@buttle826: Hey duder, I think you can move the thread yourself if you hit the "Full Edit" button? Try it out!
I'm sure our resident Resident Evil expert @yummylee might have a few things to say about this question, but I'll give my own thoughts here:
Unless you are interested in having the "original" experience or have some interest in historical perspective when it comes to gaming, there really isn't a great reason to play the original. The remake of RE is a fascinating thing. Very beautiful, very true to the spirit of the original, but very different in a lot of ways. New mechanics, new rooms, changed item placement, etc. Like @the_ruiner alluded to, there is some very, very hilarious (and famous) FMV scenes and dialogue in the original that have been wholly excised from the remake - you do need to see these, trust me. Playing the game to see them is something else entirely. I would do it... but should you?
This is a good place to plug Game Informer's abosolutely phenomenal Super Replay wherein they play the original Resident Evil and its remake in back-to-back 1 hour chunks, really giving you a look at where things changed and just how much.
TL;DR - play the remake. You'll decide yourself after that if the original is something you are interested in.
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