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 NO SPOILERS.THIS GAME IS SUPER GORY, DON'T WATCH IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO THAT.  Leon S. Kennedy is back, following his short stint as a cop in Raccoon City during the zombie infestation of 1998! In the years since, Leon has been recruited into the US Secret Service, undergoing rigorous training as an elite agent that answers directly to the President of the United States. Leon's latest mission? Rescue the kidnapped daughter of the President, who was last spotted in 2005's 4 Resident Evil is quite possibly the most influential title in Capcom's Resident Evil franchise. The game not only revitalized a series that was looking like it was on its way out, it also reinvented itself as a straight action-horror title, providing some of the tightest third-person shooter gameplay ever released up to that point. RE4 more or less wrote the book on modern third-person shooter gameplay, providing a solid foundation that is still rock solid, even today. Despite being almost 20 years old at the time of this writing, the gameplay is still so good that for years, the very idea that 4 Resident Evil would get a remake was a very divisive topic. And then it happened. Rebuilt from the ground up in the RE Engine, Resident Evil 4 is a modernization of the original title that updates the game for more modern sensibilities. Capcom's RE team has never been one to just throw on a fresh coat of paint and call it a day when it comes to their remakes, however, so they've remixed the content quite a bit so returning players can't just coast on their knowledge of the original game.  This will be an informative LP where I show off whether or not Leon S. Kennedy is a bad enough dude to rescue the president's daughter. We will primarily be looking at the Remake for this LP, with some supplemental footage from the Switch port of the original game where appropriate. For this trip through rural Europe, I am joined by liquidypoo and theenglishman. Updates should be twice a week, but no promises. Just like the other Resident Evil games made in the RE Engine, this game is incredibly gruesome and isn’t afraid to remind you of that! If you’re sensitive to extreme blood and gore, it might be best not to watch the videos, maybe just listen to them in the background. This also bears repeating, NO SPOILERS. The original game may be an all time classic, but it was also almost two decades ago so please respect that some people may be coming into this game with a fresh perspective! Main Campaign Chapter 01     Chapter 02   Chapter 03    Chapter 04     Chapter 05   Chapter 06   Chapter 07     Chapter 08     Chapter 09     Chapter 10     Chapter 11     Chapter 12   Chapter 13      Chapter 14         Chapter 15     Chapter 16   Separate Ways Chapter 01   Chapter 02     Chapter 03     Chapter 04     Chapter 05     Chapter 06     Chapter 07     The Mercenaries  
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Fan Stuff CzarChasm's got a stash of some local delicacies. CzarChasm posted:
ChaosArgate fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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I was wondering how long it would be until you lot got to this game. I'm excited I vaguely recall something about how Capcom turned up the horny for the remake, or am I making that up? e: Was Leon so Platinum in either the original RE4 or the 2 remake Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 10, 2023 23:43
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I'm gonna say that it's the lighting doing something weird to Leon's hair. It'll probably start to look more normal as we lose daylight in-game You'd think I'd remember, being one of the three dinguses in the videos, but, uhhh
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Jul 11, 2023 01:52
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I will say though, Leon's hair looks a lot more brown in your avatar, liquidy. 
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Jul 11, 2023 01:54
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I love how this game uses the old Spanish peseta as currency and pretends that, say, 1000 pesetas is not an insignificant amount. In reality the peseta had been phased out for the euro from 1999 to 2002 and was worth roughly 200 Pts per $1 US. The effect on the narrative is that Leon is just constantly rifling through the pockets of Spanish peasants for their spare change, and he can only spend it out here because any place that isn't the backwoods will laugh at him.
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Jul 11, 2023 02:06
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Oh sweet, I played through the game three times in a row and watched an LP of it and I'm ready for more, it's just that good! NGDBSS posted:I love how this game uses the old Spanish peseta as currency and pretends that, say, 1000 pesetas is not an insignificant amount. In reality the peseta had been phased out for the euro from 1999 to 2002 and was worth roughly 200 Pts per $1 US. The effect on the narrative is that Leon is just constantly rifling through the pockets of Spanish peasants for their spare change, and he can only spend it out here because any place that isn't the backwoods will laugh at him. That's funny, it's been long enough that I forgot that was a real currency and assumed the gamedevs just made the name up to sound close to something real. Second biggest RE4 revelation after the moment I found out spinels exist in real life
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Jul 11, 2023 02:27
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh sweet, I played through the game three times in a row and watched an LP of it and I'm ready for more, it's just that good!
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Must...resist the urge... to quote Max0r incorrect summary of RE4...
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Jul 11, 2023 09:08
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Captain Hygiene posted:Oh sweet, I played through the game three times in a row and watched an LP of it and I'm ready for more, it's just that good! Well, in real life Spain switched from the peseta to the Euro in 2002, so it makes sense that a small, rural town like this would still be using the old currency even two years later. And maybe peseta sounds made-up because Mexico's currency is the peso. The currency in RE5 is real as well (₦, the Nigerian naira).
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Jul 11, 2023 13:17
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Leon's tips for proper phone usage: "Hey, I think I found the president's daughter." - good, good. Concise, informative, professional. "Attacked by a zombie" - unimportant, irrelevant. Better not bother anyone with.
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Jul 11, 2023 14:42
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Just wanted to point out the guy throwing the axe hits his friend who put down the bear trap in the back of the head. But he gets justice a few seconds later, when axe guy steps in the bear trap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teEFGLfHako&t=1660s I will never tire of enemies hurting each other. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 15:03
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just wanted to point out the guy throwing the axe hits his friend who put down the bear trap in the back of the head. That's incredible, I stared at the dude getting caught in a bear trap in editing because I couldn't believe I actually got footage of that but I didn't realize that the whole sequence of events was just ripped from Looney Tunes. 
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Jul 11, 2023 16:03
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just wanted to point out the guy throwing the axe hits his friend who put down the bear trap in the back of the head. A shame Leon ran off before they could go full three stooges. Sad.
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Jul 12, 2023 02:47
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I never heard that they were originally gonna leave out the bingo line! I can't even imagine the amount of internet outrage they would've gotten even if everything else about the game was the exact same, that just seems like a choice you don't want to make.
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I should probably source my info, huh? Here's Nick Apostolides responding to some comments on IGN about RE4, timestamped to his anecdote about the Bingo line. Mild spoilers abound with some of his responses in the rest of the video! https://youtu.be/eIcKsSC-EUQ?t=125
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I wondered about the cop at the beginning, if you could shoot torch guy. Not surprising.
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Yay, more ChaosArgate/RE goodness!
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Jul 13, 2023 23:21
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Ah sweet, OG RE4 stuff too. This'll be neat, I haven't gone back to it since the remake came out. For the record, I eventually took the coward's way out and decided that I could live with them sharing a dual spot for my favorite in the franchise. That's quite a compliment for the remake, it doesn't hit everything I like from the original, but it's so massively fun that it's also way up top. e: as much as I loved inventory tetris, I shamefully admit to using the autosort button too much now. Hats off to whoever got to design that algorithm, in their own way they're the greatest inventory tetriser who ever lived 🫡 Captain Hygiene fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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Jul 14, 2023 02:35
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Captain Hygiene posted:e: as much as I loved inventory tetris, I shamefully admit to using the autosort button too much now. Hats off to whoever got to design that algorithm, in their own way they're the greatest inventory tetriser who ever lived 🫡 YES THANK YOU SOMEONE AGREES WITH ME
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Jul 14, 2023 03:50
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I had decided on giving it a rest, but it seems I gotta ramp up the accusations of coward button usage to full force
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Jul 14, 2023 03:51
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This is an auto-sort-safe zone. 
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liquidypoo posted:I had decided on giving it a rest, but it seems I gotta ramp up the accusations of coward button usage to full force Douglas Adams posted:Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
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Jul 14, 2023 05:06
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Captain Hygiene posted:Ah sweet, OG RE4 stuff too. This'll be neat, I haven't gone back to it since the remake came out. For the record, I eventually took the coward's way out and decided that I could live with them sharing a dual spot for my favorite in the franchise. That's quite a compliment for the remake, it doesn't hit everything I like from the original, but it's so massively fun that it's also way up top. My take is that some of the stuff they were trying to add they did really well (the horror of that sacrifice in the opening for example) but in pursuing that they had to lose some of the silliness that was why I fell in love with the original. You still get some moments but in the original it felt like everyone was varying levels of in on the joke. It's kinda fascinating how some subtle differences in line reads can change a tone.
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Bruceski posted:My take is that some of the stuff they were trying to add they did really well (the horror of that sacrifice in the opening for example) but in pursuing that they had to lose some of the silliness that was why I fell in love with the original. You still get some moments but in the original it felt like everyone was varying levels of in on the joke. It's kinda fascinating how some subtle differences in line reads can change a tone. Yeah, that was one of my general criticisms. It's still very funny a lot of the time, but it does have an overall tone shift for the story, and it loses a lot of the silly charm in ditching most of the codec repartee with the villains. But at the same time, it's so drat fun to play that I can't be too harsh on it.
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I know he's carrying an axe, but since the boards are on top of the trapdoor my read on that guy has always been that he'd been nailing them down rather than trying to break in.
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Glad to hear this is going to be a suplex heavy playthrough.
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Bruceski posted:I know he's carrying an axe, but since the boards are on top of the trapdoor my read on that guy has always been that he'd been nailing them down rather than trying to break in. That was my read too. I mean what's the story otherwise? Luis jimmied the trapdoor shut, then tied himself up, then taped his mouth, then stuffed himself in a burlap sack? To avoid getting got?
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It's Peridot, Spinel, Sardonyz birthstones for August. I don't know why there are several. You just got a spider injection. Now your body will explode into spiders.
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I don't mind the auto sort, it's a useful button and a good addition. But, saying that, I didn't actually use it myself. It does a very good job at fitting everything in, but the way it mixes up all your items? It's like the button just jiggles the case around until everything settles to one side, no rhyme. reason or organization. That's how you end up overlooking critical supplies. I died twice cause auto sort messed up my organization, and I thought I was out of heals when I needed it.
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CzarChasm posted:That was my read too. I mean what's the story otherwise? Luis jimmied the trapdoor shut, then tied himself up, then taped his mouth, then stuffed himself in a burlap sack? To avoid getting got? The other read I see for it is he was sealed in there, but Big Guy is coming so they were getting access.
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The DLC map treasures are absolutely not there without it. I don't have it, I have looked directly at spots people with it have found stuff, nothing there. Also apparently the amount of max health added for a yellow herb depends on the healing items it's mixed with (GY<GGY<GRY) but the difference is tiny so I don't know why they bothered.
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Jul 17, 2023 23:31
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There is so much hatred towards hats in these remakes.
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Scalding Coffee posted:There is so much hatred towards hats in these remakes. These remakes are to hats what RE7 and 8 are to Ethan’s hands.
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Jul 18, 2023 01:38
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liquidypoo posted:I'm gonna say that it's the lighting doing something weird to Leon's hair. It'll probably start to look more normal as we lose daylight in-game
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It may have taken me three runs to notice, but I'm still salty about the switch from full heals to a fixed recovery amount for the big herb combinations   No, it doesn't actually affect that much, since it still gets you 90% of the way there. But that sort of feels worse in a way, because it feels like a "why bother, then?" kind of change.
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NGDBSS posted:I love how this game uses the old Spanish peseta as currency and pretends that, say, 1000 pesetas is not an insignificant amount. In reality the peseta had been phased out for the euro from 1999 to 2002 and was worth roughly 200 Pts per $1 US. The effect on the narrative is that Leon is just constantly rifling through the pockets of Spanish peasants for their spare change, and he can only spend it out here because any place that isn't the backwoods will laugh at him. There was a whole thing during the introduction of the Euro where a bunch of economies ended up getting a pretty significant boost from the change. Because every farmer who'd been hoarding cash in their mattresses for years suddenly had reason to come out spend it.
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