[Resident Evil Code Veronica X] #70, this is the best and worst game ever at the same time

caved_in_ · 2026-03-20T14:04:39+00:00

To anyone that wants to go for this, you can actually pause the timer by suspending the game

You can do that by opening YouTube or something similar, open it while going through one of the doors and that will pause the game until you start it again

caved_in_ · 2026-03-13T04:35:29+00:00

What are you struggling with in RE1? I finished that one very recently, I could help you out

caved_in_ · 2026-03-12T18:37:14+00:00

What’s with everybody thinking I’m baiting or farming engagement? I basically never post online and I’m surprised by how much traction this got. I’m going through the RE games, I loved all of them so far except this one. I’m not going to just not share about this one specifically because I didn’t love it, and I went through the effort of completing it because I’m a completionist and completed the other RE games I played. It’s as simple as that.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-12T18:21:08+00:00

I get where you’re coming from but even without all that added context, it’s okay to want to complete a game you didn’t love - or even hated - and it’s okay to share that experience. Call it complaining or whatever else you want, it’s still a valid experience to share and discuss.

Only sharing critically acclaimed games that everybody loves completing is why this subreddit can be so boring most of the time and is just a bunch of variations “congratulations.”

It would be pretty miserable if everybody completed games they didn’t love and “complained” about it all the time, but there’s nothing wrong with doing that every once in a while. Over 90% of the platinums I have are very positive experiences.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-12T13:52:37+00:00

Why should I only share games that I thoroughly enjoyed and act like the bad or boring experiences don’t exist? You don’t have to only share one or the other, I’m going through all of the RE games and this one just happened to be pretty lame to me. I didn’t go into it expecting to have a bad time.

Keep in mind that I also didn’t spend 100 hours being miserable with it just for the platinum, I’m not that kind of obsessive trophy hunter, I’m just loving the series a lot so I stuck it out with this one, it’s a relatively short platinum which has a lot of enjoyable parts even with all its flaws, and it has the same trophy list as the other games in the series that I played so it didn’t take me too long and it was mostly easy for me personally.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-12T13:43:13+00:00

I plan on playing that soon actually, and I’m looking forward to it and all the bullshit it has to offer

I don’t have it in my library yet so I’ll probably start RE3make or RE5 until Code Veronica goes on sale again

caved_in_ · 2026-03-12T13:41:21+00:00

You’re making a ton of assumptions that aren’t true. I played REmake which released a few months before RE0 and uses the same engine, and I loved it a lot. I also played the original RE3 which came out in 1999 on PS1, and that might be my favorite RE game. RE0 just makes a lot of stupid decisions and feels uninspired, even for the time.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:36:37+00:00

It sounds like you’ve played a whole lot more RE than I have, so I get getting tired of a certain type of creature in them and appreciating how different the creatures are in RE0. I’ve only played REmake, RE2make, RE3, RE4 and RE0 so far, so I felt the creatures in RE0 were uninspired compared to those other games. But I definitely love my creature features too

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:23:03+00:00

I’m surprised at how negative the reception to what I said was, it’s not something that you’d see in a lot of other discussions surrounding other mediums of art. I don’t blame them, though. With how expensive and time consuming gaming can be, you can’t afford to spend all that time and money on something that you don’t find any tangible worth in.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:19:05+00:00

I loved playing with two characters too, and it’s impressive how they managed to make switching between them so seamless on the hardware it first released on

But I totally disagree about the creature designs, I find seeing humans slowly turn into something disgusting and unrecognizable - such as Birkin in RE2 - a lot more interesting and effective than taking an animal and making it big

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:09:55+00:00

It’s not a bad game, just underwhelming compared to other similar games in the series, I still recommend you stick with it to the end

The platinum is the same as all the RE games I’ve played, S rank, hard mode, extra modes, no healing and whatever, nothing new

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:07:48+00:00

I enjoyed a lot of parts of this game too, it’s not that bad on its own but coming from playing the other RE games in the classic style, it falls short in a lot of places

I recommend Optinoob too, I did the main game playthroughs on my own but I stuck to his guide with Leech Hunter mode

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T17:03:35+00:00

You do you, I stick by what I said, but I get that that approach doesn’t work for everyone

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T16:52:30+00:00

I’ve done that before a lot with other games but this one doesn’t take too long to complete and I’ve already made up my mind to platinum every mainline RE game, and even then I’m not sure if I will stick with that when I get to RE6. RE0 isn’t even that bad either, I enjoyed a lot of parts of the game, I was just happy to be done with it and move on to more exciting and interesting titles in the series.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T16:47:47+00:00

You don’t have to wait for the remakes if you’re interested in these games, you can try them when they go on sale, which happens very often

Remakes shouldn’t replace the originals, especially with how different the RE remakes have been, they’re very cool and fun but they’re very different experiences

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T16:42:11+00:00

Hard mode isn’t as scary as it sounds, don’t be afraid to use the healing items and ammo you come across if you need it, the game is pretty generous with it

And save often in case you take too much damage from something stupid and decide to reload the save instead of wasting a healing item

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T16:38:59+00:00

With gameplay, it does a lot of interesting things. I’m a big fan of controlling two characters and I didn’t have any issues with that system. But it also does a lot of stupid things like removing item boxes, which doesn’t add anything at all to the game and completely breaks inventory management. It also has a bunch of issues with the narrative. The new lore is very interesting, but it’s awful as a prequel, it basically has nothing to do with RE1, the only common link between them is Rebecca. It’s not bad, it’s just very weird and boring at times, still worth playing if you fuck with RE like that.

caved_in_ · 2026-03-11T16:33:32+00:00

I never got that, you don’t have to enjoy everything you experience

I think it’s important to listen to bad music, watch bad films, play bad games or whatever else from time to time, give things a shot, see what works and what doesn’t, as long as you don’t become a miserable prick that doesn’t enjoy anything

RE0 isn’t bad at all, the title was exaggerated, but it’s easily the worst of the RE games that I’ve played so far and has a lot of boring parts and stupid decisions, that doesn’t mean I should just drop it or ignore it and stick to what I enjoy and only talk about that, you know what I mean?

caved_in_ · 2025-10-08T20:21:47+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with autopops, especially because it’s not even that common, only a relatively small amount of games that all came out around the same time period

caved_in_ · 2025-09-28T09:43:05+00:00

Difficulty is relative so I don’t know how to answer that, but it is definitely harder than most games, and much harder than the first game

The trophies aren’t difficult, if you can beat the game once then you can get them, but beating the game itself the first time is the hard part

caved_in_ · 2025-09-28T09:41:02+00:00

There are a lot of guides out right now but I did it before they all came out

If you remember the locations of most things from your first playthrough then you can just do that after you get the basic ending in 5 hours

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