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DJGrenola

2016-01-15 01:49:47 am

fascinated to know what we'll get, re2 made a giant bullet hole in my second year university exam revision :/

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 01:55:30 am

I miss fixed camera angles

Toozin

2016-01-15 02:07:15 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

It's going to be what REmake was to RE1, apparently.

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 02:09:49 am

Yeah that'd be great, I'd be super happy with that

There's an interesting asymmetry there though because REmake was done using the GameCube assets, which obviously don't exist for 2 because it was never remade

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 02:10:59 am

so this time they really will be making it for modern systems as opposed to just porting an earlier remake, if that makes sense

ryu

2016-01-15 02:24:58 am

I'm really just curious so far as to how it's going to end up. If it's like REmake I'll gladly buy it day one. But I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a huge turd.

ryu

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ryu: 2016-01-15 02:27:32 am

2016-01-15 02:27:24 am

Gotta say I don't like the art direction for female characters they've been using in RE games lately. Claire in Revelations 2 looks like a guy and Rebecca looks just worse than she did in the original of RE 0.

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 02:28:58 am

I've not seen either of those games. I played re0 on GameCube when it came out but I've not seen the remake of it

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 02:29:28 am

I really lost interest in resident evil after 5 :/

Toozin

2016-01-15 02:31:35 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Revelations 1 is really good but otherwise it's been trash.

Well I only played the first episode of Revelations 2, but it didn't really grab me.

ryu

2016-01-15 02:38:19 am

I was briefly considering to get Revelations, but then I remembered what a friend told me about it. Apparently it's not really worth playing. :| No idea how you think it's really good Tooz. Isn't more than half the game running around in straightforward areas in daylight with a partner who keeps talking to you? Doesn't sound very fun. Especially not if you expect a horror game with some kind of tense atmosphere.

Toozin

2016-01-15 02:42:16 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Yeah, it's not very tense, but that didn't bother me. It was just a fun environment to explore.

It's also only daylight for certian portions, most of the game is at night/dark. And you get separated from your partner quite a bit. It's not RE5.

Toozin

2016-01-15 02:45:20 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

It probably helped that I played it on 3DS. You're not really expecting spooks on a handheld.

ryu

2016-01-15 02:48:58 am

Why? Horror games are great on a handheld in bed at night with the lights out. When I play horror games on console I'm more inclined not to play them very late at night, which makes them less spooky.

Maybe it's just me but spooky stuff affects me more and more the later it gets. Even past the point where it's already completely dark outside.

Toozin

2016-01-15 02:53:39 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I suppose it depends on your frame of mind. To me handheld games are for playing whenever.

Idkbutlike2

2016-01-15 03:22:02 am

As much as I like the old Resis, tank controls and fixed camera angles can suck a dick.

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 07:28:40 am

You can't really have one without the other, fixed camera angles require the controls to work across camera angle switches which means they have to be relative to the character rather than the camera

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 07:34:08 am

and fixed camera angles are great, they're an entirely legitimate device that produce gameplay situations you can't really get any other way ... I think the fact that I'm willing to pay for re2 remake but have no real interest in over the shoulder shooters demonstrates that

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 07:35:28 am

Fahrenheit / indigo prophecy was a game that tried to use fixed angles without tank controls and that game controlled way worse than classic RE ever did

Toozin

2016-01-15 08:11:22 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Indigo Prophecy was like 2/3 of a, if not good, interesting game, and 1/3 of a fucking nightmare piece of shit.

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 08:16:29 am

Yeah it was completely fucking bizarre

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 08:19:24 am

I did play it to completion so it must have done something right but so much utterly baffling shit went down

I dunno if the idea was to try to always make the player feel slightly weirded out ... If so they probably succeeded better than they were intending

Toozin

2016-01-15 08:20:17 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Amazing intro though. Being mind controlled into murder, and then having to clean up your crime scene while you watch the police get closer and closer through picture in picture? Pretty damn compelling.

Almost makes up for that bit where you fight the internet.

DJGrenola

2016-01-15 08:21:48 am

One day I would still like to play the game that it was pretending to be at the start, I thought the idea that you played both as a criminal fugitive and the police trying to catch that fugitive was a really neat idea

Toozin

2016-01-15 08:22:28 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

Absolutely. I wish they had built on that instead of doing whatever the fuck Heavy Rain was.