Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...

[kamikazekeeg]

http://kotaku.com/resident-evil-is-getting-an-hd-remaster-1616229484/+brianashcraft

Basically it's the 2002 remake in HD, with some slightly updated features, including a control scheme where if you keep going in the direction of where your analog is going.  It's not the perfect scheme, but I like they are altering it.  I really had a problem with the pre-Resident Evil 4 games due to their controls, I couldn't stand them at all, so any change to that might make me like them as I only ever beat Dead Aim and Resident Evil 3, though I've played pretty much every single RE game other than maybe Survivor.

[abe]

From what I've read, it's going to be a digital-only release in North America. :'( That's according to this article: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/05/resident-evil-2015-remake/

[burningdoom]

What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

[kamikazekeeg]

What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

[scott]

Digital only. Pass.

I'll stick with the GameCube release.

[argyle]

I'll probably get it too - I have the Gamecube version, so I do own *a* version of it physically.  What can you do? 

[burningdoom]

What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

[kamikazekeeg]

What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

I had something else written, but I thought of something.  They only ever remade RE1 right? They never remade 2 or 3 I thought.  That's why they are doing this with the 2002 remake, because it's just an HD port.  They'd have to make a new game for RE2 and RE3.  This is just in between stuff till they get out the new RE game.  It's not about how popular the game was, this is just gonna be something easy for them to port over on the cheap and bring back an old release into the modern day.

[scott]

I think the closest we've seen for a remake of Resident Evil 2 was the port for N64. But that was more like a rebuild/port I think?

[abe]

What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

I had something else written, but I thought of something.  They only ever remade RE1 right? They never remade 2 or 3 I thought.  That's why they are doing this with the 2002 remake, because it's just an HD port.  They'd have to make a new game for RE2 and RE3.  This is just in between stuff till they get out the new RE game.  It's not about how popular the game was, this is just gonna be something easy for them to port over on the cheap and bring back an old release into the modern day.

This isn't even the first time they've ported the remake of the first game. It was also released back in 2009 on the Wii as Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil.

[bikingjahuty]

I normally don't do digital only releases, but considering that Capcom is likely doing this to test the waters with how people today would respond to the old style of RE games, I'll likely buy it to support Capcom hopefully returning the series to its roots. Besides, REmake is one of my all time favorite games and I'd love to play it in full HD.

[scott]

Still kinda lame that it's getting a full on retail release in JP markets. But over here it's delegated to a digital only title.

[foxhack]

First thought: YAY I CAN SELL MY GAMECUBE COPY.

Second thought: Wow, those backgrounds look kind of... dark and poorly upscaled. Wait, it's Capcom, of course they do.

Third thought: Maybe now we can get Resident Evil 0 in another damn platform.

Fourth thought: Oh wait, I hated REMake. BOOOOOOOOOOO GIMME MY PS1 VERSION

[kamikazekeeg]

First thought: YAY I CAN SELL MY GAMECUBE COPY.

Second thought: Wow, those backgrounds look kind of... dark and poorly upscaled. Wait, it's Capcom, of course they do.

Third thought: Maybe now we can get Resident Evil 0 in another damn platform.

Fourth thought: Oh wait, I hated REMake. BOOOOOOOOOOO GIMME MY PS1 VERSION

What was wrong with the remake? I never played it.

[argyle]

They say you'll be able to switch control schemes from the "tank" controls to standard.  I can't remember, was that an option in the GC version?