Now that's the thing, we shouldnt be in a "well I had to wait this long so you should be fine waiting too". There's enough teams at capcom where they should be able to manage some variety. 2 survival horror for every 1 action title seems fair. Even if it's a spinoff.
I always remind people that during RE4-6's reign, I was constantly saying they need to bring back survival horror and not just middle ground rev games lol.
Hey, I think RE5 is my favorite RE game (with Remake and Remake 2 being very close) but at this point I would say that's not what they should put in mainline games.
I live in Germany I bought RE6 for the mercenaries mode which I'd loved to try - though luckily for me (sarcasm) you need to beat the complete story first before unlocking mercenaries in Germany (because reasons only Capcom knows)
The story is bad , it's a slog, the UI is terrible, everything is so slow, it's no fun at all, refunded after trying to cope with this poor Uncharted clone for about 20 minutes, it's awful (and I never got to try mercenaries, yay)
RE7 is first-person, and as such only Resident Evil by name, it's kinda really insulting having that as a mainline RE game.
I will never buy a first person "Resident Evil" game...
I really like Revelations but it's in a weird twighlight between classic horror and modern action RE, I think they should just go full action with that.
Leave mainline RE to classic survival horror without suplexes and matrix style enemies (as much I love Wesker, heh)
I think RE2 Remake has proven that's what people want and that's what brings the series forward, it's Resident Evil and not some weird conglomerate that tries to chase after the "COD crowd" a criticism I'm often seeing in connection with RE5 (and I can see why)