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07/29/09
...ya cut me deep, Capcom, ya cut me deep.
ah well, Darkside Chronicles and Tatsunoku are good replacements.
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clever.
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"Hey, my phone can play Resident Evil 4...what can yours do? Tv huh? That's so two years ago."
I don't picture many people actually siting down and playing through this game (and others available for the iphone). I see phone games as something that you can sit down and play for five or ten minutes when youre waiting for something better to happen, which is why I think games like Crash Nitro Kart, Peggle, Super Monkey Ball, etc. succeed so well on the app store.
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The smartest thing Atlus did with that game was the quick save feature in the battles. Knowing people can't sit around for an hour or so in the middle of an intense battle that feature was a true godsend. Atlus made what is arguably the best port to a handheld system ever.
07/29/09
The Disgaea DS port actually doesn't sound as bad as I had once heard. I think that srpgs are probably one of the best genres to have on a handheld ever.
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Anyway, I've loved RE since the first one myself. It did a good job at establishing memorable characters (and setting) despite the poor voice acting. The 3rd one felt like it closed the book on the RE story. Raccoon City was decimated and all is well, but because Umbrella was still at large, it was obvious Capcom was gonna keep the franchise going.
While I have no big problems with Capcom wanting to keep an intriguing plot going (regardless whether or not money is involved), I do think they've gone over-the-top with the action. Yeah, so the writers watched too many Matrix and John Woo films. But RE was supposed to be the undisputed king of survival horror...Why Capcom would want to abandon the one thing that made the series unique I don't think anyone will know. By the time RE4 came out, survival horror was at a peak and wanting to see a new breed of next-gen survival horror was at the top of everyone's list, I'm sure.
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But seriously, I can say that I enjoyed all of the core Resi Evil games, including 4 and 5 (5, not so much as the rest). It's the idea that Capcom thinks it's okay to make YET ANOTHER RE4 CELL PHONE PORT that gets me. Not to mention, yes, I do appreciate some of the gameplay traps of the original, including the set camera angles. If they could just combine elements of the original-style RE games with the elements that made RE4's combat so great, you'd have the perfect RE game right there, in my opinion. Is that so wrong?
07/29/09
And it's not like 4 and 5 didn't have tank controls. They just used an over-the-shoulder camera to alleviate camera frustrations is all.
I also happen to like tank controls myself, though I can see why other people wouldn't. >.>
07/29/09
The control scheme for the original series did nothing but take me out of the experience. When I am thinking about the gamepad in my hand more than I am thinking about the zombies chasing me onscreen, there is a major problem. Controls are supposed to be intuitive so the player feels connected to the experience. When the control scheme effectively disconnects the player from the gameworld due to being overly obtuse, you have an example of flawed design.
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But many/most people quickly grasp such abstracted control schemes.
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07/16/09
And after the improovement that was RE4 version, this is not something i think i can handle!
But hey, maybe i'll try the lite version some day an change my opinion.
07/16/09
1. The masses have accepted it
2. There is a lot of stupid people in the masses
3. You can sell garbage and half assed attempts to stupid people
Thats not to say all Wii/iPhone games are garbage, but rather, the garbage has a pretty profitable market to sell to.
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This is why I can see Myst working better than the PSP version. I have never played through Myst, but the touch interface lends itself so well to the interface I might be inclined to indulge.
07/13/09
I think that iphone needs an controller acessory if it's going to do this kind of games. But then it would be a DS with 1 screen.
It's pretty obvious but they should just make a good game from zero, for iphone, using it's capabilities in a good way (zelda phantom hourglass/ninja gaiden gameplay wise) instead of making the bad aspects of touch screen appear.
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