Dead Rising

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I dunno I really dug RE4's slow-paced, deliberate combat. It forced you to take it all in, immersed in the tension, and drew each battle out to importance. I think that's the right formula for the series.

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True, but you can still have that and the massive Zombies marching at you to add more tension. For example, you can have a scene where you walk into a park and you see 200 zombies all turn their head to look at you and turn around and start to chase you. You don't have enough ammo so you must run flee (into a building or whatever) and maybe get to a strategic spot where you can pick them off 1 or 2 at a time. Being able to throw that many characters around will allow new possibilities while retaining existing gameplay.

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Originally Posted by kingoffighters

True, but you can still have that and the massive Zombies marching at you to add more tension. For example, you can have a scene where you walk into a park and you see 200 zombies all turn their head to look at you and turn around and start to chase you. You don't have enough ammo so you must run flee (into a building or whatever) and maybe get to a strategic spot where you can pick them off 1 or 2 at a time. Being able to throw that many characters around will allow new possibilities while retaining existing gameplay.

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The good thing about RE4 was that you had enough ammo at all times. Well there was one point when I was almost out, and it was as shitty as the other games in the series.

200 enemies picked off 1 or 2 at a time? No thanks.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I dunno I really dug RE4's slow-paced, deliberate combat. It forced you to take it all in, immersed in the tension, and drew each battle out to importance. I think that's the right formula for the series.

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I really enjoyed RE4's style as well, but it would be great to be able to go back to actual zombies (slow, moaning, decaying, etc..) while still maintaining a challange with just the shear amount of enemies that can now be thrown in.

The first village in RE4 got it right. When you had the whole town coming at you and you had to get into that house. Then they were breaking down the door and climbing through the windows. Anything besides that would make in feel like something other than a RE game.

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Originally Posted by Glass Joe

The first village in RE4 got it right. When you had the whole town coming at you and you had to get into that house. Then they were breaking down the door and climbing through the windows. Anything besides that would make in feel like something other than a RE game.

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RE4 was good exactly because it felt "like something other than a RE game". RE0 = sucked. RE1 = sucked. RE2 = sucked. RE3 = sucked. RECV = sucked. Making RE4 more RE-ish is exactly what Capcom must not do.

Yeah having to run into buildings, and most likely getting trapped in RE5 sounds like all sorts of not fun.

Depends on the setting of the game for it to fit. And you can certainly have both RE4 style encounters with this new massive pack idea. No need to keep everything the same. Hell, they pretty much did it in RE 4 with the barricaded house scene. It limited how many you could see at a time, but the kept pouring in and that part was one of the best in the game.

The possibilities are there, no need to not consider it.

And RE2 didn't suck, that game is awesome. I'd buy a remake of that in a heartbeat.

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Originally Posted by Rumpy

Depends on the setting of the game for it to fit. And you can certainly have both RE4 style encounters with this new massive pack idea. No need to keep everything the same. Hell, they pretty much did it in RE 4 with the barricaded house scene. It limited how many you could see at a time, but the kept pouring in and that part was one of the best in the game.

The possibilities are there, no need to not consider it.

And RE2 didn't suck, that game is awesome. I'd buy a remake of that in a heartbeat.

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That scene was pretty cool (not one of the best in the game), but any more than 2 or 3 in the game and it would've just felt gimmicky and lame. The best part of the game, IMO, was fighting the regenerators. Creepy as fuck, one-on-one, tense, with that slithery sound effect, in the cold isolation of the laboratories, sick sick shit.

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And RE2 didn't suck, that game is awesome. I'd buy a remake of that in a heartbeat.

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It was the best of the old games, sure.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

That scene was pretty cool (not one of the best in the game), but any more than 2 or 3 in the game and it would've just felt gimmicky and lame. The best part of the game, IMO, was fighting the regenerators. Creepy as fuck, one-on-one, tense, with that slithery sound effect, in the cold isolation of the laboratories, sick sick shit.

It was the best of the old games, sure.

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It goes without saying that it has to be implemented right. I'm all for the shit load of zombies at once thing, but that doesn't mean I want the game to just be that sort of zombie combat. That'd just be way too much.

I liked the regenerators as well, but I thought there wasn't enough of it. Been awhile but I remember going through 2 of them and only in one really small area. One of the best monsters in the series, but I feel they were under utilized. Being stalked by them like (but not exactly like) the Nemesis would have been wild.

Also, this shows how well paced RE4 is. The game kept moving, a lot of different locals and scenerios that put you in all sorts positions. Made it feel like you weren't just shooting the same zombie in the head for 7 hours.

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Originally Posted by Videodrone

Demo is fun, but doesn't offer enough to convince me that the game isn't a one-trick-pony. At $60 i'm on the fence. Though it would probably be automatic at $45-$50.

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Fry's.