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Title: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: kamikazekeeg on August 05, 2014, 04:19:07 pm
http://kotaku.com/resident-evil-is-getting-an-hd-remaster-1616229484/+brianashcraft

Basically it's the 2002 remake in HD, with some slightly updated features, including a control scheme where if you keep going in the direction of where your analog is going.  It's not the perfect scheme, but I like they are altering it.  I really had a problem with the pre-Resident Evil 4 games due to their controls, I couldn't stand them at all, so any change to that might make me like them as I only ever beat Dead Aim and Resident Evil 3, though I've played pretty much every single RE game other than maybe Survivor.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: abe on August 05, 2014, 04:48:06 pm
From what I've read, it's going to be a digital-only release in North America. :'( That's according to this article: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/05/resident-evil-2015-remake/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2014/08/05/resident-evil-2015-remake/)
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: burningdoom on August 05, 2014, 04:49:07 pm
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: kamikazekeeg on August 05, 2014, 04:58:12 pm
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: scott on August 05, 2014, 05:39:09 pm
Digital only. Pass.

I'll stick with the GameCube release.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: argyle on August 05, 2014, 05:43:21 pm
I'll probably get it too - I have the Gamecube version, so I do own *a* version of it physically.  What can you do? 
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: burningdoom on August 05, 2014, 06:38:38 pm
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: kamikazekeeg on August 05, 2014, 08:59:12 pm
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

I had something else written, but I thought of something.  They only ever remade RE1 right? They never remade 2 or 3 I thought.  That's why they are doing this with the 2002 remake, because it's just an HD port.  They'd have to make a new game for RE2 and RE3.  This is just in between stuff till they get out the new RE game.  It's not about how popular the game was, this is just gonna be something easy for them to port over on the cheap and bring back an old release into the modern day.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: scott on August 05, 2014, 09:05:21 pm
I think the closest we've seen for a remake of Resident Evil 2 was the port for N64. But that was more like a rebuild/port I think?
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: abe on August 05, 2014, 09:07:26 pm
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

I had something else written, but I thought of something.  They only ever remade RE1 right? They never remade 2 or 3 I thought.  That's why they are doing this with the 2002 remake, because it's just an HD port.  They'd have to make a new game for RE2 and RE3.  This is just in between stuff till they get out the new RE game.  It's not about how popular the game was, this is just gonna be something easy for them to port over on the cheap and bring back an old release into the modern day.

This isn't even the first time they've ported the remake of the first game. It was also released back in 2009 on the Wii as Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: bikingjahuty on August 05, 2014, 09:42:36 pm
I normally don't do digital only releases, but considering that Capcom is likely doing this to test the waters with how people today would respond to the old style of RE games, I'll likely buy it to support Capcom hopefully returning the series to its roots. Besides, REmake is one of my all time favorite games and I'd love to play it in full HD.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: scott on August 05, 2014, 09:48:48 pm
Still kinda lame that it's getting a full on retail release in JP markets. But over here it's delegated to a digital only title.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: foxhack on August 05, 2014, 10:04:33 pm
First thought: YAY I CAN SELL MY GAMECUBE COPY.

Second thought: Wow, those backgrounds look kind of... dark and poorly upscaled. Wait, it's Capcom, of course they do.

Third thought: Maybe now we can get Resident Evil 0 in another damn platform.

Fourth thought: Oh wait, I hated REMake. BOOOOOOOOOOO GIMME MY PS1 VERSION
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: kamikazekeeg on August 05, 2014, 10:08:05 pm
First thought: YAY I CAN SELL MY GAMECUBE COPY.

Second thought: Wow, those backgrounds look kind of... dark and poorly upscaled. Wait, it's Capcom, of course they do.

Third thought: Maybe now we can get Resident Evil 0 in another damn platform.

Fourth thought: Oh wait, I hated REMake. BOOOOOOOOOOO GIMME MY PS1 VERSION

What was wrong with the remake? I never played it.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: argyle on August 05, 2014, 10:25:00 pm
They say you'll be able to switch control schemes from the "tank" controls to standard.  I can't remember, was that an option in the GC version? 
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: foxhack on August 05, 2014, 10:26:23 pm
What was wrong with the remake? I never played it.

Played it for fifteen minutes and got sick of it. I think it was the gamepad, I didn't like the Gamecube controller much.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: dashv on August 06, 2014, 12:13:32 am
What? Why? Why not release RE2 or RE3 HD?

They are probably testing the waters and it's better to start from the first one.

Kinda sucks it is digital only, but I'll probably get it.

That's really unnecessary, though. Who didn't like RE Remake?

I agree with Burningdoom. I bought my Game Cube back in the day specifically for this and Resident Evil Zero. At the time Capcom claimed every title in the series was getting the RE 1 Remake treatment, exclusively on Game Cube.

When the Game Cube failed to attract a big enough market Capcom back peddled and did the minimum amount of work necessary to bring the other titles to the console and meet the letter of the contract they'd signed with Nintendo.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: 90snostalga on August 06, 2014, 07:54:45 am
I only played the original on ps1 ,so I would love to play this HD remake but oh yea , digital only. Just like my motto at the bottom on my sig. I don't do digital games. Sorry Capcom.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: maximo310 on August 06, 2014, 03:21:33 pm
I'm sticking with getting the game for either ps1 or more likely, the gamecube remake, since I don't have/ play on the platforms that they're releasing the hd remake on.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: abe on August 06, 2014, 10:47:21 pm
I'm sticking with getting the game for either ps1 or more likely, the gamecube remake, since I don't have/ play on the platforms that they're releasing the hd remake on.

You could always get the Wii version. It's just the GameCube version with a few control schemes. You can even use a GameCube controller with the Wii version. Plus, it's not too expensive and it's easy to get.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: maximo310 on August 06, 2014, 11:51:53 pm
I'm sticking with getting the game for either ps1 or more likely, the gamecube remake, since I don't have/ play on the platforms that they're releasing the hd remake on.

You could always get the Wii version. It's just the GameCube version with a few control schemes. You can even use a GameCube controller with the Wii version. Plus, it's not too expensive and it's easy to get.
Oh man, I totally forgot about that! Thank you! Now I'll have to go out and get the game soon.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: pikalink91 on August 08, 2014, 08:39:05 pm
I still think it's a waste of time and resources, when we already have the GameCube remake which even got re-released on the Wii and still holds up very good today. And considering that it was a remake of Resident Evil 2 we wanted all along, not RE1 with a new coat of paint again.
Title: Re: Resident Evil Remake HD Coming to Most Consoles...
Post by: kamikazekeeg on August 08, 2014, 09:38:54 pm
I still think it's a waste of time and resources, when we already have the GameCube remake which even got re-released on the Wii and still holds up very good today. And considering that it was a remake of Resident Evil 2 we wanted all along, not RE1 with a new coat of paint again.

It's just an inbetween release.  It takes minimal resources to bring over something that's a generation old and just give it some control tweaks and HD textures.  They needed a showing on the new systems pretty much and until they release Resident Evil 7 or whatever the new game becomes in the next year or so, we'll probably see another one of this next year if they don't release the new game.