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Resident Evil 4 remake has added microtransactions to upgrade weapons quicker
Apocryphon
Member
Are you new to gaming and micro transactions? Why are you talking about this as though it’s a grand new thing or something wasn‘t expected? You don’t want to buy them.. so don’t!? You aren’t losing out, and what other people choose to do with their money and their experience with the game is none of your fucking business
If there was exclusive content locked behind a paywall this would be a different conversation, but there isn’t, so you’re just winding yourself up over literally nothing.
Reallink
Member
Depends entirely on whether the gameplay currency was in anyway balanced or tailored to incentivize the microtransactions. Certainly your enjoyment is affected by having to grind extra hours to upgrade something cause the bean counters told the devs they need to drive x-million dollars worth microtransactions.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
TexMex
Member
Okay well sure. I’d agree to that. Pretty sure that was a big gripe with a recent AC game (odyssey?) but that’s just not the case here at all.
Sleepwalker
Member
The game is full of cash and treasures to buy upgrades and weapons, if you are skipping treasures and not combining then with gems then yeah you might not have enough to upgrade your guns.
Another reason you may have less cash than in OG re4 is because here you have to keep repairing your knife and or armor if you buy that, that wasn't present in the original. Furthermore, you're meant to play this game more than once so you are expected to go into NG+ in order to upgrade all weapons etc.
Another reason you may have less cash than in OG re4 is because here you have to keep repairing your knife and or armor if you buy that, that wasn't present in the original. Furthermore, you're meant to play this game more than once so you are expected to go into NG+ in order to upgrade all weapons etc.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Because it can inform how the game is developed and not in a good way. If you are going to have some kind of grind in a game, what's the best way to get people to buy time savers? Make the grind longer or less enjoyable. The worse the grind, the better deal the time saver purchase feels like.
Not saying this is the case in RE4, but this is the concern.
BlitzerRadic
Member
And how you gonna prove they did that?
Signal Rockets
Banned
Provided these are optional, then meh.
It reminds me of the Xbox avatar days. When your credit could go towards getting your avatar person a new hat, or whatever.
It reminds me of the Xbox avatar days. When your credit could go towards getting your avatar person a new hat, or whatever.
BouncyFrag
Member
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AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
They sold a $5 "unlock everything" DLC for RE2 four years ago. You bent over without knowing it.
Except you didn't, because these optional shortcuts for people with more time than money quite demonstrably have absolutely zero bearing on your enjoyment of the game.
I'm not new to action games or RE. My first playthrough I finished on hardcore which was recommended by the developers if you already played RE4 (2005); I didn't anticipate it would be that difficult for me during certain segments. Currently on my 2nd playthrough on hardcore, there are many more times it gets so ridiculously crazy I'm being consistently bombarded, thus stunned locked with so many Ganados at once. Like the time with Mendez and Ashley constantly getting incapacitated and no matter what I get stunned locked trying to help and Mendez just grabs her and mission fails or I get stunned locked into death over and over again. Yes, I'm aware it's intentional that Ganados are a lot smarter and more on Leon by following all kinds of paths and blocking him, that's great enemy design and behavior. But it doesn't make it any less frustrating at times to get stuck in the same pitfall and I cannot do anything but fail and/or die. And yeah if I think that's bad RE5R would be worse.
Oh and I'm attempting to unlock stuff which is why I'm continuing in hardcore. I barely did professional and didn't even make it far, lol.
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Flutta
Banned
Whenever there's boosters there's typically the dev thumbing the scale with grind, it'd be an interesting video to see if this is grindier than the original.
short-sighted poor people are more likely, I work with low-income people and the amount they spend on shark cards in gta, v bucks in fortnite, and other mtx in games is mind-boggling,
weapons seem easier to upgrade than the original re4, so yeah, unless they make like sf5 and massively rebalance the prices or money gain I don't care if they offer them.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
bullshit
hyperbertha
Member
And why the fuck are you getting so triggered over how somebody else feels when people cheat the game? Maybe you need to touch some grass yourself loser.
genesisblock
Member
Remember when cheat codes used to be a thing? I think they should bring GameShark back.
Elder Legend
Banned
This thread feels like I just walked into a high-school classroom and a bunch of dudes are arguing with each other like 5 year old children. 
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Doesn’t really affect me. Other games have had dlc upgrade shortcuts for years. Ignore it.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
Doing this after review the period is over is super scummy.
No surprise when they sold classic soundtrack and costumes and I think weapons in RE2 Remake.
I don't like the idea of selling basically something that was cheats a decade and more ago. However, I don't feel like the game's mechanics are so tedious like in other games that you're so inclined to cheat yourself through the game. I remember upgrading in AC Odyssee requiring soooo ridiculous amounts of deer hide after a certain level just upgrade your stats for like 1%.
I don't like the idea of selling basically something that was cheats a decade and more ago. However, I don't feel like the game's mechanics are so tedious like in other games that you're so inclined to cheat yourself through the game. I remember upgrading in AC Odyssee requiring soooo ridiculous amounts of deer hide after a certain level just upgrade your stats for like 1%.
I'm pretty sure going off past resident evils and the pay to unlock these as dlc that these tokens literally just unlock what they unlock for those who have money to burn and don't have the time to learn re4 and complete it 5 times with specific conditions. There was never any rebalancing of in game currency before, Capcom aren't Activision or EA.. Capcom can certainly be guiltily of being capscum, but I'm just a bit annoyed that there isn't a basic unlock everything for about £7.99 like the others. Saved up MS Rewards and bought those on RE2 remake RE3 remake and RE8.
Bought ps5 version this time so will cost actual money if I don't manage to build those gold coins from Sony quick enough
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Exactly. In the scheme of MTX, this is arguably one of the most benign implementations, and as always it's optional and does not change the games balance at all.
Folks are being incredibly angry at a tiny thing here.
existensmaximum
Member
I don't care if other people wanna pay to not play the game they've bought. I mean, I could never understand it but it doesn't affect me.
Pay to win
these tickets don't even fully upgrade the weapon, they just provide the exclusive upgrade, so boy they are a rip-off,
Finally! Buy yourself some weapon upgrade tickets and get the Power of Gaming at your fingertips!
yeah but they won't get you the killer mullet or neon green baseball cap... or whatever ever the hell those pants are
anyway these tickets won't even alter the 4 issues I have with the balance /mechanics
1, Standard enemies earlier should go into a pain state from a single 1.0 damage bullet, 2.0 red 9 bullets cause pain state, making everything after you get it way easier
2. Leon's melee hit area should be larger, knifing enemies on the ground should cause nearby enemies to flinch
3. Melee/ knife priority should be higher, nothing worse than trying to knife a downed enemy for a 1 shot kill, but nope start swinging instead,
4. Those stupid "cut scene" hits, I'm talking about the attacks that take control of the camera and switch it to show the hit, the damage and stun aren't the problems, the losing control/disorienting effect of the camera change is,
if capcom addressed those 4 issues I'd go from excellent but not on par with the original to full lateral shift, not better not worse, but a similar but different experience of equal value, best game of all time area.... except for a certain character becoming a whiney teenager... but they fixed the whiney teenager... so I don't what to think there.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Pay to win
No.
Moses85
Member
Just wait some more weeks…
They also sold the infinite RL for 5€ for RE2Remake which I spent hours and nerves for.
kikii
Member
says person who called out GT7 for same practice
Nocturno999
Member
This doesn't affect the game in any way.
What would get me triggered is if upgrading weapons took forever which it isn't the case.
What would get me triggered is if upgrading weapons took forever which it isn't the case.
hyperbertha
Member
Sure this game doesnt seem to be affected, but this initiates a slippery slope for capcom.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
says person who called out GT7 for same practice
Use that example if Capcom goes back and increases the prices of weapons or upgrade is the game like GT7 did, fam
KaiserBecks
Member
People who feel like their time is more valuable than the price for those tickets. I have never purchased unlocks but I see the appeal.
DareDaniel
Banned
can't wait for this game to get cracked