Why did Capcom create a new franchise rather than just making Dead Rising the new direction for the Resident Evil games?

>completely different tone and gameplay
>at a time where RE was still getting games
why would they? just because both have zombies? should onimusha and DMC been the same franchise, then?

you should become a game executive anon, you seem around that level of intelligence

I think RE tries to be an anthology of sorts, never focusing on one specific type of horror, while all the horror games that followed it pull from only a single thread. Dead Rising is literally just an interactive Dawn of the Dead whereas RE5 for instance is like 5 different movies cobbled into one.

RE8 is a DMC game. DMC =/= mashing combos

>>712587553
RE4 totally changed the tone of RE but it was a great game with zombies (um sweaty they're ACKSHUALLY not zombie)

Has any Franchise had a harder drop off than Dead Rising? The difference in quality between 1 - 2 and 3 - 4 is tragic

>>712588314
The ultimate redpill, unironically, is realizing that there are no bad Dead Rising games.
However at the same time, you have to accept that this series peaked with the prequel to DR2. Not the main game itself, but Case Zero.

>>712588504
*Prologue, not prequel

>>712588314
>Dead Rising 3 Bad

>>712588314
Lost Planet
2 was shit and 3 was even worse

>>712588749
it's not bad just really stale compared to 2 and 1

4 is nu-male millennial garbage

>>712588314
fallout

>inb4 durrh new vegas reddit, anything bethesda made was 100x that

>>712588504
The ultimate redpill is realizing that Canada is evil and should be nuked for ruining the series out of spite

>>712587315 (OP)
Different tone and philosophy directions. I wouldn't want to live in a world where only RE or DR exists and the other doesn't.

>why did they make a sandwich when they could have been making hamburgers??

>>712588504
>The ultimate redpill, unironically, is realizing that there are no bad Dead Rising games.

4 is seriously fucking bad and you're a total shit eater if you defend it. Even the super basics of fighting zombies just doesn't work in it.

>>712587315 (OP)
Because they used to be based.
Also it plays nothing like a RE game.

Not everything has to go back to a single franchise, I mean I like when a franchise evolves in a different direction or gets a spinoff but is also nice to leave the baggage behind and do something new, so that Ass Creed is its own thing instead of a prince of persia spinoff and Watch Dogs is its own thing instead of an AssCreed spinoff.

At least on a conceptual level even when I don't like the result.

>>712592851
I wanna moterboat her zombitties