Should Resident Evil 9 Go OPEN WORLD? 

No please god no. sick of open world collectathons. They just lead to grind fests. Just make a tight linear story driven horror game, thats what your good at.

Something like Evil Within 2 but bigger and a bit better could work

Semi Open world sure. Not OPEN world

No

Fully exploreable Raccoon City at the Re 1 - 3 timeline trying to escape the Zombies and bows in time before the impending nuclear blast... One can only imagine...

yes just no repetitive quests everything needs to be unique for it work and actual horror to no action

Imagine a stalker enemy chasing you around a dense, dark, foggy, creepy forest 😮

That wouldn't be very residential. :/

Semi-Open world with a persistent stalker mechanic in lieu of scripted engagements would've been a legendary formula for RE3.

Na

Not for a main entry, no. But side or spinoff games, I’d be interested. Like for an Outbreak remake, or Revelations 3.

Open world like if, for example in a game like Village where instead of a linear path you could tackle all four major areas in any order, like Heisenbergs factory then Castle Dimitrescu and so on, then I think that would be very cool.

To be honest im fed up with open world games most are crap nowerdays some of the best games were level based i prefer ghost recon games before thay were open world halo games were better mirrors edge need for speed games assasins creed just to name a few and who needs open world when you got so many great alternitive splinter cell tomb raider super matio metroid prime there are more fantastic level based games than the crap open world games we get now.

I'd be fine with it. Not OPEN world, but like an Arkham City, or Village on a slightly bigger scale.

No. End of video.

God please no, will probably be the worst entry since RE6

My answer: NO. Resident Evil needs to keep its essence. Not every game needs to be open world.

NO !

Yes it should imagine I can explore different places around the resident evil universe fighting zombies and other monsters 🔥🔥🔥

Everything is open world or live service now. It’s boring.

But you forget an important thing in a horror game ( whether Class or Survival type) and that's Rhythm and paced of horror and scripted events which have huge impacts on user experience in these type of games. Implementation of pacing in this genre while player can go anyplace through a big area is so difficult

I loved the ink ribbon saved points it added to the anxiety of surviving. I'm not really into the checkpoint chapter kind of saving like Resident Evil 4 it kinda killed the vibe knowing I could relax now and again.

No give me tank controls, fixed cameras and fantastic atmospheric sound

No way.

Capcom should just reboot DeadRising

Outstanding and thorough explanation of your stance! Very much appreciated as it helped me understand the whole issue as well as possible solutions! LIKE!

For me the part that adds to the horror aspect of these games is the more claustrophobic environments with more limited options. If they go “open world” or even “open zone/ semi-open” I feel like that would heavily take away part of that aspect. I mean whats stopping me from juking every enemy when I have such a large space to move in unless every enemy you encounter is really fast. Idk maybe it can work but it does worry me a bit

RE4 remake kind of did that with the village chapter making it a sandbox.

A dynamic open-city that is gradually being overtaken by an outbreak. So, the longer you play the more infected/dangerous the city becomes. Would also be cool to mix in the Outbreak games where you have an infection meter of your own. Would be a perfect recipe for an Outbreak 3... just saying

Open zone would be great. 5 or so zones the size of the lake area in RE4 remake would be awesome

I thought that the downtown map in RoboCop: Rogue City with isolated missions taking place within designated indoor settings (I.e. warehouses, apartment buildings etc.) These settings did strongly remind me of RE and the outdoor downtown detroit map did give me slight RE3 Raccoon City vibes 👀🤔

I love the short RE experiences. Speed running RE games is a ton of fun for me. Open world might throw that out the window so I’ll be watching closely to see what happens with RE9. I already didn’t like what they did with RE8.

I mean if they go with the silent hill where you had the town to walk through with so many buildings to explore would be good, like a creepy seaside town with a massive fair as like a sub map to explore and other bits too it id like that we just have to be very careful what we wish for we have literally just got resi back with 7 village and the remakes 3 is still decent

A wide linear style similar to GoW: Raganok could be intriguing depending on how it’s executed.

If it’s the same engine as dragons dogma 2 then definitely not for another open world. Shambles!

The inside of my testes is open world. Why hasn't anyone come up with that game??

I've got a feeling it's not going to be a numbered resident evil they're going to call it something like raccoon City survive

Don't really want an open world. But i f they do i would really like a crazy stalker enemy who walk around the entire map

Yea but just don’t make it repetitive please

It would be interesting...

I’ll be completely honest I love resident evil through and through and I know there’s mixed opinions of this but I’m cool either way and actually a little excited just to see what it would be like open world

I think yes, they should try and see how it goes.

Yes, I do believe it should at least have semi-open world, I think a full open world would be terrible though. A semi-open world has so much potential in Resident Evil, i mean look at Outbreak, it's a really cool game, and if something like that goes down, we should get side quests as well which would actually slap in RE. Overall I think a Semi-open would be great.

no it will loss its fear aspect if it was open world it needs to bit a tight atmosphere some times your backed in to a wall and have no option to fight open world you will just run from everything you cant kill and that's boring a and not scary at all, i feel the only thing resident evil need to do if add 1 shot head shots because i feel like i spam a whole mag into a zombie and it just keeps walking that's not fear that's just unreasonable

Semi-open world is good for RE. I would just love to see more of Racoon City. I am still pissed of those what if scenarios in RE 2 remake. I would love to see real Kendo story. What exactly happened to his daughter and so on. I would love to see new areas and new stories. Stories of those who survived, but even some terrifying stories of those who did not. I would love to see connections between RE 2 and RE3. Just imagine being another survivor who is on the roof of appartment building next to the police station and being a vitness to the helicopter falling down on the station or hearing "S.T.A.R.S" and seeing Nemesis going after Jill. There could be so many amazing stories from Racoon City. I just don't think it would be great open world game.

"Open World" has no unified agreed definition. I think RE9 could work fine as "open world" but i doubt it would be the kinda game requiring fast travel. I could imagine a large village location which could potentially lock off parts of the map to support the narrative

This would be a great opportunity for capcom to bring out RE outbreak 1&2 and introduce a semi open world that way.. or even code Veronica.

Preferred open world we have more chance playing other characters instead of one character which is gets kinda boring playing with the same character.prefer playing with other characters too different style gameplay

No it shouldn't. Not everything needs to be shoehorned into an open world format. Stop putting terrible ideas into Capcom's head, and punish yourself accordingly for your garbage take.

No no no. This is why Resident Evil 7 is considered the renaissance of the series. It brought the game back to a tighter spaced area to traverse through with required backtracking. It gave that “escape room” feel. The Spencer Mansion, the RPD, and the Baker House all gave that feeling of, “I’m trapped and if I don’t figure out how to get the hell out of here I’m f🤬cked”

I think open world would be pretty cool, but as long as you do enough for that world, dont make it too big and too empty, like nothing to do.

Resident evil outbreak remake open zone style each level would be its own environment or story

Sure. I'm always down for an open world game

Id fuzz with it, tbh, if they pull it off right, we already seen open world games with the re engine, If it’s anything like fallout without loading screens when you enter a building, I’ll pre order that stuff. Give us some cool zombies and less mutant animals like from the sewer, innovate. Give us a freaking zombie cat, anything, something new. There is more than bats dogs and rats and frogs. There’s so many cool zombies they could do and that’s all they really have to focus on besides the map. That’s more important than the story. If you ask me, I never cared about the stories in resident evil I was always there for the gameplay and imagination

Might be worth a shot

At around the 2 and a half minute mark the narration states "Resident Evil has to go open world..." The entire point of the video was to debate the merit of such a concept but less than a third of the way through the script tge wroter seems to have already made up their mind and were merely working backwards to try and justify it Open world for RE would be incredibly dumb, just bring it back to its Metroidvania roots Rather than stuffing a game full of generic "zones" invetween thematically unconnected "classic Resi mansion areas' maybe use those resources to reward multiple playthroughs with different endings, scenarios and character interactions

Comment at approx 2:52, stated: “Bethesda’s Starfield should be a warning sign encouraging developers to craft smaller, more intimate open worlds …” 🤔 Isn’t the game about space and space travel to places vast distances apart? The scope of that game was not a cozy, more intimate open world, but traveling to multiple different worlds. What did Starfield do to y’all? 😅

Am i the only guy that liked resident evil 5 and 6 the most?

Hell no. Going open world misses the point of Resident Evil in the first place as a linear adventure you try to get through faster and faster with each subsequent playthrough. Going open world means adding a bunch of extraneous content to justify an open world that does nothing but waste your time. Not every game has to emulate Grand Theft Auto, linear game design still has it's own perks. Not to mention, most open world games miss the point of what makes open world good in the first place, something GTA has always gotten right.

I think they should make it open world, hell yeah bruh. I mean we seen what they could do with the games in third and first person mode. I just want a good open world zombie game. They could probably take notes from some other popular zombie games like from Dying Light, Dead Island, Days Gone or even Bethesda Fallout 4. But PLEASE ADD VEHICLES for transportation and have your world feel alive and not dry or boring. Don't be like Starfield

I'd rather they focus on making the environment s more interactive. Damage from bullets and fire, I'd like to see pursuer enemies able to smash through or toss aside tables so you can't just defeat them with a coffee table.

Someone really doesnt like Starfield...

Ubisoft style, climbing the towers! And tons of Micro-transactions!

“Open world” is the dumbest suggestion that everyone loves to say. Any time I hear a game series getting stale I hear open world every time

I'm looking forward to a semi open world Resident Evil

I always wanted an open world resident evil. Im for it

Why make an open world game when 50% of the space (or more) is just there? It’s not serving any purpose other than something to go through and look at.

It's amazing that when people think open world they think boring ubi soft games. Imaging being that sh of a company that that is all you are now known for.

First person option pls

Yeah I want full open world❤

Absolutely not. Would screw up pacing and tension.

Open work resident evil 4 would be the best bet if open world is what they want. Honestly I don’t think a open world say resident evil 8 would have been good because those beautiful handcrafted linear sections are gone replaced with copy and paste areas

Alan wake 2 is a great example of how it should be done

Yes.

No please no not everything needs to be open world holy fuck

Will it beee scary 👀

I would prefer it not go open world. Everything doesn’t need to be open world.

I like open world and collecting collectibles. But for People that don't like open world the company of games they need to make perfect story for the game to be good. To tbh most of games that hadn't open world they should have open on next gen such as marvel avengers that game would be ok if it would have open world 6 avengers Without open world seem pointsless.

Absolutely not. That would be so disappointing for me. I'm so sick of open world games.

I hope its awesome.

Capcom is not well known in creating open world game. What are they doing?

To me re has already been open world with the 2 remake, 7 and especially 8. I'm thinking less Unisoft open world and more batman Arkham open world (asylum and city specifically)

Nope

*Absolutely, yes.*

Nope, we already have dying light and dead island. It needs to be survival horror with a lineal story

something like dying ligth?

Oh god no, please don’t. Village was a perfect amount of open, don’t need to be bigger than that.

The open World game needs to be designed by horror 🏬🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟🏚🏘🏥🏭

Maybe not Resident Evil. A horror zombie game with a stalker enemy in an open world could be interesting… as I say this I want to go back to Dying Light 😅.

Yes open world would be awesome

For fcks sake not everything has to be an over bloated open world 🙄🙄

I don't think it'll work for Resident Evil. It'll be RE in name, but not in gameplay.

Open worlds don't have to shrink necessarily, they just have to contain meaningful content and stop with the time wasting little side quests/ capture points. Resident Evil would be amazing in an open world if they can follow that rule. Don't waste the gamers time and you should be ok

something like evil within 2 will be amazing

all kinds and variations of NO!!!

Open map, yes. Open world, hell no. Big difference.

We don't need more open world games.

Hell no. It'll be even worse than Village.

Re 3 shouldve been open world .

YES DEVELOP RE9 AN OPEN WORLD EXACTLY LIKE ELDEN RING.