/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5891537]

Is this series supposed to be scary? The controls are more frustrating than the horror stings are frightening.

[Software and so on No.5891547]

Track controls paired with carefully chosen static camera angles are intentional to carry a claustrophobic sensation and the audio stings are more effective if you don't have your airpods in your ears you fucking zoomer.

[Software and so on No.5891548]

Tank controls paired with carefully chosen static camera angles are intentional to carry a claustrophobic sensation and the audio stings are more effective if you don't have your airpods in your ears you fucking zoomer.

[Anonymous No.5891674]

>>5891548
the perfect post

[Anonymous No.5891692]

>>5891537
Literally the only bad thing about the controls is that there's no quickturn, and you don't even need it for this game.
It's still not scary, though. The only times RE scared me was with the Lickers and Mr. X in 2.

[Anonymous No.5891867]

It was scary as shit in 96

[Anonymous No.5891954]

>>5891537
Not retro but playing Resident Evil 4 with my brother for the first time with lights off at night when I was 10 years old was legit the scariest gaming experience that I ever had, I still can remember like if it was yesterday.
And before someone calls me underage, reminder that RE4 came out in 2005, I'm 24 now.

[Anonymous No.5891961]

>>5891954
>Not retro
You should have stopped there, twink.

[Anonymous No.5891987]

>>5891537

So people coming to Re1 today see a bad shooting game with odd controls. That's taking it the wrong way. You need to see it as someone in 1996 would have.

It's like a point n' click adventure game but this time it's in 3D graphics and highly detailed 2D backgrounds. Graphics this good were mind blowing. And it enhances and pushes the Adventure genre to new levels. RE1 even has several traps that kill you. As the Re series goes on, they get more polished, but alos up the action and downplay the adventure. RE3 is very action heavy. Re4 abandons 95% of the adventure (only keeping a few puzzels) and turns it into a full shooter.

And they're not scary I always consider them comfy big puzzle games in a comphy cool mansion.

[Anonymous No.5891990]

>No RE romhacks that remix the mansion or adds new areas or rooms.

[Anonymous No.5892008]

>>5891548
Wrong.
This is everything that's wrong with "retro gamers", ledditors, and hipsters. Romanticizing old things to the point where you claim technical limitations were artistic choices.
The developers would have loved to have been able to implement a freely controllable camera, but that would have required having 3D rendered environments instead of prerendered backgrounds, a more demanding effort for both programming development and console performance.
You wish you were a real boomer, you namefagging IRL loser.

[Anonymous No.5892023]

>>5892008
Technical limitations led to great things. We have Evil Within without those limitations and it isn't as good as these games. Simple. I personally prefer the controls, camera etc... But that's just me and I'm the one playing the games, so I DGAF other people can like what they want. In any case RE1-4 are by far the most favored.

[Anonymous No.5892027]

>>5892008
>Romanticizing old things to the point where you claim technical limitations were artistic choices.
It's still an artistic choice. What they choose to do with the limits of the hardware to make their game is all artistic choice. You wouldn't say the Mona Lisa isn't a beautiful work of art just because Leonardo Da Vinci was forced to use the oil paint of his day rather than modern acrylic paint or digital art software. When you have to creatively use what is available, you often end up with something more interesting and charming than if the technology did all the work.

[Anonymous No.5892819]

>>5892008
Yeah, thats why they released REmake with static camera right after fully 3D Code Veronica. Fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.5892842]

>>5892008
Retard zoomer: the post.

[Anonymous No.5893502]

>>5892008
this would honestly make good baiting pasta

[Anonymous No.5893525]

>>5892008
You sure got riled up today Brayden. Make sure to take your meds and maybe even go outside it's good for you.

[Anonymous No.5895434]

>>5891537
its action horror, so its meant to be jump scare type scary, not oh no the horror type scary.

[Anonymous No.5895449]

>>5892819
Code Veronica also deliberately chose fixed camera angles over a freely controllable camera even though they rendered everything in full 3D. That anon has no idea what they're talking about.

[Anonymous No.5895467]

Stupid dog jumping through window still gets me even tho I know it's cooming.

[Anonymous No.5895614]

>>5891537
>Is this series supposed to be scary?
No. Its supposed to be a complete and deeply polished game. Remember these faggot?

[Anonymous No.5896016]

Daily reminder.

[Anonymous No.5896102]

>>5896016
That's bullshit but I believe it

[Anonymous No.5896218]

Didn't get into the series until CV on the Dreamcast. Then played REmake (but we're not supposed to talk about that yet...cuck) Played 2 and 3, 3 definitely was tense due to Nemesis, but 2 is a meme imo. I've never played the original, but does not look scary at all, at least now.

[Anonymous No.5896582]

Why do people suck so much at tank controls?

[Anonymous No.5896603]

>Tank controls

Tank Controls refers to the character's inability to strafe, as well as his inability to turn quickly or to go backwards quickly.

You know. Like a fucking tank.

What you guys are talking about isn't tank controls, it's character centric controls; which is the contrary of camera centric controls, which was more common at the time.

In short, you can keep shouting "I'm smarter than people who can't into tank controls!!" but you're still dumb for you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.5896604]

I've always liked the Re controls and never got the hate

[Anonymous No.5896605]

>>5896603
That still applies to the first two RE games, though.

[Anonymous No.5896606]

>>5892008
What's your point then? All 2d-games before the advent of 3d were shit because they suffered from technical limitations?

[Anonymous No.5896613]

>>5896606
your thinking of this is completely backwards

[Anonymous No.5896635]

I know this thread is /vr/ bait, but I have never understood people who bitch about tank controls. If its not your thing fair enough... but the controls aren't bad and work fine in 2019 Resident Evil Deadly Silence is still the best version today IMO, and holds up extremely well

[Anonymous No.5896659]

>>5896613
Nah m8, that's you

[Anonymous No.5896710]

>>5896635
Do you know who drew this? The style looks familiar.

[Anonymous No.5896732]

It is supposed to be a parody of American zombie movies.

[Anonymous No.5896793]

>>5896710

Nope, but it is the only fan art I have from RE DS

[Anonymous No.5896814]

>>5896659
The technique of using 3D models within fixed camera 2D pre-rendered backgrounds came first.

It was created by Frédérick Raynal for Alone In The Dark 1992.

He realized that camera centric controls would be too confusing due to the every changing camera angles so he chose to stick to character centric controls.

Finally, full 3D environments were of course possible; and even then they'd stick to that type of controls, see Overblood 1996 which was developped at the very same time as Resident Evil and which, like RE, was heavily inspired by AITD.

[Anonymous No.5896815]

>>5891537