/v/ - Video Games

>>14024422

parasite eve is better than koudelka but shadow hearts is better as a series overall

Parasite eve got a alright sequel with PE2 and a less alright sequel with third birthday.

Kouldelka birthed Shadow Hearts 1 and 2, which were great, and from the new world which was just okay.

Based on that alone Koudelka wins Shadow Hearts 1 and 2 in particular were some of my favorite ps2 rpgs.

Taken in isolation however I would have to choose Parasite eve. The atmosphere was great overall, the monster designs really felt like primal monsters. The story was pretty decent, with good character interactions, as well as the pacing of the whole game, even if short, was executed well. The battle system was somewhat fresh feeling and fun. It had problems with weapons and armor feeling rather samey, and a high encounter rate however and some of the difficulty could have been tuned better, higher in some cases and lower in others. But overall between two good games I would have to pick Parasite Eve when discounting the rest of their respective series.

Disregarding everything that follows these games in their respective series, I'd have to give it to PE for its soundtrack alone.

RULE OF ROSE

Koudelka. Tried replaying PE recently and it's kind of trash.

>>14024422

Sacnoth is the developer and SNK is the Japan publisher, also going with Koudelka, goddamn the voice acting there was topnotch and the spooky gothic aesthetics.

>>14025233

>>14025398

>Mfw my pal version does not liste them anywhere only SNK

nani?!?

I don't know if it counts to most but I think System Shock 2 really caught the vibe of survival horror best for my first play through.

Might get Resident Evil 0 on steam. Seems cool.

>>14024422

>>14026586

thanks for the tip guys

gonna try this games another time

>>14026586

Reading about the history of D series is pretty crazy. Off the top of my head, I remember reading somewhere that the main developer ran into trouble with the censors when trying to ship D2, so the madman gave the edited version to them but shipped the original one to the world. Also, I think the series had one protagonist even if the games werent linked story-wise. It was a sort of virtual actor that moved between these games and always had a different role and personality as a protagonist.

>>14028480

I remember reading about that years ago. Wasn't it about a scene where a tentacle mouth rapes a woman?

>>14028517

Yeah that, and there was some nudity. I think those points were actually the least of D2's problems, since the story is all sorts of fucked up and has this weird uncanny valley feeling to it, the same kind of feeling I got from Drakengard.

>>14028480

I think that story is about the original D. The censored copy sent had the cannibalism scene cut out.

Another fun story is that D2 was originally planned for the scrapped successor to the 3DO, then redesigned for the Dreamcast. Kenji Eno just couldn't catch a break. He's also dead.

>>14024422

I've played neither of these games, so I'm gonna go ahead and say that parasite eve is better because the MC is an Aryan qt.

My first vidya fap.

Aya will always have a special place in my heart.

>>14032488

To this day, I never understood what the fuck parasite eve is about. All I know is that I'm a cop and suddenly a rat monster appear

>>14028465

More games should have interesting mechanics like this game. Controlling 3 characters to solve the problem was neat.

Resident Evil 4 was the best survival horror of all time because Leon was a fucking badass, Heather was a hot slut, and there were tons of guns and none of those really gay puzzles like in Silent Hill.

>>14026586

D?

As in the?

I downloaded D now, It better be good OP or im fuggin you in your tight man ass.

>>14040720

Novel:

>Woman all of a sudden gets overwhelming urge to drive her car into something and kills herself.

>Kidney is transplanted into young girl whos behaviour starts to change

>scientist starts to look into donor woman, she was having episodes of divergent personality, daughter starts the same

>turns out the mitochondria in her organs became sentient a parasite lifeform and the first of a new life. a parasite eve.

>its using his daughter to gain a new form

>they track her down and she is monstrously pregnant and births a child that quickly grows into a woman who calls her self eve and has psychic powers

>they kill her and find a new doner for his daughter and things seem fine.

Game:

>2 years later on christmas eve a cop is on a date at an opera, the woman on stage starts singing and everyone else sets on fire but the cop

>she chases the woman and animals start to mutate as their mitochondria assume cell control

>singer calls herself eve and begins to transform, notes say she was a singer desperate for fame and pushed herself till she needed medical treatment and took strange medicine

>monsters spread all over manhattan and scientist from novel shows up to infodump

>chase eve to sperm bank where she gets the jizz to impregnate herself with the ultimate being and dissolves into a huge goo monster

>spreads over new york and eats thousands, time skip and manhattan is a no go ghost town

>military comes in and use fighter jets to bring down the monstrous eve

>on airship carrier the newborn targets aya and she kills it ending the nightmare but her own mitochondria have been activated and game ends with her at an opera and her eyes glow red and slowly spreads through the audience as her parasiting of eves powers has turned herself into the true parasite eve all along.

sequel never intended to happen after the twist ending

>ava now works for neo mitochondrian lifeform hunting special ops

>goes to desert following terrorist attack to find group attacking desert town

>is lead to mine and secret base where it turns out the president and illuminati started it all and made her and want NMC's to replace all current life

>she destroys the base and president says things are just beginning

3rd birthday

>alt universe aya uses vr to posses bodies and time travel in a shit 3rd person shooter even square enix pretends never happened.

no other series got so bad so fast.

>>14051930

-though something also worth mentioning is right when SE decided to turn it into a franchise they lost the rights to the novel and thats why its called 3rd birthday instead of parasite eve.

>>14051930

So is 2 the only one worth playing or should I play them all?

>>14051972

no. 1 is a treasure. it is a pre rendered background style horror jrpg where battles use the atb and you dodge attacks with mild bullet hell elements like nier and use guns or spells to take on monsters. Its super unique and you can see it was the test to see if systems from 7 and vagrant story would work.

PE2 is just an RE clone with magic like the psi abilities from galerians. its okay but its a clone, PE1 is totally unique and its a shame SE lost the rights because a remake would be fantastic.