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Lunatic Ignus: Resident Evil 9 could be announced very soon, with a potential release window of mid-to-late 2025
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Badlucktroll
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ThisIsMyDog
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please be in third person
Arachnid
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This game has been leaking left and right. Where there's smoke, there's fire. The RE games tend to be announced half a year before release. Release is usually Jan-March. We're in the window for release (also announced at State of Play for the last three REs), so I'd be inclined to believe the announcement will be soon.
I hope the rumors of Leon as protagonist are true. Dude has been missing from the mainline games for more than a decade now. I'm interested to see how they adapt old man Leon while keeping him in line with his RE2/4make iteration. Also, for the love of god, be third person.
I hope the rumors of Leon as protagonist are true. Dude has been missing from the mainline games for more than a decade now. I'm interested to see how they adapt old man Leon while keeping him in line with his RE2/4make iteration. Also, for the love of god, be third person.
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spartan30gr
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State of play reveal?
Doom85
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Everyone who’s not named Chris has been missing from the mainline games for over a decade. Some even longer than Chris or Leon.
semiconscious
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i'm thinking that resident evil 6 might've cured them of this for a while...
This is 99% for the 24th.
RE2 was also revealed at SCE's E3 2018 press coference. RE7 was announced at their E3 2016 show as well.
Reizo Ryuu
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RE7/8/9 were supposed to be the winters' trilogy, but I believe they changed that and "wrapped it up" with the rosemary dlc instead; they probably confirmed the timeskip so they can save her for future games, as all the protagonists, save jill and sherry, are getting older.
So RE9 would probably be about chris going after the BSAA and maybe even encountering the connections; I could see others getting sucked in if the BSAA/connections decide to take out high profile targets like jill/sherry/leon/rebecca/claire.
Perhaps that's what they mean with "most ambitious" yet, some RE6 dialed up to eleven like RE's version of avengers endgame.
Heck if it takes place in 2025/26, then they can even bring back (a) Wesker since natalia would be 25 years old then; fresh new globally saturated wesker.
So RE9 would probably be about chris going after the BSAA and maybe even encountering the connections; I could see others getting sucked in if the BSAA/connections decide to take out high profile targets like jill/sherry/leon/rebecca/claire.
Perhaps that's what they mean with "most ambitious" yet, some RE6 dialed up to eleven like RE's version of avengers endgame.
Heck if it takes place in 2025/26, then they can even bring back (a) Wesker since natalia would be 25 years old then; fresh new globally saturated wesker.
digital_ghost
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Loved 7 and village.
March Climber
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Arachnid
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Fair enough. Other than Leon, I'd love to have Rebecca back. I'm convinced they'll never let us play as her in a game again though.
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March Climber
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No, and the CGI movies touch on this subject by showing how jaded he has become over the years from endlessly being sent on missions to fight bioweapons. It makes sense because he was unwillingly thrust into this life by the government after RE 2, whereas Chris and Jill want to do it because they have a militaristic serving-the-country mindset.
I worry that they will go full fanservice-mode like RE 6. I hope they don't.
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Pasta la Vista
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Bring it on. always down for more RE. I got a feeling this will be made for third and first person but much better implementation than Village of course.
TheDarkPhantom
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Day 1, RE forever and always, can't wait to see what they do with this entry 
od-chan
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RE9 is going to be so interesting. The remakes were all safe bets and, credit where credit is due, Capcom did good with them, even RE3Make in essence. RE7 worked out well too, since they finally gave people what they wanted from RE again: proper horror. RE8 was an okay game, but more importantly was able to ride the success Capcom accumulated with Remakes+7.
RE9 is really open season again, anything goes in theory. I'd suggest if they'd go with something like 8 (first person, action-y, not lots to see for fans of the franchise) the response will be lukewarm, at best. To straight out "abandon" the first person angle, when they build up a fanbase with two whole dedicated mainline games, doesn't seem that sensible to me either though, even if I hate first person. And no, hybrid is not a decent option, never was and never will be.
Personally I'd like them to continue down the RE2 Remake way. Relatively dense, close spaces, third person. A somewhat tight narrative (as opposed to 8 or 6) within the familiar umbrella-verse. But I'm honestly not sure if that would sell the quantities that Capcom would like, sadly I see them going for bigger, broader and possibly even (once again) more mainstream.
RE9 is really open season again, anything goes in theory. I'd suggest if they'd go with something like 8 (first person, action-y, not lots to see for fans of the franchise) the response will be lukewarm, at best. To straight out "abandon" the first person angle, when they build up a fanbase with two whole dedicated mainline games, doesn't seem that sensible to me either though, even if I hate first person. And no, hybrid is not a decent option, never was and never will be.
Personally I'd like them to continue down the RE2 Remake way. Relatively dense, close spaces, third person. A somewhat tight narrative (as opposed to 8 or 6) within the familiar umbrella-verse. But I'm honestly not sure if that would sell the quantities that Capcom would like, sadly I see them going for bigger, broader and possibly even (once again) more mainstream.