So I was talking with somebody(Joker), and thought about something. RE's controls.

What do you want from your RE in regards to gameplay?

I know that OTS works great, mainly because of the aiming. The camera angles were great too, very memorable, and just kind of iconic and symbolic as far as the series is concerned, like typewriters.

I think they should mix the fixed angle, and OTS. Just as simple as certain areas having the fixed camera, and others being OTS. Whenever you aim though, it should always be OTS, for the sake of being able to aim. Perhaps take out the laser sight though.

Having the quick knife is a must at this point, better than it collecting dust in the item box. Manual reload, well in addition to RE4, the Outbreaks had this too. A feature I can't live without.

I think movement wise, it should control just like in always has. Not the crappy RE5 shooter control sets, where you aim with L, shoot with R. As well as strafing.

I do like that RER seems to be implimenting walking while aiming, that's no crime, as we've seen it before, Dead Aim and Outbreak File#2. And it was something I wish I had when playing RE5 mercs, in order to avoid a certain guy's large axe from killing me.

I really liked the self defense items from the REmake. Little letter openers or daggers or whatever, as well as flash grenades and Jill's stun gun. I think we should have those types of things, other items too, just whatever can be used for self defense. It would be nice when a stupid majini grabs you....and just holds you, how annoying right? Not if you can shove a flash grenade in his face.

Another feature is something from Outbreak. If you've played Outbreak, with Kevin, you may remember that while aiming, you could press circle I think, and you would kick. It just did a front kick. That's nice, I hope they bring that back. I mean, while aiming nowadays, we can shoot, and reload, but there are extra buttons for kicking.

Dodging, perhaps taking the primitive system in RE3, work it with the nice button prompted dodging from RE4. Just make it something you can do as often as you could in RE3, but work as well as it did in RE4.

That's all I can think of right now, what do you guys think?

Everything Spike just said. Dodging, moving while aiming, knife button, another melee (the kick, for example), manual reload, aim to shoot, self defence... I'm ok if we keep the OTS camera in future games, it works well. Item management should stay. So should the weapon upgrades. Well, at least to some extent.

Only thing I'd like to add to that is improvised weapons. When ammo is scarce you can whack the enemy with a lamp. Not that it would be the best idea but just because it happened to be at hand. Then quickturn and run like hell.

Optional co-op for anyone who want's to play the game with a friend. I know I would.


I'm pretty sure we'll get at least some of these things in Operation Raccoon City.

Oh yeah, I forgot to go over item management. I think the inventory was good in RE5, I liked the hot key feature for items in the North, East, South & West positions.

Although that wouldn't be necessary if it weren't real-time, the inventory.

And that wouldn't be necessary if there wasn't some sort of cooperative experience.

I think Coop should be in, just not the story. Mercs is a perfect place, just side things, but the main story should be single player, and RE5 is what made me think this.

I know people will flame me for this, but I kinda like the controls for Resident Evil 5. Yes they are kinda hard to get used to, but once you get used to them, they are fine. It's just like any other game that you play. You just have to get used to them and it takes time to do that.

To be honest, the controls haven't changed all that much from the old style to the new style. Tank controls are tank controls. I adapt to any control scheme very quickly. So I like them all.

The tank controls are good for me. They've always been a part of RE so there's not much to adapt when you're a long time RE player.

I have no problem with the controls, I'm just tired of having the camera right over the player character's shoulder all the damn time.

One big problem all OTS shooters have is the fact that your bullets projectory is slanted or at an angle,causing what seems to be a perfect shot to plant itself in the cover you're behind.Maybe Resident Evil should take a tip from Assasin and Zelda.In both games you can temporarily switch to first person view to tag an enemy from far off.It would be really convenient if they did this and drop the red dot sight,since it's a tad unnecessary for the job that the characters are doing.Anyway,laser sights,thermal optic,red dot,and ACOG sights require batteries.Where would you find batteries in rural Spain or in the middle of Africa?