CrowingJoe79

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Merry Christmas, everyone!

Oh, 2020 was a hell of a crazy year for gaming as a whole, and because of a certain other worldwide thing we had to endure. But we made it and got to play some gems and downright stinkers too. That's what matters! We are not out of the woods yet, unfortunately. A new strain of the coronavirus was identified in England. So I hope 2021 won't be even more miserable.

I don't think the gameplay is really much different at all from the previous first person sequel, so we likely won't be seeing Ethan doing Chris-style haymakers on any of the monsters or villagers. The leaks don't really delve into the gameplay at all. There is just a bunch of unconfirmed story related stuff about the fate of certain characters.

RE4 as a whole... Shoot infected people. Shoot even more infected people. Loot coins, bullets, and stuff. Shoot creatures. QTE. Cheesy dialogue. QTE. Oh, darn. You were supposed to hit R1 and L1, you moron. What are ya buying!? What are ya selling!? Ha! Ha! Thank you. Shoot more fantasy type enemies. Dodge lasers, from the first RE movie. QTE. QTE. QTE. Don't tell me ya missed again! Run away from a 1674ft pirate robot. Rinse and repeat. BUT... I still think it's a fun game, at least. It's just very, very silly. It's like a Hollywood movie where everything zany occurs in the one epic game. Maybe you can allow editing on here, without the, 'last edited at X time' summary appearing each time I have to make a minor edit in a post.

View them... at your own risk! Very... interesting, eh? 

Well, Freaky will be required for my #1 horror movies collection regardless, since it actually topped the North American box office about a month ago.

That's precisely my point. Capcom is just "remaking" RE4 and no doubt other titles along the way, for the mega bucks. They know these troglodyte fake fans will eat the slop up, day one. Quality need not apply here, I guess. Me personally, I did a live stream of The Ghost Survivors just before the preshow for the Game Awards tonight. That is not a fun game. Whether it's the extra modes or the primary campaign, it's just an awful game. It's like walking around with thumbtacks in your boots. Every damn zombie takes 20 bullets to kill. You cannot really run past them either, as their reach is incredible. The old Capcom we knew, is sadly dead now...

Let me know WHY you think Capcom should remake RE4. Thanks. Personally, I think remakes are the last major cash-grab that Capcom has left. Once they cannot remake any more of the *GOOD* RE games, what are they gonna do next to get that income flowing in? Will they, um, decide that it's time to remake the remakes? Oh, wait. They have been hinting about remaking the first RE game again, as a third person shooter. Think of RE (1) on the PS5 or whatever, but it's like the RE2 or 3 remake. Oh, God. Don't go giving them any ideas, you guys. That will absolutely suck, for certain. I'm sure of it. But knowing Capcom, I would not be surprised if that gets the go-ahead someday soon.

RE4 is great, but the port on the PS4 is just lazy. The graphics look swell, but Capcom did the bare minimum in terms of successfully adding in the same controls. Honestly, it's quite annoying. Plus, like I said, you cannot use subtitles. Me personally, I always put the subtitles on when I watch a movie, provided that option is there. It just makes for better viewing. The same with gaming. That way, you never miss a word, or mishear something. You know? I'd love to know why Capcom left that out. Some gamers are hard of hearing, after all. Stupid C-U-N-T-S! But in terms of RE4 being remade, that's just pointless. RE4 is basically the reason all of these other third person horror type games even exist. RE4 jump started all of that jazz. So remaking it is just kind of on the silly side. Not to mention, RE4 doesn't even come after the events of RE3 anyway. It's supposed to be CVX, which was originally just CV on the Dreamcast in the year 2000. Because that's the story where Claire Redfield headed out to look for her brother, Chris, and got herself imprisoned with Steve Burnside on Rockfort Island, with that crazy idiot, Alfred Ashford, at the helm. Then you later ended up having your escape plane landing badly in Antarctica with Alexia, his sister, waiting for you. Also, CVX in general is very spooky with a lot of creepy environments, so a remake, if done right, would be gloriously gorgeous on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, as well as gaining a PC release... Do you remember that eerie piano music in the palace, and the save room theme that CVX has? It's so relaxing, in a deceptive way. Once you leave that safety spot, it's a whole world of terror yet again. So Capcom would be dumb not to remake it... yet AGAIN! The Darkside Chronicles came first, after all. If you don't know, that was an enjoyable, yet low level story based shooting game that retold the events of CVX in a somewhat, rather inaccurate manner. But yes. CVX deserves a remake, that has passion poured into it. The RE3 remake and even the remake of 2 to an extent, felt like cash-grab titles that were devoid of what made the original RE2 and 3 so great... Personally, I think RE4 will be another cookie cutter, soulless, cash grab product. Capcom isn't stupid, but maybe some of the fanboys indeed are. They know that RE4 is such a classic, so naturally, a lot of people will be excited for a remake with these stylish, modern day, PS5 graphics. The thing is, going by their track record of messing up this, that and the third, I don't see it being all that great. Maybe they can redeem themselves somehow, if they take their time and don't screw it up, but I'm just extremely sceptical that they're in this for the money. And don't say that's all companies care about. It's not exactly a true thing to say. If you look at Naughty Dog, they wouldn't settle for publishing garbage The Last of Us spin off games, like how Umbrella Corps is an ultra bad spin off for Resident Evil. You can always count on Naughty Dog for to deliver a quality game. Capcom unfortunately, usually proves to be what I'd refer to as being a mixed bag. Some candy is sweet. Others is so sour and awful, you'll spit that shite out of your gob almost immediately. This "thug" here was spot on. If they really do develop a remake of RE4, they will probably cut corners and axe a whole ton of boss fights, among other things. RE4 has a lot of bosses too, and it's a long and epic game, with a lot of action. Like, there's the creepy dwarf, pirate guy, his two henchmen things, the ogre like things that swing trees and stomp on you, the village chief, a couple of cameos by Hewie the white dog from Haunting Ground, Krauser, and Saddler, and Ada Wong and Albert Wesker shows up too. And so much more I did not mention. You know? Can you really see Capcom putting in all of these enemies, areas and even the beloved merchant? They would have to at least add in Saddler and so forth, for a coherent plot to form out. For if they don't care about doing so, well... WHY BOTHER TO REMAKE RE4 THEN?

The enemies in RE4 aren't zombies. They are peasants, who were infected with some parasite referred to as Las Plagas. Saddler controls them as his cult.

Why do so many people love the RE2 remake so much, while they hate on RE3? To myself, I see no real difference in these games in terms of their quality and whatnot. Check out my RE related podcast. https://youtu.be/B5QTByZu3Ps

Agree or not. It doesn't really matter... So, yes. I played the HD version earlier tonight, on my PS4. The controls are really annoying, as is the camera. The gameplay in general feels outdated, because you cannot run and shoot concurrently like you can in most modern action-horror titles. So I ended up dying just before I got to the house with Luis, because the controls are so bad, and these villagers were chucking dynamite at me. I was also playing the game on the easiest difficulty setting, but there's no subtitles option. I've played the PS2 version countless times, although before tonight, I had not done so for what has probably been years. That version from late 2005 is graphically worse than the original GameCube version that came out in early 2005, but otherwise, I think the controls were way more comfortable. Colours look washed out and ugly. It's just that RE4 on the GameCube did not come with Separate Ways, which is basically a shorter version of RE4 with you controlling Ada Wong. As an early horror-shooter effort, it's a good enough game. I've never really liked the story all that much, though. In fact, I think RE4 is pretty stupid in that regard. It feels like a science fiction game where you just shoot the same infected people for what feels like hours upon hours. And yes, other RE games had some truly bizarre villains, but RE4 is like a million light years removed from RE0 to CVX in terms of the presentation, the gameplay, the enemies you encounter, and all that good stuff. Is it a bad game? Um, it's hard to say it is terrible, per se, because it's not a bad game in itself. It's just NOT a good horror game, I suppose you could argue across to others. And there's no Umbrella stuff at all or zombies, so it hardly feels like a real sequel, save for having Leon as the main character. Although in my opinion, Leon in RE4 feels nothing like his RE2 counterpart at all, having been blessed with a different attitude and he's also missing his ginger hair. RE4 is also the reason why RE in general went and ended up being so dumbed down in the scares department for years, as every subsequent game basically had very similar gameplay and garbage ass plot aspects that went nowhere any day soon. Yet the remake of RE2 to me feels so much more clunky, despite the fact it's supposed to be a remake. It's not, though. It's a retelling. Especially since enemies absorb so many bullets, the gameplay is not "fun" anymore. RE4 has too many enemies too... Like when Leon is confronted by Jack Krauser, Capcom acted as if everybody was meant to know who the hell he was. He just shows up. They are in a game together called The Darkside Chronicles, which is set in 2002, but it was released on the Wii back in 2009. RE4 is set in either 2004 or 2005. But that other game I mentioned, is an on-rails shooter with co-op. So it's even less of a horror game than RE4 is. Ya dig? Are you following all of this so far? Anyway... I want to know your thoughts on RE4 as a RE game. Did it frighten you silly back in the day, or did you just like the hardcore gun action and silliness it boasts of having? Also... WHAT ARE YA SELLING!? I messed up a few things when I posted this.

I cannot say I like handhelds much... They will port it anyway.

"Heal It" by Roger Bowling. This song was the opening track to a film called The Exterminator. It's about a troubled former soldier who takes justice into his own hands, with bad people.

Has anybody seen Freaky yet? A new Scream is coming, simply called Scream. That makes no sense.

It would be inaccurate to say Resident Evil is dead, because it's not. However, Capcom has messed it up quite a bit. To me, the remakes of 2 and 3 were crap. That's my opinion, anyway. I suppose another dead franchise is Friday the 13th, since they ended the mainline series with the one where Jason fights Freddy. The 2009 one was actually a reboot. It was crap. It's really sad when great franchises go bad. Like with Alien, they messed it up. They were even considering doing a sequel with Ripley and Hicks, where Hicks was obviously still alive... I am glad they decided against that. However, I'm sure there's countless other examples of franchises, both in the movies industry and the gaming community. Everything gets milked. Have new ideas - PLEASE!

Greed? Fate? Science? Just what went wrong, eh? Name some popular franchises you really enjoyed over the years, that you consider to be all but D-E-A-D today...

Apparently, it's planned for a release in Q4 (the winter) of 2021. At least according to Dusk Golem, on Twitter. Since these games typically include two protagonists, what pairing do you want to see? There's actually a fair amount of characters that Capcom seems to have overlooked for years now. Me? Well, I want Billy Coen to come back as soon as possible. After Resident Evil Zero, that dude just disappeared from the franchises altogether, and I think his story could continue on. Rebecca was in the last animated film, but Billy has yet to return. In my opinion, another pairing could be Sheva and Josh, the African BSAA agents from Resident Evil 5.

OK. This problem doesn't apply to the Streamlabs application itself, but the donations page. Basically, what I meant is this. streamlabs.com/userID It will ask you to fill in a name, then the message, as well as the amount to send. Herein lies the issue. The page is mega slow. Like, imagine you're using a dial-up connection on the worst day ever. That kind of slow. It was like this when I had broadband, so I doubt that it has anything to do with my 4G Wi-Fi connection. 4G is actually very fast. I've tried it on my phone and my laptop. Neither are fast at all. The next page after the one with the message where you fill in the mandatory ("red tape") stuff isn't any better. The entire pages feels it's being "throttled" like f*ck. When you click on anything, begin typing, etc, it's like you're a tortoise trying to climb Mount Everest in a blizzard. Honestly. Does anybody use that donations page? Try it, by sending a small amount to somebody you know, and let me know how it was. As it is, I find I just cannot get it to comfortably work. They've also added that annoying, 'I am not a robot' thing as well. That's now on every darn website, although of course I can see why it's needed. It seems every 5 seconds, Google wants you to re-enter 5 more fire hydrants, or whatever pops up on the screen...

A few days ago, I was looking up news about Silent Hill, and I noticed that there was a site called 'We Got This Covered' talking about a possible Netflix series based on the franchise, coming in the future, provided a certain actress inks a deal. Now, you tell me. If no game was even on the way, why would there be talk of a TV series happening? In most cases, it's like a seminal joint collaboration to revive something as a game and then do something related to that game for added publicity, right? So I hope there's news about the reboot coming on 10 December. To me, the time is now. Indeed, the time is now. I'm kind of tired of the hearsay!

Hell, the long rumoured Silent Hill game is said to be showing up too. Konami, it's basically now or never. But after all the disappointment, we don't want to have any more thrown our way.

If you didn't know, the first game received an update recently, so there's no loading lag anymore. Hey. You are many years late, Naughty Dog!

We had The Last of Us which is totally awesome, by the way. Resident Evil though, has been a bit meh, because Capcom just copies whatever is already trending. I'm more into the really old ones, before RE4 was released.

RIP. I'm from Edinburgh too. He was born in Fountainbridge, which is about 5 minutes from Princes Street.