Resident Evil 4. I love it.

[highwind]

Thanks for convincing me to buy Resident Evil 4. After hitting a wall with Metroid Prime 2 and questioning my desire for video games, Resident Evil 4 has slapped me in the face with it's awesomeness.

I'm only 2 hours into so far but I frikkin' love it! :D

Two quick questions so far:

#1 Is it possible to kill the chainsaw guys with the bags on their heads? I couldn't seem to!

#2 I got 10 of the blue coins and I got the Punisher. Is it worth searching for the last 5? What do you get for finding all 15?

[Kire]

#1 yes it is. It's just friggin tough.

[John Mora]

BOKU WA

[RPGD]

At's-a wonderful.

*que minotaur*

[SirTMagus]

Damn... I don't remember what happens if you get all 15... regardless, it's easy as pie so you might as well.

And yes, RE4 WA HONTOU NI BEE'S KNEES DESU.

[Valkysas]

chainsaw guys, best to isolate them, blast them in the head with the rifle (you'll get it soon), wait for them to get up, and do it again. repeat until dead. they drop VERY valuable stones. use only headshots against them.

[Dreamknight]

I'll be getting the game on monday, I can't wait! :D

[SirTMagus]

Get some sleep the night before, dude.

Leon's gonna keep you up ALLLL NIIIIIGHT.

[BeeZee]

If you get all fifteen medals before getting the Punisher, he gives it to you upgraded a bit. If you get the Punisher before getting all 15, then getting the rest won't do anything.

[highwind]

Thanks, BZ.

I haven't even gotten the rifle because I've been using the shotgun instead.

I was gonna buy the Red9 but my punisher has better stats all around than it.

This game absolutely rules.

[Garr123]

The red 9 is the most powerful handgun in the game, and it has the bonus of coming with a stock to make it good at long range.

[BeeZee]

I recommend getting a decent rifle and upgrading it a bit. It'll come in more than handy later.

[Loki]

It's too scarry. :(

[highwind]

Well I've already spent money upgrading the Punisher by 2 levels in each category.

Is it worth dumping it in order to buy the Red9?

[Armored]

Chainsaw guys go down easy. The first one I encountered I threw two fire bombs on, the next took 2 or so shotgun blasts.

And the Red9, yeah, it's better than the punisher for fighting enemies 1 on 1. I'm assuming the punisher rocks for fighting groups.. but that's what the shotty is for.

[highwind]

Chainsaw guys go down easy. The first one I encountered I threw two fire bombs on, the next took 2 or so shotgun blasts.


How could you possibly call that "easy" when all the other enemies I've faced to this point basically go down with ONE shotgun blow to the head??

[SirTMagus]

I stuck with the Punisher the whole game so you shouldn't have any problems.

And you better get used to the chainsaw guys soon... :(

[Kefka Jr.]

'Cause it's gonna get MUCH WORSE THAN THAT!!!!!!1

Yeah, if you've already souped up the Punisher, just stick with that.

[highwind]

Too late. I ditched the Pun-Pun for the Red9. :lol


EDIT: Now I've ditched the Red9 for the Blacktail. This thing is sweet! How is any handgun possibly better than the Blacktail?

[Armored]

I'm pretty sure the Red9 has the best stats.

[SirTMagus]

Is the Blacktail the magnum...? That's different from a regular 'ol handgun.

[highwind]

Blacktail has way better stats than the Red9.

It's just a baddass 9mm.

[SirTMagus]

I STAND CORRECTED.








:|

[Armored]

I'm pretty sure these stats are correct.


BlackTail
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Level 1
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Power: 1.6
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Level 2
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Power: 1.8
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Level 3
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Power: 2.0
-----
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Level 4
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Power: 2.3
-----
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Level 5
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Power: 2.7
-----
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Level 6
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Power: 3.0




Red9
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Level 1
---------
Power: 1.4
-----
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Level 2
---------
Power: 1.7
-----
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Level 3
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Power: 2.0
-----
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Level 4
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Power: 2.4
-----
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Level 5
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Power: 2.8
-----
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Level 6
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Power: 3.0


The guns according to gamefaqs get past level 6, with the Red9 seriously outpowering the blacktail, but they're pretty equal power wise for most of the game. Then the blacktail takes up less storage which is cool, and can hold larger clips, but that's not a really useful function.

[highwind]

I didn't know there were "exclusive" special upgrades past level 6.

You're right, Red9's "exclusive" is way more powerful than Blacktail's "exclusive"

[Garr123]

The stock with the red9 helped me save up rifle ammo for when i really needed it, it became pretty scarce when i was playing.

[SirTMagus]

Oddly, the handgun ammo was scarce for me and I had a shotgun and rifle ammo surplus.

'TWAS AWESOME.

[highwind]

I have barrels of Handgun ammo.

The Shotgun is my best friend.

[Garr123]

I heard the game adjusts difficulty depending on how often you die/heal/etc, is that true?

[Armored]

No idea how to verify that. I couldn't find anything on capcoms site about it though.

[SirTMagus]

Apparently, and this is what I heard, the more you die at a boss and use continues the more yellow herbs you'll find to increase your health. So the game feels SORRY for you. :(

...I guess that could explain why my life was maxed out by the middle of the game.
:\

[BeeZee]

I beat the game my second time through without dying once, and I still found the exact same number of yellow herbs.

[Kefka Jr.]

Anyone remember that part in the castle where the cage drops on you, and then Galnados and one of those blind Wolverine guys come in and attack you? I died so many times there that after a while the blind Wolverine guy stopped appearing. I felt gipped/jipped/gypped.

[highwind]

Anyone remember that part in the castle where the cage drops on you, and then Galnados and one of those blind Wolverine guys come in and attack you? I died so many times there that after a while the blind Wolverine guy stopped appearing. I felt gipped/jipped/gypped.


:lol !!!


I died there about 4 or 5 times but he didn't disapear for me.

[KumoShinagi]

I've finally rented this game becuase I'm so poor.

This game freaking rocks!

Control got a a lot better and I think it really adds to the experience.

[Caciss]

Whoo!

Glad you bought it, Highwind.

I just beat my second play through in 5 hours. Yippy! Pretty easy when you start with a maxed out magnum, and shotgun.

[Draygone]

How did you control the guys in previous Resident Evils. Isn't it the same as what's here, except with a stationary camera?

(And where's the spoiler tag?)

[BeeZee]

The movement control is more or less the same, but as someone else posted on the other forums, it's a lot more intuitive when the camera is always behind you. The shooting controls are improved to allow you to aim wherever you want to, as opposed to just straight ahead, up, or down. Coupled with the addition of damage zones on the enemies, this makes a huge difference in the combat.

[Armored]

Well I finally beat it. 18 hours 40 minutes, like 500 enemies killed and 84 deaths, oh the spectacular dying.

I have one big comlaint, and that's with the total suckage of a few bosses later on in the game.










*SPOILERS*















Salazar was a complete joke. I found a spot to stand where he couldn't even hit me, all I had to do was L+R dodge an attack everyonce and a while.

Saddler was also pathetic. A few stabs to the eye and one rocket blast. I don't think he even hit me, bleh.

Fighting krauser multiple times was fun. The knife fight in which he killed me like 6 times was really cool, although a hassle. The fight in the Ruins area was cool but he was still too easy. Just shoot him in the feet when he has his shield up and he'll trip, then blast him in the face.

The "Alien" bodyguard of Salazar was intense. When the fight first started I tried doing stuff with the nitrogen but I couldn't shoot it or move it or anything. I ran around dodging him for the full 4 minutes while the elevator was coming. In the last 30 seconds it let me knock over the nitrogen and froze him, I just ran into the elevator instead of trying to kill him at that point.

IT was another intense part. After I dropped all the sections and got to fight him, the rocket launcher I had came in quite handy. 1 shot from that and one shotgun blast took him down. I wonder if you can kill him inside the crate area?

The masochist El Gigante were pretty cool. After I dropped the first one into the pit I just took the other out with a rocket.. that weapon is way too easy to afford for how awesome it is, you get too much money in the game. Whenever I ran into something tough I would buy a rocket launcher and that would solve everything. Two blind claw guys in the same room? Rocket!

Overall the story of the game seems kind of pointless. The only reason for the parasites and the Illuminados ultimately was to further Umbrella's expiriments? In that case the main game is basically a sidestory of Assignment Ada :p Blah blah presidents daughter, and other Leon filler.
















*SPOILER END*









Still this definately goes in my list of favorite games among Soul Reaver, Fatal Frame and Valkyrie Profile.

[SirTMagus]

SPOILER



















Yes, ultimately, the story goes nowhere. A shame, but, hey. It's Capcom.















END

[Caciss]

SPOILER























Armored you suck at the game. I never even used the rocket launcher and did better than you my first time through. :P



AND WHATS UP WITH THE GENRE CHANGING ENDS THAT CAPCOM LIKES?

































END SPOILER

[SirTMagus]

SPOILER (where are the spoiler tags? ...:()















Yeah, Capcom loves that 'ol last minute genre switch... Viewtiful Joe, Onimusha 2, Devil May Cry... what else?

I really wish they get their **** together with the story. They got a stable of memorable characters and just about FIVE MILLION loose threads and they're just sitting on them. WTF?!

The way I see it, RE4 is the new chapter of the series, kinda like a reboot. Everything's gonna start FRESH. ...Funny, I can't think of any analogies. The first thing that comes to mind is Star Trek IV... what the hell...?!















END!!!

[Caciss]

Spoiler



















Not to mention, Jet Skiing, with that strange to the side camera, makes it really hard to get an idea of where you are at exactly.


















OMG END

[Kefka Jr.]

The Mercenaries = ****IN' OWNED

Time to start my new game.

[Armored]

Armored you suck at the game. I never even used the rocket launcher and did better than you my first time through. :P

:lol I could go through this game with just knifing and boot-@$#&ing the ganados, with no health. And then put in some "overtime" with your mom. :jack2

[Dragoon]

*snickers*

[Valkysas]

oh crap, elysion has found us. STUPID NEW NAME.

[highwind]

oh crap, elysion has found us. STUPID NEW NAME.

:lol

[SirTMagus]

Why won't anybody put in some overtime with me? :(

[Caciss]

:( Oh what did I put in?! JUST REGULAR TIME!?

[Dragoon]

Wonder why most ppl kept their new names.

[SirTMagus]

They're our HANDLES, man.

I've been MAGUS for the past ELEVEN YEARS.

[Dreamknight]

:lol I suck at this game!

[SirTMagus]

Nobody makes the first jump.











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"I don't believe it!"

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

I think I suck, too.

I just got to the first Iron Maiden.

EDIT/SPOILERS:

Okay, now I beat it. That was fun. The bosses that should have been the hardest were stupid easy (Salazar and Saddler). The most enjoyable bosses to me were Salazar's Right Hand and Krauser.

During the Right Hand (did he have a name?) fight, I didn't realize you could tip the nitrogen to freeze and kill him. The feeling of defenselessness was a rush. I just kept running and dodging until the door opened/elevator activated.

Krauser was just fun. I even enjoyed the cutscene where you first meet him and you have to keep hitting the button combinations to stay alive. I think that would've been cooler if there were more than two combinations, but it was sweet none-the-less. I used the Broken Butterfly and the knife against him in the actual boss fight. He went down (in the end part) within a minute.

[Dreamknight]

I'm pretty far in the game myself :D

Just finished the right hand fight, I couldn't kill em, though :(

[SirTMagus]

Oh, he's called Salazar's Right Hand? I just called him Terminator. There seems to be a Terminator-type in every RE game.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

"Your right hand comes off?"

[Caciss]

That Leon is oh so witty!

[Dreamknight]

"YOU'RE small time!"

[Caciss]

"Wanna put in some... overtime?!"

[SirTMagus]

Ashley needs to be covered in birth control patches.

[Caciss]

That wont protect Leon from her diseases.

[Dreamknight]

Damn....Mercenaries is HARD.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

I had trouble with Assignment Ada for a while because I couldn't get used to not having a shotgun. That and all the crossbow guys who could somehow shoot through walls.

[Armored]

I ran through it as fast as I could only to run into you know who and not having the ammo to kill em.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

The only part I really ran straight through was the last lab area. When like... Six shield-holders, two armored guys, and a few regular schmucks flood the place. I got annoyed, so I grabbed the massive amount of items in the lab, shot a bunch of knees, and ran to the exit. If you got all the ammo/herbs in the room where you get the fourth Las Plagas, you should have enough to easily off the boss.

[Vonwert]

I never ran through. I just killed everything in sight. I did run real low on handgun ammo...but that is because I rarely knifed them.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

... Ada didn't have a knife.

[SirTMagus]

OHHH SNAP.

:busted

[goldgecko4]

Am I the only one who thinks the "busted" guy is kinda cute?


:busted


EDIT: Don't overuse emoticons. Thanks.

[Vonwert]

:| Oops...I thought you guys were talking about the main game...oops...

[SirTMagus]

If this game was ported to PSP...

I don't know what I'd do. The unthinkable probably.

[Denmo]

This would be the first RE game I've actually wanted to own.

[SirTMagus]

Go back and play RE2.

Or, uh, OR DIE.

[John Mora]

HAha, RE2 is the only RE game I've played besides the demo to this. And that one I just rented and got to the basement of the police department.

[AlexMagusaka]

Done. About friggin' time. 71 f*BANG!*g saves, 37 sonuvag*HONK!*n continues. I feel emasculated. :(


SPOILERS HIGH-YOOOOOOOOOOOO!!




Bella sisters - NINE continues. C'mon Leon, you should be able to survive a chainsaw attack better than that!

The cabin standoff with Luis - 7 continues; because I didn't find out until afterwards that flash grenades were useful on the Whip Plagas.

I used 2 rocket launchers: one for Right Hand (one FAQ referred to him as "Verdugo") and one for Salazar.

Knife fight with Krauser - 6 continues; because I am terrible at dodge prompt reactions.

Jet ski escape - 7 continues. God I hate that part.








DONE

Now for the extras which will most likely allow me to breeze through the game again.

So, uh, yeah.

[Armored]

Wow I didn't even think it was possible to die at the jetski part.

[Dreamknight]

I never fought the Bella Sisters, actually. Didn't even see them in the main game, only in mercenaries.

[SirTMagus]

The jetski was a cool if totally bewildering part of the game.

WHOA, now I'm playing WAVE RACE 64?! Well, OKAY!!! *dies once or twice*

[AlexMagusaka]

I never fought the Bella Sisters, actually. Didn't even see them in the main game, only in mercenaries.


I...That's just...

Well it is interesting, seeing as how one of them holds the key you need to move on with the game. How'd you get past that part then?

So, uh, yeah.

[SirTMagus]

Maybe he took the El Gigante path, HMMMM??

[AlexMagusaka]

...right, my bad.

I tried that path. He killed both of us while I was trying to find the key in the cabin.

"Screw this, the other path can't be this hard."

"...sonuvag*HONK!*n this path sucks too."

So, uh, yeah.

[Garr123]

I didn't even know wher the key was, id get to the end gate and be like "**** **** ****" and then he'd kill us, the bella sisters werent that hard though, as long as ashley hid. Id just climb right back up the ladder and blast em with the shotgun while they tried to follow me up.

[Vonwert]

I took both paths :)

Edit :

If you want to get past the chainsaw ladies, just drop down into the pit. After they come through the walls, then get back up the ladder, and just shoot them as they climb up.

[SirTMagus]

*remembering*

Golly, what a fun game. :jack1

[BeeZee]

Did anyone ever beat Professional Mode? I started a game on that and then got my @ss beaten down a half-hour in.

[Garr123]

Vonwert, you said like the exact thing i said in my post, which is right abaove yours. buh?

[Dreamknight]

Professional Mode is tough! It took me an hour to get to chapter 1-2.

[Garr123]

If it's too hard use the RPD uniform, it starts you off equipped with a tactical vest.

[Vonwert]

Hmm...that is strange..oops...