Why was RE7 significantly better than Village?
RE7 was properly linear, Village wasn't linear and was severely unoptimized. Tall sexy women are pleasant but a genuinely good villain from any of the past entrees are far more memoreable than basic-bitch generic pandering
>>729123629RE7 was dogshitRE8 was better but copying RE4 kind of made it have lose its identity and it's forgettable and gay
>>729123629I loved the characters but the gameplay was supposed to be action-y (like RE4) when the RE7 control system is completely unsuitable for action
>>729123629Village was supposed to be a side game Revelations 3 with a smaller budget. But the real RE8 project (which evolved into the current RE9 Requiem) got delayed by several years because they couldn't figure out wtf to make, so Revelations 3 got promoted to take the vacant RE8 space and got its budget upgraded as a result. Lots of cut content and ideas, lots of half-baked ideas added relatively late in development. Almost impossible to verify but there's a rumor that Rebecca Chambers was supposed to co-star with Ethan in the Revelations 3 version of the game, obviously her role was completely cut if that rumor is true.Also keep in mind that Village was made by a different team than RE7 and RE2/4 Remakes. I think Capcom does have certain designers spread themselves across the different project teams but the creative designers usually stick within their assigned team, a lot of the RE7 team has been working on RE9 for most of this time, the big names on the RE7 dev team weren't involved with RE Village at all.
8illages problem is that it's trying to merge VII and RE4, but you can't do RE4's combat in VIII.You can see how silly the lycans sidestepping bullets and slowly clambering toward you look in first person.VII gets away with it because there are blob monsters and that's it. The game is trying to be P.T. and so it's able to leverage Resident Evil's puzzle design.
>>729124792>ethan came balls deep in that
>>729126032That's not Chris?
>>729125351It's funny how RE8 was patched with a third person mode, almost like the game should have been 3rd person from the start
>>729123629Because RE7 is the best one of the entire franchise, the older ones were just shit and village was too much walking.
It wasn't. RE7 was a slow, plodding, gay mess of a game.
>>729126492Ethan is literally me and I would never inseminate Chris
>>729127058I love "average unremarkable guy" characters in horror games. Ethan is one of my all time fav game characters. I like Harry and Henry from Silent Hill too.
>>729123629It wasn't really at all, it's super mediocre. It was the first RE I ever played and even I can admit it didn't have much to it
>>729128792it was unironically a return to form after RE4, RE5 and RE6. They finally went back to that classic puzzlebox gameplay
>>729127058You're right, Ethan would never inseminate Chris...But Chris would 100% inseminate Ethan.
The castle section with Lady D and the Daughters should have essentially been extended and made into the whole game. I’d maybe consider preserving the bit with the giant baby but I’d work it into the castle - maybe set it in an abandoned wing or a basement. Giant baby could be the failed abortion fourth daughter, or maybe the dollmaker of whatever the fuck she was could be Lady D’s weirdo sister. I’d maybe keep the fish guy as a character but not give him a whole section, and I would ensure that Heisenberg and the entire foundry section goes straight in the bin where it fucking belongs.Could possibly apply this logic to VII too, really. Drop the pseudo-SAW shit and the boat section entirely.
>>7291236297 is complete dogshit and the worst RE game. 8 is bad overall, but the castle is actually decent.
>>729123629Was actually scary at many points, especially with good headphones where noises are fking with you constantly. Village was just a mess and didn't know what it wanted to be as a game. The puzzles and map layouts were dogshit too.
>>729123629Loli?
Werewolves and vampires are not Resident EvilMagic magneto metal powers are not Resident Evil
That initial trek through the pitch black woods at the beginning of Village was one of the most effective scares in any RE game and they just throw that vibe out the window immediately for a less-good version of RE4.
