Yep, they had to dumb it down a little....

[Zeus]

I'm impressed they were able to make it look this good. Sad part is, the majority of the people are waiting for the inferior version rather than purchasing what is undoubtably the superior version.

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/013/013887/imgs_1.html

[SineSwiper]

Graphics whore.

[Zeus]

Oh yeah, that's me. The one who jizzes over the old-school compilation games and who plays the GBA more than anything....

RE has always been about the aesthetics and if you have one version that's vastly superior to the other (like most of the Xbox - PS3 dual releases) why the fuck would you want the lesser one, particularly when the better one has been out longer and you can get it used? I can sort of understand if you don't have the GC (although it's so cheap used with so many good cheap games that you can get it and the game for less than 2 new PS2 games), but if you have both systems and are actually waiting for the PS2 version, you should be locked in a room with a large, black man named Tyrone who just got out of jail until you come to your senses :-)

Note: Eric, I was trying to get an image, not be a racist pig :-)

[SineSwiper]

Well, that's a given, but fewer people have both systems than you think. Not all of us are gaming freaks like us. I'm ashamed to even have the 3 systems (DC, Xbox, PS2) that I have.

[Julius Seeker]

I have every system, I'm not ashamed of it, I am actually fairly happy =)

I think I enjoy games generally more than most people here. Maybe everyone. A lot of people here say they don't have time for games, yet they watch all these boring TV shows and surf around the net when they SHOULD be playing videogames =P

My priorities in life:

1) Excersize, sports, and health
2) Work and school
3) Videogames and reading
4) Utopia

I didn't put social life down because it somehow works its way into everything anyways, and has always been a major counter productive point about my life.

And Resident Evil 4; I'm sorry, but I really don't like that game very much, it does not really interest me. I think the whole survival and horror thing kind of died on me back in High School. Resident Evil 2 seemed like a much bigger game at that point in my life than any other game in the genre. Though Eternal Darkness really interested me, but that's mainly because it was FILLED with historical references, and had a great story; the RE/Silent Hill Stories are best left to the movies I think.

[Kupek]

Graphics whore.

Please. Video games are largely a visual experience.

[Julius Seeker]

Graphics whore.

Please. Video games are largely a visual experience.

Depends on the game, for RPG's, I am still satisfied with Chrono Trigger style graphics. For Strategy certainly Civilization II graphics are good enough for me.

But on adventure titles such as Resident Evil, Zelda, and others, I do think that graphics are becoming very important. Though I am satisfied with Terranimga and Ocarina of Time's graphics.

[Kupek]

Depends on the game, for RPG's, I am still satisfied with Chrono Trigger style graphics. For Strategy certainly Civilization II graphics are good enough for me.

I think CT is a beautiful game. Undeniabley, its visuals are a part of why I like it.

[Eric]

Graphics whore.

Please. Video games are largely a visual experience.

Depends on the game, for RPG's, I am still satisfied with Chrono Trigger style graphics. For Strategy certainly Civilization II graphics are good enough for me.

But on adventure titles such as Resident Evil, Zelda, and others, I do think that graphics are becoming very important. Though I am satisfied with Terranimga and Ocarina of Time's graphics.

Chrono Trigger was one of the best looking SNES games. ;p

[SineSwiper]

I think when we are comparing the same game on two current-generation systems and Zeus is about ready to have a heart attack over people buying the PS2 because it has two more jaggies than the GC version, then yeah, I think I have the right to make a snide comment about Zeus being a graphics whore :P

[Zeus]

Yeah, especially since there will be likely no effect at all on gameplay due to slowdown as they try to make it look remotely close to the superior version. As well, people are expected to pay more for the inferior version for a game in a genre where graphics are actually a difference maker. What was I thinking?

[SineSwiper]

You act like they are trying to make a PS1 version. Quit spitting on the PS2 capabilities.

[Zeus]

In comparison? There's no doubt that it'll be noticably worse. Hey, I love my PS2, I have like 98 games for it (incidentally, I have about 58 for 'Cube and 53 for Xbox), so I don't really play favourtism. But every single game that has appeared on the PS2 and one - or both - of the other systems aside from MGS2 (I blame Konami's laziness for that one) has been a lot lower on the technological scale than the 'Cube and Xbox. Xbox has a slightly noticable edge on the 'Cube, but the 'Cube pounds on the PS2 (and Xbox just wastes it). You should have seen Starcraft: Ghost at E3 last year, it was insane. You would think the PS2 version was on the PS1 and usually people develop for the PS2 first.

It's simple: PS2 has so many releases that don't appear anywhere else you're an idiot if you don't have one. Same with the 'Cube really, but there are less and aimed at a different audience (those who love "games" not "cool"; unfortunately, they haven't figured out how to combine the two). But there's absolutely no reason to get a game for the PS2 if it appears on either of the other two unless there's bonus content. Same game, same gameplay, controllers are basically interchangable (except for those stuck in their ways), so the difference comes in 2 things: price and graphics. If the PS2 version is going to get destroyed in both, why would you get it? Especially now that a used GC is the price of a new PS2 game. That means you'll get a 'Cube and the game for about 1/2 the price (or less) of the PS2 version (depending how good you are at finding deals).

Capcom has already said there won't be bonus content, so unless that changes, it just doesn't make logical sense in any way to go for the inferior version, there's nothing to suck you in.