[wentwood]

Play Station 1

Castle Vainia - Symphony Of The Night
Castle Vainia
Dragon Warrior VII
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy V
Mega Man 8
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5
Mega Man X6
Mega Man Legends
Mega Man Legends 2
Metal Gear Solid
Power Rangers - Lightspeed Rescue (Completed)
Power Rangers - Time Force
Scooby-Doo And The Cyber Chase
Street Fighter - The Movie (Live Film Version Game)
Syphon Filter
Syphon Filter 2
Syphon Filter 3
Tekken
Tekken 2
Tekken 3
Xena - Warrior Princess

Play Statoin 2

Dragon Warrior VIII - Journey Of The Cursed King
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII

I have a Play Station Classic Mini picked up from Dollar General during COVID. I bought the flash drives for it on Ebay. Finishing a few games on PS 2. I had a PS1 at the house but the disk tray broke so The PS Mini is a replacement.

I was looking at the Atari and Sega minis but neither warrented enough to buy it. With the PS1 mini I was able to finish games I missed.

[Talisman]

Doing a Handgun/Knife run in RE4R.

Gotta say that the Matilda's an absolute beast of a gun once you don't have to worry about ammo. Still use the Blacktail for most encounters but when you've gotta make a hole in a horde, look to no further.

[EpsilonX]

I've been a Resident Evil fan for YEARS (I was first introduced around 2001 or so, but became a huge fan when I played the first remake in 2007) and am just now getting around to playing RE5 I just never had anybody to play it with. I remember the game being poorly-received upon release due to the heavy action focus, but I'm having a blast and it's much easier to accept this direction now that the series has really figured itself out.

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Originally Posted by Talisman

Doing a Handgun/Knife run in RE4R.

Why would you do that to yourself?

[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

I've been a Resident Evil fan for YEARS (I was first introduced around 2001 or so, but became a huge fan when I played the first remake in 2007) and am just now getting around to playing RE5 I just never had anybody to play it with. I remember the game being poorly-received upon release due to the heavy action focus, but I'm having a blast and it's much easier to accept this direction now that the series has really figured itself out.

I was put off by how much they changed from RE4 (No attache case? NO MERCHANT?!) and splitting it into missions as opposed to a (mostly) continuous map/areas. Then again RE4 was my introduction to the series because I was a scaredy baby of a child and didn't really get over that until... well, RE4 started pushing me out of being a scaredy baby.

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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Why would you do that to yourself?

It's not about why, it's about why not!

(And infinite ammo Matilda turns Ganados into paint)

[Talisman]

Okay so I'm about 2/3rds through the Castle section and it just occurred to me, I really hope shooting the cannon at the armored Gigante on the ramparts doesn't count against the run xD

[Lewis Scott Childs]

I've known Resident Evil since it began, only played the original trilogy but followed it ever since, and watched playthroughs and or lets plays of the lot of them.

Always remember those first years, the articles or features in the magazines then.
The original trilogy remains what I consider proper Resi, the direction they went in afterwards just never matched it for me. Horror with action elements was how it should have remained. It kind of became the complete opposite, becoming action with horror elements, and though each of the games since has been good they did lose something along the way.

The one single game that defines the series for me is the remake of the original, and the original version of it not the high def remaster. Resident Evil Remake was and remains my absolute favourite entry in this entire series, I absolutely consider that to be the definitive Resident Evil experience.

[EpsilonX]

I picked up PSVR2 from a Black Friday sale. Once I finish 5, I can't WAIT to play 8 in VR

[Talisman]

Got to the island. Met the Regeneradors.

The Combat Knife is more effective than any of the handguns

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Originally Posted by Lewis Scott Childs

I've known Resident Evil since it began, only played the original trilogy but followed it ever since, and watched playthroughs and or lets plays of the lot of them.

Always remember those first years, the articles or features in the magazines then.
The original trilogy remains what I consider proper Resi, the direction they went in afterwards just never matched it for me. Horror with action elements was how it should have remained. It kind of became the complete opposite, becoming action with horror elements, and though each of the games since has been good they did lose something along the way.

The one single game that defines the series for me is the remake of the original, and the original version of it not the high def remaster. Resident Evil Remake was and remains my absolute favourite entry in this entire series, I absolutely consider that to be the definitive resident Evil experience.

The 4 Remake does bring the tone closer to the original trilogy, for what it's worth. Less 90s Action Hero stunts.

[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Talisman

The 4 Remake does bring the tone closer to the original trilogy, for what it's worth. Less 90s Action Hero stunts.

I like that because both have their place in gaming history for different reasons. Original for the campy action horror setting that worked really well, remake for when you actually want to be afraid and have a genuine scary experience.

@Topic: I actually played through the entire MegaMan X series recently. The original on the SNES from 1993 is one of my favorite games ever, but I never played the rest until now.

And well, it’s a journey. The first game is a masterpiece, 2 and 3 truck behind it, lovable but never quire reaching the heights of the original, then comes 4 and brings in a new spark of brilliance with a new system as it was first on the Playstation. Really nice graphics, fully animated video cutscenes (with a lovably bad, cheesy dub) gameplay as fun as the OG and basically two different campaigns to choose from.

After that I was hyped. 4 more games to play, what could go wrong? And oh boy, did things go wrong. X5 and X6 are horrible. Some of the worst games I’ve ever played. I have no idea how they screwed those up so badly. They are actively designed to annoy the player, just a pain to play. Which is baffling sine they already had the formula figured out by then, but instead of building on top of it they seemingly wanted to invent a catastrophe in order to forcefully end the series. Twice.

Then comes X7 which also sucks, it’s the first "3D" game on the PS2 in the series, and it's a wonky mess. But, unlike the two before, somehow playable, you can have fun with this. You can laugh at how bad it is.

Lastly, X8, and that one's actually really good. Still 3D in style but the gameplay is 2D again. And you have a solid MegaMan game here. Kind of cool actually. You can appreciate what new things they brought to the table; it's a genuinely well made game.

So if I had to rank these in order from best to worst:

X
X4
X8
X2
X3
X7
X5
X6

The series is sold in two packages nowadays as a "Legacy Collection", Part 1 includes games X-X4 and Part 2 comes with X5-X8.

Part 1 is a must have, has the two best games in the series and the other two are nice for the SNES-nostalgia alone.

Part 2 - just don't. If you get it for dirt cheap do it for X8 but never, ever touch X5, X6 or X7. Just don't, trust me.

[EpsilonX]

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Originally Posted by Talisman

The 4 Remake does bring the tone closer to the original trilogy, for what it's worth. Less 90s Action Hero stunts.

So I thought I would like this about the remake, but I actually kind of different. I think the original RE4 being so tonally different is what made me appreciate it so much. By bringing it closer to the survival horror vibes of the previous games, I compared it to those more and held it to the standard set by the RE2 and RE3 remakes...so in the end, I ended up enjoying it less than the original RE4 AND less than the previous remakes.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great game and it did a fantastic job balancing the horror and the b-movie action hero tropes...but I think I personally prefer going all-out in either direction.