Quick Look: Resident Evil 5 (PC)

Something I picked up from a Gamespot preview of RE5 PC which was not mentioned here is the PC version's support of the Nvidia 3D goggles. Usually I would think that is a gimmick but in a game like RE5 seeing an axe thrown at you or something come out of the screen could be pretty cool. The 3D mode requires that the game be rendered twice, once for normal display and once for the 3D effects. Hence the higher framerates actually come into play and makes all the money spent on a high-end graphics card worthwhile. That is if the 3D effects are any good though so we'll have to wait until the PC version is released. Check out the preview at:   http://www.gamespot.com/news/blogs/preview-blog/909185203/26961214/we-just-played-resident-evil-5-pc-now-in-3d-vision.html 

" @88Fingers said:

" Mouse and keyboard control for this type of game... Or any shooter...You might as well use a light gun and hold it directly on the TV screen and press the trigger.No skill required for head shots or accuracy.  no steady hands... nothing... no vibration feed back.It's cheating and always has been. "

lolwut? The entire shooter genre was born on the PC, and came to consoles years later. While the mouse is more precise than an analog stick for aiming, and therefor arguably easier; in a multiplayer environment where things actually "matter", everyone's equipped with a mouse and keyboard.  The fact that mouse and keyboard is a vastly superior control scheme compared to analog sticks is certainly not evidence that it's cheating, simply that it's better.  When PC games actually were PC games and not fucking 360 ports, shooters' difficulties were tuned to match our controls.  It's not our fault your crippled controls force developers to tune their games piss easy. "

" 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 "

Wait, this port has new content that isn't in the console versions? Because that's what "new enemies, new weapons and other stuff we aren't allowed to talk about yet" sounds like to me. 

It still blows my mind how they were able to go from sheer awesome(Resi 4 on ps2) to this steaming turd of a sequel. So much about it was wrong that the visuals could be god damn photo realistic and I'd still hate it.

" @atomic_dumpling said:

" Jeez, it's like the gametrailers comments up in here. RIP formerly awesome giantbomb community. "

Disappointingly agrees. "

Definitely picking this one up.

Its just s shame that capcom gave this game to a bunch of guys that make it so obvious that they really dont know much of what their talking about.   They claim that the game textures are not "scaling" well and that the game was "made for 720p on consoles" (which is actually total BS) and then go and shoot themselves in the foot by showing the in game menu that reveal they're running the game at LOWEVER resolutions than 720p.  Whats almost equally amazing is that they just built this fancy new pc however can't figure out how to run the game at least at the same resolution of the console, god for bid higher... 
  
Then they let a guy who thinks the controller is more intuative in 3rd person shooters play on a mouse and keyboard who proceeds to show that he can bearly even type, let a lone play a game on it.  And then has the nerve to recommend "I think you should stick with your game pad"... 
 
These guys were given the pc version of RE5 and I feel so sorry for capcom... he had to think a minute before he could even tell us they were playing on the first level... really?  They didn't even know if it supported mutliplayer... REALLY?  That info was released months ago... what kind of slop shop is this sight?  
 
Get ur act 2gether guys...

if i had the choice i would play pc games, but most of the time i play games on consoles because i cannot run pc games at a noice graphical setting. Most of my friends own a 360, so i get most of my games on that, but i still love playing pc games. I own a laptop now, and only play css on it. I was going to build a new desktop pc, but all the games i wanted to play on it i already had on either ps3 or 350

Lovin' these quick looks.

Even at low settings it looks awesome, even Chris and Sheva's smooth undetailed baby skin, it's the resolution that dictates the most "ugh" inducing moments.

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Its just s shame that capcom gave this game to a bunch of guys that make it so obvious that they really dont know much of what their talking about.   They claim that the game textures are not "scaling" well and that the game was "made for 720p on consoles" (which is actually total BS) and then go and shoot themselves in the foot by showing the in game menu that reveal they're running the game at LOWEVER resolutions than 720p.  Whats almost equally amazing is that they just built this fancy new pc however can't figure out how to run the game at least at the same resolution of the console, god for bid higher... 
  
Then they let a guy who thinks the controller is more intuative in 3rd person shooters play on a mouse and keyboard who proceeds to show that he can bearly even type, let a lone play a game on it.  And then has the nerve to recommend "I think you should stick with your game pad"... 
 
These guys were given the pc version of RE5 and I feel so sorry for capcom... he had to think a minute before he could even tell us they were playing on the first level... really?  They didn't even know if it supported mutliplayer... REALLY?  That info was released months ago... what kind of slop shop is this sight?  
 
Get ur act 2gether guys...

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I'll wait for the director's cut of the game.

PC gaming is Dead!  Long Live PC Gaming!

@KEITH1437: Yes

"700 games on steam".... :o