TEG Blog: The Less Anti-Resident Evil 5 Blog!

Well I've promised myself that I would be less anti-Resident Evil 5 this time around. Strangely despite reading through my previous blog on multiple occasions before posting it, I never realized until a day later how anti-Resident Evil 5 I came across. I honestly wasn't trrying to be such a moaner, I was just airing my feelings towards Capcom's latest 'Survival Horror' title. Though let's be honest folks, Resident Evil 5 seems about as horrific as watching paint dry (unless you are honestly scared of paint). Whoops, there I go again being all anti-Resident Evil. Though I shan't apologise for speaking my mind unless I feel as if what I have written doesn't truly represent my own actual thoughts. My comments in my previous blog were also a little untrue, after writing the blog I decided to give the Resident Evil 5 demo another go and after a good while of battling with the terrible controls (sorry folks, I still think RE5's control scheme is horrid) I did come to realise that I would eventually be able to get use to them and maybe even learn to use them to my advantage, though after nearly spending an hour with the demo I still came to the conclusion that Capcom really need to learn how to create good videogame controls. 

Good news Chris, I now hate you a little less.I promise I won't go bitching about the controls any longer, I would be an absolute buffoon if I thought I was being 'original' by discussing RE5's poor control scheme, every gamer and his rare golden monkey have discussed this issue. I guess the more I think about it the more I realise the lack of interest in the franchise as a whole doesn't help my impressions of Resident Evil 5. I hated the original Playstation title and could never understand for the life of me why they were ever popular. I think this was also partly due to the fact I took the whole 'survival horror' PR line to seriously as I never found the original scary in any way, well if you don't count the horrid voicework. I'm not just saying this to look tough, why would I need to come across as a tough gamer? That whole concept alone sounds stupid, almost sounds like something a 13 year old Halo fanboy would think. Anyway, I know for certain that I wasn't the only one who never totally understood the whole Resident Evil love. Though I have come to respect the games greatly, especially Resident Evil 4. 

Well I now have Resident Evil 5 in my SwapGame playlist (SwapGame is just the UK's version of GameFly) so I will hopefully be playing soon enough. Hopefully both I and a friend will be playing the co-op and I'm honestly looking forward to writng up a review of it once completed. I'm hoping I can obtain a clearer picture on what, where or why Resident Evil 5 is what it is? I might even discuss it in a little more in detail once I'm playing (not as I'm playing of course, typing and playing RE5 is simply a challenge to far for me). I also saw someone do a neat trick with Twitter this past week which I might also give a go. Speaking of which I'm starting to understand why folks love twitter, it stil feels in it's own cute way like stalking but it was quite a surprise to read Jonathan Ross's Tweet after the videogame BAFTA's concerning a certain Peter Molyneux title in production. I can see it clearly now ''our stowy begins' (you might not get that joke if you don't know who Jonathan Ross is). Though I have to admit I'd like to see him narate a Fable game, he seems almost perfect in an odd sort of way. 

AND FINALLY.....
If anyone is interested my Twitter name is JosephBayliss, I haven't been a great Twitter so far but have been updating my gaming activities when I can. I'm a massive fan of the GiantBomb community and would like to see what fellow GiantBomb users are playing. So your free to follow me if you wish, I'm already following some neat gamers.  

Thanks for reading, always appriate folks taking time to read my mess of words.
Joseph Bayliss (TrueEnglishGent).