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I think Capcom has a strict "no real cities" policy for the RE series so Wayip or whatever it's called is probably supposed to be Hong Kong in the RE universe
And when it comes to Eastern Europe, they don't use real countries either. RE6 has "Edonia" and one of the shitty CGI movies had Slavicstan or something
I'll have to get those games from a sale eventually
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My standards for gamers are so low that upon reading this my overriding thought was "well, at least he wasn't racist or sexist"
I'll have to get those games from a sale eventually
CW: Transphobia
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She then says her son “might think he can put on makeup and fancy clothing and high heels, and have his p*nis cut off and take estrogen and grow fake b**bs like those. This is so degrading.”
Right-wingers believe that gay and trans people are inherently disgusting and repulsive but also that seeing one or being aware of their existence will instantly turn you gay and/or trans
It all evens out nicely though with the sheer amount of little details everywhere. It all looks convincing at a glance and the game expects you to proceed from setpiece to setpiece quickly
RE6's environments certainly hold up better in closeups than Halo 4's which look like blurry barren wastelands
There's some really fun show-offy stuff in the game like Chris' opening cutscene where some cutscene props are amazingly hyper-detailed like Piers' steak and Chris' glass of vodka. The character models mostly look really nice too
It's definitely a different look from all the Unreal Engine 3 etc. games from the era. It's hard to articulate but I almost get a sort of "PS2 game on steroids" feel from these graphics. Something about the grainy and kind of desaturated textures and often flat-looking surfaces.
Everything's just so densely packed with detail, both large and small scale. These exterior city scenes are massively helped by them being set at night and being lit mainly by neon lights, but there's just so many lights and signs everywhere it really makes things pop. All the interiors are jam-packed with all kinds of little props and wall decorations, and I really like the cramped, dirty and run-down apartment complexes you visit in the game despite them not being all that much fun to play in. They just feel really immersively lived-in.
Here's a really cool location from Chris' campaign that you only visit for a brief boss fight and have no reason to linger in. I didn't even remember this place from my previous playthroughs and probably assumed it was a generic video game dungeon level, but it's really interesting:
https://streamable.com/4ghdg2
You have this dark, grimy and trash-filled inner courtyard in an apartment complex. It looks like it's underground, but it's actually an open-air space that's covered by a netting with sunlight being blocked by the massive amounts of garbage accumulated on said netting, and you also have a dense tangle of electric cables and wires crisscrossing from building to building. Most of the courtyard is taken up by an older brick building that looks like it predates the apartment complex.
It must've taken tons of artists tons of work to design this intricate space that the average player is going to spend less than ten minutes in, and who aren't going to notice the nice environment art anyway since they're too busy trying to electrocute a giant boa constrictor while they're there
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I started replaying RE6 after my last post about it and I think that 12 years after launch I'm coming around to forgiving the game
new VA for Frank
...but why? Fans shat on Capcom massively when they recast him for DR4 
Reminds me of how the Onimusha 1 remaster on Steam has a completely redone soundtrack and has some (but not all!) of the Japanese VAs recast, once again showing that contracts are a fuck and that you can't trust companies to maintain their back catalogue even when they're trying to 
If you want to get into Resident Evil and want to start from the beginning, the HD remaster of the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil 1 is on Steam.
It is often considered one of the greatest remakes of all time and widely thought to surpass the original while preserving everything that made the original great (with the exception of the cheesy FMV cutscenes and dialogue. The remade dialogue is still cheesy but not nearly as funny) unlike the 2/3 remakes that change the games completely.
Technically Resident Evil 0, the HD remaster of which is also on Steam, is the actual beginning of the story in terms of the series' timeline but I would not recommend it to a newcomer. Consider it advanced studies to come back to later.
The only main games which do not have modern PC ports on current storefronts are 2, 3 and Code Veronica and there are multiple ways to experience each on PC.
I grew up with the PS1 so I tend to just emulate those versions for 2 and 3, which is honestly rather painless with Duckstation, but there are plenty of other ways. You could also emulate the Dreamcast or Gamecube ports of said games, and I believe the GC version has a mod for HD backgrounds.There's also the Classic Rebirth Patches for the Japanese-only PC ports which can be found floating about online.
As for CV, you have the original Dreamcast version and the Code Veronica X port for PS2 and the later HD ports of CVX for Xbox 360 and PS3. All four can be emulated, though IIRC there's issues with emulating the 360 version. Also some people are not fans of the changed lighting in the HD remake in general. I just emulate the PS2 version with PCSX2
Are these compatible with the randomisers, Classic Rebirth Patches and other mods people have made over the years or do you still need to track down the old Japanese SourceNext ports?
Edit: Just checked and these are just the old US PC versions made to work with modern systems. That means no mods and that for the best experience you'll still need to pirate the Japanese PC ports
He has a concerning amount of sharp edges 
That's certainly a thing but on the other hand Japanese media is often less hung up on their male characters being 100% ruggedly masculine
I think this guy is just meant to read as elegant and sophisticated
They're certainly fabulous, but the Pillar Men are anything but dainty
But it's still Claire who she develops a relationship with, over the course of the game. I just wanna see more of that
It would've probably ended up looking exactly like Leon's and Sherry's interactions in 6
Claire just gets side games
I think Code Veronica is a main game even if it doesn't really get treated that way these days. I still wanna see Capcom try to tackle all the goofy and dated shit in that game
She becomes a cop, and is just kinda the sidekick to an equally boring edglord.
Every Resident Evil main character is a cop, soldier or agent outside of Claire, Billy, Jake and Ethan so her chances to become one were pretty high. Also, Jake Muller is easily the lamest character in the franchise and it's painful how clearly Capcom thought he was cool
His movements are so dainty !data-laughing
I also appreciate his incredibly period-accurate 1598 drip and pocket watch accessory (not pictured), but I guess he's a god so he can wear whatever he wants
Onimusha Dawn of Dreams ended up being a game about defeating god with the power of friendship, like they literally charge a McGuffin with friendship juice which allows the protagonist to go SSJ3
10/10
Zombified Adam Barton or whatever he's called does bear an uncanny resemblance to an (allegedly) non-zombified Joe Biden 
I mean, Leon does meet Sherry at the end of the Claire A/Leon B and they leave Raccoon City together. I assume they talked and got to know each other before Sherry was left with the appropriate authorities and that they kept in touch.
Because Leon... Kind of has zero personality. He's just a walking Twink haircut, that shoots guns.
In the original RE4, he has plenty of personality. He's a snarky himbo. It's not a very deep personality, but it's there. Then in RE6 he's like a Tom Cruise character or something 
So why does RE canon, after 2, continue to sideline Claire's relationship with Sherry, in favor of Leon???
I don't think Sherry is even brought up after 2 in any game besides 6. Technically Leon and Claire are at game appearance parity- Leon has 4 and 6, Claire has Code Veronica and Revelations 2
I love that to make sure audiences understood she was in fact the same Sherry from RE2 they made her have the exact same hairstyle as an adult as she did as an 8-year-old
Her personality and status as a super special agent gives me extreme Rebecca Chambers vibes
The tone of the game being so groan-inducingly self-serious makes it difficult for me to enjoy the stupidity. Like the director and writers thought what they made was genuinely awesome and badass.
RE4 (2004) was wonderfully self-aware and over-the-top and then the people behind 5 and 6 didn't get the ironic bits. It also doesn't help that 6 doesn't have a Wesker in it to bring in the cheese
6 also had some questionable stuff involving women, namely the stuff with Helena's sister and Carla's weird backstory
The character of the President is introduced and his deep friendship with Leon established in quick cut flashbacks in the same scene that begins as he is already shambling towards Leon moments before he's killed. Just amazing writing !chefs-kiss
How many first families is Leon personal acquaintances with? He's chummy with whomever Ashley's dad was who was POTUS in 2004 as well as the zombie president in office during 2013. I guess he works for the Secret Service so he gets invited to all their barbecues
For me the highlight of summer are the bright nights and they peak really early. It's all downhill from here
But now that Summer Solstice is over it's gonna get darker again !boohoo
I have a rechargeable handlebar-mounted LED headlight for my bike and one charge usually lasts me at least 4 months in the summer. Then in the winter I have to charge it every week
These guys should only show up at the end of summer
Normal weather stuff
Yahtzee talks about how writers for AAA games don't seem to know how to write complex and nuanced female characters and instead resort to brutalising and victimising their female protagonists to give them depth and how the violence they're subjected to is framed differently compared to violence that's done to male characters
I think American Protestants have entered some kind of terminal phase
I have no clue what this is referring to but I assume Sweet Baby Ray's did not in fact send baseball bat-wielding thugs to shake down this game's developers
At least if you live in a place that isn't on fire or cooking to death for its entire duration
I just like seeing trees !blob-no-thoughts
Saw a deer moments before taking this photo !ferret
You have this level that takes place on a mountain, and the devs wanted to have a spot where you could see the gloomy landscape below with more mountains silhouetted in the distance... except this was the PS2 so it's just two jpegs, one for the sky so you can get some parallax and a curved panoramic one for the landscape. It still looks decent enough !shrug-outta-hecks
This era was interesting since you could have pretty detailed character models and environments but still had to use fake backdrops and other tricks for larger environments. Makes you feel like you're on an old movie set
Two guys logically explain why The Boss, a middle-aged war veteran, does not look like a 20-year-old e-girl
Gamers: Well she should look like one anyway
I'm so tired !yes-honey-left
It's so fucking stupid, she looks pretty much exactly like the original character but in a photo-realistic style
Holy shit, I somehow missed the most unhinged comment:
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>They made the boss look trans and that's a fucking crime.
>The chin is different, it looks like a man's chin, the mouth is different, it looks like a man's mouth, more specifically it looks like Chris Chan's mouth, don't believe me, go do an image search. Neither the mouth or the chin or the brow or forehead or zygomatic process feminine in any way in the remake version.
>The boss has deep cheek hollows because they changed her maxilla as well, literally everything they did was to make the Boss look like a ******.
Their brains are so fucking cooked
Interestingly, this rash of DMCA takedown requests is apparently related to the Garry's Mod DMCA strikes from a while back. Apparently, copyright protection companies have started using some kind of automated AI service to mass flag and DMCA hosters of infringing material. This is why it's all so haphazard and the emails full of spelling errors
I just saw some person morally grandstand about murder in response to a joke about abortion in a comment section somewhere
It feels so uncanny when it's not suburban Evangelical Karens doing it on Facebook but random people presumably under 30
The love interest character's clothes got destroyed due to plot reasons, so she had to fashion new ones that amount to basically a halter top and hot pants that she wears under her full samurai armour. The main character goes !awooga while another one explains how being half-naked will somehow make her much more mobile during fights. Why aren't the male characters stripping down to their underpants then !thonk
What makes this especially aggravating is that her original outfit was a really cool and non-horny female samurai design !dean-frown
Previously he made fun of her for having small boobs
Thanks to BlackRock and Sweet Baby Inc we don't get amazing video game dialogue like this anymore !rage-cry
What if your favourite 80s movie characters were VHS tapes of the movies they appeared in !so-true
I love how this one is apparently Bill Murray's character when it has no head. I'm sure that saved them money from paying the actors for their likenesses !michael-laugh
Logged into my banking app for it to tell my that my version of Android is outdated, leaving me vulnerable to attacks, and that I need to update my system. I see no updates and sure enough, the manufacturer just recently declared my phone EOL.
I could still log in to my banking app after dismissing the warning but how long is that going to last? Am I actually in danger of being hacked while browsing the Internet on my phone?
Do I really need to splurge on a new phone now? There's nothing wrong with this one. Fuck smartphones, honestly- sure, this shit also happens on PCs with Windows, but you usually get at least a decade of support. I've had this phone for less than five years, and at least with computers you could stick your preferred version of Linux on your outdated device to get more life out of it
It's also really cool how everyone in modern Western society is essentially dependent on one of two Yank megacorps to function, since you need an online bank account to verify your identity for basic shit like healthcare, social security and so on and those require either a Google Store or iPhone app
I just met this character, why is this a dialogue option
