Don't put yourself through it Reg. 

Since my OG thread in BluRoom i've always shown my love for RE4/5, so i'm gonna be biased towards this game. That said, i'll be the first to admit it's all over the shop (in every dept), and rips off every action game going, whilst throwing it's own sack of cliched set-pieces on top of your frazzled head.

Doesn't stop it being immensely entertaining! Sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong. I'm certainly not playing it ironically. I know exactly what it'd say on the tin. Difference being; RE6 keeps throwing curve-balls left-right-and-centre. lol!

Top stuff.

I'll have to get a mate to play this with then. Let the power of charisma FLOW through me.

Chet - I'm on chapter 4 in SotD- need to finish it. Will maybe do that on my gaming marathon

The way Paula hecticly runs towards you actually gave me nightmares. Terrifying and genuinely pant shitting animations.

On another note, I think i'm always going to remember RE 5 for N'gai Croal and black people.

The stories are amazing. Particularly Garcia's shite ability to read and their little asides

I would be happy playing this game for the enemy design alone, it's an endless parade of extreme body horror specimens that tap into the sheer nightmare juice of John Carpenter's The Thing and Cronenberg's work but filtered through some bizarre ultra budget hollywood prism that it can't help but be interesting. The game also has the power to frustrate like no other game in its class. I mean when was the last time there were several segments in a game that you can describe in the briefest of terms and still get across the sheer lack of focus that would allow them to sneak into a major game. LEON ON THE ROPE, JAKE IN THE BLIZZARD, THAT FUCKING GIANT WASP.

 The sheer size of it means there is a lot to enjoy, people worked on this and they clearly cared about what they were doing and while the base game itself actually takes some substantial getting used to, after this investment is input the game improves dramatically along with your enjoyment of the extra modes (Agent hunt is a wonky but really quite fun griefing session in a mainstream game, come on.)

 This for me is Vanquish all over again, separating the patient from the people who want a more laid out experience, something I have no problem with folks seeking but find irritating when the same state it should be an objectively bad experience for me.

Also, sliding into boxes is great craic, like knifing them back in the day. INNOVATION RIGHT THERE!.

A couple of things: yes the rope bit was annoying BUT, there have long been intentionally confusing, restrictive controls in Resident Evil games AND the same point is being used to batter this one. In the same breath as mourning the loss of the old controls, and how they added to the atmosphere/horror/scares, they are ignoring what may be an obvious attempt to introduce similar restrictions on the player in scenes that are clearly a bit frightening, e.g. a big fucking monster about to eat you.

On that point, I don't think the moderate amount of added mobility reduces any tension, really, given the added challenges in crowd control and the abilities of the monsters. The zombies in Leon's portion are a really good example, they don't have guns - mostly - but you have to fully utilize your skills to keep them under control, in exactly the same way as you ever had to. They leap at you (which is really fucking scary), they spit, they hold you down while others surround you. Also, the rolling, throwing yourself on your back, is sluggish in a good way that prevents this feeling like the easy immediate evasion moves in a lot of third person games - which suit them, naturally but wouldn't this. What they used from Dead Rising, in how the zombies use weapons is brilliant, as well as how the player can use these - but unlike certain reviews have suggested, only through being an accurate shooter first.

It does feel a good bit like Vanquish in how folks are confusing intentional restrictions with mistakes on the side of the developers, which I don't think is really all that fair, if we're giving the original games the benefit of the doubt as far as how Horror mixes well with messing with the player's mobility, or confusing their ability to keep track of enemies' locations. In Leon's story in particular there is a lovely mixture of the philosophy of the original games with Mikami's switch up from 4 - even more so than was already apparent in that game. 

And the sheer amount of content shows how much effort they put into this game, and how much they cared to give the people who enjoyed many different things about the series something to love. I still think it's far more coherent in how one moves from different styles though. The greatest uniting thing is unsurprisingly the horror flavour in each, and how the different styles reflect on the different kinds of horror the series has used. 4 did this too, on a smaller scale. And well, I know a lot of people have a bother with what camp actually is (hint, it's not kitsch), but Resident Evil as a series has at its best been camp. And the story here is very likely the most assured in tapping those qualities as any in the series.

Yes!

Tempident Evil Sunday?!?

There were fucking annoying shitty bits in most every Resident Evil. I know for sure that Code Veronica had a heap of them.

But yeah the reviews are pitiful.

I'm seriously wondering if the folks in the comments liked 4 at all, to be this angry about 6. Seems like a convenient comparison to make the hyperbole about this representing the end of the series more reasonable.

I mean, we were running and gunning in china, creeping over ice , jumping out of helicopters, all in the space of 4 hours. WHAT DON'T YOU GET

Leon's story is a full game Davie. If you're playing at all leisurely - or on hard - it's a ten hour affair. And Chris' one is way, way better than the demo lets on.

From the very start of Chris' story, I suddenly started loving him. He's such a camp jerk! And the body slams are awesome!

What bit?