I pre-ordered this game. I figured I owed RE4 that much. It is after all my favorite game of all time, even though I am no Resident Evil fanboy. Sure, I have them all, even the game.com version, but I've never enjoyed them. At least until RE4.
RE4. Three sylables that we hard core gamers have adopted as a part of our language. RE4.
Are- Eee- Four. Three sylable that mean so much.
So RE FIVE comes along and we expect so much, not pausing to notice that Mikami had nothing at all to do with it. It has to be better right?
My mistake was playing it co-op split-screen the first two times I tried it. Then I tried it a third time and resigned it to the shelf of infamy. Ridiculous camera. Nuts.
I recently read Robio's post about how it was just not taking with him, and related with it. It is a difficult game. I hated it. The controls are "wrong" by first or third person standards. Why should I have to stop to look around? Why after arming a new weapon should my orientation be shifted? Why after a cutscene is my orientation changed? All of this matters greatly in the first hour of the game, none of it matters after that. After that, all you know is that you have a weapon, usually with limited ammo, in your sweaty hand and you have a very limted number of options available to you. Just as you would inthe real world.
Which is the draw of Resident Evil 5. Yes, you are limited in what you can do. Yes, your actions seem awkward. Yes, you die a lot. Yes, this is fucking shitty and godamnwhycan'tI justfuckingkillthisguy... which is why it is great. That is what it would be like if a random dude invaded your bedroom at night and you woke up with no idea how to fight back.
I'm loving it. Change the control scheme to "B", take a breath and change Sheva's actions to "Cover" and after the first HORRIBLE level enjoy the game for what it is -- more levels of RE4, slightly less well thought out. Not bad, but still great.
RE4 is a hard act to follow. It's a solid if unspectacular game on its own merits let down by some major issues. Well, one. Sheva.
Sheva.
The game would be twice as good if I could play as one character solo.
And I too greatly enjoyed RE4.
Excellent blog. I wish RE5 existed in a world without RE4 so everyone can get their heads out of their asses and see what an excellent game RE5 is. Compare it to other action games of this gen, it shits on almost all of them. And then I hear the Dead Space comparisons, yes Dead Space is better as a one time storytelling campaign but as an actual action game (which it is), it has no where near the depth and setpieces that RE5 has.
No game is matching RE4, its the ultimate masterpiece. While there are things that can make the game annoying to some, mainly no solo play, its still an amazing game.
I'm not finding Sheva to be a problem... but...
It would be nice to play the game solo. I can see why they went that direction -- the online co-op is a blast, and also one of the best stages in RE4 was in that shck with that spanish dude helping you (sorry I don't remember names). I wonder how hard it would be to balance the game so that there could eb a single player mode.
I wasn't mistaken then... in RE4 everything paused right?
I had shelved this one forever, and it's come back to life. You just have to go into it realizing that the game has it's own controls and you have to learn them in order to enjoy the game.
Yes.
And that was one of the best things about it.