Resident Evil Requiem Director Says Western Fans More Likely to Play in First-Person After Growing Up With FPS Games Like Doom

The manager of Resident Evil Requiem has said Western players are much apt to take the game's first-person option, aft increasing up connected a fare of PC first-person shooters specified arsenic Doom.

Meanwhile, Japanese fans much accustomed to third-person console RPGs similar Dragon Quest person tended to play Requiem's demo successful third-person, manager Akifumi Nakanishi told Denfaminicogamer, successful an interrogation translated by Automaton.

While Requiem doesn't motorboat until adjacent year, a demo mentation has been publically disposable astatine some Gamescom successful Germany and Tokyo Game Show implicit the past mates of months. After attending some shows and watching fans effort the crippled for themselves, Nakanishi said helium had spotted the quality successful however astir opted to play successful each location, and suggested it was owed to however audiences had played different games portion increasing up.

"I deliberation those kinds of differences are significant," Nakanishi said, describing the popularity of shooters successful the west, arsenic opposed to console RPGs successful Japan. However, this was present changing, helium continued, citing the popularity of some Minecraft and Apex Legends among younger Japanese gamers today.

After originating successful third-person, the Resident Evil bid switched to first-person gameplay for Resident Evil 7. But caller years person besides seen the motorboat of assorted re-releases of erstwhile third-person classics, specified arsenic 2023's celebrated Resident Evil 4 Remake. Requiem volition beryllium the archetypal rubric to manus players afloat power implicit which position their prefer.

After playing the Resident Evil Requiem demo myself astatine Gamescom, there's decidedly thing to beryllium said for its first-person perspective, which is presented arsenic the demo's default. In first-person, it's harder to archer however adjacent down you the game's unsettling caller monster mightiness be, thing that ramps up the fearfulness elements. That said, the presumption does springiness you a narrower tract of imaginativeness for uncovering hidden objects and clues, which sometimes proved a small frustrating. In reality, it seems apt that astir players volition apt effort a spot of both.

Public demos for Resident Evil Requiem are important, Nakanishi told IGN astatine Tokyo Game Show, arsenic Capcom's improvement squad has present made truthful galore games successful the bid they are incapable to archer what is genuinely scary oregon not. And, backmost astatine Gamescom, I chatted with Nakanishi connected a scope of topics — the game's supersized monster, Lisa Trevor, and Raccoon City! — portion avoiding the elephant successful the room: the continued lack of Leon S. Kennedy.

Resident Evil Requiem arrives for Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected February 27, 2026. How volition you play?

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