RPD is a complete downgrade from the mansion.
The whole game is a downgrade. It's no longer horror, and the series became shit.
>Revisionist contrarian opinion is... le good
>>12143015I think they're both great settings
The RPD from 1.5 would have been a complete downgrade, whereas RPD from 2 is not.
>>12143015Purists are autistic retards that don't deserve to have opinions.
>>12143015>why dont they just keep reusing the mansion in every game bros
>>12143015spooky mansions are always, always superior.
I prefer the Museum (RPD) to the Mansion, but RE1 puzzles blow RE2s out of the water.
>>12143371RE never had good puzzles, even the best RE puzzle can't hold a candle to Silent Hill.
>>12143383I mean it's true that Silent Hill has better puzzles, but this isn't a Silent Hill thread lol. Comparing RE1 to RE2, RE1 has significantly better puzzles, and they're honestly not that bad. The crow art hallway and the chemical mixing are both pretty decent puzzles.
>>12143015Nobody believes this
>>12143042>>12143371I think it would have worked well if the Museum was cast as the Raccoon City Hall and a small 1.5-style RPD was connected to it via tunnel or another street section to serve as the Guardhouse equivalent.
>>12143406Playing 1 and 2 back to back will lead you to this conclusion.
>>12143406I do and you're either going to have to live in denial or accept it.
>>12143015I've never cared for RE1. Original or remake.
>>12143406It's so fucking lopsided. Who thought the police department layout was even a good idea? Say what you want about the mansion, it works well on multiple playthroughs. After you realize what the fuck is going on with the rpd, its kinda off-putting
>>12143609The immediate forced backtracking is a giant black mark against 2. RE1 had nothing like that. The mansion was much more open to explore right off the bat.>Go from main hall to STARS office to get the medal>Go from STARS office back to main hall to exchange the medal for the key>Go back from main hall to STARS office to unlock the door beyond it
>>12143015It does overstay but the Underground Lab is peak
Irons being a secret serial killer is still a weird narrative choice. It’s one thing for him to be bribed by Umbrella, but why have him kill and taxidermy the mayor’s daughter?
>>12143713Not to mention his secret, torch-lit medieval torture chamber hidden within the police department.
>>12143015raccoon city to me IS classic resident evil not the arklay mansions or rockfort island.that said i did end up liking RE3 more than RE2 in my playthrough of the series.>>12143202i always find it funny how capcom really wants to do a RE1 remake in the modern style but realize that REmake already exists so we get homages like the spencer estate in RE5 or the baker plantation in RE7.
>>12143383I mean most puzzles are just "put the doohicky-shaped thing in the doohicky-shaped identation"
>>12143991Much better than the rigamarole puzzles that make up Silent Hill.
>>12143740One of the files names him as a rapist too.
>>12144006no,you are just a retard.
>>12144006uh nosh puzzles actually make think a little
>>12143647Hey, someone saved my webmHad to make it when I realized that indeed, this is literally the only way to progress at the beginning of the RPD. It's just comically blatant paddingI still love RE2 by the way
>>12144098Yeah and it would have been a pretty simple fix too. Make the Spade Key open that door at the top of the stairs if you go through the East Office. Or leave it unlocked and make the key unlock the door leading outside, whatever. At least give the player an alternate route to the second floor.
>>12143402Those are two of my favorites too, earlier in the RPG campaign I'm running, I shamelessly copied a ton of the spencer mansion for a spooky mansion for them to go through, and those were two puzzles I carried over
>>12143597Thsn FUCK YOU!
>>12144146Also, the fact that none of the keys in RE2 unlock more than 3 doors is a good example of how linear the game is compared to RE1In RE1, the Armor key unlocking 6 different doors gives you a lot of freedom when it comes to how you want to progress
are the remakes worth it? i used to play 2 and 3 when i was young but i dont feel like playing the originals now
>>12144750/vr/ will tell you that any remake is inherently bad, but I think the RE1 and RE2 remakes are decentThe RE3 remake is liquid shit though. Haven't played the RE4 remakeJust to be clear, I don't think the remakes are better than the originals
>>12143015nothing wrong with re1 or re2, the 3 remake is an abortion though>>12144750I played the originals when it came out on PS1. RE2 remake is pretty good and faithful, RE3 remake is absolute garbage. They turned nemesis into a cucked faggot so zoomers wouldn't break down crying trying to defeat him. I like the RE4 remake too.
>>12144750yes anon play remakes, original games are stinky and outdated and look bad. the heckin remakerinos made all this shit obsolete.
>>12143647its not like any first time player managed to dodge each and every enemy in the game
>>12143383Silent Hill's puzzle logic is halfway to the moon at times and even gets obfuscated by poor localization. There is no clear winner when it comes to puzzles but overall, even Cope Harmonica mogs every Silent Hill game.
>>12143458Not at all
>>12144912>RE2 remake is pretty good and faithfulFucking howHow is REmake 2 faithful. Leaving aside how it's entirely different mechanically, it literally does a 180 on characters narratively. What part of that is "faithful".
>>12144750>>12144897for RE4R i'll say...+it has better combat.+it fleshes out luis & krasuer.+taking care of ashley feels less like babysitting.-it's less campy and doesn't have alot of the charm the original has.-the removal of OTEs ruins some of the setpieces.-no assignment ada or any new content ala RE2R's ghost survivors.-separate ways (paid) & mercenaries (free) are DLC.
>>12143647resident evil in its core was always a metroidvania
*pursues you down the hallway at a leisurely pace*
>>12145998Sweet, the merchant that lets me exchange handgun rounds for better ammo is here!
Your face is a complete downgrade from the mansion, how about that.
>>12146623This is me, you wanna say that again?
>>12146660Making a survival horror game in the arklay woods would be so fun but they keep making slop
>>12146660Y-Your face is a downgrade, boulder puncher.
>>12143647you literally get forced back into the mansion after you get to leave it for a while, much gayer than getting a medal in the first 5 minutes of the rpd
>>12143015The coldest take ever posted on this board
>>12143020how is it any less horror than the first game?
>>12145998not a single re game got him write not even darkside chronicles & their models were super faithful to re2 concept art
>>121436472 is very linear and one of the ancestors of modern movie games. There's no alternate choices or outcomes like RE1, no different endings. You see the same scenes in the same order and get the same endings every single time no matter what you do.
I agree. The mansion had more sequences that had you outside in a nicer setting: an outdoor garden, a pool surrounded by snakes, and a fountain area leading to a secret lab.Meanwhile RE2 mostly has you running around inside a police station with a hidden torture room and a secret path to a hidden lab that goes through the city's sewers. The few times you are outside, you're on metal surfaces leading onto or off of trams.
>>12146613It’s comical how easy it is to put down Mr. X. It gets doubly hilarious in Nightmare/True Hard mode, because in some encounters he legitimately takes less handgun bullets to take down than common Zombies. It’s just a no-brainer to save handgun bullets to take him down in the last stretch of the R.P.D to get some easy Shotgun/Magnum/Grenade ammo.
>an eccentric mansion built by an autist for some rich faggot family is less interesting than a police station in podunk, USA?Shocking faggotRE:2 and the police station are both still great though.
>>12149054true but theres 4 different scenarios. i prefer re1 myself but at the time i thought 2 was way better
You know you've been on 4chan too long when you read the unironic take of "Resident Evil 2 is the ancestor to movie games".
>>12149816>barebones gameplay thats barelly challenging>braindead puzzles that dont require any thought once you are older than 12>doors loading screen and unskipable cutscenes take a huge portion of the runtime once you know the gameyep,movie games it is.
>>12149821It gets really obnoxious around the time you hit the sewers and lab. It feels like you're getting interrupted by a shitty talking scene every 5 minutes.
>>12149834RE1 has 8 cutscenes in the first 10 minutes of the game
>>12149821Might as well dislike the entirety of classic RE at that point
>>12149993why would i,i got nothing against movie games.MGS is in my top 5 PS1 games.
>>12149816What game is Claire playing?
>>12150068Your favorite PS1 Capcom game
>>12143713I always sort of thought it was the outbreak that pushed him over the edge but he has that torture/dissecting room under his office so plus he got rid of his sectary and that was before the outbreak
>>12148763It certainly lacks the feeling of isolation of RE1.
