All things Resident Evil

Indeed. In fact - and I know RE4 is loved - I would actually rather they cut shit out of it rather than added more in. The whole island can fuck off, essentially. I don't mind the castle mind you but even that dragged on too long.

Surprised you say that considering Dead Space is pretty much RE4 in space.

I'm hoping it's closer to the RE2 remake than the RE3 one.

In all honesty I don't think RE4 even needs a remake - the original still plays really well once you get reacquainted with the aiming (or play the Wii version) and it still has all the campy charm you remember.

Final third could definitely do with a trim though as you say.

Can't wait to see what they do with the Regenerators.

Hope they don't mess with the sound too much - chanting of the cult members in the castle, breathing of the regenerators etc. are all still really effective.

In knife manufacture, certainly.

It will totally be to try and apologise for stuff they cut out.

I personally love every inch of RE4 and wouldn’t cut a thing, but this new game is clearly a top to bottom reimagining. I’m expecting a hell of a lot to be missing.

The knife thing is pants and stupid.

I am however looking forward to the castle using a combat shotgun to blow the shit out of the robed bellends

By side quest, we mean, travel back through areas you’ve cleared to find a thingy, so we get better value out of areas we’ve built.

RE4 was good at reusing areas in the village, but didn’t happen much in the castle or island.

Yeah Village had side quests that were totally optional. The Dead Space Remake has side quests too, I'm not sure why side quests are now automatically the worst thing ever going by the responses here.

Yeah, I thought Capcom had gained quite a bit of good will with their recent output (especially RE). Surprised by the negativity

I mean no one's played the game yet and most likely they're optionally like Village so it doesn't have to detract from the story if you don't want it, like pretty much all side quests in every game.

I was just speaking about sidequests in general from personal experience.

Yeah you can skip them normally but you can end up missing out on valuable xp, weapons, equipment etc. that can effect your 'main' quest to varying degrees.

I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at the moment and if I didn't do any sidequests I wouldn't be able to continue the main game due to being woefully underpowered; Evil Within 2 had various sidequsts which were pretty much fetch quests but gave plenty of xp and gear - I wanted the latter to get more enjoyment out of the main story but resented having to do the former to ge tthem.

Just wish there was a better way to earn/unlock things in games outside of kill/fetch/find 'x' - Witcher 3 and Disco Elysium do a pretty good job here. Divinity 2 nailed sidequests too.

Fun? This is videogames we are talking about. Judging by the twitter and reddit feeds for a few games I've been looking at recently, I can assure noone sees these damn things as fun. You're out of your mind.

Knife only run but only if Leon has a hundred knives.