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Resident Evil 5: Realistic graphics with ENB Series Mod - choose your favorite look

PCGH compares the default graphics of Resident Evil 5 with the ENB Series Mod that adjusts the colors and removes the green-greyish tint. Depending on one's own taste this delivers a more realistic colors and this better graphics.

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SCThor5369d ago

That's why I prefer Dead Space

lordgodalming5369d ago (Edited 5369d ago )

Wow, do people really hate this game so much? The first RE came out when I was in college, and I thought THAT was boring. RE5 is great, if mindless, fun.

On topic, the new colors make it look like a clown game. The original atmosphere, including color, really helped the game's presentation imo.

CobraKai5369d ago (Edited 5369d ago )

I loved me some dead space, but I also loves me some RE5. It's still a blast to play. I actually don't like this mod, taking out the color timing makes the graphics look too colorful. It makes the game look too bright and chipper. the green gray color timing gave it a dreary look to it. Lots of movies use color timing to give it a certain mood taking it away changes that mood..

G4drake5369d ago

realistic graphics,oh thats why i found it BORING,too muck realism on graphics, looses all fantasy(since no matter how realist a game is still a fantasy.

TheBlackSmoke5369d ago

These nvidia fanboys need to realise great graphics is only half to do with how realistic and high res you can run a game. ARTSTYLE is just as important to a games graphics and with these mods they are just destroying the intended experience.

If they want to play resident evil with a blue sky they are idiots.

itsralf5369d ago

i don't really see a difference... i liked it the way it was, good atmosphere.

Close_Second5369d ago (Edited 5369d ago )

...graphics were ok but nothing special. To pre-rendered for my liking. The gameplay also felt stale and the boss battle at the end of chapter 2 (i.e. you and you companion in a truck shooting some giant guy who goes through some pre-scripted moves) was simply pathetic. Enemies in general had no damage model which is so last gen. Just look at the fantastic damage model in Dead Space!

If you played RE4 then RE5 was probably a huge (overpriced) disappointment that warrants a rental only. If RE5 is your first RE game then you probably thought it was pretty good.

On a side note I have lost a lot of faith in Capcom so far this generation. Apart from the fantastic Bionic Commando Rearmed they have released little that warrants the price tag. RE5, DMC4 are just fine examples of over milking a franchise. Bionic Commando and Lost Planet were both pretty average.

ceedubya95369d ago

and I thought 5 was a good game. Wasn't the best game of the series, but I still felt like it was a good game in its own right.

IMO, RE2 is the best of the bunch, and if this game was given a full on remake treatment, it would would probably rank close up there to a Final Fantasy VII remake (although I'd rather have a FF8 remake myself).

Ravage275369d ago (Edited 5369d ago )

Sometimes,even a shot to a zombie's arm will send them spinning in the air, the physics is so absurd i laugh everytime :D

I still think it's one of the better looking multiplatform titles(esp. to casual gamers) even though there is near zero interaction with the (static) environment.

Deadspace, as a horror-action game, is better in nearly every way imo. I'll give credit to Capcom for experimenting with co-op (esp.the splitscreen function) though i wish they had designed a competent AI for Sheva, it made the single-player a nightmare to go through.

Close_Second5369d ago

...was awful on RE5, especially when playing alone. To me, you should not have had to put up with a side character in single player mode and that going through it in co-op mode (with another person controlling the other player) should have changed the gameplay.

I still think that sequence where you have to snipe to protect the other player as she makes her way down to unlock a door for you was, for lack of a better word, crap. For goodness sake, your making your way through a shanty town. If a door is locked, shoot the damn thing open or kick in the wall next to it. Don't introduce some unrealistic game sequence just to work in a way to use the sniper rifle.

RE5 is just cram packed full of uninspired moments that for me, the game has no replay value at all.

DrRobotnik5369d ago

Good job. It looks worse than the original. All they did was change the filter.

peeps5369d ago

the first screenshot looks worse imo but the second 2 look better. realise just how much of a filter there was lol could never stand the grain filter in bfbc. hoping thats gone for bfbc2

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Resident Evil 5 - 15 Years of Being the Most Misunderstood Resident Evil

Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.

TheBrainZ76d ago

One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.

Knightofelemia76d ago

I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.

thesoftware73076d ago (Edited 76d ago )

5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.

6 was awful.

CrimsonWing6976d ago

I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷‍♂️

chobit_A5HL3Y76d ago

it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol

-Foxtrot76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.

You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.

Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.

It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.

franwex76d ago

At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.

chobit_A5HL3Y75d ago

like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.

people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.

5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.

RNTody50d ago (Edited 50d ago )

What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.

@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.

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The Best Co-Op Horror Games You've Missed in Halloween

Try to cope with your friend through terror with this list featuring the best horror Co-Op games you can play today.

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Complete Global Saturation! Is Resident Evil 5 Really the Best Choice for the Next Remake?

An exploration of whether RE5 is truly the most logical next step for a remake, or whether there are others in line who deserve their day in the sun.

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ocelot07235d ago

Remake of Resident evil outbreak as well as file 2. Same gameplay as the recent remakes. Choose what ever character you want to play as. With online co op.

DarXyde235d ago

I've been dying to see Outbreak come back for years.

Even RE Zero and Code Veronica would be excellent.

But for the love of God, not RE5 or RE6.

One they get around to the aforementioned games, why not remake the original Devil May Cry trilogy? That would be a much better use of time. At the very least, the first two games.

justsomeoffdude235d ago (Edited 235d ago )

code veronica should be the nest remake

neutralgamer1992235d ago

CV is good candidate for a remake but requires way more work for today’s standard. People look at CV through their tinted glasses. I think capcom wants to remake every game up till 6 and fix the plot holes so they can continue the series in one straight story path

Also not sure why only RE have to get remade when there are other capcom games that would be better suited for remakes like oninusha

DVAcme235d ago

That's PRECISELY the reason Code Veronica needs a remake. All the other RE games aged pretty well, considering the limitations of the time, but Code Veronica is the game that would be served the best bybremaking it because it feels so archaic these days.

neutralgamer1992235d ago

DVA

But it depends if capcom wants a big project or a quick remake. CV will require a lot more work than RE5

IMO they should remake other games before doing RE5

TheEnigma313235d ago

how many times do we have to say CV is the next best one?

CrimsonWing69235d ago

Nooooo! Why the hell can’t they do Code Veronica? I just don’t understand.

1Victor235d ago

RE5 is the closest to the bottom of the pot(a little smoky flavor but passable in a emergency) before we get to the burned crust that is 6 that not even the pigs would eat

CrimsonWing69235d ago (Edited 235d ago )

Unpopular opinion here, but I enjoyed 5 and 6. I just think, in terms of Remakes, the classics are the one that should get the treatment above the modern takes of the franchise.

Don’t get wrong, RE4 definitely was an outstanding Remake, but RE5… I just get less excited about a Remake for that over something like Code Veronica.

RaidenBlack235d ago

Nope.
Rather remake other past Capcom & non-mainline RE games ... IF they have to continue churning out Remakes.
I'd rather want a new 3rd person RE spin-off
Dino Crisis and Onimusha Reboot
New IPs after Pragmata ships

jeromeface234d ago

show this man the door... he overserved himself.

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