Resident Evil Requiem Marks 30 Years of These Games Scaring The Heck Out of Us - Beyond 930

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Our Resident Evil Requiem hype has reached critical mass, and while it remains to be seen if this ninth mainline entry can deliver on its ambitious promise, Capcom’s been making these games for three decades. This episode, we take a look back at the many variations on the survival-horror formula that’ve been attempted over the years, from the PS1 era’s tank-controlled classics, to the ill-fated action-centric efforts to one-up Resident Evil 4, to the various offshoots like Code Veronica, Outbreak and Revelations. Meanwhile, we got a look at Lara Croft’s manga-style redesign that she nearly got for the first game’s Japanese release, and our first glimpse of Sophie Turner in costume for the upcoming Prime Video series. The latest live-action Tomb Raider is hot on the heels of Fallout season 2, and Amazon’s still hammering away at the God of War series, with Ryan Hurst cast as Kratos, but these are just a couple entries on the very, very long list of video game movies and TV shows that are (or were) in some state of development. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Mortal Kombat 2, Street Fighter and Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie all seem like they’ll see the light of day, but some of these other ones have us a little skeptical. 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - A Manga Tomb Raider? 04:29 - 30 Years of Resident Evil 01:03:36 - There Are 80+ Video Game Movies & Shows In The Works… This weeks show is hosted by Max Scoville and Brian Altano and was produced by Nick Maillet #PlayStation #ResidentEvil #GodOfWarTVShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show.
0:03.7	I am your host, Max Scoville, and coming up, we are getting nostalgic for all the times in the last 30 years that Resident Evil scared the hell out of us,
0:11.3	and we're going to take a look at the next Lara Croft, and a Lara Croft that never was.
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1:19.6	Larry Croft, it is. I'm joined once again by Brian Altona. What's up, Brian? How's it going?
1:24.6	That's basically Nathan Drake, right? He's Larry Croft. Nathan, yeah, he is kind of Larry, Larry Croft, I guess.
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1:48.0	that quite late in Tomb Raider 1,
1:51.0	development, Victor, which was Cores publisher in Japan,
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1:57.0	and so they faxed over some ideas for how they could make Lara Croft more sort of
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