Hot takes

[Michael Frank]

Co-op makes RE5 and 6 a MUCH better experience. That being said, RE6 solo is nowhere near as rough as RE5 solo.

Yes, but it's not something I would criticize. It's not like Resident Evil ever had a good story.

See? These guys get it, people treat RE story as if it was something serious, and i mean it has serious touches on it, but i like to think of it as more like Night of the Living Dead or Army of Darkness, there's splashes of seriousness on it, but at the end we have to be honest, "Gill Sandwich", "No thanks, bro", the campiness will always be part of it, the remake of 4 swayed me off because it turned an action game into a Linkin Park fanboy fantasy, the edginess bleeds off in RE4 Remake.

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Fighting games are boring. I think to myself "I rather play anything else besides this shit"
Fighting game stories are equally pathetic.

Honestly if you don't like fighting games i don't blame you, like i said earlier, it's an adquired taste, like being a Survivor fan, you have to like it to enjoy it.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

I said somewhere what's probably great about FF9 while i prefer 8 too for the reasons you mentioned such as a more complex story , we gotta give 9 credit where it's due.

If you played the first 6 FF games you will know why 9 is so special from the PS1 trilogy as 7/8 deviated from the usual FF setting that was middle ages by adding technology and with 7 simplifying the pieces of gear you had to equip like 6 having 5 while 7 you only equipped weapon some bracer and an accessory.

With 8 it was even more simplified by swapping armor with durability and accessory merged with special abilities like magic increased by 40% (you gotta have rinoa with this)

While 7/8 were deviating from the roots 9 went back to the roots , a setting more akin to the older games along with gear becoming 5 slots now bringing back ability to equip gloves along with the traditional jobs like knight/theif and the return of white/black mages.

Along with music brought back from older titles and the return of the start of final fantasy battle music the "bass" i think it's called , tracks like castle pandemonium remade for FF9 , the return of the dwarves , and the story line containing the crystal and the four fiends of elements , so many throwbacks to older titles along with a deviant version of FF8 abilities system and an artstyle and animations similar to FF7 being quite cartoony compared to FF8 which square went absolutely nuts with animations , all in all FF9 felt like the devs honoring their history while utilizing PS1 technology to create a traditional Final Fantasy game taking elements from all previous installments.

It also does help that series creator has FF9 as his favorite game.

To me 7,8, and 9 all have that same level of quality but all feel completely different from each other. I enjoy all 3 of those. 1-6 is traditional style which i also love. 10 has it's ups and downs. 10-2 is good gameplaywise for sure!

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

To me 7,8, and 9 all have that same level of quality but all feel completely different from each other. I enjoy all 3 of those. 1-6 is traditional style which i also love. 10 has it's ups and downs. 10-2 is good gameplaywise for sure!

I found 7 to be the best most well refined , well balanced and well thought out FF game i played so far from the 10 games i played (1-9 tactics included) , i haven't tried any PS2 era FF yet but seeing how amazing the first 9 installments were (aside from 2 and 3) I'm expecting these next installments to be well made just like the previous games.

 

[Lokgamer]

See? These guys get it, people treat RE story as if it was something serious, and i mean it has serious touches on it, but i like to think of it as more like Night of the Living Dead or Army of Darkness, there's splashes of seriousness on it, but at the end we have to be honest, "Gill Sandwich", "No thanks, bro", the campiness will always be part of it, the remake of 4 swayed me off because it turned an action game into a Linkin Park fanboy fantasy, the edginess bleeds off in RE4 Remake.

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Honestly if you don't like fighting games i don't blame you, like i said earlier, it's an adquired taste, like being a Survivor fan, you have to like it to enjoy it.

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

 

[χKai]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

Village looked scary

 

[Bakuma1997]

2D Mortal Kombat was bad, Mortal Kombat 1 and 3 was as guilty of all the salt is thrown at ii regarding AI cheapness, 4 and Deadly Alliance are somewhat decent experiments, but for me it wasn't until Deception (Ironic title) where they found their ground

 

[Deleted member 560402]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

Code Veronica's plot is WEIRD

 

[MasterEn]

Absolutely painful challenges

found another challenge run video; seems to be a rather interesting one.

 

[Deleted member 560402]

I think all you guys suck that’s my hot take < 3

Technically we all suck. It's how we live.

 

[Lokgamer]

Village looked scary

You said it "it looks", but it doesn't mean it is. Resident Evil Village was the real return to the roots (action and campiness).

 

[Deleted member 259254]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

I hope requiem continues the campiness, that's when these games are at their best

 

[Lokgamer]

I hope requiem continues the campiness, that's when these games are at their best

I hope so.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

found another challenge run video; seems to be a rather interesting one.

Comrade en....i haven't played FF10 yet the guy you recommended earlier turned out to be a YouTuber i used to watch sometime around 2020-2021 when i was playing Diablo 2 for the first time glad to see he is still kicking it his diablo videos were top tier

 

[MasterEn]

Comrade en....i haven't played FF10 yet the guy you recommended earlier turned out to be a YouTuber i used to watch sometime around 2020-2021 when i was playing Diablo 2 for the first time glad to see he is still kicking it his diablo videos were top tier

huh. i didn't know that. i saw this being suggested to me on that seer video about beating ff2 without attaching or using magic spells. thought it would go along with the hard gaming challenges theme that seer came up with. looks like the guy has done several videos on beating games with female only parties.
i saw that someone on youtube had played ff3 with only the freelancer class. that would seem pretty brutal to do; i got the video on my watchlist.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

huh. i didn't know that. i saw this being suggested to me on that seer video about beating ff2 without attaching or using magic spells. thought it would go along with the hard gaming challenges theme that seer came up with. looks like the guy has done several videos on beating games with female only parties.
i saw that someone on youtube had played ff3 with only the freelancer class. that would seem pretty brutal to do; i git the video on my watchlist.

Freelancer? Bro you mean the job in FF3 remake you start with? Cuz NES you start as onion knights.

I guess now you know i only played 1-9 +tactics

FF2 challenges may be tough at first but the game stats system makes things ease up later on that's how i think it would go

 

[MasterEn]

Freelancer? Bro you mean the job in FF3 remake you start with? Cuz NES you start as onion knights.

I guess now you know i only played 1-9 +tactics

FF2 challenges may be tough at first but the game stats system makes things ease up later on that's how i think it would go

yeah, it's the 3d version of ff3. here's the vid:

i vaguely remembered that.

yeah, seer went over that in detail at the start of his video; you go through quite a bit of the game with low hp but eventually you need to build it up. for his run, he only used attack items, and the most that the best one could do was 300 points of damage.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

yeah, it's the 3d version of ff3. here's the vid:

i vaguely remembered that.

yeah, seer went over that in detail at the start of his video; you go through quite a bit of the game with low hp but eventually you need to build it up. for his run, he only used attack items, and the most that the best one could do was 300 points of damage.

They should do a challenge like this for tactics it's the most optimal game for it

Can you beat FFT using power of anime and god on your side? Basically white mages only run

 

[MasterEn]

They should do a challenge like this for tactics it's the most optimal game for it

Can you beat FFT using power of anime and god on your side? Basically white mages only run

you probably can. people have done white mage runs of ff1, and there are yuna only runs of ffx.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

you probably can. people have done white mage runs of ff1, and there are yuna only runs of ffx.

Funny cuz white mages attack is even more pathetic than black mages , ever noticed how they have better stamina but worse physical attack? Compared to black mages who are Hella fragile and die from weakest attack

 

[MasterEn]

Funny cuz white mages attack is even more pathetic than black mages , ever noticed how they have better stamina but worse physical attack? Compared to black mages who are Hella fragile and die from weakest attack

i don't think i've ever paid too much attention to stats in the older games; except with ff3 and 4 for the ds, [i have a guide for 3 that lists out stats for each job and 4 displays stats gained or lost upon level up] and ff10, where, hilariously enough, lulu is supposed to be a black mage, but has decent hp and insane evasion. which i believe is supposed to be a joke considering her outfit.
the having weak attack than the black mage is a bit strange and funny, since the white mages ultimate weapon in ff1 is Mjolnir, the weapon that thor, god of thunder wields.

 

[Sfjeov]

This whole deconstruction/hyperanalysis tendency we see today about everything strikes me sometimes as a desperate attempt at validating particular viewpoints.

I'm not saying there isn't good faith in these kinds of mental exercises, but it is probably impossible to perform this free of bias and with entirely objective judgement.

If you take things at face value you are often branded a fool, or lacking in intellect by most, but this is becoming a sort of lost talent in our species - allowing ourselves the luxury of having a shred of innocence again.

Sometimes things are what they are, and people do mean what they mean, without subtext. I say this as someone that agonizes entirely too much squinting over this very thing, trying to find hidden meanings, to find the deep truth, but sometimes there isn't any.

Tbh I don't mind deconstruction but the way they're written nowadays is so bad.

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I've read it couldn't qualify as one unless you're targeting a specific population.

On the other hand I don't really appreciate people asking for rather extreme methods in this topic, it's a video game forum, we shouldn't be harmful.


Agreed: A lot of time Episode 1 is a pilot so that's why they aren't great nor have set all lore elements.

Even some of them have retcons.


It's interesting that humans have an embedded fear of reptiles due to vestigial elements yet we managed to appreciate them.

True I don't mind that people find snakes to be cool but the way they move, which is very fast for some, is way too freaky for me to handle.
I remember watching a David Attenborough documentary about iguanas trying to scurry up on rocks to escape from a horde of snakes and that was some nightmare fuel.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

PopCap's pre-PVZ games are shovelware

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Yes they actually quite were. I loved each of them as there own respects tones of gameplay. The Fireworks dragon game, the Bookworm, the fuzzy balls one, the Dinosaur egg one, the diamond matching ones and the iconic PvZ itself.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

i don't think i've ever paid too much attention to stats in the older games; except with ff3 and 4 for the ds, [i have a guide for 3 that lists out stats for each job and 4 displays stats gained or lost upon level up] and ff10, where, hilariously enough, lulu is supposed to be a black mage, but has decent hp and insane evasion. which i believe is supposed to be a joke considering her outfit.
the having weak attack than the black mage is a bit strange and funny, since the white mages ultimate weapon in ff1 is Mjolnir, the weapon that thor, god of thunder wields.

Huh really? Seems like square deviated a bit when it made FF10 black mage.

Yeah white mages in FF1 had that after like spending half of the game with mythril hammers

 

[MasterEn]

Huh really? Seems like square deviated a bit when it made FF10 black mage.

Yeah white mages in FF1 had that after like spending half of the game with mythril hammers

i'm fairly certain that lulu's evasion being high is solely because of her dress. it apparently made it a severe pain to animate her in cutscenes; to the point that if they had to include her in a scene, she is either standing or walking, or is shown only from the waist up. she is actually missing from a few cgi scenes where she should be present and appears again only when the game reverts back to normal graphics.