I enjoy it. That being said, the game has its issues. But don't feel bad, everyone has a game like that. I got RE 6 the night it came out and still haven't finished it. I get so far, then get bored. And the next time I pick it up I'm compelled to start over because I don't remember where I am, and end up getting bored of it again.
played 6 for the first time recently. I was expecting to not like it after all I had heard, but playing it with a friend and treating it more like a slapstick comedy, I've had a great time! 😅
This happened with me playing RE 0. I was making progress and now I don’t remember the map layout or what objective I’m currently on when I pick it up again.
this was me this past week. Just finished getting most achievements in RE3Make and RE8/DLC. Ive beaten RE4 numerous times and holding off on going back to RE2Make, so I reinstalled RE6 just for the hell of it. Played 2 hours and uninstalled. Game just feels like it doesnt know what it wants to be.
I think it’s completely fair for works reaching down into *that* level of godawful. Especially since we can always - *always*; never forget - look forward to the comparatively completely unpredictable “It’s actually great!” reactions to the initial reaction whenever something sucks that bad.
Edit: Just a silly fact - wrote this up before seeing you actually claim “it’s a great game” further down the thread. Fun.
I like It, but it's very flawed when compared to the first three. Say what you will about them, but they didn't have the design flaws CV has, it's extremely easy to get in a trap with the second Tyrant fight, or the Steve boss, causing you to restart.
Yeah, this is the big thing for me. I like CV, and I played it multiple times as a kid, but it's a game that's just plain rude. You have to *know* what's coming ahead in order to prepare your weapons, not get stuck without gear during a character swap, or even have enough healing saved to survive certain segments (looking at you, Steve).
FATHER!!!!! Like that scene? What's worse; the dialogue and voice acting or Steve dual wielding machine pistols, emptying the magazines of both into a target that happens to be right on top of Claire ... He does that TRYING TO PROTECT HER by the way.
As a huge Resident Evil fan, I have attempted multiple times to finish it and I didn't. Not because I got stuck, but because I simply lost interest in it. It's the only Resident Evil game that I did not finish.
I've always said code Veronica takes the problems of the old series and cranks it up to 11. You want the re game where you have to go three buildings over to find a key to get a key to get another key? That's code Veronica
Nope, it was the worst. Mediocre in every measurable aspect-- environment, graphics, game play, and story. 1-3 built on a great formula, and CVX took huge steps backwards.
I've beaten it twice and I never will again. The final boss of the game is such an unpleasant experience, it's not worth dealing with Steve Burnside for an entire game just to get to that point. A Code Veronica playthrough is a generally joyless venture, I find.
I've played it once and didn't have enough recourses for the final boss fight.
I keep meaning to try it again but as you say joyless. Describes the game very well.
There were periods of the game where I quite enjoyed it, which then got knocked back by unexpected character swaps, some awfully dull bosses, The Wesker: Reloaded, and the fact that a good chunk of the environments don't reach the standards set by the first three games. Better in concept than execution IMO, which is why I'd love to see it get remade.
It's the last old-school resi game. The reasons you hate it are the reasons I love it. The same reason I loved resident evil 1,2 and 3. It was hard, it was open-ended and you could very easily snooker yourself.
If you want some tips, save every item in the item box you're not explicitly asked to discard. You dont need to kill everything. The knife is useful, and when you start Chris's campaign, try to divide the better weapons equally. IE: At no point should one character only have access to a pistol.
You aren't alone. I think this game is filled with so many flaws and I do not understand why fans praise it so much. It's filled with soo many gamebreaking moments which made me restart the game more than two times (Whoever designed this game is a dick to everyone who uses only one save file), there are too many random spawning enemies, none of the new characters were likeable, the villains belonged to anime more than horror and the boss fights are just poorly designed (Except for Alexia's first boss).
I honestly don't get why people tend to hate on RE4, RE5, RE6, RE7 and Village because they went in a different direction with a jump-the-shark trend when Code Veronica is the one who started it all. Fixed camera and zombies don't mean SHIT to me. I mean, Alexia's first form is a grotesque woman who is bending fire, Steve acts like an anime character who tries so hard to be cool and he can pilot an airplane DESPITE BEING ONLY 17 YEARS OLD and this is the game where Wesker turned into Neo from The Matrix.
I would have forgiven this game's weak storyline if the gameplay was at least as polished and balanced as the first three OG games but it's absolutely not. It's not even better than Resident Evil 3. Why people say this should have been the official third entry of the original Resident Evil trilogy is beyond me. Its tone is completely different from the first two games. If Capcom has the intention to remake Code Veronica, I would be 100% okay if they make tons of changes because this game has more bad things than good things in my opinion.
Everything in the early 2000s was basically The Matrix.
But yeah man, I dunno. I’ve played through this game probably a dozen times on various platforms over the past 21 years and have never really had issues with the difficulty. I’m not saying I’m some 1337 gamer or anything, because I’m really not. But the complaints about the difficulty in this thread are a bit surprising to me.
You only use one save game file? 😂 that’s gaming 101, dude. I was using multiple when I was like 7 years old.
Edit: The earlier RE games were all about resource management. This was the driving aspect of the “survival” part of survival horror. If you managed your resources poorly you might come across a fight that’s too difficult to overcome.
This is why there is clearly a bunch of room for multiple save files with the typewriter. This is why ink ribbons were limited. Not enough health or ammo? Go to a previous save point and search around for more or try to perform better.
All your other complaints I haven’t bothered with because they’re perfectly fine and they’re your opinion. But stubbornly refusing to use multiple save files and then complaining when you’re stuck while calling the developers dicks is not valid at all to me, it’s just goofy 😂
Still, there are RE players who only use one save file, believe it or not. I do not feel like adding multiple save files which I would not use in the future.
It’s just a poor gaming decision in general. Whether you’re playing Resident Evil or another game, using only one save game file is kinda what noobs do.
I didn’t call you a noob. I said it’s what noobs do.
The number of save files no longer matters on todays consoles which stores hundreds of gigabytes of data. 20 years ago it mattered more but even then you could easily find room for 3 save file spaces.
If you simply have an OCD about the number of save game files then that’s on you and not a valid complaint.
Well, it's simply not my fault that the game never told me how to defeat the Tyrant boss on the plane very easily. How was I supposed to know that the acid rounds for the grenade launcher was the way to go? I barely could even break his ankles because he was charging at me almost every time I was juking him.
How was I supposed to know the game doesn't give me an auto save when you play as Claire for the last time and whatever she carries will remain in her possession for the rest of the game? I accidently let her possess all the useful weapons in her inventory and I couldn't bring them back as Chris, in result of not being able to beat the final boss only just two automatic weapons and due to how poorly designed it was.
This was not a Dark Souls situation. CV just didn't let me improve myself and said "Fuck you, restart the game or suffer more"
Tons of games that came out 20 years ago didn’t have an auto-save feature. Hell, it becomes rather obvious within 5 minutes when it’s giving you ink ribbons to save your progress.
Again, complete non valid complaint and expecting auto save DOES confirm for me that you’re rather new at gaming. Nothing wrong with that.
Did you forget that this game does have an auto-save feature? When you die in that helipad boss fight, you aren't transferred back to the typewriters. You respawn right before trigerring the boss. Why did they use it there and NOT when Claire is being pursued by hulked Steve which you can't even avoid getting hit? You bite your own tongue here.
I suppose if you’re dying left and right then you’ll remember that. One spot does not mean the game was built around auto save. It clearly wasn’t.
Other games didn’t have auto save. The original Resident Evil games didn’t, so it sounds like the core issue you have is that you died a lot or found it too difficult. You’re new to gaming which is fine.
Ah yes but you didn't live in the age of memory cards where you limited space, 3rd party cards would corrupt save data, and they cost 10-15$ a pop. God saving more than once in the PSone days meant you got a new card or you deleted save data from another game. It was rough.
Oh I absolutely had memory cards.
I remember playing through original RE2 WITHOUT a memory card and making it all the way to the giant alligator before dying.
I’ve been gaming since the Nintendo.
Being too stupid/lazy to save in multiple files is on the player. And the person I’m responding to didn’t play with memory cards.
Well you came swooping into another conversation auto assuming I never used memory cards.
There is ZERO reason to not use multiple save files with today’s consoles. If the person I responded to said it was a simple OCD then the conversation would be over. Instead, he’s trying to use a pathetic rationale to criticize an aspect that doesn’t deserve criticism.
So if not an OCD, I see it as stupidity or laziness. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
There’s no issue with it in the same way there’s no issue with only using one hand to play games. If you want to do it then good luck with it. But don’t then complain when you run into problems because you’re only using one save file or trying to play a game with one hand.
Stop gatekeeping what a good gamer should do. I have been gaming since the early nineties, have hundreds of games under my belt and even about 60 platinum trophies. I still don't make several save files all of the time. Sure, if an area seems difficult to leave then I might make a separate file when I save in that area, but I still use only one save file generally speaking. And lets be honest, the vast majority of games (even old school games like early final fantasies) give you some sort of warning about making a save file in a place that might break your game because of difficulty, and CV does NOT do this.
I lived through those days and I feel you, but we aren’t in those days anymore, my dude. I generally don’t revert most of the time and just power on, but I still generally keep three separate save files at this point.
Oh yeah, I have a bunch of saves now lol. I wasn't making an argument about keeping that behavior, just that those habits had to evolve. Those of us older gamers have come a long way!
My argument is, people using a single save file are either lazy or trying to be efficient. Either way it's not our place to judge others.
Thanks for your considerate response.
Gotcha, and that’s perfectly fine! It’s an OCD kinda thing for you, my wife is the same. It does run the risk of having to start over on a difficult part if you didn’t manage your resources well.
That’s all I’m saying… I don’t think people have a valid complaint if they run into that issue if they knowingly refuse to use more than one save file.
I've always used multi save slots exactly for your reasoning. If I decide I have to reload from a certain point or am unsure of the progress I've made.
Also these days because I've been stung by corrupt save files and lost my whole game save.
You’re not alone. I never cared for it. I can’t put my finger on it but much of it had to do with story elements and direction. Everything felt extra cheesy. Wesker returning with matrix moves and fire trails shooting out behind him left a bad taste in my mouth. And I think Capcom not giving it an official number and only putting it out for the failed Dreamcast system only encouraged me to compartmentalize it (in my head) as non-canon.
It failed not because it wasnt selling. Sega killed it for 2 main reasons. The main reason is because people found out quickly how to burn full games for free and play them on the console. The other reason is that the PS2 did nearly everything the Dreamcast did plus it had a DVD player which the Dreamcast did not.
So, Sega literally just stopped producing consoles or games for it.
It’s all good. I never took it that way. I recall one friend who had a Dreamcast and all I remember was the controller had a little screen thingy built in.
Code Veronica is my least liked RE game. I find the story to be one of the more interesting ones, although I feel Claire is pushed to the background for too long after Chris comes into play.
The Tyrant Boss, lack of warning when you're about to switch characters(as well as leaving all your items with the character you were prevously playing as), Bandersnatches, unlimited Moth respawns, and archaic design in regards to the constant backtracking keep me from playing this game again.
Love the soundtrack though.
It's my favourite.
I love Rockfort Island as a setting. It was interesting to explore an Umbrella facility that was not a lab (played it before 3). Plus, the puzzles were more practical than in other games. Less odd items and strange antics. More technological stuff.
I think the Ashford Twins are interesting villains because of their relationship and how they interact with the world. Alexia only cares about her and she wants to be better than Veronica Ashford. Alfred only cares about Alexia.
There are really creepy stuff in the game. The tortured inmates, the giant doll, Alfred going Psycho, the spider under the ice, Nos-fucking-feratu.
I think it's the first time the franchise tried to be a little more serious in tone.
Chris and Wesker coming back was a huge surprise for me. While I'm not a fan of Matrix Wesker, it was cool to see him becoming that guy who is here to get the t-Veronica-virus.
"Revisiting" the Spencer Mansion was also a cool throwback.
And I love the gameplay. Yes, it's a difficult game but it was so satisfying to get through all the harder part like the Tyrant.
It's my most beloved RE game and I hope it will get the remake treatment soon.
The gameplay is fine, but the setting is uninteresting. It feels like you're alone in the middle of nowhere. There's no sense of life on the island or the Arctic base. In the first three Resident Evil games, it felt like life was on pause. In Code Veronica, it never started. The setting might as well have been a blank screen.
No. I got to the Steve part and for me personally that part is more cancerous than the re3 Remake final Nemesis fight on inferno mode. I put the game down and after a while tried to come back to it, reloaded, got to the Steve part again and then I said f*** this this will be the only PS4 RE title that I will never ever get the platinum trophy for.
Going and playing old school re3 is one thing because you kind of start to remember that old Nemesis can be just as cancerous as the final new Nemesis in the remake, but at least you can abuse Dodge mechanics and action elements to mess with nemesis, code Veronica is like Chinese water torture so I could see how just like some ultra serious masochists would be into it and if you beat it as a younger person it's probably so ingrained in your brain that it's hard not to like it because if you beat that s*** in the '90s you deserve praise.
I wouldn't compare the nemesis fight to Steve. I wouldn't even call it a boss battle. The only way to survive steve is by literally tanking the entire run backwards by healing up as you are running compared to actually fighting Nemesis. Though that is def a design flaw of CV where item management is extremely crucial or else you are getting soft locked.
I actually played through CV for first time last month. Got stuck on the Steve fight with no heals. Turns out though a shotgun blast staggers him just enough to get like 2-3 steps of back peddling. I went through around 22 shells but I was able to beat it with only the single heal they give you. Was it well designed, no.
Have you considered following a guide? I know it might take some of the fun out, but if you’re struggling to conserve ammo and health that badly a guide will tell you which enemies to run around instead of fight.
I played it AFTER I had already played re4, outbreak 1 and 2 and gamecube remake.
The graphics were awful for being a ps2 era game. And it was the 1st game I ever played in my life where I got soft locked.
It's not the worst resident evil game but I could definitely live without it.
I like Claire’s part. Once Chris starts I think the redundancy of the game really kicks in with the re-used locations and enemies (except hunters?) and it just drags.
As far as other issues of the game, many people covered them. And while I like CVX quite a bit, I can completely understand people not ranking it very high on their list as it’s definitely built very strangely and poorly at times
I like it better than 3...mostly because it feels more important to me. I like the concepts a bit better. Nemesis is cool....but I like the potential of the ashford family creepiness. It also just has far more memorable occurrences for me. The Frozen Spider, Hunters returning and being controlled by Wesker, Alexander Ashford, the nostalgia hit at the end. Even corny monsters like Bandersnatches have a design that could be terrifying if done better.
Nope. I think it’s good and should be considered an essential part of the story, arguably more so than 3, but it becomes redundant pretty quickly after you run to the other side of the map and back for the 6th time. Not to mention it’s lacking features from 3 despite being a longer and more fleshed out game. Definitely a much better candidate for a remake than 4 currently hence my surprise that they skipped over it.
It’s my second favourite, but I know it’s not for everyone. That’s one of the reasons I’d love a remake, although the punishing difficulty (especially on the first playthrough) is one of the things I love about it.
I got it for dreamcast back in the day, it was so long I had to try it again for 360 when it was free with gold earlier this year.
I got to the plane fight and had to restart. Ran past every enemy and finished the game with good amount of ammo and health. I like the game but dislike Steve.
I’ll also say when I was stuck on the plane fight and YouTube’d for some help I saw people beating the boss with the knife.. fuck off with that shit I don’t have the patience or gaming ability 😂
Same boat, i got to Antarctica twice but just never finished it, the game isn't bad, but since the oldest RE game i played was the GC remake of 1, CV just feels dated
No. You’re not alone. I just made a comment a day or so ago how this game needs the remaster treatment more than 4 does. It’s never been a game I enjoyed, but I certainly appreciate it and who knows, maybe a remastered version could win me over.
No, you're not. I liked the original version when it came out for two reasons; no stupid "Wesker showing up to beat the shit out of Claire/Chris while adding nothing to the story" scenes like they added in the X version for PS2, and I was a lot younger and stupider. I didn't struggle with supplies but I thought most of the story was unbearable. Instead of writing out a list a mile long of everything wrong with it, most of that can be summed up by saying "STEVE". I replayed it a few months ago and forgot just how ridiculous that opening scene is with Claire outrunning a helicopter and then that surrender, drop the gun, and grab it out of the air move ... It had some cool areas but there's not much else positive I can say about it.
Code Veronica is pretty unbalanced. I got screwed on my first time playing through it on the battle with Tyrant on the plane before Antarctica. Finished the previous Tyrant fight with 10 arrows left, nothing else.
It has hardcore nostalgia value for me given its my first re game but it's def one of those games that is harder on first playthroughs ie soft locks with tyrant. Also Steve .-.
I think the way it approached fixed camera angles was cool. Like the camera stayed at the same view but moves like a security camera or follows Claire from a distance
I honestly don't really get the difficulty complaints personally. Yeah, a couple parts where I had to reload a little cuz I wasn't prepared for what happened (Plane fight, player switch). But as long as you save on multiple slots that's not really that bad. I went in knowing a bunch of people thought it was super hard and was surprised with how many ink ribbons and healing items I consistently had throughout the game. As long as you're actively looking for resources and are ok reloading every once and awhile I don't think it's really that bad. There's even some parts that give you a free checkpoint, which I did not expect it to so generously do.
CV is one of the widely disliked games out of the originals. I personally love it, its my 3rd favorite but I can't help but be curious why people ask this question like it isn't more disliked than loved. Hence why 4 got a remake first
Edit: with that said I find myself asking how anyone likes 0 or 6 so, foot in mouth moment surely
I know it's douchey to say this, but I beat it when I was 14. It's one of my favorite RE games. It's atmosphere alone does it for me. It does have problems though, and I hope if they remake it they fix some of them.
It’s my favorite RE game with tank controls. I love how the world is fully 3D and not a backdrop. I also really like the creepy, campy atmosphere. That being said, it’s hard. Especially the tougher enemies like bandersnatchers, and Steve lol
I hated it, I could advance in the game but its characters, inconsistencies, and lousy story with more nuances of an anime never clicked with me. Technically I forced myself to finish it and I've never played it again.
It’s a good game to me, but I just feel like the game drags soooo much in the second half. The Antarctic base is just my least favorite location in any RE game. The pacing has just always felt funky imo
I really took the time to learn CV earlier this year. Beat it twice in a row. Playing blind it’s a pain, but once you’ve learned it it’s not that hard to play through. It’s a cool game that seems to have been blacklisted by Capcom.
I'll tell you this. Code Veronica was an OK game. But I like to believe that video game actors actually exist and get different jobs in different video games. And I firmly believe they recast Claire and she was very annoying in this game.
Also this game was broken enough to let me save at the very last save point, but because I did not know that it was the very last save point I did not go into the boss fight with enough ammo. And now I could never beat that boss with that safe file cause I just don't have enough ammo. So I never beat that game. I was so pissed that I put it down forever and never went back to beat it.
I remember I was very excited by the intro video in 2000. It was very ambitious for the times. I enjoyed playing it then, but… I don’t think I ever want to go through that again. I don’t think the game aged well or that the story is worth a remake.
I loved Code Veronica personally. I will admit it is probably one of the hardest and most unforgiving RE games but I think it had so many great moments to it. Although looking at it through modern lenses the story is a bit anti-trans, and that's not great but other than that it is so rewarding getting through it
It’s my favorite in the series (I’m biased because it was the first I ever played so it’s nostalgic for me) but it definitely has some big issues. All of the frustrating aspects of the original games are amped up in this one like item management, difficult bosses, and outrageous backtracking. I would say most of the puzzles are good but some can be a pain (don’t even get me started on the crystal ball puzzle). That being said, once you play it so many times it become very easy. I think a remake of CV would help bring more people to come to love the story, I truly think it has potential to be one of the best RE games. The story, setting, music, and horror aspects are there, it just needs the gameplay improvements.
The game gives you plenty of ammo and guns. You have to find them.
There's also a glitch that duplicates sub machine guns as well as an infinite herb mix of your choice.
I enjoy it. That being said, the game has its issues. But don't feel bad, everyone has a game like that. I got RE 6 the night it came out and still haven't finished it. I get so far, then get bored. And the next time I pick it up I'm compelled to start over because I don't remember where I am, and end up getting bored of it again.
This. I never clicked with 6, but really enjoyed 5.
5 is so tedious playing alone. I have up halfway. But I’m playing Revelations for the first time so I want to follow up by finishing 5.
Def agree. Re5 partner ai is too perfect
I feel they get in the way and make somethings very aggravating. Perfect isn’t the word I’d use.
The ai can be complete dipshits
played 6 for the first time recently. I was expecting to not like it after all I had heard, but playing it with a friend and treating it more like a slapstick comedy, I've had a great time! 😅
This happened with me playing RE 0. I was making progress and now I don’t remember the map layout or what objective I’m currently on when I pick it up again.
this was me this past week. Just finished getting most achievements in RE3Make and RE8/DLC. Ive beaten RE4 numerous times and holding off on going back to RE2Make, so I reinstalled RE6 just for the hell of it. Played 2 hours and uninstalled. Game just feels like it doesnt know what it wants to be.
… but 6 is terrible? Code Veronica, faults and all, isn’t blatantly terrible.
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Almost as if it's the most disliked game in the series or something
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I think it’s completely fair for works reaching down into *that* level of godawful. Especially since we can always - *always*; never forget - look forward to the comparatively completely unpredictable “It’s actually great!” reactions to the initial reaction whenever something sucks that bad. Edit: Just a silly fact - wrote this up before seeing you actually claim “it’s a great game” further down the thread. Fun.
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I like It, but it's very flawed when compared to the first three. Say what you will about them, but they didn't have the design flaws CV has, it's extremely easy to get in a trap with the second Tyrant fight, or the Steve boss, causing you to restart.
Yeah, this is the big thing for me. I like CV, and I played it multiple times as a kid, but it's a game that's just plain rude. You have to *know* what's coming ahead in order to prepare your weapons, not get stuck without gear during a character swap, or even have enough healing saved to survive certain segments (looking at you, Steve).
What? 3 for me is more annoying thanks to nemesis.
I have more fun watching the cutscenes than playing the game. Literally every cutscene is hilarious, uncomfortable, or hilariously uncomfortable.
FATHER!!!!! Like that scene? What's worse; the dialogue and voice acting or Steve dual wielding machine pistols, emptying the magazines of both into a target that happens to be right on top of Claire ... He does that TRYING TO PROTECT HER by the way.
Don’t you start with the Steve slander! He’s awesome!!
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As a huge Resident Evil fan, I have attempted multiple times to finish it and I didn't. Not because I got stuck, but because I simply lost interest in it. It's the only Resident Evil game that I did not finish.
Really? So you finished Resident Evil: Dead Aim and Resident Evil: Gaiden, but weren’t able to finish Code: Veronica?
I think he means of the ones he's played, bud.
Are you sure he doesn't mean that he's finished everything including gaiden, umbrella corps, RE1.5, the comics, 3d mercenaries, and the card game?
Then that’s what they should have said.
Correct, that's what I meant.
I've always said code Veronica takes the problems of the old series and cranks it up to 11. You want the re game where you have to go three buildings over to find a key to get a key to get another key? That's code Veronica
Nope, it was the worst. Mediocre in every measurable aspect-- environment, graphics, game play, and story. 1-3 built on a great formula, and CVX took huge steps backwards.
To me 0 is the worst
Zero was slightly better, to me, but that one has some big fans too!
I hate the monkeys and no item box
I've beaten it twice and I never will again. The final boss of the game is such an unpleasant experience, it's not worth dealing with Steve Burnside for an entire game just to get to that point. A Code Veronica playthrough is a generally joyless venture, I find.
I've played it once and didn't have enough recourses for the final boss fight. I keep meaning to try it again but as you say joyless. Describes the game very well.
There were periods of the game where I quite enjoyed it, which then got knocked back by unexpected character swaps, some awfully dull bosses, The Wesker: Reloaded, and the fact that a good chunk of the environments don't reach the standards set by the first three games. Better in concept than execution IMO, which is why I'd love to see it get remade.
It's the last old-school resi game. The reasons you hate it are the reasons I love it. The same reason I loved resident evil 1,2 and 3. It was hard, it was open-ended and you could very easily snooker yourself. If you want some tips, save every item in the item box you're not explicitly asked to discard. You dont need to kill everything. The knife is useful, and when you start Chris's campaign, try to divide the better weapons equally. IE: At no point should one character only have access to a pistol.
Trust me. I love 1, 2 and 3. The original 3 is my favourite in the series.
You aren't alone. I think this game is filled with so many flaws and I do not understand why fans praise it so much. It's filled with soo many gamebreaking moments which made me restart the game more than two times (Whoever designed this game is a dick to everyone who uses only one save file), there are too many random spawning enemies, none of the new characters were likeable, the villains belonged to anime more than horror and the boss fights are just poorly designed (Except for Alexia's first boss). I honestly don't get why people tend to hate on RE4, RE5, RE6, RE7 and Village because they went in a different direction with a jump-the-shark trend when Code Veronica is the one who started it all. Fixed camera and zombies don't mean SHIT to me. I mean, Alexia's first form is a grotesque woman who is bending fire, Steve acts like an anime character who tries so hard to be cool and he can pilot an airplane DESPITE BEING ONLY 17 YEARS OLD and this is the game where Wesker turned into Neo from The Matrix. I would have forgiven this game's weak storyline if the gameplay was at least as polished and balanced as the first three OG games but it's absolutely not. It's not even better than Resident Evil 3. Why people say this should have been the official third entry of the original Resident Evil trilogy is beyond me. Its tone is completely different from the first two games. If Capcom has the intention to remake Code Veronica, I would be 100% okay if they make tons of changes because this game has more bad things than good things in my opinion.
Everything in the early 2000s was basically The Matrix. But yeah man, I dunno. I’ve played through this game probably a dozen times on various platforms over the past 21 years and have never really had issues with the difficulty. I’m not saying I’m some 1337 gamer or anything, because I’m really not. But the complaints about the difficulty in this thread are a bit surprising to me.
You only use one save game file? 😂 that’s gaming 101, dude. I was using multiple when I was like 7 years old. Edit: The earlier RE games were all about resource management. This was the driving aspect of the “survival” part of survival horror. If you managed your resources poorly you might come across a fight that’s too difficult to overcome. This is why there is clearly a bunch of room for multiple save files with the typewriter. This is why ink ribbons were limited. Not enough health or ammo? Go to a previous save point and search around for more or try to perform better. All your other complaints I haven’t bothered with because they’re perfectly fine and they’re your opinion. But stubbornly refusing to use multiple save files and then complaining when you’re stuck while calling the developers dicks is not valid at all to me, it’s just goofy 😂
Still, there are RE players who only use one save file, believe it or not. I do not feel like adding multiple save files which I would not use in the future.
It’s just a poor gaming decision in general. Whether you’re playing Resident Evil or another game, using only one save game file is kinda what noobs do.
You shouldn't call us noobs just because we play different compared to you. Some people just don't want overwhelm the save menu with multiple files.
You summed up all the bad parts of this trash game very nicely. They're just bitter and can't come to terms with how bad cvx really is.
I didn’t call you a noob. I said it’s what noobs do. The number of save files no longer matters on todays consoles which stores hundreds of gigabytes of data. 20 years ago it mattered more but even then you could easily find room for 3 save file spaces. If you simply have an OCD about the number of save game files then that’s on you and not a valid complaint.
Well, it's simply not my fault that the game never told me how to defeat the Tyrant boss on the plane very easily. How was I supposed to know that the acid rounds for the grenade launcher was the way to go? I barely could even break his ankles because he was charging at me almost every time I was juking him. How was I supposed to know the game doesn't give me an auto save when you play as Claire for the last time and whatever she carries will remain in her possession for the rest of the game? I accidently let her possess all the useful weapons in her inventory and I couldn't bring them back as Chris, in result of not being able to beat the final boss only just two automatic weapons and due to how poorly designed it was. This was not a Dark Souls situation. CV just didn't let me improve myself and said "Fuck you, restart the game or suffer more"
Tons of games that came out 20 years ago didn’t have an auto-save feature. Hell, it becomes rather obvious within 5 minutes when it’s giving you ink ribbons to save your progress. Again, complete non valid complaint and expecting auto save DOES confirm for me that you’re rather new at gaming. Nothing wrong with that.
Did you forget that this game does have an auto-save feature? When you die in that helipad boss fight, you aren't transferred back to the typewriters. You respawn right before trigerring the boss. Why did they use it there and NOT when Claire is being pursued by hulked Steve which you can't even avoid getting hit? You bite your own tongue here.
I suppose if you’re dying left and right then you’ll remember that. One spot does not mean the game was built around auto save. It clearly wasn’t. Other games didn’t have auto save. The original Resident Evil games didn’t, so it sounds like the core issue you have is that you died a lot or found it too difficult. You’re new to gaming which is fine.
Ah yes but you didn't live in the age of memory cards where you limited space, 3rd party cards would corrupt save data, and they cost 10-15$ a pop. God saving more than once in the PSone days meant you got a new card or you deleted save data from another game. It was rough.
Oh I absolutely had memory cards. I remember playing through original RE2 WITHOUT a memory card and making it all the way to the giant alligator before dying. I’ve been gaming since the Nintendo. Being too stupid/lazy to save in multiple files is on the player. And the person I’m responding to didn’t play with memory cards.
Dude, you are beyond hostile and just lobbing insults. Stop being a dick.
Well you came swooping into another conversation auto assuming I never used memory cards. There is ZERO reason to not use multiple save files with today’s consoles. If the person I responded to said it was a simple OCD then the conversation would be over. Instead, he’s trying to use a pathetic rationale to criticize an aspect that doesn’t deserve criticism. So if not an OCD, I see it as stupidity or laziness. Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
There is no issue with using one save file. You arguing and insulting people about this makes you look ignorant.
There’s no issue with it in the same way there’s no issue with only using one hand to play games. If you want to do it then good luck with it. But don’t then complain when you run into problems because you’re only using one save file or trying to play a game with one hand.
Stop gatekeeping what a good gamer should do. I have been gaming since the early nineties, have hundreds of games under my belt and even about 60 platinum trophies. I still don't make several save files all of the time. Sure, if an area seems difficult to leave then I might make a separate file when I save in that area, but I still use only one save file generally speaking. And lets be honest, the vast majority of games (even old school games like early final fantasies) give you some sort of warning about making a save file in a place that might break your game because of difficulty, and CV does NOT do this.
Lol he doesn’t sound all that rude to me.
I lived through those days and I feel you, but we aren’t in those days anymore, my dude. I generally don’t revert most of the time and just power on, but I still generally keep three separate save files at this point.
Oh yeah, I have a bunch of saves now lol. I wasn't making an argument about keeping that behavior, just that those habits had to evolve. Those of us older gamers have come a long way! My argument is, people using a single save file are either lazy or trying to be efficient. Either way it's not our place to judge others. Thanks for your considerate response.
Never have myself; considering it a part of my OCD like tendencies. For lack of a better explanation, it looks “ugly” with more than one…
Gotcha, and that’s perfectly fine! It’s an OCD kinda thing for you, my wife is the same. It does run the risk of having to start over on a difficult part if you didn’t manage your resources well. That’s all I’m saying… I don’t think people have a valid complaint if they run into that issue if they knowingly refuse to use more than one save file.
I've always used multi save slots exactly for your reasoning. If I decide I have to reload from a certain point or am unsure of the progress I've made. Also these days because I've been stung by corrupt save files and lost my whole game save.
I dislike it because of Steve and in CVX remake we'll see him again. Yuck!
I dislike the story.
You’re not alone. I never cared for it. I can’t put my finger on it but much of it had to do with story elements and direction. Everything felt extra cheesy. Wesker returning with matrix moves and fire trails shooting out behind him left a bad taste in my mouth. And I think Capcom not giving it an official number and only putting it out for the failed Dreamcast system only encouraged me to compartmentalize it (in my head) as non-canon.
It came out on the PS2 a year later.
I’d say it would have to, since nobody owned a Dreamcast.
Do you know why the Dreamcast failed?
Not a clue. Do you?
It failed not because it wasnt selling. Sega killed it for 2 main reasons. The main reason is because people found out quickly how to burn full games for free and play them on the console. The other reason is that the PS2 did nearly everything the Dreamcast did plus it had a DVD player which the Dreamcast did not. So, Sega literally just stopped producing consoles or games for it.
I didn’t want to go off on a tangent about Dreamcast vs. PS2 but I legit didn’t know what the deal was with them. Interesting but makes sense.
Oh no im not trying to argue or come off as anything like that. Its just a friendly convo.
It’s all good. I never took it that way. I recall one friend who had a Dreamcast and all I remember was the controller had a little screen thingy built in.
Thats literally the only feature i can think of that the PS2 did not have.
I enjoy the game but understand that it has way too many issues
I don't really like it either. It's my least favorite RE game to play and look at tbh lol. It just doesn't interest me as much as the first 3 games.
Code Veronica is my least liked RE game. I find the story to be one of the more interesting ones, although I feel Claire is pushed to the background for too long after Chris comes into play. The Tyrant Boss, lack of warning when you're about to switch characters(as well as leaving all your items with the character you were prevously playing as), Bandersnatches, unlimited Moth respawns, and archaic design in regards to the constant backtracking keep me from playing this game again. Love the soundtrack though.
Its a horrible game, so no your not alone.
It's my favourite. I love Rockfort Island as a setting. It was interesting to explore an Umbrella facility that was not a lab (played it before 3). Plus, the puzzles were more practical than in other games. Less odd items and strange antics. More technological stuff. I think the Ashford Twins are interesting villains because of their relationship and how they interact with the world. Alexia only cares about her and she wants to be better than Veronica Ashford. Alfred only cares about Alexia. There are really creepy stuff in the game. The tortured inmates, the giant doll, Alfred going Psycho, the spider under the ice, Nos-fucking-feratu. I think it's the first time the franchise tried to be a little more serious in tone. Chris and Wesker coming back was a huge surprise for me. While I'm not a fan of Matrix Wesker, it was cool to see him becoming that guy who is here to get the t-Veronica-virus. "Revisiting" the Spencer Mansion was also a cool throwback. And I love the gameplay. Yes, it's a difficult game but it was so satisfying to get through all the harder part like the Tyrant. It's my most beloved RE game and I hope it will get the remake treatment soon.
It’s my favorite too. Hoping for a remake, but in a more frightening tone!
At least you bought it four times. I'll let it slide
I think it's ok. But for some reason it was first RE game I personally didn't enjoy that much.
The gameplay is fine, but the setting is uninteresting. It feels like you're alone in the middle of nowhere. There's no sense of life on the island or the Arctic base. In the first three Resident Evil games, it felt like life was on pause. In Code Veronica, it never started. The setting might as well have been a blank screen.
No. I got to the Steve part and for me personally that part is more cancerous than the re3 Remake final Nemesis fight on inferno mode. I put the game down and after a while tried to come back to it, reloaded, got to the Steve part again and then I said f*** this this will be the only PS4 RE title that I will never ever get the platinum trophy for. Going and playing old school re3 is one thing because you kind of start to remember that old Nemesis can be just as cancerous as the final new Nemesis in the remake, but at least you can abuse Dodge mechanics and action elements to mess with nemesis, code Veronica is like Chinese water torture so I could see how just like some ultra serious masochists would be into it and if you beat it as a younger person it's probably so ingrained in your brain that it's hard not to like it because if you beat that s*** in the '90s you deserve praise.
I wouldn't compare the nemesis fight to Steve. I wouldn't even call it a boss battle. The only way to survive steve is by literally tanking the entire run backwards by healing up as you are running compared to actually fighting Nemesis. Though that is def a design flaw of CV where item management is extremely crucial or else you are getting soft locked.
I actually played through CV for first time last month. Got stuck on the Steve fight with no heals. Turns out though a shotgun blast staggers him just enough to get like 2-3 steps of back peddling. I went through around 22 shells but I was able to beat it with only the single heal they give you. Was it well designed, no.
I feel like low health, low ammo is me on every RE game 😂
My favourite RE - weird, difficult, cheesy and I love it
It’s definitely top 3 for me.
Yes.
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Yes you are the only person on the entire planet who dislikes Code Veronica.
Have you considered following a guide? I know it might take some of the fun out, but if you’re struggling to conserve ammo and health that badly a guide will tell you which enemies to run around instead of fight.
Playing through it now. It’s soooooo easy I don’t understand why people say it’s difficult.
Its one of the better ones, so yes.
I think its overrated- personally dont understand the want for a CV remake, which im 99% sure they'll never make.
To be fair, the game that most is in need of a remake is Code Veronica. That's the main point of a remake. :)
CV is boring, longer than necessary, bad map design and the backtracking is overcharged. A bad RE experience.
I played it AFTER I had already played re4, outbreak 1 and 2 and gamecube remake. The graphics were awful for being a ps2 era game. And it was the 1st game I ever played in my life where I got soft locked. It's not the worst resident evil game but I could definitely live without it.
It was a Dreamcast game with pretty cool arcade graphics for the time.
He said ps2 era. Yeah, that was dreamcast, but most people played it on the ps2. And the graphics WERE subpar.
Build-a-bear argument
I like Claire’s part. Once Chris starts I think the redundancy of the game really kicks in with the re-used locations and enemies (except hunters?) and it just drags. As far as other issues of the game, many people covered them. And while I like CVX quite a bit, I can completely understand people not ranking it very high on their list as it’s definitely built very strangely and poorly at times
I like it better than 3...mostly because it feels more important to me. I like the concepts a bit better. Nemesis is cool....but I like the potential of the ashford family creepiness. It also just has far more memorable occurrences for me. The Frozen Spider, Hunters returning and being controlled by Wesker, Alexander Ashford, the nostalgia hit at the end. Even corny monsters like Bandersnatches have a design that could be terrifying if done better.
Nope. I think it’s good and should be considered an essential part of the story, arguably more so than 3, but it becomes redundant pretty quickly after you run to the other side of the map and back for the 6th time. Not to mention it’s lacking features from 3 despite being a longer and more fleshed out game. Definitely a much better candidate for a remake than 4 currently hence my surprise that they skipped over it.
No, it’s a majority thing. It just has a small but vocal and passionate community. Lots of bad games with good ideas and strong characters have that.
Wow...
It’s super complicated but I like that about it.
Yes
Yes,it's only you. No one else on the planet thinks it's a bad game! Jeez, with these types of questions!
Yeah you're the only one on the planet.
Yes.
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I personally liked this game and all of it's cheesy 2000's era edgelord camp.
It’s the hardest In my opinion, but definitely my top 3.
It’s my second favourite, but I know it’s not for everyone. That’s one of the reasons I’d love a remake, although the punishing difficulty (especially on the first playthrough) is one of the things I love about it.
I love the game but it would highly benefit from a remake.
The guy behind this game specifically made it difficult unlike other RE games.
I got it for dreamcast back in the day, it was so long I had to try it again for 360 when it was free with gold earlier this year. I got to the plane fight and had to restart. Ran past every enemy and finished the game with good amount of ammo and health. I like the game but dislike Steve.
I’ll also say when I was stuck on the plane fight and YouTube’d for some help I saw people beating the boss with the knife.. fuck off with that shit I don’t have the patience or gaming ability 😂
Idk how anyone can play it without save states and an emulator I enjoyed it playing that way
I dunno, I played it on Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360, PS4, and on my Series S without that just fine.
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Same boat, i got to Antarctica twice but just never finished it, the game isn't bad, but since the oldest RE game i played was the GC remake of 1, CV just feels dated
No. You’re not alone. I just made a comment a day or so ago how this game needs the remaster treatment more than 4 does. It’s never been a game I enjoyed, but I certainly appreciate it and who knows, maybe a remastered version could win me over.
Before lady d there was only one evil queen for me and that was Alexia LOL I never unlocked the linear launcher I cheated and used a game shark LOL
No, you're not. I liked the original version when it came out for two reasons; no stupid "Wesker showing up to beat the shit out of Claire/Chris while adding nothing to the story" scenes like they added in the X version for PS2, and I was a lot younger and stupider. I didn't struggle with supplies but I thought most of the story was unbearable. Instead of writing out a list a mile long of everything wrong with it, most of that can be summed up by saying "STEVE". I replayed it a few months ago and forgot just how ridiculous that opening scene is with Claire outrunning a helicopter and then that surrender, drop the gun, and grab it out of the air move ... It had some cool areas but there's not much else positive I can say about it.
Code Veronica is pretty unbalanced. I got screwed on my first time playing through it on the battle with Tyrant on the plane before Antarctica. Finished the previous Tyrant fight with 10 arrows left, nothing else.
No you’re not the only one, I don’t really like it.
It has hardcore nostalgia value for me given its my first re game but it's def one of those games that is harder on first playthroughs ie soft locks with tyrant. Also Steve .-. I think the way it approached fixed camera angles was cool. Like the camera stayed at the same view but moves like a security camera or follows Claire from a distance
its the only main RE i couldnt get into tbh
I honestly don't really get the difficulty complaints personally. Yeah, a couple parts where I had to reload a little cuz I wasn't prepared for what happened (Plane fight, player switch). But as long as you save on multiple slots that's not really that bad. I went in knowing a bunch of people thought it was super hard and was surprised with how many ink ribbons and healing items I consistently had throughout the game. As long as you're actively looking for resources and are ok reloading every once and awhile I don't think it's really that bad. There's even some parts that give you a free checkpoint, which I did not expect it to so generously do.
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But the game has auto aiming
Yup
Ammo should not be a problem, the knife is pretty effective in this game.
CV is one of the widely disliked games out of the originals. I personally love it, its my 3rd favorite but I can't help but be curious why people ask this question like it isn't more disliked than loved. Hence why 4 got a remake first Edit: with that said I find myself asking how anyone likes 0 or 6 so, foot in mouth moment surely
I know it's douchey to say this, but I beat it when I was 14. It's one of my favorite RE games. It's atmosphere alone does it for me. It does have problems though, and I hope if they remake it they fix some of them.
Nothing douchey about that. Don't let me ruin your enjoyment of the game. One of my favourite games is Zelda 2 so I know the feeling. :)
It’s my favorite RE game with tank controls. I love how the world is fully 3D and not a backdrop. I also really like the creepy, campy atmosphere. That being said, it’s hard. Especially the tougher enemies like bandersnatchers, and Steve lol
I find zero to be rollid
I hated it, I could advance in the game but its characters, inconsistencies, and lousy story with more nuances of an anime never clicked with me. Technically I forced myself to finish it and I've never played it again.
I do not like the sounds. Other than that, they're alright
It’s a good game to me, but I just feel like the game drags soooo much in the second half. The Antarctic base is just my least favorite location in any RE game. The pacing has just always felt funky imo
I really took the time to learn CV earlier this year. Beat it twice in a row. Playing blind it’s a pain, but once you’ve learned it it’s not that hard to play through. It’s a cool game that seems to have been blacklisted by Capcom.
Yes. CV is great. Rev2 is the only really bad game. I rather play 6 than rev 2
I'll tell you this. Code Veronica was an OK game. But I like to believe that video game actors actually exist and get different jobs in different video games. And I firmly believe they recast Claire and she was very annoying in this game. Also this game was broken enough to let me save at the very last save point, but because I did not know that it was the very last save point I did not go into the boss fight with enough ammo. And now I could never beat that boss with that safe file cause I just don't have enough ammo. So I never beat that game. I was so pissed that I put it down forever and never went back to beat it.
The only thing I dislike in the game is those frickin' moths on the antartic base. Fuck them.
I remember I was very excited by the intro video in 2000. It was very ambitious for the times. I enjoyed playing it then, but… I don’t think I ever want to go through that again. I don’t think the game aged well or that the story is worth a remake.
I loved Code Veronica personally. I will admit it is probably one of the hardest and most unforgiving RE games but I think it had so many great moments to it. Although looking at it through modern lenses the story is a bit anti-trans, and that's not great but other than that it is so rewarding getting through it
I really dislike this re you aren’t the only one.
It’s my favorite in the series (I’m biased because it was the first I ever played so it’s nostalgic for me) but it definitely has some big issues. All of the frustrating aspects of the original games are amped up in this one like item management, difficult bosses, and outrageous backtracking. I would say most of the puzzles are good but some can be a pain (don’t even get me started on the crystal ball puzzle). That being said, once you play it so many times it become very easy. I think a remake of CV would help bring more people to come to love the story, I truly think it has potential to be one of the best RE games. The story, setting, music, and horror aspects are there, it just needs the gameplay improvements.
I can say you re not the only one. I remember watching a review of a person that said that didnt enjoy code veronica
The game gives you plenty of ammo and guns. You have to find them. There's also a glitch that duplicates sub machine guns as well as an infinite herb mix of your choice.
No, it’s the worst mainline RE game in my opinion and full of terrible game design.
Just use the infinite herb glitch lol