Damn. I think these Leon sections really suck. What a drop off!
Iām loving the Leon stuff as much as the Grace stuff. They just literally mashed up RE1 and RE4 together itās so funny.
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I had enough of that with RE4make I guess. But the grey basic hallways and monsters arenāt really helping me get more excited. I also donāt like RE fan service.
I was really excited by Grace and the hospital, for how detailed, well-made, and tense everything was. The crazy direction was exciting too!
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i like leon well enough except his main chunk is pretty whateverā¦ iām fairly close to starting a hard mode run but i keep putting it off when i imagine going through that again
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I didnāt hate it in practice because the first half was so good and the engine still feels solid in the same way but it was very weirdly confidently dry. if anything it reminded me of seeing like 10 minutes here and there of the Milla Jovavich movies, which just makes me think about how completely repulsive late aughts and even very early 10s aesthetics were to me. like demographically I am on some level thanking god every day that it isnāt 2003-2011 anymore, I basically canāt imagine anything worse, I am frequently confused when anyone has nostalgia for the Xbox 360 or anything around then (even if it was just for the less complicated industry dynamics) because it was all so bad, bad, bad in the ways that I register. I think I am a weird combination of highly aesthetically motivated and highly technically pliable which makes me willing and crucially able to rationalize a lot more stuff than most people as effectively being the price of modernity or w/e. like yes I will accept this as progress because Iām so judgmental of memory.
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While repeating the ending to FF7Remake but with Leon on a motorcycle in a drab unity student game environment, I was literally thinking āFelix would probably find this pleasingā on more or less these exact terms. I tried, earnestly, to see it like that but it did nothing to lift my spirits.
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The producer on MGS4 did a lot of social media outreach at the time of that gameās release and once talked about how a month after it launched, he saw discussion in every fan community slow to a crawl, and he realized it was expressly because the raison dāetre of the game was, āGive the people what they wantā. The comparisons Iām seeing everywhere of RE9 as the proverbial āgood versionā of MGS4 are very telling in this respect. Requiem fulfilled its genre expectations and didnāt egregiously embarrass itself, is breezily playable, āfunctionalā, etc., but will this be anybodyās favorite RE game a few years from now? Do Not Wesker and Not Birkin and Ambiguously Not HUNK capture the imagination, or will they only ever mean anything as referents to the stuff people actually care about?
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the first half and the last fifth are both excellent and novel imo, itās just the 50-80% mark that I would criticize on this basis
fwiw, without the B+ Raccoon City section I would probably put this one 3rd behind 7 and 2 (OG and remake are basically tied imo). Iāve never loved 3 or 4 and I hate 5 and 6, but it probably falls behind RE1 on the weakness of that part
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yeah that feels right. top of my head, 7 > 2 > 1/9 > 4/8 > 3 > rest. and the remakes are all pretty equal with the originals
yeah graceās big hospital/underground grunge chapters are so explosively great they canāt help but elevate the whole package imoā¦ i donāt nowhere near hate the leon section (and in fact i love the hitman briefcase axes) but itās undeniably the soft point. and it doesnāt help that it kicks off with return to shadow moses
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I thought the Leon sections were way too jarring. It felt like DLC. Or like, Revelations 3. Graceās sections were so good and now Iām shooting zombies for points to upgrade my guns and riding a motorcycle up a skyscraper? wtf?
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it does feel like they made the assets and the lighting for that part in about a quarter of the time as the rest of it which is very classic capcom
itās starting to sound like when people are just like āseason 2 sucksā with twin peaks when theyāre talking about the leon parts of the game. like thatās not quite accurate, thereās all the good lynch non-pilot episodes in early season 2, thereās the final episode etc.
itās the racoon city part thatās just okay. when youāre occasionally switching back to him during the grace parts at the beginning itās a compelling change up. then itās a ps3 game for a while which I think would be better if it was at least interesting to look at. once you get to the ark itās great again. and yes the wesker guy and hunk are good because wesker who for some reason people love gets his head cut off unceremoniously mid speech and hunk who everyone loves gets his throat tore out by an old guy on his last legs. it seems like itās bringing in these old elements to kind of clean the slate a little.
thinking about 7 I bet the chris/blue umbrella stuff would annoy me more now. I thought it was kind of dumb then but I thought well itās a sort of reboot, but then they just ignore it next game rightfully because they had much better ideas
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I think this is totally fair. The Leon parts during the Care Center are a welcome contrast, and are great. I love the boss fight in the attic especially.
But I doubt any of this is setting up a clean slate.
The third party psvr camera adapter thing worked as advertised and I am able to play RE7 vr again. My headset had sat in my closet the last four years or so and I had not cleaned it after letting other people use it for a while so there was some effort to make it not grody. Also apparently the foam parts were made out of some cheap material that the outer layer flakes off when it ages so I had a shit load of black dust to clean up and had to wear a towel over my head under the headset (a true vr experience). The price of affordable consumer electronics is that some part of it turns into junk after several years I guess.
Despite how much of a pain in the ass it was to set up/put away and despite how low res the psvr is RE7 is still such an incredibly unsettling experience that I donāt know if I will be able to actually finish it in vr. I picked up my old save where I was still fairly early in the game. I had just defeated whatās his face in the garage after getting my hand cut off so I got my bearings and then opened up the other part of the house. I started climbing the stairs to the second floor, saw the old lady in the wheel chair, and just said nope I donāt think I can do the jump scares from inside the game. The hand sawing part and the garage fight were incredibly distressing/stressful in vr.
Plus I was starting to get a little nauseous which I think was the other reason I fell off of vr in general. Someday I will try out a headset with higher resolution/refresh rates and see how I do but for now I think I can only do vr in shorter bursts. Which is a bit of a shame because I really do like the tech. Sitting in the opening menu screen for RE7 gave me that wow factor all over again, just looking around and being inside the game world.
If Sony ever puts psvr2 on sale for 50% off I will take the plunge there just to try out Village/RE4make in vr. Or maybe there are already options for an oculus or something in the same price range. Iāll have to do some research.
I also downloaded RE1 Directorās Cut off psn. They have a lot of RE games on psn. All the PS3 versions are available for streaming. The only ones I need to actually pay for are REmake/0, RE2/3make, and maybe one other I donāt remember. I have RE4make already and Village is also on psn. Iām going to check out Directorās Cut when Iām done with Requiem. See if I still have my PS1 sea legs and then compare it to REmake.
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Is it worth playing RE7 with the PSVR1 or does the PC mod completely usurp it? (I have the PSVR1 and a Meta Quest 2, idk how villageās VR is)
RE7 on PSVR is honestly like a top 10 all time gaming experience for me, I honestly donāt remember what even motivated me to try it out, I was not eagerly awaiting the game, I didnāt get a PSVR until 2018-2019, I was skeptical of the whole enterprise, and it blew me away
Village I just played on PC like normal and it is not nearly as atmospheric so I donāt think VR would really move the needle there
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Has anyone played the PC VR mod of 7 to compare against the PSVR version?
I will say it is totally worth playing on psvr unless you have the means to play the vr mod version on PC which would probably be a superior experience due to the higher resolution the meta quest 2 has (assuming you have a PC that can keep up).
That said it is totally playable and even decent looking on psvr despite the lower resolution. It is really smooth and has a ton of options for the controls. The sense of place is impeccable. RE7, along with Borderlands 2 and Skyrim, are some of my favorite games to play in vr that arenāt vr exclusive experiences. Just being inside the game is such a cool feeling. Leaning in and sticking your face right up to stuff. Just nothing else like it.
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Like the zombiesā pants
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