The Resident Evil Formula | How Does Each Game Differ? 

CV is the one game where your decisions can easily cause you to reach a fail state, depending on your inventory management during the character swaps.

This video was very professional and well and well done.

I'll get to my SA2 analysis after I finish this two parter ;)

I can’t believe I only now found this channel. Just finished watching the RE2 remake vid, and I gotta say, it’s just pure beauty. Your RE vids are very well crafted, you’ve done a great job, you should be proud!

STORY and HORROR. Might need to Loosely define those terms but they are the 2 categories you forgot.

Your channel deserves so much more subs! I can’t stress this enough, we need to start a campaign :D

Fantastic video. Hope you continue the series!

Very cool and interesting analysis. Looking forward to the next part :-)

You need to make decisions in CV, you just dont know what until your second playtrough;)

Very good and professional review, you definitely should have more views for this.

Stun locked - great phrase

10:32 lmao well said

16:47: Tyrant is like, " You idiots are blocking my view of the window."

Btw, even though I made a few gags about mistakes in the video here in the comments while watching, I really enjoyed it and your analysis. You did a great job. Subbed.

This was a great video

fantastic method of gauging the primary gameplay elements! /subscribed

They couldn't just make them all the same game. I think that RE6 was fun, and the story was alright. It may not be the classic RE game, but it wasn't garbage. If you like the classic games then RE6 will make you appreciate them more. Anyway, REmakes coming soon enough. I will not let anyone badmouth RE5. If you dont want all the guns, dont equip them. I think the thing that makes the originals, 4, and 7 so popular is how small the games are. RE5 and 6 used linear missions that didn't let you go where you wanted. Future RE games should try to make the world smaller so they can focus on making that map as complex as possible (without over doing it).

OG Re1 Ps1 end credits sound like u climbed the highest mountains, came out the toughest traps, died a bunch, n still made it to the finish line

Well done video

I feel like "puzzles" is another staple in RE

First of all, I like this approach of analysing gameplay aspects using a Framework and the heavy Gameplay focus. It makes it unique from the RE-based content that can usually be found here. These are some of my thoughts about some points in this video. - In general, the fixed camera games feel more puzzle focused, not only in terms of the explicit puzzles and the progression of figuring out where to go and what to do, but also what single best approach there is for each enemy. Once you figure it out, there is rarely a reason to do things differently (like always shotgun headshots against zombies and running past spiders). The approach is further confirmed by the fact that it is effortless to execute and you won't run out of ammo. If you run out of ammo, the single best options have not been figured out yet or creatures are shot at that are better run past by. Context of the situation that could change the strategy only matter in rare moments and tactical mastery is at best needed, if at all, in some boss fights. Games from RE 4 and onward consider both the context and the tactical knowledge more. Therefore, I don't see the fixed camera games having lots of decision making involved, not absent, but not to such a high degree as portrayed in this video. Finding the single best approach and always go with it everytime and everywhere has more to do with puzzle solving and less with meaningful decisions. RE 3 is the outlier here. The explicit choices still have the single best approaches while combat offers a high amount of decisions in terms of customizability as described in this video. They are still not that meaningful though. From my experience, most approaches work more or less equally as efficient (the differences as minor as they rather matter in optimzed competetive runs than casual runs) so there is little that can be done wrong here with few exceptions here and there. I personally would rank the fixed camera games with decision making of 1 or 2 and 3 for RE 3. - RE 1 and Remake 1 are totally different games. While in RE 1, figuring out combat aproaches are relevant for at least three of the enemies (zombies, non-stealth dog variant, and some of the Hunters) and you can move freely across the environment, in Remake 1, shooting is made so unefficient that you just run past every enemy with very few exceptions (for example enemies near save rooms or zombies in rooms you visit only once and you grow tired of constantly dodging them). This is probably the reason why ammo is absurdly low in Remake 1, since they are mostly reserved for bosses anyway. Also revisiting non-hallway room types is usually punished in some way, so you should visit most rooms only once (further emphasized due to the Crimson Head mechanic). I prefer the direction taken in RE 1 over Remake 1. - I personally wouldn't rank Item Management this high for the fixed camera games. You have little room, yes, but you also don't need to take much with you either (usually just one weapon and spare ammo, maybe one healing item, but also that becomes more obsolete when you know what's ahead and what you are doing, and a key item that will be used up) to make room for picking up everything in the environment). RE 4 and onward have bigger space because taking different things becomes more important. Item Management was always RE's strong point, but I think future games did this concept more justice than the fixed camera ones. I would rank all games with an Item Management of 3 with exception with RE 0 because of the missing Item Boxes and everything has to be carried over to the next areas. (- Speaking of Item Management. I am personally irritated why many say that RE 1 has scarce resources. I always end up in both normal and Arrange mode with having about 175 handgun bullets, 50 shotgun shells (30 in Arrange) and 30 Magnum bullets before the final encounter. The beginning before obtaining the shotgun is troublesome, but because the game is too open ended with most rooms having no handgun ammo and being pointless until a certain moment that creates rather tedious trial and error for figuring out the exact path than wise resource management. So I have nothing against that since RE 2 the games start more linear to avoid pointless trial and error with the starting equipment.) - Although finding all places with resources in RE 1 and Remake 1 is more important than the other games, I wouldn't say those games have less exploration. RE 1 has rather empty environments, so finding points of interest is not that difficult. In RE 2 and 3, there are less obvious hiding places, and therefore less mandatory. Remake 1 has the system where the map shows if you found everything in one room, so the requirements to pick them up could become more strict again. Thanks for sharing. Interesting analysis has been made in this video.

Also, I watched your RE2 video, and was very interested on the part about the design of the characters. Any chance you could do a video about that?

Are you playing Remake with a mod? Jill's STARS outfit seems to have a diferent color.

Bonus points for Sonic music.

I like this subject. I do feel that the games have different formulas

Great video pal, my favourite episode is the original 3.

Did you play Re3 Nemesis on Hard mode? Def remember having less ammo there, although I can’t remember if that was due to Nemesis being a straight tank or if there was actually less to pick up

I was so proud when I beat RE0. Still my proudest gaming accomplishment

Have you ever considered putting up all of your final tallies of the formula for each game in one place? Maybe on your deviantart?

You can also use Gunpowders on Grenade Rounds, colour = rounds and the more of an item you make with Gunpowders the greater the yield of ammo.

I wonder why you didn’t make story one of your criteria as well. Also how is RE1 remake combat more simple than RE1’s combat when it has more weapons and new mechanics like emergency weapons and crimson heads? Also you’re rating system isn’t very effective because you more or less just rate how much of something a game has and not whether or not it has a necessarily good or bad impact on the game, like re1 has simple combat but that plays to the advantage of the game meanwhile zero has a lot of inventory management but many find it to be tedious. Maybe you did the system like that on purpose though.

Can I ask how I can play these classic games like RE 2 and 3? I hear and read you can on ps3 and your able to download them for the ps store on there. They aren’t on ps4 ps store.

WAIT! AT 5:43 IS THAT A DELORIAN DMC-12?!?!?

That 3:20 part is hilarious hahaha

What about horror

Which version of CV were you playing?

lots of skill here congrats

Interesting video. 10:35 You're wrong: Capcom NEVER considered Re: Code Veronica as Re3. It was always considered as a Dreamcast spin-off (as a compensation for Sega to Capcom's inability to port Re2 on dreamcast at the time.) instead.

why do you use octane to describe a game? octane is the resistance rating for combustion in engines. higher number means that the motor requires higher compression in order combust fuel in a cylinder... lower number makes combustion easy conversely.

I hated the item management in Zero. Very frustrating, just a bad Resi game in my opinion.

resident evil outbreak and outbreak 2? resident evil 2 remake? resident evil 3 remake?

Didn’t mention auto-aim.

RE 0 is a plain pain.

Is strange that youtubers post high res for old resident evil content, they just look weird because the backgrounds still looks low res and the lighting needs to be low also because it was also intended to be play like that.

4:27 What makes "Resident Evil tick in my onion"??? I think you may have read out your own typo there lol

I never played RE0 just because of the inventory management and having to manage 2 characters. It's dreadful pfff.

I like 6, code veronica, dark side cronicles and revelations and hate 5 and 4

Resident evil 2 is soooo easy you completely hit it right, enough ammo for double. I highly recommend resi 2 on the dreamcast as you can play nightmare mode which is a better challenge

For me, it would be: 1. Resident Evil. 2. Resident Evil remake. 3. Resident Evil 2. 4. Resident Evil 3. 5. Resident Evil Zero. 6. Resident Evil 5. 7. Revelations 2. 8. Code Veronica 9. Darkside Chronicles. 10. Umbrella Chronicles. 11. Resident Evil 7. 12. Resident Evil 4. 13. Resident Evil 2 remake. 14. Resident Evil 3 remake. 15. Revelations. 16. Resident Evil 6. 17. Gun survivor.

Could you have been a bigger CV fanboy?

Firstly CVX is best re game .... to my knowledge the only major choice is weather you give the gaurd medicine

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how to compare? easy from 0 till 4 gold, the rest is nothing but crap