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Love the world and characters, but man the gameplay kinda sucks lol

LordYeezus posted...

but man the gameplay kinda sucks lol

Nah. Tank controls are dated but theyre still passable.

Woah.

BearlyWilling posted...

Nah. Tank controls are dated but theyre still passable.

Tank controls suck lol. Luckily they're remaking 4 so we don't have to deal with it anymore for that title

Agreed outside of 4, 5 and the nice parts of 6. Those games were actually about gameplay instead of dourly jogging around, seeing which key fits in the bathroom sink.

I never really thought of the story being the strong point, more like the monster designs and the characters.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Agreed outside of 4, 5 and the nice parts of 6. Those games were actually about gameplay instead of dourly jogging around, seeing which key fits in the bathroom sink.

I never really thought of the story being the strong point, more like the monster designs and the characters.

Still gotta play 5 and maybe 6, couldn't get into 7 for some reason but I'll try to get back into it. Only played 1&2 remake, 4 and revelations 1&2. Revelations 2 gameplay wasn't so bad, at least it didn't have tank controls

tank control is good for static camera/background.
once they moved to 3D, it becomes outdated fast.

LordYeezus posted...

Still gotta play 5 and maybe 6, couldn't get into 7 for some reason but I'll try to get back into it. Only played 1&2 remake, 4 and revelations 1&2. Revelations 2 gameplay wasn't so bad, at least it didn't have tank controls

If you think stopping to shoot is unconditionally bad and you just want the game to be a generic run and gun like the newer ones, you won't like 5. 6 is a strange beast. Not as good as 4 or 5 but some people really take to it.

The continuity of the same characters in different games is questionable. Theyre looks, skills and personalities are practically different people.

Love the gameplay in 2 + 3 Remakes, 7 and 8. The rest I'm not a big fan of personally, gameplay wise.

LordYeezus posted...

Love the world and characters

meh, characters are cool. Story sucks

Tbh im entertained by how bad the story is. It just makes shit up to make another game and keep it going but its usually pretty damn bad.

4 just barely has the original formula intact

After that, you got like 7 which is parts Survivor, parts Dead Aim, parts modern horror formula. 6 is a movie. 5 is Gears of War. 8 is set up like a Metroidvania and to reflect aspects of a sandbox crawl thru a haunted castle. REm2ke hiccups trying to mend the gap. And even then, 4 goes way into MGS & DMC territory throughout the game. There's a merchant and a Napoleon clone and in-game mini-games.

Originally though, the story and art picked up where the gameplay and graphics left off, but this isn't really the case anymore. RE3 and REmake/zero were probably the last true RE games.

this is literally the first time I've ever heard someone praise the story

Story has gotten to be almost MGS levels of goofy. Just a little bit more straight forward. Honestly, I kind of like that aspect though.

WorsCaseOntario posted...

this is literally the first time I've ever heard someone praise the story

The personalities of RE are amazing. Best thing that isn't actually an anime. RE characters > FF7 & MGS characters.

Echo Night Beyond demonstrated that IMO

That being said I like REm3ke. As an ode to 6 and Dead Space

Tank control is part of RE's charm. It's funny when people try to use it against the game.

VeggetaX posted...

Tank control is part of RE's charm. It's funny when people try to use it against the game.

Not really

It plays on the already notorious learning curve, like how hard it is to get used to Dark Souls jank and Mortal Kombat jank haha. We convince ourselves this is good, and forget to go through that process with new players and critics. Everyone falls the first time.

The learning curb for RE is not even hard come on.

It might be nice if Capcom took the 4/5 gameplay and made a side series focused on gameplay instead of slow walking but this is also Capcom we're talking about and they can't be trusted.

It's a shame we got one mercs game and it was some weird small-scale 3ds experiment. I would have loved a big one that let you pick between 4/5/5reunion scoring systems and a heap of characters.

Maybe not for a modern pro gamer but if it were really easy to have a great time using the original controls, it wouldn't be such a complaint. It looks so cool and is super fun running through the game once you get used to the camera angle changing on you. That's what really tends to get people because they'll wanna try changing direction with the camera and you can't do that, except but in certain ways when making turn, which you have to to do it with speed & grace lol

By the same philosophy, shooting in the original RE games is a different experience from what pretty much any game offers nowadays. The game means to challenge you to run past the zombies conserving your awkward ammo and dealing with the crazy camera in the process, not to mention the precision it takes on the "tank controls" to deek past a zombie like that, you have to get intimate with the nasty thing's AI...

All tricks Im not sure many other games have quite been able to capture again since

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Agreed outside of 4, 5 and the nice parts of 6. Those games were actually about gameplay instead of dourly jogging around, seeing which key fits in the bathroom sink.

I never really thought of the story being the strong point, more like the monster designs and the characters.

I agree with pretty much all this.

re2 is the best game ever made

LordYeezus posted...

Tank controls suck lol. Luckily they're remaking 4 so we don't have to deal with it anymore for that title

4 didn't have tank controls.

The worldbuilding is good but the plots themselves are infamously B-movie tier if not excuse plots altogether. The early ones mainly just being "escape monster infested place and blow it up" and the later ones still being relatively simple (except 6 which was just silly).

Frosted_Midna posted...

4 didn't have tank controls.

It still does, it's just the camera that's changed

Great story? Maybe the original Raccoon City trilogy, but even then that wasn't perfect. Everything else RE story related is lol worthy.

Tank controls are necessary for old school RE camera angles. The "modern" control scheme for the remasters of RE0 and Remake are complete shite.

If they were to bring the old school RE style back, they'd have non tank controls But the camera angles would be more dynamic and free flowing to accommodate. Kind of like how code veronica had some dynamic camera angles