Yet another RE 4

[Jasandjules]

Well this has been released today I believe. The demo looked superb. But I have bought this game on three different systems so far, will get it for the PS5 when the price comes down to £10-15... I can't wait for that day!

[mw88]

The remake of 2 was superb but I found 3 a bit disappointing. It looked great but was a bit short for £60.. But the original PS release was short.

I wasn't a big fan of 4 when it was first released. Might wait for the price to drop.

[ZedLeg]

Nemesis was criticised for being too short back in the day. This looks cool and some of the qol changes they've made sound interesting.

Really waiting for the Silent Hill 2 remaster though.

[MCBrowncoat]

My copy is arriving today, very excited

But I never played anything other than the original (and by that I also mean any other Resident Evils!) so might be a different level of anticipation compared to other players

It's a bit odd I never played the others... RE4 was right up there back in the day, for me, but wasn't it a long wait to 5? And also, in the era of PS2, I wasn't going to go back and play the earlier PS1 titles, because the PS2 was such a huge leap graphically and it was still in the era when game development was quick, so there would have been too many other titles to play coming thick and fast. That all change in the PS3 era onwards

So yes, looking forward to going back to this, hope it doesn't disappoint.

[Jasandjules]

mw88 said:

I wasn't a big fan of 4 when it was first released. Might wait for the price to drop.

Really? I loved it... And the Demo looked superb too (with a few extra knife moves)... I am looking forward to a price drop, I refuse to pay £60 for a game I have already bought three times before !!

[Tobias Funke]

mw88 said:

The remake of 2 was superb but I found 3 a bit disappointing. It looked great but was a bit short for £60.. But the original PS release was short.

I wasn't a big fan of 4 when it was first released. Might wait for the price to drop.

I must have played through the RE2 remake 7 or 8 times, played RE3 once and had no interest in playing it again.

I'll definitely get 4, but will probably wait until the price drops.

[Aunty Pasty]

I enjoy all the RE games and I will be getting this one. I played RE4 HD version on PS4 so can wait a bit. RE games tend to fall in price relatively quickly IME.

[Lucas Ayde]

Jasandjules said:

Well this has been released today I believe. The demo looked superb. But I have bought this game on three different systems so far, will get it for the PS5 when the price comes down to £10-15... I can't wait for that day!

Yeah, just too many RE4 remakes. remasters etc out there.

I bought the PS2 version on a physical disc to run on my PS3, then got the PS3 port when it came out because I liked the game and my second PS3 didn't have back-compat. Then got the VR version for my Quest2, because VR. No way I'm going to buy another version no matter how nice it is.

It is a great game though so anyone who hasn't played it is in for a treat.

[SmithCorona]

We have played 2,3 and 7 (still working through) in the past year.

The missing parts of 3 were disappointing, but viewed in isolation it was still good fun over a weekend.

The demo of 4 was excellent, and I'm very much looking forward to getting stuck in over a bank holiday weekend!

[mw88]

Jasandjules said:

mw88 said:

I wasn't a big fan of 4 when it was first released. Might wait for the price to drop.

Really? I loved it... And the Demo looked superb too (with a few extra knife moves)... I am looking forward to a price drop, I refuse to pay £60 for a game I have already bought three times before !!

I really liked the static camera games, and at the time the 3rd person view sort of spoiled it for me - I skipped 5 and 6 and only came back to RE games with 7 (Ironic, considering the switch to 1st person. I know )

I think I need to revisit 4 properly - 7, 8 and the remake of 2 were great.

[Baldchap]

I played Village on my PS5 in the middle of the day whilst my wife was also in the office with me.

So bloody stressful! I got as far as a stupid mouse in a wardrobe and decided I wasn't enjoying myself at all!

Allegedly it's available on VR now. Sounds like a fantastic way to spend hours on edge.

Enjoy yourselves chaps, but I prefer my entertainment with a bit less cortisol!

[ZedLeg]

Baldchap said:

I played Village on my PS5 in the middle of the day whilst my wife was also in the office with me.

So bloody stressful! I got as far as a stupid mouse in a wardrobe and decided I wasn't enjoying myself at all!

Allegedly it's available on VR now. Sounds like a fantastic way to spend hours on edge.

Enjoy yourselves chaps, but I prefer my entertainment with a bit less cortisol!

I'm a bit of a stebag with modern horror games tbh, too visceral I think.

Tried Alien Isolation on an Oculus Rift once. Don't recommend.

[kurokawa]

ZedLeg said:

I'm a bit of a stebag with modern horror games tbh, too visceral I think.

Tried Alien Isolation on an Oculus Rift once. Don't recommend.

cant remember where i leave my Oculus after playing phasmophobia VR

RE2 was great and RE3 was really disappointing, I am still on fence about RE4, the demo is great but original 4 feel shifting to more "action" than horror and the Ashley AI in original 4 just....

[CT05 Nose Cone]

My copy turned up yesterday, just encountered Salazar - who looks distractingly like Margaret Thatcher now - and am definitely enjoying it. Although the graphics seem a bit "off", hard to describe but no matter the settings I try, I keep getting patches of black in darker areas.

[soad]

Haven’t played this one, but watched gameplay on YouTube. Before the remake, that is.

Can’t say that I’m tempted.

Played all the originals (1, 2, and 3) back in the day. And Zero, on the GameCube (came on 2 mini discs).

[Jasandjules]

soad said:

Haven’t played this one, but watched gameplay on YouTube. Before the remake, that is.

The remake Demo had fantastic graphics and effects. I have read that the game has changed maps, and additional areas to explore etc so it is a larger and different game too.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Just finished my second playthrough and think it's fantastic. It's not hugely different to the original in terms of map and story, but I didn't miss the areas they took out and liked the bits they put in, so it's a case of don't fix what isn't broken. Packed full of easter eggs and little details, some taken straight from the original and some new, which to me shows they cared about what they were making. Ashley gets a bit more agency without being turned into one of those awful Girl Boss characters and Luis gets a bit more fleshed out this time around, making their relationships with Leon believable. Although whoever voiced Ada is awful, she delivers what are supposed to be flirty lines with the enthusiasm of someone filling out a tax return.

When they first announced it I thought it was a bit pointless, and really wanted a Code Veronica remake, but happy to be proven wrong.

[Jasandjules]

Well, I have ordered it. Let's see.... I did not want to spend £50 on a game I've bought a few times before, but there we go.

[soad]

Jasandjules said:

Well, I have ordered it. Let's see.... I did not want to spend £50 on a game I've bought a few times before, but there we go.

Can’t one rent these anymore? Boomerang etc. Although I fully appreciate that the physical copy of a game can be sold on.

[Jasandjules]

soad said:

Jasandjules said:

Well, I have ordered it. Let's see.... I did not want to spend £50 on a game I've bought a few times before, but there we go.

Can’t one rent these anymore? Boomerang etc. Although I fully appreciate that the physical copy of a game can be sold on.

No idea. But £55 in the playstation store so cheaper to buy a physical copy too !