Resident Evil 2 Remake

    Oh nice didn't know there was DLC. Sounds interesting!

    Convinced the girlfriend to watch me play the game and I think she's enjoying watching me play. Lickers freak her out and she's not a fan of Mr.X :D Started playing the campaign with Claire on normal difficulty and am about 4 hours in. Loving solving the puzzles and I really love how they got the , quite frankly weird building, to work in a realistic looking game.

    They've really nailed it. It feels like Resident Evil 2 but dayum bro you seen these graphics? Runs nice and smooth at 1440p, high settings, on my 980ti too.

    We're both busy all week so will have to pick it up again the weekend. Can't wait!

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    Just finished this the other day, got the true ending. 16 hours for both campaigns according to steam. It was pretty cool! Loved it. Would recommend. It was my first Resident Evil game as well.

    Spoiler Not a fan of Mr X, I want to explore that huge mansion, not run around aimlessly looking for that small little thing I missed. Kind wish he would appear on scenario B only. Not gonna lie, some of the item hunt was a bit obnoxious, had to look up a walkthrough in a couple places. No way I would've figured out how to proceed otherwise, but maybe I'm just getting old :(. Mostly I needed to examine items more. My second playthrough with claire was much easier as well, I almost never used the uzi and finished the game with ample herbs and gunpowder.

    Nothing too severe though, these are small nitpicks and mostly come to preference. Really loved the survival horror gameplay and how the zombies react to bullets and such. It was really well thought out and balanced. Good balance between "I'm fucked pls help me" and "alright, I'm gonna use this item here and free up a slot, then move unto here and do this, then backtrack and pick up this, and...".

    This game is freaky as hell. I'm almost through.

    Spoiler When the dude in the hat starts chasing you INTO THE SAFE AREAS I needed to take a bit of a break.

    I finished it the other week when I finally had some free time. 19 hours of mostly annoyance free fun! Having never played RE2 before I definitely feel the 1st half of the game was more enjoyable for me than the final part. I loved every minute of the police station and discovering the underground bit. Sewers were okay, really hated those big fleshy things that came out the water and that bit that forced you through their lair bit. Mostly because it stressed me out haha. Really enjoyed the level design for the station and sewers though, how it all joins up and had me going "oooh I see now". Particularly the part where I came out to an originally locked door to the stairs that took me down to the sewers, I really liked little bits like that. Didn't like the FBI girls bits with her hacking gun, weakest part of the game to me. Fortunately it was only brief. The dialogue and voice acting was god awful, but it's a 90's Japanese game it's part of the package. Also the last boss fight can go do one. I died once the whole game to a section I thought was a cinematic but turned out to be sort of QTE that wasn't presented well at all. But the final boss I died like 5 times.

    Once I finish the remaning 4 RE's I have yet to play we need to make a discussion thread on this because I have some thoughts!

    I'm so glad putting off playing this series for 20 years is actually paying off.

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    On 3/11/2019 at 8:18 AM, blackdog said: Spoilers ?

    FACK

    Apologies. I hope I didn't hurt the experience for anyone. I'm forgetting how to internet apparently :X

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    On 3/13/2019 at 12:45 AM, Pharad said: I was pretty much sold on the game before it released, played it extensively from January 15th onwards. It is probably one of the best horror games ever as far as scaring the crap out of the player is concerned! I have even written a blog providing a few tips and tricks for the game, it is spoiler-free as far as that's concerned. Any critique guys? https://www.eneba.com/blog/resident-…crush-the-game/

    Spoiler (spolier tags just in case) You mention time when listing the advantages for avoiding zombies rather than killing them. Is that a spoiler? I've not yet finished the game yet so I don't know if it is or not.

    In the options section do you have any specific options to look for. One thing that I never am quite sure of is if I am supposed to manually enable a ps4 pro mode or if it just kicks in automatically.

    this really rocks my socks. scary things I can go either way on, if it's too difficult and scary, then it's a great excuse for me to quit. but this thing has been really well paced, edge of my seat but not too impossible on regular difficulty. really really fun

    i haven't played it on PS4 so I can't compare, but I feel like playing on Steam was the right move. it's fun to get my achievements popping up and to take screenshots, run on all high. also kind of glad I never played the original, this feels really polished. there's some really stupid parts (combining items in games almost always ends up being fucking ridiculous. "ah yeah why didn't I think to combine the pool noodle with the dynamite")

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    On 5/22/2019 at 2:55 AM, FMPONE said: also kind of glad I never played the original, this feels really polished.

    Fair enough but idk if playing the original would even affect one's experience in a negative way- that game was ages ago and it's fair to say most people didn't play recently, so it's like a fresh start

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    The game banks on what people roughly remember about it, but it doesn't follow it down to a tee either... Like Mr. X is barely there in the original, he's like a special enemy only on 2nd playthrough, but here he's a lot more present and it totally feels like it was always like this!

    Sometimes they even use your knowledge of the original to subvert expectations. For instance in the original, the licker is introduced in the 1F West Corridor, and they know that everybody who played the original remembers that. So what they did is that they put a corpse there with a wound that clearly just got killed by a licker, to make you tense AF when moving through that corridor, but... no licker. Instead they introduce it a bit later, right before the Stars Office, in a different way.

    And they completely changed the less memorable stuff and replaced it with something that's hopefully better, like the statue pushing part is gone, the giant spiders in the sewer, the Ada part is completely different, etc.

    Definitely one of the most impressive approach to "remaking" a game I've ever seen!

    Goddamn this game is WILD! One of the best in a long ass time. Holy

    Mr. X, lawdy he lived up to the hype. The sense of dread this game can build is so amazing. On regular difficulty I’m getting away with fucking murder, barely escaping impossible situations. I get the sense they scripted high danger and then forgiveness, the difficulty curve is so slick. Thus far it’s been right on the dime, any harder and I would chicken out

    I played as Leon first, what happens when I go back and play with Claire? This game fucking rocks, still. I’m about 5-6 hours deep.

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    21 minutes ago, FMPONE said: I played as Leon first, what happens when I go back and play with Claire? This game fucking rocks, still. I’m about 5-6 hours deep.

    Deffo do it, the game changes way more than I thought. I finished my B playthrough on hardcore.

    With the Claire B campaign, you start the game in another spot of the Police Station, so the flow of the first third of the game is completely different, some puzzles are the same (not all) but their solution is hidden in different spots around the environment, just as typewriters and boxes are in different spots too. Back in the original PSX version, Mr X only appeared on your B playthrough, on the remake tho the changes are more granular but I actually like it more like this, it just feels different. The story is also completely different, Leon's story is basically a love story with Ada. Claire's is more of caretaker / motherly archetype, as you need to save the little kid, Sherry. There's also new environments I wont spoil for you.Leon campaign is more actiony, weapons carry more bang. Claire's weapons are a bit more strategic, and she also gets more grenades/flashbangs I think.

    Also, you need to finish the B campaign the see the real ending / real final boss, the game is meant to be played like this.

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    9 minutes ago, [HP] said: Deffo do it, the game changes way more than I thought. I finished my B playthrough on hardcore.

    With the Claire B campaign, you start the game in another spot of the Police Station, so the flow of the first third of the game is completely different, some puzzles are the same (not all) but their solution is hidden in different spots around the environment, just as typewriters and boxes are in different spots too. Back in the original PSX version, Mr X only appeared on your B playthrough, on the remake tho the changes are more granular but I actually like it more like this, it just feels different. The story is also completely different, Leon's story is basically a love story with Ada. Claire's is more of caretaker / motherly archetype, as you need to save the little kid, Sherry. There's also new environments I wont spoil for you.Leon campaign is more actiony, weapons carry more bang. Claire's weapons are a bit more strategic, and she also gets more grenades/flashbangs I think.

    Also, you need to finish the B campaign the see the real ending / real final boss, the game is meant to be played like this.

    Damn that sounds incredible. There is so much game here...

    typically when I play a single player game these days I write down everything I learn because games have such smooth beats and it’s eays to see when they do something clever in between boring sections. This game I haven’t written anything down, it’s just had my full attention. It’s also very scary, I want to study that aspect on subsequent play throughs.

    For sure dude, this game truly is a masterpiece in game / level design and how to squeeze the most out of your game environments in a SP game, backtracking actually feels great here as it enhances the experience and you really get familiar with the surroundings.

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