A Thorough Look At Resident Evil
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- This is a video retrospective and critique of 18 different Resident Evil games and their DLCs, covering a span of twenty five years of game development. It tries to track the peaks and valleys of their triumphs and disappointments, through mainline and spinoff titles both. Full spoilers throughout.
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Intro-- 00:00
Resident Evil 1-- 03:52
Resident Evil 2-- 21:57
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis-- 42:20
Reisdent Evil: Code Veronica-- 1:02:09
Resident Evil: Survivor-- 1:22:28
Resident Evil (2002)-- 1:30:11
Resident Evil 0-- 1:45:38
Resident Evil: Outbreak-- 2:03:53
Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2-- 2:16:07
Resident Evil 4-- 2:23:11
RE4: Seperate Ways-- 2:50:43
Resident Evil 5-- 2:55:21
RE5: Desperate Escape / Paul W.S. Anderson Movies-- 3:28:08
RE5: Lost in Nightmares-- 3:32:03
Resident Evil: Revelations-- 3:35:24
Resident Evil 6-- 3:52:43
Resident Evil: Revelations 2-- 4:32:19
REV2: The Struggle-- 5:00:38
REV2: Little Miss-- 5:04:49
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard-- 5:10:36
RE7: Not A Hero-- 5:41:34
RE7: Banned Footage (21/Bedroom/Daughters)-- 5:45:39
RE7: End of Zoe-- 5:51:10
Resident Evil 2 (2019)-- 5:54:59
Resident Evil 3 (2020)-- 6:16:38
Resident Evil 8: Village-- 6:36:18
Credits / Special Thanks-- 7:13:37
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Despite my attempt to actually get it right the first time, there were errors that accidently made it into the final cut. I'll keep this comment posted here and update it as people continue to discover the mistakes.
1) At 2:55:19 I used the wrong take, I got it confused with the correct one and deleted the other. UA-cam says the video is too long to be corrected with their post upload editor. Should have gone "Resident Evil 4 was a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever. It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel. "
2) Apparently I call Spain Eastern Europe at some point. Obviously that's very stupid. I worked sixteen hour days for like a 100 days straight to get this video done. I was just tired.
3) I say 'Super Nintendo' regarding the game Sweet Home where it should have simply read 'NES' or else 'Famicom'.
4) I attribute a line "There was a door here. Now it's gone." to Silent Hill 1, where the line reads "There was a HOLE here. It's gone now." It's from Silent Hill 2, making this entire point and section largely invalid because of the release year discrepancy.
5) I misunderstood the difficulty system in Resident Evil 4 and did not mention or realize there was an adaptive difficulty feature as well.
6) At some point said 'Sunnyvale', not 'Sunnydale' in reference to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
7) Numerous other marble-mouthed mistakes throughout, catalogued in exhausting detail by commenters below.
Good idea.
At 30:40 you say "struggles with the Bdpsffthe specifics"
>>It was also the game where Resident Evil started taking its worst creative habits and enshrining them as gospel.
well, the meaning behind the words is the same, just said more succinctly
Well, it's Europe, and it's east of you…
Probably should pin the comment.
I know what I'm watching this week!
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is Genius and HERE'S WHY
I can’t sorry hbomb I’m busy selling my house to aqua man
Good to see you're a fan too.
As long as we're clear that you have to deliver an 8 hour video in the future.
Love your work, dude! Not half as good as Noah's, but still...
Oh my God. He's actually made a video so freaking long it is compatible with the standard American work days (8hr minus lunch) so now I don't have to waste time switching to a new video every few hours. What a breakthrough in efficiency!
I was thinking the exact same thing. My whole Monday is sorted!
Glad im not the only one that listens to all his videos while working lmaoo
Agreed, I hope he knows how much we appreciate it
I hadn’t thought about it but youre 100% right
I hate having to switch videos every 30 mins to an hour so this video is a godsend
Where are y’all getting these jobs where you can watch Noah Gervais and still get paid?!
Going through 24hours of rough withdrawal and Noah you may have literally saved my life between this, the SWTOR, and the Dark Souls videos. I understand you're just a hard working individual sharing opinions online - but you regardless of never meeting me or knowing my name, have demonstrably improved my life. Just wanted to say thanks.
Just wanted to offer some words of encouragement - I may not know you personally but I'm proud of you for sticking it out through the shitty withdrawal symptoms! I hope you're feeling better now :)
godspeed my friend
hey buddy i hope you're doing well!
I stand with the rest here. I hope the rest of the recovery has gone well.
And may his other videos bring help and enjoyment as well.
All the best!
I love the idea that Rebecka Chambers in RE1 has all the answers and could easily kill all the monsters. But she’s just so nice that she lets Chris solve it on his own so he can feel like the hero. 😄
Yeah I actually always loved Chambers as a kid. I highly suggest people read the books by S.D Perry written in like 2001 I think? Fantastic and fun reads. Also dives deeper into the characters. Chambers was always one of my favorite characters due to Resident Evil: Zero Hour. (First book) if you are a die hard fan, you’ll really enjoy them! Cheers ✌️
the patriarchy loses again
@@R3troguy ...but they don't notice and think they've won. :D
@@R3troguy the patriarchy likes Rebecca. Source: im the patriarchy
Y’all are corny as hell, especially the weirdos here with trash headcanon ☠️
you know it just so happens I've got a 7 hour and 28 minute drive through Iowa to get through
Come say hi!
You could drive back and forth across it in that time!
Good to see you here jack!
annnnnnd that's why we can't have nice things like Mailboxes and Deer... thanks asshole.
Hello from Waterloo!
“Boss, I need the day off work, there’s a bearded nomad in an orange van dissecting the mechanics of a 25 year old horror game series ”
"Understood. Have a good day off."
"Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office watching the new Noah Gervais video."
We all laugh but right now there’s an intern at polygon that is just doing EVERYTHING wondering why everyone in the office has their airpods in
I had a guy once try to take the day off to play a video game......I fired him by the end of the day....At Will states are amazing
@@lutherheggs451 so you didn't give him the day off, and then you fired him anyway?
I hope Noah doesn't see this as a negative because I personally love it: the faint clicks at the end of a chunk of explanation (which I assume are for a script or to end the audio clip?) make me feel like I'm listening to someone tell me interesting stories about their vacation with one of those old slideshow projectors for film photos. :)
I think it’s mouse clicks of Noah turning off the recording. But I also like them!
I love the laid back feeling of these videos
Omg that’s cool
It's clicking to the next page of the script I belive.
haha that and the occasional sip of water or whatever’s really nice to me for some reason
Is this anyone else’s comfort video?
Yea, for sure. I’ve watched this one (and a few other Noah deep-dive video essays or travelogues) to chill out on many an occasion when my anxiety disorder flares up.
Meeeee
It's been my companion on a few rough mushroom trips, along with his Dark Souls video
What's the opposite of comfort? Because listening to Noah refusing to acknowledge again and again the camp in these games was driving me up the wall.
It's like seeing someone be confidently wrong for seven hours.
@@nisnast I think your listening comprehension is shot, as he mentions camp (though not always by that term) repeatedly throughout. He mentions how it adds to and detracts from the mood in different instances. perhaps you fell asleep?
"Let's remember him as the man he was and not the leech wizard he became." My new go to line at a funeral.
Sixty-nine likes....nice
Was gonna quote that myself...
You go to funerals very often?
@@brunoactis1104 biggest social events these days
*anime leech wizard 😂
Real ones watch to the end to see Noah standing next to a sweet cowboy painting
I laughed when I saw it, because my in-laws have the same art in their house.
It was the fanciest thing I ever got for $40 at the Goodwill, I don't think your in laws were the only ones.
Hell, yeah! In so excited to see that!
I forget the artist's name, but he had a whole motif of cowboys in the desert/prairie. My in-laws, being bona-fide Texans living in cattle and cotton country, felt a kinship to it.
Whoa! All my favorite YTbers are converging into this video 😱😱😱😱
Watching this video, it made me realize Resident Evil had this period where it really wanted to be metal gear.
"Kept you waiting, huh? I'm at the outbreak"
@@Tubanapoleon how does it feel to be so fucking funny?
Ethan’s got personality traits, he’s got tons!!! He’s… he’s a man, he loves his wife, he loves his daughter… he’s mad at his situation… oh! He’s an everyman, which, uh, kinda just means he’s just a normal guy…
Whelp, at least he’s not a cop
Also he loses his hand alot
I agree that it's good that he is not a cop
to be fair, none of the resident evil protags are shining beacons of characterization
@@yurifairy2969 yeah, i think to some extent they’re all supposed to have some semblance of blank space so that the person playing the game can more see themselves in the protagonist’s role, if i remember correctly i think i was just jokingly replying to something they said in the video about ethan specifically having very little personality
It's been done to death but when Noah tackles a series, he's got 8 hours of my time.
Amen to that!
True and Real. Noah could break down Hello Kitty Island Adventure and I'd listen.
@@butHomeisNowhere___ I found Noah during my phase when I was obsessed with Homeworld. I've watched every video whether I've played it or not and have been fascinated. Great observations and such a create way of delivering them.
Not with his degree of perspicacity it hasn't
@murat balamsa Obviously I didn't read any of your incoherent screed, but I think it's hilarious that someone would put something like that in the replies of a random, one-line comment about liking Noah's videos. So...thanks for that, I guess. You've unintentionally brightened my day.
SEVEN HOURS. Noah, you spoil us
Your turn. Where is YOUR marathon episode?!
Looking forward to your 8 hour One Piece vid as a response
Honestly your time is better spent on this than reviewing another isekai lmao
Mister Basement, what are you doing here?
@@peoplesdiscofront respecting a master is what he doin
You noted Japanese culture while discussing Alfred Ashford using the line about a boy in makeup. While Alfred is CERTAINLY not a great character, and there is a lot of gross undertones to him. One thing to know is a lot of the "he's a boy that wears makeup, what a monster" thing is injected into the game by the English localizers. A lot of the direct dialog about it is not in the Japanese version. For example, the infamous "Alfred, you crossdressing freak" line is 100% invented by the localizers, in the original version the Japanese line is more like "Alfred, you are completely insane" in regards to his plan, nothing is mentioned about his clothing tendencies.
I hope you tell that to the spiteful people who love that line and always chant the same argument that goes "Capcom won't let that in the remake of CV cuz they woke and scared of being cancelled and ppl are fragile"
I honestly think Japan tends to do a much better job at LGBT representation than western media (talking mainly about anime here) because they just write them like people and don't follow any stereotypes.
That doesn't mean it's always perfect, but I wish he and other people would blame that on bigoted individual writers and not try to attribute it to "Japanese culture"
The comparison between the cabin in the woods “zombie redneck torture family” joke and the bakers from resident evil 7 is fucking genius
"Resident Evil 4 is a game that saved the franchise and changed gaming forever... Fucking... God damn it..."
*DOG BARKING*
What a perfect way to end that chapter.
2:55:10
I just love these slight errors.
Why re4 "saved" the franchise? It wasn't in trouble
@@romeocastillo316 he meant it in terms of taking the series in a new gameplay direction. With Code: Veronica, REmake and Zero, the same repeated gameplay formula was getting stale.
Zero especially was criticized for it.
@@romeocastillo316 REmake was very well received critically but did abysmally commercially (a fate that also befell every Onimusha title after the original) Zero didn't get the praise of REmake and had the same commercial trouble. Even RE 4 itself sold poorly until the Ps2 port. Not a fault of Capcom or the games, rather because of being on the GameCube which had some fantastic titles but sold poorly.
Along with the other comment noting that people felt the series was growing stale, these two issues left the series in a bad place. The development difficulties 4 itself encountered only added to the crisis Capcom found the series to be in at the time.
Then throw in some spin offs of questionable quality over the years, Capcom was looking for a miracle by that point.
Speaking of Resident Evil 7, as someone born and raised on the Texas/Lousiana border, I am surrounded by houses and properties pretty much exactly like the one in RE7. Possibly why I didn't find the game that scary since it's familiar to me (in a way an empty creepy mansion like RE1 or a rustic near-anachronism of a medieval European village in RE8 is). However, the small details they got right are stunning from the styles of construction to the way humidity decays the buildings and especially wood down to the odd additions and external buildings as the small houses get additions built on over the generations - Great-Grandpappy Claude wanted a den so added one on, Aunt Marie wanted a modern kitchen so they added one on, etc. even though nobody in the family has ever worked in carpentry or construction. And there is ALWAYS that same trailer out in the back used as a storage shed. The only thing missing was two or three boats with holes in the hull that Cousin Boudreaux said he was gonna fix someday for the last 27 years but you can't haul it off now because there's a giant wasp nest in it and you don't wanna go near that.
Very real, especially that wasp bit. Ive lived in the central Louisiana area and am almost always not but 15 minutes away from the exact type of backwoods area the baker manor is in. In the first 10 minutes ethan walks through that weird deer leg gore gate and its not even that striking to me because of the souths weird obsession with taxidermy deer heads.
Louisiana is such an interesting place lol I want more games to use it as a backdrop for horror.
Do you really have those funny little clothes airers that look like a bicycle wheel?
I'd love to see the lower parts of the US, it's all fascinating to me from the Carolinas out to the west coast. The UK is great in its own way but it's too damn small and there's too many people!
@@buggs9950 i personally never had one but at my great grandmothers place they had a big one outside
@@buggs9950 They're not quite as common as they used to be, but yeah. It's for places where you don't have trees to hang a clothesline. And because they're not exactly cheap, you pretty much keep them until they get so rusty you have to wash the clothes again right after drying them. Then they just sit there like modern art because "Uncle Bobby said he's gonna use some treatment on that thing when he's got the time".
I have Covid and last night I had the worst fever of my life. I had this video on the whole night I was trying to sleep and kept waking up and hearing your soothing voice talking about a new different Resident Evil game. Thank you for making my night bearable, truly.
So the best part of the video was not watching it at all and sleeping?
@@Phantom-kc9lyare you a retard?
Soothing? He speaks so fast!
1:14:38 I love how as Noah says "Here's my beef with Steve..." the screen just says "Steve is suffering" with no context.
I just spent a little over seven hours listening to this man talk about Resident Evil. When he was done, I wanted more. He is just that good. I would love to see him take on Silent Hill next.
Noah has never done a multiparter (at least, not intentionally) but if he were to cover silent hill, i suspect we would get one. The first four games alone have so much to talk about, it would be insane to see.
@@bondfall0072 There are less _Silent Hill_ games than there are _Resident Evil_ why would he do a two parter?
gosh, i thought the same - especially when he talked about SH in the begining. not sure i would want another human being to be subjected to a franchise that has more bad games than good ones, however. the early games are so good tho. would die for his take on them.
@@TheMoviePlanet alot more to talk about
Silent hill would be great. Also, a full one on Nier would be awesome. There’s only one other UA-camr that took on nier lore, but this guy’s research into how the game was made in addition lore would be sick
Just speaking based on video length alone, no one is ever, EVER justified in giving you shit for not getting a video out by a deadline or to accuse you of putting in low effort from here on out, friend. Thank you, so, SO much for the time and energy you put into this, and in all your other wonderful work.
I have never been able to put the time in to getting more than an hour or two into any Resident Evil game in the past, but have always been curious about the series as a whole, so this is most welcome!
@murat balamsa lol nobody is reading any of this
@murat balamsa geez just make a video yourself. You have too much time on your hand as it is.
Noah's videos should be preserved for historians in 100 years to truly learn what was behind those video game in detail
@murat balamsa there is a saying where I'm from: "the best steermen remain on shore."
@murat balamsa Who hurt you
I love how in the old games your health is characterized by fine, caution, and danger, that and the bleep boop menu sounds really made you feel like you were in a biohazard situation, the old games really had a lot of artistic magic
I wonder if "fine" is meant to show that you're never quite good, or if it's translation jank that became accidentally iconic.
this is the third time im watching this video through (while multitasking, im not crazy) and i keep finding new things to appreciate about your perspective and your writing. "You are the immovable object around which the world pivots" is such a beautiful way to convey the third person camera in RE4 and how it empowers the player
I've done dishes, taken trash, changed diapers, and made dinner all to this video today and I'm only halfway through 🫠🫠
I have also returned to this dissection of the franchise, more than 4-6 times at least, not only to recreate myself while I work, but to clarify my ideas about some titles. The density of reflections well brought is really impressive.
My favorite part about Heisenberg calling Chris a Boulder punching asshole is that for him to know that, either Sheva spread the legend across the world or Chris repeatedly brags about it 🤣
Or maybe Chris realized that there's potential, and outside of his work getting rid of BOWs, he's a world class strongman, punching boulders around at Highland Games lol
I can't tell which I want to be true more.
33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
i like to imagine it means he just walks around punching boulders all the time and heisenberg happened to see one of those
Ethan: "Ugh, does Chris tell EVERYONE that story?"
"Nemesis: One boss, one protagonist, one city wide game of cat and mouse until the cat gets shot, blown up, set on fire, melted, obliterated with a laser, and then finally executed old west style with a big revolver." 43:10 I love this.
this is why og re3 is superior
@@whodatninja439 and always will be 👌🏽
I think the RE4 Remake has reignited my hope for an RE5 remake. It's still going to be a delicate tightrope for them to walk, but I do think that with a few sensible edits, the setting of Kijuju can be used much more responsibly.
RE4R showed they clearly weren't afraid to make pretty significant narrative changes to make their world more believable, and I think it worked very well. Showing that Luis was once a resident of the village is a great way to contextualize his involvement both as an Umbrella researcher and as an ally later on. The Island especially got a major lore upgrade that shows how the Plagas Cult began and how they festered in exile for so long. Even the Castle got toned down to be both more believable and more tragic, as you learn how the greatest defenders against the Plagas became corrupted from the inside.
So, given all of that, I hope Capcom can do something similar with RE5. They should definitely give African characters like Josh and Sheva more agency in the storyline, so it's emphasized up front and often that this is *their home* that they're fighting to save. Too often the original felt like Chris was just going on a safari hunt with his cute African guide, so for the remake I'd like to see Sheva take on some more authority and bring a more personal connection to the setting.
You know, the name "Resident Evil" is actually brilliant :)
I always took it to mean that there is an evil that resides within the Spencer mansion, a "resident evil", as you traverse the mansion, a residence, getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there. It's also an allusion to "Sweet Home", in a way, plus, it sounds pretty nice if I do say so myself.
Its Japlish. They were flipping through a thesaurus and finding other names based on 'Living Dead'.
@@nerag7459 The Japanese team weren't the ones who named it Resident Evil though? In Japan the game is called Biohazard. The English localizers named it Resident Evil.
@@Maloolz Wiki: "Capcom ran an internal company contest to find a new name. Resident Evil was chosen since the game takes place in a mansion." It sounds like pure Japlish.
@@nerag7459 Fair enough.
A evil within if you will
Oh Code Veronica. I remember having to restart the game because Claire had all my weapons and there was no way to give them back to Chris, who had to face the final boss with just a handgun. A truly incredible game.
Yep Code Veronica was harsh lol.
I felt the resentment bubble up getting to the end of this comment. I'm glad I never got THAT far into the game, only to have that happen, though it did still happen to me twice earlier on. I'm just glad I now realise it's kind of more the game's fault, than me just playing insanely poorly.
I was always confused as hell on that, because I've never had an issue like it in ANY other Resident Evil title, and yet, in CV X, I hit that same roadblock TWICE.
Dude, I bought the game when I was at a friends house and we didn't have a memory card so we played it all night. Finally we get to the final bug boss and didn't have enough ammo for chris to beat it. I never picked it up again and just watched the ending on youtube. Fucking brutal.
I got to the Arctic base having used all my ammo and healing on the boss on the plane... There are several plant tentacles you have to pass (from memory) once you get to the base... I could neither kill them nor weather the damage and push through... I had only one save file and i saved before moving on to disk 2 (when the Arctic base begins)... Gutted.
after i made almost precisely the same mistake back in the day, i began making every save in new slots. i still do it today, even though many games don't allow for making this sort of catastrophic mistake.
Noah, this is longer than most trilogies. You spoil us
Didn’t expect you to be here my man.
When I saw this 7 hour video my first thought was that he's gone insane. Making coherent 3 hour videos talking about a game series is already hard.
@@zuiop9993 Who says he hasn’t gone off the deep end and his calm voice just masks the fact.
@@theonewhoplays3819 Maybe he's still talking about Resident Evil... and will never stop.
@Skeletor But if he's unaware that the camera isn't working anymore, who uploaded the video... mysterious...
I’m a huge resident evil fan. This is hands down the best RE video I’ve ever seen. Absolutely flawless and love the narrative style. No goofy jokes or shitty cuts. Amazing work
His wokeness ruins it
@@CYB3R2K elaborate?
@@Terrythetroll. RE5 is insensitive towards black people and Code Veronica reforcing transphobia? This guy is nuts
@@CYB3R2K I don’t think that’s his views specifically. He was bringing it up how other people have thought that
@@CYB3R2K and let’s be honest trans people can be scary sometimes lol
00:38:05 Confession: back in 1998 when I played Resident Evil 2 for the first time, I saw Claire wearing those red denim shorts and leather jacket, and I was honestly envious that I was not as brave as she was. Reality be damned, I wanted to be a punk rock badass, but I was too timid.
This video is a literal masterpiece. I have been watching and rewatching it all day. Your analysis is thought-provoking and your prose is a delight to listen to. This video is the first time I've heard of your channel and I'm absolutely going to spend the next few days binging the rest of your work nonstop.
Discovering Noah's videos is one of the best things on UA-cam, binging through his channel for the first time (and there have been other times) was mindblowing, just a solid wall of the most substantive and dryly hilarious games crit ever.
I'm oh-so-jealous of you just finding this channel. When people say something is a "Diamond in the rough", this channel is precisely what I imagine. It might be rough around the edges, but, to me, that's part of what makes it so charming. The man puts in a lot of work, clearly, and I hope he knows just how much we appreciate what he does.
Btw: His cyberpunk, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and God of War videos are (in my opinion) his best... besides this one, obviously!
@@sagewaterdragon I've told so many people about this channel. It HAS to be the best scriptwriting in like any games critique on youtube. I've seen other great longform channels, but man, they really don't come close, do they?
Might take more than a few days ; >
Binging Noah's channel is absolutely worth it. I've listened to and enjoyed a lot of long-form video game discourse, but none of it has prose as thoughtful and beautiful as Noah's. It really sets him apart.
So how many patrons do you need before we get the 30 hour "A Thorough Look At Sonic The Hedgehog"?
if you want to see a long video on that, you ought to check out NewFramePlus and his retrospective on Sonic animation. The creator is an animator, and has a great way at highlighting the ups and downs of Sonic Team's creative output
I'm say that, assuming you don't already know about it. If I was wrong about that, my bad.
@@arcflashhazard_ I didn’t and I’m going there right this second.
@@holysparkbatman This, AND the music of Sonic the Hedgehog, by Liam Triforce, I believe. Also long as hell with a lot of great content
there isn't a human being alive who could survive that endeavor.
@@toddmansilver12 You underestimate my power
Its incredibly understated how hilarious Noah can be. “Collapsing into a stacatto *farts*”
By far the greatest writer in the realm of video game essays. Give us a book man.
This is the 4th time in 2 years i have watched this video back to back. Truly your magnus opus.
Unemployment hits you hard
Personally I absolutely loved End of Zoe. Not because it was good horror, but the sheer comedy of it. I loved the absurdity to it and was a nice little relief after playing everything else.
It was a fantastic way to relieve the tension, though it did last a bit long.
I honestly kinda missed the camp with how serious RE7 tended to be.
End of Zoe rocks
@@Slaanashyep. The most intense part is the first gator river and the second gator lake if you fucked up and have no spear left. The fisting combat is hella easy 1 on 1 because you can just strafe around the molded and takes minimal damage. After that so long as you have ~2 spears and 1 bomb on you there is nothing to fear.
The mad lad actually went and reviewed the whole bloody series. One boulder punch for you my friend.
One boulder punch for you brother
He will be the one to continue the Redfield bloodline
I know I will be taking this in chunks.
Not gaiden :(
Finally finished! JSYK, you published this as a book, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Did not expect to see you commenting here
Great taste in UA-camrs as well as anime/manga
Reject youtube, return to book
Oh man, yes. If he ever publishes a book of scripts, I'm buying the absolute heck out if it
You might need three people to carry it..
mothers shill
It took me weeks to get through this video because despite it being fascinating, it's so dense with important parts that any time my mind wandered for even a moment I had to rewind to listen again. It's amazing how a video this long can be so absent any kind of filler or junk. Fantastic stuff!
The thing I love about the End of Zoe DLC for RE7 is it doesn't take itself seriously... like, at all. Once you accept that, it's an absolute blast.
Talk about Magnum Opus
Tbf the magnums do a lot of work in the game.
😲 I know. Totally unexpected!🤯
noah's magnum opus is the travel content and i will absolutely hear no other opinions on this matter
@@supernoob17 Noah is the video game review to travelogue pipeline
Immense respect to you for managing to stick it out through the entire franchise after starting with RE0.
One thing that i love about Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, is its Japanese title: Biohazard 7: Resident Evil
watching you open your inventory while surrounded by enemies in re5 to switch weapons instead of using the dpad to quickly switch is killing me
The idea that Leon is actually a Kennedy tracks so well with the lore, bravo
If he was an actual Kennedy then what was he doing as a rookie cop in a random Midwestern city?
@@grahamcarpenter691 Every Kennedy who DIDN'T become a rookie cop in a random Midwestern city was mysteriously killed.
Especially since his name is Kennedy, that makes total sense. Mind blowning.
"Nothing bad ever happened to the Kennedys."
Not sure how I feel about this TBH. It would imply Leon's favorite adult beverage is the "chappaquiddick" (scotch and murky water)
ba-dumm-tschhhhhhhh
"You could absolutely run the entirety of Resident Evil 1 as a tabletop campaign if you cared to."
Me, a DM trying to think of something spooky to run in October: That is NOT a bad idea...
I want in
I actually did that once, make sure you change up the puzzles if anyone is a RE fan, they'll fly right through it you don't!
I did this in 5e D&D. People didn't catch it!
It's *especially* a great idea to reference for how to make a "dungeon" that isn't obviously a flowchart from beginning to end.
It would be better to actually use 2 & 3 as templates, as the scenario is bigger without being out of hand while having multiple potential stories.
I watch/listen to this just about every night while I fall asleep. Just wanted to say thanks for this video. It’s helped me fall asleep during a pretty rough final semester of undergrad
1:25:09
This man's comedic timing is Golden 🤣.. all throughout the entire video essay .
I love it ...
This is by far one of the best reviews I've had the pleasure of watching..
"He's Wesker, his plan is to kill everyone. I don't think he would even take his sunglasses off for sex."
Was not prepared for that line at 3:23:50.
Wesker only gets orgasm from Total Global Saturation
Dude I fucking died laughing at that shit haha
''Glasses stays ON during sex''
6:06:26 got me ^^
@@Aggrofool "Total... Global... Ejaculationnnnn hnnnnngggg"
these essays are so great because youll go an hour of very eloquent analysis and then he'll deliver a hilarious absurd line in the exact same tone of voice and the whiplash is absolutely incredible
God, I love the Shina Island mini-rant. I’ve seen this video like 4 times, and every time rewatch, I find something new I love about it.
While I don't share your opinion of R3make, it was really refreshing to watch a video that wasn't shitting on it endlessly. I didn't realise this video was 2 years old and was hyped to see what you thought of the RE4 remake. Sadly I will have to wait for another video.
I did enjoy my time with R3make, I just wished there was more of it and felt a little ripped off when I beat a €60 game in a few hours.**
**I had a whole thing typed out here but it deleted 80% of it when I hit publish. I guess that one line will suffice. Not like anyone will read this anyway.
Also nice to hear a video saying that RE5 is kinds sorta racist. Apparently right now that's a death sentence.
@@StonedMagician99Yeah. Better to admit that some things from the 2000s just plain haven't aged well, rather than insisting that they're more acceptable than they are.
@@thirdcoinedge The 2000s were my high school and college years and let me tell you, one of the best things about time is it takes me further away from the cultural mindset that made things like the WWE Attitude era and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within possible.
@@TelenTerrorI feel that in my bones and I’m from roughly the same age bracket. I’ve slowly revisited a lot of my childhood media and while it’s been eye opening as to how some of it affected my worldview in a positive way during my formative years (such as some media that carried messages about understanding others’ worldviews, doing the right thing even if it’s disadvantageous to yourself, pushing back against prejudice and systems of power, etc.), there’s also more than a few things that I go back to and cringe so, so hard at and some that I just don’t think I want to revisit at all because I can feel it in my gut that it’s not gonna age well at all.
Ooh my goodness this is like Christmas. 7 hours of Noah and Resident Evil!
I know right!
It feels like i'm dreaming.
@@diegopantoja6608 How amazing is it that we're all like children right now lmao I love it!
You mister, are the greatest of all time
"Can this video really call itself thorough while ignoring them?"
**Noah glances at the length of his own video**
"I think so."
The games he skipped weren’t worth the time. Avalanche Jared covered them and even he said they were a waste of time
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm just pissed he skipped Cold Fear, specially as all the plots of the console only games get revealed to me and I'm like... so that's what... that was better? Thank god I didn't miss anything... then the boat thing shows up 3 hours in and I can't but help think Capcom was trolling their muddied corpse, which after watching the 4 and 5 parts is like... all the more painful.
Those spin offs are mostly more arcadey and don't contribute that much to the series other than being fun distractions or boring wastes of time. That said, modes like Jack's 55th Birthday and the raid mode in the Revelations games were super fun.
@@jakedill1304 Cold fear isn't a RE game tho. Ubisoft made that one too, not capcom.
@@nathanielhaven3453 I'm very aware. I mentioned this though I can see the confusion as I was talking about the comparison since that's what eventually doomed it to obscurity... however I do believe the game is a love letter to it but the joke was that it was a Better RE game than RE4.
I know it’s just your opinion but you missed the point entirely with RE4. The game is a survival horror built around the anxiety and danger of an angry mob attacking you. The survival horror part comes in the form of methodical, tactical gameplay. Item management, enemy weakness, positioning, understanding the mechanics under pressure. This is so much more satisfying than a slow ass zombie. Ganados are smart, they ambush and strategize, so you have to do the same. Hell, even the REmake will expand on all of this. RE4 is a game with a ton of depth. Also, it’s fine you don’t appreciate the campy self awareness of the script. I believe it’s perfectly in line with what we’ve had in the past but done more deliberately.
There aren't many UA-camrs who I would watch for 7 hours straight.
Fantastic video, as always.
Finally finished and what a treat this week has been
@Craig Adams no need to comment that
Hey I love your channel ❤✌🖐
Yea im a week in, finally about to finish it.
"I can't help but feel that we've punched the bolder again and we have only just begun" is an amazing line, given the context.
I think that, given that RE4 has adaptive difficulty, standard should always be tried first.
If you struggle too much, the game gets easier. If you are too good the game gets harder. I think that way the balance between the tension and avoiding overepetition is better kept, than otherwise just starting on easy.
This guy established that he's got skill issues at the start of the video so I guess it makes sense
I’m so happy, glad and proud this has over 1 MILLION viewers. You deserve it. This is outstanding and you’re an excellent storyteller. Thank you!!!
"In practice, you have a bunch of useless weirdos zooming all over the place, moving all the shit, chattering nonsense to themselves and everyone around them, with no intention or ability to contribute to the objectives, which you must shoulder all the actual work for. So I guess... Not that different from playing online after all."
This may be one of the greatest lines I've ever heard in a UA-cam video.
GTAO's heists came to mind immediately.
The best part of the Ada campaign (And arguably the entirety of RE6) is the coop partner. A nameless agent that only exists in gameplay and that cannot interact in any way with objects that lead to progression, open doors or chests, prompts not even appearing. Whenever Ada hooks somewhere he just shows up besides her at the end of the cutscene, like he got there earlier and was just waiting the whole time.
He's an extra through and through and it makes the whole thing just hilarious if you're there with a friend.
If i remember correctly he wasnt in the game originally. Ada' section was designed purely for singleplayer but because ppl complained about not being able to co-op that part of the game like the rest of it, they just said fuck it and gave player 2 a ghost agent man that doesnt actually exist.
@@cobra29935 I honestly think that's the coolest thing I've ever heard as a "fix". Its like the most "in-line", almost campy "fuck you" the devs could have done, and yet I still love its inclusion. Like the original comment says, it truly made for some hilarious co-op moments, when either you or your friend get to play out as a literal extra. A truly bold choice to say the least, and a level of passive aggression patch-wise that I strive to reach one day
Sounds like Halo 2
I liked that guy, he had cool melee animations. I made my wife play as p1 so I could pretend I was HUNK the whole time.
Since they already had a clone ada plot they should have just had 2 adas
Hold up now. Don't talk shit about the boulder punching. That's a line we can't permit you to cross, that's sacred ground.
Now that the remake of re4 is out, i’m actually hopeful that Capcom will take the project of remaking re5 into their hands, using their past knowledge and taking into account the mistakes that were made to really create a tone and setting in Africa that isn’t mistreated and is actually cool to be in this place this time around; loved the video btw💪🏽.
it'll be interesting to see what they do with 5 and 6! 2-4 have all been perfection so I think they can pull it off
I agree! RE5 had a great setting and a lot of cool things about it, and it’d be so cool to see how they could improve it.
I don’t get what’s the issue with Africa being the setting ?
I don't think they really misused Africa as they kinda play it off like they did with other places where its a terrible disaster like they where innocent people turned into monsters by evil Umbrella company that is not umbrella. Maybe a less silly tone would convey that better. It feels more a story against American imperialism & how corporate greed destroys people. Like choosing an area like the recently new regime of a fictional place to show how a corrupt company is profiting off of the political climate to make money a better job of this is done in Revelations 1 & also 6.
@@TuxxxidoShhh. Their skin different colour, can't do or say anything bad to them, even in fiction.
“Resident Evil 4 is inarguably one of the most historically important and mechanically prescient games ever made. I like it better when the other guy sings it, though.”
We don’t deserve Noah Caldwell Gervais.
I'm trying to figure out what he meant by that.
@@SneakySnipey basically saying that while RE4 may be the original, the "cover" (to use the song analogy), Dead Space, is a better conceived piece.
@@riloegaming Ohh I didn't make that connection, I appreciate it!
Oh my god. Noah, PLEASE switch on the auto-subtitles if you haven't already (sometimes it takes time for them to show up for viewers). As a hard-of-hearing person I really want to be able to understand you!
They work perfectly for his voice too
This feature should be a standard thing in all UA-cam videos - one of those amazing QOL things I feel creators shouldn't be able to untoggle in their videos. Better yet he should leave them open for fans to subtitle the video properly if you really want to since UA-cam does allow for that.
I think YT directly stopped doing community contributed captions, unless I’m mistaken.
@@InfernalMonsoon Yeah UA-cam phased out fan subtitles a while ago, to the disgust of most people.
@@InfernalMonsoon Nah - the thing about not allowing creators to untoggle the subtitles is that it would be risking the auto-subtitles misinterpreting what the creator is saying and forcing the creator to let the computer put words in their mouth.
as someone who also sucks at video games, it’s really refreshing to listen to someone talk about games from that perspective lol your opinions are absolutely valid
It was midway through my second rewatch of this video that it dawned on me that I have spent multiple full days of my life cumulatively watching your videos and I’m perfectly fine with that fact. Thanks for everything
"can this video really call itself thorough..." is when I checked the runtime and took me a good second to come to terms with the fact it was longer all Indiana Jones movies combined. Never change, man.
@Craig Adams guess we’ll have to wait half a decade for a analysis of RE9 with 3 hours duration
What a wonderful video! Not just the coverage, but the writing. I've never plaid these games, but you really did an incredible job of capturing them. Thank you so much!
This is the best thing I've ever seen , being a RE fan , it doesn't get any better than this.
"I'm going to explain this part, not because it's good but because you must suffer as I have suffered"
If that's not a thesis for the entire RE Franchise idk what is.
Oh man I am lucky for skipping the Revelations series
Thank you again for giving words and a voice to things I felt but could never explain. Your videos are so meaningful to so many and I hope you appreciate that.
This is still a masterfully made video. I’m grateful that I always have this to come back to when life gets stressful
Seven hours of Noah! There goes my day. Literally, a whole working day! What an achievement.
You know I know there is an 8 hour video on Death Stranding but most of the cutscenes were in that and they all played through, this video seems to be entirely filled with analysis. So indeed what a goddamn achievement
The recording process and audio in your videos is so refreshing. Feels like a conversation, like I’m in the room with ya. Love it, don’t ever change it!
disagree
I’m also in the room, and I’m holding my D**k with my left hand???
To me it sounds like any other audio on a UA-cam video nothing special.
I agree - the slight stumbles and “pressing record” clicks are quite nice. I don’t need the most polished 8-hour media critiques.
Wow. I’m incredibly impressed at how much work went into this. I’ve been enjoying it in bits. (Hour here, half hour there). Great work over a great series.
It's a testament to Noah's work ethic that he can release a seven hour vid and not immediately make me think, "holy fuck, does this guy seriously think he can waste an entire day of my time?" Kudos, you mad scholar-king.
I remember the documents in the original RE2 making a HUGE deal of the old historic museum being repurposed as a police station. It was a huge point of contention among the public that Chief Irons was overspending public funds on an old tired museum.
His eccentricities were all part of his character building in explaining why he called his officers to the station and barricaded them in with the aim to hunt them down one by one.
He’s a psychopath and an unreliable ally for Umbrella; a consistent theme in RE GAMES: don’t ever expect an immoral/amoral person to be reasonable, reliable, and/or sane.
What I really love about this video is that not only do you bring up interesting points I hadn't considered, I also get a ton of movie recommendations. thank you
I love this video. Resident evil is definitely one of my favorite series ever, and I love how you rip it to shreds while clearly still loving it. I never got bored listening to this! Excellent job :)
You know it's a great video when you start to get melancholic that it's ending while there's still 3 hours left.
4/14/2022 Update: I've probably seen this video five times now. Not only is the density of insightful content per minute high but its consistent across the entire 7.5 hours. Meaning everytime I put this on in the background at work something new I missed the previous time catches my attention. Incredible work man.
6/28/2023: Three more rewatches in but a little different this time... I'm playing the series! Which can 100% be attributed to this video--more than that--this is the first horror game I've ever played. I've currently beat Claire's playthrough on Remake 2, and am now playing Remake 3. I started with the more modern games to ease myself into it. It's insane, I've always heard the original RE2 is one of the greatest games of all times, and now I can say Remake 2 is in my top 5. It may actually be the best game I've ever played.
2/28/2024: Watching this one again, I actually have been moving through some of the 'Hits' of your catalogue: Resident Evil, Fallout Revised, Gears, etc. Like I said--god damn almost two years ago--I like to have these on while I work. They are wonderful background audio, and now I even use them when I write!
Thanks you Noah
You've outdone yourself with this project Noah. It's truly incredible how you managed to analyze all of these games and build such a humongous video. Extremely interesting watch, I've learnt a lot about a franchise I've barely played. Thank you for your amazing work, you may find it hard to see it but it is unrivaled in the videogame industry.
Noah is very good overall, even if some of his criticism occasionally veers into sjw gender studies territory.
@@arynasabalenka3173 Agreed.
idk he spoke a looooot about modern race shit that had no place in the vid. he also whitesplained over the actress who plays shiva. He admits hes being racist by ignoring her point of view but then goes on to do it anyway.
god, you’ve got some whiny ass complaints in your replies. Suck it up, fuckers.
@@mothweb8088 I think we've been rather mellow here. You're the only whiny one.
I just love how this man single handedly creates more entertaining content than any streaming platform. Thank you Noah, sincerely.
The resident evil 5 analysis was so spot on. I remember buying the game and playing it co-op with my best friend and having a joyful time for the gameplay but I was kind of taken back with the racial undertones..
the sheer *malice* in the way you say "Steve" is so viscerally satisfying
I feel like many people want Leon to have romance with Claire so that would 100% erase Steves existence from canon as he was kind of an Claires version of Ada but horrible
@@MrConredsX I think many people wanted Claire to not be sidelined from the action and hanging out with complete losers so often
@@MrConredsX the REDFIELD BLOODLINE
As someone who did actually play Outbreak with other humans back in the day, I would just like to say it is actually an excellent experience played that way (assuming you have two other capable players of course).
I am praying that one day it will get a remake
@@shermantankgaming7261 Hopefully it gets a faithful co-op focused remake and doesn't get turned into another asymmetric PvP game.
I was thinking the same.i have no clue when he played outbreak,but back on release it was pure amazing.hes playing all these game years later after release. I prefer these types of vids by older more experienced players,who played on initial release
Absolutely superb terrific work sir my favorite video on resident evil on UA-cam hands down I really enjoy how in depth your retrospectives are keep it up.
I think I've watched this about 6 times. 42 hours. I've spent an average work week listening to this. I regret nothing.
"Fuckin'... god damn it. ~dog barks~" - _Noah Caldwell-Gervais, 2021._
I rewatched that part of the video like 3 times trying to figure out why he was so mad, lol. I guess the dog barked once before he exclaimed "God damnit" but only the second bark came through on the mic? Really seems like he coulda trimmed that bit of audio, lol
He said he mistakenly left that take in and deleted the one he meant to use, and can’t swap the audio now that it’s uploaded.
@@Overcrox So many people complain about his audio quality which absolutely infuriates me. It’s quirks like his bad cut and the dog that makes me that much more endearing.
@@wafflepoet5437 Big true! My favorites are when he coughs or clears his throat mid sentence lol
@@wafflepoet5437 And honestly, when it comes to mistakes like that, Noah is his own biggest critic, which as someone who holds their creative work to high standards I totally understand, but the humanity of occasional mistakes blends so well with the lo-fi recording aesthetic that I really can't find them very egregious.
"Universal Appeal is a poison masquerading as a medicine."
That's a quote for the fucking ages, hot damn!
In a recent video with Shinji Mikami, he said that he wrote the story and script himself in about a week. They were running out of time. This is the reason why we have all this crazy plot hahaha. He had to even predict the enemies in the story because the majority of the art and models were already done. I love this game, one of my favorites, but the story is way too crazy and the tone is way off and now we know why. Amazing video man! Thank you for this hard work
What video was that I wish to see it
There was a comment here, but it's gone now.
"7 hours. 7 hours is all I can spare to play with you."
I've got to admit I loved the flub at 2:55:19. It was sort of a reminder of how far NCG has come over the years.
Keep doing you my man - your content is the best analysis on the platform and I'm absolutely loving this era of your work.
This video has been with me through so, so many lunches and dinners, and I loved every second of it. Thank you.
Mikami in RE 1: The monsters shouldn’t be supernatural and be related to a pharmaceutical virus.
RE 8 Village: Fuck it. We are gonna have vampires, werewolves, spooky dolls, creepy child ghosts, every other horror movie trope, and a Transformer 😂
When you mention the "suggestion" of an American town, I think it goes even above that, happens in the first game as well, its a japanese artistic\ideal view of the West, much the same way we do with the east\orientalism. I love how the statue its just called, " statue of the goddess" what goddess? Athena, Juno? Who cares it looks the part. Modern games could use that stylistic approach.
Your contemt towards Steve felt so personal and hilarious to hear.
100%. Noah really is a very good actor when he wants to be. The scorn absolutely dripping from the line, "this...is *Steve*," is almost sublime.