RE2: Such a GREAT Game, Dang-it!

[QUOTE="metalgrinch"]

The Gamecube remake is definitely what the original should have been, but it wasn't simply due to the technology and budget available. The horrendous voice-acting was funny, but at the time it didn't matter because we were all so enthralled with this Survival horror concept. I only got a PS1 solely to play the original RE.

Now, with the release of RE2, I was pumped I think more than anyone. The enhancements made to gameplay, graphics and sound were astounding over the original. I would agree that of ALL the RE's ever released, RE2 was perhaps the best, just because it was so perfectly executed, whereas the others simply did not have as much of an impact.

Both of those games will always carry a fond memory in my heart and mind. Even when I'm 70 years old I'll be telling my grandkids about the birth of survival horror!

Panzer_Zwei

There have been survival horror type of games since the 80s. Even with the zombies outbreak theme, like the excellent Death of the Brain.

It put the "survival horror" term in everyone's mouths in the west, and its particular game design was indeed very unfluential was and followed by a myrad of similar looking and feeling posterior games, but that's it.

Well I never said RE gave BIRTH to survival horror, I just meant to say that at the time it was just so fresh and new to a mainstream American audience. I'm sure 9 out of 10 gamers probably wouldn't even know what Death of the Brain was, at least in this country. Mention RE and they'd probably say that it actually WAS the game that gave birth to survival horror (at least survival horror that actually FELT real and scary, considering an 8-bit game which could never make anyone scared besides maybe a 2 year old)

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[QUOTE="Another48hours"]Of all my gaming years, I will admit it, I have never played a Resident Evil game. If only there was always an alternative that looked better on the side each time. But I suppose it's high time for me to get up to scope. So, which game do I start with?bultje112

I personally enjoyed Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, and Code Veronica X and I recommend playing them in that order.

it's better to play resident evil code veronica before resident evil 3. especially for stiryline. I thought code veronica x was a lousy port and the added movies about wesker imo don't helpt the game at all

I played through Code Veronica X and I can honestly say that I hardly remember it, albeit a few scenes and the characters. RE 1 and 2 I played years before that and can greatly remember most details. Even RE3 if i really stretched it, but I think RE3 was where the zombie thing started to get a BIT old and by that time i was already a bit too accustomed to the tank controls, graphical style, and zombie theme for it to really wow me the way its predecessors did. There was also more focus on action than horror as well.

RE4 on the other hand was just astounding. Not so much scary, but hugely entertaining nontheless!

I've only played RE:4 but a local game store has the first 2 RE games for sale. Thinking about picking them up at a later dateSwanogt19

T'will be interesting to see if you like them, having started with RE4...

... You'll either love them, or hate them.

[QUOTE="Swanogt19"]I've only played RE:4 but a local game store has the first 2 RE games for sale. Thinking about picking them up at a later dateMonkeySpot

T'will be interesting to see if you like them, having started with RE4...

... You'll either love them, or hate them.

Re2 was an excellent game, but I still think Code Veronica holds the crown for pre-RE4 Resident Evil titles. REmake excluded.

It's unfortunate that we seem to be lacking in Survival horror titles these days...

Now that Resi has moved into a more action-orientated spectrum, a move which I am by no means opposed to in the spirit of moving forwards, but I will admit to missing the old style Resi games.

The last Project Zero / Fatal Frame game we got outside of Japan was the 3rd entry.

It seems that the PS2 was the last console to carry a decent range of survival horror titles (Haunting ground, Project Zero, Clock Tower 3 to name but a few.)

All we've really had these days is the Saw games (Which weren't amazing), the recentSilent hill gamesandFPS's / Action gameswith survival horror elements. :(

A R.E-make of RE2 is pretty much up there with a FF7 Remake as one of the most fan requested releases ever.

If only they'd listen, eh? I personally would even settle for the first 3 Resi games released on XBLA / PSN...

[QUOTE="metalgrinch"]

The Gamecube remake is definitely what the original should have been, but it wasn't simply due to the technology and budget available. The horrendous voice-acting was funny, but at the time it didn't matter because we were all so enthralled with this Survival horror concept. I only got a PS1 solely to play the original RE.

Now, with the release of RE2, I was pumped I think more than anyone. The enhancements made to gameplay, graphics and sound were astounding over the original. I would agree that of ALL the RE's ever released, RE2 was perhaps the best, just because it was so perfectly executed, whereas the others simply did not have as much of an impact.

Both of those games will always carry a fond memory in my heart and mind. Even when I'm 70 years old I'll be telling my grandkids about the birth of survival horror!

Panzer_Zwei

There have been survival horror type of games since the 80s. Even with the zombies outbreak theme, like the excellent Death of the Brain.

It put the "survival horror" term in everyone's mouths in the west, and its particular game design was indeed very unfluential was and followed by a myrad of similar looking and feeling posterior games, but that's it.