobody is  going to buy this when you can get RE0, a GC controller and a GC memory card for the same price, and that's assuming people out of the blue, have just NOW decided they want to purchase Resident Evil Zero.

Not to mention, out of all the "old school" REs to port, they choose the easiest / worst one. Not to say the game is the worst RE, but at least if they ported RE2 or RE3 they could have an excuse to do the "remakes" they always intended to do. This is the worst game announcement of all time. It's only just sunk into me that this is real, and not actually a joke. I'm personally offended.

[ShyGuy]

Apparently it's going to have RE4 controls. I hope this isn't what we get instead of RE5

[Nick DiMola]

Hooray? Why? This game can already be played on Wii. It's going to be made for one handed Wii Remote play. It's going to be EXACTLY the same.

Guess I wasn't quite sarcastic enough. This port is worthless and stupid.

[Pale]

RE4 controls would be a hit.

Also, everyone who says "people will just buy the used old version" are totally overlooking the fact that most people don't like going through the trouble.  They want to go to Wal-Mart and buy their games.  It will still sell.

All you people who want RE5 in some form on Wii should eat all this stuff up.  If Capcom establishes a well selling Resident Evil fan-base out of the Wii fan-base (which is a ton different than the Cube fan-base) they will have to do something.

[EasyCure]

I've been meaning to get RE0 and 3 since they're the ones i havent played yet, but i dont really know how i feel about a Wii edition.

I mentioned before in another RE thread (a while back) discussing the possibilities of RE4 style controls in the older games, that I don't think they'll work. Sure the controls would be good, but what i mean is they won't work for the style of the game. Resident Evil games prior to 4 had you in tight, confined spaces and stationary camera angles. To remake the game to work with RE4s controls, which are implimented for open spaces and a diffrent play style entirely, seems like a waste of time when they can just make a NEW RE game with those controls.

The only way i'd buy this remake is if its $30 bucks like RE4: Wii edition, and only for two reasons:
1. I missed playing it the first time around
2. Support "M" rated games on the wii to show a message to third parties*

*double-edged swords suck, as much as i want to believe buying said game will show support for "mature" titles, i know companies like Capcom read it as "wii gamers will buy crappy ports". Thats the reason we're getting this to begin with.. *sigh*

Edit: Pale made a point i missed, Sure a used copy would be cheaper but they're getting harder and harder to find. One week i walk into a gamestop, browse the the GC section (which is mostly all used stuff now) and see a few games i would like to buy but didnt have the money, come back two week later and the GC section had gone from taking up two "walls" to just one. Everything left is stuff like Hello Kitty and Geist. On top of that almost nothing has the original box anymore, instead they have those stupid graphics they use with those cartoon figures and the name of the game written in, most of the time elegibly so i dont know what the hell i'm looking at until i look above the sku, and even then the name gets butchered by abbreviation. Its not even worth it any more to look for used GC games there. I'm sure i'm not the only picky one that doesnt want his nice library tainted by one of those god awful cases they use..

[Athrun Zala]

WTF Capcom, WTF...

if doing a REmake, at least pick the right game :/

[Darkheart]

This is how Crapcom punishes us for the poor Z&W sales.  I BOUGHT THE GAME CRAPCOM MAKE ME NEW STUFF PLEASE~!

[darknight06]

The only good reason I could see myself getting this was if the new control method made the game playable for me (as with RE4) and if the game actually supports progressive scan this time around.  Otherwise, no dice.

[Bill Aurion]

Oh boy, I smell another "test" incoming!

[ShyGuy]

How come the 360 and PS3 are above such "tests"?

[nitsu niflheim]

The games Capcom makes for Wii will always be tests, that way they can justify to themselves not putting their best effort forward for everything they do, and so they can try and downplay the success of the Wii compared to that of the Xbox360 or PS3.

[Crimm]

RE4 controls aren't good enough.  It needs to run the RE4 engine.  I hate being eaten by a zombie around a corner because of stupid cameras.

[Deguello]

How come the 360 and PS3 are above such "tests"?

That's obvious, because they have the highest userb-

I mean... because... It was IGN's and Gamespot's favored platf-

Wait that didn't work for the PSP...

I dunno.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Off their hit album, "Ill Communication", the Beastie Boys present:

"Sabotage"

[Maverick]

So I heard some PR guy from Capcom said that this would only be released in Japan.  False alarm?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I'll add that RE4 Wii, Zack and Wiki, and RE UC were developed to pay for Devil May Cry 4.

RE0 Wii is obviously intended to pay for the dev costs of RE5.

It's OK for Capcom to go belly-up now, more than ever.

[that Baby guy]

I would hope this would be Capcom's final measuring stick of whether or not to port RE5 to the Wii.  How random is this?  They give the Wii an RE4 remake, an on-rails shooter review-type game, and a remake of RE0, but the new Resident Evil game is only on the PS3 and 360.  It's like they're trying to encourage Wii owners that are RE fans to buy a 360 or something.  Maybe I'm wrong, but Capcom isn't exactly the king of sound development plans.

[NWR_pap64]

Not to mention, out of all the "old school" REs to port, they choose the easiest / worst one. Not to say the game is the worst RE, but at least if they ported RE2 or RE3 they could have an excuse to do the "remakes" they always intended to do. This is the worst game announcement of all time. It's only just sunk into me that this is real, and not actually a joke. I'm personally offended.

Yeah, RE 2 and 3 are perhaps the most popular of the old school games, yet have not received any updates or remakes like RE 1 has. Even if Nintendo got RE 2 two times (one on the N64, one on the GC) it wouldn't have hurt to update the game.

Plus, RE 0 was poorly received. Why would they update this one?

While I am not as offended as some of you are, the decision is a very weird one in that out of all the games to update they chose a game that has a poor reputation...Unless they are trying to get it right the first time around.

Hmmm...I suspect one of two things may happen:
- The Wii controls are so good it actually makes the game even better
- The Wii controls are so bad it makes the game even worse and more cumbersome to play

Considering the angst and cynicism of Wii fanboys, many will say it will suck.

[Pale]

Guys...

The reason RE5 isn't coming to Wii isn't that Capcom hates you all.

Developers like horse power.  They like making their games full of awesome stuff.  They like as few constraints as possible.  Like it or not, they will always PREFER to make games for higher end systems.  Why do you think RE4 came to Cube originally?  Because the XBox sells like crap in Japan and the Cube is more powerful than the PS2.  Why was it ported to PS2?  Because it was cheap and made them a ton of money.

The only way Wii will see RE5 is if they think it will sell well enough to warrant the cost to downgrade.  These ports will prove the selling factor.

It's not a conspiracy.  It is actually pretty logical.

[NWR_pap64]

I think you mean it originally came out for the GC, Pale.

As for the fans thinking Capcom hates us...Now that I think about it, if you were to check most of the posts around here you would learn that...

- Nintendo hates us
- Sakurai hates us
- Sega hates us
- Namco-Bandai hates us
- Square-Enix hates us
- Every single game developer hates us
- MS hates us
- Sony hates us
- Dr. Kawashima hates us AND thinks we are dumb

...Since when did we start acting like angst ridden emo kids? :p

[Pale]

Yeah, that's what I meant.  Thanks.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Your assessment is wrong because emo kids aren't very active.

The rest of us are quite energetic and vigorous.

[Nick DiMola]

Guys...

The reason RE5 isn't coming to Wii isn't that Capcom hates you all.

Developers like horse power.  They like making their games full of awesome stuff.  They like as few constraints as possible.  Like it or not, they will always PREFER to make games for higher end systems.  Why do you think RE4 came to Cube originally?  Because the XBox sells like crap in Japan and the Cube is more powerful than the PS2.  Why was it ported to PS2?  Because it was cheap and made them a ton of money.

The only way Wii will see RE5 is if they think it will sell well enough to warrant the cost to downgrade.  These ports will prove the selling factor.

It's not a conspiracy.  It is actually pretty logical.

In most cases, I would buy this explanation, but given the unique structure of the Wii control scheme I would say that alot of developers do not share your sentiment. As a matter of fact when the Wii first came out I remember discussing how excited many developers were to play with motion control and pointing. Given RE is a shooter series, a home on the Wii make sense and is extremely logical. Sure everyone loves pushing realism, but I'm sure after a while new gameplay experiences from a development perspective are a bit more interesting. I think Capcom would just prefer to focus on a more realistic envisioning of their IP's and as a result the Wii isn't their primary interest.

So in short, yes Capcom does hate us.

[Crimm]

- The Wii controls are so bad it makes the game even worse and more cumbersome to play

UNPOSSIBLE!