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Resident Evil Anonymous Sat Jul 20 16:49:20 2019 No.5751745 [Reply] [Original]

It's time to discuss the greatest video game trilogy of all time.

Which of the original three numbered games is /vr/'s favourite? Which game had the most convincing atmosphere? The best map design? Which had the best protagonist? The best soundtrack?

I'll detail my own opinions in the next post.

Anonymous Sat Jul 20 16:49:41 2019 No.5751746
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For me, the original Resident Evil had the best atmosphere of the bunch. While the voice acting was arguably at its worst in RE1, the real magic of it came from it being the first game in the series. You didn't know the rules of the game's world yet. Playing the game for the first time, for all I knew a vampire or ghost could have popped in from around a corner. That lack of knowing the game's limits is what fueled the game's atmosphere for me, the uncertainty.

I will say though, in terms of the technical elements of the games, such as music and lighting, Resident Evil 2 was the one that felt the most real to me. I think it had the best soundtrack of the bunch too.

Resident Evil 3 was another excellent game, but a huge tonal shift. Starting outdoors, following such a high octane action scene, made RE3 feel more like an action game than a horror game for me. I actually appreciate it for how different it feels in that respect, it stands out for trying something a little different.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 20 18:59:51 2019 No.5751990 Imagine if Resident Evil 2 was a triple disc game, and you unlocked Jill's campaign from RE3 after beating the game with both Claire and Leon. Would have gone down as the single greatest game of all time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 20 19:01:07 2019 No.5751994 File: 160 KB, 959x1000, 1558065728428.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1 > 3 > 2 And don't you forget it

Anonymous Sat Jul 20 20:59:27 2019 No.5752207

Besides Nemesis being able to follow you around I didn't care for 3. The minigame was better than the actual game.

1 and 2 kind of go hand in hand in my opinion. 2 improved a lot on what the original did. But the original just had classic moments and a great atmosphere (music changing when the hunters are around.)

>>	Funcoland Clown Sat Jul 20 21:03:58 2019 No.5752218 I wonder what ever happened to nesfag. We would really argue in this thread.

Anonymous Sat Jul 20 21:10:33 2019 No.5752235

I think they're all the best in certain ways
RE1 had the best atmosphere, RE2 had the best story since it was just a fun 80s action movie, and RE3 had the best controls and settings since it took place mostly in the streets

if they had given the deadly silence treatment to RE2 and 3, it'd be the perfect trilogy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 20 22:28:33 2019 No.5752364 >>5751994 As long as you aren't one of those guys who only dislikes RE2 because Jill isn't playable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 20 22:29:40 2019 No.5752372 >>5751745 The best RE isn't even retro. You need to calm down saying this is the greatest trilogy of all-time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 20 22:31:43 2019 No.5752375 >>5752372 yeah, everyone knows resident evil outbreak was a ps2 game

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 00:37:49 2019 No.5752575
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>>5752364
Nah, it's the layout, final boss, story presentation, and less memorable parts.
2 is still one of the best games ever made and ranks fairly high in my top 50, with 1 being the best game ever made.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 00:57:23 2019 No.5752616 File: 175 KB, 1920x1080, fWxJh1q1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5751745 for gamers only >>471142619

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 00:58:24 2019 No.5752620 >>5752616 >>>/v/471142619

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 00:59:10 2019 No.5752623 Friendly reminder that the trilogy includes Code Veronica and does not include n*mesis

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 01:31:42 2019 No.5752665 >>5752623 code veronica waas an infinitely worse game than nemesis could ever be

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 01:40:02 2019 No.5752678 >>5751746 >following such a high octane action scene, made RE3 feel more like an action game than a horror game for me RE2 started off outside with a gas truck exploding and setting everything on fire, and 5x as many zombies

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 04:53:29 2019 No.5752908
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with RE3, I'm never good enough with ammo to beat Nemesis every single time on hard mode so I never get the correct reward item when I want, I've read various guides on this but they all contradict each other. Combine that with the branching story paths and it triggers my autism too much. Never finished it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 05:16:21 2019 No.5752952 >>5751745 Resident Evil 2 was/is my favorite. Rented it back for my borrowed PlayStation and just had to own both. If it wasn’t for that game, I’d probably still be a Nintendo fanboy instead of heading down the PlayStation timeline.

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Anonymous Sun Jul 21 06:45:56 2019 No.5753082
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Resident Evil 1 the best, most comfy and charismatic entry, and I didn't even play it when it came out so it's not nostalgia, it's just that good.

2 is also great, though I didn't care for 3 (CV is much better).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 08:26:41 2019 No.5753156 >>5752678 ...That took place at night, in a much more muted and dark setting.

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 08:33:10 2019 No.5753162

I've played RE2 most of all of them at the time. It just made RE(1) feel like a smaller, less polished game.

The feeling of the handguns in all of the three games was something me and my friends always found awesome.

As for RE3, none of my friends liked it too much back then. I, on the other hand, loved it, it was one of my best speedrun games ever, I loved to plough through it without saving. RE2 has never let me do that so easily.

I still favor 2 because of the cool ambience, the bigger experience having 4 quests to play and the overall better experience. But I know a lot of people who will say 1 is the best.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 08:34:13 2019 No.5753164 you know what I like? the feeling of shotguns improved with each game RE3 shotguns were fucking beautiful

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 08:38:46 2019 No.5753174
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>>5753082
I can sympathize with this. RE1 feels so small and intimate compared to the other games taking place in big cities and the like. My main console growing up was the PS1, so even stuff like the menus in RE1 invoke that warm feeling for me.

It reminds me of back when horror games were genuinely terrifying to me. Even looking at the box art for an M rated horror game made me shiver.

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 11:43:50 2019 No.5753454

>>5751745
>Which of the original three numbered games is /vr/'s favourite?
Resident Evil 2 because it felt the most well made to me of the games thanks to the A and B scenarios. Gave the game so much replayability. The map design, story, enemies, etc, all amazing for this game.

>Which game had the most convincing atmosphere?
Easily the first game. Had the best horror atmosphere and I am talking about the true original here btw not the remake. Remake was great but this thread is about those original three RE games I assume.

>The best map design?
Again I would think the first game had the best map design due to how iconic that mansion is.

> Which had the best protagonist?
I still think Leon is the best RE protagonist. From RE2 to RE4 he had a good character change/growth imo.

>The best soundtrack?
Resident Evil 3, I like to listen to the soundtrack at times and I have come to eventually like it the best of the games.

All three of these games are fantastic and should be must plays. I wish RE3 had another character to use but it did have the best controls of the three games. All games got pros and cons but mostly strengths with few weaknesses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 11:50:34 2019 No.5753468 RE1 >best location >best atmosphere >best characters >not redundantly complicated

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 13:53:13 2019 No.5753740 >>5753468 >not redundantly complicated I'd say RE1 was more complicated than RE3, at least.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 14:24:28 2019 No.5753825 3 had some really lame areas like the hospital. I remember thinking it was ripping of silent hill back in the day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 14:25:24 2019 No.5753829 >>5753825 Didn't Resident Evil 3 come out the same year as Silent Hill 1?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 15:35:21 2019 No.5754029 gameplay wise: 3 > 2 >1 (makes sense) overall: 2 > 3 > 1

Anonymous Sun Jul 21 15:57:40 2019 No.5754101

I own RE1-3 on PS since the time they came out and finished them together with a few school buddies back then. I never really liked RE desu. Everything is just dark, I fucking hate zombies and their retarded moaning and jump scares. Call me a pussyfag but I just don‘t enjoy the survival horror genre.

>>	nesfag Sun Jul 21 16:18:50 2019 No.5754154 >>5752218 fuck you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 18:02:40 2019 No.5754373 >>5754101 Nothing wrong with that anon, I tend to disagree with a lot of retro gamers on many things

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 21 21:48:50 2019 No.5754772 >>5754154 based

Anonymous Mon Jul 22 09:52:46 2019 No.5755705
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>>5753454
>I still think Leon is the best RE protagonist. From RE2 to RE4 he had a good character change/growth imo.
To be fair, he's honestly also the only RE character who's personality actually changed over the course of the series.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 10:14:42 2019 No.5755740 >>5752665 This post has infinitely worse taste than normal people could have

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 23 04:01:44 2019 No.5757621 >>5754101 lmao right on, man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 23 13:14:45 2019 No.5758256 >>5751745 4>everything else

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 23 13:15:14 2019 No.5758261 >>5758256 Try harder.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 15:55:48 2019 No.5760972 >>5758256 Four was decent, but definitely shouldn't shouldn't have been given the title Resident Evil.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 15:59:56 2019 No.5760981 >>5758256 yes 4 was a nice game, but not a resident evil game

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:04:16 2019 No.5761002 File: 3.88 MB, 720x574, 1458087835444[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5754101 >Everything is just dark Really? I always thought the games were too well lit for horror games

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:07:14 2019 No.5761016 File: 109 KB, 1280x720, lighting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5761002 RE1 in particular was famously bright as fuck to boot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 16:10:15 2019 No.5761031 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ntFBVXqPg best monster introduction, the loud music made it way better than the REmake cutscene. Firs time I saw it I was going "OH SHIT WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT?"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 19:27:02 2019 No.5761615 >>5761031 Is this the most iconic scene in survival horror?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 24 19:29:35 2019 No.5761623 >>5761016 Saturn version has different color for the pre-rendered ends up looking like some technicolor movie

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 25 12:41:56 2019 No.5763172 >>5761623 >tfw that was the version you had growing up

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 25 18:00:47 2019 No.5763904 >>5751745 RE2 is the best out of the three. Resident Evil 0 was better than any of them, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 25 19:19:08 2019 No.5764130 >>5763904 I don't hate Zero, but that's good bait.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 25 20:11:42 2019 No.5764247 1 and 2 are some of my favorite games. Played through them multiple times. For some reason, I still haven’t played 3. I guess I’ll save the experience for a rainy day

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 25 20:34:29 2019 No.5764302 How does Code Veronica compare to the rest? I've played the first three but not that one. Or zero for that matter.

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