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I hate "gamers"
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Participated in the 2021 Game of the Year Event
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Should have waited another 12 years to play this one, too. Completely unacceptable performance, runs like it's a 20 year old game being put through 25+ year old hardware.
The Resident Evil Camera™ was already close to intolerable in actual Resident Evil games; sticking with it here is an act of design terrorism. Easy to see why DMC was influential (every other action game boss since then is a riff on Nelo Angelo) and I understand how it was popular (console players have this incredible ability to just put up with absolutely anything out of brand loyalty), but man, you couldn't pay me to play this even back in 2001, the Resident Evil jank is too much.
Finally playing this just before the sequel is released feels like cheating - I'm sorry to everyone who waited for ten years without knowing if they'd ever get their wishes. Can't think of another game that feels so much like going on an adventure with your pawns always doing their own thing, the combat is everything that was promised despite how outlandish those claims sounded from the outside, and the story still finds the time to spectacularly stick the landing not once but twice. For all the talk about how it is "unfinished", it's hard to imagine it being even more of what it already is; in its best moments, it feels larger than life in a way that only video games can be, but usually never are, and rarely even aspire to be.