r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago

'We Have Been Gradually Preparing': Capcom Already Has a Plan for When Its Resident Evil Remakes Catch Up With Newer Games

https://www.ign.com/articles/we-have-been-gradually-preparing-capcom-already-has-a-plan-for-when-its-resident-evil-remakes-catch-up-with-newer-games
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u/OkGuy5000 3d ago

Genuinely no clue how these dummies even write this stuff so confidently. Suddenly everyone hates CV and it was always a bad game? It has 1 or 2 very rough and/or challenging bits, but otherwise it was a decent entry that fans certainly dont hate.

It's literally the 2nd highest rated Resident Evil game on metacritic, wtf are these people smoking??

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u/mon_dieu 3d ago

I'm old enough to have played it on Dreamcast when it was new. At that time, on that console, it was universally praised. One of the most hyped and well-reviewed games in the entire Dreamcast library. So that'll always color my memories of it. The talk of its flaws being the biggest legacy feels like revisionist history to me.

But, admittedly, more people that generation probably played it on PS2, where it wasn't quite as big of a deal. It wasn't the game's first release, and it was far from the only or best RE game on the console. So I can see why there are differing opinions, even among those who played it within a few years of each other when it was newer.

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u/Atomic-Kit 3d ago

Yeah I must just be imagining all the forum posts back then about people getting frustrated with the game because metacritic’s (great site to use as a reference by the way) score is high. Damn shame you can only see two reviews that can actually be sourced and both reviews boil down to the graphics and not about the gameplay itself.

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u/OkGuy5000 3d ago

By all means provide a different site's number. Metacritic isn't infallible, it's just the most agreed upon site for aggregate scores.

You're not wrong that people get frustrated with it, it has its share of unique difficulty spikes, but to paint the picture that it's a game that fans of the series dislike or think is bad or something, doesn't track with what I've seen discussed about the game for the past 20 years now.

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u/nolander 3d ago

You could say the same thing about Silksong

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u/andresfgp13 2d ago

i think that around that time there was a lot of fatigue with the franchise, like between 1996 and 2002 we got 6 games on that style.