Seneste anmeldelser af jontheoverlord

Not as good as the RE2 Remake, but that game set a very high standard for RE3 Remake to reach, I still had a great time with it.

It would have been nice for the PC version to not have the gore and physics downgrades that the console versions apparently need.
I was going 4K ultra the whole way through and it ran fine, so if patching out those downgrades affects performance heavily I'd just turn the resolution down to compensate, that's what PC gamers do.
But it's a small gripe, also I'm not a fan of long drawn-out story campaigns anyway so I don't mind the length.

I absolutely loved this game!
But I must confess that it's my own stupid fault for taking so long before was able to fully get to grips with it.

When the game first started I was very impatient, I didn't listen to the tutorials or much of anything.
Because of my lack of relevant information I struggled a lot with pretty much everything, I simply thought to myself that because I've played loads and loads of dark Souls I'd just get this right away... How hard could it be?

But little did I realise that because I hadn't listened to anything, I didn't know how to level up my weapons or armour, so I got stuck on fighting little Johnny for ages and ages.
He killed me 53 times before I finally killed him, but it took me giving the game a break for a few months and when I returned I ended up eventually figuring out myself by accident how to upgrade and even craft my things.

I was trying to beat Little Johnny without any armour and with a mark 1 weapon, I feel so stupid looking back on it!
I'd only needed to figure out how to level up and decide which weapon suited me the best, that was it.

The whole "cut off body parts for upgrade material" aspect had completely slipped by me at the start but as soon as the penny dropped, I beat little johnny!
When I finally beat him the whole game opened up to me after that and so then I enjoyed the rest of the game constantly from then on out.

It's just a great game, they got the formula right this time.
Thanks for putting it on Steam as well!

now I'm on New Game++

(Edited on the 23rd of January 2023 to fix my uncharacteristically terrible grammar.)

Despite the game's shortcomings in regards to the characters and story of the main story, everything else is fantastic and I'm amazed by all the support the devs continue to give this game, even though it's nearly 5 years old.

from what I've played so far, it's great! it runs well and looks amazing, it's got an injection of new life into the Gears series. The Nvidia driver hasn't even come out yet at it still does fine!

Considering that it's FREE and it's still basically using the same graphics engine from 1997, just a different API instead, I think it's great and they did a great job! it's a very cool way to experience an old classic game remastered in a way I never thought I'd see. I see Quake 2 RTX as a cool way to play with light, shadows, reflections and coloured lighting while shooting bad guys. I've got a 2080TI and I get about 80-100fps at 1080p and I'm fine with that since the RTX upgrade was FREE anyway.
Don't expect 4K! Ray Tracing in games isn't even a year old yet!

it's just like dark Souls, ONLY IT WORKS! no DSfix problems, no framerate drops, NO CRASHES!!... so far anyway. it looks nicer, not massively different but the fire effects are better and a few interesting touch-ups here and there. I'M NEVER GOING BACK TO THE OLD VERSION EVER AGAIN!

Bought the base game, won't take any part in those terrible microtransactions! I'm choosing to judge this game on the merits of the game itself from what I've played so far, jumping in straight into Nemesis difficulty, I'm really loving the game. It's not a perfect game but it's been very absorbing in terms of Orc interplay with the dynamic interactions that could happen at any time.
The nemesis system has been improved on in every aspect, it makes the first game seem very simple by comparison. the combat is better than the first game.... the story's a bit of a bore in some places and there is a lot of busy work, but I can see passed it. Also the game seems to run better than the first for me

I can’t believe how off the mark they were with this game

Now I’ve finally played this game (thanks to the summer sale, and thank you Lord Gaben for the discounts you bestow upon me). I can’t believe that they thought this was even remotely a good Idea! It’s a hollow, shallow, superficial game with no atmosphere and a horribly confused tone.

Its combat is so unintuitive but also dumbed down at the same time. You can’t throw melee weapons or hit enemies with your gun or hit with throwable items and no auto lock-on with your firearms like in the previous games. Right at the start, the combat feels lazy, the zombie violence feels like a controlled, irritating chore because there are so many Zombies, unless you have some of these ridiculous combo weapons then it turns the action from a complete chore to a boring pile of nothing. The combat feels very unresponsive because there aren’t many round swings, most hit seem to go in awkward directions mostly diagonally and he takes too long to hit a zombie with most weapons.

Now… Let’s talk about “Frank West” spoiler alert: HE IS AWFUL!
Frank has been transformed into a completely unlikable scumbag who did nothing but incessantly irritate me. I don’t get what Capcom Vancouver were going for with this guy, the old voice actor TJ Rotolo was FINE!!!! Why did they really change him? because it totally isn’t for maturity purposes like they claim. Frank has been turned into a selfish, unfunny, constantly quipping, constantly self-praising, constantly ego-stroking, man-baby. HE MAKES CAR NOISES WHEN HE DRIVES CARS SOMETIMES FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD! Only a child would do something like that.

The “horror mixed with humour” attempt is a complete FAIL!
This game seems to think that the best way of combining horror with humour like the other games did is to have something horrifying or dramatic happen then following it up with “Frank” making an incredibly tasteless and insensitive quip! He basically does this throughout the entire game, the game never seems to want to let a horrific or dramatic moment pass without reminding you not to take it seriously, which ruins the atmosphere and tone! there things that do that throughout the whole game

Story and other characters
Just bad, none of them are likable or memorable, Vick is stupid and extremely annoying! Darcy isn’t funny! Brad is boring and forgettable! Paula’s “radio persona” makes me want to rip my hair out! As for the story, they decided to Retcon the story and the character of Dr Barnaby from DR1, even though even he died years and years ago in the games lore. The story is based around Barnaby wanting to use zombies as some way to achieve human immortality. There’s other bits and pieces like some guy gets accidently turned into some super zombie by the big bad guy company named “Obscuris” but WHO CARES?!?! There’s some rivalling survivor factions as well. BORING.

Other things that need mentioning
Psychopaths have been replaced with “maniacs” and they are PATHETIC!! No beginning or ending cutscene and their attacks are the same as “Franks” their AI is bad and they have no character.

There are only 36 COMBO WEAPONS!! That is PATHETIC!! That’s less than Dead Rising 2 there were 50 in Dead Rising 2 and 100 in Dead Rising 3!. (oops , correction, 58 or something) A lot of them are very unimaginative or stupidly overpowered or just worse copies of the combo weapons from previous games. The new thing in this game is “power Armor” IMPORTANT FACT: it’s temporary and you cannot use anything other than the weapons that are power Armor specific, so apparently when “Frank” puts on power Armor he forgets how to pick up and hold a gun!

The port is WORSE THAT DR3 I DIDN’T EVEN THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE!! It keeps crashing and has a lot of terrible performance, I only had 1 crash in DR3 but a lot of bad performance.
There’s so much more to say but I think I’ll stop there… NOT RECOMMENDED!... it pains me to say all this as a big Dead Rising fan, but it’s true NOT RECOMMENED!!

what can I say about this awesome cult classic?! Fantastic atmosphere, fantastic protagonist, fantastic bosses, fantastic setting. The AI is kept pristinely bad like in the original which I suppose it part of the games unique personality. the writing is bad in a "so bad it's good" sort of way, a factor that helps is the good performances by the voice actors. The game is TOUGH, it's unforgiving and unapologetic about it! I'm so pleased this game is finally off the 360 after all these years.

also the condition of the port seems to be fine, smooth 4k 60fps, loading times of less than a second, rebindable controls on both keyboard/mouse and controller.
there's also multiple save slots, no irritating DRM. A must buy!
This game just like the 2nd will always have a special place in my heart. I forgot to put that it when I originally typed this, oops.

the action is fast, brutal and the nemisis system was worth the hype, everyone harps on about it but they have good reason to. It makes the game very unique and worth coming back to even once the story is complete