I can understand why people get upset when their favourite characters die or are absent from some titles, or used as a cash grab. But I also live with and support the notion that the main characters shouldn't be around forever. I kind of hate that with Resident Evil, because it's always the same thing. It's just cheesy, predictable and also rather lame from the perspective of somebody who knows why they keep these characters around for years to come. Like, it's always the same thing. Like we get some over the top scenes where a lab or something blows up at the end, and it's the same song and dance. People that the gaming community are overly fond of always make it to safety so that they can be milked in future, and often inferior entries, and it's like they cannot die at all, but all the side characters that no one cares about, get axed right there and then, like it's nobody's business. It's so repetitive.



We could have got a big, big Bruce Willis moment with Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 6, but that got reserved for the newcomer called Piers. OK, I'm not shitting on Piers, but he was only in that one game, as a partner character due to the co-op aspects that the game has. So him dying, while it was kind of sad in a way, wasn't that big of a deal to many fans. It would have made even more of an impact (like, hell yeah) if Chris had died instead. But we know Capcom doesn't play that way, because they're pussies when it comes to taken these massive risks that could potentially cause setbacks for them financially. They know he's a money maker. So is Leon, Jill, and so on and so forth. But it's like guys... I think it's so silly how you have everybody cool that's the fan favourite characters always pulling through, as if they're almost meant to be invincible. They're always surviving these situations over and over again. The point being is that you stop thinking that they'll die. Then if it does happen out of the blue someday, oh boy!



OK, about the biggest gamble I can say Capcom made without any major doubt in my mind, was that they killed off Albert Wesker, who we all liked, as he was the main bad guy and also, I felt Wesker was a generally interesting guy, because he was with Umbrella, and when he was around causing havoc, something exciting was always lined up. He was the top dog, villains-wise. So when RE5 was released and I saw how corny they made Wesker thereafter, I honestly by that point no longer cared what they did with him. It sucks that he died, yeah, but the real stinger is that RE5 in my opinion wasn't even that great of a RE title to begin with. So if Wesker had indeed died in a better game, it would have been somewhat more acceptable, but it is what it is. Wesker died, and the series quite clearly hasn't been all that great, sad to say.



RE5 is a goldmine for Capcom. The writing is on the wall there. It has sold millions of units since 2009. But RE5 for the most part, didn't feel like an actual RE game, despite what most people may want to keep telling you. It barely feels like a survival horror game by any means. If anything, I'd say it's a Call of Duty wannabe with a small degree of lame horror stuff added into it, just so it's still kind of resembling a survival horror title, no matter how minor these small additions actually are. The whole game consists of you shooting African people and collecting jewels, visiting small islands, and having to look for emblems. The game is quite frankly, mind numbing and not atmospheric whatsoever. Wesker doesn't even show up until much later on, and it felt disconnected from the right old games. Instead, you deal with his cronies, who mutate into these grotesque bosses. By the time the game ends, you barely even remember who they were. At least the last fight with Wesker was challenging and the game has that infamous boulder scene, but still. Wesker dying sucked. I don't think a lot of fans even truly accept that he's gone either. They post all these conspiracy theories about how he could have survived, even after being blown up in a pool of molten lava. Like, that kind of talk still persists in this fandom, and I don't get it. And in that turd known as Umbrella Corps, these fanboys even assume this guy you can hear barking out orders to the player, is either meant to be him, or supposedly a clone of him. And I'm like, "What the hell?"



I know people hated it when Abraham and Glenn died as well, even though The Walking Dead comics are what that show is based on anyway. So um, yeah. It already had technically happened in a different medium and was bound to occur eventually on TV too. Fans were aware it could have been the case with other stars of the series too, like what occurred with Carl. Therefore maybe the impact ain't as big if you know about it beforehand from a comic book or a novel, or whatever. I don't know. People still got upset regardless, and they wanted to boycott AMC entirely after that happened. But it's pretty much the same thing. We saw Glenn barely survive a lot of ordeals beforehand. Once he finally gets it though, everybody complains that he is massacred, like they wanted him in it forever more. Yet if Rick Grimes died, that would have been the pinnacle of epic ranting. But once again, they probably wouldn't do that because it's taken a risk to take out the very guy who has been there since the whole thing started in 2010. So in a sense, I do commend companies that take risks, whether they pay off or not. Even Andrew Lincoln leaving in general was a big risk. I'm not saying I agree with characters dying especially, but I just prefer more realism being shown in something as expansive as a zombie outbreak game, instead of everybody's golden boy or girl always making it through every dire moment, as if they won't ever be removed. You know?



At least Naughty Dog and AMC gamble with their franchises. Capcom rarely gambles anymore. That's something I find somewhat annoying, and it's because Capcom are in fact money grabbing this series right up their butts. Why do you think they do so many remakes? That's easy, and it sells. Granted, I don't know why people liked Resident Evil 3, because it was a rushed and soulless title that Capcom just put out there because the original is popular. But they did.



