Capcom recently revealed the best look yet at the mistakes with the Resident Evil 3 remake, which released the following year. Hopefully, those mistakes won't be repeated in Capcom's next anticipated remake.
Capcom is remaking arguably one of the most popular RE games; so popular, in fact that some fans were skeptical that RE4 even needed a modern refresh at all. The game has already been re-released numerous times since it launched on the Nintendo GameCube in 2005. A better look at the remake in action during a recent Resident Evil showcase changed some minds and heightened excitement for the project. Now, many people who have played the original game are hoping the Resident Evil 4 remake makes some critical changes to the source material.
Producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi has revealed that the Resident Evil 4 remake will barely have any Quick Time Events (QTEs). The information comes from an interview between the Capcom Producer and PS5 developers still use QTEs, like Until Dawn's studio, but QTEs were a popular feature in action games of the 2000s that would task players to quickly press a particular button before their characters met an instant demise in an interactive cutscene. Sometimes these situations provided exciting moments with well-timed knife-fighting maneuvers and infamous boulder-punching sequences. At the same time, other QTEs would be put in place to clumsily dodge a falling halberd or large rocks.
Some Fans Hate Resident Evil 4's QTEs, While Others Love Them
The recent gameplay video of RE4 showed the infamous scene of Leon struggling through an entire village of foes. Each villager looks unique and far more detailed than they did in the original version. The intense remake gameplay proved Resident Evil 4 may be the goriest RE game yet. Players also got a better look at the lumbering Chainsaw Man, in a sequence that demonstrated Leon's new ability to counter a previously fatal attack with a quick button press. Hirabayashi affirms in the interview that there will still be circumstantial moments requiring a quickly timed button press during combat. Still, players will not need to worry about pressing the wrong button in the middle of a vital cutscene.
Capcom seems to be making the right moves in getting fans excited about the Resident Evil 4 remake. With the release of the game less than six months away and the release of both RE Remakes and Resident Evil Village on Switch, Resident Evil fans should have a lot to look forward to.
