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kamikazekeeg:
Felt a little bored, thought maybe we could have a dedicated Resident Evil thread for kicks, we can include all movie stuff and games here.

The new movie coming up got a full trailer and if you've seen the regular American release of the trailer, I'd recommend watching the International Trailer, because it's actually good.  Like when it was first revealed, the trailer was so bad, I didn't even finish it, but this other trailer does a way better job selling the movie, like it should've been the only one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSgAc6sHNO4

It still sorta looks like a high budget fan film, but at least it reminds me of proper Resident Evil thing and doesn't involve the director's "O.C." wife as the main character of a terrible 6 movie series (The first movie is a big guilty pleasure lol Still terrible as an RE film, but it's dumb horror action, early 2000's, fun). 

Part of me does want this new movie to work, because we don't have good non-game media for RE.  None.  All the bad Anderson films, and then there's all the bad CG films, none of which are good.  Visually well done, but they are usually just boring or badly done and they are all done in that lame post-Resident Evil 4 style, so they are all just straight action flicks pretty much, hitting peak stupidity with RE: Vendetta.  A movie where this happens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GpXUrmSbkY

Infinite Darkness isn't any better really either, the newest tv show on Netflix, though it's a "tv show" in the sense that they had most of a movie made that they for some reason cut up into 4 episodes, even though it's clearly just a single movie.  It also has terrible writing.  Nothing has been actually good though, so maybe it's time that we'll get something watchable.  I mean, I can't trash this upcoming movie too much.  If it comes across as a B-Movie, well then that at least is staying true to what Resident Evil has always been lol  I just need it to be fun and entertaining.  It's all I ask at this point.

burningdoom:
Great thread!

I love the games, especially the old-style games. I'm already a big fan of zombie movies, and those games were love letters to the classic zombie movies of the 70s and 80s. I enjoy the later ones, too, but not as much as the old-school ones.

The live-action movies aren't so great. First one was great. 2nd one was alright. And the rest are cheesefests. The CGI ones are better, but I wish they were live-action.

I can't deny Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness wasn't formulaic. It even had a countdown ending. But as an RE fan, I still enjoyed it.

I'm quite looking forward to Welcome to Raccoon City as it looks to follow the story of RE2 the game. I already have a babysitter lined up to go see it the Saturday of the weekend it comes out.

burningdoom:

kamikazekeeg:
To add to this thread, I played Resident Evil 4 VR when that launched, but couldn't stick with it.  I got through the initial village attack, but for some reason I couldn't deal with the motion very well.  I don't get motion sickness really, I more often just get some eye strain or a headache after awhile, but after 45 minutes of playing, I just wasn't loving it.  I feel that a lot of my headache stuff comes mostly from the combination of movement and low resolution the Quest 2 has. 

Like if you watch gameplay of RE4VR on youtube, it looks like a smooth running version of the Gamecube version, awful textures and old polygons though smooth framerate, but what you actually see in the headset, is like if you took a 720p video and just stretched the crap out of it, making it feel very low rez.  It's not a problem with games like Beat Saber, or stuff that isn't highly detailed, but I think combined with the fast movement and low res, it makes for a rough time. 

I feel there is a way to improve it with being able to change your run speed, which may put me at a disadvantage, but slower movement might have slightly alleviated things.  I ended up refunding it because I knew I wasn't gonna stick with it, because I'm not changing up the games movement (I hate teleport movement and snap turning).

Which is a shame as the gameplay is kinda amazing, like they did a lot to make it work with all the VR gimmicks, like being able to grab health items, your knives, and your weapons just by grabbing at certain parts of yourself and that could be really fun, if not hectic, but it's what I've always wanted from RE4, which is to either play it first person or as a proper third person game where you aren't having to stop to aim and shoot.

burningdoom:
Kamikazekeg, you didn't like the first live-action Resident Evil movie, even? That one was actually a straight horror film, rather than the karate fighting zombies crap of the later ones.

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