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Post by [TPZ] Cereal Killer on Feb 20, 2015 13:53:47 GMT
So as some of you may or may not know, I'm a HUGE fan of the Biohazard/Resident Evil series, so much so that i have gotten all my games from Japan as you can see here:
Biohazard Collection: steamcommunity.com/id/Paddles01/screenshots/?appid=sc_360656&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
Now i just wanted to start a discussion about this & maybe find out some other people who are interested in the series as much as i am.
First off i want to say that i absolutely adore the crap out of the first 3 games, I think they're almost unbeatable by any other game so far due to how perfect they were back in the day. This series however has fell on some really hard times lately and it's sad to see it going from this fantastic franchise into this run down piece of garbage that i no longer respect.
I'm going to give you my list of favourites from the series from the one i most love to the one i hate the most:
Ok so that's my list so far, now let me run through each of them and give you my input on how i feel about it and why i love it/dislike it so much.
Biohazard 2:
Biohazard 2 is the sequal & successor of the very first Biohazard released in 1998 for the Sony Playstation Entertainment System. It's easily the BEST of the series due to how solid the gameplay & how damn good it progresses the story from the first game, it not only outright blows Biohazard out of the water in story & gameplay but also in graphics, sound quality & atmosphere by turning the dial from 10 - 20.
I could rant about this game all day and tell you how to finish each of Claire & Leon's scenario A & B due to how much i played and still play this game to the day, but i won't. I'll simply say that everything Biohazard tried to accomplish and succeeded, Biohazard 2 did better and succeeded even hard bringing new enemies, weapons, characters & progressing the story further.
Biohazard HD Remaster:
Biohazard HD Remaster is the Remastered release of the GameCube remake of the original Biohazard game, what this game does is COMPLETELY rebuilt the game from the ground up and not only kept the original story line but expanded upon it to fit in with the games that followed after it, by bringing in references to future B.O.W purchasers & Umbrella executives, this game revamped everything that Biohazard 1 accomplished and then expanded upon it by giving it a much needed graphical overhaul and a HUGELY revamped map to make it feel like a completely new story only in a very familiar place.
This game blew my socks off the first time i played it and i still absolutely love it today, just not nearly as much as i love Biohazard 2.
Biohazard 3: Last Escape:
Biohazard 3: Last Escape stars Jill Valentine again from Biohazard 1 only this time instead of being stuck in a mansion she has to escape from Raccoon City. This game starts off only hours after the Arklay Mountain incident just outside of Raccoon City & ends moments after Biohazard 2's story ended, just before Raccoon City is carpet bombed and wiped off the map.
This game not only completely kicked ass due to the multiple paths you could take but it stared a big ass baddy that followed you everywhere and tended to attack you at random without warning, featuring Nemisis, the G-Virus B.O.W that Umbrella was working on as a biological soldier, out to destroy any and all S.T.A.R.S members left in Raccoon City.
This game wasn't scared to try taking a new direction in Survival Horror & it really did succeed, it brought multiple paths & alternate endings to the plate & it did it with style.
Biohazard: Code Veronica:
This was and still is one of the last games to star Claire Redfield as the lead character from Biohazard 2 she made her way onto an island in search of her lost brother Chris Redfield and has stumbled upon another tale of horror, the Ashford family's prison where they released B.O.W strand of the T-Virus and infected everyone on the island.
The game doesn't really bring much to the table in forms of new and improved things, it does however hold a special place in my heart as one of the very last Biohazards to actually mean anything to me due to not long after it's release the dreaded Biohazard 4 came to ruin the series for good.
Biohazard:
The very first game that ever came out in 1996 Biohazard was Capcoms first entry into the survival horror genre, it's one of the games that revolutionized what the Survival Horror genre is and plays a large role in what they are to this very day, tight corridors, slow shambling zombies, limited ammo against strong enemies & limited health supplies.
Very rarely does a game that consists of zombies force you to make quick decisions & conserve ammo & health supplies like Biohazard did back in the day, these days games seemed to have forgotten this & it's slowly becoming a thing of the passed. Now it's just mindless run & gun shooting zombies down as you go and not every feeling that "Oh shit no ammo" moment you did when you first played a Biohazard game.
Not only that but Biohazard gave new meaning to the back tracking mechanic that so many games fail to get right these days, the fact that you had to back track in it got a bit frustrating sure but at the same time you never really knew what to expect, that room you not more than 5 minutes ago came out of that you cleared of zombies has now becomes infested with the undead again.
Biohazard Outbreak: File 1 & 2:
These games weren't fantastic by any means, but what they were was innovative. These games brought to the table Survival Horror online, you had multiple scenarios to play with up to 4 people online, the story wasn't really solid as it was a spin-off game and really focused more on the team play than the story.
If you took too long to complete the scenario you died from the Virus which started growing inside you after about 5 minutes of gameplay or taking your first hit of damage anytime before that, you also got a bit more infected each time you took damage & if you got downed by an enemy you'd better damn well hope a friend is close by to pick you up, if not you become a virus magnet and gain the disease even faster.
It really made you rethink what you thought was teamplay and it revamped it to 11 by forcing you & the 3 other survivors to work together. I am really bummed i never got to play this online with others & now sadly the online service has gone down.
Now we're delving into the shit, bottom of the barrel time now.
Biohazard 4:
Although Biohazard 4 is NOWHERE near as shit as the rest of the games at this point in the list, i have a HUGE sour part in my heart for this game as it was the decent into the "Shooter" genre that this series has taken.
This was the last Biohazard to be directed by Shinji Makami and with good reason, he saw what Capcom was doing and he wanted out before his series really went belly up, sad to say that i got some enjoyment from this game but at the same time it's just got nothing that made the other games in the series special.
The story was ok, the gameplay was ok, the shop guy was a cool feature and the upgrading of weapons and stuff was fantastic, other than that this game became a shooter and nothing more than that. This game offered everything else at a very subpar level, first starting with escorting a very annoying NPC who couldn't protect herself & spent more time screaming LEON than actually fucking doing anything.
As much as i hate this game for ruining the franchise, it's not nearly as bad as the games to follow.
Biohazard: Operation Raccoon City:
A cool concept no-doubt, returning to the infested streets of Raccoon City in the shoes of the Umbrella Corporations cleanup crew? Sign me up, however the story was near non-existent & the gameplay was just a pathetic shooter with very little in the way of "fun". The selling point was when this game said it was set in the same time frame as the events of Biohazard 2, everybody said "This is the Biohazard 2 remake we've been waiting for" and rushed out to buy it, we were sadly mistaken & paid the price for that.
Granted this game was not designed by the same people that make the rest of the series it was made by a 3rd party development team, it's understandable they'd make a few mistakes & they did, which is why i'm not going to tear it to shreads like the rest of the games to come. This game is far from terrible but it's very close between shit and terrible.
This game claimed to be "The return to Survival Horror" that everyone that loved this series wanted, it in the end was just a fantastic way for Capcom to scam money off it's loyal fan base and give us another reason to hate them.
Biohazard 6:
Here we go another one of Capcoms clever "Oh look we know how to make good Survival Horror games, trust us" They claimed to be making another return to Survival Horror with this title, and you know what, they kinda did in a very bad way.
Leon's campaign was the ONLY campaign to have the T-Virus present, but it was also fucking shit and could not save the game & franchise from falling even further from grace, instead of focusing on more survival & horror elements this game tried to throw both "Survival & Horror & Shooter" all into 1 big package by giving you a Survival Horror Shooter where you still had more health & bullets than you should in a game all about Survival.
OVERUSED Quick Time events and a poor story (with some very nice crossovers from each character applause there but that's it.) Each characters story interwove with the other characters story that was a good idea and did work pretty well. However there's just no saving a falling angel when they've fallen too far from grace.
Biohazard 5:
Words cannot describe my hate for this game, this game defied EVERYTHING that made Biohazard/Resident Evil a great game, it changed it from a Survival Horror into a filthy 3rd Person Shooter, you had an over abundance of ammo & health supplies, you could "upgrade" your health & you could carry a whole army's worth of equipment on your person at any 1 time.
This game took everything that made Biohazard good and threw it out the door to pave the way into the shooting genre this game has so graciously decided to follow & ruined all future titles for me. Sorry but i cannot say anything good about this game.
Poor Story, Poor Gameplay, Poor Character Development & stupid Team AI that just makes you wish you'd never touched it.
Biohazard Revelations:
I came into this game with high hopes, due to all the rave about this being the "Return to Survival Horror" for the franchise, and you know what i can see they tried but fuck me they failed, just as hard as they failed in Biohazard 6.
I got this game 2 days ago or so & i'm finding it a chore to play more than 10 minutes of it at a time without just rolling my eyes and trying to imagine that i am playing a Biohazard/Resident Evil game. It's such a poor excuse and i cannot figure out why it's got the praise that it has when it's clearly trying to be "Scary" yet it's still got too much ammo in the damn game to make it a "Survival" experience let alone a "Horror" experience.
And my rant is done, please let me know what you think of the series. What's your favourite games from the franchise & why? Do you think that Capcom should just give up now while they're ahead? Or should they continue making this franchise a dying horse?
Biohazard Collection: steamcommunity.com/id/Paddles01/screenshots/?appid=sc_360656&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
Now i just wanted to start a discussion about this & maybe find out some other people who are interested in the series as much as i am.
First off i want to say that i absolutely adore the crap out of the first 3 games, I think they're almost unbeatable by any other game so far due to how perfect they were back in the day. This series however has fell on some really hard times lately and it's sad to see it going from this fantastic franchise into this run down piece of garbage that i no longer respect.
I'm going to give you my list of favourites from the series from the one i most love to the one i hate the most:
- Biohazard 2
- Biohazard HD Remaster
- Biohazard 3: Last Escape
- Biohazard Code Veronica
- Biohazard
- Biohazard Outbreak File 1
- Biohazard Outbreak File 2
- Biohazard 4
- Biohazard Operation Raccoon City
- Biohazard 6
- Biohazard 5
- Biohazard: Revelations
Ok so that's my list so far, now let me run through each of them and give you my input on how i feel about it and why i love it/dislike it so much.
Biohazard 2:
Biohazard 2 is the sequal & successor of the very first Biohazard released in 1998 for the Sony Playstation Entertainment System. It's easily the BEST of the series due to how solid the gameplay & how damn good it progresses the story from the first game, it not only outright blows Biohazard out of the water in story & gameplay but also in graphics, sound quality & atmosphere by turning the dial from 10 - 20.
I could rant about this game all day and tell you how to finish each of Claire & Leon's scenario A & B due to how much i played and still play this game to the day, but i won't. I'll simply say that everything Biohazard tried to accomplish and succeeded, Biohazard 2 did better and succeeded even hard bringing new enemies, weapons, characters & progressing the story further.
Biohazard HD Remaster:
Biohazard HD Remaster is the Remastered release of the GameCube remake of the original Biohazard game, what this game does is COMPLETELY rebuilt the game from the ground up and not only kept the original story line but expanded upon it to fit in with the games that followed after it, by bringing in references to future B.O.W purchasers & Umbrella executives, this game revamped everything that Biohazard 1 accomplished and then expanded upon it by giving it a much needed graphical overhaul and a HUGELY revamped map to make it feel like a completely new story only in a very familiar place.
This game blew my socks off the first time i played it and i still absolutely love it today, just not nearly as much as i love Biohazard 2.
Biohazard 3: Last Escape:
Biohazard 3: Last Escape stars Jill Valentine again from Biohazard 1 only this time instead of being stuck in a mansion she has to escape from Raccoon City. This game starts off only hours after the Arklay Mountain incident just outside of Raccoon City & ends moments after Biohazard 2's story ended, just before Raccoon City is carpet bombed and wiped off the map.
This game not only completely kicked ass due to the multiple paths you could take but it stared a big ass baddy that followed you everywhere and tended to attack you at random without warning, featuring Nemisis, the G-Virus B.O.W that Umbrella was working on as a biological soldier, out to destroy any and all S.T.A.R.S members left in Raccoon City.
This game wasn't scared to try taking a new direction in Survival Horror & it really did succeed, it brought multiple paths & alternate endings to the plate & it did it with style.
Biohazard: Code Veronica:
This was and still is one of the last games to star Claire Redfield as the lead character from Biohazard 2 she made her way onto an island in search of her lost brother Chris Redfield and has stumbled upon another tale of horror, the Ashford family's prison where they released B.O.W strand of the T-Virus and infected everyone on the island.
The game doesn't really bring much to the table in forms of new and improved things, it does however hold a special place in my heart as one of the very last Biohazards to actually mean anything to me due to not long after it's release the dreaded Biohazard 4 came to ruin the series for good.
Biohazard:
The very first game that ever came out in 1996 Biohazard was Capcoms first entry into the survival horror genre, it's one of the games that revolutionized what the Survival Horror genre is and plays a large role in what they are to this very day, tight corridors, slow shambling zombies, limited ammo against strong enemies & limited health supplies.
Very rarely does a game that consists of zombies force you to make quick decisions & conserve ammo & health supplies like Biohazard did back in the day, these days games seemed to have forgotten this & it's slowly becoming a thing of the passed. Now it's just mindless run & gun shooting zombies down as you go and not every feeling that "Oh shit no ammo" moment you did when you first played a Biohazard game.
Not only that but Biohazard gave new meaning to the back tracking mechanic that so many games fail to get right these days, the fact that you had to back track in it got a bit frustrating sure but at the same time you never really knew what to expect, that room you not more than 5 minutes ago came out of that you cleared of zombies has now becomes infested with the undead again.
Biohazard Outbreak: File 1 & 2:
These games weren't fantastic by any means, but what they were was innovative. These games brought to the table Survival Horror online, you had multiple scenarios to play with up to 4 people online, the story wasn't really solid as it was a spin-off game and really focused more on the team play than the story.
If you took too long to complete the scenario you died from the Virus which started growing inside you after about 5 minutes of gameplay or taking your first hit of damage anytime before that, you also got a bit more infected each time you took damage & if you got downed by an enemy you'd better damn well hope a friend is close by to pick you up, if not you become a virus magnet and gain the disease even faster.
It really made you rethink what you thought was teamplay and it revamped it to 11 by forcing you & the 3 other survivors to work together. I am really bummed i never got to play this online with others & now sadly the online service has gone down.
Now we're delving into the shit, bottom of the barrel time now.
Biohazard 4:
Although Biohazard 4 is NOWHERE near as shit as the rest of the games at this point in the list, i have a HUGE sour part in my heart for this game as it was the decent into the "Shooter" genre that this series has taken.
This was the last Biohazard to be directed by Shinji Makami and with good reason, he saw what Capcom was doing and he wanted out before his series really went belly up, sad to say that i got some enjoyment from this game but at the same time it's just got nothing that made the other games in the series special.
The story was ok, the gameplay was ok, the shop guy was a cool feature and the upgrading of weapons and stuff was fantastic, other than that this game became a shooter and nothing more than that. This game offered everything else at a very subpar level, first starting with escorting a very annoying NPC who couldn't protect herself & spent more time screaming LEON than actually fucking doing anything.
As much as i hate this game for ruining the franchise, it's not nearly as bad as the games to follow.
Biohazard: Operation Raccoon City:
A cool concept no-doubt, returning to the infested streets of Raccoon City in the shoes of the Umbrella Corporations cleanup crew? Sign me up, however the story was near non-existent & the gameplay was just a pathetic shooter with very little in the way of "fun". The selling point was when this game said it was set in the same time frame as the events of Biohazard 2, everybody said "This is the Biohazard 2 remake we've been waiting for" and rushed out to buy it, we were sadly mistaken & paid the price for that.
Granted this game was not designed by the same people that make the rest of the series it was made by a 3rd party development team, it's understandable they'd make a few mistakes & they did, which is why i'm not going to tear it to shreads like the rest of the games to come. This game is far from terrible but it's very close between shit and terrible.
This game claimed to be "The return to Survival Horror" that everyone that loved this series wanted, it in the end was just a fantastic way for Capcom to scam money off it's loyal fan base and give us another reason to hate them.
Biohazard 6:
Here we go another one of Capcoms clever "Oh look we know how to make good Survival Horror games, trust us" They claimed to be making another return to Survival Horror with this title, and you know what, they kinda did in a very bad way.
Leon's campaign was the ONLY campaign to have the T-Virus present, but it was also fucking shit and could not save the game & franchise from falling even further from grace, instead of focusing on more survival & horror elements this game tried to throw both "Survival & Horror & Shooter" all into 1 big package by giving you a Survival Horror Shooter where you still had more health & bullets than you should in a game all about Survival.
OVERUSED Quick Time events and a poor story (with some very nice crossovers from each character applause there but that's it.) Each characters story interwove with the other characters story that was a good idea and did work pretty well. However there's just no saving a falling angel when they've fallen too far from grace.
Biohazard 5:
Words cannot describe my hate for this game, this game defied EVERYTHING that made Biohazard/Resident Evil a great game, it changed it from a Survival Horror into a filthy 3rd Person Shooter, you had an over abundance of ammo & health supplies, you could "upgrade" your health & you could carry a whole army's worth of equipment on your person at any 1 time.
This game took everything that made Biohazard good and threw it out the door to pave the way into the shooting genre this game has so graciously decided to follow & ruined all future titles for me. Sorry but i cannot say anything good about this game.
Poor Story, Poor Gameplay, Poor Character Development & stupid Team AI that just makes you wish you'd never touched it.
Biohazard Revelations:
I came into this game with high hopes, due to all the rave about this being the "Return to Survival Horror" for the franchise, and you know what i can see they tried but fuck me they failed, just as hard as they failed in Biohazard 6.
I got this game 2 days ago or so & i'm finding it a chore to play more than 10 minutes of it at a time without just rolling my eyes and trying to imagine that i am playing a Biohazard/Resident Evil game. It's such a poor excuse and i cannot figure out why it's got the praise that it has when it's clearly trying to be "Scary" yet it's still got too much ammo in the damn game to make it a "Survival" experience let alone a "Horror" experience.
And my rant is done, please let me know what you think of the series. What's your favourite games from the franchise & why? Do you think that Capcom should just give up now while they're ahead? Or should they continue making this franchise a dying horse?
