Earlier this month, Capcom confirmed that it plans on remaking and remastering additional games beyond the Resident Evil 2 remake that’s due out early next year. Just this week, the company made good on that promise by announcing an upcoming HD remaster of Onimusha: Warlords. As for the Resident Evil franchise, Capcom has also expressed interest in making a move that would be truly meta: remaking the 2002 Resident Evil HD remake.
While speaking with Game Informer (via PC Gamer), Resident Evil 2 remake game director Kazunori Kadoi talked about how Capcom isn’t merely picking which games to remake based on pure nostalgia or the volume of fan requests. Remaking a game can also bring entirely new fans into the fold, and that’s a quality that Capcom always wants to emphasize:
“We’ve got a lot of fans who ask for their favorite games, but we’re not going to commit to anything right now. We’d like to keep our possibilities open for the future and see what makes the most sense when we come to it. We don’t want to feed just nostalgia. We want to bring [out] how people felt about the original games and if we can, reimagine it in a way so that it bridges the generation gap between people who played it 20 years ago and newcomers.”
However, with that said, Kadoi also didn’t rule out the possibility that the Resident Evil HD remake could get the same treatment as the upcoming Resident Evil 2 remake:
“Certainly enough time has passed that it wouldn’t be laughable to remake the remake. I personally think that would be an interesting thing to do.”
The Resident Evil 2 remake will launch on January 25, 2019 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.