Resident Evil - The Bear and Badger

Curtis

Started Chris' campagin in co-op last night. Chapter 1 smelt like Army of TwoÂ². Far too narrow spaces for co-op + enemies + NPC's all getting in each others way.

Then Chapter 2....fuck me! If that isn't a complete change of scenery i dunno what is. My face literally dropped. Proper stunning. And balls out mental set-pieces to boot.

From what i've played so far, this game is completely off its head. It has no idea what it's trying to be, and because of this, it seem to be mimicking every other game out there to make up for it.

Doesn't make it any less enjoyable though.Â

fullspectrum

Gonna love this, I think TTT is getting cut - given it an honest effort and feel like it hasn't given anything back.

Tempy

Curtis has exactly the right frame of mind for this.

regmcfly

Tommy Wiseau's Resident Evil

Paul the sparky

A few screws loose?

Sorry Curtis.

Curtis

I think it's good that a game keeps you guessing. I've played 7 of the 15 Chapters, and i couldn't have predicted any one of 'em.

Sure, there's no sense to it all. But who cares, right?

Tempy

No, he's enjoying it for the broken fun it is. Never understood why this is a hard concept to understand. Fun is fun.

Paul the sparky

I understand the concept of fun, but I didn't have any with the Resi demo. Glad you are able to have a hoot playing it ironically or whatever you're doing Tempy.

Tempy

Playing it for fun. I didn't play the demo, but a lot if it has just been running through insane set pieces that blow up all around you. It's not 4 but I never expected it to be. What was so bad about the demo?

Paul the sparky

The combat and camera were abysmal, after playing Leon's bit I thought there wouldn't be much combat so it might be alright. Then I played Chris' section and started to cry. The cutscenes and 'acting' were awful, but I suppose that's part of the charm.

Tempy

I don't know how the melee combat works yet, sometimes you can grab weapons out if zombies hands and kill them, you can do sneak attacks from behind and context sensitive stuff like smashing a zombie head open on a wall or pulling them off a ledge so they smash their heads on the lip, but frequently you just kick.

Gunplay is iffy too, in Leon's campaign the damage modelling is awesome and pretty gruesome, but some zombies take a ton of damage which ruins the flow a little.

Not played Chriiiiiiiis yet, we shall see.

Moto70

I've not played a Resi for many, many years. Is this RE6 worth taking a punt on?

regmcfly

Goty

regmcfly

Bit of a reference to a flippant remark to Tempy tonight, but as I said to him - when was the last time you had this much fun? From sneaking across ice, to running around, GOW style, to punching like a brawler, to snowmobiles, when did you last do this amount of mental.

If it keeps up its completely shoddy and half assed approach to having one set idea, it may genuinely end up my goty.

Tempy

You spend 50 hours shooting stuff in Borderlands and within 6 hours RE6 has had us running away from an unkillable monster, hiding in bins from said unkillable monster, shoving Zombies off cliffs, distracting Giants whilst a group of soldiers take out Anti Aircraft guns, explore a creepy abandoned school, search for memory sticks in a blizzard and defend a gunshop from skinless super Zombies.Â

It also looks fucking brilliant, some of the densest visuals I've ever seen.

There are going to be a lot of people who hate it, but I don't care. Genuinely fun nonsense isÂ occurringÂ on this disc.

[Deleted User]

Commando of the games world?

Mod74

Sounds more like Kindergarten Cop

Tempy

The series has definitely reached its logical end point after 4, any next gen Resi will need to be different.

If you can't enjoy 6 though, you're a sad individual.

Paul the sparky

Ha.

Tempy

You've only played the demo, surprisingly there is more to it than that.

Otherwise you probably need to go and see a counsellor, I am sorry your life is so unhappy and you are unable to find joy xox

[Deleted User]

Tempy wrote:

You've only played the demo, surprisingly there is more to it than that. Otherwise you probably need to go and see a counsellor, I am sorry your life is so unhappy and you are unable to find joy xox

well thats convinced me.

[Deleted User]

What's this second disk for?
Did the first prelude bit, not bad. Very cinematic.

Tempy

European voices I think. Really gutted we can't play it with Jap voices.

[Deleted User]

whats mercenaries mode like?

fullspectrum

Secured co op partner, woop. Going in tomorrow.

Moto70

I'm tempted to jump in, are there any deals in the offing?

Tempy

daviedigi wrote:

whats mercenaries mode like?

Curtis says it is good, reviews suggest that it is very good. Combat is much improved in all respects, the abilit to fall onto your back and shuffle/roll sideways whiffs of MGS4 in a good way. Lots of the combat is context sensitive, but you don't get prompts so its all on feeling, nothing better than countering a failing Zed by smashing their face into bits on the floor.

Moto70

Tempy wrote:

...nothing better than countering a failing Zed by smashing their face into bits on the floor.

Are they proper zeds or crazy Europeans/infected Africans again?

EDIT: This snippet from a review is putting me off (it's worth bearing in mind that my RE experience is the very first game and then some early offering on the GC).

In some ways that's a bad thing: Resident Evil isn't scary any more. It'll give you a few shocks, enemies jumping out of hidden places and big monsters bursting through the floorboards, but the days of creeping through darkened rooms with bottom clenched are over. Resi 6 is what you call a run-and-gunner, moving ever-forwards while blasting through crowds of biohazards. Resident Evil 5 leaned in this direction, but Resi 6 dives in with both guns blazing.

The real surprise is how much of it there is. Capcom's focus on the production values of Resi 6 makes a casualty of progress â€“ in the context of the third-person shooter genre, the controls are clunkier than they should be, and you'd be hard pressed to call any of its new systems innovative. So the compensation is a quadruple helping of lengthy single-player campaigns, three of which are playable in co-op.

LazyGunn

this game sounds fucking stupid, absolute lack of any semblance of producer-intelligence, but least the art sounds good. modern day dragon's lair

cant be any worse than 5 though

Tempy

Moto70 wrote:

Tempy wrote:

...nothing better than countering a failing Zed by smashing their face into bits on the floor.

Are they proper zeds or crazy Europeans/infected Africans again?

You've got J'avo who are basically smarter Ganados (frequently wielding guns) who mutate to resist attacks, and Zomvies in Leon's campaign who are fairly normal Resi zombies but you get mutations of those too, like these skinless bastards who are like Hunters from L4D.

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