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man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


site posted:

umbrella chronicles' meta story is basically wesker lounging around like a super villain reminiscing about what he was doing during every game in the series that got him to his dr doom throne

I loved UC, it was basically a tour through the core games with some additional lore and scenarios to fill in the blanks, and like you said an excuse for wesker to narrate stuff.

It also finally featured the characters actually going to Umbrella HQ to take them down once and for all, like they always talk about at the end of each game.

I liked that it was basically a survival rail shooter hybrid. You still had to manage ammo and health, and focus more on precision than scattershot aiming. Really dug all the collectible files hidden in the levels, and the weapon upgrade system, it added tons of replayability.

I would gladly snap up a modern port of it and dark side chronicles. I know it got a PS3 version but throw that poo poo on Switch or Steam or something.

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NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



The best thing about UC Wesker was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2hVHT5AWU

It was also when DC Dougals took over the role of the character from Richard Waugh. Made a lot of people unhappy since his iconic "Evil Brit" accent introduced in CV and then continued in 0 and 4 was dropped for Douglas just (poorly) imitating Waugh. But he just did his own voice for RE5 which I guess is now the voice everyone associates with Albert.

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
They're on PSNow, but they don't have Move support. What's the loving point of those games if you can't use a Move controller? There's no way anyone will want to play them with a regular-rear end controller.

Four-Eyes
Nov 3, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!

NikkolasKing posted:

The best thing about UC Wesker was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2hVHT5AWU

Absolutely knocked it out of the park with that music. Operation Raccoon City will always have a place in my heart due to the character select music:

https://youtu.be/sf3iu7Pqigc

I really want The Wolfpack to return some day.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Leavemywife posted:

They're on PSNow, but they don't have Move support. What's the loving point of those games if you can't use a Move controller? There's no way anyone will want to play them with a regular-rear end controller.

i suppose you could try emulating the wii version through dolphin, maybe you could use a mouse

site fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jun 26, 2020

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



I just noticed the RE2 Remake is pretty cheap in the steam summer sale and got to thinking about getting it on PC after having so much fun with as Big Jill in RE3.


A quick look around shows the mods are sadly centered mostly around various Make Claire Sexier options, but then I remembered this one exists and I'm dangerously close to throwing out my :20bux: right here and now :sweatdrop:

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?

Four-Eyes posted:

Absolutely knocked it out of the park with that music. Operation Raccoon City will always have a place in my heart due to the character select music:

https://youtu.be/sf3iu7Pqigc

I really want The Wolfpack to return some day.


The Coop campaigns of Operation Raccoon City were great and I will defend them to this day. But the versus mode of it was awful unbalanced trash. The medic had a skill that was so overpowered.

Mr. Maggy
Aug 17, 2014
I really liked ORC when I played it at PAX, I really did not like it when I bought it

dog nougat
Apr 8, 2009

Captain Hygiene posted:

I just noticed the RE2 Remake is pretty cheap in the steam summer sale and got to thinking about getting it on PC after having so much fun with as Big Jill in RE3.


A quick look around shows the mods are sadly centered mostly around various Make Claire Sexier options, but then I remembered this one exists and I'm dangerously close to throwing out my :20bux: right here and now :sweatdrop:

20 but for RE2make is a drat good price. It's hella fun and good. Worth it at twice the price still imo. I don't own a PC anymore, but I wish I did just to do dumb game mods.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



dog nougat posted:

20 but for RE2make is a drat good price. It's hella fun and good. Worth it at twice the price still imo. I don't own a PC anymore, but I wish I did just to do dumb game mods.

Oh yeah, I think it's worth full price, the only thing holding me back was that I've beat it multiple times on PS4. But then I remembered I used store credit to get it on there, and well, I bought it again :ssh:

Crowetron
Apr 29, 2009

Caidin posted:

I remember thinking way back when I first played RE4 that Wesker was actually operating from inside that spy satellite they focus on in his appearance in that game. It was my first RE game but I was like why wouldn't this guy have a super villain space station, he just seemed like that sort of dude.

I'm still not convinced he wasn't in space during RE4.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Crowetron posted:

I'm still not convinced he wasn't in space during RE4.

If I could have one wish answered in the 2020 hellworld, it would be to add this in the remake

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
I was playing Resident Evil 4, and I broke open a box that had a snake in it. I was swinging my knife to make sure that I killed it, and when I did, it dropped an egg. I then hit the egg with my knife and destroyed it. I've been playing this game since it came out and never knew you could break the eggs.

And Wesker was totally in space. Nothing can change my mind on that.

RealFoxy
May 11, 2011

I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Leavemywife posted:

I was playing Resident Evil 4, and I broke open a box that had a snake in it. I was swinging my knife to make sure that I killed it, and when I did, it dropped an egg. I then hit the egg with my knife and destroyed it. I've been playing this game since it came out and never knew you could break the eggs.

And Wesker was totally in space. Nothing can change my mind on that.
I have beat RE4 easily over 20 times and I didn't know you could break eggs accidentally like that.

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



I mean,RE Science is pretty damned advanced beyond real life tech. Wesker could have easily gone to space and gotten back in no time with some future tech Unbrella developed so they could use it to make stupid bioweapons.

Seriously, back to Umbrella Chronicles. The main villain has a bunch of perfect clones of himself. Umbrella perfected human cloning in the 90s. Why? Because the human-to-Tyrant rate is something like 1/100,000 so you might be wondering how Umbrella had a half-dozen Mr. X's, Nemesis, and around 4 or 5 other numbered Tyrants in addition to a literal Tyrant factory in Survivor. Well, the answer is that Sergei Vladimir (Capcom couldn't be bothered to looking up a Russian surname) was one of the Tyrant compatible humans so somebody at Umbrella had the bright idea of just perfecting human cloning so they can make loads of Sergei clones to turn into Tyrants.

Umbrella also perfected a thinking, living AI.

The number of inventions Umbrella made to push its lovely viral research is quite astounding.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Leavemywife posted:

And Wesker was totally in space. Nothing can change my mind on that.
Oh man, that brings me back. I watched that cutscene and just wondered in my 14 year olf self's mind "So why is Albert Wesker living in a satellite now?" but I just shrugged and decided that it sounds like the kind of thing he would do.

Azubah
Jun 5, 2007

The great thing about Wesker is you can add him to any outlandish scenario and you can just shrug and accept that it's a thing he'd do.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Riding in on an army of Ouroboros-enhanced velociraptors to conquer Washington DC? Yup, he would do that.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Cardiovorax posted:

Riding in on an army of Ouroboros-enhanced velociraptors to conquer Washington DC? Yup, he would do that.

It is, in fact, the chief reason he's hilarious and fun.

Four-Eyes
Nov 3, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!
I remember being very confused why Wesker hated Chris so much, as I'd only played the original RE as Jill. Chris was apparently so insufferable the mere act of waiting in a prison cell was enough to provoke a life long hatred.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Even if you played Chris Chris didn't actually do anything to him really. Wesker just decided he hates Chris and so here we go.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
On the other hand, everyone else also hates Chris, especially the players. So who can blame him?

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
I like Chris.

Four-Eyes
Nov 3, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!

Leavemywife posted:

I like Chris.

Nice try, Albert.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Four-Eyes posted:

Nice try, AlbertKrauser.
fixed that for you

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
I honestly think my liking of Chris comes from when I was a kid, he was the cool guy fighting zombies (he smoked! Badass!) and that my brother's name was Chris. He's kind of a nothing character, really, but I still like him.

Selenephos
Jul 9, 2010

The most interesting thing about Chris is an optional, extremely easily missed conversation he could have with Sheva in the first area of RE5 where he mentions he's not a huge fan of capitalism.

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
The entire Wesker arc is caused by Chris laughing at Wesker and og Tyrant in RE1.

"Wesker, you're pitiful!"

"Chris, stop it!" I worked really hard on this ultimate lifeform and betraying all of you!

Scalding Coffee
Jun 26, 2006

You're already dead

Mr. Fortitude posted:

The most interesting thing about Chris is an optional, extremely easily missed conversation he could have with Sheva in the first area of RE5 where he mentions he's not a huge fan of capitalism.
It comes out of nowhere and he is whining about it like it stole his lunch. Meanwhile, monsters and Wesker.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Scalding Coffee posted:

It comes out of nowhere and he is whining about it like it stole his lunch. Meanwhile, monsters and Wesker.

Capitalism does in fact steal most people's lunches quite literally

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Please let's not have that conversation here, of all places.

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?

Doomykins posted:

The entire Wesker arc is caused by Chris laughing at Wesker and og Tyrant in RE1.

"Wesker, you're pitiful!"

"Chris, stop it!" I worked really hard on this ultimate lifeform and betraying all of you!

Wesker sounds so hurt when Chris starts laughing at him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2djNORNfE

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

blackguy32 posted:

Wesker sounds so hurt when Chris starts laughing at him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2djNORNfE
"Chris? Stop it! :saddowns:"

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



blackguy32 posted:

Wesker sounds so hurt when Chris starts laughing at him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2djNORNfE

Holy poo poo I forgot about how he sounded there. That's amazing. He really does sound genuinely hurt that Chris is mocking him.

But...come on Al, its heart is exposed. You really did deserve to be mocked for being proud of that.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Mr. Fortitude posted:

The most interesting thing about Chris is an optional, extremely easily missed conversation he could have with Sheva in the first area of RE5 where he mentions he's not a huge fan of capitalism.

I have never heard this to my knowledge. Link?

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

Cardiovorax posted:

Please let's not have that conversation here, of all places.

All that's required for evil to win is for socialists to do nothing

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Joke's on you, the Evil has Resided in socialist housing programs all along.

SolidSnakesBandana
Jul 1, 2007

Infinite ammo
In a way Resident Evil has always been about capitalism. Its about how a corporation's greed almost ends the world. I think its interesting how much of our fiction warns us against the unchecked evils of capitalism but most people either don't pick up on it or just laugh it off as fiction.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Cardiovorax posted:

Please let's not have that conversation here, of all places.

I mean I do understand and fair enough.

I just think it's also fair to point out that the basic concept of Resident Evil is that unrestrained capitalism in the form of a multinational company who uses bribery and political connections to subvert laws has ended up turning most of its customers into mindless undead beasts and as we later discover the only way they are defeated is by their stock price tumbling after which other lovely multinational companies attempt to scavange their corpse for more potentially profitable things designed to dehumanize and destroy people.

I think the closest you get to a RE that isn't literally about "evil capitalist corporation screws innocent people in the name of money and power" is RE4 and that is "Evil rich motherfuckers screw innocent people in the name of money and power" instead.

ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jun 27, 2020

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man nurse
Feb 18, 2014


Later RE games are more about acts of terrorism using biological warfare, but yes, the core of the series has always been the corruption of corporations and their effects.

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