{"id":1358752,"date":"2025-10-15T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/WGjpzfxq6HWKR9UqCUMTvJ"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:23:42","slug":"capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: &#8216;We have all of those remakes. It\u2019s already the superior experience&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I tend to share my colleague Ted Litchfield&#8217;s philosophy when it comes to remakes. Do what you want (though I prefer reinvention to a one-to-one remake), just don&#8217;t kill access to the original. It doesn&#8217;t seem like too much to ask for: the kids get to play a version of a classic, I get to keep playing my old favourite like 2005 never ended. Everyone&#8217;s happy.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone but Capcom, anyway, which apparently took some real arm-twisting to get the original <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/resident-evil\/gog-is-bringing-the-original-resident-evil-trilogy-back-from-the-dead-and-to-digital-pc-storefronts-for-the-first-time\/\">Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3 PC releases<\/a> on GOG last year. It seems GOG had to make a few persuasion rolls to get Capcom to agree to it. Not necessarily because the company had business concerns about the move, but more because its execs literally couldn&#8217;t conceive of why anyone would want to play the originals when their shiny remakes exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capcom were like, &#8216;We have all of those remakes. It\u2019s already the superior experience to those games,'&#8221; GOG&#8217;s senior bizdev manager Marcin Paczynski told <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/when-we-launched-resident-evil-on\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Business<\/a>. &#8220;They didn\u2019t really see the value in bringing back the vanilla versions.&#8221; Which, on the bright side, confirms a lot of my prejudices about games industry executives and their appreciation of art.<\/p>\n<p>So GOG had to work to convince Capcom that there do, in fact, exist human beings who like to play old games. &#8220;It took a lot of convincing that there is an audience that has a lot of memories about those games,&#8221; said Paczynski, &#8220;and would love to experience exactly the same game again. Thankfully, we were able to convince them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is great, of course. To be honest, I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> have memories of the original Resident Evil games\u2014they seemed way too scary for child-me to ever pick up, but I still very much enjoyed heading back into the Spencer Mansion in all RE1&#8217;s PS1-era glory when GOG put out those releases last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"GNxjiQEqdWoC7BTWNEmCNL\" name=\"5dd8adb1b1d3d71045a66566aa9b1af2c5b51dab83c3a04f961aab8946e5d435.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead shot of Chris Redfield in the original Resident Evil.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Capcom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"29628158-7a52-4365-bd5c-1952343f2e0f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"29628158-7a52-4365-bd5c-1952343f2e0f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It might bamboozle the suits, but original games have their value even when you&#8217;ve put out a new version that&#8217;s been UE5&#8217;d out the wazoo. Preservation is a positive end in itself; we&#8217;d probably be in a better state if more people with their hands on the pursestrings appreciated it.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/resident-evil\/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to share my colleague Ted Litchfield&#8217;s philosophy when it comes to remakes. Do what you want (though I prefer reinvention to a one-to-one remake), just don&#8217;t kill access to the original. It doesn&#8217;t seem like too much to ask for: the kids get to play a version of a classic, I get to keep playing my old favourite like 2005 never ended. Everyone&#8217;s happy. Everyone but Capcom, anyway, which apparently took some real arm-twisting to get the original Resident Evil 1, 2, and 3 PC releases on GOG last year. It seems GOG had to make a few persuasion rolls to get Capcom to agree to it. Not necessarily because the company had business concerns about the move, but more because its execs&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/capcom-execs-were-bewildered-that-people-might-want-to-play-original-resident-evil-when-gog-approached-them-about-it-we-have-all-of-those-remakes-its-already-the-superior-experience\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1358753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,1192,1595],"class_list":["post-1358752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-horror","tag-resident-evil"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: &#039;We have all of those remakes. 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