Share stories of your impressions when you played Resident Evil 2 for the first time in 1998.

[Anonymous No.3568018]

[Anonymous No.3568269]

I was with my cousin when she brought a demo disc with the Resident Evil 2 trial in it. I remenber being astounded by it's graphics because it was the first game with pre-rendered backgrounds that I played. Back then, I couldn't comprehend why this game had so much better graphics than the rest cause I didn't know what were prerendered backgrounds so I though I was playing a 3D game with an ultra realistic look. Also, RE 2 presented diferent walking animations depending on your health so seen this for the first time was something new and fresh. To see a city destroyed completely by the zombies was really scary and Raccoon City felt so real. I find it funny that at the time Leon looked like Trunks to me.

[Anonymous No.3568276]

>>3568018
Me and a friend rented it on a whim and spent a night playing it. I remember it being fairly fun but we didn't ever rent it again. The only RE I played all the way through was IV which I thought was okay but nothing to write home about.

[Anonymous No.3568279]

>>3568018
Zombies and the title screen freaked me out when I watched my cousin and older brother play it.

[Anonymous No.3569113]

>>3568269
I also have this distorted memories about things in the game that never happened. I remember you could sorround the whole police station and you could see zombies that were inside the R.P.D. through the windows. The second time I played RE 2 none of those things that I mention were in the game so I was kinda shocked. This has never happened to me with other games and I can understand that is quite common to have memories of inexistent things. In any case, I find this so intriguing cause I tend to analize what places in the game did I mix to form those memories.

[Anonymous No.3570220]

>>3568018
>Damn this is cool. It's a whole city, not a mansion!
>This cop station music is awesome
>Was that one of those giant spiders behind that window?
>omgwtfomgwtf IT'S WORSE

...after that we dreaded going into any new room because of "those tongue men"

[Anonymous No.3570463]

>>3568018

Nemesis was R3, idiot

[Anonymous No.3570472]

>>3568269
I remember escaping on the train with 00.02 time remaining

[Anonymous No.3571156]

>>3570220
Yeah. The Licker behind the window is one of those legendary moments in RE 2. You have to deal with the uncomfortable silence and emptyness of the police station and it's tense because you came from the streets infested with zombies. The chat with Marvin leaves you uneasy too. So you go into the next room and suddenly you see some creature pass at the other side of the window. That shit freaked me out so much the first time I saw it cause the game was building this tension with Marvin story and you didn't know how to spect. Also, the fact that the Licker is the first creature you encounter inside the police station instead of zombies helps to create a menacing atmosphere(you can go to the other door that you unlock with the blue key card where there are zombies, but that is quite unlikely during your first playthrough).

[Anonymous No.3571168]

>>3571156
That window was on the outside of the police station. There is a smashed window and a decapitated cop in the hallway. The original scene is somewhat censored, but the pool of dripping blood is from a severed head the licker drops from the ceiling.

Meaning in the time it took you to go through that door, the licker broke in, tore the guy's head off, and retreated back to the ceiling.

He was alive mere seconds before you went in.

[Anonymous No.3571179]

>>3571168
I don't understand this kind of censorship in which they take out a scene where a severed head is shown but you can explode zombie heads with the shotgun. Is it total nonesense or is it because that especific head is from a good human cop and not zombie?

[Anonymous No.3571201]

>>3571179
Japan just has this thing about decapitations happening to humans. It's considered too gruesome for some reason

[Anonymous No.3571238]

You won't the deny that Resident Evil 2 has the most brutal death scenes of the classics. Those Leon screams when I died for the first time...man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggdWn1r3SJ0

[Anonymous No.3571276]

The first time I played it was on N64.

I was pretty amazed by it, at first.

Though I could never get that far.

[Anonymous No.3571307]

>Browsing video store
>See cover of RE2 on N64
>Oh I've seen this game in magazines before. It was a Playstation exclusive though...
>Rent it without having any connection to the first game
>Have my mind blown

Having felt cucked by my N64, I got a PS1 next year with a copy of RE3 and Dino Crisis.

[Anonymous No.3571318]

I played it with Claire, died to the first zombie and had to deal with my father screaming "Braaaains...", just like Dawn of the Dead, for a few weeks.

[Anonymous No.3571370]

>>3571318
That's some funny shit. Also, a lot of people who played 2 without playing 1 died on first screen cause the game throws you like 4 zombies or so in the first screen and you are just trying to figuring out the controls

[Anonymous No.3571404]

I watched my friend play it mostly, I think I was on Parasite Eve at the time. My most vivid memory is when one of the RE titles throws a curveball on the door opening loading screen and the door opening directly into a zombie for some sort of jump scare. Worked on me.

[Anonymous No.3571413]

>>3568018
Lickers jumping through the hall window in the police station scared the shit out of me

[Anonymous No.3571445]

at 16 I was the last of all my friends to play it and they all dared me to play it with the lights off while watching me. Every jump and scream I made was accompanied by a round of laughter from them. I got super into the series until 5 rolled around

[Anonymous No.3571497]

>>3568018
Couldn't get past the starting area.

Never played it again..

I'd rate it 8/10. Would give up on again.

[Anonymous No.3571606]

I just remember my friend Matt telling me when he got the shotgun that he was never going to take the shotgun out of his inventory after that.

Good advice for any RE game, really.

[Anonymous No.3571635]

>>3568018
Game was freaky as hell, but extremely fun. Was one of the games that persuaded me to buy a PS1, since there was no Saturn version.

[Anonymous No.3571802]

>>3571307
Do you remember anything about playing RE 2 on N64? It's interesting that you bought a PS1 because of RE. It must have been a weird experience to play a game on N64 that had CGI and stuff.

[Anonymous No.3571948]

>>3571802
I was used to games like Goldeneye. Ocarina of Time. Rogue Squadron. Games with simple stories told through simple means. I was always a fan of horror films, even if I couldn't look directly at the screen.

RE2 was video game horror to a T. I replayed that opening section many times, both because I was bad and because I wanted to see that opening cinematic again and again.

I think I would have been too frightened to play the game if you could only play Claire, because as Leon, I felt like a badass and persevered. Then I finally beat it as him, with a horrible D rank and I think 8 and a half hours.

Then I unlocked Claire B...

Claire B was horrifying. After spraying down the helicopter and running to the door, then that CG clip of him arriving. I thought maybe - MAYBE, because he didn't look too intimidating in the cinematic, that he could be a friendly character somehow.

Then I heard those stomping food steps.

He killed me - I tried again and finally got the better of him then walked away.

You had no idea how much I didn't want to play RE2 when I saw that animation of Tyrant getting up.

Because it was a cart that you rented at the video store, the 15 slots available for saving were always filled up and I'd load them to see where people were last

One save in particular was Claire B at the train station and she was in danger. Suffice it to say, she couldn't survive against the mutated Tyrant fight no matter what you did.

[Anonymous No.3571951]

>>3571497
Kek

[Anonymous No.3571996]

This door

[Anonymous No.3572002]

>>3568018
My dad brought my brother and I to his friends house in China Town. His friend's kid had just gotten RE 2 and Legend of Dragoon for Christmas (I believe). We watched in awe. We had never seen a RE game before.

I also remember playing the training mission of what I think was a half life mod on his computer. May have been CS.

[Anonymous No.3572014]

RE2 is older than I am

[Anonymous No.3572894]

>>3571948
I remember that I didn't found out there was a B scenario till a year after a finished the two A scenarios and I had this Resident Evil 2 comic in which appears MR. X. I didn't undertand why this guy appeared in the comic until I discovered how to load the B scenario properly. I liked so much the adition of MR. X to the second scenario cause it wasn't a very tough guy to beat each time but, he was responsible for one of the strongest jumpscares in RE saga. That particular jumpscare is quite special cause the game fools you in such a way that you would never think that MR X could break pre-rendered walls. The normal thing would be to put a piece of a wall in 3D for MR X to break it but they did a great job avoinding those things.

Here's the jumpscare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53peCvnRDq8

[Anonymous No.3572904]

I was 8 when my brother got this for PS1.

Back then the concept of zombies wasn't as overused/flogged harder than any dead horse ever in pop culture so it was pretty new to me, but the idea of corpses (which I've always been scared of) coming back and eating me scared me shitless.

I was scared of zombies all the way up to middle school, but even then I would always watch my brother play through this game. When I decided to stop being such a little baby I got to RE2 first and beat through it in like 2 hrs cause I knew the game up and down by then thanks to my brother.

Mom hated it, she knew the game scared me shitless but never gave my brother any shit cause I would willingly park myself behind him and watch while he played lol.

[Anonymous No.3572908]

>>3571606
This. Also custom shotgun is excellent.

[Anonymous No.3572949]

It was when I was working at Babbage's, Resident Evil 1 being the reason I started working there. I brought RE2 home on a check out. My apartment was a major hang out. I blew through it pretty quickly with lots of spectators but then when a couple of my other friends did playthroughs and I saw fully different cinemas I was hooked and really read up on it, unlocked all the weapons and costumes. Lots of co-operation with pals and scared girlfriends drinking and smoking weed I'm sure it's my favorite survival horror game because of how great the experience of playing it was of course it really is great in and of itself as well.

[Anonymous No.3572968]

>>3572904
I didn't know what was a zombie until I played RE 2 too. My older cousins introduced me to this game. At the beginning, I was watching them play curiously and didn't dare to play it.

One day my cousing came to my house without saying he was going to come. He brought the Claire disc and he played until the S.T.A.R.S. office and then we stopped. Months later, I started playing the game by myself because I was drawing scenes from RE 2 and I couldn't stop thinking about it.

By the time I finished this game my cousings didn't care about it and I was kind of frustated as I became a better player than them.

[Anonymous No.3573181]

I got in trouble for yelling "YEAH" really loud late at night after I ran out of ammo in the middle of a fight, had to kill a licker with my knife, and it died on the next blow.

[Anonymous No.3574701]

>>3573181
RE 2 has the most innefective knife of the whole saga so you had the right to yell.

[Anonymous No.3574706]

My older cousin had a PS1 and brought the game over (with armored core).

I only remember being blown away at the opening cut scene and also seeing Leon limp as he got hurt through out the first level.

[Anonymous No.3574720]

I first discover that Leon was a persons name with this game and back then it sounded weird to me but also cool.

[Anonymous No.3574741]

>>3572949
>To play this game with pals or family cause we were too scared to play it alone.
>Funiest experience I have ever had.

[Anonymous No.3574746]

>>3574701
Here's the basic rundown of the knife in RE2.

The weakest zombie can take more knife strikes to kill than the strongest licker, and the only creature it's somewhat effective on are the spiders which are trivial to avoid in the first place. The knife isn't just ineffective, it's bordering on "completely useless"

[Anonymous No.3574784]

>>3574746
I sounds somewhat logical to me as zombies are the easiest enemies to stab with the knife and the others are harder to reach or make more damage. Nevertheless, is fucking useless. Also, pic related, the moment when I realized that the knife is a fucking joke.

[Anonymous No.3574841]

>>3574784
Not really, the knife was really effective in RE1 to where it could be used reliably against anything you were good at dodging.

Sadly I don't have the enemy HP/damage data for RE3 or CV

[Anonymous No.3575204]

>>3574841
Yeah, What I meant to say was that the knife is only useless in RE 2. I don't about RE 3 knife but, in CV was quite powerfull.

[Anonymous No.3575741]

>>3575204
On that subject, you get a special cut scene if you kill Nosferatu with the knife, which is just as good against him as the sniper rifle is, if not better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxmHeJLJVz0

Not sure how the other weapons hold up. Dunno if you have to hit his heart or if they just do fuck-all damage.

[Anonymous No.3575748]

>>3571201
Same with cutting off certain fingers (thumbs maybe?) can't be shown, it's a cultural thing.

[Anonymous No.3575751]

>>3575748
This is likely tied to old-fashioned castes, where meat workers (who would be prone to injury from blades) were among the lowest. Implying someone belonged to this group with a four-fingered gesture is quite offensive.

But like all historical cultural offensive things, it's only offensive because people keep bursting into tears over it like toddlers. Same problem here in Scotland, IRA wannabes keep bringing up the 66 people who died in an accident back in 1971 because they know it will get a reaction.

[Anonymous No.3575779]

>>3572894
>doesn't appear for over an hour
>breaks through two walls in two minutes

Jesus Christ that was terrifying.

[Anonymous No.3575793]

>>3572894
Literally shit my pants

[Anonymous No.3575931]

I was just a kid, my brother and his freinds was playing in my house. I start to feel fear immediately. I was afraid to look at TV, I was afraid to be in the same room with my brother and friends, I was afraid to be alone in another room. The best day in my life.

[Anonymous No.3576042]

>>3572894
Also, this particular jumpscare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYtsUP0VdlQ

[Anonymous No.3576048]

>>3568018

The game itself had a feeling of freedom the original didn't have, which reduced the stress and horror imo.

The story I remember was one of my classmates hurt his elbow when playing it and met that floor crawler (don't remember the enemy name) thing the first time. He got so scared he fell out of the armchair.

[Anonymous No.3576067]

>>3576048
Funny story. Elaborate on that freedom feeling pls?

[Anonymous No.3576075]

>>3575741
I tried to do a knife only run but I couldn't kill the Tyrant(airplane fight). But this is quite interesting, I guess you don't find this out if you do a normal run cause when you have to fight the Nosferatu the last thing you would think it's using the knife against him.

[Anonymous No.3576085]

>>3576075
Here's the thing with Tyrant on the plane, he appears to constantly suffer HP damage to prevent an unwinnable situation. If you let him run in circles long enough he'll start leaving a trail of blood which is the signal to slam him with the crate.

[Anonymous No.3576250]

I want to replay the game as I only blasted through Leon's first route (I think that's Leon A) and left it at that so I missed a lot of what the game has to offer.
I heard somewhere that it's best to go through Claire's scenario first and then play Leon's unlocked one, so Claire A and Leon B. Should I do that?

[Anonymous No.3576262]

>>3575751
Yakuza are terrifying people that Japan basically can't do anything about because they're necessary to protect the country from foreign criminals. Having your fingers cut off or being decapitated to make an example or having your daughter sold into the porn industry to pay off your gambling debts is a real thing that actually happens.

Also I think there was a guy who broke into an elementary school and decapitated a bunch of children a while back.

[Anonymous No.3576331]

>>3576085

Interesting...any citations/links for proof, or is no one that good?

>>3576250
Plot-wise, Claire A/Leon B does seem to be correct. Plus, you'll have more(powerful) weapons to deal with Mr. X(not that he's hard to deal with in the first place). Go for it, if you wish.

[Anonymous No.3576428]

>>3576067

I played RE1 to death. Made my own speedrun note paper with exact route written down in one word for room form, and then I just couldn't play it again. Going an alternate route, why?

Playing RE2 after this experience gave a huge feeling of freedom, larger maps, no real claustrophobia and you have more choices making it less static.

[Anonymous No.3577850]

>>3576331
I saw it during a run on Twitch. While Tyrant was being faked out he suddenly started bleeding even though he hadn't taken any damage.

[Anonymous No.3577875]

>>3568018

I was eagerly anticipating the release because it was delayed multiple times. I was excited because I knew it was going to be 2 discs and about twice as big as the last game. I was initially disappointed in the fact that they used computer generated graphics instead of camera captured FMV, but the initial movie was awesome. I loved being out in the city instead of cooped up inside a mansion. The gun store scene was awesome and the game was living up to expectations. Then I get to the police station and notice that it is just another mansion. I was really disappointed at that. Lots of the puzzles are similar to the first as well, so I was again disappointed. I wasn't really scared of the lickers. I just kept thinking if their brain was showing they should go down in one headshot. I noticed that you backtrack longer distances (bad) and that there are more typewriters and item boxes (good). However, when you are backtracking the game uses that time to tell the story. In addition, the story was better than RE1 and it was revealed better as well.

I played through the whole thing and loved the many boss battles as well as the origin story of the virus. I knew it was already a huge hit, but I was worried some of my favorite capcom games would have sequels scrapped to make too many RE style games.

[Anonymous No.3578074]

>>3576250
I prefer Leon A and Claire B for some specific reasons. But official is Claire A and Leon B.

[Anonymous No.3578090]

Still remember when my mom asked me if im really sure if this is the right game. I was 11 years old and it scared the shit out of me. After the intro i had to shut down the console and call my older brother to play for me. I spent the first few days watching him play but one day i was alone with my buddy and we fired it up. The next day my buddies mom called our house and my mother took the game away from me after my pal had crazy nightmares. A few months later i found it high up on a shelf in the kitchen.

[Anonymous No.3578897]

>>3577875
The beginning is just excellent, but they should have added more parts of the city for us to visit. To be in the streets of Raccoon City was the new thing and it was really cool to go into the Gunshop and to know the owner and then something terrible happens to him and you have to go back to streets. Those backalleys were murky as fuck and to see the main streets blocked by crashed police cars on fire, barricades, dumpsters and a bus was for me, the best thing in the world. So I was expecting to see more exteriors when you leave the police station. Then 60% of RE 3 is streets and they are great, but, imo they are not as dark as the ones presented in RE 2. Back then, I didn't see any movies or read comics in which they depict a city that is in the process of being completely destroyed so I was mind-blown.

[Anonymous No.3578925]

>>3578090
I had a similar story with one of my neighbours when we were kids. He watched me play RE 2 and he remained calm while I was playing. Next day his mother quarrelled me because he spent the rest of the day frightened because of the game. She strictly forbade me to play RE 2 while I was with his son. A thing that I never obeyed. I guess my neighbour never tattled cause I didn't receive more complaints from his mother hahaha.

[Anonymous No.3578932]

>>3576075
I feel like the knife is usually more for players that have beat the game at least once anyways.
CV's mercenary mode has a scenario where you only have a knife and that's when I realized it was OP.

[Anonymous No.3578956]

>>3568018
Don't have any fond memories of RE2, jumped straight to Nemesis and let me tell you
>The intro
>Zombies everywhere
>People being killed a fucking lot

I barely slept for two weeks straight, only blacking out when I was so tired I wasn't afraid anymore. I was a scaredy cat as a kid.

[Anonymous No.3578959]

>>3568018
>who the pic guy?
>not Chris
>not Leon

[Anonymous No.3579321]

First time playing, I was 12 years old back in 98, I got RE2 for my birthday.

Mind fucking blown, trying to get the controls to work, completely new for me.
Zombies fucked me up, got the hang of moving and shooting after the first few tries.

Awesome game, completely changed my perspective on gaming, kind of like Doom did before.

I loved zombie movies as a kid, back when they were real horror movies and not retarded gore porn.

[Anonymous No.3579393]

>>3568018
DESU I can't really remember. All what I know for sure is I loved everything about it obviously. It's one of my favorite games ever.

Best game of the series.

[Anonymous No.3579917]

>>3579321
At the time this game was really violent from a mainstream point of view. The death animations were pretty brutal and shocked me as a kid. It was because of RE 2 that I started to get into violence. Some moments were also disturbing. When Ben or Chief Irons die from that chestburster creature for example. So for me it wasn't just cheap violence cause it affected me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AKNbghtdyg

[Anonymous No.3580247]

>>3576428
And to have more freedom is worse for you? I undertand that RE 1 works better for you because you spend most of your time indoors and for the exteriors you are isolated in the Arklay Mountains.