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Resident Evil: Revelations 2 |OT| Yeah, but it's only $25
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SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
As someone who didn't liked RE6 and the 1st Revelations. How does this one holds up so far?
Soyongdori
Member
Same gameplay, most likely same lame story, only differences are the characters. You be the judge.
brandonh83
Banned
The story so far is heads and shoulders above RE6 and Revelations 1.
Not that that's saying a whole lot.
Not that that's saying a whole lot.
Tell me about it. 4 games of "Umbrella's goin' down" promises and economic attacks is what takes them down off-screen.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
This 3rd person control is nice.
It looks great on console.
SargerusBR; I'm still use to the original Claire, but this is more of modern take on her. Both designs are fantastic. I'm really liking it and I get what you mean.
It looks great on console.
SargerusBR; I'm still use to the original Claire, but this is more of modern take on her. Both designs are fantastic. I'm really liking it and I get what you mean.
that's actually one of my favorite touches on RE lore
the big bad corporation doesn't go down because action heroics, just because they were in a PR nightmare so bad that their stock tanked
...which didn't matter in the end because just as promptly several rival corporations immediately started picking up where they left off due to how profitable the insane bioweapons industry was, leading to the formation of the BSAA to deal with the fallout of the invention of that danger
brandonh83
Banned
That would have been fine if RE4's story was better, but...
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Even that S.D. Perry book Underworld had a more satisfying "All the RE characters meet to take down Umbrella" plot.
It seems to also be on the US store website, not sure if you can download/play it yet however.
Trust me, the original intentions for how Umbrella would fall were a lot better and more thought-out than anything else that's been attempted, including Perry's novels.
BIO4's opening "stock crash" would've happened still, but there were going to be several direct attacks on the company by different factions and individuals, some good and some bad. The series was already leading straight into this, with each game featuring the destruction of key Umbrella facilities.
I've always felt that I was the only one who liked that touch. In general, I always thought the base RE story was kind of shit anyway, but I always thought that was such an interesting twist to the usual "big bad" approach. My man.
Marty-esque
Member
Are the campaign medals cumulative or do you have do all of the requirement in one playthrough?
How am I even supposed to get past that room? I got like 2 bullets total and it seems I can't pry open the door. Have restarted about 20 times now and it's getting a bit annoying.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Is there anything suggesting this, or something similar to this, didn't happen? UC shows Chris and Jill raiding one such facility, but any amount of similar raids could have happened before that.
This is true, and is an area of the series I want to see explored. 1999-2002 is relatively empty for Umbrella.
As mentioned in CODE:Veronica, several nations became openly hostile against the company, including America and Russia. That leaves a lot of interesting room for stories and new characters, not limited to the Private Anti-Biohazard Service of Chris and Jill or the Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team of Leon and Barry.
FoxnHurley
Member
Are you talking about
when you use the cog to unlock the jaildoor? If so, you'll see a wheel on the wall that will turn on the flamethrower in the center of the room that you can turn to face the large hall. Switch to Moriah and command her to pry open the door then switch back to Claire to keep the enemies at bay while the flamethrower cooks them. The door won't unlock instantly, it takes some time for Moriah to prey it open.
GeekComplex
Neo Member
Also, utilize the objects around you that are threats to your health. They hurt enemies just the same. Use that sidestep!
Whoops, meant to quote the first bit but oh well. This is directed to Hugstable.
Spieler Eins
Member
Which made no sense whatsoever, since at that point, Umbrella had been far more than some company that would vanish because lol stocks. The background info you can read up on in the several titles until Ø and some of the villain's ambitions were absolutely ridiculous and at the end of CVX, they've teased some equally crazy showdown (also, so much speculation based on all that back in the day, simply thrown under the bus...). But instead, they've continued with magical bugs that turned people into golems. And the personalities of Leon/Ada didn't match at all with RE2. I guess they wanted to retcon this reboot in 5, but that was miserable at best (not to mention that old RE storytelling was also highly superior, with optional files instead of utterly bloated cutscenes).
But that just generally reflected that RE4 had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the series in pretty much every aspect, except in having green herbs and a few old names. Even despite the flat out shooting stages mixed in, the Jill campaign in Rev1 was still the closest to feeling like an actual RE game since 4 happened, which was a great shooter, but sure as fuck no Resident Evil, so I also don't really give a shit whether Rev2 can ,,match'' 4, but rather whether it continues what Rev 1 started.
AgentOtaku
Member
Was watching some footage of the PS3 version and yeah, definitely gonna just go with that one. Keeps all my Resident Evils on one system and it looks solid as hell visually.... like I'd venture to even say it kinda looks better on PS3 rather than XBO/PS4 (framerate excluded obviously), if only because that was the baseline and the lower resolution hides the uglier aspect of the game that 1080p brings front and center.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
To my knowledge, most of this is going to be released on March 20th, when the physical edition releases. Online was said to be added a little after the fourth episode is released (they say they're testing to see if online works the way it should and fine tuning before release), the bonus episodes definitely release the same day the retail version does.
FoxnHurley
Member
It will be once all 4 episodes are released.
giancarlo123x
Banned
This game does not look that bad. This is crazy talk.
Umbrella was still a company and couldn't continue research without funding. That is the reason it existed to begin with, and is also the main reason for their interest in biological weapons--- big bucks in reshaping war and monopolizing the best weapons and the best countermeasures. The stock crash was completely logical and made sense with what we knew about the company, its pharmaceutical business plummeted due to bad press and its weapons business collapsed due to losing support from governments and militaries.
There was no way Umbrella was going to dodge Raccoon City's destruction. The U.S. government was its biggest customer in biological weapons and attempted to steal William Birkin and the G-Virus from them, with the company eventually viewed as a "traitor" because they weren't an exclusive supplier to the U.S. So the government dog-piled it, permanently suspending its legal right to operate on American soil and establishing the top-secret Anti-Umbrella Pursuit and Investigation Team to eradicate it.
There were going to be several "showdowns." Umbrella wasn't so much a hydra, but it was huge and its individual components were highly ambitious. Once it did fall, it was to be likely replaced by its rival company (Wesker's organization) and the U.S. government. BIO4's original plot even involved those two factions attacking the same Umbrella facility, inadvertently at the same time.
Set your output resolution to 720p on XBO/PS4 and voila. That way you could stop trying to convince yourself that the ps3 version is the way to go.
Seven Force
Banned
Haha, just heard the
line along with Moira's response. This seems to have to most enjoyable dialogue I've seen in an RE game for a while.
Claire sandwich
The costumes and Wesker unlock after the release of the final episode in March.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Also you can't play splitscreen in the PC version at all. It was added today on the steam storepage description while it wasn't there before. There is a big metldown on the steam discussion forum.
Pretty bad showing since you're stuck playing alone because raid mode isn't patched. Wow.
Pretty bad showing since you're stuck playing alone because raid mode isn't patched. Wow.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Complete Soundtrack available for pre-purchase for Revelations 2 ($9.99 for the complete soundtrack of 95 songs): http://www.sumthing.com/p/resident-evil-revelations-2/
Site also includes 30-second previews of all 95 songs.
Site also includes 30-second previews of all 95 songs.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
What the hell is that outfit on Moira in the first video? Oh capcom.
giancarlo123x
Banned
No they don't. I used both with zero problems.
ubersticky
Member
You need to download a Compability Pack in order to use the DLC. Relaunch the game and it will prompt you to download it when you have purchased any DLC.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Hahahaha... omg.
giancarlo123x
Banned
Episode a week. Costumes, maps, and Wesker are out today. What are you confused about?
This is a logistic disaster haha.