10 Video Games That Were A Victim Of Their Own Success
4. The Resident Evil Series
When the original Resident Evil was released in 1996, it popularized the survival horror genre. Gamers had never played anything quite like it, and it became one of the highest selling games on the Playstation. Resident Evil 2 was released two years later, and when that proved to be even more successful, publisher Capcom took that formula and ran with it. Many more Resident Evil games were released in rapid succession over the following years, each one repeating the same formula again and again. The franchise began to stagnate both creatively and financially, forcing Capcom to reinvent the formula with Resident Evil 4. Resident Evil 4 was just the shock to the system the franchise needed, and suddenly Resident Evil was on top again. But Capcom once again fell back into its old habit of repeating itself. Resident Evil 5 was already starting to show its age, and by the time Resident Evil 6 came out gamers were already over it. And just like that, Resident Evil was in a creative rut yet again. Such is the current state of the Resident Evil franchise at this moment. Instead of coming up with new ideas, Capcom seems content to just make money off of nostalgia by putting out HD remakes of the classics. The mighty have fallen, and its all because its success has blinded them from realizing why the franchise was successful in the first place.
