Can we have a merged co-op mode including the co-op part from the 5

[Oscar von BJ]

The 4 was under another engine so we may ignoring it but this new Resistance looks like under the same engine as the 5 so if this new game provides a merged co-op mode including co-op part from the 5 then we can save it.

[Shoah Kahn]

They will never "merge" an existing product that is still being sold, even updated (SE5 had an update in the last couple of days) -- it would be like killing an extant product in order to gain negligible sales for another. The reality is that SE:R is already a kind of side story to SE5 -- in the vein of the "Assignment Ada" missions in Resident Evil 4 -- and that's about as close to a "merger" as I suspect the respective games will get.

I'd actually be more interested in them taking SE4 and "re-booting" it with what they're using for SE5/SE:R... If for nothing else, it would be interesting to see if the enemy scripts in SE4 could carry over to the SE5/SE:R version of the game engine (assuming anything meaningful was done script-wise, from SE4 to SE5).

[Oscar von BJ]

The 4 been abandoned actrully cause the keys mapping different, got a little trouble when I tried to recall the old habit, so, for one year half or 2 at most we get used to this 5 and what, we abandoned the 5 now? Again? That's why I pitch this idea to save the co-op part from the 5. Technically it's possible.

[Shoah Kahn]

^ "Technically", they could make a game with all the SE's, end-to-end, using the current game engine -- all missions, maps, PvP, survival, including "Invasions" in one, huge game, and call it "SE Anthology". However, that would be a 500GB game, as well as be seen as a waste of development time, relative to what re-hashing SE5 will gain them, in terms of sales versus development time.

So, it's not the technical aspects that dictate their decisions; but, the financial ones.