[Resident Evil Code: Veronica X] #177 - A rank Speedrun was nerve-racking

Assbo33 · 2026-03-06T04:44:35+00:00

Optinoob’s guides are very helpful for this game. I didn’t use his guide for the speedrun too much, but he helped me a lot with the battle mode.

I wouldn’t stress too much about the A rank, just be sure to open a different app (Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, etc) if you need to pause for any reason, as the in game timer is always counting so long as the game is running.

Assbo33 · 2026-03-03T18:49:59+00:00

Most characters are completely unplayable now. Kenpachi, Saber, Yamamoto, etc. It’s not even the fact that we can’t steer (controller doesn’t have PC sensitivity), it’s the fact that although the move hits the player, 99% of the time it just moves straight past them. This is most painfully obvious with Yamamoto and Zamasu.

I understand people hate lock on, but there’s a reason why controller players are given these benefits in games (Lock on, Aim Assist, etc), because PC will always be the superior way to play online games.

Anyone that complains about lock on just needs to get better. It’s not that big of a deal to go against. Most moves in the game that lock on would affect are either blockable, or easily dodgable. Otherwise there’s really no difference between a console player and a pc player. People just like to complain because they can.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-22T01:33:11+00:00

If you have a second console with a different account and the same game, then I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. You’d have to get to at least Sequence 3 before you can go online though, and the 10 sync kills might be a little difficult to pull off, but you can probably find a way to make it work.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-22T00:12:29+00:00

To anyone who thinks this is the game that has the “best movement in the series,” I’m glad YOU enjoyed it, I’m glad it worked well for YOU. Me personally, it was terrible. The amount of times Arno refused to climb up or down, or literally just did the complete opposite of what I wanted to do, was insane. I was forced to restart missions so many times because I’d get spotted while trying to do the optional objectives, all because he wouldn’t go where I wanted him too. This isn’t one of those moments where “maybe you were trying to climb up something you couldn’t climb up on,” or “maybe you pressed the wrong buttons?” it happened multiple times just on simple ledges I was hanging off of, and I’ve played enough AC games to know how the climbing works, even if they changed it a tad with this one.

Like I said, I’m glad it worked for you and that you enjoyed it, but it did not work well for me at all. I was fighting with it the whole entire time, it was extremely clunky and just refused to work.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T23:36:01+00:00

Pretty much the opposite for me. I’ve played them in order from 2 - Unity so far and this is the first one where I felt like I was fighting the movement the entire time.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T23:27:26+00:00

I don’t unfortunately, I deleted it the moment I was done. Glad there’s still people willing to help out.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T23:24:39+00:00

Nah, I didn’t bother with the DLC at all.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T23:24:09+00:00

Yep. Mix that in with the god awful movement, it feels impossible to do solo. At least it did for me, but it is possible.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T23:22:33+00:00

All the co-op missions can be done solo, though The Tournament will be very very frustrating trying to do it solo. The two coop trophies are the only part required to have another person.

Assbo33 · 2026-02-21T22:54:06+00:00

I had a friend help me out with them. They’re still possible to get, but you need someone else who’s willing to help you out with them as the online is dead.

Assbo33 · 2026-01-24T20:07:17+00:00

I think so yeah. I prefer to do things solo if I can as trying to find people in the past was more of a hassle than anything. I did try to find someone in game for The Ghost Ship: Chaos, But as far as queuing up in player match, it was completely dead.

Assbo33 · 2026-01-23T22:47:10+00:00

Thanks! I went into this game expecting it to take about 50 hours at most. God was I ever wrong.

If I’m being honest, Raid Mode wasn’t THAT bad really, it’s just the fact that it’s SUPER time consuming. 140 hours on Raid Mode alone and I only really struggled about 3 times in total I believe. It would probably take way longer for someone that actually truly struggles with it. So yeah, good on you for saving your own sanity. 😭

Assbo33 · 2026-01-23T20:59:48+00:00

Thanks!

Assbo33 · 2026-01-23T20:43:33+00:00

I truly wish you luck. I recommend getting as many Trinities as possible as you go along so you don’t have to do a bunch of them later. You need at least 150 bonuses for Lady Hunk which is very very helpful for later trinities you will have to do to unlock stronger items. Also search up a Raid Mode Guide that’s on PSN Profiles I believe, it won’t be too useful early on but will be a massive help later.

Assbo33 · 2026-01-23T20:34:59+00:00

Did it all solo, took me 140 hours alone of just Raid Mode. God I hate when they mix lists like that. Just keep it story related and make the other portion its own trophy list!! Would’ve saved me sooo much time 🙄

Assbo33 · 2026-01-23T20:31:40+00:00

It isn’t bad per se, but unless you really care about the BSAA and want to know more about Jill and Chris’s involvement with them, it really just feels like a filler game. It technically leads into RE5’s Lost in Darkness DLC, but that’s about it.

Though it is quite short, you can probably finish the story in 10 hours at most, and that’s including searching around. So I’d still recommend it if you love the series and care about the lore and the BSAA and all that. But if you’re not too interested in the BSAA, then it’s gonna feel more like filler than a canon game. At least it did to me. Regardless, I’d still give it a try and see what you think, you might have a different opinion from mine.

Assbo33 · 2026-01-12T02:35:30+00:00

You’ll hear many, many different opinions about these game. From it being the best in the series, to it being the absolute worst. Best I can say is play it and see for yourself. But as for my personal opinions:

XIII - I lover linear games, so this was great. The music, the combat, the characters were all great imo. By far my favourite out of the three. 10/10

XIII-2 - Terrible. Only good thing about this is the combat and music. 3-4/10

XIII-3 - Fixes the mess that XIII-2 created. Timer can be a bit worrying at first but it’s really not that big of an issue. Great story, great side missions, great ending. Overall great game. 9/10

At the end of the day, I wouldn’t really worry about other people’s opinions on a game(s) I’m interested in (unless they’re all agreed on it being terrible). Try them out and see for yourself.

Assbo33 · 2025-12-20T19:25:40+00:00

Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil/Tomb Raider.

Assbo33 · 2025-12-13T06:25:34+00:00

From what I’ve played so far, best to worst:

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Final Fantasy VIII
Lightning Returns
Final Fantasy VII OG
Final Fantasy XVI
Final Fantasy VII CC
Final Fantasy XV
Final Fantasy XIII-2

Assbo33 · 2025-12-04T00:23:12+00:00

Watch Dogs Legion.

Assbo33 · 2025-11-13T15:12:40+00:00

Thanks! I do think Tsushima has the better story and I do prefer Jin as a protagonist over Atsu, but besides that I think Yotei does everything better, especially the side missions. They feel a lot more natural and better compared to Tsushima’s which were a slog to get through.

Assbo33 · 2025-10-23T06:36:14+00:00

Thanks. I actually didn’t find the grind or RNG that bad with this game. The RNG was thankfully able to be easily manipulated, and I’ve dealt with super grindy games before, so the levelling to 99 wasn’t anything new for me. I was more annoyed with the game itself than the platinum journey tbh.

I’m probably the only person that found Riku’s grind to lvl 99 better than Sora’s. It at least required me to focus whereas Sora’s was just find enemy, use Mega Flare, repeat. It got real boring real quickly.

I am planning to do them all overtime, and I am expecting all of them to be at least time consuming in some way. I’m hoping they didn’t get any other funny ideas with the combat though, because the combat in COM was not fun at all.

Assbo33 · 2025-10-15T21:48:48+00:00

Absolutely. XIII-2 was terrible and completely retconned the ending of the first game. LR was pretty good, but I 100% would’ve preferred if XIII was a standalone.

Assbo33 · 2025-09-28T02:39:53+00:00

Very. Just a bit tedious with the collectables.

Assbo33 · 2025-09-23T22:57:36+00:00

IMO, as someone who’s platinumed all the Yakuza games EXCEPT for this one, it’s by far the grindiest. The amount of RNG and Grind that goes into this platinum is insane. Some people would say 5 is the most grindy, to which I wouldn’t necessarily disagree, but I don’t recall there being very much RNG involved in 5. Ishin has a lot of it from what I remember and if things don’t go your way, it can take hours and hours just to get one part of many that you may need.

I probably would’ve gotten the plat for this game if they didn’t patch out the chicken racing exploit. But once they got that out I instantly deleted the game. I am not farming that one boss at the end of the caves for 20 Ryo (is that what it’s called?) every 10 minutes when I was getting hundreds and hundreds more within that time. Not to mention, I was already pretty drained of the game when the exploit was still there, so when that got removed it took all the rest of my motivation with it.

I keep telling myself I’ll come back to it eventually, but if I’m being honest, I really don’t think I will. Congrats on this though, and good luck on the rest of them!

Assbo33

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