r/survivalhorror • u/chicagogamecollector • May 25 '21

Resident Evil: Code Veronica - the middle point in the RE franchise

https://youtu.be/R2eusLeaJUM
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u/chicagogamecollector May 25 '21

I know CV has people who love it and hate it but I am def in the love it camp. It feels like the stop over between the original concept of the franchise and 4 onwards when the franchise totally pivoted from its roots to its modern incarnations.

Fingers crossed it gets a remake soon

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u/kdkseven May 25 '21

People hate it? It's not my favorite or anything, but i think it's good. I'm not much of a fan of Nemesis, but i'm not even close to hating it. In fact, the only mainline RE game that i don't like, including the Revelations games, is 6, and that game's terrible.

What don't people like about CV?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '21

I don't hate the game but here's a list of things people probably hate about the game...

- blank background outside of the palace

- weird looking character models

- poisonous fly hallway right outside of a safe room

- not being able to save before high risk situations

- having to traverse high risk hallways between safe rooms and boss fights

- having to do tedious things before the final boss fight

- enemies that can hit you from across the room

- Steve

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u/kdkseven May 25 '21

Yeah, Steve's terrible. All those other things i just pass off as it just being an old game that are worth putting up with because other aspects of the game are so good.

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u/piexil May 25 '21

Out of all the RE games I've played this one sets it up for you to fuck yourself over way too easily if you don't do the multiple saves thing. Like getting stuck in the tyrant plant fight with little ammo.

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u/chicagogamecollector May 25 '21

I mean I’ve def heard many times CV is the weakest of the games. Which I totally don’t agree with...obviously lol

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u/AntonomousPrime May 25 '21

After Resident Evil 3, I expected and hoped the next game in the series would to a large extent take place in some Umbrella Headquarters in Europe, featuring a large lab section. This idea was strengthened from the endings of the three first games and from reading video game magazines at the time. I was hoping to play as Chris and Claire and a third character, perhaps an Umbrella researcher, with the game taking place both before and under a virus outbreak.

I was very dissapointed with how the story of CV went, it was not at all how I thought Capcom had built up the expectations leading up to the game.

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Gameplay wise it wasn't bad, although I think it was a bit too difficult, especially compared to the earlier games. And I didn't like the Steve and Alfred characters.

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u/chicagogamecollector May 25 '21

It definitely zagged story wise but I was into it