Rate the Latest Game you Completed

[Darth Maul]

I think I’m done playing as the fireteam. Congratulations. You played yourselves. Hope everyone enjoys the impending 20 minute Predator queues. I refuse to play Clash, as having a team battle, with a Predator on each team, seems really fucking stupid.

 

[Jotaro Something]

You almost can’t win as the fireteam anymore. There’s literally no point in playing as a human right now. You’re just going to get wiped out by mediocre Predators. May as well wait the ten to twelve minutes to play as a Predator.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I hope they’re looking at the huge disparity in wins vs losses now, after the latest update. Especially since a lot of these players have figured out the best ways to utilize the specializations.

That sounds pretty bad. I recorded all my matches, and I sucked as a predator at first, it took a few matches to get used to the game and learn everything I needed but after that I never lost a match as a predator, not even one, I have it all recorded and I beat fireteam after fireteam. Of course I got a couple of matches with great players that forced me to use all my heals and even eat most of the pigs in the map, but the thing is, I won anyway. And with the Jungle Hunter build alone which proves all the other predator weapons are unnecessary. So I can't imagine how shitty it is now, even before the update the predators had all they needed to never lose

I think I’m done playing as the fireteam. Congratulations. You played yourselves. Hope everyone enjoys the impending 20 minute Predator queues. I refuse to play Clash, as having a team battle, with a Predator on each team, seems really fucking stupid.

I was gonna ask how Clash feels to play right now, because the balancing for that type of game is very different

 

[Darth Maul]

Yeah, I don’t play clash. I hate the concept of it. It just seems like some kinda retarded ass AvP bullshit. And I liked that first movie. Does it work in a game? No, it fucking doesn’t.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Resident Evil 4 HD PS4 - 8.5/10

I did it on normal and professional and and five star'd the mercs mode. I might go into the Ada modes at some point but I'm going through new game plus on pro and raping everything.

 

[FSLAR]

Pikmin 3 Deluxe - 8.5/10. For a nearly 10 year old game from the Wii U, it still holds up wonderfully and plays great. Should have been cheaper a bit but Nintendo gonna Nintendo.

 

[RIDDICK]

StarCraft II - 4/10

It's sad how warcrafty it is in a bad way. The original may not have been amazing sci-fi but at least it tried to stay grounded enough and not to fall into the trap of epic tropes. They went full fantasy with the sequel just to cteate as much cheap hype as possible... and destroyed their own legacy in the process. It still has some cool concepts, some new ideas, but none were fleshed out or followed through which only added salt to the injury. The character of Kerrigan became such a mess that by the end you can only feel sorry for Raynor who's trapped in this abysmal story.

The protos campaign is the best in terms of story and characters but the worst in terms of gameplay. How does that work? I dunno...

 

[Snake Plissken]

Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island DLC - 8/10

 

[FSLAR]

Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles / Rondo of Blood remake - 8/10. Good time for my first Castlevania.

 

[RIDDICK]

REVIII - 5/10

Could've been a good game but the legacy holds it back. The whole "origin of Umbrella" thing felt as interesting as Joe Baker and added absolutely nothing to the plot. The main antagonist is very poorly written and barely fleshed out, she's the least interesting character in the entire game. Heisenberg was a fun character and I loved his factory.
Chris' the most interesitng but there should've been much more of him, plus his motivation in regards to Ethan is very poorly written so the dragging drama at the end felt idiotic. His gameplay segment is badass but way too short as well.
Ethan him self only becomes interesting in retrospect, the build up to the twist didn't add anything to his character, plus it makes no sence in the context of the story and completely destroys his characterisation in RE7. They should've at least reveal it very early on and build upon it to add depth... but hey, depth and proper writing in a RE game? Pfff....
I loved the Duke and the fact that he's interacting with Ethan and the world. Tho I really didn't care for his design.

Overall good gameplay, shooting monsters feels even better and more intuitive than before. Some mechanics aren't well thought out and/or should've been updated for modern standards considering how they've cut item storage system completely.
I don't mind backtracking but why even bother if you cannot get everything in a single playthrough unless you're extremely bigbrained and unrealistically lucky. This is 2021, unless your game has amazing plot and characters I won't force my self to waste time going at it again.

Anyway, I don't regret playing it as much as I did with RE7, which I still hate. I like the setting a lot, the gameplay was fun and it has some good ideas here and there.

 

[Snake Plissken]

RE7 being worse is no surprise really. That game had identity crisis written all over it. It's trying to be several horror films at once and not one is valuable at all to the player.

 

[RIDDICK]

It's trying to be several horror films at once and not one is valuable at all to the player.

To be fair, RE8 does it as well but in separated segments that make much more sense narratively. Lucas was the only good "boss" in RE7 while here all the bosses have actual backstories and their abilities tie into it.

 

[Jotaro Something]

I pretty much agree with that review entirely, except I'd give the game a 2, I'm knocking down 3 more points just because they undermined Spencer to elevate Miranda in a way that is a tell of someone who can't write a good story to save their lives

 

[FSLAR]

RE being badly written should not surprise anyone anymore, and I have no idea why people act like this franchise was always a good story. I still don't fault anyone, including myself, for being frustrated that the series squanders its story so much. It's weird since Capcom can make good stories, see DMC 3 and 5, or at least good moments and themes. Then again, we get some of the Mega Man X stories....and hoo boy. Those are laugh able at times.
RE has some good moments, and the files can be interesting if not great in the original games pre-5. But anyone who claims any game in the series is better then the other sorely for its story is fucking stupid. The amount of people, especially on YouTube, who I otherwise thought were valid and respectable in their opinions that said post-RE5 games have great stories, and that RE5 is better then 4 sorely for taking itself seriously....are you out of your mind? RE4 not taking itself seriously was the point! RE5's story taking itself seriously is why its so bad, not to mention Wesker takes a lot of its seriousness out.
RE2make I'd say is the ONLY time RE took itself seriously and worked, but it had the original game to work off so I don't think it can count. There's no other non remake or mainline game, besides maybe REmake since it is a very different story and I believe it is now considered the canonical mansion incident, that has a good story that took itself quite seriously.

 

[Darth Maul]

Everything after RE6 that isn’t a remake is just fanfiction. And even RE3 is bad enough that it’ll likely be remade as an official director’s cut eventually.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Everything after RE6 that isn’t a remake is just fanfiction. And even RE3 is bad enough that it’ll likely be remade as an official director’s cut eventually.

That sounds about right. RE6 tried to include "the family" or whatever the fuck it was called that ran America, but it didn't subvert the stature of Spencer like RE8 apparently did.

Never thought there would be a time I just completely check out of RE as they're catering to a completely different, and retarded audience of babies that just want dopamine bullshit.

All the inventive things the old games gave us is completely gutted and never returned to again.

Fixed camera is never coming back.

Zapping system.

Real time choices that effect the course of the future events.

Buddy system from Zero which I didn't mind, they just needed to not make bigger weapons take two slots.

Massive backtracking. Backtracking is the cornerstone of classic RE and anyone that doesn't like it is an asshole. Going back into the Mansion in RE1 on PS1 is probably the best example of why it's good. You got a key you needed earlier and you can open a few new rooms, while you have a new threatening BGM in the mansion that makes the atmosphere completely different, and a new and more dangerous enemy type that can instakill you.

 

[Jotaro Something]

People are used to the fan fiction the localization teams write in place of the true stories behind Resident Evil. There are games like Rev 2 where even the nature of the relationships between characters is completely different depending on the language the game is set in. I disagree with you FSLAR, I don't see why people think the stories of the older RE games are shit when they don't even know the stories in the first place

I'm yet to find people that are not surprised by the fact that G stands for Golgotha, but was called "God" virus, which in turn means super humans was the whole point since RE2 yet morons whine when Wesker dodges bullets, it was always meant to be that way

They hired actual writers for the older games, but after a while people at Capcom started writing the stories of the games. And you can tell the difference easily. The writing is extremely high level when you compare it to gaming in general, the bar is low, so yeah

 

[Darth Maul]

I enjoy most of the RE games, but RE7, RE8 and REmake 3 are cancerous to the franchise. Say what you will about RE4, RE5, and RE6—but they were still fun and playable. REmake 3 wouldn’t be that bad of a game, if it weren’t for the dogshit bosses near the end and the fact it butchers such a beloved classic.

 

[FSLAR]

People are used to the fan fiction the localization teams write in place of the true stories behind Resident Evil. There are games like Rev 2 where even the nature of the relationships between characters is completely different depending on the language the game is set in. I disagree with you FSLAR, I don't see why people think the stories of the older RE games are shit when they don't even know the stories in the first place

I'm yet to find people that are not surprised by the fact that G stands for Golgotha, but was called "God" virus, which in turn means super humans was the whole point since RE2 yet morons whine when Wesker dodges bullets, it was always meant to be that way

They hired actual writers for the older games, but after a while people at Capcom started writing the stories of the games. And you can tell the difference easily. The writing is extremely high level when you compare it to gaming in general, the bar is low, so yeah

To clarify, it's that there were issues at times with the older RE stories but mostly it was the voice acting, and some lines which even Capcom made jokes about in the coming years like the entire script of RE1. But newer fans now give the games so much shit for that alone. To say RE5 is simply superior to RE4 because it took itself more seriously? RE5 didn't do anything notable over 4 besides co-op. You're probably right on people though, Pliss and I know people like that with MGS soooo.

With Wesker dodging bullets, so I find that whole thing hilarious and it kills the RE5 argument of it having a completely serious story that needs to be respected. It's crazy, he has Matrix powers and I can't take the story seriously along with a lot of Wesker's lines where DC Douglas clearly was having the time of his life. I'll outright say so many arguments defending RE5's bull shit (co-op adding horror, Chris being on steroids, and so on) have such convenient holes that I would die of laughter if you showed them all to me at the same time.

 

[FSLAR]

I enjoy most of the RE games, but RE7, RE8 and REmake 3 are cancerous to the franchise. Say what you will about RE4, RE5, and RE6—but they were still fun and playable. REmake 3 wouldn’t be that bad of a game, if it weren’t for the dogshit bosses near the end and the fact it butchers such a beloved classic.

The worst part about RE5 is the game clearly had so much potential, and could have worked. I think the racism accusations got to Capcom bad, and it's where some of the pandering happened. I would have frankly either changed the enemies to a mixture of races, or just moved it to outside of Africa. RE6 was in over its head and too ambitious, while still building off of everything RE5 shouldn't have been. REmake 3 was too rushed, should not have been a separate team - especially when Capcom saw the incredible reception RE2make had - and shouldn't have strayed so far. Personally I only don't like playing RE6 because it's got too much shit I didn't like playing through no matter what genre of game it was. REmake 3 is the one I'd probably revisit since it doesn't offend me.

 

[Jotaro Something]

With Wesker dodging bullets, so I find that whole thing hilarious and it kills the RE5 argument of it having a completely serious story that needs to be respected. It's crazy, he has Matrix powers and I can't take the story seriously along with a lot of Wesker's lines where DC Douglas clearly was having the time of his life. I'll outright say so many arguments defending RE5's bull shit (co-op adding horror, Chris being on steroids, and so on) have such convenient holes that I would die of laughter if you showed them all to me at the same time.

I'm not gonna write a wall of text explaining why you're haplessly wrong about RE5 having holes or about Wesker's lines, it's all thoroughly explained you just need to be aware of what is canon (the japanese script) and what isn't (the borderline fanfic localization) even Wesker's relationship with Spencer is not the same and it all changes if you know what the japanese script says. And the story is so rich that 3 whole games are entirely derived from it, if there is one RE with everything about it being explained in detail that is 5

Other than that, you thinking that Wesker is "matrix this and matrix that" and that a game's story needs to be "respected" or not, is just your opinion, which is fine of course. There is no argument to be had about RE5's greatness, the same simply is great. Whoever disagrees can disagree all they want