Story

[MrHeating]

Yes, I know that's been discussed before, I've skipped trough the topics, however, It's been a while since, opinions and fanbase might have been changed so I'm asking this again:
Is there a possibility for story of any kind? If yes, under which conditions?

I'd like to mention that I'm not new to RE, I'm casually playing it for about 4 - 5 years.

Eventually I stop playing it because of rl stuff but get back fairly quickly every once I set up a new OS (for myself or others, which happens often enough), thinking about stuff I should install like "Oh yeah, there's this cool game with great graphics and gameplay, why did I even forget it?".

Anyway, the reason why I stop playing it is because there's no progress, not counting the statistics, at least.

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For me, any gamer I know and I suppose many more, there's nothing that's more important for a game than it's story. It can have non-special gameplay and "bad" graphics, it still can be good. And, as I said before, RE has already great gameplay and graphics, just imagine how much greater it'd become with a decent storyline!



Another thing I'd like to mention is that I'm not a big help with maps or coding but I know some basics about Blender and most importantly I am studying professional film making (I know how that sounds, just don't know how to translate it properly) so I'd like to help you in anyway I can. I might not work fast ('cause rl sucks), but everything I say I'll do will be done for sure.

Sincerely,
le me.

[qreeves]

I usually remain focused on making the game better through iterative design and engine updates. Of interest, I've just finished the bulk of the work to import the rendering pipeline which will allow our game to look better than ever through the use of dynamic lighting and other cool effects we could only dream of before.

In the grand scheme of things, it takes A LOT of work to develop a story and perhaps a singleplayer game that goes along with that. From my many tests in the past, I've found that the RE gameplay is just too powerful for "basic" gameplay when playing alone, so the whole game would need to be revamped in order to limit the abilities of the player to something more reasonable.

The other issue is a lack of dedicated interest in doing any of this. It comes up a lot because people think it is a good idea, but nobody has ever taken the helm to direct such an endeavour, and I'm not particularly interested in it myself. It's not even about being good at mapping or modelling, it's just about being able to put in the huge amount of work to plan the design, work with everyone to put that into practice, then iterate until it is "good". For this kind of effort, especially with a volunteer project, could take years - and nobody really has that much patience.

[MrHeating]

I am a very patient person and I could keep working on it for years, but if you are not interested in it, I guess there's not much I can help with.

Thanks for the reply.

[bonifarz]

[qreeves]

Sorry, I should have been clearer: I'm not interested in doing all the work by myself - which is what usually ends up happening. I'm not against the idea of a story/campaign.

[molexted]

For me to make a typical small map of 4000-8000 square meters it takes me about one month. A small map like that can, at best, be good for three minutes of singleplayer gameplay. Even for a short campaign of an hour, it would take me somewhere around 20 months to make all the levels by myself assuming I had no other maps to make or other projects to work on. Even if somehow all four mapmakers (me, Acer, SG, Dziq) devoted 100% of their RE time to making a campaign (which is highly unlikely), it would still take a year of total devotion to make a short campaign of 2 hours in length, which is likely to get a lot less play time than a comparable amount of devotion to the current maps to make them prettier and smoother.

We don't have a secret allotment of man-hours to spend on new ideas; in fact, with the new Tesseract port, the RE team is likely to have plenty to do for several months without adding any new gameplay elements.

If you want to make a campaign for RE, that would be great, because the campaign is a gamemode that people have wanted for years. Just be aware that there are reasons nobody has come through on implementing it.

If there's other things, such as textures, animations, mapmodels, or maps you would like to contribute to, that would be greatly appreciated; we are always in need of assets and art. If you want a specific thing to work on that the team would find most helpful to the game, just ask anyone on the team what they would like.

[Dziq]

I'm think problem is not about maps, we can use existing ones, merge/rework them, or make new raw areas without details for now. Real quirk is with lack of monsters/enemies/bosses, ..fighting bots or turrets will be boring totally, and without enemies its out of question if you ask me

PS: nice cap, Quinn :p

[SniperGoth]

I'd do it like this video if we ever get to do a campagin for RE one day.
VR-looking environments and all of that neon party.


Yeah, Escape was originally a campaign-ish map, crazy huh?