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i dont think that guy wanted a serious resident evil 2 recommendation, they were referencing the previous discussion about not playing games series in order
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Devils Affricate posted:All RE games go through the same set of stages in the same sequence: Somewhat ironically RE3 OG skips one but the remake doesn't although that section is only seconds long.
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I tried one of them on GameCube and ran out of saves before the rental weekend was even up and just stopped playing. Weird camera angle poo poo going on. Silent Hill always seemed scarier and better despite never playing any of them.
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Outpost22 posted:I've never played a Resident Evil game, where should I start? RE is all over the place in terms of quality and tone. You've got spooky survival horror ones with resource and path management: Original RE1&2 (campy fun but honestly probably too old now) RE: HD Remake (weird camera, most similar to original, you can turn off tank controls) RE2:Remake RE7 & 8ish (8 is all over the place from classic RE to action to walking simulator) RE0? I didn't play it, heard it sucked. Then you've got your action REs where I think the only good one is 4 and probably the 4 remake (haven't played it yet), 5 is supposedly mediocre and everyone hated 6. I'd put 3 remake in that category and I hated it but YMMV. Personally I'd start with either RE2 remake or RE remake. RE2 remake is the best in the series but I think I'd give 2nd best to RE:Remake. Edit: JollyBoyJohn posted:i dont think that guy wanted a serious resident evil 2 recommendation, they were referencing the previous discussion about not playing games series in order How could you play with our hearts like this, Outpost22? Nice Van My Man fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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The originals are way too old, yeah. Which is why the answer should be...jokes posted:Resident Evil 2 remake  dsf posted:if your more used to DS style combat it takes some adjusting, the game emphasizes blocking and parrying more over dodge rolling thru everything. its in kind of a weird place between Sekiro and DS but it works pretty well once you get used to it. Some of the later bosses are a little over-tuned though, you can tell the devs were looking to challenge people who are already souls veterans. Maybe they tried slightly too hard then. The Surge 2 was all about parrying, but the timing made sense. Or maybe the animations were just clearer. Also it has a very satisfying dodge. itry fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Feb 24, 2024 01:26
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Give us the Code Veronica remake you cowards.
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Vandar posted:Give us the Code Veronica remake you cowards. I think we'll have to wait until they remake 5 and 6.
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'horror games are only horror games for the first 30 minutes' is not remotely true. the scariest parts of just to give a few examples: re3: clock tower, hours in soma: the actual end of the game, 10 hours in, phenomenal re8: the italian house, about 8 hours in the scariest part of any horror game is when the horror fuckers on the team win the case to let the level get scary, or when the writers reach their crescencdo. the scariest part of any bad horror game? yeah it's the first 30 minutes before you realise it's bad. now is re7 only scary for the first 30 minutes? yeah, but it's an okay game which gets progressively worse. re8 on the other hand is a bad game which randomly gets better and worse at different times.
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Feb 24, 2024 01:57
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It's those rookie-spookies I've been warning you about.
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Oh yeah, that reminds me how big kid's horror is. Kids are into Five Nights are Freddie's, Poppy's Playtime, and lesser known stuff like Rainbow Friends. I think everyone knows FNAF even if we don't play it - single screen where you manage energy for looking through cameras, turning on lights, and closing doors. Poppy's Playtime is, I guess I'd compare it to children's Amnesia? A Funhouse with small puzzles and some monster chases. Rainbow Friends is a Roblox multiplayer collectathon. Then there's other crap I can't even remember the name of, but they all seem to have the theme of creepy children's entertainment. When kids talk about them they're always comparing the 'jump scares,' but in their vocabulary jump scares are a good thing. It's weird hearing the kids talking about the jump scares they love while the old curmudgeons like us lambaste things for leaning on jump scares too much. With the popularity of kid's horror I'm surprised the Goosebumps series hasn't been able to capitalize on anything. Get your act together R. L. Stine!
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That reminds me of some movie on Netflix where the entire description is something like "this horror movie has the most jump scares per minute of any movie ever, it's official!" And I always wondered why
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it's this one I think https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/the-midnight-club-breaks-a-world-record-for-most-jump-scares It looks so bad
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i like spooky games but the best horror in games is gameplay driven. if resident evil is scary it's not cause zombies and monster dogs and mutants are scary. it's scary when you have to do something and only have 3 bullets left to get there. similarly Dark Souls games aren't even horror but they pump up the anxiety and tap into that part of the brain. If you nailed the mechanics you could probably make a game about a pong dot being chased by a larger dot that felt scary to play.
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Nice Van My Man posted:Oh yeah, that reminds me how big kid's horror is. Kids are into Five Nights are Freddie's, Poppy's Playtime, and lesser known stuff like Rainbow Friends. I think everyone knows FNAF even if we don't play it - single screen where you manage energy for looking through cameras, turning on lights, and closing doors. Poppy's Playtime is, I guess I'd compare it to children's Amnesia? A Funhouse with small puzzles and some monster chases. Rainbow Friends is a Roblox multiplayer collectathon. Then there's other crap I can't even remember the name of, but they all seem to have the theme of creepy children's entertainment. what always jumps out at me about these kind of posts is 'when i talk to these kids' you talked to a dumb teen. a child who is gonna grow up to be stupid. there are smarter kids but the 30+ year olds of the world don't normally encounter them cos they keep to themselves and don't really care what their uncle/teacher/coach thinks. you only hear from the stupid ones. and they're gonna turn into you and say the exact same poo poo.
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Resident Evils are many different games in the same box. They’re survival/horror/action/anime games, but all at different points in the game.
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With the exception of probably RE6, I think one of RE's strongest points is that it covers all sorts of varying degrees of horror and action while retaining the spirit and feel of the original game pretty well via all sorts of different approaches. The fact that there is literally one RE game I don't like (barring some crappy multiplayer stuff) in a series I've been playing for almost 30 years is impressive. obviously they vary in quality but 6 is the only one I consider outright crap.
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Nice Van My Man posted:Oh yeah, that reminds me how big kid's horror is. Kids are into Five Nights are Freddie's, Poppy's Playtime, and lesser known stuff like Rainbow Friends. I think everyone knows FNAF even if we don't play it - single screen where you manage energy for looking through cameras, turning on lights, and closing doors. Poppy's Playtime is, I guess I'd compare it to children's Amnesia? A Funhouse with small puzzles and some monster chases. Rainbow Friends is a Roblox multiplayer collectathon. Then there's other crap I can't even remember the name of, but they all seem to have the theme of creepy children's entertainment. I think it's the unexpected becomes more and more expected as you see a ton of it, and also kids are doing this as a kinda bravery test. Having a children's thing be scary is also a scary thing to children. Olds like silent hill because they are scared of the eternal suffering that is existence.
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veni veni veni posted:i like spooky games but the best horror in games is gameplay driven. if resident evil is scary it's not cause zombies and monster dogs and mutants are scary. it's scary when you have to do something and only have 3 bullets left to get there. similarly Dark Souls games aren't even horror but they pump up the anxiety and tap into that part of the brain. If you nailed the mechanics you could probably make a game about a pong dot being chased by a larger dot that felt scary to play. Tunnel Runner was indeed pretty fuckin' creepy
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Kids like garbage, they do now and the did when I was a kid. By consuming garbage you eventually either get a taste for good stuff or you buy Rocksteady's Suicide Squad and claim it wasnt a dead game on launch.
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roomtone posted:what always jumps out at me about these kind of posts is 'when i talk to these kids' Oh they're not teens yet, I assume they'll be into other stuff by then. I'm not saying I even have a problem with it, the games are fine. I just find it interesting how big the kid's horror games genre is and what kids are looking for vs adults. Kids love the jump scares, they don't care how cheap the thrills are and it's cool. It reminds me of me and my friends watching Mortal Kombat Fatalities or something.
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Dead Space is the only good horror game.
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Waltzing Along posted:Dead Space is the only good horror game. This poster gets it
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The best horror game is using voice chat while female in CoD.
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Barudak posted:The best horror game is using voice chat while female I played in a SWTOR guild with some chill people, chill enough that I still occasionally play other games with them to this day, and at one point someone else in the guild asked another guildmate's wife (who was also in the guild) to elope with him because he misread a great many signals, and this attempt failed so spectacularly that the guild ceased to exist afterwards
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Waltzing Along posted:System Shock 2 is the only good horror game. FTFY
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I think the scariest game for me was Fatal Frame 2. It was just terrifying from start to finish. You always feel vulnerable and never know what to expect. Conversely, Dead Space doesn't even register in my mind as a horror game. I'm not saying it sucks, but it's just a gory action game.
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Alien Isolation makes me squeal like a little girl more than I'd like to admit.
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I think some of you have never played Last Half of Darkness Oh gently caress why did I look this up no sleep for me tonight  
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QuarkJets posted:I played in a SWTOR guild with some chill people, chill enough that I still occasionally play other games with them to this day, and at one point someone else in the guild asked another guildmate's wife (who was also in the guild) to elope with him because he misread a great many signals, and this attempt failed so spectacularly that the guild ceased to exist afterwards Beautiful, just beautiful.
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credburn posted:I think some of you have never played Last Half of Darkness HABACAS OJECA MISTO... gently caress. Too late. RIP, goon.
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Barudak posted:Beautiful, just beautiful. lol thats funny ive played literally thousands of dota games with a woman on my team and its fine, very occasionally someone will have an "oo a woman" response in the sense that the tone of their voice changes very slightly but; oops sorry i forgot it's 2024 and you arnt mean to react at all to a person at all in any way based on any defining factor since you might offend someone - stoicism all the way there was one specific game i got genuinely upset because we had a pair of (English) animals on our team giving it the whole "get back in the kitchen, suck my penis" routine, people like that do unfortunately exist that completely lack in self awareness or levity or well, manners and class but it is what is, I would rather encounter them in a MOBA than a dark alley
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the most scary thing in the Resident Evil series was playing RE4 VR on the quest 2 and turning around to see Ashley standing completely silently and still only inches from my face staring through me with her uncanny dead eyes, it was seriously one of the most unsettling things ive experienced
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QuarkJets posted:I played in a SWTOR guild with some chill people, chill enough that I still occasionally play other games with them to this day, and at one point someone else in the guild asked another guildmate's wife (who was also in the guild) to elope with him because he misread a great many signals, and this attempt failed so spectacularly that the guild ceased to exist afterwards guild drama is the only thing I actually miss from MMOGs sometimes
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I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. Am I missing something? It's kinda trash to me so far. The gameplay is wholly unremarkable, every animation that's not part of a baked story scene looks super-awkward and stilted, ambient NPC behaviors are downright weird, and everything in the environment feels... I dunno... stuck, like part of a set. Everything feels artificial, and I don't mean that in an intentional artistic statement kind of way. Maybe this gets more interesting once I access some cooler skills/implants, but so far, I feel like it's going to be a slog to keep going. Aramis fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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It was never good and it will never be good. It's a FPS.
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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. I did this same thing! Got cyberpunk on gog at half off after the new expansion was released The beginning of the game had pretty ok gameplay but I loved the setting enough to keep going, and the skill trees really open up the gameplay possibilities. Being able to double jump and then air dash through the air is pretty fun, I am enjoying using a throwing knife and a light machine gun and a tech sniper rifle (meaning it shoots through walls) I got a bunch of cyberdeck skills but I think it may have been a mistake, combat quickhacks are boring and I don't want yet another stealth archery open world game
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Cyberpunk doesn't have very dynamic world but it's actually really cool and varied with a lot of care put into it. I found it to be one of the more believable video games cities. Definitely shines more as you explore more. You are locked to just a few city blocks during the prologue so just b line the heist mission so you can go anywhere (Its a cool questline anyways) I love CP2077 but its cool for the same reasons their other games are cool for the most part. Big, detailed world, decent writing, cool visual style...It's not the deepest game mechanically or anything but theirs plenty of toys to play around with.
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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. Its so poo poo. I gave it SO many chances and played it a lot, it's just super poo poo and bad. It's a real shame, the bits where you're not playing are really good, but the gameplay / gunplay is irredeemably bad and annoying.
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the last time i was afraid of a video game it was doom 2, and I was nine. amnesia is kind of scary until the first time a monster catches you and then all of the suspense and mystery is drained from the game. basically, i agree with the person who said only the first bit of a game can be truly scary. i liked soma, but it never had me feeling afraid.
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None of the RE games are bad enough to be compared to anime. Most of them are a lot of fun, but I don't find them scary aside from the odd jump scare. I think it's because they are more "human science gone too far" as opposed to evil supernatural poo poo. I think Silent Hill 4 is the best and scariest of the series. It's more of a slow burn descent into a nightmare that keeps getting worse as it seeps into reality until nowhere is safe. The locations are creepy, especially the water prison, and the monsters are more level-specific instead of just the same things appearing everywhere. It also inspired one of the best internet meltdowns of all time, imo.
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