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Quick Look: Resident Evil 5 (PC)

We just got a copy of Resident Evil 5 on the PC and also a new PC!

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 28 2009

Cast: Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Resident Evil 5

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PC is the greatest! 60fps yea!

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It looks exactly the same..

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@KillaMaStA said:
" It looks exactly the same.. "
Let's just say it's a direct transplantation. 90% of late ports are like this because they never dedicated a team  to the PC version during the original development process.
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PC VERSION IS BETTER LOL!!! 
 
mouse and keyboard, AND CONTROLLER SUPPORT? 
 
PC 1 : Console 0
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@krazy_kyle said:

" PC VERSION IS BETTER LOL!!!  mouse and keyboard, AND CONTROLLER SUPPORT?  PC 1 : Console 0 "

There is nothing to win, so why keep score? You know, reading comments like these, I think giantbomb should go back to ignoring the PC again, if this is the gratitude they get. Immature and insipid.
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@RipTheVeins: 
 
What do you want to say with Pc Palooza. Are you another stupid console fan boy?
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Aaaaaaaah, that was kinda cruel to watch. Unlocked means that it doesn't limit the frames your graphics card puts out. Your monitor always is limited to 60. And why didn't you put up the resolution? Are you playing it on a TV?

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@ectoplasma said:
" Aaaaaaaah, that was kinda cruel to watch. Unlocked means that it doesn't limit the frames your graphics card puts out. Your monitor always is limited to 60. And why didn't you put up the resolution? Are you playing it on a TV? "
'cause it'd break the recording if they did.
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@ectoplasma said:
" Aaaaaaaah, that was kinda cruel to watch. Unlocked means that it doesn't limit the frames your graphics card puts out. Your monitor always is limited to 60. And why didn't you put up the resolution? Are you playing it on a TV? "
I suppose it's because of their recording equipment.
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Edited By andrewf87462

Awesome vid! Makes me want to go and buy a new PC! iMac now slowly starting to fail me on the graphics front.

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Edited By luckybruciano

why does he keep trying to quick turn? whip the fucking mouse around for christ sake!
 
edit: i didn't mean to make that sound as nasty as that. love you!

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Edited By Jimbo

Just looks like a clunky third person shooter to me; a console game shoehorned onto PC.  Have they totally dropped the puzzle stuff from RE now?

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I stopped liking RE5 after 4 made it an "alien" thing.

EDIT: Btw, love the fact you guys bought a PC for PC coverage. There's alot of indie games you guys could probably pick up and test. Plants & Zombies you already reviewed - but there's alot of creativity like that out in the world. PC is still the best platform for that at the moment. Shame we don't get giants like Fat Princess though :(

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@atomic_dumpling: 
@Azteck:
 How so? Because the size becomes too big? I recorded some Warhammer 40KII on my laptop last year and it went just fine with 1650 (but 1  minute == 1gb). I just wondered because someone commented that 'the textures don't scale that well' and then I saw they sport a 'pretty low' resolution. 
 
edit: btw. I used fraps
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Edited By creamclouds

Brad got STOMPED - OUT, Afrikan style LMFAO

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I played Dead Space all the way through on PC and that worked really well. Resi 5, however, doesn't seem like a game particularly suited to a keyboard & mouse set up. It has so many strange idiosyncracies control-wise that I imagine it would feel sort of crippled on the PC.

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Good QL

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They sure pumped this port out quickly.

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Edited By Ghostiet

Um, it sounded weird how they had no idea what most of the options do and kept 60hz refreshing rate. Was it goofing off? Because it really seemed kinda awkward.

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@creamclouds said:
" Brad got STOMPED - OUT, Afrikan style LMFAO "
Well, it wouldn't be a Shoemaker-led Quick Look if Brad didn't get PWNED at some point.
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@MauroR said:
" @RipTheVeins:   What do you want to say with Pc Palooza. Are you another stupid console fan boy? "
not really, I was just commenting on the fact that they just built a new PC and now they've had like 4 consecutive quick looks using their newly acquired piece of hardware.
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Aww yeaa, excellent to see PC stuff on Giant Bomb.

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@atomic_dumpling:

my god man chill out, I play console more than my PC if that makes you feel any better. Its stupid to ignore the PC as a platform as its one of the most popular  and has been for over 10 years!!
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Edited By anklebreaker

Using the mouse to turn around would be quicker than trying for the quick turn key, like other pc games

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Up that resolution! Maybe then you'll see a difference.

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@Kamasama: Our capture hardware plays nicest with 720p, so we tend to stick with that. Capturing HD video from a PC can be a real barrel of laughs, I'm sure Vinny would be happy to tell you.
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OH HAI BRAD

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@Kamasama: The mouse acceleration in that game is weird and sluggish so I couldn't turn around without lifting the mouse at least once. The 180 move was still faster. The crappy buttonless Apple mouse we were using on a bare unfinished wood table probably didn't help matters either... need to get an MX518 or something on there.
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@Brad: Thanks for the response. I understand if there were technical issues with capturing, but I was more referring to comments made near the beginning where you guys were talking about how it looked compared to console. Considering the resolution and frame rate of the video on the site, it wouldn't make much difference for us whether you had it higher.
 
EDIT: Heh, you responded to the wrong person the second time.
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Capcom sure knows how to port games to PC .....

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I heard that increasing the screen resolution doesn't effect the game quality from degrading which all my games are in 1080p on the PC because I can't do w/out that setting.
 
Yea it was funny you's changing the settings sooo much, generally what any person does w/ a good rig!!!!

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@atomic_dumpling said:
" Jeez, it's like the gametrailers comments up in here. RIP formerly awesome giantbomb community. "
Disappointingly agrees.
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I really hate how you would rather joke about how shit your coverage is instead of trying to be more "timely and accurate"

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Oh Brad, you need to SHOOT stuff, not run around in circles. (I feel someone, somewhere has said this bafore. Was it me?)
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after watching these since the beginning, i have an idea, it would require a lot of work, but it could be done. Have two QL's for each game, one where Brad leads it and one where someone else plays, so as to show how to play the game and how not to play the game.
 
sorry, had to do it, it just gets irritating as hell after a while.

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damn you guys needa work on your PC skills, how does someone that games that much not figure out pc settings?

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Heey.. I wanna build a pc.. but.. I cant.. =(

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@Begemot: no what I was trying to say was nothing related remotely to whats better Consoles or PCs. I was trying to just point out why there are more console quick looks and why consoles are more popular. To be honest I love playing WoW and all of Blizzards back catalogue so I have nothing against pcs. 
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I might have to upgrade very soon. I'd be lucky to get Bioshock 2 to run on mine, since that's the next new game I plan to buy on the PC.

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@Lord_Yeti said:
" @leviathan said:
" god brad annoys me. he just seems like such an idiot when it comes to games. As in no common sense. The reason they didn't notice an increase in frames when they were trying to "unlock" the fps is because they left vsync on... but turning it off might have messed up their recording software, so who knows. "
You're the epitome of dickitude. "
you're the epitome of a brad dickrider. I'm not the only one who's pointed out that Brad sucks at games....
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resident evil 4 pc no mouse support

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@leviathan: Yes, Brad may suck at games, but that doesn't mean you're not the epitome of dickitude.
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@leviathan said:
" @Lord_Yeti said:
" @leviathan said:
" god brad annoys me. he just seems like such an idiot when it comes to games. As in no common sense. The reason they didn't notice an increase in frames when they were trying to "unlock" the fps is because they left vsync on... but turning it off might have messed up their recording software, so who knows. "
You're the epitome of dickitude. "
you're the epitome of a brad dickrider. I'm not the only one who's pointed out that Brad sucks at games.... "
So what?!
You may suck at something else.
In fact, you do suck at understanding that the fact that Brad isn't a "pro gamer" makes the quick looks much funnier.
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@ViolentPsycho: How is that a "fact"? If anything, humour is subjective. Hence what you find funny, I may not. For example, I don't find watching someone sucking at a game funny, as I view a QL in order to get a preview of the game in general, not just it's death mechanic. There's nothing wrong with Brad sucking at games, and I realise that it's not a pre-requisite to be fatal1ty to be a game reviewer. Having said that, you'd assume that as someone who plays games for a living would generally be decent at them. However, in the case of Brad, since he is not, all i'm saying is use someone else to PLAY the QL's. Brad can comment. This makes for a watchable experience whereby the viewers can actually get a glimpse of the game instead of the "mash on v to heal" mechanic as was the case in this QL.
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PC Coverage  sweet!! And damn, that is some rig you got there. Makes me jealous of my crippled, 2004 CPU that can barely load iTunes.

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That's a pretty low mouse sensitivity. 
 
I want Giang Bomb to do a TF2 quick look, just to see them get terribly beaten online.
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What people who claim that Brad is a bad gamer fail to understand is that the human brain simply wasn't designed for the kind of multitasking involved in talking and playing at the same time. According to neuroscientists, what the brain actually does when you're doing two (or more) things at once is switching very rapidly between the two activities, and thus quite understandably not doing very well at either. None of you have ever seen Brad play when he's not also trying to communicate interesting information to the listeners (remember also that the kind of talking he's involved in here is qualitatively very different from screaming invectives into the headset over an online Halo match, which I guess is the most advanced kind of multitasking we gamers can engage in).
  
A helpful article for anyone who's interested in why Brad always dies during his Quick Looks:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

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@Egge said:
" What people who claim that Brad is a bad gamer fail to understand is that the human brain simply wasn't designed for the kind of multitasking involved in talking and playing at the same time. According to neuroscientists, what the brain actually does when you're doing two (or more) things at once is switching very rapidly between the two activities, and thus quite understandably not doing very well at either. None of you have ever seen Brad play when he's not also trying to communicate interesting information to the listeners (remember also that the kind of talking he's involved in here is qualitatively very different from screaming invectives into the headset over an online Halo match, which I guess is the most advanced kind of multitasking we gamers can engage in).
  
A helpful article for anyone who's interested in why Brad always dies during his Quick Looks:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794 "
Brilliant comment *thumbs way up*
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Edited By Borg453
@ReFracture: Yeah; i'd love to see that as well. I always enjoyed Yahtzee assessment of classic games.