Current Events > Resident evil 2 is a top ten GOAT

(+) Yeah! (+)

With remake being top 5
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I prefer Resident Evil 7 to the both of them, tbh, but they're great games.
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RE3 is better.
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Re7 is a classic too
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Tmk posted...

RE3 is better.

What the fuck no
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Hairy-man posted...

Tmk posted...

RE3 is better.

What the fuck no

This

Re3 is great but no way
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What exactly makes RE2 better.

Is it being much shorter and trying to compensate by having you play through 4 times with marginal changes.

Is it having less advanced mechanics.

Less memorable bosses.
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It's either my favorite or second favorite game ever made depending on the day. It's such a fun little chunk of gaming, and the fact that you can beat a scenario in like 2 hours pretty easily on a lazy afternoon keeps me replaying it a few times a year
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A far inferior equivalent to mercenaries mode.
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Tmk posted...

What exactly makes RE2 better.

Is it being much shorter and trying to compensate by having you play through 4 times with marginal changes.

Is it having less advanced mechanics.

Less memorable bosses.

Because Carlos is a loser.

And Jill looks way too sexy.

Running around the city sucks.

The clocktower is dumb.
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Hairy-man posted...

Because Carlos is a loser.

And Jill looks way too sexy.

Running around the city sucks.

The clocktower is dumb.

Are you writing a song? Titled "I'm Wrong (But I'm Still Talkin')?
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Tmk posted...

What exactly makes RE2 better.

Is it being much shorter and trying to compensate by having you play through 4 times with marginal changes.

Is it having less advanced mechanics.

Less memorable bosses.

Re3 has one memorable boss. Nemesis

Unless you're talking about the gravedigger worm lol

Re2 had birkin, the fucking crocodile, mr x. Enemy types like the licker were way better. Re 3 had those annoying insects that got on their hind legs, and cheapshot one hit hunters.

Leon and Claire are way cooler than Carlos and jill. Playing through the rpd department is way better than half of the areas in re3. There's literally no need to make all that ammo crafting in re3 you get enough ammo everywhere.

The RNG is stupid fuck, completely random on where you might get some key items that can really ruin some speedruns. You can get screwed out of a grenade launcher and end up with two magnums
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What was fucked up was playing 2 first.

"Here you are on a street with several zombies. Get used to these controls real fast without dying before making it into the gun shop."

darkprince45 posted...

Re3 has one memorable boss. Nemesis

Nemesis is better than all enemies in RE2 combined.

darkprince45 posted...

Re2 had birkin, the fucking crocodile, mr x.

RE1 Tyrant rehash but now with TWO claws, a crocodile, and beta Nemesis.

darkprince45 posted...

Leon and Claire are way cooler than Carlos and jill. Playing through the rpd department is way better than half of the areas in re3. There's literally no need to make all that ammo crafting in re3 you get enough ammo everywhere.

Dude nobody even remembers anything about Claire in RE2 and Leon wasn't cool until 4. He was thoroughly a dork in 2 even.

Also the point of crafting is to weight your resources more towards what you want, and to gain the ability to craft extra powerful ammo.

darkprince45 posted...

The RNG is stupid fuck, completely random on where you might get some key items that can really ruin some speedruns. You can get screwed out of a grenade launcher and end up with two magnums

All the optional stuff in the game makes it better for replayability, and it has better unlockables AND has stuff to unlock through up to like...what was it, 8 playthroughs? It's actually more replayable.

The best thing about RE2 is the custom shotgun and how it sounds. That's the shotgun God would use.
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TheGrindery posted...

What was fucked up was playing 2 first.

"Here you are on a street with several zombies. Get used to these controls real fast without dying before making it into the gun shop."

I remember learning my way through that.

On a demo.

While people watched.

In Blockbuster.

#memoriesnoonewillhaveagain
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3 is mechanically a better game, but it doesnt have the level or story progression that 2 does which makes the whole thing more memorable. still, having very recently played through the series 2 doesnt hold up as well as i would have liked. im also extremely surprised at how short 3 was. even knowing what to do it still took me around 4 1/2 hours. my scenario A in 2 was about that let alone the 3 other scenarios.

darkprince45 posted...

The RNG is stupid fuck, completely random on where you might get some key items that can really ruin some speedruns. You can get screwed out of a grenade launcher and end up with two magnums

theres a few different scenarios based on what you pick, but the rng doesnt work like that (id barely even call it rng). if something isnt here then it will be there. you cant end up with 2 magnums and things like that. in the police station for instance its random as far as if youll get the magnum or gl, but once you do then the second item is guaranteed. same with the powders. you may find A here or B or A and B, but you will never find 2 A's or 2 B's. theres still structure to the system and really theres only 2-3 variables.
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You don't even need powerful ammo. With the cheese dodge mechanic and the knife you could play the whole without getting hit
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darkprince45 posted...

You don't even need powerful ammo. With the cheese dodge mechanic and the knife you could play the whole without getting hit

So what you're saying is there are a lot of different options for how to play and be successful.

Which is somehow a bad thing.

Think about it, if you choose to fight Nemesis you can get first aid packs, custom parts to make special weapons, and if you beat him all 7 optional times, UNLIMITED AMMO for one gun of your choosing.

There were several instances where you need to quickly make a choice to further diversify each playthrough as well.

Actually though I changed my mind: I'd rather talk about the custom RE2 shotgun.
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I remember all the jokes when 3 came out.

"Yeah the bad guy in the new RE is basically the Kool-aid man."

Seriously the sound the custom shotgun in 2 has.

It's like if an explosion could feel emotions, and all it felt was anger.
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I'd be hard-pressed to call RE3 bad, but as someone playing them all when they were coming out it's a lot less memorable than 2 for me. The RPD looked so unique and was like the mansion from 1 in that it really wanted you to memorize its layout and figure out the best ways through it, and whenever I play 3 I feel like I'm trapped mostly in a big collection of oversimilar city streets for the first half of the game and the second half of the game is made up of small locations you don't stay in long enough to get used to. The level design would have to be my main complaint

But I liked the weapons and combat, and some of the enemy designs were realm cool. There's no way I could hate a PSX resident evil game
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Clocktower so bad
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One of the things I didn't like about RE2 is it felt TOO much like RE1's mansion. I didn't want every area in the series to contrive all this nonsense to just feel like we're back in the Mansion again.
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That's what makes RE the best. Corridors and rooms everywhere filled with puzzles
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Yeah I know that I definitely feel like I've entered a mansion when I walk into a police station.

Something being the defining best characteristic of a series can still be overused, degrading the specialness of it.

I look back to the old Silent Hills in this regard as an example of maybe a way to balance it better. SH1 for example had multiple areas you'd spend a fair bit of time in, backtracking and exploring to get a good feel for, but there was also quite a lot of like, travel and sense of moving on.

Actually I think SH handled it overall the way I like best, because there's kind of a two layer approach to it. The outside streets themselves you'd spend some time on and such, but then within those areas there's then a larger interior location that takes on a life of its own as well.
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I can't play Silent Hill. The actual reason for the holy shit amount of fog was far too obvious.

i mean it was the second game in the series. you cant expect them to reinvent the wheel. it was very obviously going to share a lot of similarities with the first game which was a break out hit.
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Dark_Spiret posted...

i mean it was the second game in the series. you cant expect them to reinvent the wheel. it was very obviously going to share a lot of similarities with the first game which was a break out hit.

That doesn't make me like it more than RE3.
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Upp
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