Topic: Resident Evil 5 is the greatest thing ever.

[Caliban]

The demo just showed up on the 360 for me, except it's only for Gold members. So I can't download it. Their loss, I have only a passing interest in the game and a demo would have been their chance to make me care.

Gold members usually get stuff a week or so earlier than Silver members, so I'm sure you will be able to try this demo soon enough.

[DAaaMan64]

So..... your saying it's not worth buying a 360 over? Have to wait for Beyond Good and Evil 2 or Alan Wake.

Well we should wait for reviews before we think that.  If the level's are more like the first level on the demo, I wouldn't buy it. If level's were more like the second level, I might.

[bustin98]

Resident Evil is dead to me. This is not Resident Evil.

No more puzzles, over-emphasis on shooting, and not scary in the least. RE4 still held some of the RE staples, but this game has seemingly abandoned all of them. No thanks, Gears of Evil.

Now, there are jewels that are collected to indicate that those puzzles are still around. Just this demo is not focused on it. This demo may be playing the audience, saying 'Look its a shooter' when the full game is 'Look its RE4 with new skin. Fooled You!'

It took a couple of tries but I think I've come to terms with this game. Its enjoyable and I look forward to seeing how the full game gets fleshed out.

[Morari]

Resident Evil 4 was already sorely lacking in puzzles...

[Halbred]

Well, now you've all thoroughly bashed the demo, so I'm sort of glad I passed on pre-ordering RE5 at Best Buy last night. Ah well, I still look forward to playing the demo should it ever hit the PSN. I, for one, LOVE RE4. In fact, I was playing it last night. So if RE5 is just RE4 with better graphics, I'm all for it. But it sounds like a few things have been tinkered with...

[GoldenPhoenix]

Well, now you've all thoroughly bashed the demo, so I'm sort of glad I passed on pre-ordering RE5 at Best Buy last night. Ah well, I still look forward to playing the demo should it ever hit the PSN. I, for one, LOVE RE4. In fact, I was playing it last night. So if RE5 is just RE4 with better graphics, I'm all for it. But it sounds like a few things have been tinkered with...

It has an identity crisis if the demo is any indication. Like someone said at times it is almost like Gears of War but with a super zoomed in camera and tank controls which makes for a non-fun experience. It would have been better if they slapped in Gears of War controls because the game is so far from what RE is, that step wouldn't wouldn't have changed much.

[Peachylala]

I loved RE4 Wii.

RE5 outlook for me, not so much. WTF is up with Chris's roid arms? Does the character designer for RE5 have a DBZ fetish or something?

[GoldenPhoenix]

I loved RE4 Wii.

RE5 outlook for me, not so much. WTF is up with Chris's roid arms? Does the character designer for RE5 have a DBZ fetish or something?

Lol I noticed that too.

[Caliban]

I think Sheeva's boobs were bigger in this demo than when I've seen them in past videos. They buffed up everything, but the game.

[Halbred]

Bigger...boobs?

This game suddenly has new appeal.

[NWR_Neal]

I'm a bit late to the party with the demo bashing, but wow that sucked. I was all excited for it and it just feels terrible. The co-op is worse than babysitting Ashley. The controls feel terrible. I hate the GoW-inspired controls.
RE4: Wii Edition is the definitive version of the series, imo.

[WuTangTurtle]

if this is like Gears of War then count me out.....I hated the controls, it was like a tank that could slide and hug up against random objects when all you want to do is dodge an oncoming enemy looking to chainsaw you.....of course that just leaves you hugging a wall and telling your opponent "plz chainsaw me, it feels ever so good!".

when I get my xbox repaired I'll still download the demo to try it out though.

[BranDonk Kong]

There are like 80 different control options. Use the Gamecube/PS2 setup, it's the most familiar feeling...also, the game is nothing at all like Gears of War, it just has an optional control scheme that's about the same as Gears'.

[ShyGuy]

I'm borrowing a 360 next week to try this demo out. I need a gold account I take it. Is there a free trial?

[bustin98]

I think next week Silver accounts get to download it? Maybe the week after... I could send you what you need to play it locally.

[Maverick]

So I'm not really sure what to think about the demo.  It was fun... I guess.  I'll point out negatives 'cause that's easier:

- Camera lags behind character when aiming for a little too long.  Not a deal breaker, but it took getting used to.

- Character aims WAY too slowly.  Very disappointing.  I had "aiming speed" set to fastest and it was still slow as hell.  Fastest made it playable, but I have no idea what they were thinking when it came to aiming speed.

-Sheva is going to destroy single player.  Seriously, what a retarded chick.  Big giant axe guy is chasing me and obviously will not go down in a few shots.  I run away, she decides to hang around and shoot the guy from two feet away?  She dies.  Same problem with Chainsaw dude.  I really hope they touch up her AI a bit before release.  Although I suppose if there was some sort of "formation" option that I missed it is my fault, but I didn't notice one.  Unless the game expects me to yell "come here!" every two seconds to keep her from kamikaze-ing every mini-boss.

- Character models.  Seriously, WTF?  Obviously the big one is Chris' roid arms that are bigger than his face.  He looks like the fucking Hulk and it is both funny and sad that the creators did that to him.  Besides that, though, every character seems to have contracted a bit of "Next Gen Shiny Skin Syndrome", and the blood is now light red and SUPER SHINY.  Again, maybe this is just 'cause it's a demo release and it's not fully touched up yet, but I doubt it.

- Real Time Inventory.  Seriously this is going to be a pain in the ass.  I suppose it makes sense to keep the intensity up and to not interrupt your partner during co-op play, but navigating the menu is way too complicated to do in a split second at times, and a pain in the ass when you have like fifty plag-asses in your face.  Maybe it is just something that needs getting used to.

Now for some Pros:

- Sheva is kinda hot.

- Hulk Chris is funny.

- Once you get ahold of the controls to an acceptable degree, it's still fuckin' Resident Evil and has enough of the RE 4 influence to keep me in the game.  Not sure what control scheme I'll be using most of the time yet, but so far I've been using Control Type D.  Just seems a little better for a controller where your thumb actually rests on the right thumb stick.  If I got the PS3 version I might just stick to the straight RE 4 style.

So does anybody know if the merchant is making a return and how that will all work?  I would imagine so since I kept collecting money and a few jewels in the demo.  One of my favorite parts of RE 4 was upgrading weapons, so I certainly hope that's still in the game.  I don't know how they're going to do jewels though since you don't have an "artifacts" option in your real-time menu.  At least as far as I saw.

[Adrock]

I gave the bugs in the demo a pass because it's:

1. A demo.

2. There a message that flat-out admits that there are bugs.

The bug that I really hated was how slow Chris changes weapons, but that could be the 360's crummy d-pad.

Also, like I said earlier, Sheva is useless. Goddamn that bitch keeps getting in trouble.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Sheva's a bug?

[Maverick]

SPOILERZ!!!!!11!

[WuTangTurtle]

Also, like I said earlier, Sheva is useless. Goddamn that bitch keeps getting in trouble.

Funny, I don't remember Ashley being too much of a pain....and she never even used a weapon.  Friendly AI never seems to be that great does it, reminds me once in Left 4 Dead when my character was hanging off the side of the building and the friendly AI decided to come and help me up......but instead fell over the edge leaving us both hanging for dear life as the other two remaining survivors were being killed by a hunter and a tank.

[nickmitch]

The difference between Sheva and Ashley, is that Ashley ducks behind you when you start shooting.  Sheva has a gun and fails at combat (though, I give her credit for trying).

[Armak88]

That's unfortunate, I remember that the Rebecca/Billy dynamic was pretty decent.

[Maverick]

Played it again today and this time Sheva did an outstanding job.  Maybe I jumped the gun on her retardation.

[vudu]

I haven't played the demo and fully admit to knowing absolutely nothing about these sorts of things, but is it possible they had to leave out some of the friendly AI code in order to keep the size of the demo within reason?  Maybe she's just retarded because they only included half the algorithms.

[KDR_11k]

Algorithms take a few kilobytes, the entire program code tends to be a few megabytes. Demos can be multiple gigabytes large and you would save more space if you just dropped a single texture from the game. Maybe the AI code wasn't developed properly yet but it may not be a good idea to show a demo when the most important AI in the game that's really make or break for a game like this (gamers HATE escort missions, takes a lot to make those good) isn't implemented properly.