Julianna 💎

Good god

Think it’s also a power keg because, whilst I think you could remake the game in a way that redeems the original, doing so would just invite outrage from anti-woke grifters instead

Yeah, the first Act is already pretty bad before you get to the fucking spear-chucking tribe sequence

Ehh, I dread 5 less because of the game itself, and more because I dread reigniting the conversation about how racist that game is, as a lot of the fandom get very defensive about it

Yeah, though there’s still one classic card left that they’ll probably get to in the 2030s: a second remake of the original game

I’ve accepted a 5 remake as inevitable, tbh, as much as I dread the concept

Tbh, at this stage I don’t think the remakes even really need to appeal to nostalgia that much to sell. They’re effectively a sub-series in their own right

Ah, shame

Oh, and speaking of fixed camera, there’s been a bit of an indie craze for them lately, and the ones that most scratch the classic Resi itch IMO are the Tormented Souls games

I do think they are broadly going with that pattern with the remakes. The rumour is 0 and Code Veronica are next up, despite the 4 remake hinting so heavily towards a 5 remake

I think a return to fixed camera would really need to be a spin off series, but I do wish they'd alternate action/survival focus in mainline games instead of trying to do both at once. (Though this is more successful at doing both than Village)

Aye, though I think having half the game really appeal to me made me feel more let down than if it had just been another action game. Even though I've been talking about it a lot, I actually did keep my expectations in check going in

Ahhh, fair

I get that, but I don't get lumping the ship and the mine together in terms of quality

I take it this also means you're getting out of the UK?

The boat section in RE7 gets too much hate, IMO. Only thing that doesn't work is doing the tape flashback straight before it (or, really, at all. We didn't see the rest of the game's locations before they fell into disrepair, why did we need to with the boat?)

Ayyyy! I missed you getting engaged, congratulations!

Christ, it seems almost quaint that there was a minor scandal here over a £100 bet on the date Rishi Sunak called an election

Oh dear lord, Fashworth has gotten even worse

This might be the most perfect encapsulation of a Daily Mail front page, big racist splash headline, a focus on globally seismic events only through British tourists, some Royal bullshit

Yeah, it also has the weird thing from RE4R where the slider for camera acceleration is reversed compared to most games

Okay, I did dabble in the start of requiem for a bit and I’m glad I did as it did remind me I didn’t just hallucinate the first half being really, really good

Congratulations!

Why did you do this, Julianna, you idiot? You could’ve just got 7 again, you don’t even like Village

RE Requiem being the first RE to have gyro support worth a damn does have me needing to readjust when going back to earlier titles.

Sadly most of it is digital

Honestly I should probably just set a direct debit up with Capcom, the amount of money I burn on getting different Resi versions

Okay, I lied to myself and double dipped. Well, I decided to get the 7 and Village ports, and figured at that point I might as well pay a tenner more and get the triple pack

Ohhh

Also, you're right that the detonator is the turning point. I found the sequence before that wore out its welcome, but it was when I finished it and we didn't switch back to Grace that it started to really fall apart