Resident Evil Requiem's Latest Trailer Teases Bustling City Environment

Really looking forward to this one! I know the Switch 2 version will be less impressive than the above video, visually, but hey, it's a fricking handheld we're talking about!

Man they really don't have a lot to show for this game, do they. I get the sense Capcom wants you to be very impressed with that Grace segment in the hotel, but I've seen the preview footage and it looks extremely barebones.
Everything's riding on the mystery of how Leon's sections (campaign?) will play, but I imagine the gameplay's been ripped straight out of RE4R. Not exactly inspiring confidence.

I will be getting this on PC, for the best immersive gameplay. But I do hope the Switch 2 version will be good too. But Capcom ports are sometimes a miss in performance.

"How will it hold up on Switch 2?"

Alright calm down, this is obviously a walking segment till you get to the hotel from the trailer meaning this "bustling city" is just a glorified corridor. Just because the levels will be more open doesn't mean the whole game is suddenly GTA.

@Kingy why would you want everything spoiled in trailers?It’s great that they are trying to keep everything under wraps

Path tracing? Is that to make sidewalks look better? 🤭

@Yoshi3 Not if the few things they do show aren't selling me on the game. That's what a trailer is for.

You're telling me they can't show one other area without spoiling the whole thing? That just sounds like there isn't much game to spoil.

Guarantee it won’t look like that on switch 2. Ordered ps5 and switch 2 for on the go

@Kingy not if they gauge good reactions and fan interest from what they have already shown. You’re the only person I’ve seen on the internet that hasn’t already been sold on the game. Social media has enough excitement with this game and previews and hands on that they know they don’t have to show anything more. That’s how trailers work.

Also, Capcom already said that they wouldn’t be implementing open worlds or open big areas because they know that was against what RE’s formula is. They started implementing that at the beginning and saw that it wouldn’t work, so they rebooted the project. They know what their formula is and don’t cater to open world trends and fads.
And I applaud that … unlike devs with Metroid Prime 4 and Zelda.

I’m so excited for this. I really hope that A, the game itself is good, (surely it will be!), and B, the Switch2 version is a quality port… so far so promising on that front!

Why would anyone want more than 120fps???

@Yoshi3 I don't want an open world Resident Evil game, I just want to know that my $70 will buy me more than two hallways and a death wall that's allergic to florescent light bulbs.

Your average FOMO addicted social media user is hyped for literally everything, why should I be judging the contents of a trailer based on their impressions and not my own

@JohnnyMind The original? I bought RE4 for Switch too during the sale. It's a great starting point. I am really enjoying my fourth playthrough, so far! I've played the game twice in Wii, once on PS4 and now on Switch. The controls are a bit clunky, but once you get used to it, the game is just so great! I can't wait for RE4R to release on Switch 2, which we will also hopefully see at some point!

@Kingy then you wait until reviews come up and decide if you want it or not.
The rest of us who are already sold on it don’t want things spoiled in the trailers.
Trailers are for generating excitement, reviews to convince you.
RE has a fantastic trajectory as of late, if you think you’re only getting what they are showing you on the trailers, then you may be new to RE.

"How will it hold up on Switch 2?"
In Capcom we trust.

I have already preordered the Generations Pack, I can't wait to put my hands on it!

I'm excited to see how it will look on my PS5 Pro with the Pro enhancements. Given Capcoms track record with Pro upgrades for RE, I'm sure it will look and run great!

I'll remote play it to my Steam Deck OLED with proper HDR and gyro aiming, and pretend it's a Switch 2 Pro or PS6 portable 😂😂.

I'd gladly double dip on Switch 2 for RE 7, 8, 9. But game key cards 🔑, so no I'll get RE9 for Steam Deck OLED, after a price drop for my portable fix later on.

Preordered the Generations pack. Looking forward to playing some of the best Resident Evil games on the go in the cafe, on the train or even laying in bed 👍

You'd think "bustling city environment" would be the last phrase to describe the 21st century RC.😅

@Pillowpants with no obligatory reliance on ink ribbons, OG RE4 suffices for me (I'd rather have Code: Veronica remade in that context), although I've been reading that RE4R features gyro, and that's an admitted chinscratcher. Time will tell; I still have RE0 to get through.

Yeah don't expect that in NS2. That being said don't expect that on most PC either. Most people will never play it with this kind of settings.

@Yoshi3 You can be as excited as you want, and I will continue to be skeptical and voice my skepticism as I please.

I don't even agree that RE has been on a good trajectory. The entries since 7 have been a mixed bag, and if you include the spinoffs I'd even say the series has been on a bad trajectory.
3 remake and Village were both incredibly shallow games and RE7 suffers from a sharp decline in quality. I got no reason to assume RE9 couldn't end up the same, especially with what little we've seen of it.

@Kingy
Metacritic:
Critics-Users
RE7: 86%-87%
RE7 DLC 1: 75%-72%
RE7 DLC 2: 71%-70%
RE8: 84%-84%
RE8 DLC: 73%-66%
RE2R: 91%-88%
RE3R: 79%-67%
RE4R: 93%-89%
RE4R DLC: 88%-89%

They all look like pretty solid numbers to me.
I think you’re just on the other side of the spectrum from the Resident Evil fanbase.

Even if you make the average of those numbers you get a pretty good 82%-79% (And if I take out the DLCs, the numbers just go higher, further proving my point, 86%-83%)

So, not even close to being on a bad trajectory. It’s an IP with consistent output throughout its 9 “modern” main games I listed. Other franchises dream about that quality output with that many games and keeping its formula intact

So, with numbers behind I’m talking facts, not personal opinions.

I've watched it several times, and I prefer the look of the RTX OFF.

So... I dunno...

I doubt Capcom would have put something out they felt wasn't good for what it is. Sure, it won't look nearly as good as it would on my Series X but I also can't take my Series X anywhere. Well, not easily, anyway...

@DTfearTheBEARD is your entire existence on this website just announcing to everyone that you're gonna play games everywhere but Switch 2?

We get it, you don't like keycards meanwhile hypocritically buying everything on Steam Deck instead, you dont need to announce it under every single news article.

@JohnnyMind I hope you'll enjoy it! There are many moments where you'll feel hunted in RE4 I wouldn't necessarily say the horror element is less in the game, but there's definitely more action!

I preordered on Xbox and then cancelled to get the Generation pack with 7, 8 and 9 on Switch 2. Seems like a pack that will be really good to have, provided they can get the game to look and run fine enough. Really hope I don't regret my decision 🤞😁🤞

@Kingy I mean this is par the course with RE they only show you in the early stuff as to not spoil everything else. Check out Village's trailers and notice how most of it just focused on Lady D and the early game. Same with RE7 where the later half is more or less non existent in marketing.

@Yoshi3 I mean it worked for Zelda pretty well. Granted MP4's open desert area sucks though.

@Yoshi3 zelda worked really well with an open world its metroid that didnt and id argue its because it wasnt really open world it was more big area in the middle with sod all in and loads of linear paths which were nothing more than run through shooting and done, it was just a badly though out game

@Solid_Python But the thing is I WANT to play the games on Switch 2. I'm just not a fan of game key cards, is all.

But no, I buy the newer more demanding games for PS5 Pro, not Steam Deck.
I just remote, play them to Steam Deck OLED, sometimes.

I have, and always will be a fan of Nintendo (30+ years). I just wish the third party support offered more proper physical releases.

I'm gonna be honest, I hated RE7 and strongly disliked RE8. The mechanics on both were 100x better than RE6, but the vibe was not RE (imo). In that sense, RE6 was a "better" RE game than 7 and 8 for me (I understand this is an extremely unpopular opinion).

However, what I've seen of RE9 looks pretty darn good so far! Seems like we're getting closer to that original RE feel.

After buying and failing to complete the last couple of Resi games, I'm very much looking forward to watching someone play this for me on YouTube, haha.

I never played a Resident Evil game. What episode would be the best to begin with ? Thank you for your response.

(Oh I remember having played a demo of RE4 or 5. I think It felt like a rail shooter in a city with lots of cinematics. I disliked it very much ! )

Lookin real good. Just need to see if there will be difficulty options and unlimited saves for wusses like myself.

@Yoshi3 You are talking personal opinion though. What do you think these metascores are aggregated from? More specifically, you're appealing to popular opinion to validate your own, which I don't care about and doesn't change anything I've said in this thread.
I don't consider anyone who gave RE8 high praise a reputable source for reviewing games. Because I played RE8 and thought it was crap, simple as that.
You're like the people who used to equate sales to quality. If that was the case then RE6 is the 4th best Resident Evil game. RE6 is complete garbage, it's even worse than 8 (though they're both bad for very similar reasons) - but by sheer numbers it ekes out some form of legitimacy. There's points you can make about WHY these games are so highly received, but using metrics alone isn't an argument.

And idk what you're on about "other side of the spectrum of the RE fanbase". You mean like a fan of the older games? That's not an argument you want to have brother, all of the classic titles have higher metascores than the newer ones barring the 2 & 4 remakes lol. By your logic all of my favorite games are objectively better.

@DennisReynolds That's fair enough. Their trailers and demos do stick to as early in the game as possible. I suppose then that the crux of what I'm getting at is that the early game of RE9 that we've seen has not impressed me whatsoever. Which isn't something I can say about any of the previous games, I think their pre-release marketing was quite a lot stronger.

I mean *****, I was super hyped for Village before it came out. I can only imagine the kind of sales wizardry needed to sell that piece of trash.

@ShadLink
I'll hold off and get it on Steam once the VR mod inevitably drops for the most immersive experience. 😁

There's no way I'm playing this flat after experiencing 7, 8 and 4Remake in VR. Using the upcoming Steam Frame headset on a 4090 using SF's Eye Tracking + Dynamic Foveated Streaming at 72-90fps will be ace. 😉

Ray Tracing - looks more reflection + gradient means to me... so what is Path meaning

cant wait and alrdy got the bundle edition with all 3 games preordered few months back.

@ShadLink “Capcom games are sometimes a miss in performance”

Well so far not for Resident Evil games. DD2 and MH Wilds had far more worse issues. Especially on PC which had the worst performance

This makes sense. Resident Evil 7 hinted at a world outside; there was a cop just doing his job in the first few hours so I'm excited to see the world of Resident Evil a little differently in this game

@Kingy it’s personal opinions when you see it individually, but it’s a fact when you see it as a group. The same goes for any political voting. A vote is a personal opinion, but you can’t deny that a winner in percentages becomes a fact. The fact is that people see them as good games and you’re just in a 14% minority.

And we are not talking about sales here. There could be lots of sales for bad games, because you gotta BUY the game to play and NOT LIKE the game, adding to the sales numbers. Doesn’t go the other way around though. So no, sales are not indicative of quality. You know what is? User scores.

So you must be telling me that critics and audience are wrong except you, right? LMAO.

I’d take that as an argument when there’s a clear difference between critics and audience… but not this time.

And lol, I was a fan of this franchise since the PS1 game. You can argue old vs new all you want…. It doesn’t invalidate the fact that these modern games are good and metrics prove it.
Not sales, just good old fashioned public and expert’s numbers….. except you.

If you’re gonna argue against scores…(from critics and users) then I don’t really know what to say because proof is in your face. You’re a minority.
This franchise has been consistent except for 6 because they lost sight of their formula, and that’s a franchise sin.
That’s the only one you can make a case with….
One out of… what…. 16-20 mainline games?
lol

And to further prove my point, you gotta see the Metacritic score for 6, which is waaaay lower than anything, so audiences and critics do score the games respectively to their quality.
If 6 had 80-90 scores you’d have a point of a disconnected audience vs numbers… but, I’m sorry to say this, you’re the disconnected fan. 🤷‍♂️

@Kingy It's a graphics showcase trailer, clearly not meant to reveal gameplay...

In regards to Leon's campaign, I read here on NL it would be split fairly even between him and the girl. Sounds similar to how they did it for RE2 Remake (speaking only for time split)

@Yoshi3 And yet. All this rigamarole, roundabout argumentation and appeal to authority doesn't change the fact that I think the game looks bad.
I don't base my opinions around what other people think. Get your head checked for Las Plagas, amigo.

@Kilroy That's my bad, I wasn't referring to just this one specifically. Everything we've seen in general including the preview footage from a few months ago. Not impressed with Grace's gameplay so far. I'm a little more hopeful for Leon's side since RE2R & RE4R were good, but that's all I can really say until they show more or the game comes out.

@Kingy good, then miss out. You’re the disconnected fan, not me.
If you’re judging the quality of a game by what they are NOT showing you in trailers… (see how ridiculous it sounds?) it’s on you, not on me. lol
As I said, you must be either new with RE or have not been paying enough attention the past 25 years with this franchise.

Nice reference though, I’ll give you that

That's interesting. This might be the first time we've had an environment in an RE game where everyone isn't already dead/infected.

Part of the reason that I bought a PS5, looking forward to this one, was slightly less keen on RE4 remake but hopefully this one be more on the survival horror side. Been playing the series since the first one (on Saturn for me).

@Solid_Python

Nothing hypocritical at all about buying digital games. Digital games are fine. Keycards are not the same as digital games. They are digital games, camouflaged as if they were physical games, and then posed as a bad faith substitute for physical games.

I prefer less gruesome, gory games, so bring on the potentially lower resolution in this case. 🤪

This crap isn't even Resident Evil, anymore. They ran out of ideas for the series but leached onto its name for whatever these past new releases have been.
Wake me up when Code Veronica REmake comes out.

@metaphysician it is hypocritical when you buy digital on other platforms yet CONSTANTLY complain about it with Switch 2 while refusing to buy anything digital on it.

That's literally what he does in every comment under every news article "guys since these are keycards I will never buy it on Nintendo and will buy it on steam deck instead where it will more than likely perform/look worse". Ok, who asked?

Also:
>Keycards are not the same as digital games
Next sentence right after that:
>They are digital games

You people lost the plot lmao