I actually think this has some of the scariest stuff RE has ever had, and I wish more of the game went in that direction. Once you get past House Benviento it definitely ramps up the action and down the horror, that I agree with. But it's definitely not comparable to the mindless action of RE6.
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Resident Evil Village was about as horror focused as RE6(major spoilers)
- Thread starter Chance Hale
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I literally just played through RE6 since I dropped it back when it first came out. No, Village is way more scary than 6 ever was. It's more action oriented than 7 was sure, but Village felt like going from RE1 to RE2, more ammo, more action, still plenty messed up and scary.
It's referring to a viral tweet someone made that Alien wasn't horror because it was set in space. Her reasoning was that horror is based on the unknown, but because space is already something we don't know, it's not horror.
Basically they are sayingy ou are putting the same arbitrary rules to horror to the Beneviento House as this girl did to Alien.
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I do agree that the pre-rendered games are more focused on horror than most of the 3D ones. Though I'd argue that the age I played the originals at was a factor.
REmake, in particular, is a very creepy game - especially playing the original release on a CRT in the dark, late at night, by myself, and with headphones on, when I was young.
But even RE4, the start of "action RE," is filled with horror. It's just not all horror, all the time.
The factory was incredibly tense for me, and the friends I talk about games with.
It's dark almost the entire time, enemies are significantly stronger than anywhere else, and we all ended up there low on ammo and making sub-optimal choices for upgrades, etc. so we couldn't afford any of the new weapons by the time we got there.
And I'd say the enemy designs were in the realm of body horror rather than "robots."
You can't just throw that out there. You think RE5/6 play better than Village?
Village is the most fun I've had playing a game in a while. I've run through it six times now and completed it 100%.
The controls in RE6 are awful. It plays terribly.
This reads like you were running through the game with a guide or after watching someone else play through it first.
Like you already had expectations for how it was supposed to play out.
The dolls don't appear in the same location every time.
I don't think you understand what tension is.
There are several tense moments in the game where you're put in unsettling situations or are barely scraping by for resources.
But it sounds like you were just running through it all because you knew what was coming after having seen or read about it before.
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Fuck off mate, the first doll was in the same location every time and after dying 5 plus times in a row and being forced to watch an unskippable cutscene I looked it up, restarted the game, and they spawned where the guide said. Only time in the game I used a walkthrough because playing where's Waldo in broad day daylight was neither scary or tense. It 100% glitched
By that metric none of the Resident Evil games are scary. Even Resident Evil 4 only has that one section with the Regenerators.
RE8 is a fantastic game and tied with RE4 when it goes for best combat in the series. I play a lot Fps and think RE8 nailed gunplay.
The co-op rubbish RE5 and the straight up bad RE6, for combat focused as they are, don't feel half as good to play as RE8 for me.
RE8 is better than RE5/6 in every depertment: leveldesign, horror, gameplay, combat, bosses, artstyle, variety, story, atmosphere. Everything.
The co-op rubbish RE5 and the straight up bad RE6, for combat focused as they are, don't feel half as good to play as RE8 for me.
RE8 is better than RE5/6 in every depertment: leveldesign, horror, gameplay, combat, bosses, artstyle, variety, story, atmosphere. Everything.
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The person accused me of using a walkthrough for the entire game and not understanding what tension is subsequently. So yeah get off it
And maybe my opinion.......is subjective like literally every other one!
To this point i didn't even read what you're referring to just now.
I think you just need to calm down a bit.
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I'm gonna join the many people in this thread who are abandoning it because the OP is resorting to attacking other members because of a walkthrough, as well as passive-aggressiveness.
Happy Sunday, folks. Hope you do things that actually make you happy.
Happy Sunday, folks. Hope you do things that actually make you happy.
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If its anything like Not a hero, then yeah I didn't really enjoy that part of 7. Action FPS RE is boring.
I love action 3r person RE though, which is pretty much all of them.
While Re7 wasn't scary, more like really creepy in the early parts of the game. The game kept a constent mood throght the game, where the focus was never really about action.
I think that's why the first person perspective worked well in that game. If the focus is action, then the game will lose its appeal,
I love action 3r person RE though, which is pretty much all of them.
While Re7 wasn't scary, more like really creepy in the early parts of the game. The game kept a constent mood throght the game, where the focus was never really about action.
I think that's why the first person perspective worked well in that game. If the focus is action, then the game will lose its appeal,
Lol no, RE6 is ''random bullshit go'', meanwhile Village takes the RE4 idea and make some things better and others worse, but def. is not the random crap of RE6.
This is the problem with many discussions online, you were using absolute statements that led to an unproductive discussion. You set that tone, you must be able to see that...
Couching this all in horror is highly subjective, I think Village's biggest problem is that it's trying to split the difference between survival and action RE and doesn't excel at either. The strength of the structure, design, and pacing largely carries it.
It's far more action oriented than 7, but the combat is only serviceable by FPS standards. There's no melee system like 4,5, and 6 so you're just left with point and shoot, and then sometimes slash. There's more enemy variety as well but they don't feel drastically more aggressive than Zombies or Ganados for the most part. Playing the mercenaries mode really highlights what a slog the actual combat can be.
The resource management isn't there either, and that was something that contributes a lot to the dread in 7 and classic REs. I never once had to play inventory Tetris in Village despite them making a big deal of bringing back the RE4 system. Healing items don't even take up space unlike 4.
The Beneviento section really highlights this. Yes it's very creepy when you first play it, but they take away your guns before it starts. So at that point you know it's not going to be "will I have enough ammo to deal with what's down here?" and more "can I find the critical path quickly enough?" and that's a different type of horror from classic RE.
It's far more action oriented than 7, but the combat is only serviceable by FPS standards. There's no melee system like 4,5, and 6 so you're just left with point and shoot, and then sometimes slash. There's more enemy variety as well but they don't feel drastically more aggressive than Zombies or Ganados for the most part. Playing the mercenaries mode really highlights what a slog the actual combat can be.
The resource management isn't there either, and that was something that contributes a lot to the dread in 7 and classic REs. I never once had to play inventory Tetris in Village despite them making a big deal of bringing back the RE4 system. Healing items don't even take up space unlike 4.
The Beneviento section really highlights this. Yes it's very creepy when you first play it, but they take away your guns before it starts. So at that point you know it's not going to be "will I have enough ammo to deal with what's down here?" and more "can I find the critical path quickly enough?" and that's a different type of horror from classic RE.
Just because Castle Dimitrescu and House Beneviento didn't succeed in putting you on edge or scaring you doesn't mean that they aren't horror.
There are 3 kind of RE fans I think, Post RE4 (they prefer the action oriented gameplay) and Pre RE4 (they like the darker atmosphere, real zombies, puzzles and more horror) and the RE 7 and 8 fans, that like generic 1st person horror games.
Agreed. IMO, it was also the worst mainline game since RE6. By chasing RE4 tropes but not doing them nowhere near as well it resulted as a really weak Resident Evil. It's a shame because I feel the lords are squandered in Village. They deserved better.
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I started with classic RE and love the new fps RE. They delivered on the classic formula the best so far. Ever since RE4 nothing has resembled the OG. RE7 brought that back in a fresh way.
Lol wat, i love the classic RE era and i love RE 7 and 8 because they feel like the classics but with a twist.
This is one of the worst comments on Era regarding opinions of games that I've seen in quite a while, lol.
indeed. I've never felt more disturb from a horror or action game. I had to put the game down for a couple days (I have a young daughter and that baby thing just did me in).
overall it isn't as horror focused or intense as 7 was for sure, it was more a RE7 style take on RE4, but it had way more intensity and visceral thrills than 5 or 6 big time
The more time that passes since playing it the more I feel disappointed. I was hoping each area would be the same size as the castle too
I wouldn't disagree with you though. RE always was action first, horror second.
Yeah, it's one thing to have an opinion but it's another to have a minority opinion and yet be aggressive and dismissive.
RE6 was a disservice to the franchise, but I know there are people who like action-RE so to each their own.
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Most of the lords definitely felt like theme park attractions rather than fully realized areas that made sense in the world. Even the castle was a bit small and made me wish it was an RE1 style experience.
Hope RE9 expands the stalking elements from 7(Jack) and 8(Lady D) because they brought the tension outside of some silly safe areas. Tho I'm a big clock tower fan and Tormented was not it lol.
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Eh, it's more like RE4 (which this game felt like a successor to really), which has a nice blend of action and horror moments, while RE6 just goes very over the top with action. RE8 feels a lot more successful with it's horror aspect than that game, especially with House Beneviento, which certainly creeps me out.
I have almost 100 hours put into RE2 Remake but with Village it was a one and done. I enjoyed it but the replayability is just not as enjoyable. The positive response to House Beneviento is probably going to be one of the worst things for the franchise going forward. Yes it's creepy but it's a one and done section but now Capcom will probably expand on that going forward.
Re6 reminded me more of a shitty michael bay movie than anything related to horror. It is a low point of the series (not the lowest, obviously lol) and I still feel anyone who claims its their favorite should probably not be playing the RE series to begin with.
2nd best RE game behind REmake for me. I really love the location and it nails the atmosphere and exploration which are the most important aspects of a horror game to me. Combat I don't care much about unless it's absolutely horrible, but it's pretty enjoyable in Village. I finished it 7 times and I know it'll be a game I revisit every now and then.
RE2:Remake is the best reviewed game in the franchise over a significant amount of time.
Idk why Capcom looks at the critical reception of stuff like that and goes "oh yeah, we need to make our games MORE action focused".
I'm convinced it's a budget thing.
Idk why Capcom looks at the critical reception of stuff like that and goes "oh yeah, we need to make our games MORE action focused".
I'm convinced it's a budget thing.
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Can you throw yourself to the ground and flip over by pushing yourself off it in Village? Checkmate.
But in all seriousness I just found most of Village to be very shooter oriented and set piece driven which just made me yearn for full action RE of old(9 years is old right) lol. It'll always be there tho ❤
For me it's just an awkward balance these days.
It was great because it felt like a spookshow attraction with different types of horror.
The execution wasn't all that great and it could have gone over in to each other more fluently instead of a hub zone and would have liked to have other zones the same puzzels as the Castle and last longer.
But enjoyed it a lot nonetheless
The execution wasn't all that great and it could have gone over in to each other more fluently instead of a hub zone and would have liked to have other zones the same puzzels as the Castle and last longer.
But enjoyed it a lot nonetheless
The only advantage RE6 has over RE8 is that you don't have to suffer Ethan.
I thought Ethan was really fun, personality wise. His design is one of the most vanilla designs of all time, but then you don't actually see him on purpose so it kinda doesn't matter.
His reactions to stuff were so ridiculous in the best RE b-movie nonsense ways.
His reactions to stuff were so ridiculous in the best RE b-movie nonsense ways.
I once read someone describe Ethan as Mr. Bean being sent to fight werewolves and thats perfect imo. He's a stated idiot who bumbles his way through everything and can't even be assed to come up with a good one-liner in a series full of action heroes. And it's great.
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Ethan's body horror journey was definitely darkly amusing in a way that was almost too good for the franchise
I wouldn't go that far, but the game swerves into action a lot faster than I hoped for.
The fact that you don't run through the village at night with a couple of stalker enemies feels like a huge missed opportunity.
The fact that you don't run through the village at night with a couple of stalker enemies feels like a huge missed opportunity.
Agreed.
I already liked him in 7. He was vanilla in a way that just worked.
In 8 they pulled an Ash Williams and it was awesome.
Joke image aside, I loved what they did with him in the new one. Makes me hope he would return some day.