I'm at the Castle finally... Been a bit slow going the past few days but I finally made some good progress!
I really did not remember the fight against the "Big Cheese" at all! I can only imagine how that'll look in the remake.
I was being INCRECIBLY stingy with my weapons and health here too, playing it more like the original three games rather then the action title it actually is.
Once I looked up there was no ranking system at the end I've been a LOT more liberal with saving, healing, ammo and the likes 😅
@HallowMoonshadow I’m slow to make progress too, but enjoying it nonetheless. I’m still in Ch 2, that stupid cabin assault is a real struggle and so I took a break.
I have discovered through replaying sections after death (or after a poor showing where I burn through too much inventory and want to try for a better outcome) that there are some pickups that are fixed and constant and some that are random. Some boxes are empty one time and then have ammo the next and then money the next. I also feel like the game has some kind of logic that mercifully gives you what you need when enemies drop items. Despite me being rubbish at the game, I’ve yet to actually run out of health or ammo. But again, I’ve been playing extensively conservatively also and trying my best to end my conflicts with optimal health and supplies.
I probably should just throw caution to the wind and roll with it. But now that I have to burn health supplies on Ashley whenever she gets injured, it has made me even more nervous to be too liberal with those. If she gets caught in a bear trap
it literally almost kills her immediately. Typically she ends up in the red at the very least. Pretty fragile.
Incidentally, I’m not sure if spoiler tagging this overkill but, is this the first game that ever used the companion escort feature as part of its core design? I know games before it must have had escort missions, but I think this may be the first to do this, way before The Last of Us, God of War, BioShock Infinite, etc. Can you think of a game that had this before RE4?
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Yeah I'm in Chapter 3-1 so I'm only an act or two ahead of you @Th3solution! 😄
I seem to be doing worse in the open areas cus the cabin section was a complete breeze for me, I took no damage at all surprisingly.
Yeah I have well over 150 pistol ammo somehow so... I sold like 30 bullets off in 2-3 to make more room in my inventory for grenades and other bullets
I was going to say something earlier in regards to Ashley and given the general disdain of escort missions in gaming I'm surprised in how well RE4 is regarded despite Ashley and escorting her being a major part of the game!
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@HallowMoonshadow The ability to have Ashley hide or stay put and then call her back by whistling at her is really nice (although slightly condescending maybe with the whistling part like she’s a dog 😅) and I would have liked that in some of the escort missions I’ve done before.
But to your point, I’m a little surprised at how revered this game is. Perhaps it hit harder when it was new because of fresh ideas like that, but so far it’s probably my least favorite of the first four RE games. That’s not to say it’s a bad game or I’m not liking it, but the first three were so spectacular to me, and so far this is just… good, not great. It’s early yet and I have a lot of the game left though.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I'm at 3-3 at the moment and hopefully I'll make an actual decent push into beating this game today. I've already clocked 6 hours of game time going by the typewriter... And I know there's at least 5 chapters to the game.
I've also finally met a certain someone and well Leon meeting Ada is rather uncerimonious isn't it? Ada's a big part of Leon's experience at Racoon City and he doesn't really react much to seeing her again or confirming that she's actually alive. He's heard some rumours sure but... Kinda a let down there in my opinion...
@HallowMoonshadow I always found that scene a bit odd. Especially after playing the remake of 2, but perhaps it’ll be a bit more of an event in the 4 remake.
Well I'm at 4-4 now so I haven't got too long left to Resident Evil 4.
Good god I hate the quick time event implimemtation in this. Seriously. They're utterly obnoxious whenever they get shoehorned in.
... Ya might wanna start the next month of gameclub though @nessisonett as I'm unsure if @Th3solution is playing this still thanks to him starting up Dark Souls Remastered the other day and I'm sure it's been well over a month now 😅
@HallowMoonshadow@nessisonett Yeah, Dark Souls sucked me in and I’m having trouble going back to RE4. I fully plan on going back, but I’m slightly obsessed with that blasted FromSoft game. They really get their claws into you and take over.
It’s ironic that I had to take a break from RE4 because of that really difficult cabin section and then I ended up gravitating to an even harder game. I’m hopeless… 😅
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Yeah we had this thing going until November last year, but it slowly fizzled out. I hope people are still up for it. We could do a new vote or get inspiration from the many “PlayStation Plus Extra Hidden Gems” treads. Like this one for example: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/editorial/this-month-on-pla...
I did run this for a couple of years but there were just less people taking part each month to be honest. It was hard to really drum up interest after a while.
I probs won't have time for playing games but I don't mind organising it like I do the PX club if that was amenable to people here, including Ness. I'd probably start a new thread so I can have control of the thread title etc.
I have a template in place that I can pretty much just copy over. Also with ps plus extra now available, seems like there would be a shared pool of games that people would have to choose from.
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