Really creative Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles trailer
This is the link to the trailer on gametrailers.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/experience-the-resident-evil/57808
Definitely surprised the hell out of me and I'm not going to spoil much but, the trailer is surprisingly "accurate".
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/experience-the-resident-evil/57808
Definitely surprised the hell out of me and I'm not going to spoil much but, the trailer is surprisingly "accurate".
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Looks alright...Light gun game. The trailer was awesome!
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I stopped playing Resident Evil after they made RE3 because the style changed too much. The zombies are not zombies anymore, just wounded people running at you and now they use weapons in RE5 wtf!!?? The other monsters, so few as they are are not in the slightest bit frightening, there's just no suspense anymore...
Remember this? Bring it back please Capcom
I agree with you in principle, but remember how slow and crap the zombies actually were? They weren't even remotely menacing, or any obstacle in terms of gameplay. And giant spiders are pretty lame by comparison to RE5's gigantic mutations.
The whole zombie soldiers thing was a bit much, though. The spear-wielding tribal zombies I could buy into, but zombies with rocket launchers, despite being pretty cool, was definitely a 'whaaaaat?' moment for me.
At least RE5 fixed what was really wrong with Resident Evil games after the first one - they were all too easy! I remember the disappointment of completing RE2 the day I got it, and thought that RE3 was even easier.
dead rising.
IMO, this is better than the RE series.
+1
I remember them being extremely menacing with your slow firing and reloading rate. As your trying to reload the zombie slowly walking towards, you take too long, turn around slowly, try and run, arggh its got me!
You were extremely slow and cumbersome as well as the zombies. Sharks, spiders, plants, pure preconditioned fear responses.
The older games pose how limitations are actually good things in gameplay because they are the rules (wheras more and more games now are suffering from feature shock and not focussing on a solid core gameplay mechanic) and they give context and meaning to what you experience.
The new silent hill for wii takes this idea and runs with it (you have no means of fighting the enemies at all and the game is always in first person with you only having a limited view...now that brings a real sense of menace to the enemies doesnt it? and they don't even have to be giant robot dragons with the ability to swallow the earth and shoot nukes out of their eyes.)
Back to RE, 4 and 5 ramped up what you could do but did the same for the enemies to balance your increased mobility and accuracy with their overall ability to kill you.
Theme wise, they're totally different but equally absurd.
I love the old and new resident evil games.
I just wish more games where being made these days with rules and limitations (and lives...gosh consequences...remember those? those made enemies REALLY scary, especially at the last stages of game where one wrong move meant you were going back to the very beginning)
Great art is difficult to appreciate fully without context. Games now may have gained visual detail but are lacking the context of challenge/consequence/player limitations to make all the hardwork of making horrible creatures/enemies really pay off.
I used to think this way about lots of older games. I'd reminisce about how great they were, but when you really think about it - or better yet, play them again now - I came to realize that what could be (in RE1's case) be remembered as suspense was actually frustration.
Sure, the camera angles were pretty cinematic at times, and it certainly had its moments (remember the long hallway above the courtyard where the dogs first jump through the windows?), but what they really managed to do was make it infuriatingly difficult to actually combat enemies (no matter how slow and lumbering) effectively. For me, it didn't add to the suspense, it added to the overall frustration of not being able to fight.
How many times did we wait, gun aimed, for the zombie to lumber into view, get bored waiting, run towards them - only for the zombie to grab us at the exact moment before the change in screen, and bite?
Silent Hill 2 managed to use this technique to create suspense without forsaking combat mechanics. You could hear enemies before you saw them, often several minutes before, but when you did finally see them, at least you could shoot them.
However ... that would be kinda cool.