Kal-El814

As usual the devs depend on PC modders to add critical features to their games.

Chicken dinner.

I think it’s much more the latter than the former.

LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Finished! Took almost exactly 10 hours on Hardcore. If you like a challenge at all, I'd recommend starting on Hardcore... the only difficult part is the first real encounter, since it seems like you need to trigger something specific after hitting a certain amount of time. I think I only ran from one encounter and generally killed everything I ran into. If you have trash aim (I'm not good at games ) ammo might be a problem, but in general it isn't. I really enjoyed it a lot. It's probably the most consistently paced RE, and there's only one segment I'm not looking forward to replaying. I think there's a couple missed opportunities here and there, and they get REALLY cute with a couple story beats, but overall it's really really good.

Most of the way done through the game unless there's an unexpected act. Definitely gonna be in my top 3 Resident Evil games unless something dumb happens at the end. It's really fun.

There are a couple effects / rooms in the game that turn my framerate to absolute poop. Other than that, looks and runs great. I assume I'm 75 - 80% done now and it's been a treat.

Is this site or the site it references reputable? I haven't heard of either.

I take back what I said about this game not being creepy lul Agreed.

Other than the first encounter I’d say Hardcore hasn’t been hard at all.

Got through the first encounter finally and it has indeed been smoother sailing since then. It’s… kind of a cheesy encounter. If I’m getting it correct, my initial tactics would have literally never allowed me to proceed, which is weird. Maybe I’m wrong? It is a good / weird mix of RE 4 and 7. On Hardcore the enemies with default weapons are super spongey. Also they can catch up with Ethan from behind when he’s running at full speed, which makes the first area in particular annoying but has been fine elsewhere. Maybe it’s familiarity but I feel like there’s much less tension than RE7 so far. I haven’t had the, “I don’t wanna open this door, it’s spooky,” vibe that 7 had a bunch of in the early game, on your first run. It’s also one of the campier games to come out of the series in a while.

Gotta get up PRETTY EARLY IN THE MORNING to beat good ol’ @b_m_b_m_b_m

So I haven’t played anymore, still not past the first real encounter. BUUUUUUUUT the opening minutes of this… Spoilery speculation based on RE7 stuff…

If wishes were ponies…

The first 45 minutes are a nice combo of RE4 and RE7, if that persists throughout the rest of the game I’m good. I don’t love that…

I figured it was something like that since this is basically the same as the opening confrontation in RE4… I just can’t survive long enough. Maybe I’ll just try running around like a Benny Hill routine, or maybe there are more splodey barrels that I can abuse that I haven’t noticed yet.

Git gud … Still can’t finish the first encounter on hardcore lol

lolno

As someone who’s written my fair share of requirements and SOPs… yeah, that tracks.

I don’t wanna spoil the comic at all, since it’s generally worth a read. But there’s a ton of stuff that could be cut with very little lost and they’re already doing that to an extent. They’ve also caused enough ripples in the pond that they could go in a couple very different directions compared to the original story, and might kinda be forced to. There’s also some stuff in the comic that I don’t think works especially well at all; I’m interested to see what of that they keep.

Tried the opening ambush 5 times on Hardcore and keep getting washed olo

I’m mainly joking. I like the DA games just fine. They’re very different from the BG RPGs; other than setting they don’t have much in common. The DA games are fun hack/slashers.

These games sully the good name of Baldur’s Gate, whatever.

I’m not going to pretend I’m intimately connected with lady and queer spaces online and I think there’s little doubt that I’m mostly aware of the cishet online discourse since that’s me. In my limited circle I see just as much chatter about Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel as I do about WandaVision, and the 2 IRL conventions I went to after it came out and before COVID reflected that in the cosplay and merch I saw. Anyway I don’t really have a point other than to say I think there’s some sampling issues going on if someone’s going to say that a movie that weighs in at #6 at the box office in the whole MCU isn’t influential, especially when the movie and its star are known to be huge targets for online trolls. This, too. 12 million people watch Blue Bloods every week, 10M more than Mad Men pulled on average in. Romance novels are tremendously popular, etc. Self-selection drives a lot of this.