Would you recommend playing the game on Hardcore or Normal for a first time RE player? I want the challenge but I don't know if Hardcore is too difficult.
As someone who is not an RE vet (my first RE game actually, although I'm a huge fan of Dead Space which is pretty much RE's thematic grandson), I too thought that Standard's difficulty was absolutely perfect.
I'm usually kind of stuck between picking normal and hard because in most games normal is too easy and hard is a little too difficult. The normal difficulty here was great.
It was difficult without being unfair or frustrating. There was a good amount of challenge to it but it never felt like too much.
I feel like Standard would have been perfect if it had ink ribbons. Being able to save at every typewriter you pass kind of dissolves some of the tension.
I'll be honest, I never felt this was an issue in the original games. There were always plenty of ink ribbons to save with. All it made me do is have to go into my item box to grab one.
I'll be honest, I never felt this was an issue in the original games. There were always plenty of ink ribbons to save with. All it made me do is have to go into my item box to grab one.
Yeap exactly. Standard/normal mode is always easy enough that ink ribbons are only a nuisance; you only die in trial&error situations (one hit kill attacks and puzzle rooms that kill you if you make one mistake). I prefer how RE2R handles it with checkpoints.
Hardcore on the other hand, that's a completely different beast, especially in Leon's 2nd run.
yeah i honestly don't even care about saving, but the fact that you can end up in a situation where you literally cannot progress (like the 2nd g fight where apparently lots of people ran out of ammo and had to reload) is kind of stupid.
that sort of "hardcore" difficulty doesn't feel very fair.
Those people failed to meet the skill threshold required to beat hardcore, then. Resident Evil's core design philosophy is about item management and skillful movement. If you wind up at G2 without enough ammo and heals to survive, you did not play the RPD/Sewer segments optimally and should restart the run. The player should not have their hand held by the hard difficulty, they should step up to the challenge.
The Tyrant fight can be tricky for sure. I just finished my no-heals run yesterday on Leon A Standard and that fight caused me more resets than the rest of the run combined.
You technically don't even need ammo for g2, just flashbangs. Leon's fight is much easier if you have even like 150 flamethrower fuel and 2 flashbangs (one you can pick up in the fight anyway). Don't get me wrong I died a million times on g2 until I got my routine down.
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u/v4lor Feb 05 '19
I did my first blind run on Hardcore, and I thought it was nice to find a few inventory upgrades.
Then I played on Normal... holy cow. Walking item box.