The Resident Evil Thread - Part 1

[ProjectPat2280]

Yeah. I'm gonna pass on this game unless it gets amazing reviews. The more I hear the more I get worried about it's concept. I'd rather have a Resident Evil 6 than something like this.

The concept is that the game is going to detail the events of the Raccoon City outbreak from the eyes of 4 Umbrella employees. Whats wrong with that? You dont have to take out Leon. I much rather have this than 6 because id assume 6 wont deal with zombies or the T-virus and iv been itching to head back to Raccoon City.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Eh. I find heading back to some place you've already been is usually just a stupid stalling tactic.

It's more than just the what if portions of the game. I loved the Raccoon City portion of the story, but it's over with. Things change and move on. Taking steps back never help.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Eh. I find heading back to some place you've already been is usually just a stupid stalling tactic.

It's more than just the what if portions of the game. I loved the Raccoon City portion of the story, but it's over with. Things change and move on. Taking steps back never help.

The incident in Raccoon City is the best thing the series has offered. It'll be nice to go back to a setting you know works after the failure of the previous setting.

 

[E-Man]

I agree with Billy about the past. I really don't care to go back to Raccoon City, but I am liking the idea of this game being a team based shooter in the RE series. This could be a decent little road block until RE6 comes out. I'm still more excited for part 6 than anything. They really need to hurry up and bring that out.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I agree with Billy about the past. I really don't care to go back to Raccoon City, but I am liking the idea of this game being a team based shooter in the RE series. This could be a decent little road block until RE6 comes out. I'm still more excited for part 6 than anything. They really need to hurry up and bring that out.

I want 6 because i want another RE title, but i honestly dont care to see the series advance any more, unless they have a way to bring back the T-Virus and popular enemies, because what they did in 4 and 5 doesnt compare to the first few games. The Plagas were just terrible.

 

[Matt Mortem]

I want 6 because i want another RE title, but i honestly dont care to see the series advance any more, unless they have a way to bring back the T-Virus and popular enemies, because what they did in 4 and 5 doesnt compare to the first few games. The Plagas were just terrible.

I agree. I want the T-Virus and Umbrella created monsters again!!!

 

[Iron_Stark]

Eh. I find heading back to some place you've already been is usually just a stupid stalling tactic.

It's more than just the what if portions of the game. I loved the Raccoon City portion of the story, but it's over with. Things change and move on. Taking steps back never help.

Wait what? They're going back to where the s*** really hit the fan. How can them putting a team of four in a zombie infested city fully armed with guns and explosives be anything but bad?

Plus as its been said, this is much better than going to another small village fighting angry villagers with pitchforks and torches. (Unless 6 goes back to zombies and the T-Virus)

 

[Jennifer Walters]

There's your problem with the past again. Umbrella is gone. So of course for the most part their monsters are gone too.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

There's your problem with the past again. Umbrella is gone. So of course for the most part their monsters are gone too.

And we get stuck with Tricell who used the Plagas. More reason to go back to the t-virus.


Honestly, im not worried about what enemies show up, i just want RE to go back to what made the games so great.

 

[E-Man]

I don't get how y'all didn't like the Plagas and Majini. They're the same thing as zombies but more effective. I'm a zombie lover and all, but they are the lesser foe. They are slow and only good in numbers while Las Plagas and Majini could run and make you **** your pants. It was a good upgrade to me.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

And it's not like Umbrella's monsters weren't still there (Wesker and Excella obviously mixed the T-Virus into the Plagas and even created more Lickers.). Or monsters weren't still present. They were just not made from a virus. Most of the boss battles to me felt like fighting monsters from previous entries.

Yes, the controls changed and CO-OP kind of changed the fear elements in 5, but for the most part I never got this whole '4 AND 5" are Resident Evil in Name Only treatment, some fans give them.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I don't get how y'all didn't like the Plagas and Majini. They're the same thing as zombies but more effective. I'm a zombie lover and all, but they are the lesser foe. They are slow and only good in numbers while Las Plagas and Majini could run and make you **** your pants. It was a good upgrade to me.

My problem with the Majini were they were just too human. I no longer felt i was fighting a creature. There is something far more eerie about a zombie shuffling its way toward you than some african dude with a pick axe.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

And it's not like Umbrella's monsters weren't still there (Wesker and Excella obviously mixed the T-Virus into the Plagas and even created more Lickers.). Or monsters weren't still present. They were just not made from a virus. Most of the boss battles to me felt like fighting monsters from previous entries.

Yes, the controls changed and CO-OP kind of changed the fear elements in 5, but for the most part I never got this whole '4 AND 5" are Resident Evil in Name Only treatment, some fans give them.

4 had some great moments, but 5 completely took the game out of the survival horror genre. Even if there were no co-op, 5 would of been as happy go lucky as a Call of Duty game. I had a ton of fun with 5, but that game was unrecognizable as a RE title(minus Chris, Jill and Wesker of course).

 

[Matt]

I want 6 because i want another RE title, but i honestly dont care to see the series advance any more, unless they have a way to bring back the T-Virus and popular enemies, because what they did in 4 and 5 doesnt compare to the first few games. The Plagas were just terrible.

I still say the best answer to that is a Resident Evil set during WWII. The main character can be a soldier who stumbles into Spencer and Ashford's first bioweapon lab, funded by the Nazis and is the first one to encounter the T-Virus. Yes, it would require some retconning of the timeline (I believe Ashford and Spencer's first successful experiment with the T-Virus was the 50s), but come on, the series has been retconned so much, what could it hurt.

The idea of playing in dark WWII trenches, navigating through gothic European castles, being on a battlefield surrounded by corpses that may reanimate at any moment. Plus the old weaponry....

A WWII set Resident Evil would be the perfect way to bring the story back to its horror roots.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I still liked the Majini, but the difference between them and zombies is tone. The majini feel like enemies with motives, tasked to come up with you. Zombies, in Racoon city, you feel isolated, it imposes a sense of loss and desolation on the whole world, and then there's the whole 'endless numbers' thing. Also, them using weapons and things was kinda lame. I'd rather less tough enemies like zombies, but in much bigger numbers.

 

[Benstamania]

I still say the best answer to that is a Resident Evil set during WWII. The main character can be a soldier who stumbles into Spencer and Ashford's first bioweapon lab, funded by the Nazis and is the first one to encounter the T-Virus. Yes, it would require some retconning of the timeline (I believe Ashford and Spencer's first successful experiment with the T-Virus was the 50s), but come on, the series has been retconned so much, what could it hurt.

The idea of playing in dark WWII trenches, navigating through gothic European castles, being on a battlefield surrounded by corpses that may reanimate at any moment. Plus the old weaponry....

A WWII set Resident Evil would be the perfect way to bring the story back to its horror roots.

I approve of this post... At this point I'd take remakes of Zero - 3 again just to go back to Racoon City...

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I believe in Harvey Dent

 

[Iron_Stark]

And it's not like Umbrella's monsters weren't still there (Wesker and Excella obviously mixed the T-Virus into the Plagas and even created more Lickers.). Or monsters weren't still present. They were just not made from a virus. Most of the boss battles to me felt like fighting monsters from previous entries.

Yes, the controls changed and CO-OP kind of changed the fear elements in 5, but for the most part I never got this whole '4 AND 5" are Resident Evil in Name Only treatment, some fans give them.

Yeah, those were the best parts of those games, but when you have enemies with Gatling guns, dynamite, pitch forks and rocket launchers coming at you, it just doesn't feel like RE anymore.

I don't get how y'all didn't like the Plagas and Majini. They're the same thing as zombies but more effective. I'm a zombie lover and all, but they are the lesser foe. They are slow and only good in numbers while Las Plagas and Majini could run and make you **** your pants. It was a good upgrade to me.

The were cool and all, I still love 4 & 5, buuut, I grew up a zombie fan, I've been a zombie fan about as long as I've been an Iron Man fan, so the chance of playing a game where I'm armed to the teeth with ammo and dropped in the middle of zombie infested city has me more excited than if they were to announce RE6 with more Plagas/Majini enemies.

 

[Benstamania]

I didn't mind RE4 until it became a glorified escort mission and I despised what 5 was... There was absolutely no suspense or horror in 5, at all. Zombies could be SO much better now due to the amount that they could give us on screen now... it could be easy to feel overwhelmed with zombies with the tech we have today...

 

[Jick]

RE4 is my favorite in the series.
I didn't care much about RE5. What I really liked was to finally kill Wesker.

 

[Benstamania]

I'll still take RE2, "tank controls" and all over any of them. REmake on the Cube is a close second.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I'll still take RE2, "tank controls" and all over any of them. REmake on the Cube is a close second.

I recently beat both, beat the REmake on my gamecube and then played 2 on the PSn and thats a tough decision to make. 2 is special for me because that was actually my first introduction to the series, but the REmake features Chris whose been my fav protagonist throughout the series. There are some great locations in the first, Lisa Trevors little 'shack' is just bone chilling. I think i have to give the slight edge to the REmake, imo, thats the pinnacle of survival horror, nothing has come close to that yet(outside of 2 and CV).

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I didn't mind RE4 until it became a glorified escort mission and I despised what 5 was... There was absolutely no suspense or horror in 5, at all. Zombies could be SO much better now due to the amount that they could give us on screen now... it could be easy to feel overwhelmed with zombies with the tech we have today...

Yea, once you got to the castle and then the island, the game seemed to go off in another direction other than horror. Altho there were still some good scares in those sections.

I loved 4 and even tho i felt as tho 5 was no longer a RE, i had an absolute blast playing it. And the Lost in Nightmares chapter made me desperately want to go back to the 1st game with that over the shoulder camera.

 

[Iron_Stark]

I've never played the remake, I've always wanted to but I've never had a Gamecube or a Wii.

That said part 2 is my favorite of the series, I play and beat it every now and then.

 

[Jick]

RE2 was also my entry into the series.
Maybe that's why Claire and Leon are my favorite chars.