Resident Evil 6 suffered due to 'inadequate organizational collaboration'

I really doubt marketing affected the quality of this product. It barely escapes mediocrity thanks to inconsistency mixed with good new ideas, like the fun combat system and dubious pacing.

The game is actually pretty good. Similar to Resi 5 but I like the multiple storylines. Resi 4 was better than the previous Resi games, so the general style change was not bad. The game is a challenge on No Hope especially if you are not a p*ssy and you actually attempt for the first time on that difficulty setting.

I wouldn't mind a return to the old school horror dimension but meh, Resi 6 is definitely worth £20.

The thing is that unfortunately it just doesn't work anymore nowadays. Not like survival-horror, at least. The whole "zombies and infection" concept lost its frightening meaning and now it's seen just like a fancier background to action movies/games. Unless they do it old-school style like the first games (which wouldn't work, considering how long the plot in RE developed, forcing zombies and closed locations at this point would only delay even more the storyline), there is no way Capcom will make amends, so they should end this story with a GREAT action-oriented game (I'm not informed about this reboot thing yet so I don't know) and a well-solved plot.

I believe a lot of the hate stems from from people being hung-up on the word "Resident" and how they feel it's not an RE game if it doesnt take place in some boogie-man infested haunted house.

It's called BIOHAZARD in Japan and it's Capcom's fault for thinking that word was too advanced for US/EU.

Wow normally I'd hate the fact that developers would release a game for PC way past its console release date, but this is an exception. I thank you Capcom on behalf of all PC gamers, now we know not to buy this sad installment to the RE franchise.

its a "f#cking zombie game, they re all the same, pointless dribble that gets tedious after the 1st installment which was way back on the ps1, which was novel and on a new system at the time, BORED.

Well Capcom your marketing and promotion division did a great job, they were able to get 5million people to buy a very subpar game before word of mouth saved the other 2 million. I will guarantee you one thing capcom the next resident evil will not have half as many pre orders or reserves as 6 did. Many will now take a wait and see approach and considering that many publishers make most of their money during that first week - resident evil reboot will have to be one hell of a fine game.

I will not bother going into all the details of RE6 post-mortem as many critics and forums like this have done so well. RE needs to go back to its roots: story- driven suspense, smart set pieces, puzzles and customization, and please who ever keeps telling you action button time sequences is what more of what we want are crazy! Oh and please bring back really great and memorable bad guys, the most feared thing in RE6 was the active time event button sequences.

"However, we believe that the new challenges we tackled at the development stage were unable to sufficiently appeal to users. In addition, we believe there was inadequate organizational collaboration across our entire company with regard to marketing, promotions, the creation of plans and other activities." "We will have to examine these results from several perspectives. We will reexamine our internal operating frameworks in order to identify areas that need to be improved concerning development as well as sales and administrative operations."

How to Say Absolutely NOTHING in 81 Words.

Here Capcom, Let me help you solve your conundrum in just Three Words:

The Game Sucked.

The Fans and Gamers Worldwide have tirelessly and meticulously told you Why.

Please Quit Insulting Our Intelligence with your Bullshit, Nonsensical CORPORATE SPEAK And try Fucking LISTENING For Once.

Despite what the more dramatic people in the comments below might say, the problem isn't the game being crap. The problem is that resident evil, as good as the games are, just isn't resident evil anymore, at least not as we once knew it.

The entire horror genre is no longer what it once was. There's no actual fear in these games anymore, just action action ACTION, all the time. You want resident evil to get back to it's old heights? Make it a bloomin horror game again, not just an action shooter that's a bit creepy.

Noooo... shortcomings came cuz the game sucks. Stop trying to find another reason for the failure just so you can continue to push such shitty games Capcom. Itll be on your ass later

Stop it with the wrestling moves Capcom, they're supposed to be zombies, carrying some kind of disease, and we're supposed to be afraid of getting close, of the their sheer number.

So Capcom actually had no clue to why the Resident Evil series sucks now? Well here's some pointers, in RE6, I run, I killed, no zombies can ever hurt me, I'm freaking Rambo man, more ammos, more powers, and I will always had back-ups. This war is already won. But back in the year 2002, RE1 remake, I'm lost inside this freaking haunted house, a bunch of zombies are after me and I can't pin-point them with anything, I'm not freaking Rambo, I have limited ammos and some herbs, I have no back-ups, I feel like I'm in hell. This is a nightmare. Now compare an RE war to an RE nightmare. I prefer the RE nightmare.

so basicly what they trying to tell us is they dont want to admit they screw up RE series, Its everyone's else fault

I remeber going into Funcoland and buying the original Resident evil the day it came out in all its oversized case glory. That game blew me away. Then Resident evil 2 came out and that blew me away. Fast forward ahead to Resident evil 4 which is my favorite out of all the Resident Evil games, that game was so amazing, CAPCOM WHAT HAPPENED!!! How could you ruin the Franchisie, its almost like Capcom is taking a page out of Square Enix book and is like look what Square did to Final Fantasy lets do the same for Resident evil, lets change what made it so great.

CAPCOM, when are you going to learn that justifying your mistakes equals to actually assuming your blame for screwing it bad?

I Think is a good game, but now is a crime to like some games from major publishers according to some "gamers" here...

So, given this thing called the internet and instant feedback from fans, they are still not able to figure out that problem was? That the game was a series of QTE followed by poor gameplay followed by, what I can only explain as, the awkward sexual union of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Michael Bay.

They are blaming the promotion the game had??

Has anyone at Capcom actually played the game?

It's bad. Done, there's the explanation.

Promote the shit out of it by all means, but make sure you're at least promoting something worth promoting, not a turd of a game that's strayed far too far from the beaten track to be any good. I hated it and that's hard to say cos RE was the first game I bought with the PS1 and have always loved the franchise, I even pay good money to see them cack movies they insist on releasing. A reboot sounds like a plan, can't get much worse let's be honest

2012 was just not the year for the big video game publishers, Bioware lost with the ME3 ending fallout, Square Enix lost with FF13, Capcom with RE6, and THQ went bankrupt heres to hoping 2013 they all learn how to pull their heads out of there ases......... (Tho Capcom's already not looking so good)

I think they did a great promotional job for re6.

Or maybe it's that gamers wanted a true horror experience and not another 3rd person shooter.

It took control away from players constantly to show cutscenes.

You could spam melee to kill just about everything.

Enemy AI was borderline retarded.

Wasn't scary in the slightest.

Story was passable at its best, absolutely ridiculous at its worst.

Over-hyped worse than any game I have ever seen (and don't expect people to fall for that again if RE7 happens)

What kind of corporate bulls*** talk is that? "...analyzing the causes..."

Face your errors and learn from them.

development "challenges" and "inadequate organizational collaboration" ? no ..the game sucked ass ...Gekko135 ftw

What a bunch of corporate, CYA mumbo jumbo. Here's the real reason: "We took the best survival-horror game and morphed it into a half-assed, me-too action game. Surprisingly, fans didn't think this was a good idea".

so they're complaining about a shity game selling 5mill when farcry 3 sold only 4.5 mil ?????

It's not simply the pandering to larger audiences. It's not the change from "survival horror". RE4 is critically acclaimed as one of the best the series had to offer. It's my FAVORITE Resident Evil game. Capcom managed to successfully evolve their franchise back then. An amazing feat if you ask me. RE4 is NOT survival horror, and the game is still being sold today. What made that game good was: Good graphics, suspenseful combat, good length, TONS OF WEAPONS to buy and upgrade, and awesome monsters.

The problem with RE6 isn't the lack of "survival horror" or it's "action focus"

RE6 took the formula from 4 and 5 and simply FUCKED IT UP. It's too damn dark, the camera is god awful, the melee hit detection is terrible and inaccurate, the combat scenarios have little to no thought to them, no weapon stores or upgrades, and awfully presented story... that does little to nothing to advance the established fan favorite characters. Instead we get one liners from Jake, whining from Pierce, and crying from Helena.

TLDR; It's like the rest of you said... it's simply a bad game that doesn't live up to the quality the series has been known for. Capcom and Resident Evil have not been able to keep up with the times.

Is that hard to figure out? Capcom tried to do too much RE6. They tried to please everyone. If games today are adding feature to appeal to broader audiences, RE6 took that notion to the Extreme. The game itself ended up suffering for it.

A reboot would be fun!

They made RE 6 too different from the past ones that people liked. RE 6 has a lot of cut-scenes and the hitting the right buttons during scenes feels lame. They made it so there are too many improbable circumstances. Like the worst is the guy who gets stuck in the neck with the syringe and becomes this huge evolving monster that can smash through moving trains and survive falling 20 stories into fire and keeps coming back again and again. Yet somehow their bullets affect him?! The game was made in a very odd way that rubs people the wrong way. The direction they went was all wrong.

You don't need an investigative committee to figure out why the game didn't sell. IT SUCKED.

they fucked this franchise

Resident evil died long time ago

Your terrible game shipped 5 million copies. Stop complaining idiots.

Sometimes, the harder you pursue a certain thing, the less you get eventually. You want RE to be even more mainstream so hard, and you lose more audience. Doing things the way you want to would probably bring about real good luck.

Hey Capcom why r u worried just follow COD copy paste formula and become an iconic again.

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