I still think it's the best representation of combat fucking you up ever shown in game. The Walker goes from 'Take him down' to "I WANT THAT FUCKER DEAD" is so gradual that i never even realized until someone else pointed it out. also the halucination segemnts towards the end such as the heavy in the mall and seeing Lugo caught me off guard the first time I played. I thinks it's a very well done game.
If it came out today, the absurdly long loading times wouldn't have been a point of contention, not when most games nowadays take way fucking longer to load.
DS2 Seems to be in a FF7/FF8 kinda situation, where people tend to like one significantly over the other, and there's one large A group and a smaller but still determined B group.
It's more the story, from my understanding. Particularly, how the second game expects you to watch someone beat one of the two protagonists of the last game to death before having the story that explains why she hates him so much, and a good bit of idiot ball to go around too.
Yeah, watching people shit on the story was very entertaining. Not quite as funny as Star Wars-level griefing, but definitely better than Synder-verse griefing. It also leads me to think (and I do this too sometimes) how vastly overrated story is in games. It's probably because there's a set of axioms to criticizing stories already such as man v. man, plot, theme and so on. Criticizing games as games is much more opaque. Sometimes it's about how the controls feel or about the physics of a game or the enemy AI and sight-lines. The experience is so much more subjective than with stories and it's hard to explain why something in a game doesn't work.
After trying to play RE2 Remake, I came to the conclusion that I really like the bad RE generation of 4-6 and Revelations series. Good aim in bad RE games was rewarded with a free chance to knock down a group of enemies, so even the pistol was a viable choice against a horde. Mercenaries really incentivized the shoot-melee-follow up feedback loop with getting more time and higher scores. 6 in particular really wants you to learn how to counter and set up coup de grace efficiently and gives you resources necessary to practice. I play RE2 remake, and I'm effectively playing a stealth game in tight corridors. The game doesn't really want you to shoot enemies and it expects you to speed run to objective points to manage limited item space.
It's darkly funny to see Sega bend their mascot over a chair and run a train on him. Sonic Adventure 1 wasn't perfect, but '06 made it look like Half-Life 2.
RE6 is terrible survival horror, but a great action game.
Yeah, there's a lot of frustrating shit in X6 (the compactor section in Metal Shark Player's stage, the respawning mantis bots in Commander Yanmark's stage, all of the rings in Blaze Heatnix's stage), but overall it is still a fun game. Still hate the negative stage effects as you beat bosses though. If it was more like X1 where it changed aspects of stages to the benefit of the player, it would have been way better.
I can't even think about Shadow the Hedgehog anymore without hearing the dulcet tones of Genesis Valentine
