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Shmoopy said:

Was Concord the biggest monetary loss in all media history?

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I think it could possibly be a tie.. between Concord or Marathon...(Not sure on this one, have been hearing rumblings that the recent Closed beta for it has really changed a lot, but wait and see I guess)

I'm wondering how much Overwatch 2 cost. We may never know how much cost was sunk into the shit that was never even released

Decided to finally play the Resident Evil 4 remake recently, and I gotta say

Really disappointed but mostly due to the expectations I had going into this one. This is one of those games I bought way back in the day but barely played because some other games came out around the same time that I got distracted by and it just sat in my backlog forever. Never really been a horror game fan so that has a lot to do with it, but this being October I thought why not finally give this game ago, especially as I played the RE2 and 3 remakes not that long ago and while I wasn't really a fan of RE2 I did love RE3.

So I got into this game hearing all the praise, people saying they think this is one of the best games ever, the best game in the franchise, the most inspirational blah blah blah and to be honest as someone who never really played it much before I just don't think it's anything special. Biggest problem I got I think has to be the fact that this just never really felt like a horror game to me maybe outside of the opening chapter. After the game quickly opens up with highly effective weapons you can upgrade and loads of resources for ammo and this game just quickly felt like more of a straight up action game to me as opposed to anything.

I can see why they went with some essentially unkillable enemies in other entries because that's the only thing that really gives a horror vibe where you just need to run away (but I preferred the RE3 approach where they kept that to progression sequences). In RE4 I just always felt like a one man army ready to take on anything, and the general enemies just never really felt like zombies or monsters most of the time either, felt like I could have been playing Metal Gear Solid or some shit. Bosses can be fun but it's always just a game of aim for the weak spot. You encounter them predictably to end a chapter or something and it's usually just that guy you encountered in some cutscenes before mutating into some monster. It just kept changing so I never really felt like I was being hunted by anyone, if anything I was the one trying to hunt someone down.

Good thing is I guess I had a good time playing it, there's something about it, one of those linear experiences that can just keep you playing towards the end and it really works as a one n done experience. Games like this are never really a go-to thing for me but they can be memorable.

I can also say, I can see how this eventually resulted in RE5 and 6, this really pushed that action shooter and horde shooter direction.

RobXIII said:

It's one of my favorite PSVR2 games. It looks amazing in the headset, and is an actual full length AAA game (which VR lacks badly).

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Yeah I'll occasionally spot some good stuff with VR focus or support, but sadly I just don't like using VR.

RE4 isn't a Survival Horror, nor even really a Horror game (except maybe those progenitors), the original however will always be in my top 10 list for being extremely enjoyable. I haven't gotten to the remake yet, I have no time to spare.

Alien Isolation was one of the best Survival Horror's I've played, and never got the love it deserved

I shattered the illusion in alien isolation for myself, so it stopped being tense and just felt random. But it was a great atmosphere of the origional alien movie

Voyce said:

RE4 isn't a Survival Horror, nor even really a Horror game (except maybe those progenitors), the original however will always be in my top 10 list for being extremely enjoyable. I haven't gotten to the remake yet, I have no time to spare.

Alien Isolation was one of the best Survival Horror's I've played, and never got the love it deserved

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Yeah I think the first one really hit it with the zombies and haunted mansion setting. I can see how RE4-6 could get grouped together, it was definitely an era when the RE franchise leaned heavily into being action games. 7 definitely hits as a reboot in a sense, I always called it the unofficial Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game, sort of has a RE2 vibe. Haven't played Village yet.

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I shattered the illusion in alien isolation for myself, so it stopped being tense and just felt random. But it was a great atmosphere of the origional alien movie

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Ah, were you playing around with the AI leash etc? It's fun seeing how it behaves

Tasty The Treat said:

I can also say, I can see how this eventually resulted in RE5 and 6, this really pushed that action shooter and horde shooter direction.

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I was a big RE fan back in the 90's and early 00's. I remember playing RE2 on the release weekend with my brothers on the N64 and those pixelated graphics scared the shit out of me as a youngster (maybe 9 years old?) Especially the monster that climbed the ceiling in the police dept. hallway. Oof.



The last game I remember playing in high school was RE4 on my PS2. Game gave me nightmares as a 14 year old. I lived out in the woods/boonies, would stay up late and turn off all the lights and just get creeped the f out on my CRT tv. I never got into the PS3/XB360 gen and sold my PS2 and XB original to buy guitar equipment. Then just stopped playing games until Covid when I bought an xbox solely to play Halo CE.

A few years ago I bought the RE2-3 remastered pack ($15 at the time) for XSX, and honestly, I really liked them. I even watched all the cut scenes (rare for me). I picked up RE4 on sale for $30 and eventually played it a year or so later. I ended up skipping almost every cut scene and didn't like it nearly as much as RE2/3 remaster.

I eventually picked up RE5-6, tried RE7, etc, but never finished any of them. The writing was pretty bad and the gameplay did not feel the same as OG RE2/3. I'm not really sure why, but the gameplay was just worse. It reminded me of DeadSpace 3 gameplay, where it's like this weird survival hybrid w/ interactive movie or something.

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I shattered the illusion in alien isolation for myself, so it stopped being tense and just felt random. But it was a great atmosphere of the origional alien movie

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If you like the setting of Alien (1979), there's a hard scifi movie w/ Sean Connery called Outland (1981) that's amazing. The set design team for Alien worked on it right after they completed Alien. No space aliens. More a western in space.

Voyce said:

Ah, were you playing around with the AI leash etc? It's fun seeing how it behaves

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yea like i came out of a locker and turned left, oop, ran into the alien. died. reloaded. went under the tables this time, turned right...."oh it was there this time..." reload. go back the origional left...it wasn't there this time.

also, i immediatelly stopped thinking of it as an entity the first time i encountered guys trying to kill me. it was following me., i snuck right near them and it vanished. it refued to fight other people (or maybe they're robots?) for any reason.

but yea it stopped being tense and more of an inconvenience "oh damn, it was behind that door. back to the last save. oh look it's not there this time". gameplay some times became bolting to the objective and ignoring all the spookeywookey because it was either there this time. or not.

Nabi said:

Used steam deck and a dock at hotels while on vacation. Even though i played old ass jrpgs, was surprised to see how many games work on their linux platform.

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Over 22,000.

Supposedly Ubisoft was going to make an ultra woke AC game and canceled it.

Did that AC game do well?