Resident Evil (4, but we can discuss other versions if you wish)

OK, finished RE3. As I confessed, I played it on easy mode, but I'm not sure how much I would have liked it on a harder mode, where I had to be careful to conserve and equip everything just right. I suppose this game often gives you the option to just avoid things, too, but that's not particularly appealing to me. Anyway, it was big dumb nonsensical fun. I'm tempted to watch a play-through of the OG version.

The camp started with 4 as far as I’m aware? 1-3 originals were more serious, kinda a final fantasy x thing where it was the early days of voice acting/cinematic experience in gaming and it all came of stilted and kinda unintentionally funny as gaming tried to figure it out (look at some of the voice acting from the original 1, it’s infamously bad/good).

this is prob right. tho honestly the ffx cinema still impresses me lol. (these days whenever i replay the opening couple hours and reabandon the rest i do it in japanese w subs, which helps, but might not help if i understood japanese.)

yr note on early RE voice acting reminded me of my+friends' mindblown joy as we discussed whether the voice acting in deus ex was "supposed" to be "like that". i still don't really know. camp in games maybe an underexplored subject tbh. (metal gear solid to thread.)

(metal gear solid not an underexplored subject tho.)

Dipped into the original Resident Evil 4 for a bit, and I think I'm physically unable play it. The controls via PS5 are insane, like aiming from the back of a floating boat, and for the first time playing a game I got dizzy and thought I was going to barf.

Whoa. Maybe try an alternate control scheme? I think I had to change it on the remake (except I changed it to be more like the Gamecube version, lol).

I just bought the remake Separate Ways dlc, excited for more RE4.

One huge problem is that the right stick doesn't work the way it does in newer games, it just kind of makes the dizziness worse. So I have to really concentrate on using just the left stick or even the d-pad, but it still kind of floats and jerks all over the place. And then just turning around to face an enemy in that village was an almost totally disorienting task. You can find anything if you google, but yeah, I found others with the same experience. Possibly to do with the "look-snap"? or FOV? But yeah, some back of the box quotes for you:

Played it so many times in the past, and with the remake about to come out I thought I’d give it a quick run through once more, but I’m getting motion sickness almost immediately every time I try. What’s happened?

Low FOV, removal of the black bars/letterbox which were introduced not only to be cinematic, but to reduce sickness. I actually don’t get sick playing the Wii version, but playing on the modern consoles/modern port, it makes me feel sick.

This happened to me too when I tried it last year, I had to stop and have been waiting for the remake. No clue why but it makes me so dizzy

Oh weiiird. Well, maybe the remake is the way to go after all (although I played the original that was available on PS4 and didn't have any issues).

Also btw you can do a quick turn...i forget what the input is but it snaps you around 180 degrees, and that's way better than spinning around manually. Especially in the village - this game drops you in hard, the first area can be the toughest given that you're not used to things yet.

I played on PC, mouse and keyboard are great for this game. But yeah, maybe the remake is the option for you

> Also btw you can do a quick turn...i forget what the input is

down+B (X on the ps4 pad i assume), same as RE1

There's a nu-Silent Hill coming, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, September 19, 2023 4:36 PM (four days ago)

Silent Hill Ascension (interactive live game), Silent Hill f (Japan-set new game) and Silent Hill 2 remake all in the pipeline.