Oh Resident Evil, a once proud game series that has fallen on hard times. I still love this series, despite Capcom and Sony's best attempts to turn it RE into Call of Duty.
My favorite games in the series are:
Resident Evil REmake
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Code Veronica
I have a lot of fond memories of these games and I try to play each one at least once a year. Please share your favorites.
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02-08-2016, 10:53 PM #1Extraordinary Member
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Resident Evil Series
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02-09-2016, 02:01 AM #2Put a smile on that face
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The series hasn't fallen on hard times at all. If you check on Capcom's Financial website, RE5 and RE6 are the best selling games in the company's history. Revelations 2 is a good game and was another success for them. The series only fallen to fans of the classic games.
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02-09-2016, 02:09 AM #3Extraordinary Member
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I know RE5 was a success, but people liked RE6? Liked it enough to buy it en masse, I mean.
Originally Posted by Immortal Weapon
It's not just games like RE6 that are a turn off, but Operation Raccoon City, and Umbrella Corps. Capcom is trying to make RE into Call of Duty with zombies and monster, but that's not why people play RE. It's like they saw the success of RE4 and RE5 with their more action oriented turn and decided to go full Michael Bay with the series.
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02-09-2016, 10:07 AM #4Put a smile on that face
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RE6 gets shitted on a lot by the fanbase. I honestly don't think the game is as bad as many make it out to be. Gameplay for that game is on point. They dropped the ball on everything else though. Originally Posted by Char Aznable
ORC and Umbrella Corps are spin-off games. If they don't interest you than ignore them. As long as the mainline series don't end up that way it's fine.
I know that Capcom written off RE6 as a failure but it bombed $6.4 Million. Many other games wish it could bomb those numbers. Originally Posted by Panfoot
Umbrella Corps is for the e-sports crowd. They have their own eSports league with Capcom Cup and they probably want more games for it. Originally Posted by Panfoot
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02-09-2016, 02:32 PM #5Moderator
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I've heard the recent Revelations game wasn't too bad? Not sure if that's the name since it sounds kinda generic, but the one on Wii U.
Personally I was really fond of the GameCube remake and Resident Evil: Zero which is from around that same time.
Also there's some entries on the original Wii, not just the best version of Resident Evil 4 (improved aiming with the remote), but there's two railshooter games. Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles. One of them is pretty mediocre, but the other one is surprisingly fun! Now if only I could remember which was which...
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02-09-2016, 05:56 PM #6Extraordinary Member
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I have Revelations 1, but I haven't finished it.
RE0 was ok, but nothing special. I have both Chronicles games, but no one to play them with.
The RE Outbreak games both sucked.
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02-15-2016, 02:50 PM #7BANNED
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The gameplay for RE6 is pretty fantastic, it's doing some interesting things with the melee system the RE game have had for some time now.. Seems to be a game made more for the open areas of Mercenaries mode more than the main game. Originally Posted by Immortal Weapon
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02-18-2016, 04:31 AM #8Extraordinary Member
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Would anyone care to talk about the series of movies (live action and animated) Sony has made "based" on RE? I find them all to be certain degrees of terrible, but I find the first two live action and the first animated films watchable at least. I watched them all on VUDU this weekend, and I can't help but feel the problems of these films could be fixed, SO EASILY! Instead they've become mindless action movies with zombies and bio-monsters.
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02-09-2016, 04:16 AM #9Astonishing Member
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While RE6 did sell a lot, it had an incredibly large team and budget, so it didn't actually do as good as it first appears. Originally Posted by Immortal Weapon
Anyway, ranking the games I've played, which I've missed a few since I jumped on pretty late I would probably go...
Resident Evil(I played the port of the original version on DS, I have REmake on my steam account but haven't sat down to do a full playthrough yet)
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil: Revelations 2(It's got Barry! The characters having significant differences was a neat experiment)
Resident Evil 5(Bad partner AI really hurt this game in single player)
Resident Evil: Revelations(Kinda spins it's wheels about 3/4ths through the game and that story wasn't to intersting
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X
Resident Evil 6(Don't hate it as much as most people, but the story is the least interesting(with the most forgettable villain in the entire series) and the game just doesn't teach you mechanics, like how melee counters are way more effective than any gun, also has a problem of Quantity >>> Quality)
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Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City(I bought this for like 5 bucks on a steam sale and that was 10 to many)
No idea who they are trying to sell Umbrella Corps. to, certainly not fans of the series, and even good multiplayer only shooters struggle these days(like Titanfall and Evolve).
I do hope they continue porting the classics to steam, I'd love to finally play through 2 and 3.
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02-09-2016, 09:29 AM #10Elektralyte
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I've enjoyed all the main games, perhaps with the exception of 0. Enjoyed Revelations 2, demo for the first dissuaded me from picking it up.
Haven't played the ancillary titles, and I have no idea why they're making games like ORC or Umbrella Corps.
My favorites are the remastered remake and 2; pretty excited about the remake for 2.
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