I'm not sure what to think about this, but it seems like the next logical step for them.
No. Part of the suspense and atmosphere of resident evil is that there are contained areas with unknown monsters/mechanics and the scripted boss fights.
Resident evil 4 remake was great in how it introduced new types of enemies in each area and you never knew what was around the corner. I have a feeling that open world mechanics would dull this a bit. You'd be familiar with the areas and always prepared for the enemies.
Just remaster or remake Outbreak.
Easy as that.
INB4: Running around Bacon City™ with a 70 years old Chris Redfield, scavenging the herbs needed to craft the lvl. 2 STARS pistol.
As someone who only started playing Resident Evil very recently, perhaps my voice doesn't count as much.
But also as someone who was pleasantly surprised at finishing the campaign of RE2 remake within 10 hours, no.
As long as they don't have any toxic rpg mechanics that force you into either grinding for hours or paying real money .
But then what do we fill our massive never before seen open world with?
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