Since my play through of this remake I've played through a few of the series... didn't feel worthy of making a new thread so I'll put my thoughts in here!
REmake
This is still surprisingly good and the best of the 'old school / tank control' games. Knowing what I was doing, I was able to polish it off in a long play through. I did enjoy it. Not much to say that hasn't been said.
RE: Code Veronica
This was better than I remembered but it's still merely OK for the fact that it loses all momentum after it gets to Antartica, at which point I gave up (as I usually do). As a young-un, I think I got stuck because I omitted to explore properly with the lift floors in the training facility. The most memorable things about the game, from my most recent play through, are as follows.
First, is that the dialogue and voice acting is SO BAD. WOW. It's like they farted it out. Really, really awful.
Secondly, the likelihood of a remake seems about 'nil' due to the fact that it made a big deal of the villain cross-dressing, which is definitely outdated by modern standards. To be fair, he is clearly nuts and is not merely a cross-dresser, but one line did seem particularly outdated... when Claire insults him by declaring "Cross-dressing freak!!!"
Finally, that ****ing tyrant fight on the plane!!! That mother ****er!!! My controller was thrown across the floor several times. What an absolute chore of a fight. It's funny because you can beat him easy peasy if you decide to fight him like a video game enemy and exploit his turning circle. But if you decide to fight him like any other enemy of the game... damnnnn. No amount of health items or ammo will save you as he insta-bops you off the edge of the plane, or stun-locks you in a corner. Hugggghn! Probably one of the most annoying boss fights of all time.
Resident Evil Zero
This is definitely one of if not THE worst game in the series (that I have played, at least). Far worse than I remembered. The lack of save boxes and the ultra-slow method in which items are picked up (with unskippable slow fade ins and fade outs of the menu) is HORRIBLE. Soooo much time is spent lugging your items around. It's an abomination I tell thee! Similarly, whoever decided that you are not entitled to see what other items you are carrying when you decide to take an item, which as far as I recall is unlike any other game in the series, should be locked up in a police department and fed to a licker. This game genuinely felt like a chore. It was like the 'work' after work!!
The game is also unnecessarily cruel. There are two sections where the characters get split up and if you just so happened to have all of your weapons / ammo with one character, the game becomes insanely hard.
The plot and voice acting is once again in the realms of ultra-cheese and the game just sort of 'ends' with no ramp-up in tension. Very anticlimactic. I will say that the game does look nice in HD.
The BEST thing about the game is the leech zombies, which are pretty scary. That music
!!! There is one section in the main mansion on the first floor where it throws a couple of them at you back to back which was a little nerve-racking. Pulse definitely got racing there.
Resident Evil 7
I finally put on the adult diapers and completed this game having previously wussed out. Holy crap this is one scary game, by FAR away the most terrifying of the series and the most frightening game I've ever played. I found the first few hours are borderline unbearable due to the stress. I had to take lots of breaks to make it through. Having survived the trauma of the initial hours, that horror somewhat sustains the rest of the game, because it's actually nowhere near as stingy with items and ammo as you might expect and by the end it feels almost like FPS style game.
There was also a completely unexpected 'penultimate section' which I won't spoil that I thought was brilliant.
This game really impressed me. It true that the opening hours are the most memorable but definitely worth a play through.
One minor gripe is that I disliked the way health way displayed with distracting blood on the screen. Maybe I could have turned that off.
The Evil Within
OK obviously this is not a Resident Evil game at all!! Playing through it at the moment and would definitely recommend to fans of the Resident Evil series. I would say it's very much a spiritual successor to Resident Evil 4 albeit set in a disjointed, non-sensical, and literally nightmarish world. It feels all over the place and disorientating, which I gather is a bit marmite but I personally think it is really neat and different. Some of the mechanics are a bit loose; stealth never really seems to be very effective and the enemies are prone to sprinting with weird movements for long distances making it far more difficult than RE4 to dispatch of enemies, so it takes some getting used to. There are a few insta-deth moments too which causes frustration. Stylistically though I think it's a great achievement. I definitely think it's worth checking out -
@TNA have you played this one??
Just thought I'd share
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