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Resident evil 6. 3 games in one...which you don't have to play.


A VHS cassette with playback quality that good? Somebody at Umbrella be trippin' or they held onto those Betamaxes.

I wasn't overly keen on the initial Resident evil 6 trailer, because most of it didn't feel like Resident evil. I saw Ghost recon. I saw Infamous. I saw what looked like 3 separate games, and according to game director Eiichiro Sasaki, this is kinda the case. Resident evil 6 features 3 narratives, is essentially 3 games and according to Sasaki you don't even have to play them all.

They stand on their own but they do overlap in certain areas. You don't have to play them all, of course.

That's a nice endorsement. Why even bother to play this shit at all!? Surely, you'd want players to play through all 3 scenarios - or have I got it all wrong!? You'd think this would be the only way to get the full story. I think it's kinda odd you can even choose. You should have to play through all 3 scenarios. Albeit in any order you like. But you should have to play them all. If Sasaki has done his job right, then players should want to play through all 3 scenario's because they are THAT good and indispensable.

I'm not overly sold on Resident evil 6, or the franchise as a whole any more. It's upsetting for me, because I LOVED Resident evil up until game 4. But then 5 came along and just spat in my face. The Mercenaries was some crack. But that main game was just a boring ass mess. It hit a point mid way through where it just ran completely out of steam. By the time I was having villagers in grass skirts throw spears at me and I was having to push mirrors in a temple where n***a's went crazy because of some flower, I was done with that game. And I'd always harbored a bit of hated towards Capcom for turning Jill into some Nina Williams clone who was able to do everything a Spider-Man could except web sling.

Resident evil 6's release date has been pushed forward a month from November to October. The reason? Black ops 2. Capcom don't wanna be beefing wid no Call of duty game. They'd lose a limb. They'd lose sales. And somebody would lose a job.

I'll buy Resident evil 6 regardless, because I'm a hoebag for Resident evil. I just hope this game shows focus and direction. Because that last game had no idea what it wanted to be. I'd be devastated to see this franchise become a direction-less husk of what it used to be. A bit like what Final Fantasy now-a-days.

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  1. They should want you to play all three scenarios, a la Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

    *Yes, I'm going to talk about Kingdom Hearts*

    Those were three separate scenarios but they were still intertwined and led to the overall ending of one story. Some people didn't like it but I fucking loved it.

    It should be the same with this game. What that dude said is really stupid. And this trailer was ok but I don't even know what to think of the game after watching it. I'll probably hold off for a while.

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