Please pardon the mod sexiness, but this is Resident Evil 6:
Embrace it.
So good...
These gifs make me want to play some Mercs, best TPS mechanics ever along with Vanquish.
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LTTP: Resident Evil 6. What in the Sam Hill is this?
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So good...
These gifs make me want to play some Mercs, best TPS mechanics ever along with Vanquish.
Black Soma
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Still one of the best combat systems in a TPS, a game that gives you options instead of forcing you to hide behind covers almost the whole time.
I also think even the campaigns are more fun when you actually know the mechanics.
I also think even the campaigns are more fun when you actually know the mechanics.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
See I don't think you know how crap ET actually was, you probably have a vague idea, but if you think playing ET is better than playing RE6 then you have another thing coming.
Host Samurai
Member
Honestly i liked it better tHan RE5 and Rev. Its a great meaty 3rd person action game if you pretend its not Resident Evil
Have to agree, found them to be a lot more fun on subsequent playthroughs.
IAmRandom31
Banned
There hasnt been a good Resident Evil released since 4. Series should of been killed off a long time ago. Now its just stupid as fuck. Story is dumb. Characters are dumb. Everything is dumb.
I had it since release and hated it.
Started playing it again after the thread about the animations a few days ago, and now play with pretty much only melee. It's actually quite fun now. Stupid, but fun.
Those environment textures has to be the worst i have seen in an AAA Games since a long long time on PC though. At least the characters look great. Hmmm Ada.....
Started playing it again after the thread about the animations a few days ago, and now play with pretty much only melee. It's actually quite fun now. Stupid, but fun.
Those environment textures has to be the worst i have seen in an AAA Games since a long long time on PC though. At least the characters look great. Hmmm Ada.....
Razgriz-Specter
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Chris campaign was the only one I legitimately liked, it knew exactly what it was and wanted to be and made good use of the great controls.
Also his story was somewhat enjoyable.
Also his story was somewhat enjoyable.
All the way back to the RE2 intro.
tav7623
Member
1. Not really if you want things explained make sure you destroy as many emblems as you can....or just go to the RE wiki....it's probably easier to go to the wiki
2. You are expected to melee/ use the combat system a whole lot
3.Piers is much cooler....until the latter half of the game when he
turns into Baby Chris
4. Sorta....it has it's moments
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
RE6 suffers from a robust dodge/melee system which is left virtually unexplained to the player. The game is also wrapped pretty tightly around said system such that if you try and use typical RE logic and keep your distance from enemies as you gun them down, you'll probably run out of ammo. You're supposed to get in their faces and wrassle them to death.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Eh, ever since RE4 took the world by storm, and RE5 is one of their best selling titles, you would think shoot-to-melee is the new RE logic.
mgs2master2
Banned
Yep, Leon with falcon kick, Chris with falcon punch and whatever jake does.
It's mad fun especially when you have your stamina max or unlimited.
Story is lulzy but gameplay is really fun.
BomberMouse
Member
It's a great game. You just need to discover its mechanics a little and adapt your play style. People expecting a classic RE, shooting everything while barely moving (ala COD, RE4 or RE5) and long tutorials that handhold you, were super disappointed.
In a way, discovering and experimenting with the mechanics is not that different from other popular game series where you die a lot if you don't adapt, experiment and pay attention.
In a way, discovering and experimenting with the mechanics is not that different from other popular game series where you die a lot if you don't adapt, experiment and pay attention.
Cave Johnson
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The QTE's in co-op are the absolute worst. I can't tell you how many times I've partnered with extremely incompetent players who had to redo a section again and again and again. And this is the hard setting, you'd think they would be veterans by then but no....
RE4s story is stupid as fuck, the characters are insane and you're being petty.
RE4 is where everything went "wrong" in everybodys opinion yet it's still praised to high heaven, when the series evolves from RE4 and people are surprised at the outcome.
Cave Johnson
Member
Lol, evolved? In what way?
I think it's ultimately a great game, but it definitely has some... usability and accessibility issues, is what I'd call them.
You should definitely be using melee a lot – the game is almost a shooter/brawler hybrid. If you're playing it that way, you shouldn't have many issues with ammo.
- Zoom the camera field of view all the way out. I found that the default setting was almost solely responsible for any problems I had with the camera and controls.
- The game definitely doesn't do a good job of explaining its (good, unique) mechanics. Experiment, read a FAQ.
- The game has some pretty janky set pieces and QTEs (especially in the early chapters, which makes for a bad first impression). On the flip side, I really enjoyed the scope and variety of the game.
- You can't pause the game, and all the menus, co-op match-making, etc. are pretty poorly done.
- It's definitely designed as a co-op game. I would play it this way if at all possible.
You should definitely be using melee a lot – the game is almost a shooter/brawler hybrid. If you're playing it that way, you shouldn't have many issues with ammo.
Finale Fireworker
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Your opinions on the story and characters aside, I think it's more correct to say that Resident Evil 4 provided a brand new foundation to build the series upon that left previous Resident Evil behind.
But that foundation was not built upon, at least not in any coherent way. Some of RE4's strongest components are its environments and intuitive resource management, something RE5 forgoes entirely in favor of more action.
RE5 was a complete misunderstanding of what made RE4 so popular. It was a foolhardy emphasis on action, muscles, and over-the-top action sequences. Best selling game or not, RE5 left many RE4 fans behind as well.
RE6 now had three fan bases to try to consolidate. Fans of Classic RE, fans of RE4, and fans of RE5. The game lacked any singular vision of core philosophy in favor of nearly desperate pandering to its fractured fan base.
And we all know how that turned out. RE6 wasn't built on a foundation of RE4, or even RE5. RE6 was built on uneven ground.
Im just sick of people praising RE4 and then in the same sentence declaring how terrible every other game is after it.
And you prove my point as well, you only see the amount of things RE4 did right while ignoring everything it did wrong/fuck up. The entirety of RE4 was a giant action roller coaster (there is even a fucking roller coaster sequence). It's not scary in the slightest, it has great pacing, it's tense as hell and will keep you on the edge of your seat with every door Leon kicks down and every window he barrels out of like some suicidal action hero.
But it wasnt any less of an action movie than RE5 or RE6. The foundation RE4 built was it's focus on combat design and enemy encounters. The foundation RE4 built wasnt subtlety and enviroment design, it was over the top monsters getting suplexed by cocky assholes with guns.
The Silver
Member
RE6 is giving me some crazy motion sickness, this camera is so ridiculous.
IcyRhythms
Member
The fact that you can do dropkicks is just some Neverland dogshit. Peter Pan himself can't believe you can do dropkicks in an RE game. It's stuff like that keeping me from games like Dying Light until it's cheap. Takes me out of the experience to be honest. Those animations and moves are not what I've come to expect from the RE name and I refuse to give full price for such nonsense.
Wow, what mods are these? Please can you add some links?
I seriously wonder if people actually played RE4 and 5 just shooting everyone. I should probably try playing those games without melee to see what it's like...
RE4 with its supplexes, roundhouse kicks, ridiculous slow-mo knife fights and Ada in a Chinese dress flying through air using her grappling gun just called from 2005.
I don't know what you expect from RE name, but the ridiculous shit started 10 years ago.
Please pardon the mod sexiness, but this is Resident Evil 6:
Embrace it.
Man, I would love a Mercenaries level based on that stage.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Confession time: I didn't use melee much during my first run through RE4. I was surprised how integral it became in 6.
Neff
Member
I agree with the first part of this statement. But as a fan of all three of examples in the franchise you give, I'd say that they succeeded, albeit in a rather disjointed, rough-around-the-edges way. I got things I liked about the classic series (more puzzles than in any RE since the classic games), echoes of RE4, and the best thing about RE5- a solid co-op experience. And on top of that, a very forward-thinking and novel TPS which managed to stay true to RE's ethos of heavily polarised risk/reward mechanics.
To create such a huge amount of content and cover all the bases was a tall order, but I was left wholly satisfied by what Capcom offered.
BumblebeeCody
Member
CounterMelee is how you get+10 to timers in Mercs, you wanna be going for these all the time for high scores.
You're not supposed to though. The way RE games (at least) Mercenaries is based on dodging to counter attack or shooting in the face then going in for the finisher. RE6 pushed this mechanic a lot further but badly balanced it out with the stamina meter. RE4 and 5 also have these mechanics(and more in place).
RE5 was the perfect controlling and mechanics RE5 game. Built from RE4 and expanded upon but then completely changed in RE6. None of that is explained to anyone, it's up the players to find out.
the combat system is the best in any 3rd person shooter, but the level design is so bad it destroys the game. I think the car section in Chris' campaing is the worst section in any of game of last gen, it was awful.
The Evil Within is more limiting when it comes to combat, but the limitations made it a much better experience. Not to mention that the level design in TEW is shitload better, too.
Basically TEW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>RE6
The Evil Within is more limiting when it comes to combat, but the limitations made it a much better experience. Not to mention that the level design in TEW is shitload better, too.
Basically TEW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>RE6
sure i could melee but on the other hand,
but really a big reason i love no mercy is 'cuz meleeing can leave you in a bad position but you also need to utilize it to clear crowds or abuse invulnerability etc.
regular mercs is really dull in comparison simply because it's extremely simple to streamline your gameplan and execute it due to how easy stunning enemies and countering enemies is when they're in such small amounts with little variation
no mercy you definitely have to use guns if you want to keep up a 300 combo- jake's h2h will let you get a 300 combo but beyond that the function of your guns as an actual ranged weapon rather than simply a tool to set up nonstop melee chains is great
but really a big reason i love no mercy is 'cuz meleeing can leave you in a bad position but you also need to utilize it to clear crowds or abuse invulnerability etc.
regular mercs is really dull in comparison simply because it's extremely simple to streamline your gameplan and execute it due to how easy stunning enemies and countering enemies is when they're in such small amounts with little variation
no mercy you definitely have to use guns if you want to keep up a 300 combo- jake's h2h will let you get a 300 combo but beyond that the function of your guns as an actual ranged weapon rather than simply a tool to set up nonstop melee chains is great
Astral Dog
Member
Its an interesting coincidence, i can see Capcom hyping it up on some interview: "and Mr. Mikami has come back to work on the level design of Revelations 2"
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Eh, I felt that the stamina bar is a good limiter from just spamming the melee attacks and quick shots straight up. This is important because unlike RE4/5, RE6 allows you to start a melee combo without needing to waste bullets.
I wish you could dodge in TEW though.
I want RE6 dodges and melee + TEW's Crossbows and matches @_@
Please pardon the mod sexiness, but this is Resident Evil 6:
Embrace it.
Horrible nausea inducing camera angles for a horrible game. Pointless spinning that serves no gameplay purpose in the first gif. Would be just easier to stay put and shoot. Supposed to look cool I guess.
grandwizard
Member
This is not a game like Call of Duty where you sit there and expend entire clips into center mass. The ammo limitation is to make you use all your tools including melee. That's why even in the 'dudebro seeming' campaign of Chris and Piers military dudes with assault rifles they still have limited and fairly weak ammo. You are expected to get up in the enemy's face and stun them with a few bullets then do a melee or combo. Sitting behind cover and wasting all your ammo is the way to have a bad time.
Unfortunately the game never teaches you any of it's awesome mechanics, but once you learn them it is SO MUCH more fun. That said there are still really dumb parts of the campaign like scripted running sequences and whatnot, thankfully you can just skip them and there is still a ton of game there to play.
Obligatory RE6 gifs:
IcyRhythms
Member
Yeah, we're all aware that RE4 was the beginning of this disaster we have in the RE universe now.
Astral Dog
Member
RE 6 had some good ideas, but it was a total mess that didn't achieve what the others could do independently, the QTEs alone almost ruined the whole game to me, its one of the worst uses of that mechanic ever, campaigns have a lot of content but are so uneven, enemy designs and bosses too, some just look awful, other bosses like the final boss are truly drag out, gameplay is poorly explained, the story is...well im not sure, it had a few good ideas that could be a bit creepy to expand like the relationship between Dereck and Carla, but its setpiece after setpiece and explosions everywhere, the game is dedicated to Ada Wong too but we don't learn anything new about her.
It was overambitious and not handled well imo, some changes have to be made.
you...guess? I don't get sick from those camera angles, I guess I must be special.
its pretty obvious the game is over the top. not sure why you would be looking for otherwise. "would be easier to stay put and shoot" = lolwtf
Yeah Capcom should have made even more of the classic RE games to add to the six already existing ones.
Memento_Mori15
Member
I recently got this game and I liked it despite all the hate neogaf has for it(which I think it doesn't really deserve). Then again, my opinion on games differ greatly with the majority of gaffers. Anyway, while I did enjoy Leon's and Jake's campaign, I can't get into Chris' campaign.
Mercenaries is where this game shines for me. I was a big fan of RE5 mercs and played it heavily so doing all the new moves you can in RE6 is great. I never looked at that topic where a gaffer explained the controls, I just experimented with them myself and got it down easily. On my first day playing mercs, I was already get S rankings. I can only do a coup de grace on certain enemies so far but not sure if it's even helpful since you have an ample amount of time in the end.
Mercenaries is where this game shines for me. I was a big fan of RE5 mercs and played it heavily so doing all the new moves you can in RE6 is great. I never looked at that topic where a gaffer explained the controls, I just experimented with them myself and got it down easily. On my first day playing mercs, I was already get S rankings. I can only do a coup de grace on certain enemies so far but not sure if it's even helpful since you have an ample amount of time in the end.
Hitokiri03
Member
I decided to get the game after read a thread here about the animations and I'm glad I did it, because I'm having so much fun playing it.
I don't think I can go back to the old controls (post RE4) anymore.
I don't think I can go back to the old controls (post RE4) anymore.
shotgunshine
Member
I got this back when it came out and didn't really like it. I came into it with a negative attitude though. It's on sale on PSN so i'm thinking of giving it another shot, especially after seeing Neiteio's thread about the controls. It's amazing how most of this stuff isn't explained to you.
Good news! It gets better!
Bad news! You have to quit the campaign and start playing The Mercenaries!
RE6's campaign is an absolute abomination, with almost no worthwhile moments in the entire thing. And it's like 30 fucking hours of torturously awful content, which only makes it worse.
Riposte
Member
Everything you can do in Mercs, you do in the campaign, only with higher difficulty settings and more variety in layouts and scenarios (including four player cooperative and versus multiplayer, if you are lucky enough).
It's funny seeing the opposition go "Nothing good about it" to "Okay, it has good combat ideas in theory" to "Okay, The Mercenaries is good" (not just good, but great even lol). The next big breakthrough is understanding the very obvious fact that the Mercs just rearranges and homogenizes the open area parts of the campaign and adds a scoring mechanic (as it has since RE4).
Mercenaries trims the fat, sure. But it's completely necessary, because RE6's campaign is morbidly obese and has trouble getting out of bed in the morning.
Mercs is a God damn liposuction.