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Do you want Melee attacks in Resident Evil?
- Thread starter AdaWong
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Honestly surprised the "Yes" vote is leading, thought most Resident Evil fans preferred the old school vibe. I guess we know why Capcom shifted focus for RE4-6 to that trash action.
Not in REmake I don't but for future games yeah. No need to abandon action RE, RE4 is still the best in the series.
You say that as if there wasn't a legion of fans getting super hyped when playing Joe in RE7.
Especially when he finds the gauntlet.
It feels really weird to not be able to defend yourself at all without a gun so.. yeah. I want them back.
The "NO" camp is catching up.... Let's prove them wrong you guys!
That's great in those games. The REmake of RE2 isn't one of those games. It's a game about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Ordinary people wouldn't cartwheel kick a zombie in the head. Don't get me wrong, it's a fucking rad move but one that totally clashes with the tone of what the RE2 remake is going for. I'm sure by the time they get around to remaking RE3 Capcom will be back into cartwheel kicking zombies in the head mode. In the meantime, can we just enjoy the rad survival horror game we're getting real soon?
No.
Fuck. No.
The only melee animations I want are those canned into the self defense response from a zombie first grappling the protagonists. Put the dagger system from REmake in, sure, but I don't want to see a rookie cop or a hardened woman in search of her brother shooting zombies in weak spots to initiate some gratuitous, genre-defying mechanic that flies in the face of the words 'survival horror'.
Fuck. No.
The only melee animations I want are those canned into the self defense response from a zombie first grappling the protagonists. Put the dagger system from REmake in, sure, but I don't want to see a rookie cop or a hardened woman in search of her brother shooting zombies in weak spots to initiate some gratuitous, genre-defying mechanic that flies in the face of the words 'survival horror'.
I basically don't want to play Resident Evil's that don't have the controls of RE4. I enjoy Zero, 1, 2, 3, but not nearly as much as I enjoy 4, 5, 6 and Revelations.
I like the REmake style self defense items, fits into the survival/horror genre better than a suplex.
I don't want melee attacks unless it's a suplex. In fact remove guns and have a suplex only game.
Because "oh no I am out of ammo better not try anything when a zombie is going for me" makes sense
If they want characters to be rather defenseless the environment should be much more interactive. Picking up objects in the environment and using them as makeshift melee weapons or throwables, push over things to block a path etc, be more mobile and jump on top a table to get away.
Yes I absolutely want them back and I hope Re3 will have a much more capable Jill in terms of mobility and combat.
If she was allowed to do that in classic Re there is no reason why she shouldn't be able to Re6 roll out of the way and defend herself better in general
Because "oh no I am out of ammo better not try anything when a zombie is going for me" makes sense
If they want characters to be rather defenseless the environment should be much more interactive. Picking up objects in the environment and using them as makeshift melee weapons or throwables, push over things to block a path etc, be more mobile and jump on top a table to get away.
Yes I absolutely want them back and I hope Re3 will have a much more capable Jill in terms of mobility and combat.
If she was allowed to do that in classic Re there is no reason why she shouldn't be able to Re6 roll out of the way and defend herself better in general
Jill in RE3 was the pinnacle of survival horror + action.
You and i aren't as awesome as Leon is.
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Oh that's totally fair. People not wanting Melees back are as valid as the people that do want them back. I think it's really hard to hone in RE in one genre anyways; it has forked and branched off too far that it has a substantial fanbase for different iterations of the series that are on entirely different genre-spectrums.
Another zombie would bite your leg while you were trying to get off the ground
And why should things be realistic in my videogame ?
Maybe not in REmake 2, but eventually, yeah. The melee was one of my favorite things about 6's combat.
It was "Round-house kick: The game". I wasn't fond of it at all.
Only focusing on the "realism" aspect and nothing else: It is not a move used in actual real-life life-or-death hand -to-hand combat, it exist in professional wresting because it looks cool, not because it is remotely effective in a real fight.
I dunno, slamming a squishy rotting zombie head into the ground with the whole weight of its body adding to the force behind the suplex seems pretty effective especially when a zombie isn't going to react to the suplex like a normal person would to minimize the damage from it. Of course there would be more ideal moves to use but purely in terms of its capabilities of taking out a zombie it seems pretty effective
The rhythm you get into with shooting a weak point then meleeing in raid mode is amaaaazing. Was crazy addictive in Revelations 2.
So this, but with a velociraptor?
I think melee combat should be a crutch for helping players when they take damage, but not something a player who is doing well and avoiding the enemies properly should be able to use.
The early Resident Evil games are designed specifically around managing and conserving resources and if players have a "free" melee combat option it will dilute part of what makes the game special.
The early Resident Evil games are designed specifically around managing and conserving resources and if players have a "free" melee combat option it will dilute part of what makes the game special.
My thoughts exactly. Rewarding targeted shots with melee opportunities is a fantastic hook and I do not give a shit if it compromises the "horror" or whatever.
Remake2 has it's own cool gory hit reaction tech and I'm fine with it not having melee, but I don't think some more grounded melee attacks (read: not suplexes) would have hurt it. Imagine Leon frantically smashing a zombie's head against the wall in a panic, or doing a clumsy step kick to their midsection to create distance. It would be immensely satisfying without compromising the tone and would even reinforce his character as a rookie who is just trying to rise to the occasion rather than a trained super agent.
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Or maybe just run away? Distance yourself from the infected creature? Like I'm pretty sure everyone would do in real life if it were to occur.
