Resident Evil 5 ships over four million copies (already!)

First pOst! Mistake there in the article--> four or forty million? I am pretty sure it's 4.

And they charge extra for DLc that should've come with the game. Greedy bastards, and then the game is kinda stiff, ain't that a B

Forty million huh? That's more than X360's and PS3's combined. Guess people wanted doubles :)

I got it Saturday and played it for a while but so far, I am not impressed. It just doesn't feel like RE to me anymore. Very pretty, but the game doesn't have the feel of creepiness from the other REs. I say creepy because, let's be honest, these survival horror games were never really scary but they can be very creepy. Then again, maybe just my opinion. Silent Hill is the creepiest of them all IMO but I digress.

The control scheme feels very antiquated as well. Yes, I know that many people will say that you always had to stop to shoot on RE games but Capcom should improve gameplay like every other company does with long lasting franchises. At one point, the control scheme was very different even on RE and you had to press Up to move forward and down to move backwards but they upgraded the gameplay, which means that the formula has been improved over time. I hope that they do something about it on RE 6 or I may skip it.

PrinnySquad wrote:

First pOst! Mistake there in the article--> four or forty million? I am pretty sure it's 4.

Haha, thanks for the catch! It is indeed four, not forty :)

Tellumendil wrote:

I got it Saturday and played it for a while but so far, I am not impressed. It just doesn't feel like RE to me anymore. Very pretty, but the game doesn't have the feel of creepiness from the other REs. I say creepy because, let's be honest, these survival horror games were never really scary but they can be very creepy. Then again, maybe just my opinion. Silent Hill is the creepiest of them all IMO but I digress.
The control scheme feels very antiquated as well. Yes, I know that many people will say that you always had to stop to shoot on RE games but Capcom should improve gameplay like every other company does with long lasting franchises. At one point, the control scheme was very different even on RE and you had to press Up to move forward and down to move backwards but they upgraded the gameplay, which means that the formula has been improved over time. I
hope that they do something about it on RE 6 or I may skip it.

going back to the good ol days when all 3 franchises, Resident Evil, SIlent HIll, and Alone in the Dark were at the top of there game, before the "western" fps multiplayer and online influence killed them off.
Japanese developers were much more interested in creeping you put than going in "guns 'a' blazin'"
Great puzzles were on the top of the list, and what you didn't hear was almost as bad as what you did hear. The silence was deafening, which added to the feeling of isolationism. Now when you walk it sounds like your wearing a pair of really tight corduroys with 10 sets of janitors keys hanging on your belt.

Ahh, the little things. All gone. Shame on them.

Resident evil 5 copies sold (ps3 and xbox360)= 4million. Total Resident Evil franchise copies sold = 40million.

Prinny is good at grabbing the oddly much coveted first post... but not so good at the reading skills.

he's saying that RE has sold over 40 million copys since it started back in 1996 not just RE 5.

PrinnySquad wrote:

First pOst! Mistake there in the article--> four or forty million? I am pretty sure it's 4.

Adding all game's it equals 40 million RE games sold