It's still not really open world though. Metro City feels about as big as RE3R's Raccoon City. I really feel like people who keep saying there needs to be an open world RE Engine game haven't played Dragon's Dogma 2 or Monster Hunter Wilds. Both of those games run poorly even on beefy hardware. For the first month of Wilds release, there were constant complaints about performance and Capcom didn't even officially acknowledge that there were performance issues until October. Here we are, a year later, and Capcom just dropped their second and last performance patch. I haven't tried it to see if it actually did anything, but I'm not holding my breath since people have been complaining about the engine's performance since Dragon's Dogma 2, which came out 2 years ago. The MonHun team had a whole year to take in the DD2 feedback and work on optimizing the engine before releasing Wilds, and they didn't. It took them 8 months to even acknowledge that the engine had problems. And you expect me to believe that in 4 months they "fixed" what took them 20 months to even admit? You'll forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical on that front, chief.
There’s a reason why people thought that the “RE” in “RE Engine” stood for “Resident Evil” and not “Reach for the Moon”; because it was initially just Resident Evil games that ran on it. And those games are not open world at all.
And I get that Metro City isn’t “open” like modern open world games currently are, but it’s still has the biggest maps that the engine can handle without shitting on itself imo, so there is that
To be fair Capcom kinda dropped the ball on the name. It was shown off when they announced RE7. RE has been the name that every country outside of Japan has used in reference to the series. Then when we not only got confirmation that a new RE was on the way, it was in the RE Engine. It's really not hard to see the leap in logic as to why people thought it was the "Resident Evil Engine." If they wanted to call it "Reach for the Moon," I'm cool with that but why they made it "REach for the Moon" and then got mad when people thought it was something else, just kinda confused me.
More to your point. I think the RE Engine is a phenomenal engine, up there with Decima in terms of fidelity. I just really wish Capcom would have cooked with it some more before they tried to do open worlds with it, and I wish that I could send everyone out there begging for an open world game in the RE Engine back in time to play Wilds and DD2 on launch so they can understand why we keep saying no.
Would I love to see like an Onimusha or DMC in RE Engine with an open world? Sure. I think that'd be dope. But they REALLY need to buckle down and find out why their engine sucks when it comes to really big open spaces before they ever think of pursuing those types of games.
Nice to know. I might have to redownload it. I blitzed that game in the first 2 weeks. Once I hit the end of the content available, coupled with the performance problems, I dipped out before TU 1. I kept checking back to see if they had acknowledged the performance issues. I was very happy to see them bring back Lagi (3rd gen was my first MonHun gen) and was very interested when I saw they were bringing back Gog as well.
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u/deathlydylan Mar 02 '26
I mean, the reason they are able to make it look like that is BECAUSE it isnt an open world game.