Resident Evil 6

[Pikminister]

Sh.... er.... Should I be here right now? <_<

Boy, you get scared easily.

[AsteroidBlues]

Boy, you get scared easily.

If you only you could have seen the chain of possible events that I saw.... the horror... the horror...

[Wrathborne]

Was just a Monty Python reference.

[AsteroidBlues]

Was just a Monty Python reference.

Your mother was a hamster.

(I'll let you ponder why I said "Was" instead of "Is")

[Archelon]

Look, as long as Jake doesn't have a vision of Wesker telling him to take his place in the Circle of Life, I think we'll be OK.

Maybe Wesker's spirit will secretly reside within Jake's right arm, and it will be the true source of Jake's power.

[Wrathborne]

Sorry, Metal Gear already did it.

Wesker needs to be secretly hiding in Jakes left eye as a parasite! then all of a sudden BAM!
He shoots out an infects Peirce!

[AsteroidBlues]

Maybe Wesker's spirit will secretly reside within Jake's right arm, and it will be the true source of Jake's power.

Naw, this is Japan we're talking about. It would have to be something weird, like his underpants.... Underwesker...

[Archelon]

Sorry, Metal Gear already did it.

That was kind of the joke.

See also: Devil May Cry 4, Bionic Commando (PS3/360)

[ValentineLover]

Naw, this is Japan we're talking about. It would have to be something weird, like his underpants.... Underwesker...

You...did not understand the joke, did you?

[Wrathborne]

S'ok, hes new on the forum.

[AsteroidBlues]

You...did not understand the joke, did you?

S'ok, hes new on the forum.

lol yes I did get the joke, but wanted to poke fun at Japan. Sorry if I totally caused a disturbance in the force by not acknowledging it. XD

[aris13]

That was kind of the joke.

See also: Devil May Cry 4, Bionic Commando (PS3/360)

God, that was awful.

[Det. Beauregard]

If the gameplay is even worse than 5's that would be the ending to the main series for me. Like if the gameplay is totally broken unless you play with someone and if it plays like a mindless shooter. No puzzles at all. No survival elements. Just shoot anything that moves, move on to the next stage and do the same. That would end it.

Obviously, I'm not too focused on the characters like everyone else. But that's just me and my crazy videogaming ways. Expecting good gameplay is so overrated these days.

When it comes to games (not books, movies, or TV shows) I ALWAYS want to know how it plays. Because that's what games are all about: Gameplay. So even in this day and age, I still skip over the characters, the eye-candy, all that filler stuff. That's hows it's been with me since the SNES days.

I started out being a fan of platformers and RPG games. Mostly because of the exploration (finding secret rooms, items or short cuts, etc.) and the puzzles.

When I found out RE had a lot of that plus survival-horror elements, I was hooked. The gameplay got me into it. This was before any of the characters became the ICONS that they are today (and waaay before they each got a fanbase).

So, pardon me for placing gameplay over characters when it comes to a GAME.

Maybe I'm old school.

Hell yes. I agree with you 100%.

I wish more individuals saw gaming like we do.

Actual gameplay is what sets video games apart from movies, television, books, and the like. It gives it more of a reason to be replayed (or re-experienced), and is what makes it active entertainment as opposed to passive entertainment. Every time you watch a movie, it's the same outcome - the hero always wins, the villain dies, yada yada. But in a game, there are alternate paths; alternate experiences. Maybe Barry saves you from the trap ceiling, or maybe he gives you acid rounds. Perhaps you meet Carlos in the restaurant and see him at the gas station, or meet him in the newspaper office and see him kill Murphy. Sometimes you feel like saving Rodrigo, and other times you don't. There's so many variables.

The problem I see with modern games is that they're trying too hard to emulate film as opposed to creating something original. What set games apart in the 90s and early 2000s was that you had the option to explore; to immerse yourself in the environment. With games now, you sit through long, scripted cutscenes that play the exact same way every time you play the game, because developers have it in their thick heads that people don't want to replay games like they used to. Guess what? They do! People return games all the time because they're not replayable, but if they were, they'd hold on to them. Forced long-ass QTE cutscenes (Krauser knife fight, anyone?) don't make for replayable games!

I can't tell you how many SNES, N64, and GCN games I've owned since day one because they're replayable. Yes, graphics and entertaining characters help, but at the end of the day, if the gameplay isn't great, I don't give a shit about the game. With so many gamers today, the presentation is all they care about. You know, the shiny graphics, epic bro story, shooting, explosions, violence, etc. The actual gameplay could be the filler part of the "game" (Mass Effect, anyone?), but if the overall experience is there, people flock to it in droves. It's really quite sad.

This is what I see with RE6 - massive presentation; fluff. We've seen too little of the actual gameplay to make me think that it will be anything special. I'm honestly expecting a darker RE5, in which case there's no way I'm buying it.

[Dracarys]

Sorry, Metal Gear already did it.

Except it didn't, sadly.

[News Bot]

Except it didn't, sadly.

According to the backstory, it did. Then was undone. Biggu Bossu was also a Snatcher (which actually makes the ending a bit more believable).