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Well, we collect avatar things, vote on them, and then we have a period. I'll be creating a few avatar options in the next week though busy today.
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Which remake will score better on Metacritic? Final Fantasy VII or Resident Evil 3? Let's make an avatar bet.
- Thread starter Dusk Golem
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RE3 would have to be mindblowingly good to get the same score as RE2. I just don't see that ever happening, not when the original RE2 is so beloved.
Even Jim Sterling adored FF7 so thats a pretty big omen for how this might turn out
ff7r is my personal hope but I aint placing bets
ff7r is my personal hope but I aint placing bets
i mean
Neither is ff7r honestly
Lol the mc battle is already over.. no way FFVIIR is dropping to sub 80 with 110 reviews in.
And yesterday was the cutoff specified for tallying scores anyway.
very late yes, but it was more of a "wow, im actually surprised FF7 won" rather than actually betting on anything
wild year
lol going back and reading the old posts and how many were doubting FFVIIR.. gosh how things have changed and turned around ;-)
Its actually being review bombed and managed to stay at a 8.0 user rating.
Which is even more impressive lol.
The outcome wasn't even particularly surprising. The original RE3 was never even remotely as beloved as the original RE2 or the original FFVII, and going by demos, previews, and general hype, I wasn't under the impression that things would go any differently for REmake 3.
Is it, though? Doesn't seem like it after years of being one of the few people to actually vouch for the original RE3. Even if REmake 3 had proven to be great rather than just okay (basically the also-ran to RE2 that so many accused the original RE3 of being), nothing at all seemed realistic about expecting it to score as high as REmake 2 did. The only surprise to me was it being low 80s rather than mid.
Easy to say after the fact, though. You had plenty of time before, and maybe you did, but if you didn't, what's the point now?
Related to that is fascinating to see how the thread evolved.
First RE3 was winning by a landslide.
After the RE3 demo released, the majority of the votes went for FF7r ( a point for those who played it and voted accordingly. They recognized the problems with the game)
Then, after reviews came out for RE3 there were a lot of sore losers making excuses :P
And after FF7 reviews a bit of misguided gloating and some rationalization after the fact ;)
Finally, a few cases of people that showed a amazing insight from the start.
I think it's a perfect example of what most threads are probably like, but here we have the receipts at the end....so think about how most of the time, we're probably wrong, and in a few cases we're that rare person in the thread with special insight hehe. That should make us all more open to new ideas and the fact that we may be wrong
same. not to act like i have all the answers but in this case, unless squeenix messed up royally, there was no way RE3 wad gonna beat ff7
I have no problems admitting to being wrong when I'm actually wrong, yet in this case I wasn't. I don't consider having been correct to be anything special, and already explained why the outcome didn't seem particularly difficult to predict.
Either way, no idea what we're supposed to be arguing about here.
It's not like 8.8 was an unbeatable score, people didn't know at that point about the length of RE 3, the cut areas, the addition of another sewer etc
Dusk Golem So I'm guessing this simply isn't happening, then? It's whatever to me if not, just looking for clarification.
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My computer actually exploded like a month ago, so been busy getting parts and house cleaning which is whats been up on my end.
I didn't make a bet on this, but I genuinely thought an RE3 remake could have been the best Resident Evil game. I think the stage really was set for that. Out of 2/3/CV, I've always felt 3 had the highest potential upside with a remake. It had a thin story that begged to be further fleshed out, the city streets were a perfect candidate for being redone and expanded greatly, while Nemesis could have retaken the crown of being the most fearsome stalker enemy in games, following in the footsteps of the amazing Alien (Isolation) and RE2make's Mr. X. Capcom knocked it out of the park with RE7 and RE2. Resident Evil was 2-for-2 with remakes. There was no reason to think those streaks wouldn't continue. So I'm not surprised that RE3 got a lot of support in here. I probably would have voted for it myself if I was forced to make a vote.
Needless to say (having finished it last night), I'm stunned at how R3make turned out. It's a fine video game when removed from all contexts, but as a remake and as a follow-up to RE2, boy, they really missed the mark on so many levels. I'm rarely ever this salty about a game disappointing me, but I am a real salty dog today!
Needless to say (having finished it last night), I'm stunned at how R3make turned out. It's a fine video game when removed from all contexts, but as a remake and as a follow-up to RE2, boy, they really missed the mark on so many levels. I'm rarely ever this salty about a game disappointing me, but I am a real salty dog today!
That's sucks especially with parts priced so high right now