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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Feb 1, 2023 18:25:24 GMT
I seem to recall playing through pretty much the whole of the original Dead Space using only the default weapon (nail gun?). Would have been on normal not hard though.
Personally just played through RE2 Remake (Leon A and Claire B2nd) and Nemesis Remake. Had a quick go on RE1 Remake which I haven't played for years and a massive leap harder... (On the top difficulty option). Still looks fairly nice in 4:3 on OLED.
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Post by Cappy on Feb 5, 2023 18:44:06 GMT
The first print US Gamecube version of Resident Evil Remake is rather fun, it has an item dupe glitch, Capcom caught the bug really early and it was already fixed for the PAL and JP release.
It's incredibly cathartic to duplicate flame grenade rounds and clear the mansion after all the stress the game puts you under normally.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Feb 8, 2023 10:48:01 GMT
Amnesia: The Bunker has been delayed to May 16th. Apparently some team members got hit with illness.
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Post by wunty on Feb 8, 2023 10:49:29 GMT
Should hopefully give me time to finish all the others first! Need to get back to Amnesia. I'm close to the end.
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Post by Cappy on Feb 27, 2023 15:53:48 GMT
We have definite Silent Hill motifs. Missing and damaged tiles and urinals, makeshift weapons, in this instance a pipe. A humanoid enemy, that's close to but not quite human, in this case a mannikin. The camera in this scene seems to be fixed.
A female protagonist that appears to have a ponytail, but it's not Claire Redfield, she never uses a pipe. I considered the Evil Within DLC but Kidman doesn't have a ponytail
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Post by mrpon on Feb 27, 2023 15:57:15 GMT
Forgotten Memories
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Post by quadfather on Feb 27, 2023 16:13:18 GMT
Shattered Memories isn't it? I recognise the torch icon
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Post by Cappy on Feb 27, 2023 16:22:39 GMT
That was quick. Thank you!
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Post by simple on Mar 9, 2023 15:16:26 GMT
I don’t know much about Fatal Frame but I like the idea in theory. Is this gonna be worth it?
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Post by malek86 on Mar 9, 2023 15:46:56 GMT
Even back on the Wii, it was my least favorite of the series (well, at least until FF5 arrived and it was even worse). I'd rather have the original trilogy.
Still, it's an okay experience. I just think people would be better off playing the second or third game, if they could.
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Post by wunty on Mar 30, 2023 19:47:40 GMT
Bloody hell. There are so many indie horror games on PSN. I keep stumbling upon new ones. I have an urge to keep buying them. Which is bad. I've grabbed Trenches (made by one guy it's literally cheap as hell but it reminds me of Deathwatch so there you go), Home Sweet Home (I'm being hunted by a dead woman with a box cutter and all I can hear is her flicking the knife up and down) and Fobia. But I also now want SWAN, Oxide, Infliction (which looks great actually) and The Beast Inside. But there's also more. Much more. I'm such a sucker for them. They're all janky in their own way but I just love them anyway.
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Post by Cappy on Apr 9, 2023 19:09:07 GMT
Going back to classic flavour Resident Evil 2 causes some real cognitive dissonance if you've played the remake. Certain rooms are similar but they've moved things around like the reception desk in the main RPD hallway so you end up wondering where the typewriter has gone.
The N64 version has a 2D non-tank control control scheme buried in the options which is fun to play around with but takes a lot of getting used to when you've always played with default controls, I do wonder if I would have ever been able to play the Gamecube RE Remake and Zero if I'd realised the non-tank control option was there, RE 2 was my tank controls training ground. I might not have been able to get into Silent Hill (my second survival horror game) and missed out on survival horror entirely if I'd realised that alternate control option was there back in 2000.
You can also tone down the the violence and have green and blue blood too because Nintendo. So, theoretically we have a PG version of Resident Evil 2 here if you could keep those options switched on. What kid wouldn't have changed them as soon as their parents were out of sight?
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Post by malek86 on Apr 10, 2023 7:07:42 GMT
I'll probably start the Gamecube version of RE2 very soon. I think it still has those camera-relative controls from the N64?
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Post by Cappy on Apr 10, 2023 7:44:04 GMT
I'll probably start the Gamecube version of RE2 very soon. I think it still has those camera-relative controls from the N64? I think the Gamecube version is ported from the PS1 Dualshock edition, the Dreamcast version was based on the PC version. The N64 version is very much it's own thing so none of it's quirks ever made into any other version. |
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Post by malek86 on Apr 10, 2023 8:57:21 GMT
Aw shucks. Well, no matter, I can do tank controls too. Sometimes I wonder, if Alone in the Dark had used camera movement instead, if all the subsequent survival horrors would have done the same and we'd have never even seen tank controls. I think, other than RE2 on the N64, one of the first games to allow for camera movement was Fatal Frame, and that was 10 years after AitD.
Anyway... I do have some experience of the game from the PS1 and N64 versions, but can't remember much of it. The remake on the other hand, I've just finished again. We'll see how much it throws me off.
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Post by Cappy on Apr 10, 2023 9:49:52 GMT
Silent Hill 2 has an alternate 2D controls option buried in the menu so the first Silent Hill is the only one you have to play with Tank Controls.
I was actually thinking about that the other day (what an interesting life I lead). Tank controls were already around for yonks in some isometric games and Tomb Raider sold millions sticking with tank controls for years, so I think tank controls would have stuck around in a few 90s games even if Resident Evil dropped them earlier.
Onimusha is an interesting one, tank controls and D-Pad only, it really was a repurposed last-gen game after all.
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Post by malek86 on Apr 10, 2023 11:20:20 GMT
Silent Hill 2 has an alternate 2D controls option buried in the menu so the first Silent Hill is the only one you have to play with Tank Controls. I was actually thinking about that the other day (what an interesting life I lead). Tank controls were already around for yonks in some isometric games and Tomb Raider sold millions sticking with tank controls for years, so I think tank controls would have stuck around in a few 90s games even if Resident Evil dropped them earlier. Onimusha is an interesting one, tank controls and D-Pad only, it really was a repurposed last-gen game after all. I don't think it mattered much in the case of Tomb Raider, since you spend 95% of the game with the camera behind Lara anyway. Besides, Mario 64 arguably led the way in terms of camera-based movement, so it was always going to become more popular eventually, I think. And the writing was on the wall already, for example Crash Bandicoot, which was developed more or less at the same time. Maybe it's adventure games alone (including the survival horror subgenre) which basically kept tank controls alive for as long as they have been. |
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Post by Cappy on Apr 12, 2023 12:29:49 GMT
Dead Space Demake.
A few years back certain people vociferously proclaimed that 32-Bit generation 3D games would be forever consigned to the dustbin of history because not even their Mummy loved their jaggy, smeary graphics. Now we're knee deep in a wave of demakes and homages attempting to degrade modern rendering into something approximating a PS1 with the Haunted PS1 demo disc being a particular highlight.
Dead Space Demake is a vertical slice clearly made by somebody who loves the original game, as a proof of concept with some nips and tucks I could see something similar working on a real PS1 with Silent Hill style reduced draw distance to cut rendering load making Dead Space a bit darker and more grimy feeling than the original.
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 8:59:47 GMT
So Infliction is down to peanuts on PSN. That's been snapped up. Alongside In Sound Mind, The Beast Within and Saturnalia. So many horror games.
Nearly done with Home Sweet Home I think. A few frustrating things with the check pointing but on the whole it's been really decent.
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Post by quadfather on Apr 13, 2023 9:04:25 GMT
So Infliction is down to peanuts on PSN. That's been snapped up. Alongside In Sound Mind, The Beast Within and Saturnalia. So many horror games. Nearly done with Home Sweet Home I think. A few frustrating things with the check pointing but on the whole it's been really decent. I need some new horror fun. Out of all the new ones you've been playing which ones would you recommend? |
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 9:48:21 GMT
Well... I don't know if I've played enough of most of them yet as I'm dipping in and out, whilst focusing on one at a time mainly.
What I will say though is Infliction is oft spoken about in the same breath as Madison and Visage and is currently 80% off on PSN. Apart from that then... Madison and Visage really, although the latter is VERY obtuse. All three games use the whole seeminlgy innocuous suburban house popularised in PT but go different places with it.
ONe that I only found out about yesterday and grabbed before it went back to full price (which was last night unfortunately) was In Sound Mind, which I hadn't even heard about but seems to have a good reputation.
If you want lo-fi (but VERY effective thrills) then Murder House, Bloodwash and Nun Massacre are amazing. All three look like PS1 games but are creepy as fuck. Mothered is another that came out recently that I really liked. That and Bloodwash are actually amazing. Interestingly with regards to Mothered, a game in the same universe is also on sale just now called The Enigma Machine, and I think I'll grab it.
Home Sweet Home doesn't do enough new to really recommend it but the scary ghost lady is incredibly unsettling.
Apart from that, I've not played enough of the other ones I have installed to comment really. Fobia looks good. I was hoping Song of Horror would go on sale but it's not yet. It's on my to get list though.
The Beast Within looks interesting and reviews for Saturnalia are solid.
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Post by quadfather on Apr 13, 2023 10:03:31 GMT
Cool, nice one - that's a decent starter for 10!
Are any of them that you've played set in a spooky mansion by any chance? If it's got a resident evil 1 style mansion, I'm all in, no matter how much jank is involved.
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 10:09:53 GMT
Hmm. Well whilst not a mansion, Fobia is set in a grand spooky hotel, and the brief look I had seemed very RE-like (newer RE - 1st person like 7 & 8). If that helps! It has combat too. Depends if you want combat or just want to run and hide. If you want to run and hide and need a mansion, Silver Chains has an old spooky mansion but I wouldn't pay full price for it, it goes down to a few quid when it's on sale.
Insomnis is also set in an old spooky mansion and is on sale but I've not got that one yet.
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Post by quadfather on Apr 13, 2023 10:18:07 GMT
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 10:19:05 GMT
Oh, and Remothered is set in a large old creepy house as well...
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Post by quadfather on Apr 13, 2023 10:44:04 GMT
Keep em coming
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 11:09:57 GMT
Tell you one that I fancy despite the fact that as far as I know it released in pretty much a broken state. Do Not Open. Apparently it's had patches since then. Don't know why I keep getting drawn to it. Escape room type horror in an old creepy - you guessed it - mansion.
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Post by wunty on Apr 13, 2023 11:10:41 GMT
Oh and whilst not mansion related, Horror Tales: The Wine is meant to be quite good as well. Not on sale currently though.
Song of Horror as I mentioned previously is in an old mansion and has a more traditional RE look. Thing about that one is that you have 12 protagonists and when they are all dead it's game over for good!
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Post by quadfather on Apr 13, 2023 11:27:08 GMT
Song of horror sounds interesting. Screenshots look pretty good too. Bit pricey though
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Post by damagedinc on Apr 13, 2023 11:27:33 GMT
So Infliction is down to peanuts on PSN. That's been snapped up. Alongside In Sound Mind, The Beast Within and Saturnalia. So many horror games. Nearly done with Home Sweet Home I think. A few frustrating things with the check pointing but on the whole it's been really decent. You got a link? I can't find the discounted price? Might be me being thick..liked the look of infliction so will give it a go! |
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