Chance Hale
Member
Finally got the PS3 to read the disk, so excited to play through this again. Was weird to have the spooky voice say "Biohazard" though.
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Resident Evil HD Remaster |OT| Rediscover the evil.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Interesting enough, the PS3 Trophy section lists it as Resident Evil, not Biohazard (for me at least).
Chance Hale
Member
You die so fast on hard mode, it's been a looooooong time since I've played this game. Game still looks pretty stunning at times, really happy with it so far outside of the weird aliasing on doors.
Hitting O to examine/interact with objects and having x be confirm in menus is real weird. Does this happen with all Japanese imports?
Hitting O to examine/interact with objects and having x be confirm in menus is real weird. Does this happen with all Japanese imports?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It happens in some games, some are better and change the entire control scheme, but I have a Japanese PS3 too, so for this particular game I'm hitting O for every major thing..
though in a lot of western games, the button prompt on screen will say one thing, but actually pressing that button does nothing (eg in Far Cry 4, the map says "Press X to fast travel", but i have to hit O, because pressing X backs out of the menu for me.
That is far more annoying.
I finished my second playthrough of REmaster, which was at Real Survival. That's the second time I ever beat the game on hard, and first time I played real survival. The funny thing is that the difficulty feels really difficult in the first half hour or so, but once you've got a good start and you've got a clear path to your item box of choice, it feels fairly easy from that point. I died 6 times in the first hour, and then only once more for rest of the playthrough (playthrough took 5 and a half hours in total).
Real Survival doesn't really feel that different from hard. You can't auto aim, and that definitely makes for an interesting challenge. I thought the unlinked item boxes would be a huge deal but it barely affected my playthrough. For the mansion, it felt like normal, because I always have one save room as my main save room anyway. For the residence and cave, it was easy because I got enough supplies in those areas to get me through. The only time it became an annoyance was the laboratory. I needed a bunch of supplies there, so I ended up having to run back and forth to the mansion once to fetch more supplies.
Real Survival doesn't really feel that different from hard. You can't auto aim, and that definitely makes for an interesting challenge. I thought the unlinked item boxes would be a huge deal but it barely affected my playthrough. For the mansion, it felt like normal, because I always have one save room as my main save room anyway. For the residence and cave, it was easy because I got enough supplies in those areas to get me through. The only time it became an annoyance was the laboratory. I needed a bunch of supplies there, so I ended up having to run back and forth to the mansion once to fetch more supplies.
She really did have breast physics! I wasn't delusional after all!
Green Card
Member
Found a collector's package at Bic Camera today and picked it up. It says download code "attached" (付き
on the box. I'm not just getting a download code right? My japanese is poor so hopefully this just refers to dlc.
on the box. I'm not just getting a download code right? My japanese is poor so hopefully this just refers to dlc.
Shadowman16
Member
I've been revisiting this game today since my copy turned up earlier than expected. Its still so good, took me a while to get to grips with it (modern RE has made me soft!). I'm playing the game through really, really slowly but enjoying every minute. I've mainly been using my knife, saving ammo where ever possible and I'm better at using the knife than I remember.
Graphically I'm mainly impressed. Quite a few rooms have scrubbed up well into HD, and certain rooms (like the outside areas with foliage) look fab, especially the glint of the moon on the wet floor tiles. Other rooms (like the "sleeping knight" puzzle room) look pretty rough, I wonder why certain rooms/areas look excellent while a couple of rooms look rough round the edges?
Graphically I'm mainly impressed. Quite a few rooms have scrubbed up well into HD, and certain rooms (like the outside areas with foliage) look fab, especially the glint of the moon on the wet floor tiles. Other rooms (like the "sleeping knight" puzzle room) look pretty rough, I wonder why certain rooms/areas look excellent while a couple of rooms look rough round the edges?
Chance Hale
Member
It's a download code for a "special movie" Not sure what, haven't redeemed it yet.Found a collector's package at Bic Camera today and picked it up. It says download code "attached" (付き
What's the best way to push zombies off with the default control scheme? Wish you could just "map" the map to the select button.
I swear that function is broken or I'm also missing something. The GC version you can push off zombies/dogs a little earlier but this version I can't seem to do it. Using the Original controls.
I feel like they treated everything equally, just that some environments didn't port as cleanly as others. Although I have to agree the lighting in the Aqua Ring and other areas needs to be tweaked.
Shadowman16
Member
It might be the brightness on my TV/game that needs tweaking in that case, as some areas definitely look better than others. Either way, the game itself is just as fun as I remember, I just managed to beat
Yawn fight 1 and the elder crimson
Difficulty wise the game seems a tad different to how I remember (again, probably my memory of the game). I'm playing the game either on "normal" or "hard". Its the "climbing the mountain" option at the beginning of the game. I messed up and had to deal with a couple of crimson heads, I thought some bodies disappeared and others stayed which were the ones that needed to be burnt, but all bodies bar the ones that had their heads blown off stayed.
Also, zombies seem far more eager to travel from room to room than I remember. It really keeps the tension up that's for sure.
Melchiah
Member
Hopefully they'll do something about it before the game is released outside of Japan.
Charlouie Jonesman
Banned
I'm having the same problem. I can't remember having this issue in the GC original but maybe I'm (We're) just stupid?
Wait, how is this possible???
Sectus has been modding the game.
Modding. Playing as Rebecca works fine for the full game. Tried to do the same with Wesker but that leads to a crash.
I think there's two ways:
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Save Richard, and then get bit during snake boss fight. You'll play as Rebecca getting serum for Chris.
Let Richard die, and you'll have to save Chris from plant in residence.
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
Shadowman16
Member
I'm having the exact same problem as well, mainly on dogs. Not that annoying but I'm glad I'm not the only person having this issue!
Chance Hale
Member
I remembered the Crimson heads being fast but not that fast ;-;
Can I ask which version you're modding? Is this possible on the Ps3 version?
It's a jtag xbox 360. I replaced Jill's model with Rebecca's.
Resident Evil King
Member
So glad I paid for expedited shipping on Play Asia, ordered early Tuesday and my copy was shipped a few hours later and is due for delivery today (Thursday in my timezone). I have never had something take 2 days to ship internationally before, awesome. Hong Kong to Australia in two days is pretty amazing.
Can't wait to play this again! Last time (earlier this year) I played on easy as Jill will probably attempt a Chris playthrough on the harder difficulty, not that I've ever gotten too far on one of those playthroughs haha.
Can't wait to play this again! Last time (earlier this year) I played on easy as Jill will probably attempt a Chris playthrough on the harder difficulty, not that I've ever gotten too far on one of those playthroughs haha.
Chance Hale
Member
The face when I accidentally hit O in the main menu because I'm in game mode and have to sit through over a minute of save/title bullshit.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
So the concensus so far for the port is good?
Bit blurry, uneveness in terms of how areas fare over others but a good deal better than originally expected I think seems to be the consensus.
I'm just glad I'm going to get to play it on PS4 at 1080p without having to drag my Wii out - I don't really care about other enhancements, game is one of the GOAT
One problem I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is that there's numerous music tracks in the game which are playing too fast (and at a too high pitch I think). I think there's 4-5 music tracks which are affected. I honestly never noticed much of the music in the game, so it took a while for me to notice. I'm not sure if this is xbox 360 specific, or if it happens on both consoles.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yes, its far from the best remasters (Okami HD and MGS HD), but definitely a great conversion. Looks good (bar some areas with over exposed lighting) and plays good.
Shadowman16
Member
I'd say its good. As others have mentioned, a couple of areas don't look as good as the rest of the game but it still looks really good for the most part. I personally like the fact that it lets me run the game at 16:9 aspect ratio and not 4:3. Other than that its basically the same great game, and I'm enjoying every minute of it all over again. I can see me playing it through several times to get several of the trophies.
So far I'm mixed on the port, but the game remains incredible. Well worth it for new players or PC when that lands. However it is hobbled by the limitations of up-rezzing and the new (optional) game breaking controls.
Still a must have.
PS3 disc version nearly completed FYI.
The main drawback is some blackcrush and loss of detail. Still that seems to be more than offset by the mostly well done resolution bump and various upgrades.
Still a must have.
PS3 disc version nearly completed FYI.
The main drawback is some blackcrush and loss of detail. Still that seems to be more than offset by the mostly well done resolution bump and various upgrades.
Despite buying the import PS3 disc I am most curious about how the PC build turns out. I'm hoping there is a drive to mod in some of the parts that are lacking or just to give the option to scale back some of the effects and provide a choice for gamers to choose between some of the new modifications and the original assets.
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Despite some positives I still think the GC/Wii original is the definitive edition. I hope the PC build can offer the best of both worlds at some point in the future.
PS3 and 360. PS3 is the only disc version released thus far.
oh bum, new i should have kept my ps3
Yeah I got lucky on that thanks to no BC. Don't worry the next gen version launch in a month or so.
720P upscaled by your TV (if its 1080). Same with 360.
But frankly the difference won't be much considering this is mostly blown up 480P artwork. Though the characters will have a few more polys. Also I do suspect perhaps the next gen release will get a bit more polish. But it's Capcom, so who the hell knows.
Ok, thanks for that!
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
If they were going to go back to the original scenes and re-render them, they would have already. I don't understand why they didn't. REMake came out in 2004, surely they still have the original scene files??
I feel kinda silly I've played through the game 5 times the last week, with this being announced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6-6QWyLGY
60fps, and hopefully being able to mod out door animations, is gonna make PC version a lot nicer to play. I was currently uploading a montage of all cutscenes in the game, but I'm gonna cancel the upload and just re-record it from the PC version at 60fps.
60fps, and hopefully being able to mod out door animations, is gonna make PC version a lot nicer to play. I was currently uploading a montage of all cutscenes in the game, but I'm gonna cancel the upload and just re-record it from the PC version at 60fps.
Love Deterrence
Member
Will add to OT shortly. (Thanks again for the kind words, guys.)
EDIT:
Brand new 60fps footage of Resident Evil on PC!
Resident Evil - PC gameplay footage