Resident Evil Megathread

Reads more like an administration announcement more than something you'd expect from an ongoing business. Ominous at the very least.

I played an hour or so last night, before heading off to see John Wick 4 (Resi 4, Diablo 4 beta, JW4 - the weekend of fours). It's definitely on first encounter a less radical remake than something like Resi 2, but it's hard to tell as I haven't had a full playthrough of the original since the GameCube release way back when. It's also very early in the game. Actually was wondering why I hadn't found the house where you can leap out the window in the first village, which seemed like a bizarre change to make if they got rid of it - only realised after the bell rang that I'd just missed the door into it :P Leon leaping out the window is still one of the great gaming animations. I'm very early though so can't say much about more substantial changes, especially in terms of the original game's wilder and goofier swings.

Some cool design and graphical flourishes though - love the way the enemies look when they have their head hanging off (that's the kind of sentence that'll get you in trouble in the wrong context :P).

The game seems to run fine on PS5 with ray-tracing on (albeit with VRR enabled), but I followed Digital Foundry's guidance and turned off the chromatic aberration feature which apparently has a big impact on image quality, at least pre-patch.