/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8014010
I'm not sure if you've ever tried to actually kill everything in RE1 without using the knife. Let's look at some numbers from Chris's campaign in the USA version of RE1 using evilresource.com for enemy and ammo numbers:

We have 67 zombies in the base game, I know from my experience that zombies take AT LEAST 5 bullets to kill, so that's 335 pistol bullets to kill all of them. Evilresource states that Chris can get a maximum of 345 additional pistol bullets so that's 360 bullets total. Cerberus are also a typical pistol worthy enemy and there are 14 of them requiring at least 3 bullets to kill so you'll need 42 pistol bullets to kill all of them. So of the pistol worthy enemies you need 377 bullets to kill them all and you get 360 to work with.

There are 133 shotgun shells, so let's look at the enemies you typically want to use the shotgun on: hunters, spiders, and chimera. There are a max of 25 hunters which I know require at least 4 shotgun shells to kill so that's 100 shells for hunters. Chris fights 8 chimera which I know require 5 shotgun shells to kill so that's 40 shells to kill all of those. There's 4 spiders which also take 5 shotgun shells so that's 20 shells to kill all of them.

So that's 160 shells needed to kill all of the shotgun-worthy enemies and you only get 133 to do it. There are also 42 magnum rounds, but hunters are gonna need 1-2 rounds to kill, and both chimera and spiders take 3 magnum rounds to kill.

The point is you do NOT have enough to kill everything with ease. In these calculations I didn't take into account the player missing shots, or zombies and cerberus sometimes needing more bullets to kill than the minimums stated, or smaller enemies like crows and bees, or even boss enemies.

If you found yourself with hundreds of ammo to spare that means you were being selective with your kills and conserving ammo which is THE ESSENCE of survival horror. Based on your comment you really WERE getting a survival horror experience.

why did they take out the mansion to put a tower that doesn't exist in the final game and only in concept arts?