Continuing the discussion from RESIDENT EVIL.... (Part 1) - #2029 by Felix.
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Leon.
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he shouldve been balding
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was holding out for a MGS4 moment where you mash to push through the infection symtoms
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I’m glad another mod got to this thread before I could, because I was gonna call it ORGANODANGER.
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I’m at the water treatment plant. Maaaaan this is the bloodiest RE game, maybe? The only one I’ve actually finished to completion (multiple times) was 4, back when. Haven’t played 3, 6, 8 or Code Veronica/Outbreak/etc. so I’m not super fluent on what all has gone on in the series. But literal waterfalls of blood? Is that a first?
I don’t know how far I have to go. I’m assuming I’m in the middle part of the game now? Has anyone attempted the four hour run for the achievement? Or whatever it is. I’d have to plot out the most optimal path through the care center to attempt that. That seems like the biggest hurdle at this point. Everything else so far has been pretty straightforward.
This has got me wanting to go back and finish 7. Maybe dust off the PSVR for it but I need to get a dongle or something from Sony for it to work on PS5 I think. That’s kind of annoying but probably worth it.
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For sure!
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I am not in love with the way these games since RE8 have overemphasized the franchise staple of cleaning out the entire map of supplies, because it’s now filtered through the design of open world games and I can feel the completionist impulse in me creep up whenever these come out and I inevitably begin to feel mentally ill looking for herbs and collectible coins. It’s especially bad in the Leon section in Raccoon City (which is so boxy and ugly and drab, I am sad to say).
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the Racoon City section is absolutely a bold creative choice to make you play a PS3 game for 2 hours
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this was fuckin sick
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Keep reading “RESIDENT ELVIS…”
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I replayed FF7Remake a little too close to this one, I think. The first Raccoon City section is suggesting some unfavorable comparisons to a couple low moments from that game.
I’m in Raccoon City. This game is so bad ass! I remember playing Resident Evil 2 on a rental in 1998/1999 and now I’m walking through the bombed out ruins 30 years later, like coming full circle.
This is making me want to go back and finish all the other RE games I’ve started and start the rest I never did. So many games and no idea where to begin, if I even do. How long will the RE9 high last, I wonder. Maybe enough for multiple play through. Maybe finish RE2make and RE4make. Turns out the camera adapter you need to play psvr on ps5 isn’t offered by Sony anymore but there are a bunch of knock off versions available for cheap so I’m going to try my luck with one of those. All the gross out stuff in this one has me wanting to stick my face back into RE7.
I missed some notes in the care center because I never figured out how to get into the office rooms on the second or third floor west wing. Maybe there is a new game plus. Also does the roulette wheel end up being used for something? Every time I went in there I’d spin it but nothing ever happened. Maybe it was just set dressing.
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The director for this one did Revelations and Biohazard, good aesthetic sensibilities from those alone, also accounts for the more survival oriented tempo even as part of the action sections. Was also part of the team on 5, but I’d sooner suggest 4 for its impact and reintroduction of Leon as a series mainstay, even if it’s not immediately connected to the overarching Umbrella conspiracy story.
Requiem is openly in conversation with REmake 2 (3 may as well be an expansion pack to that one, since we’re going there, and they’re usually bundled together these days anyway), and design-wise also an extension of Leon from REmake 4.
As far as a chronology goes for this series, you’ve got the original trilogy, Code Veronica, 4, Revelations, 5, Revelations 2, 6, Biohazard, Village (these two narratively are mostly tangents though) and Requiem. The remakes at this point mostly define everything past 6, although not considered to generally supplant the originals. Those are titled pretty straightforwardly, and the first one, REmake 1 is pretty major in any case. I have a lot of fondness for 0 too, but it’s arguably not particularly important for the purposes of plotting. Scuttlebutt seems to be that the next big remakes in the pipeline are going to be Code Veronica, with potentially some kind of new remake of the first game with integration of 0.
When you go through these games, you will encounter plot beats and characters which might make you confused as to whether you’re missing story context from elsewhere. For instance, Krauser in 4 and Terragrigia in Revelations. This is not the case, these games are just very weird about that kind of thing in the early era.
Personally, if I were to prioritise, I’d say play REmake 1 and the original 4. If the more modern stuff, Biohazard and the new remake trilogy.
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I heard they gave the zombies’ pants piss and shit stains
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