Colm Ahern: "Television is changing. Netflix’s a la carte ethos has allowed us to sit down over a weekend and binge watch all of Jessica Jones, or Narcos, ready to come into work on Monday morning and have a post-mortem with colleagues around the coffee machine. But appointment TV is still alive and well with Game of Thrones beating its own records with season five’s finalé and The Walking Dead still averaging between 12 and 14 million on a weekly basis in the States, despite plenty of us bowing out during the god-awful season spent on Hershel’s farm. Audiences know that these serialised dramas run for a certain number of episodes a year and without fail, will be on the telly at a specific time, on a specific day, on a specific channel. So, why can’t video games get this right?"
With series staple Mercenaries Mode returning to the Resident Evil 4 Remake, it’s time to remind fans of another mostly forgotten mode from the RE series. Reaching the second chapter in the 2012 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations unlocked something called Raid Mode for players to enjoy. Unlike Mercenaries, Raid Mode is not a time-attack mode and instead operates as a more RPG-lite version of the main game. While players are expected to try and hammer down on a handful of levels in Mercenaries, Raid Mode gives players a much more expansive game type to play around with.
This mode was included in ports released on the seventh and eighth generations of consoles and was part of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, which was released in 2015. However, the Revelations duology is the only time that Raid Mode has existed in the massive Resident Evil franchise, and that should change in some future release.
I'd like to raid mode make a return in the future. When Capcom was hacked there was a as of yet announced RE game in there that I was hoping might turn into Revelations 3. There were also reports that whatever that RE game was scrapped and cancelled.
The Switch has been out for a few years now with a large library. Check out the games with the biggest file sizes as of January 2021.
Edgar writes: "And so I determined to do just that -- I shortlisted 5 best Resident Evil spin-offs and ranked them from the worst to the best."
Personally, I don't like episodic content. I understand why single play games want to do it. It is essentially a way to kill the used game market by delivering a small amount of game content on a disc then putting the lion's share of the cost to the season pass.
But, I find myself waiting until all content is shipped and the final (complete) version comes out. Usually I get it cheaper and the game is a complete package to play all at once.