Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

[Majoraa]

Oof.

[jujube]

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Yo I got like 20 of them things, you want one I can hook you up

@Fabricant451

Omg that's sweet of you, i really appreciate it. Luckily though I was able to connect with a friend and finally get galarian ponyta!! Thank you again though!

[Fabricant451]

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Well, SWSH was already in development before Let's Go, so we're talking 2016-2017.

@Kuro

They were also developing Little Town Hero at the same time and GameFreak only has like 100 dudes which is probably why LTH's one marketing strategy was "Hey the Undertale guy did the music"

[Carlyle]

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They were also developing Little Town Hero at the same time and GameFreak only has like 100 dudes which is probably why LTH's one marketing strategy was "Hey the Undertale guy did the music"

@Fabricant451

Well, according to this interview they had at least 200 or so GF employees working on SWSH + everyone else like the guys over at Creatures, Inc. that have worked on Pokemon in the past.

polygon.com/interviews/2019/10/24/209…

[Dolerman]

The character designs in Indivisible are baiting a little too hard for me to actually pick it up, it's like Shantae all over again.

[Majoraa]

Titanfall 2 is a byoutiful game. not kidding.

And Shadows: Awakening is an underated gem. Though buggy at times, it's still a good game. Then again, I can't update it without risk of the bills racking up.

[Fabricant451]

So now that Resident Evil 3 remake cover image is out there (with an ehhhh looking Jill) it's time to remind everyone that the best Resident Evil game is 6.

[Majoraa]

Aren't most of them good, though?

Most.

Wait, Carlos has an afro now?

[Lurking Shadow]

Well Dice ruined the TTK in BF5. Again. Now to wait a few weeks for them to fix it. Again. And then wait about a year for them to repeat the process.

At least hearing about the new Starship Troopers game will salvage the day for me. Seems like it might be something fun to play when I get tired of the CoH vibes of Iron harvest, especially if it is viable to turtle (which being fucking starship troopers, it damn well better be a focus).

[mickilennial]

So now that Resident Evil 3 remake cover image is out there (with an ehhhh looking Jill) it's time to remind everyone that the best Resident Evil game is 6.

@Fabricant451

That's a bold opinion. It's wrong, but it's bold.

[Fabricant451]

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That's a bold opinion. It's wrong, but it's bold.

@Inkarnate

I stand by it. I have no real history or experience with the older RE games, when they first came out I was still a child so my first real RE game was 4 on the Gamecube and at the time I didn't really like it. Through emulation and remakes/digital shops I eventually played RE 0-3 but found them largely frustrating than frightening. Then Resident Evil 5 came out and I didn't like it because it felt like it was stuck between the whole "we're technically a survival horror game" and "we need to modernize the gameplay".

And then RE 6 came out and plenty of purists and critics were saying how shit it is but I played it and something clicked for me. Maybe it's because I've no real connection with the older games but for me, RE has never been 'scary' because eventually you get enough ammo to where nothing really stands in your way and the monsters become less spooky zombie jump things and more dumb monsters with bulbous growths and eyeballs looking like they fell out of the reject bin of a tokusatsu show.

RE 6, to me, was the first game to actually embrace what RE was, or at least had become: a cheesy Japanese supernatural action movie. The kind of movie that has terrible special effects but that's what makes it charming. RE 6 feels like the game finally embracing how dumb the story and scenarios are in the best possible way. An extended minecart section? Hell yeah, throw it in. A long driving section with one person hanging out the window shooting? Fuck yeah! Young adults learning to trust each other and ultimately defeating the unbeatable monster with the power of friendship? Give it to me. Doing sick grapples and kung fu moves to zombies and monsters? Fucking awesome. A multi-stage final boss fight with a weird guy who is now a four legged bull horse goat monster thing that also happens on top of and around a speeding train? One hundred percent my shit.

Resident Evil shouldn't shy away from the ridiculous action stuff, it's what gives the game its charm. There's a reason the characters have dumb, cheesy lines dating back to RE 1 and why Leon in RE 4 tries his best to have witty one liners and comebacks but all of them suck. RE7 was marketed as being a return to the 'classic RE style' but even that had you fighting the first boss with a chainsaw and an entire DLC/epilogue based solely around punching the ever loving shit out of mold monsters.

I like it when Resident Evil games stop pretending to be horror games and embrace the goofiness of the setting its established. Basically I like it when they go big and dumb and RE 6 is the biggest and dumbest of all.

[mickilennial]

Resident Evil 6's biggest problem was it was too ambitious. It took the formula of 5 and expanded upon it and tried to give three fully-realized stories representing three different moods/eras. Unfortunately, it just ended up being a mismanaged, sloppy, and glitch-ridden conceptualization. I like Resident Evil 6, but its a hot mess that is only saved from mediocrity by cooperative play.

Purists never really understood why 6 makes the most sense and you put it down aptly--Resident Evil is a Japanese director misunderstanding cheesy [American] low-budget action movies and grindhouse horror beats. It gives it that folksy "Resident Evil" charm.

[Majoraa]

Anything's better than the movie spinoffs though, amiright?

[Carlyle]

dino crisis remakes when

[Fabricant451]

PLAYABLE KAIRI AND ACTUAL FINAL FANTASY CHARACTERS THANK YOU BASED NOMURA

[Majoraa]

@Fabricant451 I know this is spoilers but I dON'T CARE SHE'S ACTUALLY PLAYABLE WHAT-

I need to get this game soon.

[Hero]

PLAYABLE KAIRI AND ACTUAL FINAL FANTASY CHARACTERS THANK YOU BASED NOMURA

@Fabricant451

My God, I almost thought this was fake until I saw the trailer, felt like it was too much to hope for.

[Fabricant451]

@Fabricant451 I know this is spoilers but I dON'T CARE SHE'S ACTUALLY PLAYABLE WHAT-

I need to get this game soon.

@Majoras End

SHE'S PLAYABLE IN THE DLC COMING IN JANUARY

[Dolerman]

the best Resident Evil game is 6.

@Fabricant451

[Dolerman]

PLAYABLE KAIRI AND ACTUAL FINAL FANTASY CHARACTERS THANK YOU BASED NOMURA

@Fabricant451

WOW! I wonder which single button is used to trigger that cut-scene attack!