Following screens from Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and Resident Evil 5 were mixed to show how good the graphics of the 3DS looks.
Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.
One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.
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.
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.
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 🤷♂️
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
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.
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.
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.
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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Eternal Darkness was way ahead of its time especially for a Nintendo exclusive.
I would love to see a remake or sequel (multiplatform)
4 people love Eternal Darkness.
Quick! Jump on that remake, whoever holds the rights these days.
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Don't want to be a spoil sport but if you zoom in a bit the differance is phenomenal.
3DS does look good and all but the jaggies are running rampant, you can see it especially in screen 4
EDIT---Don't take this comment the wrong way like, I just heard the 3DS had amazing graphics even compared to the home consoles.
What's the big deal with the N3DS?
The graphics look a little bit better than the PSP.
The resolution is really crap for a brand new handheld, just take a look at any of the iPhones and Androids around to see what I'm talking about.
And Nintendo will make us buy the same games/IPs one more time?
Wow, really revolutionary.
I'm less surprised how close the 3DS version looks to the PS360, instead, I'm more surprised by the fact that 200% better than the Wii.
I think the game looks very good, and mimics the overall aesthetic of it's bigger brothers quite well.
It was horribly easy to tell the difference between the screen shots. Also I am no psp fan boy, but so far the graphics are NOT 3 times better. People come in here on 3ds articles talking about psp fan boys when the 3ds fan boys are just as bad. "OMG 3DS BEATS PSP GRAPHICS OH WHAT NOW" Hey guess what, if a new system can not look better than a 5 year old hand held, that would be SAD. 3ds fan boys go shove it. Psp fan boys, fucking accept that the 3ds graphics are so far just a little bit better. I have not seen anything very drastic between the graphic quality of the two handhelds. Though in the trailer I swore the RE game looked a lot better that the screen shots show.