RE5: to zombie or not to zombie

Makagulfazel said:
Virus infected people.

So I make the same mistakes as Bethesda, sue me.

I want your babies.
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The virus infected are no longer zombies, or zombie-like, completely ruining the "horror" aspect of Resident Evil.

The first village in 4 was good. The second disc had you fighting mostly soldiers with machine guns.

I loved the series from Zero through Code Veronica (story-chronologically).

After playing 4, I'm going to have to pass on 5 seeing that its going even further in that direction.
 
Autoduel76 said:
The virus infected are no longer zombies, or zombie-like, completely ruining the "horror" aspect of Resident Evil.
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Yeah, I know what you mean.

However, I did find the gameplay more enjoyable in RE4. It's nice having the ability to aim directly at certain body parts.
 
Makagulfazel said:
Autoduel76 said:
The virus infected are no longer zombies, or zombie-like, completely ruining the "horror" aspect of Resident Evil.
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Yeah, I know what you mean.

However, I did find the gameplay more enjoyable in RE4. It's nice having the ability to aim directly at certain body parts.
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I agree that they improved the gameplay. But, I never played Resident Evil for the gameplay. Its all about the atmosphere. Turning off the lights, playing it late at night and setting myself up to actually be tense and on edge.

RE: 4 improved the control, precision and gameplay. But the atmosphere is no longer the least bit frightening, and the ammo is no longer scarce. Its a "better" action/adventure game. But you might as well be playing Tomb Raider, or Ninja Gaiden or whatever. And, in general, I don't play those games.

I was never a Resident Evil fan because of the gameplay. They could have changed almost anything about it, other than the atmosphere. If I wanted to fight soldiers, I'd play Call of Duty or something.
 
In RE4 it was a mind-controlling ancient parasite (that would burst from a decapitated zombie's neck and slash at you with razorblades) named 'los plagas'.

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Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
In RE4 it was a mind-controlling ancient parasite (that would burst from a decapitated zombie's neck and slash at you with razorblades) named 'los plagas'.

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Don't forget the ones that would eat your head and the ones that would spew acid and when you killed their bodies, they separate and skitter around on the floor continuing to spit acid at you.

That game was fun.
 
Damn straight, I like the biohorror aspect, I just wished the protagonists didn't have their trusty pc shield on them the entire time. Leon was literally a shampoo model with random military training and was given the ability to clear villages full of thing like monsters, and Kurt russell had trouble with ONE.
 
I watched this walkthrough today:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/244413.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/244439.html

Thought it looked rather disappointing. Capcom is staying too much on the safe side, this really looks like RE4 in HD, too much recycling. Visually it seems like it's going for a broader appeal; environments are too bright (yeah it's an African country, but should RE even be set in broad fucking daylight in the middle of Africa?) and Chris is over-buffed. I've been reading that your female sidekick will be with you all the time, as been stated that RE5 is "all about co-op", I'd seriously hate that. I can only imagine dragging along some AI retard through the game to be annoying, but hey she's sexy!...
I guess this is what happens when the original genius behind RE leaves. Oh well, I just hope Mikami (now active with Platinum Games after Clover Studios went down) will make a new quality survival horror game or that the unnanounced game that he is directing is one.
 
I enjoyed Dead Rising a lot more than I did Resident Evil 4.

I'm just not a fan of the type of games in the direction they are going with it. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Hopefully Capcom keeps going with the Dead Rising series, though, and I can get my zombie fix that way and I'll just move on from the Resident Evil series.

Las Plagos definitely don't do it for me. Its just what I imprinted on, watching horror movies as a child I suppose, but the walking dead are spooky to me, spider-like monsters sprouting out of people's heads just aren't.
 
I agree 100 percent. Dead Rising really needs a sequel right about now.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
As long as it is not some boring post apocalyptic scenario in which zombies have overrun the world.
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Actually thats exactly what I want.
 
Speculation Time : according to Kotaku, Dead Rising 2 IS in development. The action is to be set in Vegas. We'll see if it's true.
 
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