One thing I find funny is at the end of every game, you trigger a self-destruct timer. I fuckin' hated the tank controls, but looking back on it, it did nothing to hurt Resident Evil's legacy. Pair this with the camera angles, and it's REAL disorienting. I referred to them in the past as 'tank controls' because pushing up makes you move forward, no matter what direction you're facing. The controls take a LOT of time getting used to. It's about escaping, rather than fighting.

This is where the 'survival' part of the genre comes in. This adds a lot of tension, because if you run out of ammo, you're fucked. The games focused less on all-out combat, and more on conserving your items. The series is still goin' strong today, spawning a shit-ton of sequels, as well as a movie that also spawned a shit-ton of sequels.īut today, I wanna focus mainly on the PlayStation 1 era of Resident Evil. The game revolutionized the horror gaming genre, even going as far as coining the term 'Survival Horror'. Yeah, no joke! Who would have thought that the designer of Goof Troop would go on to create one of the most iconic horror series ever made? To direct the project Fujiwara chose Shinji Mikami, the designer of Disney's Aladdin and Goof Troop on the Super Nintendo. Best of all though, he produced the classic Street Fighter Two-Thousand-Fuckin'-Ten! Hot damn! Hell, he even produced almost every Mega Man game on the NES and SNES. Fujiwara made his name in Capcom as the producer and sometimes director of a ton of great games, such as Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Bionic Commando, DuckTales and Chip 'n Dale on the NES. Originally conceived as a remake of the 1989 horror RPG Sweet Home for the Famicom, Capcom put Tokuro Fujiwara, the game's original director, in charge of the project. In 1993, Capcom began development on a new game with a focus on horror. You'd be hard-pressed to go somewhere in public, and not see a Capcom machine or one of their games at somebody's house. In the '80s and '90s, Capcom was one of the most dominant companies in the arcade and home console market. Nerd: Capcom is a name that needs no introduction.

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Resident Evil Survivor - Angry Video Game Nerd (Episode 160)

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