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Topic	What's a bad game that deserves a second chance?
Mad-Dogg 10/13/25 6:32:17 AM #47:	Resident evil outbreak. These games was greatly held back by the PS2's hardware. With how ambitious these games were they would fare way better on our modern platforms. Hell even for their time period the original Xbox would have been a way better platform for their outbreak experiment since the Xbox came standard with a HDD already, mandatory ethernet requirement right out of the gate, had the largest online console gaming player numbers for it's generation, and a basic voice chat headset. (The headset in the spirit of online survival horror co-op working great with the proximity chat function (halo 2 was using proximity chat even back then). How outbreak worked is that you could not type during gameplay and you had to rely on emotes. With proximity chat they could have made it to where you can voice chat with people in the same room and thus keeping that survival horror feel when you get separated). The RE outbreak games really was at the wrong place for the time. Online PS2 gaming.....it was "so-so". Later online PS2 games like socom 2 also started trying to do a ethernet only requirement to cut back on the massive lag 56K modem users would cause, but at the time outbreak 1 released it was still possible to use 56K via the PS2's modem/broadband adapter add-on. Loading was ridiculously long unless you had the PS2 HDD to install the game on.......and the only way to actually get a PS2 HDD in north america anyway was to buy final fantasy 11, =/ Even if you did have the PS2 HDD, non-HDD users and HDD users were on separate "settings", and so a HDD user could not utilize the HDD game install and play with the non-HDD users (and of course the vast majority of the online population were non-HDD users because no shit what with the FF11 HDD bundle requirement). Also the EU region got screwed with their version of outbreak file 1 never having online play in the first place. The outbreak games really deserve a second chance now that we have the proper consoles like PS5 and xbox series alongside the PC for it. --- GTag:MadDogg730 PSN:lMadDogg NNID:xMadDoggx NS friend code:5313-0564-0819 Go buy cyber shadow like right now. <cite>Mad-Dogg posted [p:986710929] in What's a b... [t:81054264]...</cite> <quote>Resident evil outbreak.These games was greatly held back by the PS2's hardware. With how ambitious these games were they would fare way better on our modern platforms. Hell even for their time period the original Xbox would have been a way better platform for their outbreak experiment since the Xbox came standard with a HDD already, mandatory ethernet requirement right out of the gate, had the largest online console gaming player numbers for it's generation, and a basic voice chat headset. (The headset in the spirit of online survival horror co-op working great with the proximity chat function (halo 2 was using proximity chat even back then). How outbreak worked is that you could not type during gameplay and you had to rely on emotes. With proximity chat they could have made it to where you can voice chat with people in the same room and thus keeping that survival horror feel when you get separated).The RE outbreak games really was at the wrong place for the time. Online PS2 gaming.....it was "so-so". Later online PS2 games like socom 2 also started trying to do a ethernet only requirement to cut back on the massive lag 56K modem users would cause, but at the time outbreak 1 released it was still possible to use 56K via the PS2's modem/broadband adapter add-on. Loading was ridiculously long unless you had the PS2 HDD to install the game on.......and the only way to actually get a PS2 HDD in north america anyway was to buy final fantasy 11, =/ Even if you did have the PS2 HDD, non-HDD users and HDD users were on separate "settings", and so a HDD user could not utilize the HDD game install and play with the non-HDD users (and of course the vast majority of the online population were non-HDD users because no shit what with the FF11 HDD bundle requirement).Also the EU region got screwed with their version of outbreak file 1 never having online play in the first place.The outbreak games really deserve a second chance now that we have the proper consoles like PS5 and xbox series alongside the PC for it. --- GTag:MadDogg730 PSN:lMadDogg NNID:xMadDoggx NS friend code:5313-0564-0819 Go buy cyber shadow like right now.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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