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That aside, just bought the RE2 remake cause it was on sale for dirt cheap on the Xbox store. I barely have any money left, I kept getting optimistic about job offers only for them to fall flat.

.....ohhhh  facepalm

It looks pretty cool.

I dunno what I'll play after Brutal Legend, may go back to State of Decay, haven't loaded my save in over a month, which means the way it impacts their lives based on the time away from the last save, most of my characters will be dead.. heh. But I still wouldn't start over because there's a catch, while one can have up to like 15 characters on their team to go to if another is injured or dies, one really only needs 3 to beat the game, its not all that difficult to beat. Don't remember if it has difficulty levels, think the difficulty builds up as one beats it and then re-play from the start.

Been awhile since I played it all the way through...

Finished both Leon and Claire's campaign, excellent all the way through, 10/10, beats Village for my new favorite Resident Evil game. I've heard the Nemesis remake only really has prettier graphics and makes the game a lot more linear and therefore shorter, compared to the 2 remake which adds content including more characters and story besides the change in graphics and control style. So, because I don't wanna spend $60 for a game that reportedly takes 4 hours at most to beat at a casual pace, I'm opting for emulating the original. Pretty good so far, on the first boss fight against Nemesis in the Clock Tower courtyard. That's one thing consistently bad about the tank control Resident Evil games, the bosses are never that good, therefore most of the time they just feel like annoying speed bumps in between the meat of the game. I prefer Mr. X to Nemesis as an antagonist, but both are cool, and while I think Mr. X succeeds at being intimidating by having his impression being commanded purely through pretense, he's not that scary looking, but he's blank faced and silent and does not stop his conquest to pursue and kill you. Nemesis is a bit more freakish looking, and that's fine, he's a cool monster, but he just isn't intimidating in the same way Mr. X manages to be. I prefer the look of Nemesis on the PS1 to remake Nemesis though, and the way he screams "S.T.A.R.S." is a lot better in the original. The remake Nemesis from what I've heard just reduces his one word of dialogue to a quieter, slurred speech instead of a loud growling. 

Oh the remake of 2 is perfect. It adds a lot of content while the remake of 3 was rushed and removed multiple areas. It's also a lot scarier than the other Resident Evils and the combat is better. It also adds a side character in Claire's campaign that's basically a replacement for Ada in Leon's version of the story, Sherry, who is an excellently done example of a young child character. She adds a lot of emotional weight to the story imo, the added plot point of the Orphanage run by Umbrella she escapes from is messed up beyond belief too, reading the Orphanage's nefarious secret motives in the journals at the orphanage is spine chilling... there's a brief segment where you play as Sherry escaping the orphanage and have to sneak past the corrupt police man who's a shill for umbrella due to having no weapons cause she's like 8 years old, it's a pretty fun brief segment and uber tense. The graphics in 2 are also extremely well done. Mr. X is a lot more threatening, too, now that there's no loading screen between rooms and his sound design and chasing is uninterrupted once he starts to pursue you, never giving up.

I'm relatively enjoying it so far. I prefer Mr. X but Nemesis is still a cool main villain even if the boss fights are not that fun (the second mandatory boss fight with Nemesis has a 32 second cutscene you cannot skip every time you enter the room to fight him. But at least it's an easier fight than the one in the Clocktower Yard). I will try to finish Code Veronica after it and then maybe Resident Evil 0. I might play the 3 remake but not until either the price decreases or Christmas or something. No way I'm paying $60 for something I've heard is just a decent game at best and is also extremely short and very linear. Right now if I get $60 it's going to be saved for Elden Ring because that game I trust is going to be awesome because FromSoftware delivers their expectations. 

Elden Ring is basically the spiritual successor to Dark Souls, with George RR Martin helping to write the plot. Not much is known about the lore asides from that, but Martin has said it is indeed a sequel of sorts to the original DS trilogy. It's also going to be open world and exploration based, while still retaining the core mechanics and combat style that Dark Souls is widely lauded for.

Just beat Resident Evil 3 a couple minutes ago. Asides from the bad boss design (PS1, oh well), I enjoyed the game a bit. I'd say it's about on par with the remake of 1. Will get back to that awful boss from Code Veronica now

Gamecube Remake

Well, I'll say, if you like Claire in 2, you'll probably love her added story segments in the remake with the side character, Sherry, an 8 year old girl she helps survive Raccoon City. She's really well written and acted, child characters that young, especially in video games, tend to be annoying. But she's both well acted and resourceful. I'd argue Code Veronica kinda is "Claire's RE 4". But, I get what you mean. I like Jill, though (and not just because I like Women in Uniform). I heard Carlos from 3 is more well done in the remake since the remake of 3 basically nukes the entire original 3 story in favor of rewriting it, I've heard the story and acting are the only superior parts of the 3 remake to the original besides of course the graphics. In the original version of 3 Carlos is just a Latin American stereotype, not anything degradingly offensive, no, but just blandly written to be your average hotshot flirtatious guy with the accent. Fun Fact: The voice actor of Nemesis in the original version of 3 is the same guy who voiced Luigi in two 1990s Mario VHS cartoon specials.

The next Resident Evil game will definitely have Ethan Winter's daughter be the main character, or at least I guarantee she will have dlc where you play as her. And I'm excited at the idea, too, Biohazard and Village were both great gameplay and story-wise, a real breath of fresh air for the franchise (though ironic for me to say that considering I played both before starting with the classic RE games).

Side note: I bet the random mutant animals are just results of Umbrella employees getting bored on slow days. "Hey, Bill, wonder what would happen if I inject the T-Virus into this hedgehog!"

Oh, if they sold Lady Dimitrescu body pillows I guarantee you those things would sell like hot cakes with how much internet p**n there was of her before Village even saw a release date. 

I'm glad RE is moving on from zombies while still finding ways to fit things into the lore. They got really creative with giving science fiction reasons for the existence of werewolves and vampires and living dolls in Village, too bad some people can't let the whole zombie thing go and immediately berate Biohazard and Village for taking things in a new direction. I mean, only so many zombie type stories you can stretch on for 6 numbered games and god knows how many spinoffs. Besides, RE had more monsters that weren't traditional zombies since the first game... hunters, tyrants, Golgotha mutants, Lickers, Bandersnatches, Las Plagas. Actual Night of the Living Dead type zombies were more so just the vanilla enemy.