Louis_Cypher
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I'm just playing Dino Crisis for the first time in probably two decades, and it reminds me, that while it's not a perfect game, there was a ton of interesting horror adventure in the late 90s on PS1. I expected that the 'tank controls' prevalent in this era, wherein you had to manually turn a character clockwise or anticlockwise, with the right and left D-pad, would instantly turn me away, as I found them hard as a kid, but it's actually fine with age, experience and better reflexes.
It's just a tight little sci-fi concept turned into a game, featuring nice exploration, without all the obsession with interior emotional lives that even matter-of-fact horror or action games think they must always add in today; they are just a team of special forces sent in to investigate a laboratory, and that is all you need to know. It feels like a mid-budget 90s horror movie, in the best of ways; refreshingly absent of modern political obsessions, just focused on neat plot/narrative.
It would be pretty nice if they did a remake in the same engine as the new Resident Evil 2, and just ignored the third game, reviving the series, with a next-gen Dino Crisis 3. Above is a bit of art for a fan remake project (hopefully to give Capcom ideas). Capcom seemed to have hit a slump around the PS3/360 era, like a lot of Japanese developers seeming to struggle to update their IPs, and make HD games. However, they seem to have recently returned to their roots and put out good stuff. I still discover new games on the PS1 and PS2 to this day, and there was a lot of interesting horror around then; I'm gonna play more of the games with pre-rendered backgrounds. It's not always necessarily scary, but nice to play blind as you don't always know what you will get unlike an AAA game today.
Please share any survival horror recommendations.
It's just a tight little sci-fi concept turned into a game, featuring nice exploration, without all the obsession with interior emotional lives that even matter-of-fact horror or action games think they must always add in today; they are just a team of special forces sent in to investigate a laboratory, and that is all you need to know. It feels like a mid-budget 90s horror movie, in the best of ways; refreshingly absent of modern political obsessions, just focused on neat plot/narrative.
It would be pretty nice if they did a remake in the same engine as the new Resident Evil 2, and just ignored the third game, reviving the series, with a next-gen Dino Crisis 3. Above is a bit of art for a fan remake project (hopefully to give Capcom ideas). Capcom seemed to have hit a slump around the PS3/360 era, like a lot of Japanese developers seeming to struggle to update their IPs, and make HD games. However, they seem to have recently returned to their roots and put out good stuff. I still discover new games on the PS1 and PS2 to this day, and there was a lot of interesting horror around then; I'm gonna play more of the games with pre-rendered backgrounds. It's not always necessarily scary, but nice to play blind as you don't always know what you will get unlike an AAA game today.
Please share any survival horror recommendations.