I have no problem acknowledging RE6's faults while still enjoying the vast majority of it. Try playing it on mouse and keyboard, and the added flexibility that comes from that control scheme turns it into the Devil May Cry of third person shooters. The amount of action movie bullshit you can completely improvise, especially with a coop partner, rockets this game up to one of my favorite action experiences out there.
I've unironically loved the shit out of RE6 since the original release although the remastered port makes it far better. I really never understood the hate for RE6, then again I'm the type to love oddball or flawed games.
Take away the "Resident Evil" title and characters, and you end up with a 90s action movie-like game with lackluster story, explosions everywhere, and entertainment for those who can turn off their brains and enjoy it. PS: A game that takes the idea of L4D2 with the controls of RE6 would be very cool these days.
@@joxerd every resident evil is like one of those horror/action movies, since re1, , and the story is never something to right home about, same quality as the movies it refers to, even re7 and 8, and it's one of the strenghts of the francise, the story can be taken seriously enough, but it's trash enough that they can come up with any excuse to put a monste ror a situation that it just doesn't matter, it's resident evil
Agreed. I had a pretty good time playing RE6 with a friend. I wish more games had its gameplay. Being able to shoot, slide and then kick zombies in the face should be in more video games.
The zoomed out factor of the 1080p versions isn't because of resolution. It's all about performance. The zoomed in 720p doesn't have to draw as many assets at the same time, so the framerate will be more stable. People complained about how close the camera was to the player when it first came out too, and Capcom updated it to be more zoomed out
It's called FOV is a normal staple of pc gaming (being able to adjust) and some console games offer limited access to adjust it for a select few games. Devs have also been known to release updates like this when they find they can open up the viewport without it hitting performance too hard. On pc with all the different variations of performance they can just leave it open with a default choice thag works for most and let users customize it to their liking / systems ability.
I don't know about the original console ports but on PC you have the original low FOV camera by default but they patched in three separate camera settings you can increase to match the PS4 version's default. Resolution would only really affect something like this if the aspect ratio was different
15:37 - mt framework was never the bottleneck, the game was designed for the xbox 360 and ps3 with 512MB of shared memory/256MB of dedicated VRAM respectively. and unlike RE5 before it, the textures they employed in RE6 were not overly repeated/tiled with vertex painted masks to hide the repetition, they actually went and textured almost everything uniquely, and had exponentially more individual set dressings per level than in RE5. that explains the necessarily low resolution textures. 16:40 - some of those QTEs that you're displaying are actually just standard button prompts with very loose/no time component attached to it. 18:35 - the auto action button also applies to some gameplay QTEs, like the train in Leon's campaign 23:18 - they just copied RE5's button prompts -- interact button for doors, partner button for level loading doors, dpad for switch to items, Y or triangle for inventory which was separate from the dpad, mix herbs with button prompts in the inventory screen. they also made an auto mix herbs button combo, it was RB + X or R2 + square. the inventory system feels slow but in fairness they brought back the same classic item juggling and because of how much flak people had with eggs taking up the same amount of space as a rocket launcher in RE5 they separated weapons slots from inventory space and just copied the XMB cross menu from ps3 because of how much praise it got that generation. this isn't even really a criticism, just an opinion of not liking it (which is fair, i still think it's awful compared to others in the past). 24:47 - the partner button on partner doors has two additional functions in RE6, hold to see where the partner is from their camera angle, and press repeatedly to call their name which was meant for veteran players who'd played the level to "mentor" new players, which was more applicable due to 4 campaigns. 25:06 - the interact and pickup buttons were switched from RE4/RE5 to RE6 because often times people would encounter and do the wrong option for item pickups when they meant to melee or go through a door. it's such a nitpicky problem, but would happen when there's a crowd of enemies nearby a door, and eliminating some would cause item pickups to spawn. most of the game's changes from RE5 were based on criticisms found circa RE5, such as not being able to move and shoot, not being able to aim with center of screen instead of a laser pointer, not being able to run while holding the stick all the way down, sprint not being that fast so they added an actual sprint, not being able to switch back and forth lefthanded & righthanded... these all got fixed. i dont think anyone that played RE5 complained about too many buttons for RE6, they complained that it wasn't the Gears of War button control scheme instead... of which, capcom literally lifted half of their RE6 controls from Lost Planet 2 which people loved that control scheme so it really was a catch 22. 36:55 - the color banding is due to targeting 360/PS3 consoles in the initial release, where the colorbanding wasnt immediately noticeable because both consoles black levels and gamma correction were inconsistent. they authored the game in non-linear color, where gamma correction ends up getting applied more than once thereby causing the game to look very washed out/dark, and that resulted in most of the game's nighttime or dark sections being completely unplayable, requiring a third brightness filter (the one in the settings) so you could actually see in the dark.
Really good technical analysis. It's a shame Capcom didn't keep the source textures and use them for the PC/next-gen ports, but it's still a great looking game if you can overlook that. I think RE6 uses PBR textures, which use more VRAM but reflect light more accurately and allows the game to have much better lighting and contrast. RE5 looks very drab and washed out unless you disable the filter on the PC version. RE6 also uses deferred rendering so having multiple light sources is more efficient, while RE5 is usually just 1 dynamic light source (the sun) along with pre-baked lighting. It also seems to stream level data in rather than having areas separated by loading screens. Online co-op is also seamless instead of requiring you to reach the next checkpoint or reload the current one to let someone join. Basically, RE6 is Uncharted with full game co-op and split-screen, actual enemy variety and depth to the combat system. I like Uncharted enough to have played all the games, but they fall apart on the higher difficulties and could never have a ranking system like RE6 because of all the trial and error involved.
@@TFSned RE6 is a pretty game, but it's definitely not PBR. modders have been able to reverse engineer some shader effects using RE5's shaders as a base. capcom did improve upon RE5's shaders for RE6 by way of making it a layered shader system, where you could put another shader on top of the existing one. the layered shaders were pretty much exclusive to playable characters (and bosses) though. all characters and enemies used a diffuse and normal channel, specular map, and a light catch fresnel. playable characters had a sequential dirt shader layered on top depending on which chapter which would also affect the specular map, and a "blend" shader that added specularity any time a character got wet (im pretty sure it's a phong shader) that would procedurally blend in and out over time. but it wasn't PBR, everything was driven by raster image texture files. they never bothered to implement PBR for MT framework because it was reaching end of life with the upcoming console generation. the last 3 games of that generation that used MT framework were revelations 1 for 3ds, mercenaries 3d for 3ds, RE6 for 360/PS3/PC. and then revelations 2 (and the port for rev1) was a crossgen title that actually reverted back to the RE5 shaders without some of the fancy layering, probably because of their episodic production schedule. and by then, they were knee deep in RE engine development. another dead giveaway that it's not PBR, you need linear color source textures before any color transforms to get photoreal. the game's files are a mess of various non-linear color elements shuffled together.
I always thought the movement, rolling, and shooting system in RE6 was pretty deep and involved, it just sucks this is the only game that has it. Would be cool if more games had options like that tbh.
6 gets a bad rep when really it was just too much for people to handle. Capcom basically gave us 4 games in one all with complete stories and yet fans complain about gameplay. We get a Re4 gameplay style with Leon's/Helena's story, a RE5 with Chris/Piers and a hybrid of both with Sherry/Jake's plus a bonus Ada which was unique and held up on it's own. I have been saying this since it first was released stop the RE6 slander it's an underrated gem.
I think RE6 is a good game and a logical escalation of what 4 and 5 were leading to. The backlash made Capcom go back to base (kinda) with 7 but after 8 we're already seeing that escalation again so 9 might be another bombastic affair. As for gameplay I think 6 is fun but the constant interruptions with cutscenes, camera shifts taking control away from you (while enemies can still hit you) and QTEs every 5 or so minutes is what really drags it down. I legit think if the game respected the players intelligence more by not showing you every point of interest in an area with the character going "I wonder how we get out of this one" or it didn't need to shove a set piece down your throat every other room it'd have been received better because people would have been able to actually play the combat portion of the game more with less interruption. I think the new direction they took with 7 has retroactively helped 6 in many ways. Now that it's no longer the flagship posterchild for where the series is heading and is seen more as this really dumb entry in a very eclectic series people look back on it far more fondly. Sadly we'll probably never see another like it that maybe tries to address the issues 6 had. Capcom were going with a dual approach once with Revelations filling in for the classic action-y 3rd person RE games but because of how much Revelations 2 sucked and how they completely borked it's release that idea died with that entry Now we have the remakes and they're 50-50 so far with 2 being really good (when it's being classic RE and not a terrible 3rd person action game with awful boss fights) and 3 feeling like a really soulless cashgrab. I'm dreading the rumoured remake of 4 honestly, gonna lose all that cheesy charm imo. As an aside I did the hardest difficulty on the 360 version which is not ideal. Not only was the game obviously not tested at that difficulty (you can actually die when the camera is taken away from you to show you points of interest if enemies are still around you) but that performance, it's telling because I breezed through it much easier on the same difficulty on the PS4 version.
Yeah, I've never understood people that HATE re5.. but consider re4 the best game of all time? The gameplay is identical. But the same guy who says he hates RE ever since it stopped being horror, will also say their favorite game in the series is 4 lmao. The one where the secret agent infiltrates a castle to rescue the president's daughter from a cult. Very scary.
Ps RE4 remake is like the best game of all time... Also, I even think REmake3 is great! Its just insanely short for a full price game. What's there is good. It's just that a 5 hour campaign only works for 2 because of it having 4 scenarios to play through. if it had only been Leon A, people would have the same problem.
Re6 on switch made me learn to love this game. It's a pretty fun game, but having it on my switch made me enjoy the game so much more than I did when I first played it on ps3.
I've played it on ps3, xbox 360, ps4 and switch and I think by far the Switch is the most fun and intuitive port. My first switch game was the RE 4, 5, & 6 trilogy. I've always said RE6 was a good game, just a very meh RE6 game, but it is heavily flawed.
Same, I enjoy the addition of gyro aiming. Was pleasantly surprised by how much game there was with the different campaigns. We have to thank capcom for getting 2 more Gigs of Ram in the Switch because Nintendo only wanted to use 2 gigs at first.
RE6 on Steam Deck also feels great, though the lack of gyro kinda stinks. If only Capcom could take 2 minutes to look into Steam Input’s API we’d be saved, but oh well
12:24 I love RE4 and dislike RE6. I get the "but they're both action-heavy" argument. Resi 4 is action steeped in horror & tense atmosphere. Resi 6 is jumping tumbling John Woo action. I like hot showers, but I don't wanna be drenched with boiling water!
@Ehrnesto. this kind of talk isn't going to make people like re6 more. It's going to make people hate it more. Your actions has consequences that effects how people sees media.
That powerfully nostalgic intro tune, your chill voice, and the veteran-level, A-rank analysis of these beloved franchises make this channel gold. Great work!
I have legit enjoyed RE6 every time I've played it. I always bring a friend and we always have a blast. I can understand why people would write RE6 off, I really do get it. Perhaps if it hadn't been given the Resident Evil name it might have been better received. But in practice, I honestly find it to be a fun, high-quality experience, especially when played co-op. For me, the RE that I have the least fun actually sitting down and playing is RE5.
Because it's not "survival horror" too much action, the thing is, at this point, Bioweapon outbreaks are just another Tuesday for these characters, the horror is gone for them by this point, their attitude is, get in, get it under control, get out... it is a RE game worthy of the RE title, whether you agree with that, or not. Is Umbrella or its remnants involved? Yes, is there a viral weapon that makes hideous monsters? Yes, are characters from the RE series involved? Yes.. so it is a RE game.
The fact that you spend so much time making RE content, & the fact that I spend so much time watching said content over & over tells me one of two things...we'd either both really get along together, or we both really have a problem lol. Thanks for all the great entertainment about my favorite franchise!
I go back and forth with his videos while I watch and listen to them VERY OFTEN at times I think it's cause we agree so much but at others he says some really dumb stuff that makes me literally want to find him and stop him demand some explaining! Lol He's a smart guy and knows a lot of this series and gaming in general but at the same time I think. The jokes he makes about "being stuck in his ways" and "and old curmudgeon" isn't at all jokes and just facts. Hes welcome to his opinion like anyone else but it's they hypocrisy of some of his views on one thing and then the exact opposite for another game that gets to me. Were all welcome to our views but we should be consistent in those views is all I'm saying.
It's length is a downside with how unbearably bad the campaign is, I truly do not get why people are suddenly dick riding this game years later. RE5 is just definitively a better co-op experience.
Yup its very bloated and I remember thinking "this is not over yet" while playing this thing. It doesn't help the majority of the time I wasn't having much fun.
@@NachozMan RE5 co op is worse because when the partner is an NPC its full moron and dies too easy. In 6 the NPC partner has infinite ammo and can't die.
The beginning of the Leon campaign in the university was awesome. After that it became a bit silly, but big dumb fun. Not classic resi, but like Jared said, it is a continuation from what resi 4 started.
In reply to your complaint about herbs, you could always press R1+L1 at the same time and the character will do an animation of mixing however mixable herbs you have in your inventory. If you have 2 greens and 2 reds, you can press it twice to get 12 tablets (6 per animation). It's pretty convenient when getting away from enemies, as you won't be able to QTE or dodge while the character does this.
Gee, I wished the game told me this through an actual tool tip, much like how you can fast convert tablets from your inventory to your quick heal by pressing R1 + X together.
There is something unique to the PC port you missed, it has additional content in the Mercenaries mode not available in any other version. It has Mercenaries No Mercy which adds both playable Left 4 Dead 2 characters with unique load-outs and Left 4 Dead 2 enemies.
Yeah, back in the day i was hoping that they would add that mode to the 360 since the Left 4 Dead franchise was a "console exclusive" on the 360. When they announced that they also said that they would do a similar thing inside L4D2 with RE characters but that never got made for some reason.
There’s no ammo in the game lol 😂 😂😂😂what fun can i have with an empty guns and bunching and kicking..well i can invest my time in mortal combat more than this shitty trash dumb🤢🤮🗑️
RE6 has an extremely fluid & varied combat system that the RE series has yet to top. It's the only game in the series which makes shooting an enemy in the head, then sliding into them look & feel very satisfying.
I really wish they'd take the combat system for RE6 and work it into a unique title or ip of its own. The gameplay of RE6 is fuckin pinnacle...other than the fact it's got Resident Evil in its name lol
@@traceyrinaldi4759 Lots of the enemy AI is also really well done. It has one of the most addictive mercenaries (no mercy difficulty for it is the pinnacle of the game's combat) & amazing checkpoints during actual gameplay and chapter checkpoints that enable players to grind resources for prepping on higher difficulties like No Hope. Every campaign has a grind spot that's amazing to abuse through the easier difficulty settings like normal or amateur. No one talks about much of the game's recurring boss design either. HAOS has some of the longest non-projectile attacks in the series. Ustanak has loads of different weapons keeping the physical fights interesting. Simmons is the definition of a multi-phase blank canvas. Every phase is different with Simmons, and each phase is long enough to keep the player engaged (although the T-Rex phase with ada is blatantly boring). My primary issue with the game is it's awful stealth sections seen in Ada's first chapter. OP choppers in Chris's campaign. Punishing QTEs (although re5 & re4 had this issue to). & The game has quite a number of small sections within the campaigns that arent well designed around the action mechanics.
I just rebeat RE7 and am now replaying RE6 and I think over-all I'm having more fun playing 6...not sure what that means cause I know 7 is the better game and a great evolution of the franchise.
Listening to you say "Welcome to the Resident Evil Retrospective" had the same feeling for me as falling backwards onto a giant bed of flowers in the beautiful sunlight. It's good to be home.
On the topic of mixing herbs, you don’t need to enter the inventory at all in order to do that. If you hit RB + X (Xbox) it will auto-mix your herbs and immediately put them into your case. If you have red and green it will default to those two, otherwise it will either mix your green or just put one into your case. Game should probably have made that clearer though
24:25 Counter-question: If an item is dropped infront of a door or a ladder, and you hit the interact button, what should happen? Should the door open, or should the item be picked up? Or both at the same time? Let's say it's an item that the player doesn't want, for whatever reason. Should the player be forced to pick up the item just because they need the item out of the way in order to interact with the door/ladder? Or does the door have to be opened, which can also be the kind of door that requires a partner, putting you in a state where you can't pick up the item because you have to advance to the next area or trigger a cutscene, meaning you'll lose the item anyway? While RE6 might have too many key mappings, mapping too many functions to a button can have that kind of situation, too
playing this on the switch and it is a blast, runs a lot better than when i first played it on my old pc. as maligned as this game is im quite certain theres a cult following of people who genuinely like it and think its good, im one of them
The Switch version is great. Even though I already platinumed it on PS4 it's worth playing again for the ability to use costumes in the story mode and also completely disable QTEs. Makes me less worried about causing joycon drift lol
I play a lot of PC games with a hybrid left hand on a PS4/PS5 controller and right hand on a mouse. I use the most recent version of DS4windows. It allows you to remap every input to a keyboard or mouse command instead. Customization includes changing the PS button's function, the dual sense mute button's function, the touch pad left click, touch pad right click, and inputs for touchpad swipes up, down, left, and right. There's also an option to hide the controller from the OS. It's worked for me in games that usually allow for only one active input at a time.
I like RE6 despite its faults, its actually a lot of fun to play. Sometimes you just want to play brains off and have some fun. And the more story structure is something I liked as well!
Hey Jared (@Avalanche Reviews), just wanted to give you a big thanks to you. Ages ago (probably mid last year) during a Dead Rising stream, I asked you what to do when a friend of mine was dragging his heels on a project we supposed to do together. Long story short, finally took it on myself to start making content and about a month or two in now. Much love to you.
I'm going to come right out and say it, the remakes of resident evil 2 and 3 should have had the mobility of resident evil 6. Imagine being able to fire from your back at those toughest shit zombies coming at you in 2. Tone it DOWN, but don't just throw it out
From what I've seen, it seems like the first 3 RE games, Zero, the GameCube remake, & Code Veronica are all (more or less) in that original, pre-rendered camera, 3rd-person, slow-burn style. Games 4, 5, & 6 & spinoffs like Operation Racoon City are in their own cheesy, action-movie style focused around setpieces (and there are hints of this in earlier games - the way you were encouraged at certain points to use more ammo in 2 & 3, the opening cutscene to Code Veronica, the self-aware (?) ridiculousness of the original trilogy's setups & villains, etc). Revelations & its sequel, as well as the remakes of 2 & 3, meld the earlier titles' inventory management, slower pacing, & emphasis on exploration with the setpiece focus of the action titles, along with a return to the 3rd-person camera; & finally, RE's 7 & 8 take all of those elements, add a first-person camera, lean more heavily into subgenres like psychological horror, & (in 8) mess with a hub & branch model similar to RE 4.
Ever since around Devil May Cry 4, Capcom seems to have concentrated their development as PC first, that's why the PC version is the best one and it released the same year as the PS3 and 360 versions. Even then, the game was very well optimized and considering the really good graphics for the time (save for the low poly textures you mentioned) and it ran on mid-range PCs. I remember actually, the hating reviews still mentioned the PC version being a great port and possibly the best version. 7 and 8 are the same, 8 having the DRM issue at the beginning but was quickly updated and it still will run better than on PS5 and Series X, because it has the potential to run at 144 fps or more (if your gpu and monitor can handle it of course).
Oh hey it’s gggman, now I know he’s a regular avalanche watcher! (And I’ll never get used to gman not having 3 g’s in his name. That’s how you tell you’re an oldschool watcher). And yeah I never finished this game either.. but I loved playing the mercenary mode in coop with friends. That’s hella fun
Glad you acknowledged RE6's story. While also not my favorite, I find it objectively better written than the western entries (RE3:R, RE7, and RE8). The scenario and tone of RE6 have a clear objective, that being a larger than life '90s Hollywood action film with zombies, with extra DNA cribbed from John Woo's western films like Face/ Off. The characters are all consistent with their depictions in earlier games, and the sincerity of the game's theme is completely lost in RE3:R and RE8. I really like the way Japanese writers continue to depict earnest heroes while establishing stakes and people worth saving. I got the impression in the western games that people who would rather be writing for films were using their gigs to shove out whatever script they had already cooking, appropriating the characters to tell their own story, rather than honoring or continuing what came before. And don't even get me started on the inconsistencies of the western titles, particularly with tone and plot. RE6 was truly a "we didn't know how good we had it" type of game in terms of story.
Yea that's a hard disagree on RE3R. I'm guessing your one of those people who had a problem with Jill. Jill is my favorite character in the series and I felt they did her just fine in the remake. In fact I felt most of the characters were served better in the Remake. Just look at Tyrell who had no real character or even presence in the original. In the remake he was an actual character.
@@saloz9483 Jill, but primarily that game's tone. Have you played it recently? There are so many inconsistencies most people don't even recognize, I wonder if the hype and presentation blinded people to the actual content. It seems like that game was the victim of a western writing room without an authoritative voice to reign things in. The Japanese games typically only have one or two writers.
@@parissmith5727 I'v played and beaten it 9 times for the plat and just for fun as well. I'm pretty sure I wasn't blinded by anything. I actually look forward to playing it again on PS5.
I actually would have to agree on this. I think the games from 7 onward feel really tonally confused in terms of writing, with RE3 in particular feeling like a breathless self parody that surpassed 6's excess.
@@mattmedrala1947 That's what I thought too. Village has what I call "Netflix Originals" syndrome, and RE7 (which I think was the best of the western games), at least establishes a consistent theme and sticks with it, though it doesn't withstand a minute's scrutiny. I could go on and on about the lack of a central vision in RE3:R, and I notice how bad it is because it's the only western RE that's also a remake. I have a theory that one of the script supervisors wasn't even alive in 1998.
Yo the Switch version actually targets 60fps and only runs at 1080p in docked mode. The Switch doesn’t do downscaling from its docked mode on any game to the best of my knowledge.
What reviewers always seems to miss is the blast you can have with Co-Op, i fist tried RE6 when it came out and i hated it, almost 3 years ago with a friend we played in coop RE5 and it was ok, but RE6 was way better that we both loved the hell out of it, and the section with the giant ass water boss i noticed that ppl can join your session it was crazy, and more weird that all of this was on the PC ports with split screen Co-op not on a console so smooth framerates definitely helped
Hi Avalanche review buddy and I don’t think re6 is a dump game and re6 doesn’t have any flaws and re6 is one of my favorite childhood games on ps3 and I love re6 ‘s story and it’s campaign’s and re6 is one my favorite in the resident evil series franchise and I enjoy re6 for what it is and I just don’t get why people complain about re6 and I love all the resident evil games and I’m a hardcore fan of the resident evil games and the series franchise and I been a resident evil veteran since the 90’s as a little kid and resident evil is my favorite childhood series franchise of all time and I love capcom games and capcom and I wasn’t disappointed with re6 when it came out and I was hyped for re6 and I’m so glad I bought it for every single game system and I love the re6 reviews and keep up the mega super awesome godlike fantastic work on your awesome TH-cam channel Avalanche review buddy S.T.A.R.S!!!!🌟🌟🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️😎😱❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️
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I love resident evil 6. It's the peak of resident evil bombasticness! Peaked so high there was no other way to go but back down to the tamest of resident evil stories again with 7 haha which is at RE2 or RR3 level of bombastic haha
I absolutely adore the original trilogy of RE games and honestly speaking, I've only ever enjoyed RE4 on VR and not anywhere else. Had some fun times on RE5-6 with a friend but I feel without that assistance I wouldn't have had nearly as good a time as I did with them.
I have the same sentiment across the whole board. I only experienced the first trilogy and CV as a young kid and thought it was too scary. Then as a teen, I bought myself an Xbox 360 with a few games and got reintroduced to RE with coop on 5 with a few friends. Now I've gone back to watch and play the originals and their remakes and have come to appreciate a lot of what Resident Evil has brought to gaming as a whole.
Out of ammo thing is not players' fault. Anyone familiar with the survivor aspect of the genre knows that ammo conservation is one of the key elements. You can't just ammo dump without consequences. But the players who are new to the series don't know that. The way Capcom represents the game is where this confusion begins. Constant running, shooting, Hollywood action, explosions make the player think that this is one of "those" games where shooting is the main element and ammo is abundant. So they start blasting.. for a short amount of time.
I honestly love this game. It's a guilty pleasure for me. Its definitely flawed though. Some of the parts in the campaigns are not great and can feel like a chore to play through, mainly Ada's entire story lol. But holy shit the gameplay is so fun, mercenaries mode is always a blast, and Jake, Chris, and Leon's campaigns are dumb fun in their own ways.
I played this on the 360 at first, it was such a rough time (aka the frame rate was all over the bloody place which caused a lot of stutter) i ended up getting it on PC instead later on. Played it with a friend and we had fun with how silly the game was.
The controls are so fun and give you so much freedom, that RE6 might be my favorite Mercenaries game ever made, and with PC mods + the L4D extra enemy pack... it's even better. There's even a PC mod to allow you to play it up to 4-6 players in Mercs as opposed to just 2, it's by making the room think it's a Survivors mode room by switching while everyone's in the room or something along those lines... it's been a while since I've done it. Kinda sad they limited movement a bit in Rev2, but still a very enjoyable experience with a fun Raid mode which definitely adds more to what Rev1 already added with its first attempt at this new game mode.
I’ve heard a lot of things said about RE6….. but I’ve never heard someone say “Maybe it was too good looking for the hardware it was released on”…. The reason everything is pitch black and not shadowed is to hide all the subpar near late ps2/early ps3 textures. I agree the playable character models look phenomenal especially for their time and hell even today, but everything else is an EXTREME step down from what was presented in RE5. Just look at the npcs….. I like the damage enemies could take, but the cost of that was very basic enemy models. The majini in 5 were at the time the most detailed mob enemy of the series and I’d argue they still hold up. You could see the sweat glisten on those guys. I think 6 both deservedly and undeservedly gets its reputation. Aside from the Dino fight and the first chapter once you get to the university, Leon’s campaign is a snooze fest that doesn’t know what kind of game it wants to be. This is multiplied by 10 for Ada, it hurts the campaign even more because hers barely had a story and was suppose to be the finale that tied everything together…. Chris and Jake (half of his campaign anyways) are the only ones that knew what they were doing and went for it. It’s a solid 3.5/5 propped up mainly by the mechanics, mercenaries and Chris.
I need to give this game another chance I had some fun with it but I didn’t have much time to play it I can’t remember why and all I remember is that the controls were pretty in depth and I didn’t have enough time to master all the quirks but it seemed pretty intuitive and as an action game it was actually pretty good and I may be in the minority but I liked jake (weskers son) I thought that it was cool to see weskers lineage and the future possibly of his character as he was undeniably my favorite RE character right up there with Jill and Barry
Scary thing is we are seeing the same evolution in the current games, I got scared when in the end of village it is revealed the BSAA were using bioweapons as soldiers so I don't know what's going to happen at 9
Well damn, man! Thought I was going to the bar tonight but this reason to save my money just appeared. Thanks a bunch, Jared. We appreciate all the content.
Using the same button for different actions makes things more simple but it also makes performing said actions frustrating when you're trying to do one thing but the game thinks you're trying to do something else.
One of the many things that I hated in RE6 was the character of Carla Redames, the plot of the game revolved around this woman claimed to be mysteriously a doppelganger of Adam Wong and from her lore and files I find it silly for Capcom to add another super "prodigy" female character that it just made the idea saturated; First Alexia Ashford, then Excella Gionne then this woman now claiming to be super genius of this game's villain.
People that run out of ammo while playing Resident Evil 6 are just playing it wrong. It’s a simple as that. They’re not using the games new melee system, they’re probably using the context melee system (which has slightly changed from the previous two games) even less than they did in Resident Evil 4 and 5, and they’re probably trying to play the game as a cover shooter a lot of the time... which like Vanquish before it you really aren’t meant to do despite the cover system being there. When I first played Resident Evil 6, there was a point with Chris where I was getting pretty low on ammo, I realized I was playing the game wrong, and I never even kind of had ammo problems after that. Funnily the only other time in a Resident Evil game where I had ammo problems was when I played the original as Chris and after a bit was like: Oh, this is now how you’re meant to play this game. Although I got better with the knife in that old Sega Saturn game than in any RE game since.
I completely understand people’s criticisms of the game, but I don’t think anyone could say this game doesn’t have top notch production quality. That is what really surprised me at launch.
RE 6 could have been the avengers of resident evil. Imagine bringing ALL the protagonists together for one solid story. We get Leon and Chris and Sherrie (ada but she's not a hero) but it wasn't enough.
I believe that calling the 7th generation of consoles a "stumbling" point to be a generally ignorant take since those consoles essentially were what gaming would be like going forward. Online capabilities from the start, wireless controllers, multimedia functionality, a digital storefront. Not much has really changed from 7th gen to current gen, the hardware just gets better but what they are fundamentally able to do is still the same. My biggest gripe was that the generation lasted too long. These consoles were still getting new games released for them into 2014 when they were already showing their age by the beginning of 2011. If you formed your argument around this then it'd be understandable since this console generation lasted longer than any other before it which created the sentiment that everything on these machines ran poorly when that wasn't the case for the first half of support (at least on the Xbox 360 side of things).
I have resident evil 1 to 6, plus code veronica and survival. I have only played a small amount of the first game; I didn't like the tank control system. Does it change for the later games?
I personally don't think gaming outlets caused the backlash on this one. There were many RE fans like myself and some of my friends that were kind of pissed at the time that it was like a michael bay film. RE5 was already too much action, the trailer for 6 had real zombies so we thought it was going to be back to horror but instead felt like a huge middle finger. I still had lots of fun even though it dragged at some points. I'd give it an 8/10 as a game but the fans were mostly pissed even if they didn't see the reviews.
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you didn't installed the patch to fix the character being so close to the camera- If you install it it'd be pretty much like a RE4 engine on steroids. The same thing happens in RE5 (character is too close to the screen) without the patch it becomes an obstacle with such a fast paced action gameplay.
I think the reason RE 6 received so much hate (including me), it's because it is everything but a Resident Evil game, I imagine the fan base was getting tired of the IP going from 'Horror' to Gun-Fu. In retrospective, I think the game would had been received better if it was a new IP, or anything that isn't a supposed Horror IP But I do agree with your counter-points, business, like everyone else, can pseudo-predict the demand of a market, with the info available. If literally everyone buys you apples, why would start to make oranges?
The whole thing about to many things assigned to different buttons i actually like, there's been many times in Re5 mercenaries i want to either open a door, or jump a gap, but the context sensitive button to pick something up is the same as the one to preform a context sensitive action meaning there's many times I've picked up unwanted items trying to do something else. And keep in mind the very limited inventory. I personally think it was smart of them to change it in 6
You can actually equip a different item and it will take about a second for the item pickup prompts to show again in those cases, but it's just an FYI and not a counter argument lol, RE6 ended up having something similar with picking up items and reloading but at least picking stuff up was instant
The issue with the Xbox one version is probably because of lack of optimization for the DDR3 memory that the Xbox one used while the PS4 used gddr, that would explain why it only happens when new assets are being loaded. Btw why is the switch version being rendered at 1080p? I thought the screen on those things are only 720p.
This game definitely feels like a product of it’s time and just the push for each successive game to be ‘more’. One thing I will say that I totally agree with that really soured me on this when it came out was the controls. They are very strange and clunky, and I had a lot of trouble with some of the repeated button press events. Honest to god, there was a scene near the end I believe where you had to climb a rope or something and I couldn’t get it to work right. It should have been the simplest thing to do and I sat there for 10 minutes trying to climb a rope and the button prompts were ridiculous and not registering right or something. I’ve wanted to play through this one again tho as I haven’t since the original and I’m sure there are some good things in it I’ve forgotten about. Nice coverage here
I never knew we could dual wield two handguns even the official strategy guide I bought day one made no mention about it, went years thinking it was just a cool trailer detail
Dude, when you were talking about being sick and mentioned razor blades in your throat, I imagined it and reflexively cleared my throat....then you mentioned if anyone cleared their throat on your account. You're fucking awesome man LMAO!
Resident Evil as a title means more to me then the gameplay style of the originals. Resident Evil is really a story of bioterrorism and following a group of characters through time. So I’m really lenient with the changes of gameplay style. Also I feel like RE4 is closer to the old trilogy then it is to 6. Most of 4 is take controls with a 3rd person camera. It’s got more involved combat but still has Some survival horror in it.
As someone who has played RE since 3, I gotta say 6 is one of my favorites besides 3. It's so over the top and campy and actually a blast. The different campaigns and gameplay was pre gud. I've never had an issue with how different it is. Visually it still holds up (there are some textures which look stupidly blurry but overall aesthetics and detail are pleasing (minus that mineshaft section).
Bodyslamming, Suplexing, and Dropkicking zombies and J'avos was fun. Shame Capcom didn't make more use of this perfect asskicking combat. ORC + RE6 Combat, I still think of what could have been.
I've always enjoyed resident evil 6 it was fun end really cool to play in multiplayer. I had wished for something closer to the earlier games in the series but also knew at the time this was the direction the majority of people playing the series were pushing for. It was the knee jerk reaction, however that allowed us to hit the reset button and move on to more horror centric stuff found in Resident evil 7.
Agreed. I didn't love RE6 because of its issues, but I absolutely still had a blast playing it with a friend.I wish more games had its gameplay. Being able to shoot, slide and then kick zombies in the face should be in more video games. I feel like if this would've been called anything else other than RE, it would've at gotten more 8s and wouldn't have garner all the hate it gets.
I have no problem acknowledging RE6's faults while still enjoying the vast majority of it. Try playing it on mouse and keyboard, and the added flexibility that comes from that control scheme turns it into the Devil May Cry of third person shooters. The amount of action movie bullshit you can completely improvise, especially with a coop partner, rockets this game up to one of my favorite action experiences out there.
I've unironically loved the shit out of RE6 since the original release although the remastered port makes it far better. I really never understood the hate for RE6, then again I'm the type to love oddball or flawed games.
Take away the "Resident Evil" title and characters, and you end up with a 90s action movie-like game with lackluster story, explosions everywhere, and entertainment for those who can turn off their brains and enjoy it.
PS: A game that takes the idea of L4D2 with the controls of RE6 would be very cool these days.
@@joxerd every resident evil is like one of those horror/action movies, since re1, , and the story is never something to right home about, same quality as the movies it refers to, even re7 and 8, and it's one of the strenghts of the francise, the story can be taken seriously enough, but it's trash enough that they can come up with any excuse to put a monste ror a situation that it just doesn't matter, it's resident evil
Agreed. I had a pretty good time playing RE6 with a friend. I wish more games had its gameplay. Being able to shoot, slide and then kick zombies in the face should be in more video games.
@@joxerd exactly why this game is fucking awful, the mercenaries is good, everything else is just, unbearable.
The zoomed out factor of the 1080p versions isn't because of resolution. It's all about performance. The zoomed in 720p doesn't have to draw as many assets at the same time, so the framerate will be more stable. People complained about how close the camera was to the player when it first came out too, and Capcom updated it to be more zoomed out
It's called FOV is a normal staple of pc gaming (being able to adjust) and some console games offer limited access to adjust it for a select few games.
Devs have also been known to release updates like this when they find they can open up the viewport without it hitting performance too hard.
On pc with all the different variations of performance they can just leave it open with a default choice thag works for most and let users customize it to their liking / systems ability.
I don't know about the original console ports but on PC you have the original low FOV camera by default but they patched in three separate camera settings you can increase to match the PS4 version's default. Resolution would only really affect something like this if the aspect ratio was different
15:37 - mt framework was never the bottleneck, the game was designed for the xbox 360 and ps3 with 512MB of shared memory/256MB of dedicated VRAM respectively. and unlike RE5 before it, the textures they employed in RE6 were not overly repeated/tiled with vertex painted masks to hide the repetition, they actually went and textured almost everything uniquely, and had exponentially more individual set dressings per level than in RE5. that explains the necessarily low resolution textures.
16:40 - some of those QTEs that you're displaying are actually just standard button prompts with very loose/no time component attached to it.
18:35 - the auto action button also applies to some gameplay QTEs, like the train in Leon's campaign
23:18 - they just copied RE5's button prompts -- interact button for doors, partner button for level loading doors, dpad for switch to items, Y or triangle for inventory which was separate from the dpad, mix herbs with button prompts in the inventory screen. they also made an auto mix herbs button combo, it was RB + X or R2 + square.
the inventory system feels slow but in fairness they brought back the same classic item juggling and because of how much flak people had with eggs taking up the same amount of space as a rocket launcher in RE5 they separated weapons slots from inventory space and just copied the XMB cross menu from ps3 because of how much praise it got that generation. this isn't even really a criticism, just an opinion of not liking it (which is fair, i still think it's awful compared to others in the past).
24:47 - the partner button on partner doors has two additional functions in RE6, hold to see where the partner is from their camera angle, and press repeatedly to call their name which was meant for veteran players who'd played the level to "mentor" new players, which was more applicable due to 4 campaigns.
25:06 - the interact and pickup buttons were switched from RE4/RE5 to RE6 because often times people would encounter and do the wrong option for item pickups when they meant to melee or go through a door. it's such a nitpicky problem, but would happen when there's a crowd of enemies nearby a door, and eliminating some would cause item pickups to spawn. most of the game's changes from RE5 were based on criticisms found circa RE5, such as not being able to move and shoot, not being able to aim with center of screen instead of a laser pointer, not being able to run while holding the stick all the way down, sprint not being that fast so they added an actual sprint, not being able to switch back and forth lefthanded & righthanded... these all got fixed. i dont think anyone that played RE5 complained about too many buttons for RE6, they complained that it wasn't the Gears of War button control scheme instead... of which, capcom literally lifted half of their RE6 controls from Lost Planet 2 which people loved that control scheme so it really was a catch 22.
36:55 - the color banding is due to targeting 360/PS3 consoles in the initial release, where the colorbanding wasnt immediately noticeable because both consoles black levels and gamma correction were inconsistent. they authored the game in non-linear color, where gamma correction ends up getting applied more than once thereby causing the game to look very washed out/dark, and that resulted in most of the game's nighttime or dark sections being completely unplayable, requiring a third brightness filter (the one in the settings) so you could actually see in the dark.
Really good technical analysis. It's a shame Capcom didn't keep the source textures and use them for the PC/next-gen ports, but it's still a great looking game if you can overlook that.
I think RE6 uses PBR textures, which use more VRAM but reflect light more accurately and allows the game to have much better lighting and contrast. RE5 looks very drab and washed out unless you disable the filter on the PC version. RE6 also uses deferred rendering so having multiple light sources is more efficient, while RE5 is usually just 1 dynamic light source (the sun) along with pre-baked lighting.
It also seems to stream level data in rather than having areas separated by loading screens. Online co-op is also seamless instead of requiring you to reach the next checkpoint or reload the current one to let someone join.
Basically, RE6 is Uncharted with full game co-op and split-screen, actual enemy variety and depth to the combat system. I like Uncharted enough to have played all the games, but they fall apart on the higher difficulties and could never have a ranking system like RE6 because of all the trial and error involved.
@@TFSned RE6 is a pretty game, but it's definitely not PBR. modders have been able to reverse engineer some shader effects using RE5's shaders as a base. capcom did improve upon RE5's shaders for RE6 by way of making it a layered shader system, where you could put another shader on top of the existing one. the layered shaders were pretty much exclusive to playable characters (and bosses) though. all characters and enemies used a diffuse and normal channel, specular map, and a light catch fresnel. playable characters had a sequential dirt shader layered on top depending on which chapter which would also affect the specular map, and a "blend" shader that added specularity any time a character got wet (im pretty sure it's a phong shader) that would procedurally blend in and out over time. but it wasn't PBR, everything was driven by raster image texture files.
they never bothered to implement PBR for MT framework because it was reaching end of life with the upcoming console generation. the last 3 games of that generation that used MT framework were revelations 1 for 3ds, mercenaries 3d for 3ds, RE6 for 360/PS3/PC. and then revelations 2 (and the port for rev1) was a crossgen title that actually reverted back to the RE5 shaders without some of the fancy layering, probably because of their episodic production schedule. and by then, they were knee deep in RE engine development.
another dead giveaway that it's not PBR, you need linear color source textures before any color transforms to get photoreal. the game's files are a mess of various non-linear color elements shuffled together.
I always thought the movement, rolling, and shooting system in RE6 was pretty deep and involved, it just sucks this is the only game that has it.
Would be cool if more games had options like that tbh.
I'm hoping some of this is in that new Dino Crisis spin-off.
@gensokyo boyz I do have Vanquish on Steam from a long time ago and played through a few stages, it definitely has a good skill cap which is cool.
6 gets a bad rep when really it was just too much for people to handle. Capcom basically gave us 4 games in one all with complete stories and yet fans complain about gameplay. We get a Re4 gameplay style with Leon's/Helena's story, a RE5 with Chris/Piers and a hybrid of both with Sherry/Jake's plus a bonus Ada which was unique and held up on it's own. I have been saying this since it first was released stop the RE6 slander it's an underrated gem.
I think RE6 is a good game and a logical escalation of what 4 and 5 were leading to. The backlash made Capcom go back to base (kinda) with 7 but after 8 we're already seeing that escalation again so 9 might be another bombastic affair.
As for gameplay I think 6 is fun but the constant interruptions with cutscenes, camera shifts taking control away from you (while enemies can still hit you) and QTEs every 5 or so minutes is what really drags it down. I legit think if the game respected the players intelligence more by not showing you every point of interest in an area with the character going "I wonder how we get out of this one" or it didn't need to shove a set piece down your throat every other room it'd have been received better because people would have been able to actually play the combat portion of the game more with less interruption.
I think the new direction they took with 7 has retroactively helped 6 in many ways. Now that it's no longer the flagship posterchild for where the series is heading and is seen more as this really dumb entry in a very eclectic series people look back on it far more fondly. Sadly we'll probably never see another like it that maybe tries to address the issues 6 had. Capcom were going with a dual approach once with Revelations filling in for the classic action-y 3rd person RE games but because of how much Revelations 2 sucked and how they completely borked it's release that idea died with that entry
Now we have the remakes and they're 50-50 so far with 2 being really good (when it's being classic RE and not a terrible 3rd person action game with awful boss fights) and 3 feeling like a really soulless cashgrab. I'm dreading the rumoured remake of 4 honestly, gonna lose all that cheesy charm imo.
As an aside I did the hardest difficulty on the 360 version which is not ideal. Not only was the game obviously not tested at that difficulty (you can actually die when the camera is taken away from you to show you points of interest if enemies are still around you) but that performance, it's telling because I breezed through it much easier on the same difficulty on the PS4 version.
I enjoyed RE8 soooo much more then RE7 xD
oh come on, RE2's bosses were great
Yeah, I've never understood people that HATE re5.. but consider re4 the best game of all time? The gameplay is identical. But the same guy who says he hates RE ever since it stopped being horror, will also say their favorite game in the series is 4 lmao.
The one where the secret agent infiltrates a castle to rescue the president's daughter from a cult. Very scary.
Ps RE4 remake is like the best game of all time...
Also, I even think REmake3 is great! Its just insanely short for a full price game. What's there is good. It's just that a 5 hour campaign only works for 2 because of it having 4 scenarios to play through. if it had only been Leon A, people would have the same problem.
Re6 on switch made me learn to love this game. It's a pretty fun game, but having it on my switch made me enjoy the game so much more than I did when I first played it on ps3.
I agree. It feels much better suited to the Switch. Less thinking, more action. Perfect for portable gaming.
I've played it on ps3, xbox 360, ps4 and switch and I think by far the Switch is the most fun and intuitive port. My first switch game was the RE 4, 5, & 6 trilogy. I've always said RE6 was a good game, just a very meh RE6 game, but it is heavily flawed.
Same, I enjoy the addition of gyro aiming. Was pleasantly surprised by how much game there was with the different campaigns. We have to thank capcom for getting 2 more Gigs of Ram in the Switch because Nintendo only wanted to use 2 gigs at first.
RE6 on Steam Deck also feels great, though the lack of gyro kinda stinks. If only Capcom could take 2 minutes to look into Steam Input’s API we’d be saved, but oh well
@@thelastofus28723gb and went with 4gb
12:24 I love RE4 and dislike RE6. I get the "but they're both action-heavy" argument. Resi 4 is action steeped in horror & tense atmosphere. Resi 6 is jumping tumbling John Woo action. I like hot showers, but I don't wanna be drenched with boiling water!
Excellent analogy
Try playing it again with a friend. That's how I learned to love it.
@Ehrnesto. this kind of talk isn't going to make people like re6 more. It's going to make people hate it more. Your actions has consequences that effects how people sees media.
@@camharknessIt still has one of the most complex gameplays in the series, and the best Mercenaries mode till date.
That powerfully nostalgic intro tune, your chill voice, and the veteran-level, A-rank analysis of these beloved franchises make this channel gold. Great work!
I have legit enjoyed RE6 every time I've played it. I always bring a friend and we always have a blast. I can understand why people would write RE6 off, I really do get it. Perhaps if it hadn't been given the Resident Evil name it might have been better received. But in practice, I honestly find it to be a fun, high-quality experience, especially when played co-op. For me, the RE that I have the least fun actually sitting down and playing is RE5.
Because it's not "survival horror" too much action, the thing is, at this point, Bioweapon outbreaks are just another Tuesday for these characters, the horror is gone for them by this point, their attitude is, get in, get it under control, get out... it is a RE game worthy of the RE title, whether you agree with that, or not. Is Umbrella or its remnants involved? Yes, is there a viral weapon that makes hideous monsters? Yes, are characters from the RE series involved? Yes.. so it is a RE game.
You can say with Resident Evil 4.
The issue is that it would not exist if it was not a RE title
The fact that you spend so much time making RE content, & the fact that I spend so much time watching said content over & over tells me one of two things...we'd either both really get along together, or we both really have a problem lol. Thanks for all the great entertainment about my favorite franchise!
why not both? where all abit crazy in this fandom anyways xD
I go back and forth with his videos while I watch and listen to them VERY OFTEN at times I think it's cause we agree so much but at others he says some really dumb stuff that makes me literally want to find him and stop him demand some explaining! Lol
He's a smart guy and knows a lot of this series and gaming in general but at the same time I think. The jokes he makes about "being stuck in his ways" and "and old curmudgeon" isn't at all jokes and just facts.
Hes welcome to his opinion like anyone else but it's they hypocrisy of some of his views on one thing and then the exact opposite for another game that gets to me.
Were all welcome to our views but we should be consistent in those views is all I'm saying.
i just realized the massive typos i made xD and that somehow it can still be understood.
RE 6 is a blast, it's long, has lots of stuff in it, amazing cutscenes, the list goes on...
It's length is a downside with how unbearably bad the campaign is, I truly do not get why people are suddenly dick riding this game years later. RE5 is just definitively a better co-op experience.
Yup its very bloated and I remember thinking "this is not over yet" while playing this thing. It doesn't help the majority of the time I wasn't having much fun.
@@NachozMan RE5 co op is worse because when the partner is an NPC its full moron and dies too easy. In 6 the NPC partner has infinite ammo and can't die.
@@mickeymickey9914 they're not a moron, ive done at least 4 playthroughs of 5 and i rarely ever see the AI do something stupid
@@557deadpool The AI in 5 is moronic against wesker/jill, and the giant.
The beginning of the Leon campaign in the university was awesome.
After that it became a bit silly, but big dumb fun.
Not classic resi, but like Jared said, it is a continuation from what resi 4 started.
In reply to your complaint about herbs, you could always press R1+L1 at the same time and the character will do an animation of mixing however mixable herbs you have in your inventory. If you have 2 greens and 2 reds, you can press it twice to get 12 tablets (6 per animation). It's pretty convenient when getting away from enemies, as you won't be able to QTE or dodge while the character does this.
Gee, I wished the game told me this through an actual tool tip, much like how you can fast convert tablets from your inventory to your quick heal by pressing R1 + X together.
@@harlannguyen40489 months late but the complete lack of a tutorial on the game with the most complex mechanics of any resident evil is peak capcom
There is something unique to the PC port you missed, it has additional content in the Mercenaries mode not available in any other version.
It has Mercenaries No Mercy which adds both playable Left 4 Dead 2 characters with unique load-outs and Left 4 Dead 2 enemies.
Yeah, back in the day i was hoping that they would add that mode to the 360 since the Left 4 Dead franchise was a "console exclusive" on the 360. When they announced that they also said that they would do a similar thing inside L4D2 with RE characters but that never got made for some reason.
I always loved and will always love this game. It's a mess, it's stupid, it's fun as hell.
No way haha, Sinister Poro! You watch these too!
@@thek838 Jup! :D I love these kinds of videos. I also take every chance I get to defend Resident Evil 6 against the haters, haha.
@@Accidental.Creation Bleh Re6 lol.
There’s no ammo in the game lol 😂 😂😂😂what fun can i have with an empty guns and bunching and kicking..well i can invest my time in mortal combat more than this shitty trash dumb🤢🤮🗑️
The core combat is really fun. Just needs some refining. But the campaign itself kinda sucks. Thankfully mercenaries mode saves it
RE6 has an extremely fluid & varied combat system that the RE series has yet to top.
It's the only game in the series which makes shooting an enemy in the head, then sliding into them look & feel very satisfying.
I really wish they'd take the combat system for RE6 and work it into a unique title or ip of its own. The gameplay of RE6 is fuckin pinnacle...other than the fact it's got Resident Evil in its name lol
@@traceyrinaldi4759 Lots of the enemy AI is also really well done. It has one of the most addictive mercenaries (no mercy difficulty for it is the pinnacle of the game's combat) & amazing checkpoints during actual gameplay and chapter checkpoints that enable players to grind resources for prepping on higher difficulties like No Hope. Every campaign has a grind spot that's amazing to abuse through the easier difficulty settings like normal or amateur.
No one talks about much of the game's recurring boss design either. HAOS has some of the longest non-projectile attacks in the series. Ustanak has loads of different weapons keeping the physical fights interesting. Simmons is the definition of a multi-phase blank canvas. Every phase is different with Simmons, and each phase is long enough to keep the player engaged (although the T-Rex phase with ada is blatantly boring).
My primary issue with the game is it's awful stealth sections seen in Ada's first chapter. OP choppers in Chris's campaign. Punishing QTEs (although re5 & re4 had this issue to). & The game has quite a number of small sections within the campaigns that arent well designed around the action mechanics.
I love RE6 so much dude. Easily one of my fav RE games.
I am of the same sentiment as you, I fucking love RE6.
@@cerez-secondforgetfulson Hell yeah man!
I just rebeat RE7 and am now replaying RE6 and I think over-all I'm having more fun playing 6...not sure what that means cause I know 7 is the better game and a great evolution of the franchise.
It's so satisfying to say the last "retrospective" with you, Jared :D great hearing you again
Listening to you say "Welcome to the Resident Evil Retrospective" had the same feeling for me as falling backwards onto a giant bed of flowers in the beautiful sunlight. It's good to be home.
Felt like the soothing tones of a safe room to me.
On the topic of mixing herbs, you don’t need to enter the inventory at all in order to do that. If you hit RB + X (Xbox) it will auto-mix your herbs and immediately put them into your case. If you have red and green it will default to those two, otherwise it will either mix your green or just put one into your case. Game should probably have made that clearer though
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Counter-question:
If an item is dropped infront of a door or a ladder, and you hit the interact button, what should happen? Should the door open, or should the item be picked up? Or both at the same time?
Let's say it's an item that the player doesn't want, for whatever reason.
Should the player be forced to pick up the item just because they need the item out of the way in order to interact with the door/ladder?
Or does the door have to be opened, which can also be the kind of door that requires a partner, putting you in a state where you can't pick up the item because you have to advance to the next area or trigger a cutscene, meaning you'll lose the item anyway?
While RE6 might have too many key mappings, mapping too many functions to a button can have that kind of situation, too
Gameplay was awesome especially the melee.
Wished that capcom would've used that in another game
playing this on the switch and it is a blast, runs a lot better than when i first played it on my old pc. as maligned as this game is im quite certain theres a cult following of people who genuinely like it and think its good, im one of them
The Switch version is great. Even though I already platinumed it on PS4 it's worth playing again for the ability to use costumes in the story mode and also completely disable QTEs. Makes me less worried about causing joycon drift lol
100% spot-on throughout the video. This is much more than a port video; it's a retrospective 2.0 on RE6. Well done Jared.
Finally. Someone who finally articulated how I felt in a really long video that legit needed all of that explaining. Thank you.
I play a lot of PC games with a hybrid left hand on a PS4/PS5 controller and right hand on a mouse.
I use the most recent version of DS4windows. It allows you to remap every input to a keyboard or mouse command instead. Customization includes changing the PS button's function, the dual sense mute button's function, the touch pad left click, touch pad right click, and inputs for touchpad swipes up, down, left, and right. There's also an option to hide the controller from the OS. It's worked for me in games that usually allow for only one active input at a time.
I like RE6 despite its faults, its actually a lot of fun to play. Sometimes you just want to play brains off and have some fun. And the more story structure is something I liked as well!
Hey Jared (@Avalanche Reviews), just wanted to give you a big thanks to you. Ages ago (probably mid last year) during a Dead Rising stream, I asked you what to do when a friend of mine was dragging his heels on a project we supposed to do together. Long story short, finally took it on myself to start making content and about a month or two in now. Much love to you.
I'm going to come right out and say it, the remakes of resident evil 2 and 3 should have had the mobility of resident evil 6. Imagine being able to fire from your back at those toughest shit zombies coming at you in 2. Tone it DOWN, but don't just throw it out
From what I've seen, it seems like the first 3 RE games, Zero, the GameCube remake, & Code Veronica are all (more or less) in that original, pre-rendered camera, 3rd-person, slow-burn style. Games 4, 5, & 6 & spinoffs like Operation Racoon City are in their own cheesy, action-movie style focused around setpieces (and there are hints of this in earlier games - the way you were encouraged at certain points to use more ammo in 2 & 3, the opening cutscene to Code Veronica, the self-aware (?) ridiculousness of the original trilogy's setups & villains, etc). Revelations & its sequel, as well as the remakes of 2 & 3, meld the earlier titles' inventory management, slower pacing, & emphasis on exploration with the setpiece focus of the action titles, along with a return to the 3rd-person camera; & finally, RE's 7 & 8 take all of those elements, add a first-person camera, lean more heavily into subgenres like psychological horror, & (in 8) mess with a hub & branch model similar to RE 4.
Note that I've said all this without having played the games myself - take it with a grain of salt.
Remember when R.E used to try and scare you.... not make you feel like your playing COD
Ever since around Devil May Cry 4, Capcom seems to have concentrated their development as PC first, that's why the PC version is the best one and it released the same year as the PS3 and 360 versions. Even then, the game was very well optimized and considering the really good graphics for the time (save for the low poly textures you mentioned) and it ran on mid-range PCs. I remember actually, the hating reviews still mentioned the PC version being a great port and possibly the best version.
7 and 8 are the same, 8 having the DRM issue at the beginning but was quickly updated and it still will run better than on PS5 and Series X, because it has the potential to run at 144 fps or more (if your gpu and monitor can handle it of course).
You're absolutely right.
Resident Evil 6 is awesome and I don’t care what anyone says about it. It’s just straight fun
I actually enjoyed re6 more than re4. But was when re6 first came out. Thanks for not completely dumping on it. Still og re2 for the win
And I still haven’t completed any of these ports. This game was dreadful.
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i love this game :)
Oh hey it’s gggman, now I know he’s a regular avalanche watcher! (And I’ll never get used to gman not having 3 g’s in his name. That’s how you tell you’re an oldschool watcher).
And yeah I never finished this game either.. but I loved playing the mercenary mode in coop with friends. That’s hella fun
Give it a chance it's fun. The story is just really dumb, just pretend it's doom and there is no story.
I miss the schwhack
24:50 Yes. When fighting Krauser you can't shoot him while he is making an attack because game assumes you want to dodge.
Glad you acknowledged RE6's story. While also not my favorite, I find it objectively better written than the western entries (RE3:R, RE7, and RE8). The scenario and tone of RE6 have a clear objective, that being a larger than life '90s Hollywood action film with zombies, with extra DNA cribbed from John Woo's western films like Face/ Off. The characters are all consistent with their depictions in earlier games, and the sincerity of the game's theme is completely lost in RE3:R and RE8. I really like the way Japanese writers continue to depict earnest heroes while establishing stakes and people worth saving. I got the impression in the western games that people who would rather be writing for films were using their gigs to shove out whatever script they had already cooking, appropriating the characters to tell their own story, rather than honoring or continuing what came before. And don't even get me started on the inconsistencies of the western titles, particularly with tone and plot. RE6 was truly a "we didn't know how good we had it" type of game in terms of story.
Yea that's a hard disagree on RE3R. I'm guessing your one of those people who had a problem with Jill. Jill is my favorite character in the series and I felt they did her just fine in the remake. In fact I felt most of the characters were served better in the Remake. Just look at Tyrell who had no real character or even presence in the original. In the remake he was an actual character.
@@saloz9483 Jill, but primarily that game's tone. Have you played it recently? There are so many inconsistencies most people don't even recognize, I wonder if the hype and presentation blinded people to the actual content. It seems like that game was the victim of a western writing room without an authoritative voice to reign things in. The Japanese games typically only have one or two writers.
@@parissmith5727 I'v played and beaten it 9 times for the plat and just for fun as well. I'm pretty sure I wasn't blinded by anything. I actually look forward to playing it again on PS5.
I actually would have to agree on this. I think the games from 7 onward feel really tonally confused in terms of writing, with RE3 in particular feeling like a breathless self parody that surpassed 6's excess.
@@mattmedrala1947 That's what I thought too. Village has what I call "Netflix Originals" syndrome, and RE7 (which I think was the best of the western games), at least establishes a consistent theme and sticks with it, though it doesn't withstand a minute's scrutiny. I could go on and on about the lack of a central vision in RE3:R, and I notice how bad it is because it's the only western RE that's also a remake. I have a theory that one of the script supervisors wasn't even alive in 1998.
Yo the Switch version actually targets 60fps and only runs at 1080p in docked mode. The Switch doesn’t do downscaling from its docked mode on any game to the best of my knowledge.
Great to see the Nivanfield reference! Well said with the comparison to Ada. Great video man.
What reviewers always seems to miss is the blast you can have with Co-Op, i fist tried RE6 when it came out and i hated it, almost 3 years ago with a friend we played in coop RE5 and it was ok, but RE6 was way better that we both loved the hell out of it, and the section with the giant ass water boss i noticed that ppl can join your session it was crazy, and more weird that all of this was on the PC ports with split screen Co-op not on a console so smooth framerates definitely helped
cant wait for "every port of Umbrella Corps" 😂
Hi Avalanche review buddy and I don’t think re6 is a dump game and re6 doesn’t have any flaws and re6 is one of my favorite childhood games on ps3 and I love re6 ‘s story and it’s campaign’s and re6 is one my favorite in the resident evil series franchise and I enjoy re6 for what it is and I just don’t get why people complain about re6 and I love all the resident evil games and I’m a hardcore fan of the resident evil games and the series franchise and I been a resident evil veteran since the 90’s as a little kid and resident evil is my favorite childhood series franchise of all time and I love capcom games and capcom and I wasn’t disappointed with re6 when it came out and I was hyped for re6 and I’m so glad I bought it for every single game system and I love the re6 reviews and keep up the mega super awesome godlike fantastic work on your awesome TH-cam channel Avalanche review buddy S.T.A.R.S!!!!🌟🌟🌟⭐️⭐️⭐️😎😱❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️
The logo will never not look like a dude blowing a giraffe
For the record I was the buddy :) Jared san was very kind to do it on a special day, please subscribe to him. He is goodie person and loves macaroons he does goodie Silent Hill streams. Much love to all who watch muwah.
Probably the most fun part I have with RE:6 is that I tried my damm hardest to recreate the Leon vs Zombie screen in one of the movie in game.
I love resident evil 6. It's the peak of resident evil bombasticness! Peaked so high there was no other way to go but back down to the tamest of resident evil stories again with 7 haha which is at RE2 or RR3 level of bombastic haha
I absolutely adore the original trilogy of RE games and honestly speaking, I've only ever enjoyed RE4 on VR and not anywhere else. Had some fun times on RE5-6 with a friend but I feel without that assistance I wouldn't have had nearly as good a time as I did with them.
I have the same sentiment across the whole board.
I only experienced the first trilogy and CV as a young kid and thought it was too scary. Then as a teen, I bought myself an Xbox 360 with a few games and got reintroduced to RE with coop on 5 with a few friends. Now I've gone back to watch and play the originals and their remakes and have come to appreciate a lot of what Resident Evil has brought to gaming as a whole.
I like RE6 because I can rip beers with my brother and play this co-op it’s fun
Out of ammo thing is not players' fault. Anyone familiar with the survivor aspect of the genre knows that ammo conservation is one of the key elements. You can't just ammo dump without consequences. But the players who are new to the series don't know that. The way Capcom represents the game is where this confusion begins. Constant running, shooting, Hollywood action, explosions make the player think that this is one of "those" games where shooting is the main element and ammo is abundant. So they start blasting.. for a short amount of time.
I honestly love this game. It's a guilty pleasure for me. Its definitely flawed though. Some of the parts in the campaigns are not great and can feel like a chore to play through, mainly Ada's entire story lol. But holy shit the gameplay is so fun, mercenaries mode is always a blast, and Jake, Chris, and Leon's campaigns are dumb fun in their own ways.
Damn you are putting a lot of effort in your videos it's certainly commendable
I played this on the 360 at first, it was such a rough time (aka the frame rate was all over the bloody place which caused a lot of stutter) i ended up getting it on PC instead later on. Played it with a friend and we had fun with how silly the game was.
The controls are so fun and give you so much freedom, that RE6 might be my favorite Mercenaries game ever made, and with PC mods + the L4D extra enemy pack... it's even better. There's even a PC mod to allow you to play it up to 4-6 players in Mercs as opposed to just 2, it's by making the room think it's a Survivors mode room by switching while everyone's in the room or something along those lines... it's been a while since I've done it.
Kinda sad they limited movement a bit in Rev2, but still a very enjoyable experience with a fun Raid mode which definitely adds more to what Rev1 already added with its first attempt at this new game mode.
The Switch version also offers the Mercenaries alternate costumes in single-player, which is nice!
I’ve heard a lot of things said about RE6….. but I’ve never heard someone say “Maybe it was too good looking for the hardware it was released on”…. The reason everything is pitch black and not shadowed is to hide all the subpar near late ps2/early ps3 textures. I agree the playable character models look phenomenal especially for their time and hell even today, but everything else is an EXTREME step down from what was presented in RE5. Just look at the npcs….. I like the damage enemies could take, but the cost of that was very basic enemy models. The majini in 5 were at the time the most detailed mob enemy of the series and I’d argue they still hold up. You could see the sweat glisten on those guys. I think 6 both deservedly and undeservedly gets its reputation. Aside from the Dino fight and the first chapter once you get to the university, Leon’s campaign is a snooze fest that doesn’t know what kind of game it wants to be. This is multiplied by 10 for Ada, it hurts the campaign even more because hers barely had a story and was suppose to be the finale that tied everything together…. Chris and Jake (half of his campaign anyways) are the only ones that knew what they were doing and went for it. It’s a solid 3.5/5 propped up mainly by the mechanics, mercenaries and Chris.
sweat glistening is a result of specular maps and shaders, not the models being higher or lower quality
gonna need a boulder punch x avalanche reviews RE:Retrospective collab now
I need to give this game another chance I had some fun with it but I didn’t have much time to play it I can’t remember why and all I remember is that the controls were pretty in depth and I didn’t have enough time to master all the quirks but it seemed pretty intuitive and as an action game it was actually pretty good and I may be in the minority but I liked jake (weskers son) I thought that it was cool to see weskers lineage and the future possibly of his character as he was undeniably my favorite RE character right up there with Jill and Barry
Scary thing is we are seeing the same evolution in the current games, I got scared when in the end of village it is revealed the BSAA were using bioweapons as soldiers so I don't know what's going to happen at 9
I'm still trying to figure out why I didn't like Chris' campaign but liked the others. Also Jake deserves a spin-off game lol
For me it was because it was the most action like, and the chapters were way too long.
Best multiplayer game and easily the best resident evil game
Oh Avalanche Review buddy I forgot to tell you that re6 runs fantastic on a 2017 55X900E series model 55inch Sony Bravia 4K TV.❤️
I'm pretty sure there's a designated herb auto-mixing button in the PC version that not only mixes them, but also places them in your tic-tac box.
Well damn, man! Thought I was going to the bar tonight but this reason to save my money just appeared. Thanks a bunch, Jared. We appreciate all the content.
This videos deserves more views. Fantastic work Jared!
To be honest I loved this game! A bit different from "classic RE" but a good game :) (Better and funnier than RE5 imo)
Much better imo
Avalanche is the homie fr for all these retrospectives over the years
Big bonus for the PC version is the L4D2 crossover in Mercenaries No Mercy.
Using the same button for different actions makes things more simple but it also makes performing said actions frustrating when you're trying to do one thing but the game thinks you're trying to do something else.
I am not here for the opinions, I'm here for the passion
I totally was clearing my throat in the beginning without even realizing it
One of the many things that I hated in RE6 was the character of Carla Redames, the plot of the game revolved around this woman claimed to be mysteriously a doppelganger of Adam Wong and from her lore and files I find it silly for Capcom to add another super "prodigy" female character that it just made the idea saturated; First Alexia Ashford, then Excella Gionne then this woman now claiming to be super genius of this game's villain.
I think the showdown with Chris/Leon should have been done Anchorman style with them showing up on bicycles and taunting each other 😌
My man, thank you for still working on this while sick!
25:21 Me too! I never had any problems with ammo in this game! God!
People that run out of ammo while playing Resident Evil 6 are just playing it wrong. It’s a simple as that. They’re not using the games new melee system, they’re probably using the context melee system (which has slightly changed from the previous two games) even less than they did in Resident Evil 4 and 5, and they’re probably trying to play the game as a cover shooter a lot of the time... which like Vanquish before it you really aren’t meant to do despite the cover system being there.
When I first played Resident Evil 6, there was a point with Chris where I was getting pretty low on ammo, I realized I was playing the game wrong, and I never even kind of had ammo problems after that. Funnily the only other time in a Resident Evil game where I had ammo problems was when I played the original as Chris and after a bit was like: Oh, this is now how you’re meant to play this game. Although I got better with the knife in that old Sega Saturn game than in any RE game since.
I completely understand people’s criticisms of the game, but I don’t think anyone could say this game doesn’t have top notch production quality.
That is what really surprised me at launch.
RE 6 could have been the avengers of resident evil. Imagine bringing ALL the protagonists together for one solid story. We get Leon and Chris and Sherrie (ada but she's not a hero) but it wasn't enough.
I believe that calling the 7th generation of consoles a "stumbling" point to be a generally ignorant take since those consoles essentially were what gaming would be like going forward. Online capabilities from the start, wireless controllers, multimedia functionality, a digital storefront. Not much has really changed from 7th gen to current gen, the hardware just gets better but what they are fundamentally able to do is still the same. My biggest gripe was that the generation lasted too long. These consoles were still getting new games released for them into 2014 when they were already showing their age by the beginning of 2011. If you formed your argument around this then it'd be understandable since this console generation lasted longer than any other before it which created the sentiment that everything on these machines ran poorly when that wasn't the case for the first half of support (at least on the Xbox 360 side of things).
No mercy mercenaries is the best invention they ever came up with
I have resident evil 1 to 6, plus code veronica and survival. I have only played a small amount of the first game; I didn't like the tank control system. Does it change for the later games?
I personally don't think gaming outlets caused the backlash on this one. There were many RE fans like myself and some of my friends that were kind of pissed at the time that it was like a michael bay film. RE5 was already too much action, the trailer for 6 had real zombies so we thought it was going to be back to horror but instead felt like a huge middle finger.
I still had lots of fun even though it dragged at some points. I'd give it an 8/10 as a game but the fans were mostly pissed even if they didn't see the reviews.
you didn't installed the patch to fix the character being so close to the camera- If you install it it'd be pretty much like a RE4 engine on steroids. The same thing happens in RE5 (character is too close to the screen) without the patch it becomes an obstacle with such a fast paced action gameplay.
I think the reason RE 6 received so much hate (including me), it's because it is everything but a Resident Evil game, I imagine the fan base was getting tired of the IP going from 'Horror' to Gun-Fu.
In retrospective, I think the game would had been received better if it was a new IP, or anything that isn't a supposed Horror IP
But I do agree with your counter-points, business, like everyone else, can pseudo-predict the demand of a market, with the info available. If literally everyone buys you apples, why would start to make oranges?
The whole thing about to many things assigned to different buttons i actually like, there's been many times in Re5 mercenaries i want to either open a door, or jump a gap, but the context sensitive button to pick something up is the same as the one to preform a context sensitive action meaning there's many times I've picked up unwanted items trying to do something else. And keep in mind the very limited inventory. I personally think it was smart of them to change it in 6
You can actually equip a different item and it will take about a second for the item pickup prompts to show again in those cases, but it's just an FYI and not a counter argument lol, RE6 ended up having something similar with picking up items and reloading but at least picking stuff up was instant
Ur intro music will forever be amazing
Thanks! A good buddy made it for me.
The issue with the Xbox one version is probably because of lack of optimization for the DDR3 memory that the Xbox one used while the PS4 used gddr, that would explain why it only happens when new assets are being loaded.
Btw why is the switch version being rendered at 1080p? I thought the screen on those things are only 720p.
for the docked mode on TV.
This game definitely feels like a product of it’s time and just the push for each successive game to be ‘more’. One thing I will say that I totally agree with that really soured me on this when it came out was the controls. They are very strange and clunky, and I had a lot of trouble with some of the repeated button press events. Honest to god, there was a scene near the end I believe where you had to climb a rope or something and I couldn’t get it to work right. It should have been the simplest thing to do and I sat there for 10 minutes trying to climb a rope and the button prompts were ridiculous and not registering right or something. I’ve wanted to play through this one again tho as I haven’t since the original and I’m sure there are some good things in it I’ve forgotten about. Nice coverage here
I never knew we could dual wield two handguns even the official strategy guide I bought day one made no mention about it, went years thinking it was just a cool trailer detail
Dude, when you were talking about being sick and mentioned razor blades in your throat, I imagined it and reflexively cleared my throat....then you mentioned if anyone cleared their throat on your account. You're fucking awesome man LMAO!
Ha! I knew it!!
Resident Evil as a title means more to me then the gameplay style of the originals. Resident Evil is really a story of bioterrorism and following a group of characters through time. So I’m really lenient with the changes of gameplay style. Also I feel like RE4 is closer to the old trilogy then it is to 6. Most of 4 is take controls with a 3rd person camera. It’s got more involved combat but still has Some survival horror in it.
I know you did a video with Mayo and Sphere Hunter, but are you gonna do a retrospective for the abomination that is the new RE movie?
As someone who has played RE since 3, I gotta say 6 is one of my favorites besides 3. It's so over the top and campy and actually a blast. The different campaigns and gameplay was pre gud. I've never had an issue with how different it is.
Visually it still holds up (there are some textures which look stupidly blurry but overall aesthetics and detail are pleasing (minus that mineshaft section).
Bodyslamming, Suplexing, and Dropkicking zombies and J'avos was fun. Shame Capcom didn't make more use of this perfect asskicking combat. ORC + RE6 Combat, I still think of what could have been.
I've always enjoyed resident evil 6 it was fun end really cool to play in multiplayer. I had wished for something closer to the earlier games in the series but also knew at the time this was the direction the majority of people playing the series were pushing for. It was the knee jerk reaction, however that allowed us to hit the reset button and move on to more horror centric stuff found in Resident evil 7.
I loved it when it came out and I still love it to this day. It's one of the most fun Co Op games I have ever played.
@@kalvenzander4710 Same here, a remaster would be awesome, I'm also right there with you on an Outbreak Remake. 👌🏽
Man, I absolutely loved this game. Ignore the the IP names and you got a hell of a great action game.. Still my favorite
imagine thinking a name means anything
11:43 Thank you! Exactly. 'Nuff said!!!
Agreed. I didn't love RE6 because of its issues, but I absolutely still had a blast playing it with a friend.I wish more games had its gameplay. Being able to shoot, slide and then kick zombies in the face should be in more video games. I feel like if this would've been called anything else other than RE, it would've at gotten more 8s and wouldn't have garner all the hate it gets.