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While Resident Evil<\/strong> purists can now enjoy the original Resident Evil<\/a>, Resident Evil 2<\/a>, and Resident Evil 3<\/a> on PC thanks to GOG, it didn\u2019t seem like Capcom was too enthusiastic about rereleasing the games on the platform in their original form at first. In an interview with The Game Business<\/a>, GOG senior business development manager Marcin Paczynski says that the Japanese game studio insisted that \u00a0players make do with the remakes instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCapcom were like, \u2018we have all of those remakes. It\u2019s already the superior experience to those games.\u2019 They didn\u2019t really see the value in bringing back the vanilla versions. It took a lot of convincing that there is an audience that has a lot of memories about those games, and would love to experience exactly the same game again. Thankfully, we were able to convince them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the versions of Resident Evil 1-3 on GOG aren\u2019t exact 1:1 duplicates of those released on the PlayStation all those years ago (they include several PC-exclusive features such as support for multiple controllers and framerate fixes), they still run on the original source code. As a part of the GOG Preservation Program, these titles preserve the experience of playing the original games for years to come, rather than updating them via remasters or remakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As GOG\u2019s PR representative recently remarked in an interview<\/a> for AUTOMATON: \u201cbringing classic Capcom titles like Resident Evil and Dino Crisis to GOG took time, persistence, and trust-building.\u201d However, it was thanks to the team\u2019s perseverance that the three Resident Evil games found their way to the platform. All three games currently have a user score of 4.7\/5 or higher on GOG, making them some of the most positively reviewed titles on the platform. Thanks to their success, Capcom also gave the go-ahead to rerelease the original Dino Crisis<\/a> and Dino Crisis 2<\/a> on GOG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resident Evil 1 director Shinji Mikami was against jump scares, but sequels did not follow his ideals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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