Let's cool it with the off-topic bait threads for a moment.
Somebody made a really excellent interview with Shinji Mikami to celebrate his 30th anniversary as a game developer. For the uninitiated this is the director behind games such as Resident Evil, God Hand and Vanquish. Also the producer behind games such as Devil May Cry, Killer7 and Phoenix Wright.
This video consists of some interesting insights where Mikami talks about his career. He talks about how he originally wanted Resident Evil to be first person but went with fixed camera due to talent and tech limitations. He apparently thinks its weird that people like the fixed camera.
>He apparently thinks its weird that people like the fixed camera. Weebs always do this. They pick some random quirk or feature from something Japanese and hail it as immutable perfection. Then someone actually asks one of the staff about it and they go 'oh yeah that happened because we ran out of time' or 'it was shit though, do gaijin really?"
Brayden Williams
I wish he had stayed at Capcom.
Gavin Murphy
Mikami is a hack. Total control with Evil Within, made shit.
Someone else was the real hero.
Samuel Evans
Evil Within 1 is a flawed masterpiece and would have been a classic with some more polish.
I'm sure it was Mikami who held Kamiya's autism during dmc1 development otherwise we would get more shit like bike/rocket sections from Bayonetta
Luis Butler
>thinks a franchise can change to whatever genre because it has a different director for each new entry I like him, but seriously fuck him, that mindset brought us RE4-5-6 and many other fucking garbage RE games for over a decade. And RE8 is on its way to be RE4 2.0 Resident Evil is survival horror and should've always been just that.
John Lopez
>re4,5,6 >garbage kill yourself immediately
Leo Ross
>I like him, but seriously fuck him, that mindset brought us RE4-5-6 and many other fucking garbage RE games for over a decade.
If it wasn't thanks to this mindset Resident Evil as a franchise would be dead by now. Mikami is both a director and a producer, he understood that RE4 was necessary in that point in time for the franchise to survive, same with RE7; which he apparently loves.
Wyatt White
There's clearly more Italian cinema in early RE than French