Leading up to the release of Resident Evil 5 I plan to do a full series playthrough, I will play all 7 games in the main series (and maybe UC as well since its canon) in order of their release. As I play them I will just throw up whatever thoughts on the game I have. Some of them I have not played in years so I wonder what my reaction will be, maybe I forgot a certain scare, or noticed something for the first time.
So why dont you guys join me. I am doing this on another site as well so this is a copy/paste job, dont worry I will get more personal with you guys if you respond here.
RESIDENT EVIL:
I will be playing the DS version of RE mainly cause it has no load times. I will be playing the original mode obviously. I will play as Jill cause that is my primary character for RE1, I have always loved her side more than Chris, why, cause of a red bearded badass of a man named Barry Burton (I heart Barry).
So the original, no game in this series even comes close to holding such a special place in my heart. Its not my favorite RE game, but its by far the most important to me. This is the game I know by heart, I know the lines, I know every room, every enemy, every scare, everything. Its the game that changed my whole view on gaming, its the reason I am here at a site like this. If I had entered into this series at a later point I doubt I would ever have the same love for this series, its all cause of this one game that I am the fan that I am.
The night I got this game, way back in 96, is seriously one of my best childhood memories, a sleep over with my brother and a friend, we stayed up playing this mindblowing game, something we had never seen before. I will never ever forget it, none of us will forget it, we still talk about that night to this day. This game was so ahead of its time, so groundbreaking. Every time I play this game all those feelings come rushing back
Ok enough about it, time to play it. I will start tomorrow and probably end it tomorrow, I can beat this game rather quickly. I will be back with all sorts of thoughts after I play.
If you were not around at the beginning then yeah stick with REmake. I say maybe somehow if you can play the original just to see how it was, its still a fine game, if you have no issues playing the other PS1 RE games then you wont have an issue with this one. Its just if you played REmake first, well its going to be no contest really. My feelings on what the orginal means to me is what is really messing with my feelings on REmake, even though my brain knows REmake is the better game my heart doesn't think so.
I played RE2, 3 and CV on Dreamcast. Were they improved?
Then I got REmake, RE0, 4 and Umbrella Chronicles on GC and Wii.
But also, I had a death in CV that kinda discouraged me, and I don't want Nemesis chasing me randomly just yet.
Some had better extras I think, probably looked slightly better but its basically the same games. CV on DC is obviously missing the extra Wesker scenes but you can see that on youtube, but the DC version looks better.
Man you are leaving this late.
Oh so the PS2 version had extra wesker bits? Or... was there a GC port too?
What?
The GC got all the main RE games, with the exception of the original version of RE1, of course.
Your post makes it sound like you are just about to start playing those games for the first time? I assume then you are re-purchasing them to play again?
I'm very late to the party on the older games. Before I got a PS2 in... probably 2005... I only had Nintendo systems, plus a Sega Master System and a Genesis, both of which I got after their respective life cycles. And my parents probably wouldn't have let me play the N64 RE port(s) at the age I was at when it/they came out, anyway.
I didn't even play the original version of MGS1 until MGS: The Essential Collection came out. And I just recently started on Final Fantasy VII, which I bought used a few years ago.
And I thought I was late on games Beav.
Be cool to hear your LTTP impressions.