Media Resident Evil Remake/Zero Remastered

[FSLAR]

They probably were able to fine tune the engine in RE0 with the time they had, and experience with the new engine as well. 0 always had a slightly better look to me, mostly with some of the lighting and shadows.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Zero came out after REmake, so it's a given it'd look better. I didn't realize it, but they both came out the same year. Originally, it was to come out on N64.

 

[Frank Jaeger]

Those screens look great

 

[ReplicantSavior]

I'll only get Zero in HD if someone at Capcom confirms that the money from the HD versions of the Remake and Zero will go to a proper HD remake of Resident Evil 2.

I was never crazy about Resident Evil Zero. I still own it on GameCube. But I don't recall it really being needed. It was a nice to know what happened kind of thing I think.

 

[FSLAR]

Zero came out after REmake, so it's a given it'd look better. I didn't realize it, but they both came out the same year. Originally, it was to come out on N64.

I never understood why they went with the 'Nintendo only' approach, especially since Ryan explained why this backfired horribly. The game on N64 looks very similar to RE2 though, doesn't have the somewhat smoother look of RE3 I think. Would make sense since RE2 got a late release on N64

 

[DarkMario616]

It appears that Capcom isn't upscaling RE0 like REmake. It looks like Capcom actually HAS ALL THE ASSETS for RE0 and didn't lose them, unlike REmake, which is why it looks so much better. Increasing polycount of the characters and re-rendering the items in slightly altered positions too...

RE0 <3 <3 <3 Anyone who hasn't played it will have an amazingly fun time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qy3nifvn4c

love this song so much

 

[Snake Plissken]

It amazes me that these companies can lose **** like that. I didn't realize they lost REmake, no wonder some of the backgrounds in the Remastered looked completely untouched.

 

[DarkMario616]

Yah I honestly don't understand how this **** happens.

Either way I replayed RE0 over the Summer but never finished my playthrough unfortunately. I'm tempted to go finish it but I was pretty much at the end. You can screw yourself over in several parts in RE0 and it just completely ****s your save file lol. I might just wait for the RE0master and play it on Hard.

BTW Newcomers don't start on hard. One of the most difficult REs you can play.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I never did hard mode, and I honestly never really got pulled into the game. It's a little dull, if that's the word. And it's very tedious to keep backtracking to mule your items in your ass to other sections. But the zapping system is great. I still have my strategy guide for it, and I'm going to need it. It's the one RE I need to play every time with a guide since I'm an amateur with it.

 

[DarkMario616]

I wouldn't say it's dull. It starts off some-what slow but it gets amazing near the middle of the game. I'd say disc 2 is superior to disc 1 all the way. I honestly love all the locations in the game.

Hard mode is balls to the wall hard. Very low ammo, and zombies and leech ****ing kill you quickly.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I remember the bosses being a real pain in the ass, more than a lot of the other games. I thought the Proto Tyrant was pretty awesome.

Since you're just as familiar with the game as me, do you think the lab in Zero is the RE2 lab? I remember getting into a discussion about it on THIA and there's no clear evidence either way that it's a separate but identical lab or the exact same.

 

[DarkMario616]

Yah it's clearly the same lab. People argue it's not because of the layout and it's bigger. There's no doubt to say it's the same lab. Capcom has done it before where they take previous designs and use them in a sequel, like RE2 and RE3's RPD. Capcom isn't perfect and makes mistakes, considering it's usually a different team doing the games half the time anyways.

They are comparing a lab made for PS1 to a game made on the gamecube...of course they're going to expand it. It's like saying the mansion in REmake isn't the mansion in RE1.

 

[Snake Plissken]

They repurpose **** constantly through the series. RE2-3 geography is completely ****ed up and not consistent. Like why is there a chemical plant right in the middle of City Hall But you can blame that on limitations of the system and leaving that little sewer to it very short.

It's the same lab as far as I'm concerned, it's too much of a coincidence. The problem is, that lab was supposed to be up and running around that time IIRC so having monsters all over doesn't jive with RE2.

I remember in RE1.5 trial that came out not long ago, I remember seeing some repurposed sections of an elevator that got recycled into Code Veronica.

 

[DarkMario616]

Actually, I change my mind. I remember the lab being blown up in RE0 lol. And RE2 takes place a few months later. Can't be the same lab. I honestly think it's the same lab just that Capcom ****ed up. I find it hard to believe two areas would look basically the same.

Then again maybe they hinted this to us with the training facility, which looks like Spencer's mansion

 

[Snake Plissken]

But that was only the Training Facility... I think? I guess it would fit with continuity if it wasn't the same, but it appears to be.

 

[DarkMario616]

yah it's a training facility, just imitated to look like the mansion. That's what I'm saying about the labs. Maybe the RE0 lab was built to look like the one from RE2, because it's all part of "training"? I dunno. I still think Capcom just ****ed up lol

 

[FSLAR]

I still don't get how you go from the forest to the training facility to RE2's lab how the hell? How do you even get so close to the mansion after that?

A store I went to has a GameCube RE Preview disc, is that a demo of RE4?

 

[DarkMario616]

well the train was controlled by umbrella and was probably headed in that direction...train derailed etc..

though training facility to cathedral to lab is weirder. had to have two labs, just like there were two mansions I think, or two of something else.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Doesn't the church lab lead to the underground cable car? I would guess that it led to the same turn table in the industrial district from RE2.

 

[DarkMario616]

people apparently argue that it's a completely different turn table tram car thingy.

I still want to go with a throwback to RE2 and Capcom just didn't realize the major plot hole.

How many times has RE2 shown up in other games? RE3...REOB2...