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Old 05-18-2015, 03:29 PM   #7631 (permalink)
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Honestly it's not very good. I played the demo and was pretty underwhelmed, and further on in the game it gets really weird. Not just the story, which is pretty stupid, but with the gameplay as well. It wants to be old school survival horror where you have to ration your ammo and health, yet the game puts you in situations where you need to attack.
Well I never got around to starting it tonight but it seems that I haven't missed out on too much.

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I'm not a big fan of the Resident Evil games either so that's not a great comparison to me. Take Resident Evil 4 which is held in great regard. You can't sidestep and it pits a variety of manga-style secret agents against monsters in a castle in Transylvania or equivalent.

It's like James Bond meets Dracula. Possibly fun, but also very contrived.
I pretty much loved Resident Evil 4 as it was the second game in the series set in a European setting (northern Spain here) and I really loved the first part of the game exploring a rural location. Admittedly the second half in the castle was pretty long-winded. It was also the first game in the series that functioned more like a arcade shooter as well and changed the original virus concept into a parasite concept. The series hit an all-time low imo on Resident Evil 5 the weakest game in the series, but I even enjoy poor Resident Evil games.
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Old 05-18-2015, 03:43 PM   #7632 (permalink)
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I've been replaying the Assassins Creed series lately. Mostly because I had a couple out of the set but had played snippets of others so finally completed the set.
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Old 05-18-2015, 04:20 PM   #7633 (permalink)
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pretty much loved Resident Evil 4 as it was the second game in the series set in a European setting (northern Spain here) and I really loved the first part of the game exploring a rural location. Admittedly the second half in the castle was pretty long-winded. It was also the first game in the series that functioned more like a arcade shooter as well and changed the original virus concept into a parasite concept. The series hit an all-time low imo on Resident Evil 5 the weakest game in the series, but I even enjoy poor Resident Evil games.
Granted, I've never played the pre-RE 5 games (no Playstation or Gamecube, but I'm sure I'll eventually get around to finding that **** at some game shop that sells old stuff like that), but I very much enjoyed 5 and 6. They weren't at all scary, but I just love third-person shooters. FPS games just have two-dimensional gameplay, dumbed down for the casual gamers, that gets old after about a half-hour (even the good ones), but third-person FPS usually have something else going for them, other than the shooting part: Tomb Raider is also a platformer, Mass Effect's power's and intricate conversation system, and the newer RE games make gameplay intentionally more challenging by limiting ammunition and making the shooting mechanics so that you can't just be a one man killing machine (Yeah, I know that's a staple of the series, but it still works in the newer games).

I'd play 5 and 6 over pretty much any non-Fallout FPS I can thin of, and Fallout has its own reasons for being more than just an FPS, so it doesn't count as far as I'm concerned.
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Old 05-18-2015, 08:46 PM   #7634 (permalink)
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I've played The Evil Within. To me, it was a lot better than the reviews suggest. A lot of people have said the game is "broken" but I never encountered any serious issues whatsoever playing it.

The story is needlessly complicated and there is some cringe-worthy voice acting, but if you were drawn to this from Resident Evil 4 (which I think a lot of people were), that shouldn't be a big issue for you as RE4's strong suits weren't its story or acting.

Like RE4, it does a great job building atmosphere and throwing a diverse set of creative enemies, bosses and locations at you. I think there may actually be a bit too much change in the environments to be honest; there is just so much packed in there.

Overall, really solid game. The frame rate looks a bit choppy sometimes, but all-in-all it's a great-looking game. It has some genuinely frightening moments as well.

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Old 05-18-2015, 09:01 PM   #7635 (permalink)
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Granted, I've never played the pre-RE 5 games
Wait, you played Resident Evil 5 and 6 before you played 4? Go get your credit card, and buy Resident Evil 4 on your 360 this instant. I, like you, thoroughly enjoy 5 & 6, but 4 absolutely destroys both of them.

Your life isn't complete until you play that game.
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Wait, you played Resident Evil 5 and 6 before you played 4? Go get your credit card, and buy Resident Evil 4 on your 360 this instant. I, like you, thoroughly enjoy 5 & 6, but 4 absolutely destroys both of them.

Your life isn't complete until you play that game.
Is it on XBox Live? If so, I don't have it, so... boned.
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Dammit Batty! Why are you so poor? Tell me where you live so I can send a box full of money to you.
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