But to be honest, have Capcom ever made a RE game with a good story? It really isn´t an essential part of the series.MrBrightside919 said:
Resident Evil 7 Will Return to Survival Horror Roots
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I don´t know about that, a game like Silent Hill 2 is pretty damn scary, even though you have an arsenal powerful enough to destroy anything standing in your way.Kalezian said:
While I don't like RE since 4 which already had too much action for my taste, making them shooters kinda makes more sense from story perspective. In first few games you were alone or with untrustworthy team in middle of nowhere and zombies were surprise. Now it's what, years since zombies first appeared so you would expect everyone carrying a gun. Still I'll be glad if they return back to adventure style gameplay.
Resident Evil 6 was a good game gameplay-wise, it contained a satisfying blend of over-the-shoulder shooting combined with some entertaining melee finishers whose take-down animations were varied, contextual and had an appropriate length so as to not break the flow of combat. In addition to the dodging mechanics, it allowed for just as much tactical input and evading maneuvers as Shinji Mikami's Vanquish and the game was at its best when it gave you enough room to flex out your muscles and apply a diverse range of strategies for crowd control regardless of how brain dead most enemies were.
No wonder the most engrossing sections of the campaign were the Mercenaries mode and the excellent sprawling hangar level by the end of Chris' story that I swear must have been designed by a different team. It threw everything at you hoping you had mastered the controls and knew how to make use of the right tactics in order to overcome a challenge, it was at the moment I felt the game was letting go of my hand. It felt like an earned victory.
Resident Evil 6 ? and some people are going to disagree with this statement ? wasn't a bad game, it just had some shitty level design that went for claustrophobic environments as opposed to mini open areas with some mix of exploration and scavenging.
The lack of a cohesive tone didn't bother me so much since RE has turned into a parody of itself when it comes to the story department, I now have stopped caring about how ridiculous it all sounds even by the standards of a B type movie.
That's too bad because the B.O.W. arc is a rather interesting concept, the idea of biological warfare by deploying inhuman beings from the 666th circle of Hell into conflict zones around the world is a nice progression for the series.
Also, bring back the save room themes, those songs were hauntingly beautiful.
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No wonder the most engrossing sections of the campaign were the Mercenaries mode and the excellent sprawling hangar level by the end of Chris' story that I swear must have been designed by a different team. It threw everything at you hoping you had mastered the controls and knew how to make use of the right tactics in order to overcome a challenge, it was at the moment I felt the game was letting go of my hand. It felt like an earned victory.
Resident Evil 6 ? and some people are going to disagree with this statement ? wasn't a bad game, it just had some shitty level design that went for claustrophobic environments as opposed to mini open areas with some mix of exploration and scavenging.
The lack of a cohesive tone didn't bother me so much since RE has turned into a parody of itself when it comes to the story department, I now have stopped caring about how ridiculous it all sounds even by the standards of a B type movie.
That's too bad because the B.O.W. arc is a rather interesting concept, the idea of biological warfare by deploying inhuman beings from the 666th circle of Hell into conflict zones around the world is a nice progression for the series.
Also, bring back the save room themes, those songs were hauntingly beautiful.
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Remember the alpha footage of Resident Evil 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k5ydgYT1ao
That's what they need to make!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k5ydgYT1ao
That's what they need to make!
Haha, they made too much content... my god, that is what I said. This game would be awesome if it were only 5 hours long... said no one ever. All the content was the same and you replayed the same stages again and again in each campaign. The fact is, they didn't make too much content, they reused some of the content way too much. I played through every campaign of RE6, and nothing was more annoying than running into the those same missions again and again. Forget the fact that Jake had some of the most interesting stages and simultaneously some of the worst stages, and the whole hand to hand aspect was implemented in the absolutely worst way ever.
That is the thing; RE6, for all its flaws, I can't really hate due to it doing quite a bit well and trying legitimately new things such as the revamped melee system, the quickshot, the transforming enemies, the passive abilities, and havign multiple campaigns that were trying to be very different from each other. If anything, it failed because it was trying to TOO MUCH and became kind of schizophrenic. Level design was definitely a problem as RE4 and beyond have been best with wide open arenas and hordes of enemies to fight.Ryan Ambrose said:
As for the news, I see "survival horror" mentioned, but here's the tragic thing about the series: it was NEVER horror. The games were NEVER scary. Every single one perhaps STARTED as you carefully managing resources such as ammo, medical supplies, etc, but it was always got to the point where you were shooting things instead of running from them. The series was always one that tried to have its cake and eat it. When they dropped the pretense of horror with RE4 the games were all the better for it.
The core fanbase? So they're going back to the 1,2,3, Code Veronica, 0 and 1 remake style? Thank fuck for that. 4, 5 and 6 were utter shit and didn't have any of the feel you get from having limited movement from your characters, limited ammo, being overwhelmed by things like hunters in cramped spaces, the dark aesthetics and all the elements that once made this series unique. I mean, you're on a fixed background and you just can't know what's coming when you turn a corner. That kind of shit alone will have you shitting yourself.
The clunky way characters moved was part of it all. Made you fear for your life more. Made it funner.
And newsflash, there were a lot of kids at the time that are part of the core fanbase. We're not kids anymore Capcom. We now have disposable income of our own and we miss the old style. Leave the shooter genre alone. Leave it to proper shooters, that have always been shooters.
The clunky way characters moved was part of it all. Made you fear for your life more. Made it funner.
And newsflash, there were a lot of kids at the time that are part of the core fanbase. We're not kids anymore Capcom. We now have disposable income of our own and we miss the old style. Leave the shooter genre alone. Leave it to proper shooters, that have always been shooters.
See, whenever some game company says [insert game/franchise here] is going back to its roots, I see it as nothing but a marketing ploy.
The game/franchise doesn't need to go back to its roots, it's the company that needs to go back to it.
The game/franchise doesn't need to go back to its roots, it's the company that needs to go back to it.
To be honest, i haven´t played that far into Revelation yet, but if it´s more convuluted than Re4-6, then i´m a bit worried and probably not that surprised. It seems like they ramp up the insanity with each new installment.MrBrightside919 said:
Dear god...they're making ANOTHER ONE?! Seriously, how the hell is this series STILL going? I mean I'm talking from a purely story-line perspective. Didn't the main antagonist of the entire series fall into a frickin' volcano and get blown up by missile launchers while wallowing in the lava? I mean there's stretching a story *cough*Assassin'sCreed*cough* and then there's "We're pulling stuff just right the fuck out of our asses." HOW MANY ZOMBIE-MASS-PRODUCING CORPORATIONS CAN ONE GAME UNIVERSE HAVE?!
"Well last time they were terrorists." Oh go fuck yourself.
"Well last time they were terrorists." Oh go fuck yourself.
Exactly. Most of the Silent Hill series proves that survival horror game can allow you to be able to kill everything and it can still be terrifying. It's all about atmosphere, and these days a lot of horror games especially Resident Evil games are terrible at creating a constantly tense and creepy atmosphere, not to mention make you feel like the enemies are a real threat. It may have been the start of the series going down a more actionized path, but RE4 was able to let the player shoot everything dead and still make you feel like you are fighting a pitched battle and could get killed at any moment, and did manage to be creepy at times.MrBaskerville said:
Personally, I never found myself to be scared or even really creeped out much for RE1 through to Code Veronica, more like annoyed because I hated having to run away from enemies all the time so I could save my bullets for things actually worth using them on like bosses. I never really felt threatened by the enemies because of this, they were more like bugs that would bite me every once in a while that I didn't want to waste the effort and resources to squish.
Is it the first time that they are saying this ? Cause i feel like they said this for RE 5 and 6 and others.
Wat. Like Resident Evil 4 and 5 weren't far enough already, right?Fanghawk said:
Why do people hate on 6 for being the natural extension of 4 and 5 and superior than them to boot? Why didn't they ***** and whine like I did back when 4 came out? Why does 5 get a pass for its dudebro action-hero shit?
6 was fine. Its three campaigns delivered exactly what they were promised to do. It was panned because people were witnessing the growth of the monster they praised and cooed over at its birth.