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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 2:11pm 2004

The gamecube ones are pretty rocking, and extremely cheap too - I picked them up for ?10 each! Its wierd though, I found the remake of the first game really easy - I finished up with so many herbs and bullets it took me ages to rummage around for things in the item boxes. On the other hand I'm extremely stuck in Res Evil 0, with bugger all health and ammo to get me by. Should really get around to completing that sometime... [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Wed May 12th at 2:57pm 2004

Resident Evil.. mm, brings back memories of PSX and RE, RE: Directors Cut and Resident Evil 2... after that it just kinda went sour, IMO. I would also nominate them for "easiest series ever"

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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 3:28pm 2004

You think it went bad after the first 2?!

RE3 was, perhaps, a bit disappointing for being simply more of the same, but it had a great minigame (the mercenaries) which hugely bumped up the lifespan of the game for me and my mates at any rate. Ah the drunken screams of terror as davey nem suprised us once again...

RE:CV finally put the series into proper 3D scenery and it looked fantastic. It was also the longest RE game to boot, without resorting to using hugely repetitive backtracking to get that way (well, maybe a bit ). Hugely challenging minigame once you completed it to - completing that with wesker is a difficult task!

RE on the gamecube - wonderful remake of the original game, its barely recognisable and they have added in so much and mixed things about that having played the original game brings you no real benefits.

RE: Zero is graphically impressive, its amazing they have improved on the first gamecube outing while still using pre-rendered scenes. Having two people you can switch between is little more than a gimmick, but it can save some degree of backtracking if you use it well. Its also really tricky - not in terms of puzzles but for the lack of health and ammo they give you. It kinda brings it back to feeling like you need to conserve things, like in the original game, which the latter games have always missed.

And there is my brief review of the later games in the RE saga [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Wed May 12th at 3:33pm 2004

Note, I shoulda said - the remake on GC is fine.. I just felt the actual stories/characters were a little lax, even in number 2 - but nothing compared to my original experience with RE on PSX, so it was a tough cookie to crack Good games, just not for me And, too easy

(finished RE2 on PSX with Claire and Leon in about half a day of getting it...)

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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 3:41pm 2004

Meh, everyone seems to think games are getting shorter these days, but its simply not the case. Streets of Rage, Sonic, Mario, etc... can all be completed in an hour or so. People seem to complain when a game like Project Zero or Resident Evil can be completed in 6 hours or something, but its really no worse than its ever been. [addsig]



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Posted by fishy on Wed May 12th at 3:47pm 2004

i s**t my pants the first time the licker came through the one way mirror in RE2. and when the crows came crashing through the windows too. i ran in circles in a blind panic wasting all my ammo, as the crows pecked me to death.

nothing in hl came anywhere close to giving me a fright like that.





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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed May 12th at 4:05pm 2004

Silent Hill is better... Good god, I want Silent Hill 4 NOW! [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 4:58pm 2004

? posted by Myrk-
? posted by Yak_Fighter
*cough* In the E3 movie there's a sequence where Gordon is fighting headcrabs and shoots a barrel, blowing the legs off of a headcrabbed scientist. It crawls after him...

M8 it's not anything near the complexity you imagine. The model is like SOF2- it has a top half that when blown off goes into crawling... it's very simple and could easily be done with HL1 engine. Doom 3 makes zombies limp and stuff, very cool.

I agree that HL2 probably won't have the same amount of detail in this area, but sheesh, limping? The HL grunts limp if you shoot them in the legs for crying out loud. But it does sound cool if you can remove the arms and such from all the Doom 3 badguys, not just the zombies.





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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 12th at 5:21pm 2004

HL grunts limp anyway when they're hurt...



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 5:21pm 2004

Silent Hill, Res Evil...pfft! Project Zero, thats where its at for frights [addsig]



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Posted by LAzerMANiac on Wed May 12th at 6:29pm 2004

Let's see... <starts fanatical ranting>
The nuke of HL2 is upon us! repent! REPENT!!! Map for HL1 while you can, mortals! When HL2 comes, no one will care anymore!11!!1 The bomb hits this summer!!! REPENT!! REPENT!!!!11!
//faints and
<ends fanatical ranting>
I will remember the good ol' days of HL1 editing while having fun with HL2... maybe I'll port all of my old stuff over to HL2. Hell, I'm sure most of you guys want to do that... And I've downladed ALL of HL2 content I could find. (still looking at ALyx naked *just kidding*). [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed May 12th at 6:48pm 2004

? posted by LAzerMANiac
(still looking at ALyx naked *just kidding*).

You aren't joking, are you?

BTW, I'm stoked. It's been far too long since I got a computer game I really enjoyed, and now this summer I should get HL2 and D3. Yay!





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Posted by asterix_vader on Wed May 12th at 9:06pm 2004

always the same screenshots -_- [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed May 12th at 10:13pm 2004

Can't wait........guess D3 will have to do for now......... and as for the voucher thing there is one way you can get by that 6-8 weeks thing, download steam and then the day HL2 is released, you can download that off the steam network, although it will take forever because about a million people will be the same thing, thus taking all bandwith that steam has to offer, thats why I reserved it at game stop. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed May 12th at 10:37pm 2004

In the trailor I posted, I think only one enemy gets gibbed, but if you notice, the guys flesh gets blown away, leaving a skeleton that drops to the ground! There has been a lot of 'won't be as good as HL2' when talking about doom3... well actually no I won't argue with that, it's always nice to be supprised by how good something is



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 12th at 10:39pm 2004

Hehe, I didn't notice that, but the video I saw was pretty low res, so it was a bit tricky to make it all out clearly. I was sure I saw a few enemies get completely gibbed...but meh who cares - I'll be buying them both! [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu May 13th at 12:39am 2004

? posted by Gwil

"Ultra violence" beats realistic violence

Ready for a bit of the ole' ultra-violence?





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Posted by ReNo on Thu May 13th at 12:53am 2004

I prefer "Hyper-violence" - I heard that used to describe a film once and found it a strangely humourous term [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu May 13th at 12:55am 2004

Ultra-violence comes from one specific film... (well, and the book from which it was adapted)



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Posted by ReNo on Thu May 13th at 12:57am 2004

Clockwork Orange wasn't it? I seem to recall that term being associated with that film anyway... [addsig]




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