Originally Posted by
CraigTheCylon
Still don't know if the Biohazard name is usable outside of Japan. Did that band give up on it yet?
To your question: I prefer 'Resident Evil' a lot more, actually, just because it doesn't clue you in on what's in store. 'Biohazard' - assuming you know what the word means - immediately ties the games in with perverted science and dark biology, which renders the attempts of the series to hide its own threats (especially in the first game, where you're meant to go in blind and follow a breadcrumb trail of clues about what's going on before it all becomes clear in the laboratory) a wasted effort. Meanwhile, 'Resident Evil' is less specific, simply implying an innate darkness that's been left to fester within wherever it is you are. It's not a name that always fits - the RE4-and-beyond era of globetrotting gunplay rarely sits still long enough for that kind of dread to apply - but for the classics and RE7 it absolutely works. Probably why 7 is the first one to keep 'Resident Evil' in its name in Japan.