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Resident Evil Requiem |OT| Through the Darkness
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TigerBrown
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I finished my playthrough today. I certainly had my fill of unkillable stalker enemies, not a big fan that scripted segments, but the atmosphere and gameplay were amazing, last time I had to shit my pants as much, was during RE7 (basement). Now I want to return to RE4 sometime
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
What kind of a stupid question is this?
I'm talking about modern and rewritten timeline, not the old one from ages ago.
I know exactly what RE5 and RE6 are all about, there's no point in telling me what I already know.
RE6 has great Leon and Ada campaigns, everything else is shit. RE5... was mindless action with stupid QTE nonesense original RE4 also suffered from, as well as.... well, everyone knows.
This is complete BS from Capcom. Regular RT is nowhere near as bad as these screens are showing. The issue here is that the game is not using full RT feature set and PT is basically cheating and showing regular RT as being the worst while in fact it isn't and I already said why.Its the lighting not the character model. Unless you have pathtracing, you'll see situations where the character models will look weird
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TonberrysKnife
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OH FUCK.
I left a zombie dead for a while and it transformed into a Blisterhead. This muhfucka LEAPED at me like a frog and one shotted me! They make the Crimson Heads from OG remake feel tame here. Legit had a WTF moment lmao.
I left a zombie dead for a while and it transformed into a Blisterhead. This muhfucka LEAPED at me like a frog and one shotted me! They make the Crimson Heads from OG remake feel tame here. Legit had a WTF moment lmao.
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Danjin44
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Actually in my suprise you can kill almost all of them except the main stalker.
For example in Care Center you kill both the Chunk and the chief.
True the OG remake it much easier to avoid Crimson Heads over regular zombies in tight space because when they jump at you they overshoot and entirely miss you.
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Agent_4Seven
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Itchy Tickles
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Hes definitely not my top pick personally, but the general concensus might say he is.
I (like many) hold the first game on PS1 in a special place, so characters like Jill, Chris, and even Barry are more beloved to me than Leon.
Lokaum D+
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I miss being a teen
Arthimura
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I've started playing the game today.
Loving so far, amazing atmosphere and really engaging story.
Just finding the Leon gameplay kinda buggy, is anyone experiencing something similar?
In the 2nd time we play as Leon, afte being attacked by the doctor with the chainsaw, was kinda buggy. The lady got the chainsaw from the ground, and after getting near another zombie, the chainshaw teleported to his chest. There was more buggy interactions envolving the chainsaw physics.
Loving so far, amazing atmosphere and really engaging story.
Just finding the Leon gameplay kinda buggy, is anyone experiencing something similar?
In the 2nd time we play as Leon, afte being attacked by the doctor with the chainsaw, was kinda buggy. The lady got the chainsaw from the ground, and after getting near another zombie, the chainshaw teleported to his chest. There was more buggy interactions envolving the chainsaw physics.
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TerribleAtThisGame
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I'm playing on Classic and I feel like I have no idea how the game wants me to deal with blisterheads and the general onslaught of enemies. Like there's a million corpses laying around, I can barely craft an injector once in a while.
I knew it, I finished it. That's why I think Grace character is completely pointless in the narrative as in the gameplay design also annoying as hell in her characterization. I can't stand her stammer and hysteria when is scared. Capcom has really exaggerated with her humanization, she is even more insufferable than Lara in the TR reboot, something I can't even believed would have been remotely possible.
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semiconscious
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i've always like claire best. she's a civilian who just happens to also be something of a badass, &, on top of all the vicious & violent monstrosities thrown her way, she was also saddled with the insufferable sherry birkin, but even managed to handle that, as well. what a woman!...
Danjin44
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I'm currently playing on insanity and as Grace I'm not gonna use injections on dead zombies….thats waste.
Instead when I see them turn I either try avoid them and if I can't I use Leon's gun to kill them.
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Danjin44
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Yup I'm doing insanity difficulty and loving this game all over again.
At first I was gonna do that difficulty when I got infinite ammo but honestly glad I didn't, I feel it would take the fun out of the game.
Lokaum D+
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once you get the lvl 1 bracelet you ll be swimming on resources that they wont even bother you anymore
TerribleAtThisGame
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I spoke a bit too soon regarding the blisterheads. I kind of got in a groove now and yea, after finding the whole sort of "intro" sections very disappointing, the hospital has been very good shit once I got into the flow.
I'm kind of a first person hater but I admit I vastly prefer Grace in first person. I cranked all the sens and acceleration settings etc. and it all feels better now.
I'm really glad my second session with it has been this much better because I was BUMMED yesterday.
I'm kind of a first person hater but I admit I vastly prefer Grace in first person. I cranked all the sens and acceleration settings etc. and it all feels better now.
I'm really glad my second session with it has been this much better because I was BUMMED yesterday.
Lokaum D+
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i did 3 playthrough and it was a nightmare, playing Grace first time is cools, after that is boring as it gets, just the handgun makes her gameplay become old very quickly
semiconscious
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first time around, the extended intro section sorta had me wondering, as well, particularly considering they'd already shown chunks of it. but that's all it is: a bit overly long setup. once it shifts gears, the true ride begins. enjoy...
Orbital2060
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Blister heads: WIth Leon: kneecap > melee > axe; Grace: kneecap > hemolytic injector
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Nocty
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The RPD level hit me in the feels man.
Not just because of the nostalgia either, which was great, especially liked the music and the STARS office.
When I picked up that STARS photo and the message on the back, March 1996. It hit me. The year my grandpa passed. We played the original resident evil 1 together. He never got to play Resi 2 as his cancer progressed to the point where he was no longer coherent (brain tumour). I was too young then to comprehend fully what was going to happen, truly. I thought he would get better, he never did.
By the time Resi 2 came out in 98 he was gone. I remember my dad crying a lot during our playing of the game, his grief was heavy as they would play a lot of videogames together with me. I was barely 8 years old at the time Resi 1 was out and shouldnt have really been playing it with them at all. had not been for gramps letting my mum a white lie that I was sick and took the day off school to watch them play it.
I found myself in tears out of nowhere. I am not an emotional dude, no idea where it came from. I haven't hear his voice, or my dads voice in over 20 years. They are both gone to cancer. Playing this through alone really made me remember them and the times we had in the 90's, how the world was then. Gaming is so amazing for this. The times in my life I can remember so well through the memories playing games at certain points in life. No other media does that for me, I couldnt tell you what movies I watched that year or books that I read. But I can remember every hour of just about every videogame I played with my dad and gramps in that old studyroom on the bigsss TV in my grandparents house.
My parents, grandparents, uncles. They are all gone now.
Long post but fuck, cant believe I teared up over this shit yall.
Not just because of the nostalgia either, which was great, especially liked the music and the STARS office.
When I picked up that STARS photo and the message on the back, March 1996. It hit me. The year my grandpa passed. We played the original resident evil 1 together. He never got to play Resi 2 as his cancer progressed to the point where he was no longer coherent (brain tumour). I was too young then to comprehend fully what was going to happen, truly. I thought he would get better, he never did.
By the time Resi 2 came out in 98 he was gone. I remember my dad crying a lot during our playing of the game, his grief was heavy as they would play a lot of videogames together with me. I was barely 8 years old at the time Resi 1 was out and shouldnt have really been playing it with them at all. had not been for gramps letting my mum a white lie that I was sick and took the day off school to watch them play it.
I found myself in tears out of nowhere. I am not an emotional dude, no idea where it came from. I haven't hear his voice, or my dads voice in over 20 years. They are both gone to cancer. Playing this through alone really made me remember them and the times we had in the 90's, how the world was then. Gaming is so amazing for this. The times in my life I can remember so well through the memories playing games at certain points in life. No other media does that for me, I couldnt tell you what movies I watched that year or books that I read. But I can remember every hour of just about every videogame I played with my dad and gramps in that old studyroom on the bigsss TV in my grandparents house.
My parents, grandparents, uncles. They are all gone now.
Long post but fuck, cant believe I teared up over this shit yall.
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Northeastmonk
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Every single time I tried taking a snapshot in game it came out with a pause menu instead. I was also thinking that DLC to tell us what Leon was doing between 7 and 8 could be fantastic. Id buy that in a heart beat.
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semiconscious
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caught me off guard completely. i laughed...They brought Mr.X back
TheDarkPhantom
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Went back to Village and did my 3rd playthrough on Village of Shadows difficulty, I was playing it as if it were my first time, fully exploring, reading every lore entry etc:
RE8 does some cool stuff it just doesn't feel like an RE game and it's nowhere near Requiem lol. I restarted 7 too which was in my top 3 before Requiem came along. Unfortunately I lost my PS4 save file so need to start from scratch. This game is so fucking cool man and with the free PS5 update that includes ray tracing it looks better than ever, must play for anyone who is new to the series and wants more after RE9. Like 8 though it's a very different beast. The molded are lame but that Baker family, hoo boy, some incredible set piece moments, boss battles, and amazing atmosphere throughout
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Gamer_By_Proxy
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Someone from my Steam family just bought it . . .
Jsisto
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I don't understand the dislike of Grace. She was locked in a hospital with zombies and various other monstrosities all trying to eat her, and unlike other Resident Evil characters, she didn't have any experience dealing with this. At some points she almost didn't seem scared ENOUGH to me. I think they did a fantastic job with her characterization.
Danjin44
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Some want her act like Hollywood style FBI agent.
Werewolf Jones
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Better character than Leon.
He just says the most basic Redditcore one lines and dudes cream their pants.
A chef zombie shows up.
"What's cooking?"
High effort and well thought out.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Probably one of the best new characters in the series. Right next to Victor Gideon.
People seem to forget Grace is only 21 and a shut-in.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
So, Capcom was clearly inspired by TLOU2 when it comes to Racoon City exploration design, not to mention almost like for like locations you're about to explore with very similar scenery and things you need to do to move forward during various gameplay scenarios, complete objectives and stuff, unlock some things and I LOVE IT TO DEATH! 
Like, if you're about to take or borrow something from someone, it needs to be taken and borrowed from the best and so they did it. This is how RE3R remake should've been like while Racoon City was still a thing left standing, full of people trying to survive, thousands of zombies trying to kill them etc. but... eh, we all know what happened to that game (hopefully it'll soon be somewhat fixed with a mod). It wasn't bad or terrible by any means and I like it a lot, but... just thinkin' about what could've been and how it all would've made the game so much better... 
What's strange about Racoon City part in RE9 though is that it feels like a part of a different game. Do you guys remember those rumors about open world RE? Well, I think this was it, but maybe something didn't go all that well and so they had to scale it down. Like, I kid you not, when Grace left with Wesker-like dude and Gideon, I thought for sure that's the end of the game just cuz of the way it ended and we'll be getting DLC expansion later on. But no, after that the game went through a drastic shift in tone, mood, atmosphere, world and exploration designs with lots of different things becoming available to you like BSAA weapon and upgrade shop where you can sell, buy and upgrade weapons (without finding attachments for most of 'em), buy armor which you can then repair with repair kits and we can now save the game manualy while playing as Leon and all sorts of other things which wasn't a part of modern and mainline RE games.
Like, it's so, SO different from what was in the game before that it just has to be a part of that open world RE game they were working on and it makes you wonder what it was like before they scaled it down. I've seen people saying that this part of the game is boring to which I say - seriously? I just don't agree with this at all. If anything, it's way different, completely new to the series and very refreshing after what was in the game before and it's a huge plus in my book, not to mention going back to Racoon City and see what the fuck happened to it after they nuked it almost 18 years ago.
Like, if you're about to take or borrow something from someone, it needs to be taken and borrowed from the best and so they did it. This is how RE3R remake should've been like while Racoon City was still a thing left standing, full of people trying to survive, thousands of zombies trying to kill them etc. but... eh, we all know what happened to that game (hopefully it'll soon be somewhat fixed with a mod). It wasn't bad or terrible by any means and I like it a lot, but... just thinkin' about what could've been and how it all would've made the game so much better...
What's strange about Racoon City part in RE9 though is that it feels like a part of a different game. Do you guys remember those rumors about open world RE? Well, I think this was it, but maybe something didn't go all that well and so they had to scale it down. Like, I kid you not, when Grace left with Wesker-like dude and Gideon, I thought for sure that's the end of the game just cuz of the way it ended and we'll be getting DLC expansion later on. But no, after that the game went through a drastic shift in tone, mood, atmosphere, world and exploration designs with lots of different things becoming available to you like BSAA weapon and upgrade shop where you can sell, buy and upgrade weapons (without finding attachments for most of 'em), buy armor which you can then repair with repair kits and we can now save the game manualy while playing as Leon and all sorts of other things which wasn't a part of modern and mainline RE games.
Like, it's so, SO different from what was in the game before that it just has to be a part of that open world RE game they were working on and it makes you wonder what it was like before they scaled it down. I've seen people saying that this part of the game is boring to which I say - seriously? I just don't agree with this at all. If anything, it's way different, completely new to the series and very refreshing after what was in the game before and it's a huge plus in my book, not to mention going back to Racoon City and see what the fuck happened to it after they nuked it almost 18 years ago.
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StinklesMcToot
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Brother, for real. I feel you i hear you. Thanks for sharing your gaming story. It's stuff like this that makes gaming awesome. Keep on geming
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Beautiful post.
But also, I do want to mention that it seems like you might have an ongoing family cancer concern, you should probably keep getting checked regularly as well.
Man I am not sure I have ever seen a game drop in quality in such an extreme manner as this one does in its second part.
It feels like playing one of those bargain bin Xbox 360 AA shooters that no one remembers (think Fracture, Far Cry Instincts, etc..).
What happened ? This is absolutely catastrophic. RE4R is miles better than wtf is Leon's part in this
It feels like playing one of those bargain bin Xbox 360 AA shooters that no one remembers (think Fracture, Far Cry Instincts, etc..).
What happened ? This is absolutely catastrophic. RE4R is miles better than wtf is Leon's part in this
kunonabi
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My guess is the back half is more built off the original design which was a multiplayer online game.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
I just don't get the complaints about the Racoon City part of the game, I'm sorry, but I just don't.
I can see why some people would want more compact and faster paced gameplay and exploration, but we had enough of it already in previous games and I find what they did with Racoon City 1) Very refreshing for RE to have TLOU like world exploration and lvl design 2) It's cool to go back there and see what happened after the bombing and 3) There wasn't enough Leon before Racoon City so they fixed this and added a bunch of cool stuff on top.
I can see why some people would want more compact and faster paced gameplay and exploration, but we had enough of it already in previous games and I find what they did with Racoon City 1) Very refreshing for RE to have TLOU like world exploration and lvl design 2) It's cool to go back there and see what happened after the bombing and 3) There wasn't enough Leon before Racoon City so they fixed this and added a bunch of cool stuff on top.
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Dirk Benedict
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Lmao! I had the most trouble with
The Girl, because she was doing some weird shit and grabbing/noticing me when I figured she wouldn't. She seems much faster, unless it's just me?
That aside, I just got off of work and
That aside, I just got off of work and
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Hugare
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Just reached the second half.
Amazing game. So much better than 8.
Care Center is just an incredible location, one of the series best. Didnt expect it to be so well designed.
Zombies retaining some of their humanity should be a RE thing from now on. Killed a zombie in another room, then the cleaner zombie came and yelled "look at this mess!". Great stuff.
And as a horror fan, damn this game can be tense. Wasn't expecting a RE game to be this tense.
Amazing game. So much better than 8.
Care Center is just an incredible location, one of the series best. Didnt expect it to be so well designed.
Zombies retaining some of their humanity should be a RE thing from now on. Killed a zombie in another room, then the cleaner zombie came and yelled "look at this mess!". Great stuff.
And as a horror fan, damn this game can be tense. Wasn't expecting a RE game to be this tense.
Listen.... like no. Fine you like it but just no. We are not even close to the gameplay design quality of the previous. I don't know how many people can still repeat it because RE9 is very confusing and inconsistent in the whole design, some parts are not even clear how they are supposed to be played going further, I'm referring to the Grace moments. I mean I understand to like it and I'm not want absolutely downplay the other tastes but we are going in an impervious territory if we want really make a fair comparison. IMO.
Also a little OT but the Leon part remind me terribly to ...
MGS4? Seems almost they took and transplant his skeleton in the Leon lore
my apologies if I can't explain better.
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Robb
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I'm struggling to find time to play, I'm still at the Care Center, but I fully agree. Fantastic location (so far) and I absolutely love that a lot of zombies have specific quirks.
Memati187
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One liners and simping isn't a better personality. Also Chris is more involved in lore than spinoff Leon.
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Lokaum D+
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Yeah, Jill, Chris and the other S.T.A.R.S members had counter zombie training before RE1, been locked on Spencer masion must be a cake walk for them.
Leon too before RE2, Claire a civilian had to deal with zombies everyday in her life before coming to RC.
And lets not forget Rebbeca that also had training in South America to learn how to deal with leech zombies at the age of 18 before RE0.
Poor Grace that worked for the FBI and they dont have anti zombie counter measures program...
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I mean she doesn't encounter any zombie and already shitted in their pants at the beginning with the first weird sound. Any kinda of training seems pointless for a person like this. It's out of my mind how stupidly is designed her character and what's the point to a person with her mind fragility sending to work on the field by the FBI. She could kill accidentally an innocent at any moment. But RE9 seems plagued to narrative holes ilke this.
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