Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I think he means the first Chris section, on Rockfort Island.
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Why is Resident Evil Code Veronica so underrated?
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I think he means the first Chris section, on Rockfort Island.
GoldandBlue
Member
Good music and villains but weak atmosphere. Especially when compared to REmake that followed it up.
The Last One
Member
He probably talking about when Chris is in the island, before going to the Antarctic.
Neff
Member
A tip that will save you a lot of grief on future plays of RE0- Leave all of the puzzle/key items in the main hall. It's by far the most commonly travelled through room in the game for a reason.
I thought the technical performance of the game aged fairly quickly, but the atmosphere is one of the game's strong points for me.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Yea I figured that would be the best place. I only played RE0 once, when I went to replay it, the inventory system frustrated me so much that I had to quit. I'm usually a hoarder in RE games, so this system naturally clashes with the way I play them. It was far worse on a second play-thru when you know where/when the enemies are and end up with more supplies.
The music in the game is the best in the series, used so effectively in-game as well. The two main locations are so memorable as well.
Last January, we got REmake. This January we get Zero.
(Capcom clearly loves re-introducing older titles in January; Dragon's Dogma arrives on PC this month, as well.)
Maybe the trend holds. Next January, will we see the release of the RE2 Remake...?
I don't mind these updates, as we know Capcom has separate teams working on the next Resident Evil game (RE7?) and also a squad working on a Resident Evil in VR format.
For what its worth, I would be totally down for a Code:Veronica X Remake in January 2018. ;-)
(Capcom clearly loves re-introducing older titles in January; Dragon's Dogma arrives on PC this month, as well.)
Maybe the trend holds. Next January, will we see the release of the RE2 Remake...?
I don't mind these updates, as we know Capcom has separate teams working on the next Resident Evil game (RE7?) and also a squad working on a Resident Evil in VR format.
For what its worth, I would be totally down for a Code:Veronica X Remake in January 2018. ;-)
MrCunningham
Member
Steve Burnside was a substitute for Leon Kennedy. As far as I know, Leon was originally planned for Code Veronica and there was meant to be some sort of "Titanic" themed love story between Claire and Leon. But they replaced Leon with Steve, which was basically just Leon lite. But yeah, Steve Burnside was a hilariously bad character.
I still liked the game though.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Both this year and last year we got remasters (a remaster of a remake in RE1's case). They are remaking RE2 from scratch, not uprezzing it. Since they only started a few months ago, there isn't a hope in hell it's coming by January 2017. If they make it fully 3D it will take even longer.
AHA-Lambda
Member
This exact same thing happened to me.
EDIT: Ah, I see this fight has been brought up a bunch then
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
My favorite classic RE by far. I couldn't really tell you why. RE2 has far better pacing. But something about CV really stuck with me.
Jawmuncher
Member
Never heard of CVX being underrated. It gets more love than 3 and 0 most of the time. Not until recently did people start realizing its flaws. Still a decent game though. But outside of some story elements not anything that special.
Not bad though. Actually I don't think any of the old school mainline REs are bad. Maybe not as good as one another, but all of them are worth playing.
Not bad though. Actually I don't think any of the old school mainline REs are bad. Maybe not as good as one another, but all of them are worth playing.
It happened to me on the very last boss. There's a moment before the last boss where if you don't know it's coming and you don't have your weapons on you you're basically fucked.
I ran out of bullets during the last phase of the fight. I turned off the game and never bothered to finish it.
The Last One
Member
LMAO, this part is so funny.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
If anything 0 is underrated, as it's better than CVX (which is the worst classic RE). 0 had the unfortunate luck of releasing right after REmake.
Nemesis_
Member
I feel like CV and Zero suffered from the same problems in terms of gameplay in which it'll just randomly take away your character or inventory without notice.
I guess this is an accurate reflection of how it might feel to have that done in real life but it means there's way too many times you could "lose" your way into a corner without any way to get out of it without restarting.
I have friends who hate me for saying this but I liked the Psycho-esque twist
I liked the story of CV but at least if was never as fucking weird and off the deep end as Zero was.
I guess this is an accurate reflection of how it might feel to have that done in real life but it means there's way too many times you could "lose" your way into a corner without any way to get out of it without restarting.
I have friends who hate me for saying this but I liked the Psycho-esque twist
I liked the story of CV but at least if was never as fucking weird and off the deep end as Zero was.
Aris Shadows
Member
I never have played this one, and always wanted to.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Resident Evil REmake was actually made in 11 months by a medium-small team.
The classic horror games aren't terribly hard to make, and one must remember part of the reason many of them took longer was reworks and scrapped versions.
Rekki-Maru
Banned
The save/storage room music is dope. I ran thru the HD version about a year ago, wasn't planning on unlocking the line-launcher/rocket launcher again but i did anyway. I still got the Wesker Report dvd too, I think it got retconned to shit tho? lol
This. The music is one of the few things on which I can actually compliment it.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
True, but I don't think you can compare game development then and now. Also they were updating a 6 year old game, whereas now they are updating an 18 year old game. We still don't know if it is even going to be the classic style or not yet, they may go 3rd person with it, if that's the case we won't see it till 2018 at the earliest IMO.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
CV Wesker was one of the greatest contributions to gaming in the last 20 years and he's not even the best antagonist in the game.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
If it comes in 2018, I hope it'll come out on RE2's 20th anniversary.
But I feel we may see in in 2017, early 2017 if we're lucky. Game development has gotten overal easier, standards have just raised alongside that.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I was pumped ever since they first aired the trailer with Claire shooting her gun off and explosions. I was probably 14 or 15. I was at the arcade when it came out. I was playing Tekken Tag and I remember a kid's brother bought it. I was waiting till my dad got home so we would go get it. They had to card the person buying it. It was amazing. I even remember Gamecave had the import at the time with English dubbing. It was sold out too. That was before it came to NA.
A while later PS2 got CV X, which I ended up playing bits and pieces of. I finished it on Dreamcast. I think a lot of people remember it because it was a great RE and the HD version.
It's also been years since it came out. This was before the RE Remake and RE4. My guess is that a lot of people are LTTP or they're just now learning about it. I'm sure if you were gaming pretty hardcore at the time then you know of it and have played it. If you think about it, people have played CV multiple times and have moved on in their life. This was probably when Tekken Tag was at its height and we were still playing RE2 on PS1. Lots of games had a long run, but over the years you seem to just put it back on the shelf. Save it for a rainy day type of thing. I own the HD version and one thing I remember the most was that I hated Steve. Steve was a whiny brat if you ask me. He did sorta make the whole plot stand out to an extent.
What if you learned about OOT in the last five or so years? There's been people who have played it since launch. I had a gold cartridge too. We all sorta had our own time with it and even with RE. There's more amazing games in the series to play as well.
I'm glad I got to witness RE with the very first game and so forth. I think playing RE5 before playing RE 2 or 4 would sorta degrade the experience. Now a days everyone thinks they can make the zombie experience great and very few understand how much quality RE has as a series and a genre.
A while later PS2 got CV X, which I ended up playing bits and pieces of. I finished it on Dreamcast. I think a lot of people remember it because it was a great RE and the HD version.
It's also been years since it came out. This was before the RE Remake and RE4. My guess is that a lot of people are LTTP or they're just now learning about it. I'm sure if you were gaming pretty hardcore at the time then you know of it and have played it. If you think about it, people have played CV multiple times and have moved on in their life. This was probably when Tekken Tag was at its height and we were still playing RE2 on PS1. Lots of games had a long run, but over the years you seem to just put it back on the shelf. Save it for a rainy day type of thing. I own the HD version and one thing I remember the most was that I hated Steve. Steve was a whiny brat if you ask me. He did sorta make the whole plot stand out to an extent.
What if you learned about OOT in the last five or so years? There's been people who have played it since launch. I had a gold cartridge too. We all sorta had our own time with it and even with RE. There's more amazing games in the series to play as well.
I'm glad I got to witness RE with the very first game and so forth. I think playing RE5 before playing RE 2 or 4 would sorta degrade the experience. Now a days everyone thinks they can make the zombie experience great and very few understand how much quality RE has as a series and a genre.
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.
It's the ugliest game in the classic RE series and it has the absolute weirdest storyline. Alfred is a terrible villain, the people on the first page are wrong.
One thing people hate on that's actually good is Steve. His character had a nicely paced story arc and directly related to the incident at hand without feeling contrived or tied to story beats from previous games. Steve is the man.
It's still an amazing game though. Alexia makes up for Alfred, and Nosferatu is Lisa Trevor levels of twistedly good horror storytelling, not to mention his chilling visual design. Darkside Chronicles did the game a lot of justice, I thought.
One thing people hate on that's actually good is Steve. His character had a nicely paced story arc and directly related to the incident at hand without feeling contrived or tied to story beats from previous games. Steve is the man.
I feel like it was uninspired, it was good first time playing it but then you feel like everything it does a game does it better and you ask yourself: Why am I playing it when there are better games to play?
I wanted to make a thread about it and examples of games that are not bad but feel uninspired.
I wanted to make a thread about it and examples of games that are not bad but feel uninspired.
Maybe uninspired is not the right word?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
My guess is summer 2017 if it's classic-style.
RE2's 20th anniversary in 2018 if it's RE4-style.
A friend of mine was pissed when he found out you could actually store it, the magnum was agonisingly out of reach. The hoarder in me went back to put it in the item box, paid off in the end.
legacyzero
Banned
Worst part about the game. Fucking terrible character.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Personally I like Code Veronica. Might have been the bad PS2 port or that it was on the dreamcast at the time 3 came out. Still 2 is better.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Time for a replay, actually. It's been a while. Thanks, GAF. Gonna go classic with the DC version, VGA style.
Officer.Sanchez
Member
It was a forgettable experience. I think the environment was pretty bland and boring, same for the story. It's not a bad game, but I didn't like it. The only thing I remember is the stupid
"boss fight", run and waste herbs, nothing more.
mutated steve
Correctomundo
Member
Well that's already been proven wrong. In this very thread.
Crossing Eden
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Dude was annoying AF.It's the ugliest game in the classic RE series and it has the absolute weirdest storyline. Alfred is a terrible villain, the people on the first page are wrong.
It's still an amazing game though. Alexia makes up for Alfred, and Nosferatu is Lisa Trevor levels of twistedly good horror storytelling, not to mention his chilling visual design. Darkside Chronicles did the game a lot of justice, I thought.
One thing people hate on that's actually good is Steve. His character had a nicely paced story arc and directly related to the incident at hand without feeling contrived or tied to story beats from previous games. Steve is the man.
Fatthhhhheeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Fuck Steve.
nogoodnamesleft
Banned
i loved every single RE until 5 (which i only "liked")
RE CV was great.
RE CV was great.
I really don't count this a plus. Wesker became way too much of a recurring joke. While I liked the settings, I didn't like the map layouts/flow itself. The bandersnatch enemy type was pretty lame. Wesker as a recurring character has been one of the worst parts of RE in my persepective.
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.
It's definitely the least replayable classic RE for some reason. Got Code Veronica HD and barely played it. It's not like I hate the game either.
I'm kind of surprised it's not on Steam yet. It would take the least amount of work to bring to PC since it doesn't use pre-rendered backgrounds and Capcom already did most of the legwork for the 360 version.
But anyway, I think the problem people have with CVX is that it took the classic RE formula a bit beyond its logical conclusion. It was by far the longest of the games before RE4, people have already mentioned how convoluted it is (with possible progress blocks like the airplane fight), and it's when the RE storyline started to get really over-the-top. I believe it and Zero were the point where people (and Mikami) started to realize the old formula was getting stale.
Wasn't the reason they switched the characters because they knew they were gonna kill him at that point in development, and backed out?
But anyway, I think the problem people have with CVX is that it took the classic RE formula a bit beyond its logical conclusion. It was by far the longest of the games before RE4, people have already mentioned how convoluted it is (with possible progress blocks like the airplane fight), and it's when the RE storyline started to get really over-the-top. I believe it and Zero were the point where people (and Mikami) started to realize the old formula was getting stale.
Wasn't the reason they switched the characters because they knew they were gonna kill him at that point in development, and backed out?