/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8411862]

I feel like you can go into RE2 without playing RE1 and be fine in terms of following the story.
Would you say that's also true of Parasite Eve?
Explanation: I wanna play PE2 because it's RE-like but I don't wanna deal with the RPG crap of PE1

[Anonymous No.8411868]

Parasite Eve doesn’t really feel like an RPG. Just think of it as a very slow paced RE game and you’ll be fine. You can finish it in like 10 hours anyway

[Anonymous No.8411871]

>>8411862
I don't think so on Parasite Eve. The game has so much context. P.S. Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[Anonymous No.8411921]

How come Squaresoft couldn't make an ATB RPG as good as Hychad Heaven?

[Anonymous No.8411968]

>>8411921
They did? It's called Parasite Eve.

[Anonymous No.8411975]

>>8411921
Pretty sure I've seen this sentiment 3 times here very recently. Please don't tell me we have yet another new autist that will spam this incessantly.

[Anonymous No.8412040]

>>8411862
That's totally true. I actually played the JP version of PE2 before PE1. You don't even have to know English or Japanese to play that game, everything is kinda pantomimed and explained visually. They didn't need to say 1 word in that game, it's so bizarre.

[Anonymous No.8412050]

>>8411862
I played 2 before 1 because it never came out in Europe. It explains the backstory anyway.

[Anonymous No.8412058]

>>8411968
>Parasite Eve
Game sucks, brah. You can't even suplex guys in that game.

[Anonymous No.8412063]

>>8411862
I never thought in my life I'd ever hear that some douche want to play pe2 over 1

[Anonymous No.8412083]

>>8411862
There is very little crossover between the two games. You don't need to play PE1 in order to understand and enjoy PE2. However, I still really enjoy PE1, so it may be worth a playthrough if you liked the second game.

[Anonymous No.8412160]

>>8411862
Why not watch a play through of the first game if you wanna know the plot but don't wanna play the game

[Anonymous No.8412171]

was it MG who initially translated Umineko? or was there a fantl?

[Anonymous No.8412174]

>>8412171
immediately answered my own question.

[Anonymous No.8412184]

You have to read the book too if you want to fully experience the Parasite Eve Cinematic Universe.

[Anonymous No.8412673]

>>8411862
They tell you most of everything you need to know in the intro but it's better to know the story of 1 yeah

but skip 1, just go straight to 2. 1 sucks. Also PE2 was released in europe but not PE1 so you won't be the first one to jump straight into the good one.

[Anonymous No.8412680]

>>8412673
is that a ff7 reference?

[Anonymous No.8412691]

>>8412680
FF8. It's the gunblade, and the pose is Squall's victory pose.

[Anonymous No.8412696]

>>8412058
>muh wrastling
Aya doesn't need it

[Anonymous No.8412705]

>>8411862
PE1 and PE2 have unrelated plots. Aya and name-dropping mitochondria are pretty much the only connections.
That said, while PE2 isn't a bad game, PE1 is the only truly interesting experience. Neither is genuinely good in any sense of the word, but PE1 is artsy and experimental (to say nothing of the Yoko Shimomura soundtrack), whereas PE2 is generic late PS1 action/horror stuff.

This is what PE1 feels like. Just listen to this track. NYC. Christmas eve. It's a snowy night. An infested precinct. A burned down opera house. Central park teeming with monsters. A hospital where an ancient parasite reawakened after millions of years of being just another cell in mammalian bodies. Nothing of the sort in PE2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrCDrSS2LD4

[Anonymous No.8412712]

>>8412184
lewd

[Anonymous No.8412764]

>>8412184
>slime girl rape
Well then

[Anonymous No.8412769]

>>8411862
Missing out on the masterpiece that is PE1 because hes a re fan.....

What a fag

[Anonymous No.8412817]

They're both incredible.

[Anonymous No.8412832]

>>8412764
Yes, written by a woman and published as a mainstream novel.

[Anonymous No.8412847]

>>8412058
Holy shit what an unsafe worker that son of a bitch just dropped him right on his head he sure as hell deserved a receipt for that, fucking mudshow outlaw shit try to do shit they don't know how to do because they want to pop the crowd and they don't have the skills to do it without doing a bunch of flips and dropping each other on their head, as soon as this motherfucker walked through the curtain I would have fired his ass.

[Anonymous No.8412848]

>>8412832
Hideaki is a man...
>>8411862
Literally nobody cares about the story of RE besides the biggest of incels and troons. It's also not necessary at all for Parasite Eve.

[Anonymous No.8412852]

>>8412673
Lookin' good... what piece of shit was this emulated on to get that bad of an image?

[Anonymous No.8412859]

>>8411862
PE1 is far superior to PE2 because it's an interesting hybrid of survival horror and JRPG that works. PE2 is just an average survival horror with minor JRPG mechanics tossed in.

[Anonymous No.8412980]

>>8412705

There was just a glimpse of a soul at Akropolis Tower, unfortunately it never comes back

[Anonymous No.8412997]

>>8412848
>Hideaki is a man...
Are you sure? Wasn't the novel written by a lady?

[Anonymous No.8413002]

>>8412160
Wanting a "plot" of a PS1 game but without the game is just bizarre.

[Anonymous No.8413019]

>>8412997
Yeah, his last name Sena can be a girl's name if it's the first name, maybe that's where the confusion comes from?
瀬名秀明

[Anonymous No.8413028]

>>8413019
You're right, he really is a man without question. I think I've got the wrong gender from some 90s gaming magazine and seems like I've never bothered to check.

[Anonymous No.8413072]

>>8412859
>survival horror
There is literally not a single aspect of PE1 which can be considered survival horror.

[Anonymous No.8413078]

>>8413072
PE1 shares item and resource management with survival horror and aesthetics and presentation were, of course, clearly reminiscent of Resident Evil to anyone back in 1998, Squaresoft employees included.

[Anonymous No.8413091]

>>8413078
>PE1 shares item and resource management with survival horror
I disagree. Ammo is irrelevant shortly after the first encounter with Eve, and the need to properly manage items mitigated through the use of magic. The limited inventory space almost creates a sense of resource management, but generally you just stock as many heals as you can get in your inventory for the last boss. It's a stretch to try to compare it to survival horror.

Presentation and aesthetic feels more jrpgand scifi than anything survival horror.

[Anonymous No.8413094]

>>8413091
Sure, it's not at all a survival horror game, but it has elements of the genre everywhere as well as its typical trappings from the era. It is very much reminiscent of survival horror and not just superficially. I'd go as far as saying that if Silent Hill is survival horror (what with its utter lack of inventory management and superficial resource management), then so is PE1.

[Anonymous No.8413190]

>>8412673

> but skip 1, just go straight to 2. 1 sucks.
What a fucking pleb.

[Anonymous No.8413248]

>>8412673
>but skip 1, just go straight to 2. 1 sucks.
based. PE2 is what PE1 should've been originally, gameplay-wise.

[Anonymous No.8413317]

>>8412705
Parasite Eve 2 is superior in every way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXKs-Jxj7PI&list=PL73256473334F2CF6&index=2

[Anonymous No.8413349]

>>8413317
Except music, pacing, story, atmosphere, customization, characters and probably a few more lol. I like both almost equally, but I'm tired of braindead retards thinking PE2 is superior.

[Anonymous No.8413582]

>>8412852
it's just how the game looks originally, adding shit filters on top of it won't change that fact. You're using the lookin' good meme completely wrong.

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>>8413091
You never took many heals with you before a boss in resident evil ? I must have been playing wrong.

[Anonymous No.8414345]

I love PE1 but damn if it doesn't have some serious issues. Screen transitions take ages, Aya runs at an excruciatingly slow pace, and some doors require almost pixel perfect positioning to open while others suck you in from 10 feet away. There's also a ton of items hidden in ways that you will literally never find without a guide. It's still a fun little ride though and the NYC at Christmas time setting is unique and comfy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.8414762]

>>8413582
No... it doesn't look like that.

[Anonymous No.8414959]

I'd really love to see a modern PE that has a simple system of interchangeable model parts to visually reflect the grenade firing shotgun SMGs and other abominations you can put together.

[Anonymous No.8415197]

>those pe2 webms
Based PE2 poster. I spent years replaying Parasite Eve 2 from a fresh savegame, so much so that I fucking seethed for ages after learning how awesome the extra modes actually are. Replay value goes up the roof with them, it's just too bad they didn't think of shuffling weapon availability like they did with enemy appearances so you can have early drops of weapons that feel useless from the time they show up on normal game.
Extra modes are also pretty cool in the way it basically forces you to find strategies you wouldn't otherwise see during normal mode. Combat Light and Pepper Spray are surprisingly based but people doing only normal runs may never know.

[Anonymous No.8415246]

>>8411862
The first PE game is a sequel itself, to the book. I watched the live action movie, trippy shit.

[Anonymous No.8415295]

There's some neat unused dialogue text in PE1. Some of it indicates there was going to be an energy barrier around Central Park and you'd actually rescue Ben from the amphitheater and send him through a gap in the barrier while you distracted Eve.

[Anonymous No.8415487]

>>8415197
you haven't played PE2 if you haven't played Bounty and Nightmare

Scavenger is kinda ass though

[Anonymous No.8415494]

>>8413317
Yeah, just like Mizuta is "superior" to Yoko Shimomura, as evidenced from your video where his shitty remake of her track is nonetheless the best track he's managed to come up with.

[Anonymous No.8415496]

>>8415494
The PE2 version is miles better

[Anonymous No.8415520]

>>8415496
If that's how you feel, then I guess that, for you, PS2 really is better.

[Anonymous No.8415541]

>>8414959
Resonance of Fate, you build any gun you want.

[Anonymous No.8415543]

>>8415246
It's also using some of the ideas for the original FF7 that Nomura and Sakaguchi came up with

[Anonymous No.8415629]

>>8411862
Just read the book it'll probably take less time

[Anonymous No.8418167]

>>8415295
It's weird how they kinda downplay what happens in Central Park, so I wouldn't be surprised if that went through some changes. A whole audience got melted into slime and no one, even Aya who sees it happen right in front of her, really seems to be freaked out by that.

[Anonymous No.8418413]

>>8415629
The first game is a sequel to the book,idiot.