Resident Evil GameCube

[exdeath]

Just finished playing the original Resident Evil remake on GameCube.

Was so hooked I immediately played again with a speed run for the rocket launcher.

OMG such an incredible game. Best Resident Evil game by far, along with Code Veronica and Resident Evil 0 among my favorites. I loved being left alone to explore unimpeded and dashing to the nearest door and counting every bullet when the occasional moan or creaking door reminded me that I'm not alone. I was even startled a few times back tracking the same area for the 500th time and having things unexpectedly jump out of doors in front of me.

While I did play 5 to the point of being a total achievement whore, it just never was the same with it's wave after wave after wave after wave knee high cover mechanic.

Really shows have far Capcom has fallen with 4, 5, 6, etc.

Lights out, volume up, what a blast. Being 480i with no in game progressive scan support I ran my Gamecube to the Sony PVM CRT via component. Looked gorgeous.

 

[futurefields]

Yeah, Resident Evil on Gamecube was a huge win. Twlight Zone level stuff "you mean the best Resident Evil video games are on a Nintendo console?" Yes.. its true.

Hey did you play Resident Evil 4 yet?

 

[exdeath]

Yeah, Resident Evil on Gamecube was a huge win. Twlight Zone level stuff "you mean the best Resident Evil video games are on a Nintendo console?" Yes.. its true.

Hey did you play Resident Evil 4 yet?

Yes, also on Gamecube when it first came out.

I didn't like the direction the series went from then on out.

The always on the run, points of no return forward only, linear sequential on rails quick time event arcade shoot em up game play just isn't Resident Evil. It felt like a side scroller that you couldn't scroll backwards on. The 1D corridor style level layout doesn't do it for me. I want a large 2D/3D map to play in.

I only played it once though and vaguely remember it. Def willing to give it a another try while I'm going through my Gamecube library.

It's kinda ghetto, all my other systems I have SCART or BNC cables for, but the Gamecube is the official Nintendo component cable with RCAs and I keep forgetting to grab some more RCA-BNC adapters. I was jonesing so hard for Resident Evil this weekend that it's hooked up via alligator jumpers from the RCA to BNC

I do miss the cheezy live actor movie trailer voiced intro and dramatic Resident Evil 1 character intro FMV from the PS1 version though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfIGfD0dy8A

 

[zerocool84]

Yes, it was an awesome game when I played it. The first time getting killed by the chainsaw is still memorable to this day.

 

[exdeath]

Yes, it was an awesome game when I played it. The first time getting killed by the chainsaw is still memorable to this day.

To be honest I hardly remember 4 other than some hooded guys, some annoying helpless girl, and some lava statues. My mind is polluted with 5.

I vaguely remember 4 being the first "follow the compass arrow and don't look back" type game.

I think I'm going to do a quick run of RE0 then RE4 both on Gamecube soon.

 

[futurefields]

4 was definitely the beginning of the end for the series, but its worth playing on Gamecube if only for the fact that it was originally an Gamecube exclusive and is designed for the hardware, thus its a good showcase for what the system is capable of. The PS2 port looked really bad in comparison.

The amount of love that was put into the Resident Evil remake is something we dont really see much anymore.

 

[MistaFreeze]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2265836&highlight=

I remember making a thread about this game as well. It's amazing and I really liked Resident Evil 0 as well!

 

[exdeath]

WTB play as Barry as a main character. Dude doesn't put up with shit, lets the magnum do the talking.

 

[Sulaco]

I bought it as soon as it came out on the GC back in '02. Played through it then, and thought it was one of the top 3 survival horror experiences to date.

Last week, I bought the Wii version (Resident Evil Archives) just to play through again, years later.

My opinion is unchanged 11 years later. It is easily one of the best survival horror games of all time, the best entry in the series (although 2 is close behind), and one of my favorite games ever.

RE4 was the beginning of the end. Throughly and egregiously overhyped, but still fun. Where the series went after that though is a damn shame.

We will never see another survival horror experience like REmake again, I'm afraid.

 

[futurefields]

Slightly off topic, but on the subject of classic games remade on Gamecube, I also enjoyed MGS Twin Snakes. It was, Like Resident Evil Remake, my intro to the series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid:_The_Twin_Snakes

 

[exdeath]

Yeah I need to pick that up. Original Metal Gear Solid was epic.

 

[Tweak155]

I liked the Resident Evil series back in the PS1 days... I see this RE0 is a prequel to 1... maybe I'll pick it up and play it on my Wii.

I still have Code Veronica on my Dreamcast

 

[Skel]

I loved the Resident Evil series so much that I bought every platform they would release on, and once stood in line when RE3 came out so I could get the free tee shirt (which I believe is still in my closet, too bad I wore it out). I bought the Gamecube just to play the remake (and the promise at the time that RE would be a GC exclusive). I still have the RE games for the GC even though I got rid of the GC a long time ago. It was a shame they gutted the series into what it is today. I liked RE4 enough at the time because it still made me feel trapped and scared to use up all my ammo (until towards the end where I caught on that if I ran out some idiot thing would drop more). Now a days you don't get that trapped feeling in a RE game, it's become another rail action shooter with a overly complicated storyline that you'd need to read all the fan fiction to keep up with. I've played all four games so many times I lost count, but didn't have a clue what half the stuff in RE6 was talking about. It's a huge shame really, but I am really looking forward to "The Evil Within" as that looks like it's going back to the tone that made RE work.

 

[smackababy]

I loved the Resident Evil series so much that I bought every platform they would release on, and once stood in line when RE3 came out so I could get the free tee shirt (which I believe is still in my closet, too bad I wore it out). I bought the Gamecube just to play the remake (and the promise at the time that RE would be a GC exclusive). I still have the RE games for the GC even though I got rid of the GC a long time ago. It was a shame they gutted the series into what it is today. I liked RE4 enough at the time because it still made me feel trapped and scared to use up all my ammo (until towards the end where I caught on that if I ran out some idiot thing would drop more). Now a days you don't get that trapped feeling in a RE game, it's become another rail action shooter with a overly complicated storyline that you'd need to read all the fan fiction to keep up with. I've played all four games so many times I lost count, but didn't have a clue what half the stuff in RE6 was talking about. It's a huge shame really, but I am really looking forward to "The Evil Within" as that looks like it's going back to the tone that made RE work.

RE4 really turned the series away from survival horror to zombie genocider style games that followed. I loved what they did in RE4, but 5 and 6 were abominations to the franchise.


The remake on the GC was good, but it didn't have that unfamiliar feeling I had on the PS1. I had no idea what to expect from the game (I bought the Director's Cut purely on the fact it had a a guy with a gun and giant spider on the front and that looked cool).

 

[Raduque]

Of all the recent Resident Evil games, Revelations feels the most like the first few RE games.

I too loved the REmake, so much that when I moved cross-country in the middle of playing it, I took my GC and an RF adaptor so I could play at the hotels we stopped at. I really with they had remade RE2, Code: Veronica and Nemesis, too. Would have bought all 3.

 

[exdeath]

Of all the recent Resident Evil games, Revelations feels the most like the first few RE games.

I too loved the REmake, so much that when I moved cross-country in the middle of playing it, I took my GC and an RF adaptor so I could play at the hotels we stopped at. I really with they had remade RE2, Code: Veronica and Nemesis, too. Would have bought all 3.

Code: Veronica X I know also exists for GameCube. Though it's not likely as huge compared to a PS1 game. Dreamcast and Gamecube weren't THAT far apart in hardware capabilities compared to Gamecube vs PS1.

 

[purbeast0]

yeah RE on gamecube was REALLY good. i remember playing it and loving every minute of it. i really liked the one on dreamcast too. i remember it was pretty long and was 2 discs. how did the controls on RE age?

 

[beginner99]

I actually liked RE4 a lot. RE0 was too much of running back and forth 100 times in the same places and to deposit/get stuff form "storage".

But what I wasted the most time in RE4 is the mini-game. Man, I recently played it again and it's cool. Chasing your own high scores...old school. I however realized I had a very slim chance of beating my own scores but still fun especially playing as Hulk and killing the chainsaw guys with his "special neck break move".

 

[Sulaco]

I actually liked RE4 a lot. RE0 was too much of running back and forth 100 times in the same places and to deposit/get stuff form "storage".

But what I wasted the most time in RE4 is the mini-game. Man, I recently played it again and it's cool. Chasing your own high scores...old school. I however realized I had a very slim chance of beating my own scores but still fun especially playing as Hulk and killing the chainsaw guys with his "special neck break move".

Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

But I'm sorry, the idea of "chasing high scores" in a Resident Evil game, or any survival horror game, is painfully out of place.
Horror games in general are about creating atmosphere and tension, and a real sense of fear. Worrying about scores and rankings just destroys that, and pulls you out of that carefully crafted world.

 

[beginner99]

Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

But I'm sorry, the idea of "chasing high scores" in a Resident Evil game, or any survival horror game, is painfully out of place.
Horror games in general are about creating atmosphere and tension, and a real sense of fear. Worrying about scores and rankings just destroys that, and pulls you out of that carefully crafted world.

Have you ever played this "mini-game"?

 

[exdeath]

Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

But I'm sorry, the idea of "chasing high scores" in a Resident Evil game, or any survival horror game, is painfully out of place.
Horror games in general are about creating atmosphere and tension, and a real sense of fear. Worrying about scores and rankings just destroys that, and pulls you out of that carefully crafted world.

Which is why they should have never added the ranking shit in the first place.

 

[Sulaco]

Have you ever played this "mini-game"?

Nope. And never will. I despise most "mini-games", and even more so in atmospheric horror games. Sorry, but the simple fact that that was even included is a dilution of what the game is about.

I thought the addition of alternate 'sexy' outfits for Jill upon completing the game was silly, but at least it was purely aesthetic.

 

[Arkaign]

Yes, also on Gamecube when it first came out.

I didn't like the direction the series went from then on out.

The always on the run, points of no return forward only, linear sequential on rails quick time event arcade shoot em up game play just isn't Resident Evil. It felt like a side scroller that you couldn't scroll backwards on. The 1D corridor style level layout doesn't do it for me. I want a large 2D/3D map to play in.

I only played it once though and vaguely remember it. Def willing to give it a another try while I'm going through my Gamecube library.

It's kinda ghetto, all my other systems I have SCART or BNC cables for, but the Gamecube is the official Nintendo component cable with RCAs and I keep forgetting to grab some more RCA-BNC adapters. I was jonesing so hard for Resident Evil this weekend that it's hooked up via alligator jumpers from the RCA to BNC

I do miss the cheezy live actor movie trailer voiced intro and dramatic Resident Evil 1 character intro FMV from the PS1 version though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfIGfD0dy8A

Hahaha yeah the camp factor in RE1 was off the charts. "No, don't open that door". "I hope this isn't Chris's blood." "I'll be okay, I've got THIS". Hilarious.

If you want a unique experience you should check out Slender Arrival on PC. It didn't get great reviews from the major sites, but has great community reviews (not sure if related to advertising revenue/etc) :

http://www.ign.com/games/slender-the-arrival/pc-143667

It's not the same vein as any RE game obviously, and may be tortuous to someone who wants to MDK everything, but I appreciated it's unique presentation and great ambience. Worth a look for any horror fan imho.

 

[exdeath]

"Ill take the door on....the opposite side!

"Look at THIS"

"What is it?"

LOL I think I have a RE sex audio track where Barry says "Look at THIS" followed by a zipper sound followed by Jill "What is it?", etc its hilarious.

 

[Sulaco]

"Ill take the door on....the opposite side!

"Look at THIS"

"What is it?"

LOL I think I have a RE sex audio track where Barry says "Look at THIS" followed by a zipper sound followed by Jill "What is it?", etc its hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkd2DDxxpM