Negotiator101
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It's very good and certainly better than 5 and 6 but I'd say all the others are better IMO and I love DS.
Oh that's not even a debate - DSR is just a pale imitation of the original.
But yea - original hit the notes of 'survival horror' in ways than most RE games just don't for me - especially not RE4 (which I'll admit - is not my favourite in the franchise either - for a number of reasons, least of all being that original is the rare game to make me violently motion sick due to its camera).
Sort of agree but it's also the point. Boss encounters are the anathema of the genre, and og. DS mostly treats them appropriately (by sidelining them). And the moment EA funding in sequels allowed them to embrace Uncharted 2 inspirations wholly the whole IP went off the rails - badly, so it's really for the better og couldn't afford them for most part. But the environmental story telling more than makes up for it - each part of the Ishimura was rather memorable to me - from the time you first step on the bridge or encounter zero-g, to the cult-infested living quarters etc.
Where it really failed on its nose was the planetfall - that was by far the worst part of the game - mechanically, narratively, and ultimately - the final battle.
Resident Evil 4 is EASILY better than Dead Space.
Dead Space is way better than Resident Evil.
It was fkn amazing and better than the original in every way except for difficulty IMO. The hardest difficulty was a joke first playthrough which was sad, because the original was legit rough.I'm sorry but why are people shitting on the Dead Space remake? I thought it was pretty phenomenal and I loved the original to bits. Not getting a remake of 2 by that team is a travesty.
"Not so much anymore" ? Why all of sudden isn't it considered a classic now? OG still holds up to this dayResident Evil 4 for its time was a classic but not so much anymore. I honestly never really got into any Res Evil game and 4 was the one I played the most.
I played through Dead Space and thought it was really good at first but it becomes a slog to play imo. I find it to be a very mediocre title all in all. The first 30 mins of Dead Space is the next 10 hours of Dead Space.
Tbf - yes there's a bit too much of that, but then it's such an established trope in anything resembling horror with combat, and DS is really one of the less offending titles in that sphere. Eg. Doom 3 was doing it so much worse, that by the end of the game I could predict the monster spawn points almost every time way before anything happened. And it's still a trope today - hell a recent highly praised SH2 remake is full of it too (arguably more so).I replayed it a year or two prior to the remake and thought it aged a bit poorly. The tension was largely gone and the novel aspects could make up for a lot of the shortcomings. I also had something from the Zero Punctuation review stuck in my head regarding the vents in the space station and I can't erase that cheesy monster closet trope from my circuits.
Unfortunately yes - it made everything so much worse. I get that not everyone likes silent protagonists (although that was the pitch perfect choice for the kind of atmosphere DeadSpace had) the new Isaac is somehow more chatty than NuLara + Alloy combined, and that's in addition to getting a bunch of really badly written melodrama backstory that adds nothing to the character or the overall plot (There's some James Sunderland-esque nonsense in there that just doesn't work in context at all, and none of it has any emotional weight or feels earned).The story and characters were never my thing in the original so I'm not sure if the remake screwed those up.
I think that's what sequels were - and the remake, but DS1 was not (though EA certainly wanted it to be...).It's probably a better action game than it is a horror game, but most of the shortcomings (enemy variety, set pieces, etc.) detract from that action experience.
Maybe so… I am not knocking Res 4 at all."Not so much anymore" ? Why all of sudden isn't it considered a classic now? OG still holds up to this day
Yeah, the sound design in Dead Space 1 is amazing.You know what, I can't be mad. I respect your placement of 4R, too. That gets far too much undue love. Dead Space 1 was bloody good and although I haven't played the remake I can confidently say it's inherently better than the worst OTS RE games. 3R didn't even make the list, which I find hilarious.
Also a fair statement. I can't be mad at this either. Dead Space 1 was the first game that made me turn around from the ambient sound effects because I thought something was coming for me. The atmosphere in that game surpasses anything RE has done before or since, and RE is my favourite franchise of all time.
Code Veronica is still ,for me the best horror game made.
I would say mind, I found Project Zero and Blair Witch to the best scariest horror games I ever played