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amigolupus posted:That part where it showed you a text about the solution to the puzzle is only found in other ports of RE3. In the PSX version, it only plays the tune so if you're tone-deaf then you're kind of screwed trying to solve it. Sucks for tone-deaf or just straight-up deaf people, then. Good that they moved away from that.
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CarcinogenSDA interviewed the director of RE3 and they mentioned they got feedback about that particular puzzle from surveys so they changed it in later revisions.
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Oct 11, 2020 12:22
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Thank you for making me feel less dumb. Heh yeah, I was like "Did I miss something?" I played my disc on an emulator (yeah, that's right, I bought RE3 when it launched and never played it.)
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Oct 11, 2020 15:42
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Vakal posted:Maybe it's just me, but during my play through of RE3 Remake I couldn't help but feel that Capcom must have hired someone on their staff whose sole job was to just carry around a stick to make sure none of the devs put QTEs into the game. That head/boulder comes out of nowhere and hosed me up on multiple playthroughs. Unless you're attuned to it, the timing between "huh... what?" and SPLAT is really small. That was a bastard on Inferno when I had to do the loving missile Nemesis sequence again. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 21:08
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Yeah, for all practical purposes, that might have as well been one of RE4's boulder QTEs for how quickly it needs you to react and how easily it can kill you. There's nothing that's really better about it unless you have a particular grudge against QTEs and think even an insta-kill trap is improved by not having them.
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Oct 11, 2020 21:43
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I think instead of playing RE3 again right now, I'm going to move on to Code Veronica. I might come back to it, though. I also still need to go back to RE2 and go through Leon B as well. My plan was to play the series for October (though I technically started in September), and I don't want to get too bogged down replaying one game for too long.
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Oct 11, 2020 21:45
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I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. Could also be that I was one of the few dummies who bought a Sega Saturn and was just psyched to have a new game to play that wasn't Virtual FIghter, NFL 2k or Crazy Taxi.
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Oct 11, 2020 22:06
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time.
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Oct 11, 2020 22:08
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. According to the gamingbrit it's possible to get soft-locked by a mid-game boss, and the campaign is like two RE campaigns smushed together so the second half is a retread just like in Devil May Cry 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXqTXv9-z-8
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Oct 11, 2020 22:18
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. CV is fine but has some annoying elements like the backtracking, Steve's voice acting and for some reason no zombie decapitations (I mean why the gently caress would you take that out). There are also numerous ways to screw yourself over through unexpected character switches, unobtainable magnum if you don't keep the fire extinguisher, poison moth corridor right outside the loving save room and the tyrant boss fight in the plane is bullshit. Graphically it's dated worse that the PS1 titles although the PS3 / 360 version added a new lighting engine and some other cool effects which help a lot, alternatively there's a good HD upscale texture pack available if you emulate the GameCube version through Dolphin. It also has the best knife in the series, that thing cuts through zombies like butter.
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Oct 12, 2020 00:06
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. Don't you mean a Dreamcast? Unless you somehow had a complete copy of the original beta for the Saturn 
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Oct 12, 2020 00:07
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. Crazy Taxi man YA YA YA YA YA CV is pretty gangster all around. Steve's cheesiness is RE  the bonkers akimbo calico guns are 1000+% style points, the opening cinematic was dank as gently caress back then such that they even aped it in the 2004(?) RE movie, the spider under the ice was cool, kimbo golden lugers was cool, that boss on the helipad or whatever that comes out of the fog was cool, and the game was just packed with cool stuff all under the veneer of new(er) technology at the timehowever in seriousness, if you were playing it at all as any kind of young person and/or person susceptible to creepy games, the initial island setting with Claire is genuinely dreary, foreboding, and very tense. Those environments were different from, but on par with those in the first couple games. It was solid stuff and it was  ON A NEW SYSTEM WITH BETTER GRAFFIX yeah boy dreamcast Skies of Arcadia and Powerstone 2 bruh YEEEEEEE those were the days
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Convex posted:CV is fine but has some annoying elements like the backtracking, Steve's voice acting and for some reason no zombie decapitations (I mean why the gently caress would you take that out). There are also numerous ways to screw yourself over through unexpected character switches, unobtainable magnum if you don't keep the fire extinguisher, poison moth corridor right outside the loving save room and the tyrant boss fight in the plane is bullshit. I'm emulating it through Dolphin, though I didn't know about the HD texture pack. I meant to fire the game up just to see if it worked and ran properly, but I ended up making it to the crane bit and back to the palace. Haven't died yet, but once again, I feel like I'm taking too much damage and burning through health items not long after I find them. I find it interesting the game gives you those weird dual auto-pistols early on. So at this point, the game doesn't seem too bad. I've still got the fire extinguisher, albeit stowed away in the item box, so maybe I can still get magnum. Didn't know about the effectiveness of the knife, but I was under the impression the knife was meant to be ignored until you got to RE4. I am worried now, though, about running into one of the scenarios mentioned (rendering the game unwinnable, getting a soft-lock with the mid-game boss, the poison moths, the Tyrant fight on the plane). Is there anything I should know going forward? BiggerBoat posted:I don't remember what everyone really hated about CV. I recall having fun with it but it's been forever and only thing I remember from it is the spider under the ice. Beyond that, I don't remember a god damned thing about that game except for having fun with it at the time. All I really knew about Code Veronica going in was the Legendary Frog animation. To my surprise, Steve Burnside seems like more of goofy cartoon person in the actual game than he did in that animation. That animation is also why I always pronounce Claire's name as 'Cleee-Air'
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Oct 12, 2020 02:13
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Max Wilco posted:I am worried now, though, about running into one of the scenarios mentioned (rendering the game unwinnable, getting a soft-lock with the mid-game boss, the poison moths, the Tyrant fight on the plane). Is there anything I should know going forward? First off just make multiple saves, seems common sense but some people don't do it. There's definitely enough ammo, but you can use the knife on lone zombies if you go for the legs. Before the character switch, Claire has a boss fight. She gets a weapon exclusive to that fight, and can kill the boss with it. Maybe give her her handgun if she runs out of ammo, but keep the rest of the good weapons in the box. Near the end of the game, you switch back to Claire for a brief interlude. DO NOT GIVE HER ANY WEAPONS OR AMMO. Give her a few heals. Leave everything else in the box. Save the BOW grenade rounds for a boss. You can pump the tyrant full of explosive bolts and then hit him once with the box and knock him out. When you're done using the fire extinguisher, make sure you retrieve it and anything else from the metal detector boxes and put it in the item box. The metal detector box is not an item box.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:58
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Beat RE3 remake last night and thought it was great, albeit very short. I'm in the mood for more RE, I started playing Revelations a while back but something turned me off on it. Is it worth it to just skip to Revelations 2?
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Oct 12, 2020 03:10
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Beat RE3 remake last night and thought it was great, albeit very short. I'm in the mood for more RE, I started playing Revelations a while back but something turned me off on it. Is it worth it to just skip to Revelations 2? yes. i put off revelations 2 for too long because i couldn't get into revelations (that loving nub on the new 3ds literally ruined that game for me, who can aim with that loving thing) i think revelations 2 feels a lot more like a classic RE game personally, it's highly underrated. also unless i am forgetting something unimportant story wise the games have absolutely nothing in common
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Oct 12, 2020 03:21
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honestly they don’t even have that many revelations!
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It did have Revelaitons tho.
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rabidsquid posted:yes. i put off revelations 2 for too long because i couldn't get into revelations (that loving nub on the new 3ds literally ruined that game for me, who can aim with that loving thing) Cool thanks. I think I'll just go right to Rev2
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Oct 12, 2020 03:29
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Smirking_Serpent posted:honestly they don’t even have that many revelations! Barry reveals his magnum several times, I'm not sure what more you wanted 
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Oct 12, 2020 03:32
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For the first half of CV, you get a lot more crossbow bolts than you get powder for them, so it can be useful to use up the weak normal bolts on killing lone inconvenient zombies in high-traffic areas. The knife is useful for killing grounded enemies, and it is really good, but it's finicky enough that it's not worth keeping around on a blind first run.rabidsquid posted:i think revelations 2 feels a lot more like a classic RE game personally, it's highly underrated. also unless i am forgetting something unimportant story wise the games have absolutely nothing in common There's a twist in Episode 3 of Revelations 2 that won't make any real sense at all if you haven't played Revelations, but it's nothing you couldn't get from a plot summary
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Oct 12, 2020 03:34
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yeah but for real, i think Rev2 is very underrated. I think it laid some of the groundwork for the RE2 remake, as an attempt to use some of the classic horror gameplay in a modern third person shooter format. It's not super scary, but it's trying!
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Oct 12, 2020 04:28
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Max Wilco posted:I'm emulating it through Dolphin, though I didn't know about the HD texture pack. https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-resident-evil-code-veronica-x-hd It's a decent upgrade as a lot of CVX's textures are really drat blurry.
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Oct 12, 2020 08:16
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Max Wilco posted:So at this point, the game doesn't seem too bad. I've still got the fire extinguisher, albeit stowed away in the item box, so maybe I can still get magnum. Didn't know about the effectiveness of the knife, but I was under the impression the knife was meant to be ignored until you got to RE4.
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Cardiovorax posted:Code Veronica is pretty much the one exception to that due to a bit of weirdness in how its collisions work. If you use the knife while aiming downwards, you get three or four hits in for every swing. When you're dealing with a single weak enemy, that makes it an unusually efficient way to save on ammo. It's actually pretty powerful even on stronger enemies. You can kill Hunters with two swings if you know what you're doing. My last run of CV had me pretty much only use ammo and guns on bosses and maybe the occasional more annoying but rare enemies like Bandersnatches.
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Oct 12, 2020 13:11
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Mr. Fortitude posted:It's actually pretty powerful even on stronger enemies. You can kill Hunters with two swings if you know what you're doing. My last run of CV had me pretty much only use ammo and guns on bosses and maybe the occasional more annoying but rare enemies like Bandersnatches.
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The best thing about the knife in Code Veronica is you aim down as a zombie approaches and if you time it right the slash will hit both of its knees multiple times then immediately after you let go of the stick and slash again. If you position it right the first slash makes the zombie fall to their knees and the second hits their upper body+head enough times that it kills them. You can do some crazy poo poo with this like kill two or even three zombies near you in like a few seconds and IIRC you can even take down two at the same time with this.
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Neo Rasa posted:The best thing about the knife in Code Veronica is you aim down as a zombie approaches and if you time it right the slash will hit both of its knees multiple times then immediately after you let go of the stick and slash again. If you position it right the first slash makes the zombie fall to their knees and the second hits their upper body+head enough times that it kills them. You can do some crazy poo poo with this like kill two or even three zombies near you in like a few seconds and IIRC you can even take down two at the same time with this. The only reason to carry around a knife in REM 2+3 is to find out if a zombie is actually dead or playing dead. REM3 knife in particular was horrid because zombies could immediately grab you if you were knifing them to see if they're still alive As alive as zombies can be I guess.
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There is exactly one spot in RE3 where the knife is actually useful. Maybe you remember that spot where you can climb up onto a wooden pallet? Doesn't matter if you don't. There's a pretty big horde of zombies in that area, but due to engine reasons, they can't attack you if you're not on the same Z-level as them. You, however, can aim downward and hit them. The trick is to climb up, start aiming downwards, and just plink away until there's a pile of zombies at your feet three layers deep. Takes almost ten minutes.
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The knife in RE2R is super useful for downed zombies. Also it absolutely tears up Birkin 1 and also just about every boss if you unlock FPS on the PC version 
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It's also very good at handling lickers!
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Pretty cool how they made the knife more useful in 7/RE2R but the fuckin thing lasts about 3 slashes. Not sure which way makes less sense
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codo27 posted:Pretty cool how they made the knife more useful in 7/RE2R but the fuckin thing lasts about 3 slashes. Not sure which way makes less sense
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Oct 14, 2020 11:33
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tbf you can dismember a zombie in like 2 slashes and i dont know about your experience dismembering people but it takes quite the toll on a pocket knife
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Convex posted:The knife in RE2R is super useful for downed zombies. Also it absolutely tears up Birkin 1 and also just about every boss if you unlock FPS on the PC version even on base consoles with the lowest fps possible you can still kill birkin with basically two knives and one grenade without taking any damage
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rabidsquid posted:even on base consoles with the lowest fps possible you can still kill birkin with basically two knives and one grenade without taking any damage Yeah, bad grammar on my part I guess
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Oct 14, 2020 12:44
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The knife is way more powerful at high FPS because the damage procs more often, so I suppose it's not wrong to say that it tears up bosses more if you do that.
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Played a bit more of Code Veronica tonight, but didn't make much progress. I got to the bit where you play as Steve, but died right after because I was at super-low health after the fight with the stretchy-arm monster. Started back at my save at the palace, and tried it again, this time making sure to get the bow gun. Got back to where I was at previously, but then died to dogs. Finally decided to make a save before the fight the the stretchy--arm monster. You get a lot of ammo for the bow gun, but it feels super weak. Seems like you have to plug twenty shots into a zombie before it goes down. I know I should probably be using the knife, as someone said, but even with the side pack, I don't know about having it take up an inventory slot.
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The bow gun in CV is pretty useless except for combining the bolts with gunpowder or something, I forget the exact name of the item and you may not have seen any yet. Basically it turns the bolts into mini-rockets and they are very powerful. Don’t use them on just anything when you do get them.
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Yeah explosive bolts are basically this game’s magnum, although there is a magnum too. But save them shits for bosses or tough enemies that you absolutely need to get rid of.
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