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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2082 Joined: 12 May 2008    | THEY AREN'T ZOMBIES GOD DAMMIT! I'm sorry, but it pisses me off when they think that these people are Zombies because it fuels some stupid arguments. "If dey diz zombez, why canz dey use de torches and de shit dike dat?" They are normal, intelligent humans, only the plagas destroyed their personality. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2099 Joined: 14 Sep 2007    |
It's much easier to beat the criminally stupid than to say that every time. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 660 Joined: 15 Jun 2008   | Well that was certainly odd. How are zombies operating motorcycles. Usually they can't even operate a doorknob. And wait, since when did the T-virus NOT turn people into zombies. I thought that was the whole basis of Resident Evil. |
BANNED Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008 |
Actually, the basis of RE is the G-Virus and the ensuing bioweapons race. The T-Virus is the common zombie juice, but that's not what everyone is after. Remember: G-Virus creates hideous mutations, T-Virus creates the common household zombie. User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2082 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
It isn't the T-Virus you T-Bag. Play resident evil 4. It's a form of parasite known as Las Plagas. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 77 Joined: 28 Jul 2008   | and already this thread as slipped off the topic... Focus, people! Or I'll call the guy with the modhammer, and make him go medevial on your asses! |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 642 Joined: 6 Mar 2008   | After watching each new trailer I've become increasingly sceptical. RE4 was a major disappointment and it looks as though RE5 will continue with the action vibe. I guess Gamespot, IGN & co. got what they wanted. Before you know it Parappa the Rapper will be starring in a third-person action game featuring the US military. Only Wesker can save it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1522 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 | Such a dissapointment it was all but everyones game of the year... Times change fanboys! |
Muckraker  Posts: 344 Joined: 7 Jan 2008 | Resident Evil Trailers are for me just a reminder that these games are definitly NOT played for the Story. RE4 was one of the few games where i felt like i should just skip the cutscenes, and RE5 looks like i probably will do that this time. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 464 Joined: 28 Aug 2008 | They've never topped Nemesis, for my money. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 20 Aug 2008  |
Agreed. How can a guy with sunglasses and cat eyes NOT save it? :D Also, isn't RE supposed to be about the Umbrella corp? Fanboys will probably slap me silly but shouldn't that be involved with RE5 somehow? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 166 Joined: 23 Jul 2008 | Good to see the continuing resident evil tradition of shoddy dialogue. i'll probably get this game anyway, just to see how it is for myself. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 365 Joined: 16 Aug 2008 | although i've only played RE0, ER5 seemed different in the atmosphere. one of the things i like about zero was that in a alot of places it was dark and the not-zombie-zombies or whatever they are jumped out at you and all you had was a pistol for protection which made some terrifying and very enjoyable times. its not that scary when you can mow them down in half a second, then they just become a minor inconvenience. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1275 Joined: 29 Dec 2007  |
Watching you is both funny and educational, like play scho- Nothing to see here folks. |
BANNED Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008 |
I always thought that Wesker was the most badass character in the entirety of gaming. I'm always so disappointed whenever I see him eliminated in the first round of every friggen GameFaqs character battle. User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 623 Joined: 10 Apr 2008 | I uh, Well the video looks pretty cool to me, the graphics are quite good. But yeah it looks quite generic. that said as some people might have picked up about me i'm 100% jaded, and don't expect this to be anything new or interesting. The only thing that might make it good is a fluke good story. And it looked like it didn't have an all-together crap story. So yeah we'll see. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 857 Joined: 27 Sep 2008 | I loved re4. But I didn't like the series until that point. So I'm thinkin RE5 will probably still be as good as I can hope for these days. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 660 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
Pardon me, I haven't played RE4. So get off my back. No one ever mentioned parasites and shit. You didn't have to be such an asshole about it. |
Paperboy  Posts: 43 Joined: 1 Jan 2008 | It's fun mentally ticking off 'things that were probably added since the Racism Allegations' I noticed in the first bit of the trailer someone says 'It's just like whatever-the-hell-went-on-in-the-previous-game!' which could be a semi-subtle 'Look, we weren't racist then, and we aren't doing anything different' shout. I'd love to have seen what the final product would have been like had they had no feedback. Coffee lady sure sprung out of nowhere (and isn't she just Lara Croft anyway?) Also, why is Chris so BIG? I mean, muscles and all that are part of the action-hero thing, but those arms are like gigantic hams. I'm sure he used to be skinny and ginger. |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 642 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
According to the original intro video he weighs 80kg (and is ginger). I guess he's spent a lot of time in the gym since then. Here's hoping for a QTE boxing match with Wesker. |
Paperboy Posts: 43 Joined: 1 Jan 2008 |
...must not write ResidentEvil slashfic...musn't! |
Muckraker Posts: 346 Joined: 2 Jan 2008 | Agreed, the game has definitely gone into a different direction since RE4. Not a bad direction at all, RE4 is one of the highest scored games of all times, but it's just not Resident Evil anymore ^^; Or another way to put it, it's just no Survival Horror anymore |
BANNED Posts: 530 Joined: 31 Jul 2008 |
Like the QTE knife fight with Krauser in RE4? I really hope that doesn't happen again. I'd much rather just watch the cinematic. User was banned for: Atheism is HILARIOUS!. (3 days) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 6463 Joined: 30 Jan 2008   | Screw the technical specs. Humans in Resistance were infected with a mutagenic virus, but they are still called Aliens, so if the virus gives them zombie-like traits, they are called Zombies. Simple. The word is not one defined by its origins, but its properties. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2943 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    |
I always thought that they were aliens anyway. I mean, how do you explain the giagantic mother-fucking space ships that float everywhere?!?! |
Copy Clerk Posts: 101 Joined: 15 Jul 2008 | I dont get it..seriously been a huge fan of this sereis since the very first one..and whatever...they're all fun games. They can't keep making the same thing over and over again. U know your gonna buy it anyway.. so just shut up and play. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 6463 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
They built em out of the material they found. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2943 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 |
Of course, because you could totaly build a giagantic-MOTHER-freakion-space ship that floats with anti-gravity and conversion chambers and strange weapons with different abbilities, WHILE finding spare parts in 1940s-50s United States and Englad. How could I possibly miss that?!?! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 6463 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
So you're saying that a race headed by beings with an IQ that is signifigantly off the charts is unlikely to be able to master this? Its more plausible than The Master building his space-fleet in Last of the Timelords. Talk to Root about that. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2943 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 |
I thought we were talking about how you thought the Aliens were humans only technically infected but they're still like aliens? Wait...okay i'm confused... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 6463 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
I said they are infected humans, but still behave in a manner typically ascribed to Aliens, and as such should be considered as such. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 126 Joined: 13 Jun 2008 | Im glad theres some more release info- ive got some stuff to look forward to now, but it all looks so similar to 4, i hoped we could go to some new places gameplay wise. I dont like the idea of having to look after a partner ALL game. Sorry, im a selfish git |
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Resident Evil 5 HD trailer (8/10/08)
Having been following the core RE franchise for as long as I can remember, the teasers for RE5 had me pretty excited. The details were scarce, the gameplay familiar, and the atmosphere seemed frightening again. Now there's a 'massive' over three minute long trailer on IGN (link at the top), and I can't help but feel betrayed.
I look at the trailer, and I'm most impressed with the character models above all else. The rest seems so... foreign (for an RE game) and generic (for a high octane action game). The action set pieces seem to be blown out of proportion, for example in the scene where Chris mows down "zombies" on motorbikes with a truck mounted gun in a high speed chase. Besides the return of Chris and Wesker and dropping Leon's name, RE as it was in the days before RE0 seems to be gone for good.
Maybe I'm reading into this too much and letting the fanboy part of me out more than is safe or reasonable. Of course I'll pick this game up, my main point is that what I was teased with over a year ago has literally been flipped upside down.
(this is the part where I ask what you, The Escapist community, think about how RE5 is shaping up)
edit - I put zombies in quotations because I know they may or may not be the listless flesh eaters from RE games past. Just wanted to clear that up in case the bout of semantics in the first few posts was a result my use of the word "zombies."