Kagey K
Banned
So after watching all the Resident Evil movies this year as part of my Halloween watch (I had only seen the first previously) I decided to play the games.
My history with the game series is somewhat short, but also very long.
I bought RE 1-3 on PSX, relatively close to release date, and beat 1 and 2 repeatedly, but could never replay 3 for some reason. I bought 4 on almost every system it released on but never made it very far past the village multiple times, 5 and 6 I bought last gen but just didn’t play them, and I never really touched the spin offs.
So now finally on to this years playthrough.
I started off with RE: Remake, which I have to say hit all the notes I wanted it to, it was just bad enough to make me nostalgic, while also having some quality of life improvements that made the gameplay seem more fluid.
RE:2 and 3. I played through the remakes, instead of busting out the old machines. It really brought a new perspective to these games, but the whole time I was playing part of me wished there was an old school mode.
I really liked what they did with the story, and the gameplay itself was good, but it would have been fun to have a “nostalgia“ mode for those that loved the original.
I will say that it give me a new perspective on Nemesis and maybe that game wasn’t as bad as I thought originally.
This takes me to 4, (one of the banes of my existence since I bought it so many times and beat it 0) I finally decided to grind it out, just to see the fuss. It’s a decent game, I don’t know if it’s the milestone so many want it to be (It goes on too long and probably could have ended in the castle) There’s not a lot of horror anymore and it just seems to be always giving you the carrot on the stick.
This takes me to 5, I have just started it so my character is super weak, but it feels much more like 4 than I ever gave it credit for. I still don’t know if coop RE works, and I’m just getting started so I don’t want to say much about it.
Realizing that it is one of the franchises that has survived multiple generations and is constantly trying to reinvent itself while also remaining familiar, I’m interested to see where others stand in the series.
My history with the game series is somewhat short, but also very long.
I bought RE 1-3 on PSX, relatively close to release date, and beat 1 and 2 repeatedly, but could never replay 3 for some reason. I bought 4 on almost every system it released on but never made it very far past the village multiple times, 5 and 6 I bought last gen but just didn’t play them, and I never really touched the spin offs.
So now finally on to this years playthrough.
I started off with RE: Remake, which I have to say hit all the notes I wanted it to, it was just bad enough to make me nostalgic, while also having some quality of life improvements that made the gameplay seem more fluid.
RE:2 and 3. I played through the remakes, instead of busting out the old machines. It really brought a new perspective to these games, but the whole time I was playing part of me wished there was an old school mode.
I really liked what they did with the story, and the gameplay itself was good, but it would have been fun to have a “nostalgia“ mode for those that loved the original.
I will say that it give me a new perspective on Nemesis and maybe that game wasn’t as bad as I thought originally.
This takes me to 4, (one of the banes of my existence since I bought it so many times and beat it 0) I finally decided to grind it out, just to see the fuss. It’s a decent game, I don’t know if it’s the milestone so many want it to be (It goes on too long and probably could have ended in the castle) There’s not a lot of horror anymore and it just seems to be always giving you the carrot on the stick.
This takes me to 5, I have just started it so my character is super weak, but it feels much more like 4 than I ever gave it credit for. I still don’t know if coop RE works, and I’m just getting started so I don’t want to say much about it.
Realizing that it is one of the franchises that has survived multiple generations and is constantly trying to reinvent itself while also remaining familiar, I’m interested to see where others stand in the series.