{"id":5506,"date":"2020-06-08T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/resident-evil-creator-says-his-future-games-will-be-influenced-by-covid-19"},"modified":"2024-07-20T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T15:54:14","slug":"resident-evil-creator-says-his-future-games-will-be-influenced-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/resident-evil-creator-says-his-future-games-will-be-influenced-by-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil creator says his future games will be influenced by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the survival horror genre, there are not many franchises that resonate as loudly as Resident Evil.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Content_1\" id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_118536\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Content_1\" id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_101612\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Content_1\" id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_849644\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Content_1\" id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_816651\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"Content_1\" id=\"traffective-ad-Content_1_768620\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>This iconic horror series&nbsp;began with the original&nbsp;Resident Evil, released in 1996, and it is one of the main reasons for the popularity of&nbsp;survival horror games and our insatiable lust for all things&nbsp;zombies.<\/p>\n<p>The man behind this&nbsp;legendary franchise is Shinji Mikami, a famous game director and designer from Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Resident Evil covid-19 coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/wy1XscOEWUVXW4I2dw4fnXP5cdw_zblCP6Y1eYG4qSI\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL05pa29sYV9TYXZpJUM0JTg3L3Jlc2lkZW50X2V2aWxfMTk5Ni5qcGc\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 337px;\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">Resident Evil(1996) started as a remake of the horror game Sweet Home from 1989&nbsp;(Picture: Capcom)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was a producer, director, and\/or writer for Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil &ndash; Code: Veronica, and Resident Evil 4, as well as a plethora of other games during his time at Capcom.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/resident-evil-8-news-rumors-release-date-enemies\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil 8 will be &#8220;the darkest and most gruesome Resident Evil yet,&#8221; insider claims<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the previous decade, his most famous work is&nbsp;Vanquish (2010),&nbsp;developed by PlatinumGames, and&nbsp;The Evil Within(2014), which he developed at his current company,&nbsp;Tango Gameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he&#8217;s working on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qrXLQqHkJk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">GhostWire: Tokyo<\/a>, the latest title coming from&nbsp;Tango Gameworks, about which we still know very little, but the E3&nbsp;trailer looks very intriguing and promising.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Resident Evil covid-19 coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/WYrFhG7NNbq10LCwYM4YisMENM6WVyFtl13GXslQ5Yw\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL05pa29sYV9TYXZpJUM0JTg3L1NoaW5qaV9NaWthbWlfdGhlX2V2aWxfd2l0aGluLmpwZw\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 337px;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">Shinji Mikami is currently operating his studio&nbsp;Tango Gameworks(Picture:&nbsp;Shinji Mikami)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a recent IGN interview,&nbsp;Mikami talked about his inspirations and what influenced him, how he see the future of horror games, what he thinks about Resident Evil remakes and various other stuff. One really&nbsp;exciting topic was his view on the current coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read more:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/all-the-resident-evil-games-ranked\" target=\"_blank\">All the Resident Evil games ranked from best to worst<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that Resident Evil is a franchise about a bioweapon that&#8217;s actually a zombie virus, IGN asked Mikami&nbsp;about the current coronavirus pandemic, if&nbsp;he &#8220;finds&nbsp;anything interesting that may influence future ideas,&#8221; and&nbsp;Mikami confirmed that indeed he&nbsp;did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember feeling excited by the new idea that a virus&mdash;a real enemy that can&#8217;t be seen by humans&mdash;would cause tremendous fear in people,&#8221;&nbsp;Mikami says. &#8220;Now, I think it will be difficult for my games not to be influenced by the struggles we are experiencing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Resident Evil covid-19 coronavirus\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/ZHLaXlz-PZOQ8oPKJcsybfSjbUIJCtj7XyxctDkTT3o\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL05pa29sYV9TYXZpJUM0JTg3L3Jlc2lkZW50X2V2aWxfNC5qcGc\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 334px;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">Resident Evil 4 is considered&nbsp;Mikami&#8217;s greatest work (Picture: Capcom)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t go into detail, but he does seem really interested in exploring this situation. During the last three months, the whole world basically stopped functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial flights are suspended everywhere, people have been working from home, events are being cancelled, shops are closed,&nbsp;and everyone is in self-isolation. It definitely sounds like the&nbsp;perfect scenario for a good horror story.<\/p>\n<p>Mikami also talked about his view on the recent Resident Evil remakes, and about rumours of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/more-news-on-resident-evil-4-remake\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil 4 remake<\/a>, a game that is considered to be his greatest work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"die hard resident evil\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/6KlsBwl8xJkAcqj6w28u3FfttxwsKcgUoTDi5M1Gbhs\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzL05pa29sYV9TYXZpJUM0JTg3L2RpZV9oYXJkLmpwZw\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 338px;\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:11px;\">Mikami had an idea for a Die Hard-like video game, but Capcom didn&#8217;t like it. (Picture:&nbsp;20th Century Fox)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mikami says that he is happy with how Resident Evil 2 looks (he saw a video of it), and further says that he has no issues with a remake of&nbsp;Resident Evil 4,&nbsp; &#8220;as long as it turns out good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mikami also revealed that he wanted to make a Die Hard-like video game back in the 90s and that he even pitched that idea to Capcom, but they rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>For other interesting things, like what should you eat and drink while playing his games, take a look at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/resident-evil-creator-talks-zombies-in-2020-and-how-his-games-will-change-post-pandemic\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Shinji Mikami IGN interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 515px; top: 1055.21px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the survival horror genre, there are not many franchises that resonate as loudly as Resident Evil. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-games","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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