Your Favourite Resident Evil
#1 Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:07 AM
I'm not going to vote, yet. I basically have it narrowed down to the original game, RE2, or RE4. Of course, without the original, we wouldn't have any of the others. But then, RE2 was an amazing game at the time. As was RE4. Then there was REmake. Fuck. Can't decide.
^Listen to that to put you in the RE mood for this topic!
Note: The operative word is 'favourite', not 'best'. It's all just subjective, so the question has been phrased for a subjective answer. For example, the original might be your favourite simply because it's so bad that it's good. Or whatever.
#4 Posted 09 November 2011 - 09:34 AM
#5 Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:29 AM
#6 Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:51 AM
#7 Posted 09 November 2011 - 12:17 PM
EmericaSkater, on 09 November 2011 - 09:34 AM, said:
Good shout. REmake might also be my favourite of the whole lot. Certainly my favourite example of the 'classic' RE gameplay. Indeed, if RE2 was remade in the same way, it'd be beyond awesome.
EmericaSkater, on 09 November 2011 - 09:34 AM, said:
RE5 is awesome, but only in two-player. It sucks in single-player. Basically only ever play that game if you're going to play it split-screen or online.
Kyphros, on 09 November 2011 - 11:51 AM, said:
Don't really get how they 'made it easier for consoles', RE has always been a console game, and RE5 was no different. It has the same basic difficulty as RE4, as the gameplay is nigh-on identical. It's basically two-player RE4 with a different setting.
#8 Posted 09 November 2011 - 12:43 PM
Martin, on 09 November 2011 - 12:17 PM, said:
You can aim while walking, there are autosaves, the global difficulty is lower, etc. That kind of stuff allows to be slower and make more errors, and thus is easier to be played on consoles with their ridiculous sticks.
#10 Posted 09 November 2011 - 04:17 PM
Kyphros, on 09 November 2011 - 12:43 PM, said:
False.
Kyphros, on 09 November 2011 - 12:43 PM, said:
There are autosaves/checkpoints in RE4, also. Dying in RE4 takes you back to either your last save point, or the last loading screen, whatever was nearer.
Kyphros, on 09 November 2011 - 12:43 PM, said:
False.
Kyphros, on 09 November 2011 - 12:43 PM, said:
Resident Evil is a console game. You talk as if they ported it from a PC original.
#11 Posted 09 November 2011 - 05:50 PM
Martin, on 09 November 2011 - 12:17 PM, said:
Eh, I only saw my brother play it once when I was visiting him and my parents a few years ago. I know it was done in the same style as RE4, but RE4 still retained a great element of survival horror that gave the franchise so much appeal, whereas RE5 seemed to just break away from that entirely. Of course if I'm wrong, feel free to call me on that. Like I said, I've never played it, but what I saw of it didn't give me much motivation to, either.
#12 Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:17 PM
I mean, ffs, it's supposed to be survival horror, how is it horror if I can play with someone else?
Actually, I'm really crazy about survival horror right now, I played a game from Capcom called Haunting Ground and it managed to become my favorite game of all time, the past couple of days I have spent hours trying out Project Zero (Tecmo) and Silent Hill (Konami) - gotta say, I think I'm going to prefer Project Zero over Silent Hill, but I've only played the first Silent Hill so I'm not judging it yet as I don't like the PS1. Oh yeah, I also wrote a letter to Capcom about Clock Tower and Haunting Ground, I want more!
Anyhow... yeah, I'm not a big fan of Resident Evil anyway - you get weapons, it's for pussies who aren't tough enough to play real survival horror - but it is good and I do enjoy playing it.
This post has been edited by High Treason: 09 November 2011 - 06:18 PM
#13 Posted 09 November 2011 - 09:00 PM
EmericaSkater, on 09 November 2011 - 05:50 PM, said:
It's not that you're 'wrong'. I guess we just see it differently. I never found RE4 scary, I don't think. Perhaps it nagged at my sense of doubt/worry on the first playthrough, but RE5 did that too. I can't really think of a 'scary' scenario in RE4 that doesn't have some kind of equivalent in RE5, and I've been playing both games over the past week. In fact, there's one moment - the bit with those spiky-humanoid things which you need to use the IR scoped sniper in order to kill it's plagas. That part takes place in some kind of deserted hospital. Beyond that small part of the game, there's nothing 'scary' RE4 does that 5 doesn't. On first playthroughs, there's a roughly equivalent amount of ammo, etc. You unlock infinite ammo guns on both games for successive playthroughs.
The Majini of RE5 are slightly tougher than the Ganados of RE4, too. Later on in the game you'll have to deal not only with the big chaingun guy, but also Majini army regulars touting AK-47s. RE4 is definitely a longer game, and it's darker. I think people just remember those sorts of general things, and therefore say that RE4 was scarier. I never get why people don't bring up the merchant in "RE4 v RE5" disputes. He might be the greatest thing in the whole series.
"Got some RARE things on sale, stranger!"
#14 Posted 10 November 2011 - 05:45 AM
#15 Posted 10 November 2011 - 06:02 PM
Who played it too will smile at the names S.T.A.R.S and Nemsis !
#16 Posted 13 November 2011 - 02:42 PM
#17 Posted 06 December 2011 - 09:13 AM
Martin, on 13 November 2011 - 02:42 PM, said:
What are you buying, What are you selling
#18 Posted 06 December 2011 - 09:16 AM
#19 Posted 06 December 2011 - 09:59 AM
fatfat1, on 06 December 2011 - 09:13 AM, said:
That's RE4.
fatfat1, on 06 December 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:
You're right, they were a lot harder. Not for all the right reasons, though. The atmospheric camera angles fucked you over sometimes with off-screen monsters that you could hear but not see. As you said, ammo was very scarce. So you didn't want to just shoot in the general direction you believed them to be, in case you missed and wasted valuable ammunition. For people of my generation who played those games when they were new, it's not such a big deal and we can still play them today without too much adjustment. People of my nephew's generation, however..
#20 Posted 07 December 2011 - 10:39 AM
fatfat1, on 06 December 2011 - 09:16 AM, said:
It's interesting that you say that you like to play resident evil 5, especially when you just said that your pc is a 1.8ghz celeron 1 core and 1gb ram.
I am pretty sure that with such a pc, Resident evil 5 is unplayable.
Do you have it on a console?
#21 Posted 12 December 2011 - 03:34 PM
Edit I am now the proud owner of the Handcannon. Who wants to touch me?
This post has been edited by Martin: 13 December 2011 - 05:04 AM
#22 Posted 13 December 2011 - 06:55 AM
I couldn't beat it back then, i probably wasn't even close. I might try it again.
#25 Posted 21 December 2011 - 02:58 PM
#26 Posted 22 December 2011 - 01:56 PM
When I was younger, I used to play the two scenarios one after the other, almost 15 hours successively.
#27 Posted 26 January 2012 - 05:37 PM
RE DC was rather disappointing. I hated the new generic music and all the costume switches made the game a joke. It was like a knock-off toy. And where was the uncensored intro? As bad as the intro was already, why make promises you can't keep? The game felt like someone was trying to make a parody of the original.
RE2 was very good, but too easy IMO. I would always have nearly 200 Handgun bullets left by the end. Takes the survival out of survival horror. But it loved the A and B games and all the extras. It made this game so well rounded. I also love Mr. X.
RE3 seemed rather comical to me. Bright colors, not many scares. The funky dodge system. The gunpowder thing was really strange to me. I never heard of freeze grenades before. I like looking at hooker Jill, even though it doesn't make sense to be in there. Nemesis seemed like a exaggerated version of Mr. X to me which I didn't like.
RE:CV was disappointing to me. The full 3d was a good concept but it sadly lacked the graphics and textures to go with it. The game had bizarre locations and the diffculty was really uneven. You never know when the game is going to switch charactes on you making one character end up with the better weapons. I really hated that Steve guy.
RE:GC I love this game almost as much as the original. Brought the fear back in with whopping good graphics and new twists and turns in the game. I was just upset I had to hook up my GC to play rather than on my pc. It could have used some cool extras too like RE2.
RE4. Good fun game, but this is when RE series changed like Batman Returns to Batman Forever. It started trying to reach a larger audience and do away with the suspense and fear that the series was founded on. I had fun with it, but I hesitate to call it Resident Evil. There was no scary parts in this game except maybe the guy jumping out of the giant oven.
RE UC. I always thought if House of the Dead met RE, it would be amazing. Honestly I was kinda disappointed. It was fun while it lasted, but I couldn't help but feel the the game felt really really short. Or maybe it was because it tooks mere tidbits from each game rather than really dive into all the locations. And the RE3 chapter was horrible. It was completely different from the game. But it was nice to see Jill wrap her legs around the zombies face in a cutscene which didn't make any sense. Also, the final chapter is just plain weird and too sci fi and doesn't fit into the Resident evil story.
RE5. Same opinion as 4. Better graphics obviously, but shallow characters, dull cliche plot, and lack of innovation that 4 brought in. I'm starting to see a strange blend with Gears of War here. This game wasn't scary at all.
Sadly, the majority of young gamers today have only played RE4 and up. They bitch and complain about the original ones being too hard and boring. Pretty soon Resident Evil will be Gears of Evil or Residents of Duty.
I really wish they would bring back the scary horror RE. We went from survival horror to the matrix (b/c of Paul Anderson) to nearly generic FPS.
#28 Posted 27 January 2012 - 03:00 AM
#29 Posted 27 January 2012 - 07:40 AM
Martin, on 27 January 2012 - 03:00 AM, said:
Why? What's so bad about wanting the franchise to go back to its roots?