Parasite Eve 2

The best "Resident Evil clone" IMO. I actually like it more than the first game gameplay wise.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    pe1 is straight up better

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Overall better, but the combat sucks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        games are more than their gameplay

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I can't wait to get rich so I can play all the PS1/2 games.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You can emulate them all right now

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah, but I have to go to work.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            rich? you can buy the games for cheap

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Literally just download them buddy, just pirate them for free right now

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              This. If you're worried about 'muh accuracy' burn them to a disc and put them in a cheap PS2 off ebay

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          [...]

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Gameplay > Everything else

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Do you think about the gameplay after you finish a game? Do you consider it? It's only fun in the moment. Obviously, good gameplay is preferable, but it's not something that is going to stick with you. The gameplay only matters when I'm playing the game. Do you replay things a lot? Do you recall how they play? Or when you think about games, do you remember other things, such as writing, atmosphere, and music?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Bad gameplay with random encounters and poor balancing detracts from those other things
              If you only care about the writing, atmosphere, and music then why even bother playing the game? It would be more convenient just watching it on Youtube(or watching a movie that does all of these things better)

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I never said I only care about those things and don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth. I do care about gameplay. However, a game is not gameplay alone but is the sum of its parts. Ignoring the other parts, especially when they are the ones that generally give lasting impressions, is foolish at best.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                One of those parts is noticeably improved in the sequel and the rest is about the same or maybe slightly worse
                Muh atmosphere and music aren't enough to make a game good when the core gameplay is subpar

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Do you think about the gameplay after you finish a game? Do you consider it?
              Yes you moron.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                What else is there to think about after the game is over?

                I think about Xenogears' kino lore and storying. The gameplay is just there to involve the player so it's not just another visual novel.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >games are more than their gameplay
          this homie did not just say that

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            yes he did, ACgay

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          gameplay>everything else is just a plus

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Bro

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      nah. pretty much everything in the first game is worse except for the main villain.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      games are more than their gameplay

      >muh atmosphere
      PE2 is a straight upgrade as an actual game

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The soundtrack sucks compared to the original and you know it. Everyone here knows that the soundtrack in the first one made that game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The operatic singing was cool
          PE2 is still a much better game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PE2 is a better game and better combat system. PE1 is a better lore and environment.

      Honestly, if PE1 had PE2's real-time casting combat system, it'd be no contest.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >PE2 is a better game and better combat system. PE1 is a better lore and environment.
        pretty much this. also don't forget to read the original novel

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >PE2 is a better game and better combat system. PE1 is a better lore and environment.
        pretty much this. also don't forget to read the original novel

        I'll give PE1 lore, but I strongly prefer the enviroments in PE2.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        But PE1 is basically the video game version of "Giant creature attacks New York City"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I agree.
      PE2 is a RE clone while PE is its own game.
      PE has
      >way better music
      >better art (they seriously butchered Aya's model in 2)
      >better gameplay that's more suited to the situation
      You know how tank controls are usually justified by the horror theme and it being awkward goes well with a sense of vulnerability?
      In PE2 you're the goddamn hunter. You're a godlike being capable of magic bullshit and you're here to fricking clean up. It does not make sense.
      >a better story
      >actual characters

      3rd is... fine. The story is total bullshit but the game itself is okay for a psp title and the soundtrack is top-tier.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I try to play it for an hour or two and end up dropping it. Can't get into it and I thought the first was fine.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's one of the five or so actually good PS1 games

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >beat this boss a little too late
    >get locked into the bad ending for the rest of the game

    Frick you, Squaresoft. How was I supposed to fricking know that I'd be facing a boss all of a sudden?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't it made by a bunch of RE1 and 2 people who left Capcom?

    • 2 years ago
      Anony

      Pretty much, and Aya/Eve reminded me of Claire/Sherry.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love Aya...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Me too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You could just say "I love Blonde Anime Woman" because they all look the same.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My first and only game crush. We need to bring back the look too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      She looks like Cloud, only trooned out.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Weird timing OP. I was just replaying the series.

    Parasite eve 1 had jank writing, pretty bad gameplay, and the need to constantly hold the run button to run was stupid. Also, locking the true ending through a masochistic bonus dungeon was moronic. Thank fricking God for YouTube.

    PE2 is from a gameplay perspective a much better game. I didn't find PE1 scary at all, and I can say the sequel never scared me either. The dialogue was translated better In pe2 for sure, but the game is very short. And the setting is boring as frick.

    PE3 was just awful. Plot made little to no sense. Setting was stupid. Completely disregarded everything that did work in 1/2 and instead went with a shallow arcade shooter with light RPG elements, the dumbest plot to ever be in a square game, and a moronic ending that ruined the already minimal chance of ever getting a sequel.

    If I had to rate the series as a whole I'd give it a solid 6-7/10.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >And the setting is boring as frick
      Really I liked the abandoned desert town it reminded me a lot of Tremors, and the ARK was more interesting than your average RE lab

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I can respect that, and I definitely see your point about a tremors like setting. I guess I was personally hoping to explore L.A. with PE monsters.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The opening of the game took place in the big ass building in the city, right?

          I'm sure it was due to budget constraints.

          The black guy with the big ass fricking revolver who hated the Eve creatures because they ate his family was fricking based.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >And the setting is boring as frick.
      The setting was godlike for me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PE3 lost the rights to the original book and movie so they had to use some garbage story.

      Other than that, you're objectively correct.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >PE3 was just awful. Plot made little to no sense. Setting was stupid. Completely disregarded everything that did work in 1/2 and instead went with a shallow arcade shooter with light RPG elements, the dumbest plot to ever be in a square game, and a moronic ending that ruined the already minimal chance of ever getting a sequel.

      welcome to games directed by Hajime Tabata

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >welcome to games directed by Hajime Tabata
        I wonder, does Barry ever defend the 3rd Birthday?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I wonder, does Barry ever defend the 3rd Birthday?

          all that frick does with 3rd Birthday is his usual "IT'S ALL NOMURA'S FAULT!!!!! TABATA WAS JUST THE FALL GUY/SACRIFICAL LAMB. EVERY DECISION WAS NOMURA'S" fake news bullshit

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I wonder, does Barry ever defend the 3rd Birthday?

          all that frick does with 3rd Birthday is his usual "IT'S ALL NOMURA'S FAULT!!!!! TABATA WAS JUST THE FALL GUY/SACRIFICAL LAMB. EVERY DECISION WAS NOMURA'S" fake news bullshit

          You know what's weird? FF7R had a lot of KH1 and KH2 developers leading the charge on the FF13 developers who did grunt work for them. 7R's staff looked like T3B from a bird's eye viewpoint even if it was Nomura and Hamaguchi directing instead of Tabata.

          Tomotaka Shiroichi of the T3B team was even promoted as one of the battle design leads who worked with Kosuke Sakane and Teruki Endo of Capcom (just like Yuichi Kanemori), and for a brief time Mitsunori Takahashi of KH2FM who worked under Kanemori.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            WTF

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            all this shows is that Tabata sucks and SE is better off after firing him

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yes actually.

              That's also not counting my original data where I found Luminous Productions actually has less KH1/2 devs than CBU1 and so many went to CBU3.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I guess they knew that LP was shit and bailed to better teams

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                A few of them are stuck on Forspoken tbh.
                >Naoki Kurita
                >Taisuke Ooe
                >Masashi Takizawa
                >Kenichi Shida

                I'm AFK so I'll upload the full list of KH1/KH2 devs still at Square when I get back.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I dont know what you are talking about anon, there was no PE3

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >and I can say the sequel never scared me either.
      The fricking chasers will haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life. Their faces freaked me out, their animations freaked me out, the sounds they made freaked me out, and the fact that they were some of the most annoying enemies in the game that I consistently struggled with when I was younger cemented them in my memories as objects of genuine terror. I dreaded turning every corner for fear one would pop out and ruin my day. I also hated the blood/bone sucklers and the noises they made but you know what REALLY took it over the top for me? The bit in NeoArk where you go by the exhibit for the sucklers and there's that plaque describing them and how "wouldn't it be wonderful to be held forever in your mother's arms?" Knowing that the whole idea behind ANMCs was that they were people being turned into those things made that shit unnerving as frick to me. Just the thought of somebody doing that to you, turning you into that, and then trying to sell it to you that it's better this way because "oh, you're a cute baby now and you can live forever like a cute baby and feel like you did when your mother loved you" shit. Creeped me the frick out.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1 has better music, which makes it superior by default.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I remember doing the target practice for hours as a kid and never 100% the last two challenges
    Was I just a moron or was it really difficult to pull off?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It really is difficult. But all you get is just some extra items. I admire your dedication.
      >t. got all items including gun range on hardest difficulty.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Third Birthday is the best

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      low quallity b8

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PE2 dissapointed me a lot the first time I played it because of how different it was to the first game but after I simply accepted that it's just Resident Evil with RPG elements I tried it again and enjoyed it a ton. Still like the first one better though, it's like top 5 JRPG of all time for sure.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >And the setting is boring as frick
      Really I liked the abandoned desert town it reminded me a lot of Tremors, and the ARK was more interesting than your average RE lab

      I like the desert setting too, but at the same time it would have been cool if PE had its own identity as a horror series set in major cities with lots of recognizable landmarks to sort of play off of how Resident Evil focused on horror set in weird secluded places.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PE2 is better than resident evil

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >how do i a cool pose

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      tiny car or big girl?

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I remember playing through 1 and 2 a few years back and wondering why the frick people hated 2.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      le comfy christmas detective atmosphere
      PE1 is a moviegame whose combat boils down to running in circles while you wait for the ATB gauge to refill

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone else had a separate save for the shower scene before this fight as a kid?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kek based

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I autisically asked this in every PE thread but it seems I'm a rare breed of early coomer

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I was stuck with only a nshitty4 as a kid, but I probably would have if I had access to this game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Anyone else had a separate save for the shower scene before this fight as a kid?

          Nah, I had the Star Wars fighting game and put Leia in the slave costume, turned down the music volume, and beat the frick out of her in practice mode with the Gamorrean pig guard because her hit sfx sounded vaguely sexual. Small wonder I really only browse Ganker and /d/...

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I bought the 3rd Birthday collectors edition for like $5 a while back but my PSP is dead.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone else find the concept of rapid evolution interesting? Like, what would she have been like had she not sealed her powers?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >what would she have been like had she not sealed her powers
      Literally Maya. She's locked up in Chrysler Building precisely as a backup plan.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You've got it reversed. The reason the normal game ending is the way it is is because you were fooled into thinking you defeated the right enemy. Eve is a complete red herring.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First game was better in every way. If I wanted to play a bad RE style game I'd just play RE 3 or SH4

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    CHRISTMAS CAKE! VERY YOUTHFUL!

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I remember like 20 years ago helping some kids beat the dog boss in PE1.

    Apparently they got that far without realizing you could use items in battle I blew their minds

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The guy who worked on Mega Man Legends' combat soon worked on the same for this game soon after. He was one of the few who didn't join the rest of Square Osaka to work on FF11.

    He then worked on the combat for KH1, CoM, KH2, the Eidolons for FF13, and then Versus 13... but his work was scrapped because Tabata wanted his battle system to be easy for non-RPG fans to get into. Casuals also liked it explicitly for that reason.

    Say his name. Yuichi Kanemori, former member of Square Enix and DeNA. Moral of the story is Nomura made KH Osakashit from Day 1 lololololol

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Based and soulful gameography

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I want them both to share my wiener.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Uoh

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Never played any PE games but some of the monster designs I've seen are really unsettling, I should play it some day.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah you should

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah that one in particular. Way creepier in game than the concept art too. PS1 graphics definitely add to it.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They're semi-intelligent too they plan ambushes and dig under barriers

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            How did the game age? Hopefully poorly, I like clunky controls in horror games

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              One of the best aging PS1 games imo
              It's on par with the RE games of that time

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Its still very playable, controls are great.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >controls are great.
                Why must you lie? Zoomers can't into tank controls anon. It's too much for them.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              games don't age moron
              the only problem with the controls is it doesn't have a quick turn, but seeing as how different weapons affect your turn speed, it was definitely on purpose and not a lapse of judgement

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Can you imagine seeing enemies of P2 with modern graphics. As far as body horror goes, those frickers beat even dead space.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I think the developers were inspired by Man After Man. Some of the creatures are pretty similar to the ANMCs and the little stories about evolving humans to suit different environments sound a lot like the Neo Ark kooks.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >those ANMCs that only exist to be living generators
            >you can read their minds and find out they're happy with their lives and beg you not to kill them

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              You can read their minds? What?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah you can examine the generators after killing them
                >Gentle days free from pain... Automated injections of comfort. So happy was I... So useful... It's not my fault... I'm helping! Helping everybody! I don't want to disappear... to die.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I hate that thing. Especially the boss version.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          turn the resolution down, you're butchering that game ya fricking zoomer homosexual

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >make thing look worse
            no

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >if only you knew

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The monsters are some of the few designs that still creepy me out after being desensitized to horror media

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What is this?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Its blood, I hope its not Chris' blood.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It looks like a video games to me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A mod made for troonyboomers.
        https://www.moddb.com/mods/resident-evil-revisited/downloads

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >The best "Resident Evil clone"

    That's because the director of PE2 is the guy who wrote and created the Resident Evil lore, also the guy responsible in how RE1 should look and feel. A lot of the ideas that he had for the RE1 sequel were repurposed for PE2, so playing PE2 you're basically experiencing the true RE1 sequel.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is Einhander any good?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        WTF

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You will never be one of us, WTF-kun.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Masterpiece.

        Also vagrant story. And bushdo blade. Square on ps1 had the greatest run in history.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's pretty fun.

        Question how was PE2 ideas going to be made for RE2. Weren't they going for Raccoon city downfall in 2 and 3?

        Kenichi Iwao had a completely different idea for the RE1 sequel than what we got. RE2 was written by Noboru Sugimura who wanted to give more of a thriller feel to the series than the slow mysterious X-files atmosphere that we got in RE1 and PE2.

        • 2 years ago
          Anony

          Thank you so much, sad they didn't use his ideas later on in the series.

    • 2 years ago
      Anony

      Question how was PE2 ideas going to be made for RE2. Weren't they going for Raccoon city downfall in 2 and 3?

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoy both games. The only game deserving of hate is 3rd Birthday

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Which one, Ganker?

    VS

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      PE2 is so cozy, that bar scene with Kyle drinking coke is also cozy as frick

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Welcome to McDonald’s within Walmart

    Poops

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cool concept

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Where the frick the guys that made these monsters kept something like that? in their underground facility?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It really makes you wonder where in the lab they kept something that huge
      Also in Neo-Ark they claim the purpose of transhumanism is for pacifist purposes to make humans adapt to the environment and yet that thing has a huge flamethrower grafted in its own head, it shows how they had a desire to actually develop weapons along with the supersoldiers like No9

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The flamethrower is for easy access to grills and barbecues while you're out with your friends. It's (You)r way of thinking unfit for the future we want.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Oh God. He was here.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >has never posted a source for this interview

    if that was the case, why is that (now fired) hack Tabata listed as the director?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Looks like you're fricking moronic and illiterate because it fricking says why chad tabata was listed, BECAUSE NOMURA APPOINTED HIM IN THAT POSITION BECAUSE NOMURA SAID HE WAS TOO BUSY TO MAKE SUER THE GAME DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE ON TRACK
      All tabata did was make sure the devs made the game with nomuras specifications and nomuras design documents and game design and plans and toriyamas story
      all that shit was alright cemented in the game before nomura event assigned tabata onto the game you fricking illiterate moron
      And based chad tabata left SE on his own choice 2 years after saving SE and FF and other SE devs like hasegawa the co director of twewy and art director of versus, and akira iwata the character designer of agni joined his company too

      Nomura pitched t3b to begin with, it was literally his brainchild, he then planned its entire game design and he told toriyama his ideas for the story which toriyama then wrote the story nomura requested, nomura also designed the characters on top of coming up with the fundamental game design of t3b and was also literally creative producer which means he's creatively incharge including him overseeing all the voice recording sessions
      nomura said he was just too busy to "direct", which in case you don't know is just the day in day out job of having the team making stuff according to the game design plans set at the start of development, to which nomura just appointed tabata to handle that since its just making sure the game is on track and each department is doing their job making the stuff according to the design document

      t3b is 100% nomuras game even more than ff7r is.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like flavor text in these old games.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Any other games that feature it front and center besides PE, Code Veronica and gunporn games like Jagged Alliance ?

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone else like to fight these guys?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the harder difficulties were more fun cus they started showing up earlier

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Was this game on tiktok or something? Fricking no one wanted to talk about these games when I made threads.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm surprised too. This thread went better than I expected.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      /vr/ is filled with PE2 fans, you should visit us sometime, PE2 threads last for weeks there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not him, but sometimes I forget that PS1 is a retro now.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I liked 3rd Birthday. Wish we got more of it. Overdiving was a fun mechanic, that stage on the 4th chapter (I think the one that has her boyfriend as the final boss) with the Mudflap slowly killing the group of soldiers one by one was pretty scary as a kid. So was the first chase with the Reaper.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The first one was boring. Half or the game was running around a zoo and a mueseum.
    The second one was awesome.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love late 90s PS1 game concept art.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      so asethetic

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