Resident Evil Megathread

thanks lads, will give 1 a bash first so. I remember playing Resi2 back in the day, and really enjoyed the remake last year. Honestly not sure if I ever played 1, will see if rings any bells when I load it up

I hope they announce an Outbreak remake next.

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I'd prefer a Code: Veronica X one to be honest. Outbreak was just irritating to play IMO.

Probably because no one played it online. I think it could be good with a few friends.

Wouldn't mind CV either.

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I couldn't care less about online play. I just thought the game was really poorly designed and rushed out the door.

It definitely reused a lot of assets but I thought the short escape scenarios were a pretty good idea and that each character had different stats and skills.

My main was George because he could craft specialty anti-infection medicines from herbs. They'd pause your virus gauge for ages which was really strong in some missions and for some characters. If you were on the ground your virus would increase rapidly but popping one of his pills would give a lot longer before someone could help you up.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well nobody could play it online in Ireland. They only released an offline version in Europe of the first game and I think the second game never got a release in Europe.

Me and my sister actually found a few copies in Ireland in our teens. We played the hell out of it and had 2 PS2s and 2 copies so we could cooperate locally, too. Outbreak is honestly the best online Biohzard game. A PC version with without loading screens is all I need.

Yoko was for single player special item hoarding. A proper team working together invalidated her strength with that. David had certain missions where repairing level stuff sped it up so that had its uses. We was kind of a balanced character but most people chose specialty classes if they were cooping and possibly one aggressive lead like a Kevin to power through bosses. I knew a David main, though.

Not even a remake just something for modern platforms like a PC version. I played the PS2 version emulated a while back thanks to the fan servers. We had a 3 player coop session at my old apartment. 2 players on 2 PS2s and me on a linux system running PCSX2. We're kinda freaks about this game.

It's not a great single player experience for sure. Definitely made for coop and I've still got great memories of it. Me and my sis still talk about crazy and difficult moments we and our online friends overcame together on the original servers and some on the fan servers.

Yeah like you mentioned you can somewhat speed up the loading in PCSX2 if you have a decent rig and SSD load everything. I'm sure even faster storage like M.2 could shave off a second or two as well. However other players on PS2 hardware or spinning rust will not be able to keep up. There was/is actually a meta strategy of abusing the long load times. If a surviving player was crippled on Danger health and/or imminent zombification due to bad virus gauge management then they could constantly enter and re-enter the same door, looping themselves in a load screen. With good communication from other players they would wait until anti-virus/bleed/poison solutions were found or just until critical level progress was made and could then be treated/carried to the end of the level.

Doctor Nick wrote: »

So been playing RE0 for the last while. I do like the game but some of the changes are really annoying me, mainly the way of dealing with your inventory. What was wrong with save rooms and why do we just dump everything anywhere we feel like it? Leads to lots of needless backtracking. Some of the combat seems jankier than usual. And, dare I say it, they pack a few too many enemies into rooms.

Also seems to be some quite OP enemies. Playing on normal. I had both Billy and Rebecca on caution and the character I wasn't controlling got caught by an enemy which was instant death. No danger phase. I had healing but didn't want to waste due to caution. Lost an hour of progress. Ah well, C'est la vie.

The atmosphere and the tension is excellent though.

The reason for the inventory changes, instead of the 'magic box' in the inventory/save rooms, is that was what people thought they wanted at the time, and had been criticising the boxes that warped your inventory everywhere. At least they criticised it until they played 0, and had to remember where they dropped something and backtrack for it!