Resident Evil Village (RE8)

Resident Evil Re:Verse open beta available to preload

The beta will start on April 8th (technically April 7th at 11:00 PM PST) and will be available until April 11th...

 
The Re: Verse Beta is available on the PS5 as well. Not sure I care that much, but I might tinker with it.
 
RE:Verse is what Capcom makes to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series. I can't even...
 
Anyone get to try out the beta today? I wont be able to do so until after work.
 
New hour-long Resident Evil Village demo comes to PC on May 2

In a livestream showcase for Resident Evil Village today, Capcom producer Tsuyoshi Kanda announced that a new demo will be available on May 2nd...And unlike the last demo, which was limited to the Sony PlayStation, this one will be available on consoles as well as PC and Stadia

The new time-limited demo will let you play for 60 minutes...

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Resident Evil Village- 4th Trailer




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I want the game but everything is brown and grey. Just took it off my Wishlist so I don't buy it.
 
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I like the hour-long demo idea. Will definitely be giving that a spin, although I'm 99% sure I'll be picking this game up anyway. The fact that they're willingly tossing demos at us left and right strikes me as confidence in the product, though.
 
New hour-long Resident Evil Village demo comes to PC on May 2

In a livestream showcase for Resident Evil Village today, Capcom producer Tsuyoshi Kanda announced that a new demo will be available on May 2nd...And unlike the last demo, which was limited to the Sony PlayStation, this one will be available on consoles as well as PC and Stadia

The new time-limited demo will let you play for 60 minutes...

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60 minutes is all you get game is so good =)
 
Performance numbers for consoles:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/7878...n-ps5-xbox-series-with-ray-tracing/index.html

Depending on the settings and console, the game runs at 30, 45, or 60 fps?

My Series S will run 1440p 45 fps which seems weird. I would rather have 1080p 60 fps I think. Why 45 fps? That just seems odd. I hear that a locked 40 fps works really nice with 120 hz tvs, though. I have VRR on my TV so it should be smooth regardless.
 
Performance numbers for consoles:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/7878...n-ps5-xbox-series-with-ray-tracing/index.html

Depending on the settings and console, the game runs at 30, 45, or 60 fps?

My Series S will run 1440p 45 fps which seems weird. I would rather have 1080p 60 fps I think. Why 45 fps? That just seems odd. I hear that a locked 40 fps works really nice with 120 hz tvs, though. I have VRR on my TV so it should be smooth regardless.
40 divides evenly into 120, so it is a nice 3:1 ratio with the refresh rate. Same concept as using 30 FPS for the standard 60 Hz TV. 45 would make sense if everybody had a VRR TV, but most people don't plus the PS5 doesn't support VRR yet, making the 45 choice odd. I wonder if it's going to be tear city on 60 Hz displays or they're doing some wizardry like scanline sync to hide it.
 
I want the game but everything is brown and grey. Just took it off my Wishlist so I don't buy it.

Have fun with your Brown and Grey depression game I'm not buying it.

Did you irrationally disregard RE4 and RE7 too for its same color palette? If so, GTFO of this thread.

Anyways, tried to play the demo of this on PS5 last night only to see that it was only available to play during that small window. 🙄

Guess I'll try again during the next window. Not sure this will be a day-1 purchase yet for me despite enjoying RE7 a lot. Takes a lot for a game to make me drop a full $60 on it still, esp. with my current backlog of other AA/AAA games to play. Though if they supported VR either on PC or PSVR again, that would def be a day-1 purchase, as playing through RE7 on PSVR was fuggin awesome. But I shall see how reviews receive the game before buying, I think, unless these demos end up impressing me enough I suppose.

I regretfully slept on RE7 for a couple years after writing off the RE series after jumping the shark on RE5 and even more so on RE6 action games. But I'm back now that they've returned to their horror and suspenseful roots. Their current RE engine is also pretty impressive in terms of both IQ and performance on all platforms.
 
I'm still convinced that RE4 wasn't intended to be Spain in the first place. Everything has a Southeastern European vibe that they shoehorned Spanish words and names into. I know the dev team spent some time in Spain, but that's also after the game had been in progress as a more traditional RE title. This one has a full-on rural Carpathian mountains visual going on.
 
I'm still convinced that RE4 wasn't intended to be Spain in the first place. Everything has a Southeastern European vibe that they shoehorned Spanish words and names into. I know the dev team spent some time in Spain, but that's also after the game had been in progress as a more traditional RE title. This one has a full-on rural Carpathian mountains visual going on.
I always thought it could fit right at home in the Cantabrians or Spanish Pyrenees.
 
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I always thought it could fit right at home in the Cantabrians or Spanish Pyrenees.

Yeah Spain has a lot of ethnic groups, sub cultures, and a wide array of different terrain. Also lots of the more rural regions in Western Europe are hyper conservative/traditional, look straight of the early 1900s, are poor, and generally have an odd sort of throw back vibe and hostility to them that just about any of them would make for a good horror setting. It looks fine as that part of Spain. Hell Spain would be a great dark and dreary setting for a game set in the time of Franco or hell the Spanish Inquisition for other horror settings, neither setting which really gets explored all that much.
 
Resident Evil Village Demo: PS5 vs PS4 Pro vs PS4 - All Consoles, All Modes Tested

 
The more similarities that exist between 4 and 8 the better imo. One of my favorite mechanics was the merchant and inventory management. I sure hope it's similar this time around =D

One thing I read today though that I REALLY hope isn't true is that Lady whatsherface will be chasing you around like in 2/3 :banghead:
 
The more similarities that exist between 4 and 8 the better imo. One of my favorite mechanics was the merchant and inventory management. I sure hope it's similar this time around =D

One thing I read today though that I REALLY hope isn't true is that Lady whatsherface will be chasing you around like in 2/3 :banghead:
Idk why re4 get so much. It was the begining of where RE last it's way. While I enjoyed and though it was a good game it wasn't very RE to me. 5 and 6 went even farther with the action. RE7 brought it back and looks like 8 is continuing it.
 
Idk why re4 get so much. It was the begining of where RE last it's way. While I enjoyed and though it was a good game it wasn't very RE to me. 5 and 6 went even farther with the action. RE7 brought it back and looks like 8 is continuing it.

Hardware generation jumps, blame graphics and wizbang tech, graphical advancements always fuck up gameplay something fierce. RE 1/2/3 were the PS1 generation, 4 was really the game of the next generation, 5/6 were the generation after, 7 the next, and 8 is another all again. There's a huge push that when tech, especially graphics tech, advances that developers need to go back and change everything up.

There's a huge push from customers and reviewers to reinvent the wheel with each generation along with the fancy new coat of graphical paint. If they don't, they get slammed for lack of innovation to go with the fancy new visuals and called lazy. Sometimes these changes are good, but they also stand a large chance of fucking things up massively.

Capcom though is fairly solid as a company and seems to learn from things and then go back and make something better later. RE 2/3 are good examples of learning things that worked, things that didn't, and then going back and doing something better.
 
Resident Evil Village Demo: PS5 vs PS4 Pro vs PS4 - All Consoles, All Modes Tested



The got the big fish and the wolves in this one like RE4. Unless the reviews are Very Positive on Steam I won't pick it up
I know the last game got Overwhelming Positive reviews.
 
RE4 is and probably always will be divisive. It’s the one where the series went from a nearly point + click style of adventure game to a 3rd-person pseudo shooter. A lot of people that loved the originals never liked RE4 and vice versa. I didn’t care for the first games, but I absolutely loved RE4.

RE5 and 6 focused on the part of 4 that I never really liked - feeling overwhelmed by #’s. They backed off on exploration and the sense that you were in over your head in a huge hostile world, though. Both were linear shooters for the most part. I blame the developers for focusing on the wrong things in RE4. I will admit that RE6 wasn’t as bad as people initially thought, though. I enjoyed it way more than 5, which I probably consider to be the worst of the main series. RE5 was a bad shooter. RE6 didn’t really know what it wanted to be, but the shooting mechanics were better than in 5.
 
Idk why re4 get so much. It was the begining of where RE last it's way. While I enjoyed and though it was a good game it wasn't very RE to me. 5 and 6 went even farther with the action. RE7 brought it back and looks like 8 is continuing it.

Well, I’d agree that it very much differed from the first 3, namely the whole las plagas thing vs zombies, plus saving the presidents daughter, really?

What set it apart though was just how damn good everything else was; the 3rd person over the shoulder camera, the laser targeting on the guns, the upgradability of the guns and the attachments, the varying environments enemies and bosses, just how well it played, even the interactive cut scenes, which iirc was among if not the first game to do it.

I don’t think I’ve ever replayed any game as much as RE4. But yeah, RE5 was a significant downgrade and RE6 was a complete dumpster fire. If 8 is as good (and scary) as 7 with some borrowed mechanics from 4 I’d say we are in for a treat!
 
This looks promising. Have not played an RE game before but if the hardware requirements aren't too steep on this one I think I'll pick it up
 
This looks promising. Have not played an RE game before but if the hardware requirements aren't too steep on this one I think I'll pick it up
The current RE engine, which started on RE7, is pretty well optimized and doesn't take much to run well. The current demo shows PS5 is pretty well locked to 4K60 even with RT enabled. So that bodes pretty well for PC requirements/recommendations.

If you're interested at all in this game though and haven't played RE7, I highly recommend playing that first since this is a direct sequel to that story and is pretty similar in gameplay and setting to this game, with a much lower price of entry to see if you'll like this at all.
 
If you're interested at all in this game though and haven't played RE7, I highly recommend playing that first since this is a direct sequel to that story and is pretty similar in gameplay and setting to this game, with a much lower price of entry to see if you'll like this at all.

somebody asked earlier in this thread about whether you need to play all the previous RE games to understand RE8 but you really only need to play RE7 as that was sort of a soft reboot and like you said Village is a direct continuation
 
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