What are you playing this weekend, SW?

Performance for me was good as well. Game sucked though, and many, myself included, have explained our reasons why.

But since you ask:

Almost the whole game is like playing an interactive movie. Scripts everywhere.

Combat is terrible. Why does RE4 from 2005 have more advanced combat?

So much nonsense. A house with creepy dolls and a big mutant baby? Like.. why? Makes you think the devs just went and asked a random person "think of something scary and we'll qiuckly put it in the game. Great, now onto the next thing!". Made no sense other than an attempt at impressing people who don't think.

Found all callbacks to RE4 annoying, as the game wasn't even close to as good as RE4. Take the beginning of the game when you go around the village, for example. Compare that to when you do the same in RE4. Village beginning was a script, RE4's was a game.

Way too easy. Played on Hardcore, and I'm pretty sure it only made the terrible combat last a little longer. Game showered you with ammo and healing that you could keep in your huge ass inventory.

Too linear. First it seems like there are many places to go, but you're constantly set on just one path. I remember them putting the "lords" on your map as in telling you that you can tackle them in any order, then forces you to House Beneviento.

Basically, you can watch the game on YT or a streamer to get the same experience.

Performance for me was good as well. Game sucked though, and many, myself included, have explained our reasons why.

But since you ask:

Almost the whole game is like playing an interactive movie. Scripts everywhere.

Combat is terrible. Why does RE4 from 2005 have more advanced combat?

So much nonsense. A house with creepy dolls and a big mutant baby? Like.. why? Makes you think the devs just went and asked a random person "think of something scary and we'll qiuckly put it in the game. Great, now onto the next thing!". Made no sense other than an attempt at impressing people who don't think.

Found all callbacks to RE4 annoying, as the game wasn't even close to as good as RE4. Take the beginning of the game when you go around the village, for example. Compare that to when you do the same in RE4. Village beginning was a script, RE4's was a game.

Way too easy. Played on Hardcore, and I'm pretty sure it only made the terrible combat last a little longer. Game showered you with ammo and healing that you could keep in your huge ass inventory.

Too linear. First it seems like there are many places to go, but you're constantly set on just one path. I remember them putting the "lords" on your map as in telling you that you can tackle them in any order, then forces you to House Beneviento.

Basically, you can watch the game on YT or a streamer to get the same experience.

Fair enough, your opinion. But, also fair, is that the vast majority would disagree with you, to say the least.

@nod_calypse said:

@Litchie said:

@davillain said:

Edit: As for Resident Evil: Village, I never understood the hate it got here on SW? The PC version was fine on my end and even when it had Denuvo, I was still able to enjoy the game. Beat it like 3 times.

Performance for me was good as well. Game sucked though, and many, myself included, have explained our reasons why.

But since you ask:

Almost the whole game is like playing an interactive movie. Scripts everywhere.

Combat is terrible. Why does RE4 from 2005 have more advanced combat?

So much nonsense. A house with creepy dolls and a big mutant baby? Like.. why? Makes you think the devs just went and asked a random person "think of something scary and we'll qiuckly put it in the game. Great, now onto the next thing!". Made no sense other than an attempt at impressing people who don't think.

Found all callbacks to RE4 annoying, as the game wasn't even close to as good as RE4. Take the beginning of the game when you go around the village, for example. Compare that to when you do the same in RE4. Village beginning was a script, RE4's was a game.

Way too easy. Played on Hardcore, and I'm pretty sure it only made the terrible combat last a little longer. Game showered you with ammo and healing that you could keep in your huge ass inventory.

Too linear. First it seems like there are many places to go, but you're constantly set on just one path. I remember them putting the "lords" on your map as in telling you that you can tackle them in any order, then forces you to House Beneviento.

Basically, you can watch the game on YT or a streamer to get the same experience.

Fair enough, your opinion. But, also fair, is that the vast majority would disagree with you, to say the least.

They had nothing to play that year! Salty Steam fans begrudgingly accepted their 2021 GOTY as Village since the alternate options we're admitting the evil empire Microsoft themselves put out two incredible games that year (Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5 - both available on Steam mind you) or admitting Nintendo flat stomped everyone again with the impeccable Metroid Dread.

Performance for me was good as well. Game sucked though, and many, myself included, have explained our reasons why.

But since you ask:

Almost the whole game is like playing an interactive movie. Scripts everywhere.

Combat is terrible. Why does RE4 from 2005 have more advanced combat?

So much nonsense. A house with creepy dolls and a big mutant baby? Like.. why? Makes you think the devs just went and asked a random person "think of something scary and we'll qiuckly put it in the game. Great, now onto the next thing!". Made no sense other than an attempt at impressing people who don't think.

Found all callbacks to RE4 annoying, as the game wasn't even close to as good as RE4. Take the beginning of the game when you go around the village, for example. Compare that to when you do the same in RE4. Village beginning was a script, RE4's was a game.

Way too easy. Played on Hardcore, and I'm pretty sure it only made the terrible combat last a little longer. Game showered you with ammo and healing that you could keep in your huge ass inventory.

Too linear. First it seems like there are many places to go, but you're constantly set on just one path. I remember them putting the "lords" on your map as in telling you that you can tackle them in any order, then forces you to House Beneviento.

Basically, you can watch the game on YT or a streamer to get the same experience.

@Litchie: Again, fair enough. Opinions are fine to have. It just so happens that your opinion on Village is in the extreme minority. Most people think it's outstanding, and so did critics, largely. That shouldn't bother you, though. No need to call anybody a moron for simply liking a game. Your opinion is yours.

Yeah, that wasn't a dig at you or anyone here who likes Village, though it did come out that way, my apologies. That was just a rant about the average gamer of today. Only going with what's popular would be terrible, so when someone says "but it got these rewards" or something similar, I tend to get annoyed.

If someone who loves Village could go a bit in depth about why they love it over something like RE2, I'd love to hear about it.

Yeah that's cool. Fair enough.

So, personally, I separate "modern" RE with older RE. I just can't compare the two eras. Older RE games are nothing like the new ones, really. Totally different design philosophies. RE0-3, plus Veronica, would be older. Anything later, 4-8, Revelations, is modern, I'd say. 4 is where the series really split into new territory.

For the older games, 2 is king imo. And I'm not even talking the remake. The original RE2 is a masterpiece.

Anyway. Reasons I like Village. First off, the proper implementation of isolationist dogma. Castle Dimitrescu is the cornerstone of revisionist evil, in that it seeks to portray itself as the facade of evil with a capital E, masquerading as an idol. Lady Dimitrescu herself is the false Beast, an actual Beast, mind you, but one that does not contain the keys to the kingdom, per se. Only the Mother, herself a grotesque reversal of the Father, knows the hour, if we're talking biblically. And make no mistake, Village is a direct reversal of the Bible. Mother Miranda seeks power, but is not inherently possessive of it; her source of motivation is worldly, a disconnection with her child, which leads her down the left-hand path of insanity. Her love knows no bounds, and is thus burning out of control. In her quest to be godhead, she seeks to utilize worldly, as well as occult, methodology to make a Lazarus of her child. This is not what the Father does, nor the Son, both of which are inherently miraculous. Mother Miranda is bound by her flesh, and liberated in a false sense by forbidden tools and methods. One of her tools is her children, not her true child, but those she bequeaths occultic powers to via said taboo methods. She literally transmits her insanity, like a virus, and the result is the four lords, who are the absolute embodiment of pure evil, in that evil is at its worst when it is disconnected from sanity in a literal psychological lake of fire scenario where there is no coming back. There is no return for Lady Dimitrescu and company, unlike in 7 with the Bakers, because not only have they been infected, but they have accepted positions of prestige within the false god's kingdom. The really interesting aspect of this is that each domain is tinged with the respective lord's personality. None of them are identical, and far from it: Castle Dimistrescu is a reflection of extreme anemic royalty, with the very inward-turning design of the halls and wings being cannibalistic symbolically; the doll house is the captured essence of the dawdling child, her personality compartmentalized and segregated in order to deal with trauma, the "baby" in the house being the symbol of the core personality run amok, needing love, and not finding it, and thus driven to perversity; the fish-man domain, as i call it, if the symbolic representation of arrested development, in that fish represent evolution's beginnings, and we see this played out in the absurd abyss of Moreau's self-esteem issues; the factory is the embodiment of rebellion, a place of construction, where Heisenberg attempts, in vain, endlessly, to "build" a reality above that of the Mother, not realizing, or else refusing to see, that he is essentially trying to square the circle.

I could go on, but that's a big part of why I like this game.

@kathaariancode: It is. But I wasn’t very far into the campaign and I wanted to repick my skills and such. I’m not very experienced with RPG’s and I wouldn’t have known better whether or not to start over or just continue with campaign I started with. I’m experienced with games like Halo,Battlefield,Dead Space …etc.