So, who is hyped for Resident Evil 7?
>>329109810
Nice meme image, you casual fuckwad.
SAGE
>>329109939
Wait I don't get the meme, do people think RE4 was hard?
>>329110035
That's why I called him a casual.
>>329110035
RE4 is a game that never actually sold all that well. It's a niche game with a niche fanbase that has managed to deluse themselves and others into thinking Resident Evil 4 was a big hit. A vast majority of people who did buy RE4 never finished it. It has like a 23% completion rate. So the idea that most people probably never played past the "survival horror" village section probably has some truth to it.
I wasn't a fan of RE4. I don't like being railroaded through set pieces like that.
RE4 was the game that killed the series.
>>329110257
>I have absolutely no data to support this claim when in fact the game was so successful that it was ported to basically every console since it released
Get outta here dumbass.
>>329109810
Are there any news to be excited about?
>>329110257
>niche
The game was released on the following platforms.
Gamecube
PS2
PC
Wii
PS3
360
Android
iPhone
PC (again)
And now, it's getting a PS4 and XB1 port as well.
You're an idiot.
>>329110257
>>329110403
>Are there any news
>>329109810
Honestly I still have trouble with that damn section when I replay it. Probably the only point I struggle with
>>329110365
No, it breathed new life into it. It kept the tank controls somewhat, and had a narrow camera angle, but later releases went full retard into TPS territory.
>>329110385
We have the sales data for RE4, anon, thanks to Capcom. The PS2 version of RE4 sold 2.3 million copies. It sold worse than Operation Raccoon City, a game that was so unsuccessful it killed the developer.
>>329110509
None of RE4's individual versions were big sellers. I don't know why RE4 fans are so deeply in denial about this. GC sold poorly, PS2 sold poorly, Wii sold poorly, PS3/360/PC HD sold so poorly they literally didn't chart for Capcom.
I dunno why RE4 fans are so deeply in denial about the fact RE4 was released on 9 different platforms and still couldn't sell as well as RE5/RE6/RE2, etc.
>>329110257
Baffling post.
>>329110562
20th Anniversary is on March 22. If we're lucky, we'll get an RE7 trailer then.
>>329110720
RE4 sold worse than RE3. It was stuck in a limbo between failures like CV and Remake and truly popular games like RE2.
Then RE5 came along and Resident Evil actually started selling again. RE6 continued the trend. If those games could outsell the previous games with a single release, there's no reason to think the PS4/XBO ports won't sell insanely well, too.
>>329109810
No one.
>>329110864
>RE4 is a bad game because I think it sold bad
>>329110771
tl;dr version:
Resident Evil 4 is a game where people buy five copies of the exact same game, and then try to convince themselves that the game was a huge success that everybody liked. The PS2 version wasn't a hit. The GC version wasn't a hit. The Wii version wasn't a hit. These versions were barely setting better than REMAKE, a game that almost killed the series.
>>329110936
It didn't sell badly. It sold mediocre numbers. RE4 fans are so delusional they think RE4 has been re-released over and over again because it's popular. The reason it gets re-released over and over again is because there is a small niche of 1-2 million people who will buy the exact same game repeatedly. That's why no single version of RE4 ever sold huge numbers.
Meanwhile, stuff like RE5 and RE6 sells 7 or so million copies without much effort. Single release window for the most part. No whoring the game out for a decade.
>>329111190
If you mongoloids keep giving this retard attention, I'm not going to be your friend anymore.
t. your best friend anon
>>329110864
Are you the same retard in every RE thread that starts telling everyone how well RE6 sold whenever someone talks down on it?
Why do you do this, and why have you still not realized no one actually gives a fuck?
>>329109810
>pretending you played a game
>saying you played a game when you didn't finish it
What the fuck is wrong with people? Unless you have fucking finished the game you haven't played it. Anything less that credits is just "played a little bit off" or "tested/fucked around with it".
>>329111352
>>saying you played a game when you didn't finish it
You're retarded. If you played the game, you played the game. Playing a game != beating the game. They are two separate things.
>>329110757
>The PS2 version of RE4 sold 2.3 million copies. It sold worse than Operation Raccoon City, a game that was so unsuccessful it killed the developer.
>2.3 million
>bad
WHOAH FOLKS
LOOKS LIKE TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 AT 2.4 MILLION WAS A FLOP
BET WE WON'T SEE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT 2 ONLY SOLD 2.33 MILLION
NOBODY'S EVER GOING TO REMEMBER THAT GAME
PSH, DEVIL MAY CRY ONLY SOLD 2.16 MILLION
WHY WOULD THEY EVER RUSH OUT A SEQUEL TO CAPITALIZE ON THAT
>>329111584
>>329111352
Only 1/4 people ever finished a classic Resident Evil game. REMAKE has like 20% completion, IIRC. Interestingly, despite complaints that RE6 was too long, it has a much higher completion rate.
>>329111584
>Have you seen X film? It was great.
>Yeah man I watched it last night, so fucken good
>So about about that ending huh, what a tweest
>Huh what I only saw the first 5 minutes pls no spoilers
>>329111607
>>329110757
He's right, back then no one expected COD tier sales. Even 1 million sales was considered a good success and a guaranteed sequel.
>>329109810
What are some other games people pretend to have played to fit in?
MGS3 is a big one, most people jist watch the fucking lets plays
>>329111259
You're a retard, Harry. An hero nao.
>>329111607
You're missing the point quite badly, anon. Resident Evil was a series with established expectations for sales numbers set by RE2 which sold around 5 million or so.
>>329111773
>He's right, back then no one expected COD tier sales. Even 1 million sales was considered a good success and a guaranteed sequel.
REMAKE and RE0 selling around 1.5 million copies each was so catastrophic that Capcom abandoned survival horror and pushed Resident Evil into the anction genre. 1 million sales was not good. Not good at all.
>>329110257
>Never actually sold well
>GCN
1.6 million
>PS2
2.3 million (20th best selling Capcom title of all time)
>Wii
2 million
>PS3, Xbox 360, PC (Ubi Soft)
Sales Data Unavailable
>Steam
500,000
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html
That's about 5.9 confirmed million (6.4 if we include Steam). If we had PS3 and X360 numbers I wouldn't be surprised if it surpassed RE5 (PC, PS3, 360) 's 7 million.
Which would make it the best selling RE title in the series.
>>329111645
>Only 1/4 people ever finished a classic Resident Evil game. REMAKE has like 20% completion, IIRC.
And what's your citation for these statistics? Your ass, right?
>Interestingly, despite complaints that RE6 was too long, it has a much higher completion rate.
Ah, I see. This was just a bait thread to get people talking about RE6, wasn't it? In that case, why wouldn't you just make it that in the first place?
>>329111878
Capcom were also massive fucking kikes at the time and we going off expectations of previous big sellers. Most companies at the time were happy with 1 million sales for their games.
>>329111190
>The PS2 version wasn't a hit
>Capcom's best selling PS2 title of all time wasn't a financial hit
>>329111928
Not him but wouldn't achievements/trophies be good for measuring how many people finish a game?
>>329111814
>established expectations
That's the problem right there. Basing potential sales on a game that was made seven years prior, on an older console, in a completely different market environment is fucking stupid.
Am i thr only who thinks that RE5 Wesker is a clone, just look at him in 4 and umbrella chronicles ,he was so calm and collected, why did he change so much in 5?
>>329111783
MGS 3's sales were significantly lower than MGS2's. Around 3 million, I think. I was actually quite shocked when I found out. The way people talk, you'd think MGS 3 had been on equal footing with previous games in the series.
>>329111878
>REMAKE and RE0 selling around 1.5 million copies each was so catastrophic that Capcom abandoned survival horror
REMAKE and RE0 selling around 1.5 million caused Capcom to ditch the Gamecube for the PS2, which, as proven with RE4, sold almost double, even with a pretty late, subpar port.
Capcom even said as much with the announcement of RE4's PS2 port: changing markets and increased profit potential.
>>329112017
And what about every version of the games specified that didn't have achievements/trophies? This is why there can never be any accurate statistics for these things.
>>329109810
I remember when it first came out, I was like 13 years old, and spent all of my time at a local game store.
It was super chill, with a few old TV's set up for PS2 Xbox and Gamecube games
You were supposed to pay to play, but I was around so often they just let me play for free.
The owner actually let me take home a gamecube and RE4 because I thought it was so amazing.
RIP Gameboyz. Paul, if you're out there, you were too good to me.
4 is the most overrated game of all time and I liked it
>>329112124
Only because it's an old game though
For most 7th gen and up games it's doable
ITT: all this dancing around to avoid the simple fact that Resident Evil 4 sold significantly worse than the previous mainline entries, and the multiple re-releases were Capcom's way of milking the niche fanbase dry.
>>329112075
>MGS 3's sales were significantly lower than MGS2's.
Why is this thread suddenly about sales? Please explain it to me. The person you were replying to never even brought that game's sales into the discussion. I don't understand why you're doing this.
>>329112186
>4 is the most overrated game of all time
You mean OoT.
>>329112290
Because OP image meme.
Let's go back in time to 2006. To when RE4 PS2 had sold worse than Operation fucking Raccoon City. Do you think Resident Evil 4 fans were going to admit their beloved game was no longer top dog? No, of course not. Resident Evil's core fanbase has always been a wee bit retarded. They're often convinced that making games like REMAKE is a viable option despite those sort of games being even less popular in 2016 than in 2002.
>>329112776
>Let's go back in time to 2006 and talk some more about sales numbers
Let's not.
>>329111878
The games were always action games. Resident Evil 2 was ALWAYS considered an action game by Kamiya and Mikami. Mikami also considers Resident Evil 4 to be an action game.
>>329112290
>The person you were replying to never even brought that game's sales into the discussion. I don't understand why you're doing this.
MGS3 sold far worse than MGS2. Ergo, if people claim they played both MGS2 and MGS3, there's a good chance some of them are lying.
This is a strange thread.
>>329113006
This is what happens when some of /vg/ leaks out into /v/. This is why we need a Resident Evil general to contain it.
>>329110257
i... i cant believe a person wrote this and continued to reply to posts in such a 'im serious manner'
>>329112137
Good story. It's nice to see adults treating children well. I have similar stories.
I'm actually happy to get the new Resident Evil 6. I really wanted to play the Ustanak mode, but it was XBOX exclusive forever. By the time it hit ps3 the online scene was fucking dead.
>>329112776
The digital games are easy money for Capcom. Their sales directly fund the Osaka unit. The team responsible for making the numbered sequels to the franchise.
>>329113006
Only the dead may know peace from this fun.
What are the best versions of RE1, 2 and 3 I can get? Should I just pick up PC one or, dunno, PC versions have troubles running in windowed mode+no widescreen options on top of compatibility issues so I'm better off emulating them?
/v/ - Business & Finance
>>329113579
>What are the best versions of RE1, 2 and 3 I can get?
Emulate the PS1 versions of those games. Don't bother with the PC ports.
>>329112356
yeah fair enough, second most overrated game of all time
>>329113843
thanks
>>329113579
Do you own any consoles, or are you a PC only guy?
>>329113843
>Emulate PS1
No this is bad advice. If you are gonna go the emulation route, emulate the Gamecube ports of RE2 and RE3. The GC was IIRC slightly higher res or at least the background where cleaned up, better FMV quality and also Dolphin is a better emulator.
RE1 yeah emulate the PS1 version though since that was fully remade on GC and it's completely different. Get the PC version of that now.
>>329113882
I've had PS1 but I don't anymore(why even bother? Emulation is close to perfect at this point).
>>329112075
Probably because not a lot of people suffered through MGS 2.
Ah my cousins didnt manage to clear the village portion. They didnt know how to fire the pistol and thought the laser was doing damage, until they got pitchforked in the face. Eventually they figured how to use the knife and tried their best to knife their way past the village
>>329112071
staying in 3rd world countries for a period of time does things to you
Who's worse? People pretenting that they have played a game to fit in? Or people who actually play those games in order to fit in?
>>329116793
People who fit in.
>>329116793
>pretenting
I want the underaged and illiterate off this site.
>>329109810
The village section was so boring and bad. The gameplay too.
I even prefer Revelations to it
>>329110720
>but later releases went full retard into TPS territory.
I guess you must mean RE6 (which still has great controls but people hate them anyway because they don't understand them and they aren't "tankey") because RE5 had only slightly tweaked/improved controls of RE4.
>>329110035
The controls were really off putting the first time I played it but I wouldn't call it hard, it just takes some getting used too. Still, it was a lot of fun.
>>329111892
Capcom officially counted all those platforms and RE4 sales and it still didnt' sell more than RE5 PS3 and 360 edition.
>>329119543
6 had solid controls but shit everything else.
>>329121129
So it's still better than the others?
What's the point of making a game if actually playing it is the worst part?
>>329121129
6 has the best Mercs.
