For OP or for us that are watching and saying “goddamn, they tried”?

Respect. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.

Naw, they’re tenuously connected aside from some specific moments and characters across the franchise.

Story wise it’s all pulp horror/scifi. If you want to play the highlights, the remakes of part 2 and 4 from the 2010’s are fantastic games and each stand on their own. 7 & 8 are a more modern style and really good straight horror experiences but not necessary to enjoy Requiem. The other entires can be rough as they were created with various elements of game design and language we’ve moved past and improved on since.

Resident Evil Characters wiki page can be a fun read for a little more context but not an absolute need.

Alternately if you want to get caught up without a 100 hour investment in play time, Noah Caldwell-Gervais does great long form essays on video game series’ and his resident evil one will get you up to speed for requiem in significantly less time.

I started playing them on original PlayStation release and have enjoyed them all for different reasons. The story is a hodgepodge of 30 years of writers and artists building a world that is both overly complex and charmingly simple. Each release can be seen as a reflection of the world it was created in and the horror and espionage tropes of the time. At the end of the day though, it is a very silly series that understands the ridiculousness of its characters and world and strikes a great balance between that and being genuinely scary.

Came in to this thread not knowing what an Andrew Wilson was. Still don’t but, feel better about it.

Q3 also doesn’t have kernel level anticheat.

That tracks. It was unplayable

It was a free upgrade iirc. Tried it on launch and whoooo… the frame times had me wondering if there wasn’t something wrong with my hardware.

It was unplayable as a stealth archer (as one does). Impossible to aim and hit anything without massive user compensation.

As someone who finally clicked with Monster Hunter recently, this looks promising.

I’ve struggled with the Horizon games (length is too much) but this could get me on board.

Quite a bummer. I have many good memories from that place through the decades.

That edit hits like a brick. I think about techtv a couple times a year. What an interesting convergence of old media and the first stages of new media.

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up

I’ve trusted this site for a long time. https://shucks.top/

I don’t know what that is. 😉

Based on my inability to understand half of what was said during my time there, I don’t refute your claims.

Anarchy. Bedlam. Cars and dogs living together in harmony.

I will not be swayed by your understanding of regional dialects and logic.

I get so irrationally upset about this man’s name. Like to the point where I will not watch anything with him in it. It is everything that is wrong with the English language.

I will die on this hill.

BTW it would be Seen Bean or Shawn Bawn.

Yes

Really good friend and I used to play the mp 1v1 for hours and hours. The slide tackles and jump kicks were ridiculously op. Eventually we got a backup version running for lan parties. After about half an hour of absolutely wrecking shop, the rest of our crew decided the only way to make it fair was to go 2v10.

That didn’t help them at all. We still dominated even when we switched to melee only. It was wild the range you could connect those moves at and it was always a 1 shot even against full armor.

Such a fun game from a truly classic era of pc gaming.

As an aside, Trepang ² is a wonderful spiritual successor.