“You cherry-picked half a line out of my response, took it out of context, and just responded to that part.”

That was the only part I was responding to. This entire thread is the context. We can all see the context.

“the rotten elements were intrinsic and core to its design”

I disagree.

“To change those things would mean it’s no longer Resident Evil 5″

That’s perfectly fine, we can call it the Resident Evil 5 Remake.

You cherry-picked half a line out of my response, took it out of context, and just responded to that part.

What I already said in that post was that I didn’t believe that the game could be redeemed, that the rotten elements were intrinsic and core to its design. To change those things would mean it’s no longer Resident Evil 5, it’s a wholly different game.

So no, actually, we don’t agree whatsoever.

“Some bad things are best left buried in the past”

I agree, and they can jettison those bad things in a remake. The game itself isn’t bad. The game itself is really fun. The elements that are bad are not intrinsic to the rest of the game.

It’s not worth it. Some bad things are best left buried in the past rather than attempting to fix or resurface. I’d rather not relitigate the whole discussion about RE5 through a remake of it. It would reignite a gamergate type of debate about politics in gaming if they tried to fix it…. But also think about it – what could they even do to fix it? It’s not like the RE4 remake, where it was about dated mechanics and design. With RE5, what was wrong with It was so baked into the core concept and story of the game. If you try to ‘fix’ it, it wouldn’t even be the same game in any way

Isn’t that a good reason for them to remake it, though? I mean, everything you mention is still part of the base game, which is still on sale across every available modern platform in 2023. Releasing an updated version that at least tries to make corrections and improvements would go some way to paving over the stink of the original.