Julianna 💎🏥

Capcom, I beg you, either rename Completion Points or stop initialising them

Tbf, the rocket launchers are pretty much always given in the boss fight, but yeah. Though I don’t mind that aspect so much as the whole “fighting a giant wall of snot” thing

I remember the post-credits scene gave me such dread for RE9 back then but, now that I know it was just setting up the DLC, I mind it a lot less

I prefer Requiem and Village never hits its peaks, but, because most of my issues with Village are in the front half (I actually enjoy the factory), it does have the advantage of not fizzling out in the way Requiem does

I have many issues with Resi Village, but it does have something a lot of other Resis lack: a good final boss

Thank you

One time I had an overnight stay where the GP who sent me up to hospital was, by coincidence, doing ward rounds the next day. I’m fairly sure if not for that luck, that would have been a multi-day stay

the admin across the NHS is genuinely dire at all levels but bafflingly so when it comes to A&E, the amount of times you have to explain yourself over and over and over again because they are just... completely incapable of passing notes on to other people is baffling to me and i despise it

Problems exacerbated by me coming in on a Friday, as respiratory specialists who can make more concrete calls won’t be around until Monday

lmao

When I had the pre-op for my thyroid operation they asked "any thyroid problems?"

Also, I feel like there’s a problem with how patient notes are organised when a nurse just asked me “do you have any sort of long term lung condition?”

I get that NHS resources are stretched, but staying at a hospital is maddening because there’s barely any communication between staff. Spent most of today under the impression I was going home, but I seem to be in for another night

In fairness, 7 doesn’t allow that much variation in terms of routing, but it doesn’t just put keys straight in front of you, and it’s also set in a house, not a massive castle

Think the bit of effusive praise Village gets that baffles me most is the idea that the castle is a highlight. It superficially resembles a classic Resident Evil maze, but it’s actually incredibly linear in how you approach it

(You can also tell Capcom disagree with this idea that action RE is inherently more marketable because Requiem’s marketing focused way more on Grace instead of putting Leon front and centre from the start)

RE5 is still just about on top, but that data was prior to RE7 getting a Switch 2 release, so it may have already changed. If there’s a Switch 2 port, I imagine RE2R will be the best-selling title in the series by the end of the year

It’s fascinating how many people are still wedded to the idea action horror Resident Evils sell more than survival horror REs, when Capcom’s own data suggest they’re pretty evenly matched (top 10 slightly misleading as RE4-6 are broken up across multiple versions)

The whole thing with the house of living villagers is so funny on a replay because it’s just… pointless? Obviously they were all going to die by the end of the game, but they could’ve eked it out. It’s not like Ethan needed an incentive to go back out into danger

Yeah, I didn’t realise until I double checked but it’s actually from the same piece doing the rounds

It was a good way of getting people like me back in but you probably can’t do a whole console for that

AIUI Whitty isn’t great on trans stuff, he thinks the Cass report was good, he’s just not mad

Price is also why the Series S would’ve, IMO, been a genius move *if* there hadn’t been that extended cross-gen period. People didn’t need a budget option to play newer games, because they could save even more money by playing them on PS4 or Xbone

Which, in turn, would’ve probably made this gen more of an even match too

I suspect that if Microsoft had buckled on the Kinect being bundled in before launch, that gen would’ve been much more of an even match

I think a lot of people remembering that time with even slightly more clarity recognise that as the moment that crystallised everything that had been bad about Xbox since around 2010 and Kinect. Then again you do still get people blaming everything solely on Don Mattrick which is just myopic.

Honestly even the DRM stuff gets overblown IMO, given they reversed course pretty quickly. The big killer was price. For people who didn’t give a shit about Kinect, they were offering a pretty much identical console to the PS4 at an £80 premium

The little trolling video Sony put out was after *their* E3 conference, and I still fully believe they were considering doing the DRM stuff too, they just had the advantage of seeing the backlash to MS quietly confirming it

Yeah, the 2010 E3 conference is probably the real inflection point (though they got rid of Blades before that, which makes me sad as I missed out on that UI)

The "new xbox experience" taking the functional, Game-focused blades dashboard and turning it into a Web Powered Multimedia Node was an early sign of something deeply wrong that those of us who aren't idiots remember noticing