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Post by martiniii on Jun 18, 2014 13:02:42 GMT
Finished Resident Evil yesterday, getting Rebecca and Jill out safe. Since leaving Jill behind is easy to do from the last save point, I went ahead and got that ending as well yesterday. Funny how you get a more elaborate ending for having Jill die than you do for saving her. If both Jill and Rebecca die, do you get a 10-minute mini-movie finale? Plus, if you leave Jill behind you get the game's most unintentionally hilarious dialogue at the 3-minutes-and-counting cutscene:
Chris: "Okay, I trust you." Rebecca: "Trust me!!!"
I mean seriously, that's not just simple bad translation. Were the folks in charge of the voice acting all half asleep, or what?
Gave Battle Mode a quick try as well. Very nice feature. I especially like the new music for it.
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Post by Chamillinator on Jul 17, 2014 20:19:12 GMT
Yea I can't wait to give this version of the game a try if I can find a decent priced one, also can't wait to try out the battle mode either. Did you try out any more of the battle mode? If so what's it like/do you like it? Sorry for posting in a June topic
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Post by martiniii on Jul 19, 2014 14:56:32 GMT
Yeah, I had a few more tries at it before giving up for the time being. Not because I wasn't having fun with it (I was), but because I had other games I wanted to move onto, and hard as I tried to at least reach the rumored gold Tyrant, I kept dying on that darn Spider boss. But yeah, it's a very nicely designed endurance mode, and some of the challenges feel a bit different from anything you encounter in the story mode.
You start in a room with a supply chest with four first aid sprays, all the weapons in the game, and something like 60 rounds for each weapon. When you leave the room, you're transported into a room with no exits and some enemies. Once you kill all the enemies in that room, you're transported into another such room. Every five rooms you're transported back to the room with the supply chest. The items are not refilled, so what you have in the beginning is what you have to work with.
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Post by Chamillinator on Jul 19, 2014 20:33:54 GMT
Ok quit lol that sounds awesome, now I want it even more. And what's this gold tyrant, never heard of that
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Post by martiniii on Jul 20, 2014 1:06:25 GMT
I don't really know what it is; I just heard that it's an enemy found only in the Battle mode.
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Post by xDerekRx on May 1, 2015 18:50:03 GMT
Play Code Veronica on the Dreamcast, now that game was fine! You could also play ports of RE 2 (my personal fav) and RE 3 on the DC. No worries; I'm definitely playing Code: Veronica at some point, because I already have it! My brother bought it back when it was released. I never played it then because I avoided horror games (I was, and still am, very squeamish). I remember my brother thoroughly loving it, but either I misremembered or his attitude towards it has cooled over time, because when I talked to him about it a few months ago he seemed pretty ambivalent about it. He said I'd probably enjoy it, though. I'm actually enjoying Resident Evil, too. Objectively, the game's design is terrible. Enemies are unbeatable without a loaded weapon, and boringly easy with one, while the puzzles are just locked doors, so the gameplay boils almost purely down to inventory management. But for me, inventory management is inexplicably addictive, and mapping out dungeons is twice as addictive as that. This is a much lower level of enjoyment than I got from Alone in the Dark, and the load times combined with the need for constant backtracking is a nuisance, but fun is fun. Sometimes I get caught up reading old posts and feeling the need to respond to them. Martinii I was disappointed to hear that you didn't like the original Resident Evil all that much. But I also gather the original survival horror genre isnt your favorite (as it is for me) Resident Evil 2 is really the pinnacle of the series but Code Veronica was the last of the true survival horror games in the series. I hope you got around to playing that because its awesome and right up there with RE2. Resident Evil 1 if you can believe it or not Ive only played on the Sega Saturn. I thought it was fantastic though 10/10 for sure. The Saturn version looks very good despite the systems shortcomings and the whole story/gameplay shines even though RE2 improves in almost every way. The Saturn version also contains alot of extra content that the PS version didnt have. I always liked Capcom for bringing this over to the system even it was quite late. Playing it upon its release was certainly alot easier but for those who have a tough time playing RE1 now, the HD remakes are amazing too. Interesting to hear your thoughts on Alone in the Dark because I personally, even as a lover of the genre think RE1 is miles ahead of it and the game that really made the genre special. Its too bad its more or less dead now in its true form. All RE games starting with RE4 have simply been action games. Long gone are the days of Silent Hill 1-3, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 1-3, Clock Tower, Deep Fear etc.
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Post by Lilith on May 1, 2015 23:59:12 GMT
REmake is now on PS3/PS4/360/Xbone. Just saying. Only digital though, except a PS3 retail in Japan. My import came with a reversible cover and has English subs/dubs, I believe.
Also if possible, import Code Veronica X/Complete on Dreamcast. I don't even care that it's on GCN and PS2, Dreamcast all the way for me.
RE2 and RE3 Dreamcast are strongly recommended.
I think that Capcom might do an RE0 remake/port on PS4/etc too, REmake HD was the top seller, and recently passed 1 million on PSN alone.
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Post by xDerekRx on May 2, 2015 0:56:31 GMT
Code Veronica was and is an original Dreamcast game so I agree with that sediment.
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Post by martiniii on May 2, 2015 16:03:32 GMT
Martinii I was disappointed to hear that you didn't like the original Resident Evil all that much. But I also gather the original survival horror genre isnt your favorite (as it is for me) Actually, I've been really enjoying the survival horror genre. Resident Evil, while not the sublime experience that Alone in the Dark is, is great fun. I had a blast with both the story mode and the battle mode, and I'm looking forward to when I have time to play through it again and get the endings I missed. Resident Evil 2 is really the pinnacle of the series but Code Veronica was the last of the true survival horror games in the series. I hope you got around to playing that because its awesome and right up there with RE2. I actually since found that it's not among my Dreamcast games. Many years ago my brother gave a bunch of our Dreamcast games to our cousin, and my theory now is that Codename Veronica was among them. He lives on the opposite side of the country, so if he still has the game it'll be some time before I can get it. Hopefully he hasn't sold it or trashed it by now. Interesting to hear your thoughts on Alone in the Dark because I personally, even as a lover of the genre think RE1 is miles ahead of it and the game that really made the genre special. Its too bad its more or less dead now in its true form. All RE games starting with RE4 have simply been action games. Long gone are the days of Silent Hill 1-3, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 1-3, Clock Tower, Deep Fear etc. RE1 is technically more advanced, with sharper graphics, more rooms, and a more elaborate save system, but it's also much less elegantly designed. In Alone in the Dark each enemy is set to appear at a precise time and location specifically to evoke the greatest amount of fear in the player, whereas in Resident Evil they're all placed more or less at random. The placement of ammunition in Resident Evil is pretty poorly thought-out; for the first third of the game you have to run around most of the enemies you encounter due to the lack of ammunition, which only serves to make the enemies seem less of a menace and more of an irritant, while in the later two thirds you often have so much ammunition that you have to make time-consuming trips back to the supply box just to unload bullets. And while it's fun to laugh at the B-movie plot, dialogue, and acting in RE1, I'd rather have a story that I can take seriously, like Alone in the Dark's. AitD1 is also more open-ended than RE1, with multiple ways to solve some of the puzzles. But I find the most striking difference is the camera angles. I know having three or more prerendered camera angles per room seems like an advancement, but I found that it just makes RE1 needlessly disorienting and prevents you from seeing hazards which you would easily notice in real life. AitD1's use of just one or two camera angles per room makes it both more playable and more realistic. And no, I wouldn't say the survival horror genre is dead yet. If you want a great Resident Evil 1-3 style survival horror game, check out Cursed Mountain for the Wii.
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Post by xDerekRx on May 3, 2015 0:52:35 GMT
While there is the occasional game like Cursed Mountain which is good, and even the Dead Space series gives you a bit, the genre was flourishing in the 90s early 2000s. I miss it. Its not the same anymore.
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