For me it's
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Resident Evil 1 (1996)
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Resident Evil 2 (1998)
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Resident Evil Outbreak (File 1 and 2 because it's pretty much one game split into two)
1 will always hold a special place in my heart since it's the first I played. 2 because it improved on everything that 1 did and it was the first Biohazard game I played to completion. Outbreak because it took the series online and introduced multiplayer while still sticking true to it's survival horror themes.
- Resident Evil 2 (N64) because it was my first experience with survival horror and one of my core childhood memories
- Resident Evil (2002 Gamecube remake) because it's how I experienced the original and it was good and scary
- Resident Evil 4 because I have fond memories of playing Mercenaries mode with a friend late into the night
Resident Evil (2002 Gamecube remake) because it's how I experienced the original and it was good and scary
I've yet to play the remakes of 2+3+4 since my PC can't play them, but to me ReMake on the GC is perfect.
-RE4 obviously
-Probably Vllage, which I haven't played, and the first half of 7
-Code Veronica because it was such an impenetrable scary mess as a kid but it had such singular vibes. Beware the bandersnatch
-Code Veronica because it was such an impenetrable scary mess as a kid but it had such singular vibes. Beware the bandersnatch
I got stumped late into CV and had to use a save file to beat it I downloaded through my dreamcast browser into my VMU, those were the days.
I treat the three eras of Resident Evil as their own separate entities, but if I had to pick one from each
Classic Era: RE2 (1998). REmake is a great game and probably the pinnacle of classic survival horror in many ways but the story and characters really let it down for me. RE1/Remake is like some straight-to-video Italian zombie flick while RE2 is an 80s James Cameron movie
Middle Era: Resident Evil 4. The first of the action oriented Resident Evils. Self-aware, campy and most crucially of all it was still an uncompromised single-player game
Modern Era: I'd like to give it to RE7 since it was a solid, original entry that revitalised the franchise after the huge stinker that was RE6, but the RE2 remake is a better put together game overall even if half of what makes it good was just recycled from the 1998 original
RE7
I want to play that, feels like it gets overlooked now thanks to the remakes and village.
I heard good things about it, wish I could play it.
I think it was just a good horror game in general tbh.
The atmosphere of being in this large creepy house on the bayou with this weird family was neat and there are moments that are actually kind of suspenseful.
I don't have much experience with the games outside of a group of youtubers playing 7, Village and the remakes tho.I don't have much experience with the games outside of a group of youtubers playing 7, Village and the remakes tho.
Now's a great time to get into the series since all the mainline games are so easily accessible via emulation or have PC ports. 1,2,3 are all on and coming to GOG.
- RE2 (1998) - hard to beat. great in every aspect. having 2 scenarios that affect each other is sooo good that i want more games doing that. extra modes are quite challenging and fun to play.
- REmake (2002 GC) - perfect in almost every way. I'm very sad that there were no more games in that style since for me it's probably the perfect survival horror experience. I still like the original but the remake improved almost every single aspect of it.
- RE3 (1999) - it has a bunch of problems but is probably the funnier one to play. making up challenges to finish the game gives it an arcade-like feeling. nemesis keeps being scary even when i have every place he can appear memorized
honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer. between it and REmake were two very good ways of moving the franchise forward and keeping the formula interesting. sadly, they went the action route so we got okay-ish games (4 is great although it still ranks way below the classics for me) instead of hypotetical masterpieces.
honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer.
Oh yeah multiplayer was where it's at, never to late to try it out though as fans have kept the game alive via private servers you can easily connect pcsx2 up to.
