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Resident Evil 2 Remake

Started by bgmnts, January 12, 2019, 05:03:39 PM

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St_Eddie

#420
Quote from: bgmnts on June 12, 2019, 09:37:53 PM
The game with one of most iconic characters in video games is worse than a game where the main antagonist is a leech and enemies are baboons and toads. Behave.

Resident Evil Zero is a potentially decent game, absolutely ruined by a couple of appalling, if interesting, innovations.  The zapping system between the two characters is a chore; only serving to turn the game into one long escort mission for the character who you're not currently controlling (in fact, I ended up telling them to stay put, whenever I'd prepare to enter an unexplored room, lest the A.I. get itself killed and cause a game over state).  The twin character system also doubles the amount of inventory management, which wasn't exactly the most fun aspect of classic Resident Evil to begin with.

The second innovation is the ability to drop items wherever you like, which would be an incredible addition to the classic Resident Evil formula, if only Capcom hadn't decided to do away with the items crates in the process.  This baffling decision results in the player having to run back and forth, transferring their item horde from one area to the other, bit by bit, whenever they move onto a new area.  Typically, the player will choose a designated room within any given area to use as a means to store their items, which results in a room full of items, haphazardly scattered about the place on the ground.

Both of these additions only serve to spoil the entire experience, which is a great shame because there's some interesting locations throughout and the backgrounds are absolutely gorgeous (using the same pre-rendered aesthetic as the remake of the first game).  I lament what could have been, had Capcom not been so keen to shake things up for nothing more than the sheer sake of change.

Quote from: bgmnts on June 12, 2019, 09:37:53 PM
...toads.

Seriously, fuck the mutant toad in Resident Evil Zero.  It's attack is incredibly cheap.  If you don't know what you're doing, then it's an instant death and a lengthy replay to get back to where you were and that's the only scary thing about the giant toad; it's potentially an undoer of progress.  It's certainly not scary from a visual standpoint, given that it looks like fucking Frogger.



Cross the road, hop off the log and swallow the S.T.A.R.S. member for bonus points.

biggytitbo

Quote from: St_Eddie on June 12, 2019, 08:00:06 PM
Code Veronica is more obscure than Nemesis, if nothing more than by virtue of the fact that the was initially released as a Dreamcast exclusive (it wasn't ported to the PS2 until a year after its initial release).  Nemesis is undoubtedly the better known of the two. 


DUNG.

Space ghost

Quote from: bgmnts on June 12, 2019, 09:37:53 PM
The game with one of most iconic characters in video games is worse than a game where the main antagonist is a leech and enemies are baboons and toads. Behave.

He's just a big knobbly man! You're the one who is misbehaving here. I agree completely with St_Eddie about zero, it's so close to being a fantastic game and were it not for the flaws that's he outlined above I think it would be regarded as one of the best in the series. Unfortunately it's a bit if a cock up but still better than resident evil: knobbly man.

St_Eddie

Quote from: biggytitbo on June 12, 2019, 10:46:30 PM
DUNG.

Are you ever correct about anything Biggy, or must you forever be a contrarian, flying in the face of established objective evidence?

Waking Life

Zero has a great camp appeal though. That ridiculous villain. The leeches. The baboons. The zapping system. It's also strange that Rebecca isn't a lot more able in fighting off the hordes when she escapes to the mansion. And it feels a lot more desolate than the others in the series for some reason; less populated.

In all fairness, quite early on in my playthrough, I went through a breakup of a long term relationship and that just seemed to heighten the horror. I actually feel awful when I think of key points in that game. Bleak.

Going back a lot further, I think I completed Nemesis but remember very little. Two was the strongest and it's disappointing they dropped the ball with the scenarios, as that was what I really enjoyed (a lot more Rashomon than the lazy remake scenarios).

popcorn

Quote from: St_Eddie on June 12, 2019, 10:25:13 PM
If you don't know what you're doing, then it's an instant death and a lengthy replay to get back to where you were and that's the only scary thing about the giant toad; it's potentially an undoer of progress.

I thought that's what you clowns all loved about Resident Evil 1.

bgmnts

Quote from: Space ghost on June 12, 2019, 11:11:29 PM
He's just a big knobbly man! You're the one who is misbehaving here. I agree completely with St_Eddie about zero, it's so close to being a fantastic game and were it not for the flaws that's he outlined above I think it would be regarded as one of the best in the series. Unfortunately it's a bit if a cock up but still better than resident evil: knobbly man.

I quite like Zero, by the way, but Resident Evil: Knobbly Man is brilliant.

Bazooka

I concur, RE0 is brilliant until I have to drop items on the floor and switch fucking characters again. If I didnt have action replay on the GameCube I don't think I could have played through RE0 more than twice.

Kelvin

Good job this thread exists. I've been so enjoying Resident Evil HD Remake on my Switch, I had been considering giving Zero another go. I had completely forgotten the item dropping thing somehow.

No thanks.

madhair60

Good news: Got past the pure HIV section of Remakesi 2 where you're playing as Ada, and now I'm Leon with an infinite ammo minigun and rocket launcher. GAME NOW FUN.

popcorn

Quote from: madhair60 on June 13, 2019, 12:17:10 PM
Good news: Got past the pure HIV section of Remakesi 2 where you're playing as Ada, and now I'm Leon with an infinite ammo minigun and rocket launcher. GAME NOW FUN.

Do you play Worms with infinite banana bombs. Are you a BABY.

madhair60

Quote from: popcorn on June 13, 2019, 12:23:37 PM
Do you play Worms with infinite banana bombs. Are you a BABY.

No, used to play Worms 2 with infinite everything and power/explosion radius turned way up. You could tear chunks across the whole map with the minigun.

Remakers 2 is fucking shit and this was the only way to make it fun. It is a colossally disappointing game for me. I want to see the end and play the extra modes, so I bought the £4 DLC that lets me do that. Capitalism at its very best as I blow zombies into paste.

popcorn

So... madhair is a baby.

s.m.h.

St_Eddie

#433
Quote from: madhair60 on June 13, 2019, 12:26:44 PM
No, used to play Worms 2 with infinite everything and power/explosion radius turned way up. You could tear chunks across the whole map with the minigun.

Remakers 2 is fucking shit and this was the only way to make it fun. It is a colossally disappointing game for me. I want to see the end and play the extra modes, so I bought the £4 DLC that lets me do that. Capitalism at its very best as I blow zombies into paste.




biggytitbo

I've decided I really like Resident Evil 2 remake despite the DUNG that is Mr X.

petercussing

Can we at least  all agree that Resi 3 should be called Resident Evil: Knobbly Man from this point forward?

St_Eddie

Quote from: petercussing on June 13, 2019, 06:01:45 PM
Can we at least  all agree that Resi 3 should be called Resident Evil: Knobbly Man from this point forward?

Only an insane person would dare to argue otherwise.

Biggy?

madhair60

Quote from: St_Eddie on June 13, 2019, 01:37:21 PM



I'm not enormously proud of it but I am glad that the option was there. It's either have next to no fun with a £60 game, or have some fun using cheating.

What's it to you anyway? It's just another form of gatekeeping isn't it.

It's 27 quid on Xbox marketplace at the moment, big sale, but I still amn't tempted. Looks dogshit.

St_Eddie

I'm going to replay Resident Evil 3 at some point this year.  I tried replaying last year on the hard setting but it was ridiculously difficult and not the least bit fun.  I'll try it on easy this time around.

madhair60

Quote from: The Boston Crab on June 14, 2019, 11:45:42 AM
It's 27 quid on Xbox marketplace at the moment, big sale, but I still amn't tempted. Looks dogshit.

Don't buy it. It's such a shit game, disguised as a good one.

biggytitbo

I'd say it was a good game that tries to be a bad game but fails.

Bazooka

Quote from: madhair60 on June 14, 2019, 12:27:04 PM
Don't buy it. It's such a shit game, disguised as a good one.

Name another game where you get to play as someone called Carlos, nah mate.

madhair60

Quote from: Bazooka on June 14, 2019, 02:20:14 PM
Name another game where you get to play as someone called Carlos, nah mate.

Final Fight 2

St_Eddie

Quote from: Bazooka on June 14, 2019, 02:20:14 PM
Name another game where you get to play as someone called Carlos, nah mate.

I'll go one better and name another game where you play as a character named Carlos, whilst also featuring zombies; Season 2 of Telltale's The Walking Dead.

bgmnts

Name another game where a man named Mikhail sacrifices himself by blowing up a train car to take out a giant Knobbly Man?

St_Eddie

Quote from: bgmnts on June 14, 2019, 04:13:55 PM
Name another game where a man named Mikhail sacrifices himself by blowing up a train car to take out a giant Knobbly Man?

Lunar Lander.

biggytitbo

Quote from: bgmnts on June 14, 2019, 04:13:55 PM
Name another game where a man named Mikhail sacrifices himself by blowing up a train car to take out a giant Knobbly Man?


FIFA 2006?

Thursday