Resident Evil

[vivid dock]

same with RE7

its very much still survival horror, they just shifted the camera and replaced tank controls with "totally not tank controls"

[hallow pike]

Personally I'd still rather play the originals.

[solemn remnant]

well, fair enough haha, I personally am one of those people who considers Super Mario Bros/SMB in Mario All-Stars/Super Mario Bros Deluxe to be 3 different games, anything more than a graphical upgrade is too much for me for a game to "replace" the original haha

[hallow pike]

The remakes may still be survival horror and they may be faithful to the originals but they're undoubtedly drastically different experiences.

[prisma zinc]

yeah. the remake of 1 is a little different because it's a lot older and still keeps the fixed camera angles at least, the other remakes go much further

[hallow pike]

Can I use the herbs on their own like this or do I have to combine them with other herbs in order to get the healing benefits from them? (Except for the red, I know that those need to be combined)

[white trench]

You can use them on their own but they heal more when combined and it frees up inventory space

[hallow pike]

Thanks c:

[gray surge]

Alright, I’ll work on figuring out how 😂 The RE1 Make would be easiest because I can just do it straight from my PS5 (or my PS4 with a camera…), but installing and setting up OBS on my Mac to play the original version might be an option 👍

I’ve got a job interview tomorrow (been trying to find work for months, so I really want this!), but after that’s over perhaps I can do it tomorrow night. What does 9PM Eastern US look like for you?

[gray surge]

In the few games I played, saving the red to combine with yellow and green was best… idk if yellow existed in RE1 though

[hallow pike]

So far I've found green, red, and blue herbs.

[gray surge]

Ok! I don’t know 😂

It’s a good thing this was game of the month, promoting me to try it for the first time 😂

[faint turtle]

green heals, blue cures poison, red does nothing on it's own but triples the affectivness of green when combined

[hallow pike]

I discovered that I can also combine blue with green, which I assume simultaneously cures poison and heals you.

[vivid dock]

people keep saying that but there are ways in which REmake 1 changes drastically from the original were REmake 2 and 3 stick close to the source material

Like, REmake 1 radically alters the tone from pulpy and jokey (a good bit of it was intentional, if you can believe it) to borderline lovecraftian, and alters the structure of the mansion to be a lot more puzzle focused.
2 and 3 on the other hand stick closely to the tone and aesthetics of the originals, 3's remake straight up just rescores the same soundtrack instead of doing an original one like the other 2

oh and crimson heads lol

thats about on par with mr x chasing you everywhere in REmake 2, it radically alters your playstyle

[pure vale]

Been loving this game, this is my first time giving it a go actually.

I'm playing the original on ps1, I enjoy video game history and I can see how this game and a few others that were released the same year changed gaming

Also im thankful for this chat. I was going on reddit looking for answers to solve things haha, its more fun to talk with people here without looking up stuff on the internet, gives a piece of that nostalgia back haha

[vivid dock]

ikr?

whats your set up?

[pure vale]

I'm playing on retroid pocket 3+ now! I do have the physical games at my moms house, I just never actually played them,

My cousin got me into resident evil, devil may cry and metal gear really young haha. Res 4 and metal gear 3 and dmc4 were my first entries into the series that I played

[vivid dock]

lol thats awesome, first time i played RE1 was on a DSi

[vivid dock]

just started the DC again and i forgot it aint got subtitles lol

[vast shale]

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxx3YLLdhRat8tywdqi59iodfXjaKcdpTb?si=ur1exXBMXt4WHy3p

[willow salmon]

Facts

[solemn remnant]

Alright, I played a further 30 mins

This is gonna be of those games I struggle with, it seems

So basically I only played 15 minutes before, got back to the main room to find ||Wesker and Jill missing||

I went to the right, found a small key, ink ribbons and a map on the first floor

I went upstairs and found ||a dead body and some crows I ran away from||

Now I'm exploring the ||right-side corridor upstairs|| and damn, there's like 4-5 zombies in there, but I only have 45 rounds of ammo and one first aid kit, so I can't get past this area

I encountered the zombies that spit on you

How do I fight zombies with a knife lol

[delicate aurora]

playing remake, I nearly died to the first zombie because I didn't look at the controls. They are nothing like the original.

[delicate aurora]

it's risky. You have to be close, but not too close.

[solemn remnant]

every time I get a hit, I take a hit back but they damage me way more

and also, how can I kill a downed zombie

I try stabbing down but it doesn't work

take a step forward, bloody twat bites me in the leg

[willow salmon]

catch them at full range (hard to gauge) then turn and run sideways to get out of their own hit range

[delicate aurora]

run around behind them before trying to stab down.

stab from their feet.

[willow salmon]

with a knife - get behind em or wait til they get up. with a gun, you can get a round off but you also can't seem to hit them while they're standing back up so also kinda better to wait til they get up.

[solemn remnant]

ohhh, would never figure that out myself, thanks

[hallow pike]

Frankly it's best to avoid using the combat knife whenever possible. Lately I've just been leaving it the item box.

[delicate aurora]

counter point - it saves ammo and makes the later game much easier.

Or, you're Chris, so you don't have the option otherwise for a bit. 🙂

[solemn remnant]

Oh yeah, I'm playing as Chris

[willow salmon]

if it wasn't taking up inventory space I'd always keep that thang on me but yeah it's useful in the early bits when there's just or two of the lurchers where you can take your time

[solemn remnant]

I'm not actively trying to use the knife, I'm just running out of ammo

[hallow pike]

It's pathetically weak though. So far I used it to kill that one zombie you encounter early on that's already on the floor, and the one that's next to the statue that you need to push off the ledge. I was able to slash the zombie with the statue being between me and it.

[vast shale]

Pro tip. Don't kill all the zombies. Avoid them as much as you can.

[solemn remnant]

It kind of makes exploration even more stressful though, and I'm already freaking out cause I don't know if I'm going the right way

[willow salmon]

kill all the zombies! I found it's actually possible if you don't waste a lot of ammo missing. and then you never get surprised by some punkass when you retrace your steps. but do use the knife if you can, and use the right weapons for the job (pistol on basic zombies, shotgun on dogs, GL on hunters etc)

if you use the shotty on normal zombies, let em get close-ish and aim up to headshot them, saves some ammo

[hallow pike]

I haven't encountered a situation yet where it was necessary to use the shotgun on the dogs. I think I've had 3 encounters with dogs, I've used the pistol for 2 of them and I ran past the dogs that you encounter before you get to the guardhouse.

[willow salmon]

bring a grenade launcher if you feel a boss fight coming

[hallow pike]

oh wait, there were also dogs once you take that lift down to get to the guardhouse, right? Those ones are tricky to take on with a pistol.

[solemn remnant]

I think I'll restart as Jill

the 6 slot inventory seemed fine until I realised it includes things like ammo and ink ribbons

[hallow pike]

Yeah, apparently Jill is the more beginner friendly character.

[solemn remnant]

Sadge, I prefer playing as dudes

[faint turtle]

ink ribbons you can stope in the trunk and only take out when you need them

[solemn remnant]

I haven't found the trunk yet

Is the REmake easier than this one?

[faint turtle]

I dunno, I played Directors Cut, and used savestates

[solemn remnant]

I might play that one

[willow salmon]

no

[hallow pike]

Well, if you play any of the REmake ports with modern controls instead of tank controls, I imagine that it would be easier.

[solemn remnant]

😦

I'll try playing as Jill, but I might give up on this one

I don't think I ever completed a horror game, too much of a pussy lol

[hallow pike]

REmake on Switch was on sale recently, but I think that sale ended a few weeks ago.

I believe if you play REmake on anything but GameCube, then you'll have the option to use modern controls.

[hallow pike]

I don't have a problem with spooky games, but the game does become increasingly stressful, especially when you start encountering enemies who can poison you. The chance that you'll die and lose a significant amount of progress increases the more you progress through the game, so even I'm not sure how much more I'll play of RE: Director's Cut.

[vast shale]

My Trunk was full by the end of my play thought

[prisma zinc]

the DS version is easier too cuz it adds a dedicated knife button like in re4 and the quick turn from re3

i wouldnt say either of those are complete gamebreakers but they can definitely take the edge off a little bit. and yeah jill is easier

[willow salmon]

I say don't give up on this one. It's honestly not that scary outside of a few moments here and there. and it's just tension rather than jump scares so just stay cool and rest easy knowing that save points aren't too hard to find and ink ribbons are plentiful. you won't lose too much even if you do die. it's much less stressful than a dark souls or even other horror games.

[vivid dock]

you dont, the knife is to knife them on the floor

[vivid dock]

jill is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much easier, you can get the grenade launcher and shotgun within 15 min of starting the game

[vivid dock]

https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil btw i somehow forgot to mention this but if any of y'all need help, it doesnt get better than this site

its simple, straight forward, doesnt require reading a huge guide full of spoilers, etc.

[vague tangle]

I only played Resident Evil 4. So to play this is kind of a trip. Seeing what things in 4 were series staples is blowing my mind. The save area music being the same in both is cool

[solemn remnant]

Jumpscared I can deal with, tension breaks me 😅 I'm a very anxious person due to living with abusive parents and games adding even more tension isn't something I enjoy 🫣

[willow salmon]

Then forget what I said and don’t force yourself through an experience that’s gonna cause distress

[gray surge]

Oh I’m sorry, yeah I go to games for stress release and relief, not worsening my anxiety or tension beyond a few moments. My mother in law reinforces tension every time we see her, at this point she is worse than my wife’s father whom she got a restraining order against when my wife was like 10.

[gray surge]

If saves and running out of ribbons is a concern, you should remember you’re playing on an emulator… use a save state! You can use self-imposed rules if you like, such as making a save state every time you walk past a typewriter, or if you died to a boss once then you can save just before the re-encounter on your next life, etc.

[hallow pike]

I'm actually playing with original hardware + an ODE (XStation), and I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have save states.

[gray surge]

Ah

[solemn remnant]

Playing on 35xx and without rum was the problem (copium)!

One last attempt haha

[willow salmon]

[solemn remnant]

rum makes everything better innit mate

[willow salmon]

yes. nice setup btw

[solemn remnant]

thanks! ❤️

[rugged pelican]

I have to keep going

i have to go alllll the way back to the elevator now that I've got ||a battery||

Running pretty low on ammo. Is there a reliable way to avoid the hunters ? Am I supposed to understand their jumping ?

[faint turtle]

the hunters were the worse. I upped my sidearm to a shotgun, then a bazooka to deal with them

[solemn remnant]

Alright, playing as Jill on training mode, I'm handling this better

Barry being there helps a lot

[vivid dock]

the jumping is random, just prey they start it late lol

[vivid dock]

the handgun is worthless against hunters, you need almost a full mag to kill them and it doesnt stun them

[solemn remnant]

so I shouldn't use the shotty for normal zombies, like ever, right?

[willow salmon]

you can. it helps if you fish for headshots though!

there's not enough pistol ammo to kill all the normal zombies, if you're killing everything.

and you'll have more than enough grenade ammo to use it on both bosses and hunters

(if you're thorough anyway)

[rugged pelican]

In most of the hallways you can avoid the zombies with some luck. And then you get to more open areas where they're very easy to avoid

hunter in an hallway, though? how am i supposed to get by that

[delicate aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/james-bond-laser-trap-spy-gif-4178913

[solemn remnant]

even on training mode?

[vivid dock]

yeah a big part of this game is knowning when dodging is the call and when safely spending resources is.

[willow salmon]

dunno, just going off normal mode experience

[willow salmon]

vault-tec jumpsuit

if training mode has more ammo which according to google it says ammo is doubled, you can easily just blast every enemy in the game

at that rate you can probably just box the pistol for the rest of the game once you ||leave the mansion||

then carry around a shotgun with ammo and a grenade launcher for bosses/hunters (refilling ammo from the box as needed)

easy breezy

[vivid dock]

double ammo is indeed the one change i can remember in training mode, its on the DS version too but hidden

as a cheat

[willow salmon]

sounds great tbh.

[vivid dock]

its broken af lol

it feels like RE2

[gray surge]

Pretty speakers, Creative Labs, right? I think they’re called the Pebble or something like that?

[solemn remnant]

Yep, the Pebbles! Ultra cheap, pretty and sound surprisingly decent. Most days I don't even use my HD600 unless I want to really enjoy music 😁

[gray surge]

They look like baby KEF speakers, with the copper colored dynamic drivers 😂

[solemn remnant]

Hahaha that might explain why I really wanted the KEFs before I looked at their price

[vivid dock]

im at the lab, its crazy how much i remembered of this game lol

like i had to look up a few things, mostly regarding the guardhouse cause its unmemorable as hell

but i rememebred a shocking a mount

havent played this game in half a decade

[willow salmon]

when I saw the evil plant with the gas line next to it... 💡

[vivid dock]

wait what

oh you playing the remake?

[willow salmon]

no

[vivid dock]

wdym with gas line then lol

[willow salmon]

maybe not gas but it's where you can ||put fertilizer in|| and turn a knob to ||kill|| the plant nearby

[vivid dock]

OH THAT ONE

yeah i rememebred that one too

[willow salmon]

also the jill sandwich

[vivid dock]

you get the ||chemicals from the save room near the stairs and then drop it into the water pump||

[hallow pike]

I knew exactly what he was talking about when he said "evil plant". 😛

[vivid dock]

thats the first thing i do every run, early shotgun isnt even worth it but why not

[willow salmon]

to be fair there's more than one 😄

[vivid dock]

there are 2 plants wdym lol

i thought he was talking about ||using vjolt or the flame thrower||

[hallow pike]

Really? I guess I haven't gotten to the second one yet. 😲

[vivid dock]

btw got to the ||lab|| with 101 handgun bullets lmao

[hallow pike]

I still haven't continued playing since getting to the guardhouse and seeing my first giant spider. ;P

[vast shale]

I had so much ammo by the time I was done my trunk was filled. This was also my 12 time playing the game

[vivid dock]

filled trunk? you dont merge stacks?

i think the DS version does it for you, but that might be just me mixing it up with RE2 and 3

[vivid dock]

how giant we talking

[vast shale]

All my ammunition was all the healing stuff wasn’t stacked unless I did it to get more inventory at the time.

[vast shale]

DS doesn’t unless you have that ammunition in your inventory when you pick it up

[vivid dock]

im obsessed with being tidy, a good 15 min of my playthrough are just cause i wanted to make sure everything was tidy up

[vivid dock]

oh ok my bad, misremember, i think the remake does it.

but then again, every other RE game after RE1 does it too

[vast shale]

I can’t remember if the remake does

[vivid dock]

speaking of

had to use one save cause i had to fucking sleep lmao

standard mode with jill in case anyone is wondering

[vast shale]

That was close to my time also

[vivid dock]

more of a chris guy but figured i should get some variety

got the best ending but im 1 hour over the infinite rocket launcher Q_Q

[hallow pike]

The size of a refrigerator I guess? I just know they're big, hairy, and creepy. 😛

[vivid dock]

||you aint seen nothin yet ||

[faint turtle]

My time was like double this. Skill issue

[vivid dock]

lol thats normal for a first playthrough

i wondered only a lil bit

[gray surge]

I think I’m going to have to avoid this channel to avoid spoilers 😂

[vivid dock]

sorry i cant help myself Q_Q

[gray surge]

No worries, if it wasn’t you, it’d be someone else… and it’s a, what, 30 year old game?

[vivid dock]

in 2 and a bit years, yes

the other GOTX game that inspired this one, doom, IS 30 years old this year tho

[solemn remnant]

yo step bros

I think I'm stuck

I found the ||mansion key with a shield on it|| but I can't find any place to use it

I think I've explored every corner of the house that is available to me so far ||but I can't be sure as I don't have the map of the 2nd floor||

I've ||solved the painting puzzle to get the sun emblem and placed it in the garden|| and ||played the piano and swapped the emblems to retrieve the shield key|| but I can't figure out what to do next

||I'm playing as Jill and have the shotgun, bazooka and acid rounds for the bazooka||

it's the director's cut edition on PS1

[vivid dock]

do you want the solution or do you want a hint

the hint is ||use the lighter on the second floor fire place to get the map||

[solemn remnant]

definitely a hint!

I haven't found ||a lighter|| yet, any clues where to search for it?

[vivid dock]

isnt the lighter something you already have?

ah wait

jill has to find it

yeah ok i'll give you a different hint instead ||the shield key us used for ONE thing only, on the second floor||

[rugged pelican]

yeah that one was frustrating

some keys open 60 doors and some very much not

I need to push through and finish this but I stopped for a long while and i'm going to be super lost i think

[solemn remnant]

shit, I guess it's time to re-search the entire ||second floor|| 🤐

[rugged pelican]

i got ||the battery|| and there's not much there, do i just go straight back to the elevator ?

[vivid dock]

future RE games replace themed keys that open one thing with unique key items that are more clear, luckly

[vivid dock]

the battery is used for a lil puzzle in ||the courtyard||

[indigo glade]

a) REmake is not at all how I remember RE on the PSX, this game got me anxious 😰
b) Got my first head explosion, so satisfying not to have to burn a body.

[vivid dock]

just FYI, you can get consistent crits by waiting till a zombie is REAL close and aim up with the shotgun

super useful as jill in the remake to ||prevent crimson heads||

[indigo glade]

Ah, neat. I've just been avoiding or burning when I can't. I don't have time for Crimson Heads

[hallow pike]

I've heard about the Crimson Heads. About how far into the original Resident Evil do you start to encounter them?

[vivid dock]

they are not in the original RE1

its something they added for the remake

[hallow pike]

Ooohh, well that's a relief. c:

[indigo glade]

It took a while to actually see one, and I immediately ran from it

[indigo glade]

Seriously, ||fucking sharks!? I HATE SHARKS!!||
||Now they're flopping uselessly, love it||

[solemn remnant]

please don't ||fuck sharks||

[vivid dock]

DONT play the remake then lol

[indigo glade]

Too late

[faint turtle]

people ||fuck sharks|| in the remake? crazy

[indigo glade]

Alright, finally at the Labs. The end is within reach!

[delicate aurora]

I won’t make it to this one. I spent too much time bouncing between the two versions and now Sonic…

[prisma zinc]

Yeah idk if I will make it. Have been busy playing Mario wonder lol. DS version is good tho and I'll try to finish it in November

[vivid dock]

if y'all feel stuck, no shame in using evilresource or a guide! RE is like myst in that once you know what to do it goes by FAST

like, i could dead ass finish the game 3 times before the month is over, in each of the remaining modes, but im not even that good, i just got good memory

[delicate aurora]

Maybe I’ll just break down and beat Sonic real fast with save states so I can get to this.

[sly basin]

Mario has messed up my month, too. But I haven’t given up hope for RE yet

[indigo glade]

I'm on pace to burn through it in two-ish days. Not because it's gripping, but because I quickly realized this mansion was built by a madman and started using a guide because I don't need to spend hours wondering which room I'm supposed to go to next.

Seriously, even with zero monsters, this building is terrible.

[sly basin]

The building was the monster all along….

[vivid dock]

lmao it makes sense most of the time if you understand its moon logic

except when it doesnt, like with the shield key

you just gotta have to had checked that door on the way to the other medallion and remembered it

[solemn remnant]

I finished Sonic, will try to sprint it through this one over the weekend

Unlike Doom, where I could play 3-4 hours a day, RE feels more like a 40 minutes at a time game to me

but I'll try blitzing

[hallow pike]

https://www.youtube.com/live/v6vNvVypO4w?si=S0Gc_OVWcfEFv5bp

early morning livestream anyone? c:

[vivid dock]

with save states, you can take a break whenever really, thats how the DS version was intended to be played!

[solemn remnant]

I'm not using save states, but thankfully the training mode has plenty of ink ribbons

[vivid dock]

oh native hardware? yeah in which case starting and stopping is annoying

[hallow pike]

OG hardware club :3

[solemn remnant]

nah, I'm emulating it on PC, just trying to play "the intended way" (I say that as I play with easy mode on)

hahaha

[vivid dock]

no shame in any of that, the DS version let you use sleep mode and the PSX version had an actual pause menu (the config screen pauses the timer)

[hallow pike]

That's good to know.

[nimble storm]

wait is resident evil the gotm this month? I don't understand any of this

[violet mirage]

There are 3 every month based on release year, Pre-96, 96-99, 2000+

[lofty wave]

The current GotX games are:
GotM:

1. DOOM
2. Fire Emblem : The Sacred Stones
3. Resident Evil
   RPGotQ:
4. Final Fantasy : The 4 Heroes of Light
   Retro Bit:
5. Sonic The Hedgehog

[nimble storm]

wow, good month huh

well I'm probably not gonna complete any of those in the next 4 days...

[lean pewter]

You can do doom

[nimble storm]

oh true, I've already smashed that game a few times in my life

but I can do it again

could probs speedrun that game tbf

but meh I mean what's the point if I'm not gonna enjoy it

I wanna play something new

could I smash RE1... sorry I'll stop spamming

[vivid dock]

yeah i never engage in this and i did 2 games this time lol

[vivid dock]

i did it off the top of my head and it took 4 hours

[nimble storm]

I literally started gaming again recently and smashed through re3 and dino crisis, two survival horrors, so this would've been perfect

[vivid dock]

those are both waaaaaay harder than RE1 lol

[nimble storm]

oh fr?

I could actually complete doom and re1 before the month ends

[vivid dock]

if you played both before, totally

i finished both in 4 days

and i'd play more but i wanted to try other games

[lean pewter]

That's why I did the PSX version of doom. It's doom, but I've never played that one

[nimble storm]

lol 😄

I should do the 32x version

[nimble storm]

I SHOULD PLAY DOOD

I forgot about DOOD

[lean pewter]

I...don't know what that means

[nimble storm]

https://youtu.be/_avaXszrdyI?si=xUnijEpxPMV-RNzn&t=87

[solemn remnant]

How do I open the config menu on PS1?

I'm not asking because I want to open it, I'm asking because I KEEP FUCKING DOING IT

[solemn remnant]

Free points and a vote for December's theme so we don't end up with mechs again

[nimble storm]

points?

what?

you guys are earning points?

[solemn remnant]

You get 1 point for beating a GotM

And for 70 points you get a sweet as bag

That's up to 5 points per month with 3 gotms and 4 gotws

[nimble storm]

so only 14 months

tell me about this "bag"

[delicate aurora]

It’s a bag. With your name on it.

[nimble storm]

Hmmmmm

[solemn remnant]

and it's a messenger bag, so perfect for ditching wack "pocketable" handhelds for gigachad ergonomic handhelds 😎

okay finally made some real progress

turns out there was a whole ass staircase I saw earlier but completely forgor to go down on

killed ||the freako plant using the chemical||, grabbed the ||armour|| key, grabbed the ||wind crest|| and found another save room

I explored nearly all of first floor minus like 3 rooms

next objective is I guess explore all the rooms upstairs locked behind this key, find the ||two remaining crests and the red gem||

I like the puzzle design so far

the gallery puzzle was my favourite, but the ||tiger with one blue and one red eye|| one was pretty fun too

easy to figure out but still make you feel good

and starting a new playthrough as Jill on training mode instead of Chris on normal was a great decision holy shit

[nimble storm]

And because it's a messenger bag, people should be less likely to shoot you

[solemn remnant]

LMAO good one mate lol

[nimble storm]

I was not proud of myself

But you are welcome

[solemn remnant]

I'm proud of you twice over to compensate, then

[nimble storm]

Attaboy

[vivid dock]

start and select

in that order

select and start just lets you see the map in peace, also, switch weapons!

[solemn remnant]

Interesting... I'm not pressing either of those and the menu still shows up a lot of the time. Mostly when I'm running (pressing square + up) and a scene transitions, this menu just pops up for no reason

[vivid dock]

that makes 0 sense, which menu do you mean?

[solemn remnant]

The one for choosing the controller layout

[vivid dock]

yeah its impossible to open that without pressing select, what controller are you using?

[solemn remnant]

Xbox Series S controller - and I'm dead certain I'm not pressing select

It's hilarious

[vivid dock]

wait are you playing the dualshock edition?

[solemn remnant]

It just pops up on like every 4th/5th scene transition

Nope, Director's Cut

[vivid dock]

ok man ngl to you something is weird here lol

what emulator are you using

[solemn remnant]

Beetle PSX HW

[vivid dock]

huh isnt that supposed to be hyper accurate?

[solemn remnant]

Yeah, apparently it's the most accurate PSX core

That's precisely why I chose it

[vivid dock]

thats odd, i was using PCSX rearmed and it didnt cause that

are the saves compatible with another emu?

try duckstation

[solemn remnant]

I'll try that then

It feels extremely random

Felt as if the devs implemented it as a kind of measure against people just running everywhere lol

But I tried permaholding the square button

Or holding square + up when running into a wall

And couldn't get it to trigger on purpose

[vivid dock]

most of RE1 is holding square and up and this never happened to me

[delicate aurora]

Yeah, sounds like a controller config issue? Are you playing on pc or a handheld? I have issues when I forget steam is rubbing on pc sometimes. Steam’s controller configs can mess stuff up.

[solemn remnant]

I'm playing on PC with a Series X controller, not using steam, straight ES into the Beetle PSX HW RA core

It's weird as I am 99.999% sure it never popped up when I was pressing any buttons besides square (x) and up lol

[vivid dock]

use a controller tester just in case

[solemn remnant]

Okay so I just ||fought a giant ass snake, got poisoned and had to be rescued by Barry|| and I collected all four of the ||crests to unlock the door to the garden||

approximately how far along am I?

I have exhausted the ||shield and armour|| keys already

oh and on another note

Can anyone recommend me any games similar to this one????

not necessarily horror (I'm a pussy)

but I love the tank controls and the puzzles

[nimble storm]

Dino Crisis

less horror in some ways, but || you'll find de-limbed bodies often ||

Dino Crisis 2 is a sort of arcade version of that, very fun

less focus on puzzles though, more about killing baddies

I just got ||rescued by barry for the first time|| in resident evil 1

and had the audacity to say || "wait, what are you even doing here, barry?" ||

[nimble storm]

grim fandango

[solemn remnant]

put it on my list yesterday thanks to you, will definitely check it out ❤️

[solemn remnant]

AHAHAHA that scene cracked me up

[nimble storm]

yeah I was like || "way to say thankyou, jill" ||

[solemn remnant]

ohhh, this one been on the list for a while, but I always assumed it's point and click because LucasArts

[nimble storm]

same actually, but it uses tank controls!

[solemn remnant]

okay, it gets bumped up to the top

and I'll definitely shill it for GotM whenever it fits a theme

[nimble storm]

yeessss give me a reason to play grim fandango please

[solemn remnant]

now that I know it's not point and click, I am really excited - heard so many great things about the puzzles and story!

[nimble storm]

it's meant to be a classic!

I think you can run it through scummvm on garlicOS

[vivid dock]

bout a third through

[vivid dock]

im currently playing parasite eve 2 and its more of a shooter RPG than an actual survival horror game, tank controls dont mean shot when you got infinite ammo crates

[lofty wave]

Parasite Eve won GotM in October 2020.

Parasite Eve II won GotM in May 2023.

[hallow pike]

@solemn remnant If you want tank controls and puzzles, then the classic Tomb Raider games would be a good choice.

[solemn remnant]

I'm playing RE on training mode, sounds right up my alley then 🤘🏻 hahaha

[solemn remnant]

Perfect!

[faint turtle]

Maybe 1/3 of the way. There’s a 1/3 outside the mansion and then you’re back in the mansion for the final 1/3. The final 1/3 is the best. Good luck

[faint turtle]

Jinx

[faint turtle]

One day my friends, we will make this work. One day

[solemn remnant]

oh shit

I thought I'd be like halfway in lmao

gotta pump those numbers up

[vivid dock]

it actually has segments of people following you around like in training mode lol

[solemn remnant]

you mean Barry saving my arse multiple times is part of the training mode?

[vivid dock]

no lol

just the part where he follows you around

shooting people

[solemn remnant]

Oh ok haven't seen this yet

[vague tangle]

Yes! This one was pretty fun. There a box of unlimited bullets that you can go to.

[delicate aurora]

It’s a decent game, but a poor sequel. Not as bad as the third birthday though.

[vivid dock]

the real problem im having is that it feels like it works on way more moon logic than RE cause they tried to dump all the complexities of RE AND PE1 into one game but the end result is a janky shooter RPG with tank controls

and unlike dino crisis 2, it doesnt have a quick turn lmao

[delicate aurora]

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of it, personally. It’s ok at best.

[brave sigil]

Haven't participated this month to get myself off my phone more and lose my streak so I feel less obligated to participate. I still played this one but haven't beat it yet. Man, it's so hard to enjoy. I do not enjoy combat at all. Killed the big snake. Seems there's still a lot of game left to go...

[sly basin]

I’d say that’s pretty close to the middle

[solemn remnant]

Okay, so I just mixed up a ||V-Jolt||, that was fun

Are there any downsides to ||killing the plant with v-jolt immediately? will I miss out on something?||

I also found the ||incendiary rounds for the bazooka, so I assume there is another way of fighting it||

[sly basin]

I just killed ||Black Tiger||. I’m so close I can taste it

[vague tangle]

I was coming to it as a stand-alone game. I bet that’s why I had a good time with it. I’m glad I got to practice tanks controls before my resident evil experience lol

[vivid dock]

the combat really isnt the point of the game

[vivid dock]

||the vjolt saves you a ton of ammo, it reduces the health of the plant to less than half, also, the incendiary rounds do bonus damage to it||

[jaunty garnet]

Where the hell am I supposed to || Mix all these chemicals together? Are they in the room with the bottles? Do I use the right coloured herbs to make the right colours? || I have all this water and no where to throw it.

[vivid dock]

you cant ||do the puzzle without the vjolt report file that explains how it works||

the other chemicals are in the shelves

[jaunty garnet]

||v-jolt?|| is that what I'll be supposedly mixing?

Thought the ||writing on the wall|| would have been sufficient to do "something" like the ||gallery puzzle||.

I'll stop wasting my time lol. Thank you, beautiful

[vivid dock]

||i dont think these cops have enough chemist training to mix an experimental herbicide from some scribbles on the wall lmao||

also my name isnt beautiful, its axcelon

[jaunty garnet]

Can't it be both

[vivid dock]

careful there, im taken

[willow salmon]

Love you too boo

[gray surge]

While cooking dinner lately, I just watched an exhaustive series retrospective on Parasite Eve 1 & 2. Seems like a lot of fun!

[faint turtle]

PE1 is in the top two games I discovered through GOTM

[vivid dock]

which one? PE1 is amazing but the more i play of PE2 the more eh im on it

like i'd straight up rather be playing RE3 or dino crisis 2 lol

[jaunty garnet]

Man, Dino Crisis 2 is so gooood, I hope we get to play it together some day.

Jurassic January

OH! dino crisis 1 and 2 can be nominated and win in the same month.

[lofty wave]

Dino Crisis was nominated for GotM in October 2020, but didn't win.

[delicate aurora]

I could have sworn one of them was one of th early winners.

/previous dino crisis 2

[lofty wave]

Dino Crisis 2 won GotM in April 2021.

[delicate aurora]

there we go.

[jaunty garnet]

FUCK!

[delicate aurora]

yeah, I missed that one too. too bad.

[jaunty garnet]

Flashback is calling my name

Not flashback the game. Mind you. I'll never finish that

[delicate aurora]

I take it back. That was the month I joined. But diddy kong racing was another game that month and I was already playing it when I joined, so I finished it instead of DC2.

[vivid dock]

underrated as hell

[faint turtle]

That’s when I came along!

[gray surge]

They made PE2 much more like a RE clone because of the sales success of the latter, and the second disc seems to not be as strong as the first disc of PE2… but apparently the end picks up after a bit of a slog.

[faint turtle]

I found the end of Dino 2 really tedious back in the day

[vivid dock]

i dunno im still at dry field, it just tries SUPER hard to be RE while clinging unto what makes PE unique, which could be really cool if so much of that didnt clash.

[vivid dock]

would it be a capcom game if it didnt have a tedious endgame?

[faint turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/hmm-ok-cafe-peki-peki-iyiymiş-aynen-gif-24016963

[gray surge]

Just don’t try the third one 😅 it doesn’t exist! Maybe, some day in the future, they’ll revisit the IP and make another sequel after PE2!

Survival Horror genre is ripe right now.

[faint turtle]

Honestly after what happened with Fear Effect 3, maybe be glad they didn’t

[vivid dock]

jokes on you i already played 3rd birthday, its awful

[gray surge]

I’m not familiar with Fear Effect. I’m just saying, with RE2 remake and that series being on a roll, Dead Space remake, and Silent Hill remake on the horizon, the once-dead genre is experiencing a renaissance.

[faint turtle]

It was one of my favourite ps1 games. They made a new one for the switch. Needless to say it didn’t meet expectations

[gray surge]

That’s always a sad outcome…

[jaunty garnet]

Ok, so I've || returned to the mansion ||, killed ||The Yawn|| and found the || Battery for the elevator ||. What are the chances of me being able to finish this tonight? About 3 hours to play after trick or treating

[white trench]

If you use a guide I think you should be able to finish it no problem. Without a guide might be a little tough. But iirc you're getting ready to head into the final area

[jaunty garnet]

Nice! No guide so far, just doing stuff logically as it comes I'm just gonna guess but I'm thinking ||go down to the courtyard, put the battery in||, go back up || raise the water with the square crank || then go under || where the waterfall was ||?

God damn do I wish I wasn't a little scaredy child when this released. So engaging and it's nice to be finally able to visit the game that popularised one of my favourite genres

[vast shale]

One more day for those late bloomers

[jaunty garnet]

Aaaaand Done! Rocket Launcher ending intact.

Holy shit what a great game

[hallow pike]

Congrats 🙂

[white trench]

Ayyyy, nice!

[vivid dock]

ikr? happy you enjoyed it!

[tired hollow]

Don't think we're going to finish this tonight but I've been playing this with the missus on the hardest difficulty because we're idiots and it's out first time playing RE games.

We just ran out of ink ribbons after the ||shark|| fight and finally found more after running around the mansion. Things were looking pretty bleak at that point.

(Will still finish during this week. The lady says there is no escape.)

[prisma zinc]

yeah im gonna try to finish this week but its not happening tonight

[jaunty garnet]

Way too invested at this point lol.

Did you actually fight the shark or humiliate it?

[vivid dock]

wait is this the remake or the original? cause the entire shark section is super different

[vast shale]

The games are kind very different but we don’t argue with the leaders

[vivid dock]

yeah its an odd choice to allow for the remake but not arrange mode

[jaunty garnet]

I played original, I had no idea they were so different

[vivid dock]

i swear i dont get why people assume the RE1 remake is similar just cause it didnt switch to be a third person shooter lmao

[jaunty garnet]

I just thought the major beats were pretty much the same lol

[vivid dock]

overall? yes, but everything about the tone, puzzles and mechanics are super different, and the entire sub story about ||lisa|| alters the flow of the plot to fit it.

[pure vale]

Trying to beat the game 😆 was going through alot to restart and save rebecca, she kept dying when I entered the library. Took hours to fix haha but worth it

[pure vale]

Just beat it!

Does the stove timestamp count lmao its 144 am est

Game was hard af, had to cheese with save slots otherwise I never would've beaten the game

Proper time stamp

[true juniper]

You should post it in #1102540186790928415 though!

Oh I saw that you did 😆

[pure vale]

Thanks for the response,it's my first time. It was late and I had a feeling this wasn't the place to post it haha. I eventually found it!