{"id":9802,"date":"2022-06-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:51:10","slug":"9802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9802","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Resident Evil (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sony released their latest &#8220;State of Play&#8221; video yesterday, which, if you&#8217;re not familiar, is basically the Playstation version of a Nintendo Direct. I&#8217;m not going to provide my thoughts on every game shown in the presentation, but there is one thing I&#8217;d like to highlight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resident Evil 4 - State of Play June 2022 Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-L1EuRo54pI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been grappling with the idea that <strong>Resident Evil 4<\/strong> may have actually surpassed <strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong> as my favourite video game of all time. Well, the VR version of RE4, anyway. It&#8217;s not a stretch to say that RE4VR is the most fun I&#8217;ve ever had with a single-player video game. I keep going back to it, over and over, even if just for a chapter here and there. And now Capcom is telling me that a full-on remake is less than a year away? And it&#8217;s also going to be VR compatible? Sign me up, baby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>That said, I am a little bit wary of how this remake is going to turn out. Capcom&#8217;s remakes of the first two RE games were absolute masterpieces, so I should be comforted by the good track record. But! Online opinions of the <strong>Resident Evil 3<\/strong> remake are very divided. On one hand, it&#8217;s a very good video game! I really like it! I thought it was a lot of fun! On the other hand, it&#8217;s an <em>incredibly<\/em> unfaithful remake and admittedly, a bit of a rush job. I never much cared for the original RE3, so that didn&#8217;t bother me, but I <em>am<\/em> obviously<em> <\/em>a huge fan of RE4. I can&#8217;t imagine that Capcom would rush something as massive as the Resident Evil 4 remake, but Capcom does some weird things sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying that I&#8217;ll be upset if this doesn&#8217;t end up being a shot-for-shot remake. In fact, I fully support remakes diverging from the source material, because I think there should be fun, new surprises for veteran players. The original work isn&#8217;t going to disappear or anything, so why not get creative with your remakes? But the amount of game that was completely cut out of Resident Evil 3&#8217;s remake? I can absolutely understand why long-time fans were upset by that. And if, for example, the whole castle section were to be omitted from RE4 remake? Yeah, I&#8217;d be a <em>wee bit<\/em> miffed about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the section where you have to protect Ashley while she&#8217;s driving the truck went away, though? I&#8217;d probably send Capcom a hand-written thank-you card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Ashley, can we take a moment to appreciate that she looks like an actual human being now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RE4R-ashley.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9804\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, the, uh, &#8220;DLC&#8221; for <strong>Resident Evil Village<\/strong> was also revealed in this State of Play. Capcom will be adding VR support at some point in the future. It&#8217;s going to be a painful hit to the ol&#8217; bank account, but between that and RE4, I guess I&#8217;m getting a Playstation VR2? I won&#8217;t lie, I was hoping that there would be some actual new <em>content<\/em> for Village, but I&#8217;ll take VR support. Considering how much I adore both Village and RE4VR, it seems like a pretty easy win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony released their latest &#8220;State of Play&#8221; video yesterday, which, if you&#8217;re not familiar, is basically the Playstation version of a Nintendo Direct. I&#8217;m not going to provide my thoughts on every game shown in the presentation, but there is one thing I&#8217;d like to highlight: Lately, I&#8217;ve been grappling with the idea that Resident &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fourth Resident Evil (again)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spooky","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9806,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions\/9806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}