Capcom is one of the biggest developers/publishers in the industry that doesn’t have an online multiplayer game. If the information shared by X user ‘Dusk Golem’ is to be taken seriously, that is about to change. It is rumored that Resident Evil 9 is currently under development and that it will be an online multiplayer.
Aesthetic Gamer aka Dusk Golem has a long track record of spilling insider information from studios before they are made public. In a March 22 tweet, Dusk Golem made a lot of claims about Capcom’s upcoming games and development engine.
“So, here’s a little tidbit I’ll share, Capcom often will greenlight new initiatives in 3’s closer together,” wrote Dusk Golem on X. “Decent examples are RE7, RE:2, & DMCV were all greenlit fairly close together to take advantage of their new RE Engine, & the idea to remake RE:2 inspired them to also take RE:3 & RE:4 for a remake initiative.”
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“Dragon’s Dogma 2 expanded RE Engine functionality for open world games, the two other games building on this tech is Monster Hunter Wild & Resident Evil 9.”
The only thing I'll additionally add before going silent & not reading Twitter again for now is part of all three project goals has been to retain the series DNA. DD2 is still clearly Dragon's Dogma, Wild is still clearly Monster Hunter, same will be true for RE9 w/Resident Evil.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) March 22, 2024
While having an open-world Resident Evil game sounds both interesting and ambitious, not everyone shares the same sentiment. Some believe that an open-world Resident Evil game is not in the DNA of the franchise.
“No please do NOT make it open world as being linear is in Resident Evil’s DNA and changing that would ruin the series as we all saw re6 did back in the day!” wrote Mahdi in response to Dusk Golem’s tweet.
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Another comment shared a different skepticism, “I’m really unsure of a more open-world experience for Resident Evil though,” wrote @Ourple_01. “I’m open to new ideas, but I’m worried that the extra freedom may remove impact to its scares… fingers crossed.”
Capcom hasn’t announced the next Resident Evil yet
While Dusk Golem has a record of making accurate announcements, it is important to mention that Capcom has yet to publicly announce the next mainline entry in the Resident Evil franchise. In the last few years, Capcom has doubled down on remakes of its previous Resident Evil games.
Resident Evil 4 Remake was released last year and turned out to be a huge success, bagging numerous nominations and awards. According to PC Gamer, Resident Evil 4 Remake has sold 6.48 million units as of February 1, 2024.
The last main entry in the Resident Evil series was Resident Evil Village. Although it maintained the linear approach of the franchise, there were several large, semi-open areas that players could explore.
It is important to approach the claim from Dusk Golem cautiously because Capcom previously mentioned that it will invest more in remakes of its old successful IPs rather than trying to create something new.
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Last year, Capcom launched a new website called Capcom Town to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. In February, the company launched the Capcom Super Elections survey which allowed visitors to vote on 10 questions.
Question 5 of that survey asked if there were “any Capcom game series (including spinoff games) that you would like to see get a sequel or new game?” The available options were Darkstalkers, Okami, Onimusha, Ace Attorney, Street Fighter II, Sengoku Basara, Dino Crisis, Dead Rising, Devil May Cry, Dragon’s Dogma and others.
Capcom was recently named the 2023 highest-rated publisher by Metacritic. The ranking was based on the average score its games garnered in the 2023 calendar year. However, the company was recently hit with criticism following the discovery by players that Dragon’s Dogma 2 had 21 purchasable day-one DLCs.
The developer/publisher has since replied to the criticism emphasizing that some DLCs that some players claimed could only be purchased were available in-game for free.
What are your thoughts about having an open-world Resident Evil game? Is it something that you find exciting? Share with us in the comment box below.
