Obligatory Resident Evil 8 Poll

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Was it worth it?

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Dirty Diamond

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Since I am irresponsible with my shekels, I decided to look back at an old post I made where I preordered RE8.
Yes, my autism is consuming me like a fungus, and I must accept that horrible reality.
In all fairness, I did find the game a lot of fun, despite it having a lot of retarded moments during the final third of the game. There were far worse things I blew my money on and will probably waste more on in the future because I never think things through.
Still, what did you guys think, was it worth the hype or was it dog shit?
 
I'm disappointed with how unscary it was. Like they soft-rebooted the series to be more survival horror, then the very next game they turn into a campy shooting gallery. They've run out of good horror games to remake too, so it seems like Resident Evil once again just isn't a horror franchise, and in record time.
 
Epic Fedora Man said:
You again? :stickup:
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I'm like a fungus that can never be cleaned.

Bastard_Call said:
I'm disappointed with how unscary it was. Like they soft-rebooted the series to be more survival horror, then the very next game they turn into a campy shooting gallery. They've run out of good horror games to remake too, so it seems like Resident Evil once again just isn't a horror franchise, and in record time.
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True, but it was fun for me at least. I will agree that the game loses steam during the factory level.
Also, the robot battle was just silly.
 
Bastard_Call said:
I'm disappointed with how unscary it was. Like they soft-rebooted the series to be more survival horror, then the very next game they turn into a campy shooting gallery. They've run out of good horror games to remake too, so it seems like Resident Evil once again just isn't a horror franchise, and in record time.
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Revelations was a good return to form, 7 was interesting in a good way. 8 leaned more into being an action-horror game with less emphasis on the horror, outside of enemy designs.
 
Pixy said:
Revelations was a good return to form, 7 was interesting in a good way. 8 leaned more into being an action-horror game with less emphasis on the horror, outside of enemy designs.
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I've only ever played the first episode of Rev2. I liked it, but I'm not a huge fan of the business model and the way they're segmented means you can rarely get the whole game for a decent price, considering how old it is. Is it worth playing the whole thing?
 
Bastard_Call said:
I've only ever played the first episode of Rev2. I liked it, but I'm not a huge fan of the business model and the way they're segmented means you can rarely get the whole game for a decent price, considering how old it is. Is it worth playing the whole thing?
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I've never played Rev2 outside of the demo/first episode, so I'm in the same boat as you. Rev 1 is worth buying, though I recommend just picking it up when it's on sale. It certainly does a much better job at evoking a sense of dread after every door on the cruiseliner levels.
 
Bastard_Call said:
I'm disappointed with how unscary it was. Like they soft-rebooted the series to be more survival horror, then the very next game they turn into a campy shooting gallery. They've run out of good horror games to remake too, so it seems like Resident Evil once again just isn't a horror franchise, and in record time.
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Everyone who says Resident Evil 7 is super scary is a lying faggot thats parroting other people or a gigantic pussy.
 
It suffers from the same problems RE7 does, sets up the horror element really well in the first hour then just gets progressively stupid. Around that time you realise the ambient sounds that are played every minute or so have no source in the game world, and is just there to throw you off the first time before the "scary" monsters come in.
Then everything falls flat and turns into a walky-shooty-obsess over Dimitrescu's booty, the latter the degenerate fanbase massively overhyped as nothing is a threat in the game especially when you can block and negate damage.
 
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literally the only reason why anyone got this game.

Fuck Capcom and their retarded hyped-up memes
 
It was a fun action romp, though it tumbles in quality and atmosphere after the castle. If it's worth 60$ depends on the person.
 
It's good but I wish there was more to it, I wish you saw more of the castle, I wish the Donna chapter was longer, it feels like a game that suffered a lot of cuts potentially due to Covid.

But I felt the same way with RE7, I definitely felt like there wasn't enough time spent in the Baker house for example.

So much of 8 boils down to a big tease sadly, especially the story, I was really hoping it would actually have more to do with the series past, instead it amounts to a side story with a few intriguing hints towards some bigger picture, but that's all we get, hints, kind of gives me blue balls 4 years after 7.

With these modern Resident Evil games it feels like Capcom comes up with a lot of great ideas but for whatever reason is lacking the talent to really bring them to full fruition, but maybe next time is when they'll hit it out of the park? I hope they stick with spooky, gothic European locales though, but I have a feeling what they'll probably do next is a setting like Raccoon city, given that 7 took influence from 1 and 8 took influence from 4, taking influence from 2 and 3 seems like an obvious next step, but in my opinion that would be a step down, still a lot of potential to be mined from 8's general aesthetic in my opinion.

In fact what I would like to see for 9 is rather than being subtitled Village, it could be subtitled Castle and the whole game could revolve around a sprawling castle complex rather than that just being one brief part.
 
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