Gaming News “I’ve never seen so many bugs”: One of the best games of 2023 with a rating of 93% could have appeared in a deplorable state
Resident Evil 4 is undoubtedly a video game bomb that was the talk of the town last year. However, new documentation suggests that development wasn’t (really) easy…
Europe, but with bugs
Last year, Capcom delighted its audience with Resident Evil 4, a remake of the 2005 anthology game: a true gem to devour over and over again, to the great horror of Léon and his painful journey to Europe to save the daughter of the President of the United States . Tell the truth, There was obviously something else to salvage: the game’s condition, which was apparently disastrous a month before release.
As proof: the documentary “100 cameras” Produced by NHK World Japan, whose principle is precisely to place around a hundred cameras in specific locations. The latest report plunges us into it Capcom’s premise, focusing on Resident Evil 4’s design, in the final weeks before release.
The least we can say is that the developers seem disappointed by the impressive number of bugs discovered: For example, we can see that the game’s director, Yasuhiro Anpo, encounters many problems Like the camera constantly freezing for no reason, Leon suddenly crossing the map, visual glitches in the mess, certain characters’ hands not being able to connect properly…
Enough to make you tear your hair out? Total. “At this rate we will never be able to release the game on time”even says another developer after noticing no fewer than 70 errors in a single day of testing. The problems don’t stop there: from an unnaturally sparkly puddle to some lighting issues, Resident Evil 4 is broken before it was even born.
Big pressure
It goes without saying that this observation is causing concern within Capcom’s upper echelons… and even leading to confrontation. The company’s quality assurance department in Osaka is pushing hard and wants to know why “The corrections are so sloppy”. Ito, the company’s head of quality assurance, takes Anpo aside to express his concern about the state of affairs. “I’ve never seen beetles like that before”he even says caustically.
But we at Capcom appreciate the good work, and the studio has clearly worked hard to ensure that all of these problems disappear from the map. We dare to imagine how many additional hours of work were necessary But Resident Evil 4 was actually released on time and in more than adequate condition: it still achieved the excellent average of 93% on Metacritic
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