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People hate on Ethan, but I liked him. He responded to events how a real person would. You could boil his entire personality down to “What the...” or “What is going on?!” but that’s all I’d be saying too if I ran into any of the shit in 7 or 8 as a fresh newcomer human to the RE-verse. Not a fan of Village letting down its guard and sliding back into the old RE campiness & overcomplexity. I prefer the less actiony, less mob-heavy, slower-paced spooky gameplay that made up Ethan’s sections of RE7.

So all that is to say I’m bummed that we’re either going to play as an RE alum in RE9, or — even worse — they’re going to add yet another layer of nonsense with Rose and her special abilities. I really just want a full reboot but I know they’re pot-committed at this point.

It's promising but falls totally flat.

Why does Resident Evil keep doing the "transform into big goo thing" bit? Does anyone like that? It has never worked. It's so boring. Do they think we're all 10-year-old boys? As soon as the games shift away from shooting zombies that stumble and react to gunfire the games start to drag on, and this game has zero zombies so the whole thing drags. Like @big_denim said, shooting anything in any body part, aside from the head, has no visual effect. Compare shooting Dimitrescu to shooting Mr. X in RE2: Remake. Her hat doesn't even fly off goddammit. She even stops stumbling altogether after 3 or so staggers and has zero hit recognition other than grey bullet textures.

I could go on and on, but at every corner are missed opportunities.

The only part I really loved was running from the baby.

edit: Also it's a stupid opinion, I know, but the game would be like 50% better if it was 3rd person, for multiple reasons, one of which being the fucking 20-degree FOV. And why the fuck is Ethan's face non-existent when we've seen it already in 7? So many weird decisions...

What porn site? Also I do remember you

@hatking: ah. I actually do think that GB could use some fresh art while we’re here. Nothing against the current art; it’s just... been here a long time.

What’s a favicon

Chess. I've never won a single game, ever.

I have a complicated degree of queerness so I’ll say it’s a little of columns A, B, and C.

Sometimes I’m just in the mood to play myself though, so I pick a dude. Some games give females ridiculous incel-animator-vibes standing/running animations like Dark Souls, so I usually pick a dude hollow when I play them.

@dunbar256: yeah. Definitely Jiant Bombcast. I’ve already seen it several times. It’s already the name.

Damn, just saw posts from Biff and Claude in here. Nice to see they're still around. Now we just need Jakob and Video_Game_King to chime in.

@johnaze: $775,000,000

God, I remember that. Chat was going nuts.