Oh my god this makes me so happy to hear. I was so worried it would be half assed and I didn't like the overall lack of music in the demo.
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Resident Evil 2 Review Thread
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Oh my god this makes me so happy to hear. I was so worried it would be half assed and I didn't like the overall lack of music in the demo.
Offering a better translation of GameKult's review :
7/10 (to note that they never gave a 10/10, 7/10 is what they consider to be a "good" game)
+ Ambiance masterpiece
+ Mastery of pacing between action, exploration & survival
+ Gore enthousiasts, rejoice !
+ Impeccable fluidity
- Double sided scenario as disappointing as it is incoherent [obviously all those points are developed in the full review, here Puyo says that while it is a great hommage, the narrative limitations of the original game are the same in this remake, which makes this narrative structure disappointing, especially after Resident Evil 7 which went out of the beaten path]
- Main campaign is too quickly beaten
- Zombies are a tad too resistant to our taste ['our taste' meaning GameKult's redaction]
- Movement mechanics are a bit too limited
7/10 (to note that they never gave a 10/10, 7/10 is what they consider to be a "good" game)
+ Ambiance masterpiece
+ Mastery of pacing between action, exploration & survival
+ Gore enthousiasts, rejoice !
+ Impeccable fluidity
- Double sided scenario as disappointing as it is incoherent [obviously all those points are developed in the full review, here Puyo says that while it is a great hommage, the narrative limitations of the original game are the same in this remake, which makes this narrative structure disappointing, especially after Resident Evil 7 which went out of the beaten path]
- Main campaign is too quickly beaten
- Zombies are a tad too resistant to our taste ['our taste' meaning GameKult's redaction]
- Movement mechanics are a bit too limited
Again, it's at least worth pointing out that I think the industry at large has gotten away from calling themselves journalists. I can't remember the last time I saw IGN (or any big site) use that term
I would say that is only speculation but the project being real is probably 100% sure.
I think this is the best post I have seen on ResetEra. And I sincerely mean that. Thank you.
Oh cool to hear, thanks. Sound effects are in as well?
I assume that means proper loop points and audio triggers and all?
The biggest issue I have with the IGN reviewer isn't so much that he missed the option for route B, but that when people told him about it on Twitter he started blocking them, like own up to it and say you're gonna fix it.
He can't man up and take it to the chin, so he's gonna claim the angry mob went after him. Score should be upgraded.
This is what I wanted to say but I was more dumberer 😂
Basically a reviewer can be anyone -- Who knows what their opinion means -- But for some reason it drastically influences things for games and the devs who make them. We've also seen that at least in the case of IGN they don't necessarily vet people at all before hiring them. They probably can't pay much (especially when considering the cost of living in sanfran) and have to take what they can get
Nothing stop Capcom from releasing 2 AAA games at the beginning of the year. Especially when it come to RE and its sibling. We have action RE ( DMC ) this year. We could also have samurai RE ( Onimusha ) next year too. It would be a great closure before everyone start migrating to PS5/Xbox2
Oh, totally, I would die for a new Onimusha. But I think they'll do HD remasters of 2 and 3 first. I don't think a new Onimusha would be until next gen.
I could be wrong.
Yeah, confused you with the user I was originally replying to, my bad, sorry for that. That's what you get for not checking quotation chains ^^.
While I don't entirely disagree, given how diverse games are these days requiring different skill set, what does being skilled at games mean?
It's like saying people should be skilled at sports.
IGN has had issues with plagiarism, this, Borderlands VR and probably some other things I'm forgetting in recent times. Their editorial process really needs to improve.
Let's see...
2019 - RE2
2018 - Monster Hunter World
2017 - RE7
2016 -
Your logic is the faulty set here.
The skill for them isn't their ability to play a game. It is their ability to convey what the game offers to their audience.
It's completely baffling that Capcom set up the alternate perspective this way.
So funny.
If you dont trust mainsteam media reviews then why is the metascore concerning to you at all
Let's see...
2019 - RE2
2018 - Monster Hunter World
2017 - RE7
2016 -
Mega Man 11 in 2018 as well!
I remember telling a reviewer of Nier Automata that the game was not over after Route A and they blocked me.
What a fucking idiot.
Mega Man 11 was amazing till the Wily castle which was so short... I wonder if they ran out of money.
Every full time reporting job or part time news internship I've ever applied to usually required some past journalism experience. For a full time position, the requirement was usually a year or more of experience. Employers also usually required news clips in order to gauge your reporting ability.
The same goes for every other gaming news writer/reviewer job that I've ever looked at. Clips are always asked for in applications.
Big numbers are scary. Also, everyone knows that any number with a nine in it is bad luck. I can't see how this game could POSSIBLY be any good.
Also, have you considered that it may be opposite day? Or should I say... have you considered that it may NOT be opposite day?
IGN has some of the worst journalism right now. The most untrustworthy site out there for reviews. I don't understand how they keep getting away with it.
I think a lot of people conflate video game criticism with video game journalism.
And that any review made within a week of the game's launch or pre-launch is likely going to be shallow and, as you said, more observant on it's monetary value than anything else.
Which isn't to say we should ignore the opinions of those critics reviewing these games.
But these reviews largely exist to confirm a reader's bias of "Yes, I knew this game would be great" or "It was obvious this game was going to suck". RDR2 is a great recent example, with much more in-depth, deep critical analysis into the game being put out months later that I would have preferred to have been there at its launch week. But for the sake of business, websites need these reviews out ASAP (and the reality of playing these long-ass games). And then when these deeper looks come out, readers argue "Wow the backlash is real / why has there been so much criticism of X game recently?"
I don't really know what I'm saying, but I agree with what you wrote. I gave up the games/entertainment critic/journalist path halfway through my journalism degree because I realised what the reality of it is for most people.
And the ign reviewer completely failed there. This conversation isn't even about skill so why try to turn it into that?
Been this way for about a decade now. Not sure why anyone even bothers looking at that site. I stopped ages ago
Sorry, I'm not totally following you. I'm just going off of some of the reviews, preview videos I've seen. I totally would not disregard people's opinons who have wrote about it here.
This is also true. Game critic, or something like that, is usually the title. Or just nothing.
Thank you :)
Thank you, and yep. Journos/critics fall into that painful middleground of unvetted, often biased opinion (not because of exclusive bias, but because everyone has a bias), structured in "reviews" that are inherently limited in how they're formed, while also having impact on a title's exposure, mindshare, and influence to developers/publishers. It's messy.
Journalism in almost every field other than gaming, particularly real world news, have established standards due to industry experience and history. I should have noted that, sorry. And I think a lot of that is because the sensitivity of the material you're dealing with is greater. People, politics, life is more important than video games.
I've personally found media journalism to be different, less vetted, because the standards are undefined. And also because the industry, at least here in Australia, is extremely cliquey. They say you need qualifications/experience/yadda yadda, but it's all friends of friends and referrals and this person from this place shuffled over here. That and "experience" in a digital age is so easy to establish.
Exactly. You're left with "reviews" rushed out to meet embargo dates that also cannot go too indepth with spoilers and analysis because they're basically buyers guides, but that also means they conform to biases or are used to fuel biases within their audience, while real criticism and analyse of titles is stayed until long after release when critics have the time to really sit down and write something thorough and open.
All without using the same words too much. Like "quite" "incredibly" "beautiful" "also".
Well I'll be damned. The game got some very great scores. Better than I thought possible since it's a remake.
I'll still pick this down the line at a future sale. Still need to get around playing through RE7.
I'll still pick this down the line at a future sale. Still need to get around playing through RE7.
Don't worry about that just pick whoever you want first. You're supposed to do it both ways anyway.
One thing I will never understand about horror games is people being worried they are too short. Like, one of the main problems of Alien Isolation was that it needed to be cut down by at least half if not 2/3s.
Am I only one who prefers shorter horror games? Familiarity ruins any tension.
Am I only one who prefers shorter horror games? Familiarity ruins any tension.
So does this game have a single campaign that is altered a bit for each character and their A and B versions, or is Claire and Leon's campaigns completely different to eachother?
I haven't played the original and I'm trying not to Google the answer because I'm trying to go in blind, but some clarification on this specifically would be nice.
I haven't played the original and I'm trying not to Google the answer because I'm trying to go in blind, but some clarification on this specifically would be nice.
Claire A/Leon B made the most sense, but just because it was like that with the original game doesn't mean it will be the same here. Also, Leon's arsenal > Claire's in the original.
What exactly did you expect? It's still going to be linear in the way that it's gated, but the original game wasn't strictly linear either.