Capcom has published a new interview in which RE7 producer Masachika Kawata and director K?shi Nakanishi revealed some new information about Resident Evil 7. Kawata and Nakanishi talked claimed that Resident Evil 7 will not be a reboot and explained why they decided to use a new game engine, as well as a new camera perspective.
As Nakanishi said about the RE engine powering Resident Evil 7:
“Our artists, programmers, and the whole team are just all really fussy people. We all want to get exactly what we want out of game development. If you’re using a third-party engine or one created by another company, it feels like there are places that you have to reach to scratch an itch compared to when we design an engine ourselves. We want to know exactly how to find our way around an engine. We decided the only way to make the game with the highest quality possible was to make our own engine for it that was dedicated to making this amazing experience. It’s really a sign of the team’s dedication as artists to not only make a new game but a new engine as well.”
Regarding the first-person perspective, here is what Nakanishi and Kawata had to say:
Kawata: Both myself and the director, Mr. Nakanishi, felt if we want people to experience horror and experience it in the most direct, visceral way possible, then literally putting yourself in the position of seeing what the character sees is the best way to do that and so it was our motivation for the first-person camera change.
Nakanishi: Of course it’s a big change, so first we got a prototype working and we put first-person in place and we wanted to see if we could make Resident Evil work in first person. As soon as we had it up and running we were really confident that this was the way to move forward. We were really happy with the way that Resident Evil feels in first person.
Resident Evil 7 will be released this January!
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Is that why Resident Evil 7 will be the most hated game in the main series?
Resident Evil 6 is still most hated.
This series is sooo doomed. DEAD.
for you
The cover photo looks very nice…and I think they making RE just because of clever writing EVII. I like that small touch, that is all.
I think they really should let the franchise sleep for some years. They obviously have nno idea of what to do next with it.
Agree on the second part, but hell no on the first part.
With waning franchises, once they put them down for a while, they come back even worse.
puzzles with interesting rooms or you are dead to me.
Just say you want a piece of that Silent Hills P.T. pie.
Gotta be honest, don’t know why this is receiving so much hate.
I still hope they reboot the series. So far i don’t hate what they are doing with VII. At the very least not seeing familiar faces in RE series actually quite refeshing lol. Also the change to first person perspective most definitely because of VR. Plus first person can make things more scary than third person perspective.
Resident evil game with ghosts seems legit, goodbye one of my favorite series
Wait does it have ghosts ? (I didn’t even bother reading any news about this game lel)
Looks like they took the RE 3.5 approach ( the RE4 Alpha )
Well yeah crazy nonsense happening in the demo its like silent hill, they shoudnt have named a resident evil 7 its a huge fail
Silent Residence on the evil hill!
xD
Resident Evils PT, we stealing Konami’s money
Just give me the option to play in first person or third person.
nothing about this looks resident evil, more Texas chainsaw massacre
Nothing of that demo gave me the Resi vibes, if anything it made me think the game was trying to be like some ripoff Blair Witch or paranormal activity show/movie.
This is Capcom just running with whatever they throw dart at while attaching the Resi logo to something, they’ve done it with Umbrella corps and clearly this because hardly anything in that demo is directly related to any of the events that have transpired let alone characters within the universe, this is the game just using the name to make it sell.
Booo,PT wannabe…Resident Call of Evil Duty 6 is masterpiece now…
I’m okay with wanting to experiment with the player perspective but making it like the FPS horror I see popping here and there on PC lately is a no no. RE is not about scares of paranormal or shi*, it’s about being isolated and unsure whether you will survive the next area and