I don't think a Resident Evil game translates well to film.

Even if they remade it will all the stupid shit taken out like the clone stuff.

There just isn't that much going on.

Take the first game:

"The game begins on July 24, 1998 after Alpha team locates Bravo team's helicopter, but there are no signs of survivors; only a severed hand is found. While searching the area for further clues, Alpha team is attacked by ferocious dogs, one of which kills one of the team's members, Joseph Frost. Alpha's helicopter pilot, Brad Vickers, panics and takes off alone. Pursued by the dogs who killed their colleague, Alpha team is forced to seek refuge within a nearby mansion. It is believed to be abandoned.

With the dogs roaming outside, the four remaining Alpha team members (Albert Wesker, Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine and Barry Burton) are trapped within. Depending on which character is the player, one of the members of Alpha team is separated from the others during the chase and does not make it to the mansion (Barry if Chris, Chris if Jill). A gunshot rings out, and the player character moves to investigate. At this point, the player takes control of the character and begins to explore the mansion. One of the first discoveries is a member of Bravo team, Kenneth J. Sullivan, being eaten by a zombie. While searching the mansion, the character finds the other members of Bravo team, such as Richard Aiken, dying of poison, who gives the character his radio before dying; Forest Speyer, found dead on the balcony; and Enrico Marini, who reveals that one member of the team is a traitor before being shot and killed by an unseen attacker. The character eventually finds the mansion to be riddled with puzzles, traps, and horrors. Scattered documents suggest that a series of illegal experiments were being undertaken on the property by a clandestine research team, under the authority and supervision of the Umbrella Corporation, a biomedical conglomerate. The creatures roaming the mansion and surrounding region are the results of these experiments, which have exposed the mansion's personnel and various animals and insects to a highly contagious and mutagenic biological agent known as the T-virus.

After navigating a series of underground tunnels, passageways and buildings, the player discovers a secret underground laboratory containing the Umbrella Corporation's experiments, including the Tyrant. In the lab, the player learns that Wesker is a double agent working for Umbrella. Wesker is killed after that by one of the creations. The player finds the other playable character in a cell, put there by Wesker, and manages to get him/her out by activating the self-destruct system. Chris, Jill and the helper character (Rebecca if Chris, Barry if Jill) head for the heliport, but the other two are separated from the player due to more creatures. The player gets up to the heliport and manages to contact Brad and meet the other two survivors there, but they are attacked by the Tyrant, a giant humanoid monster created through prolonged exposure to the T-virus. After the Tyrant is defeated, Chris, Jill and Barry/Rebecca manage to escape the premises in the team helicopter."

In summary:

All that happens is:
1. Helicopter crashes and team is attacked
2. Arrive in the Mansion
3. Search mansion for other members
4. Find lab
5. Tyrant fight

It isn't really detailed and the problem is it would have to be padded out. The game consists of running around solving puzzles pretty much and finding keys to open doors. You can't show that in a movie. Not to mention the game revolves around pretty much one person which is the biggest problem.

It just wouldn't be good to watch. That's probably why they added all those extra characters because there would basically be very little dialogue which is another problem. The character can hardly stand there talking to themselves.

Don't get me wrong i want it to work, but it just can't work without altering it drastically then the same situation arises were people are like "wah wah wah it's not true to the games".

I guess in the case of the first game they could have Jill and Barry team up or something but the film wouldn't still have much going on within it.

It would be literally a series of points connected and in itself would be hard to link as there would be no opposing sort of force. Take for example the Searching for the various team members.

In the games you have to run around doing stuff for ages just so you can gain access to them. In a movie this can't work. You can't have Jill going to Barry "we need a key to get into room x, so we have to trek around looking for a gem to stick in statue y to let us gain access to the key and a yadda yadda".

Without that sort of stuff happening all that happens is: They arrive at the mansion, they walk through like three rooms and find the team member. That's like 5 minutes of screen time. The mansion is hardly crawling with zombies either but the film would become predictable and stupid if say during every transistion sequence to another part of the film that zombies attack, it would become very predictable.

The game story of course is also told through files but that can't work because you can't have the characters walking into the room and reading memos out loud it's just stupid.

You can basically see that there is no possible way for it to work without making changes to the story or at least how the games progressed.

A good film could be made out of it, but it would have to vary a lot from the game.

As for the topic on hand: yes they will ruin Barry.

EDIT: A way that it COULD work is if they based a film on the novelisation of the game.

"Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy is a 1998 novelization of the 1996 video game Resident Evil, was written by author S.D. Perry as the first book in her series of Resident Evil novels. The novel combines Jill's and Chris scenarios into one narrative and features all five of the main characters (including Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers and Albert Wesker).

The book also takes liberty with some of the original source materials; the most notable difference being the inclusion of an original character named Trent, an insider from Umbrella Corporation who provides Jill with information about the Spencer Mansion prior to the events of the mansion incident."

Still however they are not 100% faithful adaptations to the game. The book is approx 300 pages so whether that could be turned into a long enough script is debatable.