Resident Evil 4 (REmake)

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”I felt pretty disgusting even testing this - why anyone would want to try this is beyond me - ...”

Oh ffs Eurogamer you know damn well why.
Which is all the more hypocritical as none of them were complaining about looking up Ashley's skirt back then. Some of you even made the same jokes, or didn't see what the big deal was at the time. Quit pretending you assholes!
 
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Turns out she wasn't really interested in it anyway. She is already borrowing my old Gamecube (for Wind Waker and Twilight Princess) so I've just lent her my copy of RE4. She's finding that pretty fun, might make her interested in the remake someday. For my gift I took her to the Super Mario Bros. Movie instead. Oh, and I partially paid for a Crunchyroll subscription for her so she doesn't have to come over to my apartment to watch anime (she is just starting on that journey.)
 

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Great gamecube starts, IMO. I should know, I still have the silver GC with both games.
Wasn't exactly a start for her. Just replays to gear up for Tears of the Kingdom. Actually, I think Twilight Princess was her introduction to the series... maybe a year or so after it came out. With my GameCube I actually sent her RE4, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (the games she wanted to play) as well as Eternal Darkness and the first Baten Kaitos game (to see if the upcoming Switch version would be something she wanted after I told her I was getting that.) Oh, and the gamecube mario baseball game, it was a favorite of hers when she was little.
 
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”I felt pretty disgusting even testing this - why anyone would want to try this is beyond me - ...”

Oh ffs Eurogamer you know damn well why.
Which is all the more hypocritical as none of them were complaining about looking up Ashley's skirt back then. Some of you even made the same jokes, or didn't see what the big deal was at the time. Quit pretending you assholes!
Being honest, I never knew this was a thing until years later when someone mentioned it, at which point I tried it out and felt the cringe burn so severely I never did it again.
 
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Being honest, I never knew this was a thing until years later when someone mentioned it, at which point I tried it out and felt the cringe burn so severely I never did it again.
I did it once to see if it was true, I only found out through the GameFAQs forums. After that I never did it again. But keep in mind, I rarely ever replayed the original RE4 that much to begin with. My reaction was more or less an "okay, that can happen".
 

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A minor detail I saw in a Youtube comment thread just before - the knife's description that it was given to Leon by Marvin makes Leon A/Claire B canon to the remake timeline, a reversal of the original timeline where Claire A/Leon B was canonized by Sherry in RE6.
 
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A minor detail I saw in a Youtube comment thread just before - the knife's description that it was given to Leon by Marvin makes Leon A/Claire B canon to the remake timeline, a reversal of the original timeline where Claire A/Leon B was canonized by Sherry in RE6.
I posted the picture back in late October of 2022. The intro pretty much hints at Leon A/Claire B, when the clips we see of Leon's recounts have the footage of him with Marvin. Next time I do an RE2Remake playthrough, I am going to keep the knife Marvin gives you, and try not to have it break. Mainly by keeping it in the storage box, and saving the knife until the end.
 
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I posted the picture back in late October of 2022. The intro pretty much hints at Leon A/Claire B, when the clips we see of Leon's recounts have the footage of him with Marvin. Next time I do an RE2Remake playthrough, I am going to keep the knife Marvin gives, you and try not to have it break. Mainly by keeping it in the storage box, and saving the knife until the end.
I don't know if I was looking at this thread then. I definitely wasn't looking that closely at the trailers then.
 

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Some parts of the original do have better aesthetics and styles. But character models do look a bit outdated in comparison
The original definitely had a more engaging cinematic flair to it. Things in the remake are more practical and sensible, but you lose the cool factor. The introduction of el Gigante is a good example. It sorta makes more sense that he gets awoken by just one priest (atleast within the context of the remake), but the original's take of having a bunch of ganados lead it out and then lose control over it offers a lot more spectacle.

And the remake is visually just too fucking dark. In the original you could actually clearly see the two Verdugo's by Salazar's side, but in the remake they're swallowed up by the lack of environmental lighting.
 

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And the remake is visually just too fucking dark. In the original you could actually clearly see the two Verdugo's by Salazar's side, but in the remake they're swallowed up by the lack of environmental lighting.
I could see both of them just fine. I don't know what you had your darkness level on, but I put my brightness up to about 75% and have my TV set to Game Mode. Well it can be too dark in some places, my main issue is that certain items or ammo pickups blend in with the background at times.
 

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The original definitely had a more engaging cinematic flair to it. Things in the remake are more practical and sensible, but you lose the cool factor.
No coolness factor is loss, but a different kind of coolness.

The introduction of el Gigante is a good example. It sorta makes more sense that he gets awoken by just one priest (atleast within the context of the remake), but the original's take of having a bunch of ganados lead it out and then lose control over it offers a lot more spectacle.
RE4 is a game from 2005 that borrows heavily from cheesy machismo action movies from the 80s and 90s, so spectacle was to be expected. Plus, this was mid-to-late 2000s Capcom; any spectacle was to expected. While RE4R is a game from now that borrows heavily from early 2000s action movies (the good ones before Bourne Supremacy fucked everything up), that are more grounded/semi-grounded. Plus, there are things in the remake I find way more creepy and atmospheric than the original. Especially the cabin sequence. God damn, was I actually scared!


Some parts of the original do have better aesthetics and styles. But character models do look a bit outdated in comparison
RE4 does have better lighting over the RE4R, so I will give it that. The character models in the original still look great today, and barely even feel outdated. Also, I definitely wouldn't call RE4R "soulless". It does have a soul. A different kind of soul. A soul that more than respects it's original counterpart.
 
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