Replayability? - No spoilers please

[Reo REbOrn]

Hi there.

I LOVE the resident evil series, always have since I first played RE:1 on the Sega Saturn.
However, after res 4 the series went off (for me) and I finally came back with res Evil 7. While I was totally blown away by the game I found little to no reason to replay it.
I was just wondering if this was the same? Is there much replayability?

For e.g Multiple endings, Multiple pathways, different choices (letting somebody live or die), new weapons the second time through, changed puzzles, changed enemy locations etc?

I did try watching a youtube video but even though it said "No spoilers" they gave away a semi bigish spoiler in the first 30 seconds -_-

Thanks for any help :)

[nomorevideos]

RE8 has next to no replay value, especially thanks to 1-2 sections of the game that are dreadful to replay after the first time. The game itself, I am not really spoiling anything here, is very linear. Don't expect RE1 or even RE7 going into this game. You'll be able to explore a couple of times and within areas, but obtaining items needed to progress are not only given to you after linear sections, but there's never a moment where you go "oh, the item I found an hour ago, it goes here". There's also only ever one way where you need to and can go. All doors but 1 will be locked. So you go through that door. You get an item and now you move to the next door or room.

Originally posted by Reo REbOrn:

For e.g Multiple endings, Multiple pathways, different choices (letting somebody live or die), new weapons the second time through, changed puzzles, changed enemy locations etc?

https://youtu.be/lhckuhUxcgA

VoS, the highest difficulty has new enemy spawns, but is designed to be NG+, taking away from the challenge. There's some weapons you can unlock from the in-game credits shop after you've finished the game once. The weapons are mostly meh. There's no alternate endings, no choices, no randomized puzzles or out of order progression.

The game's definitely worth 1 playthrough, but there's no replay value here, especially since you said that you have no desire to ever go back to RE7. Besides the main campaign there's mercenaries.. or mercenary, since Ethan is the only playable character.

If you're going to play and don't want the game to play itself, stick to the starting inventory size or only ever purchase 1 size upgrade. Don't buy ammo from the merchant. Does this count as spoiler? Whatever. If you want to experience the game and nothing more just play on easy and kill everything in sight.

Also, don't expect enemy encounters like in RE1 or even RE4/5 or RE7. Enemies are not persistent, they'll frequently despawn between areas. An enemy that was in a cornfield a second ago will be gone after 10 minutes of watching cutscenes and returning to said cornfield. Enemies will also despawn when you run through certain thresholds or you go into a mini cutscene.
As long as you stay in the level/general area, said enemies will not despawn though.

[Darksidewalker]

No spoilers:
- Complete linear Story/progression (no changes to endings/persons/bosses/puzzles...)
- Unlock things/weapons/achievements in multiple playthroughs
- Changed enemy placement at "shadow" (last) difficulty

[Reo REbOrn]

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

RE8 has next to no replay value, especially thanks to 1-2 sections of the game that are dreadful to replay after the first time. The game itself, I am not really spoiling anything here, is very linear. Don't expect RE1 or even RE7 going into this game. You'll be able to explore a couple of times and within areas, but obtaining items needed to progress are not only given to you after linear sections, but there's never a moment where you go "oh, the item I found an hour ago, it goes here". There's also only ever one way where you need to and can go. All doors but 1 will be locked. So you go through that door. You get an item and now you move to the next door or room.

Originally posted by Reo REbOrn:

For e.g Multiple endings, Multiple pathways, different choices (letting somebody live or die), new weapons the second time through, changed puzzles, changed enemy locations etc?

https://youtu.be/lhckuhUxcgA

VoS, the highest difficulty has new enemy spawns, but is designed to be NG+, taking away from the challenge. There's some weapons you can unlock from the in-game credits shop after you've finished the game once. The weapons are mostly meh. There's no alternate endings, no choices, no randomized puzzles or out of order progression.

The game's definitely worth 1 playthrough, but there's no replay value here, especially since you said that you have no desire to ever go back to RE7. Besides the main campaign there's mercenaries.. or mercenary, since Ethan is the only playable character.

If you're going to play and don't want the game to play itself, stick to the starting inventory size or only ever purchase 1 size upgrade. Don't buy ammo from the merchant. Does this count as spoiler? Whatever. If you want to experience the game and nothing more just play on easy and kill everything in sight.

Also, don't expect enemy encounters like in RE1 or even RE4/5 or RE7. Enemies are not persistent, they'll frequently despawn between areas. An enemy that was in a cornfield a second ago will be gone after 10 minutes of watching cutscenes and returning to said cornfield. Enemies will also despawn when you run through certain thresholds or you go into a mini cutscene.
As long as you stay in the level/general area, said enemies will not despawn though.

WOw, thank you for the indepth review/reply!! >_< I ended up buying it but after reading this may get a refund and buying a few cheaper games while I wait for the next sale and the games price to drop etc. Thank you so much for your reply :):)

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by Reo REbOrn:

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

RE8 has next to no replay value, especially thanks to 1-2 sections of the game that are dreadful to replay after the first time. The game itself, I am not really spoiling anything here, is very linear. Don't expect RE1 or even RE7 going into this game. You'll be able to explore a couple of times and within areas, but obtaining items needed to progress are not only given to you after linear sections, but there's never a moment where you go "oh, the item I found an hour ago, it goes here". There's also only ever one way where you need to and can go. All doors but 1 will be locked. So you go through that door. You get an item and now you move to the next door or room.

https://youtu.be/lhckuhUxcgA

VoS, the highest difficulty has new enemy spawns, but is designed to be NG+, taking away from the challenge. There's some weapons you can unlock from the in-game credits shop after you've finished the game once. The weapons are mostly meh. There's no alternate endings, no choices, no randomized puzzles or out of order progression.

The game's definitely worth 1 playthrough, but there's no replay value here, especially since you said that you have no desire to ever go back to RE7. Besides the main campaign there's mercenaries.. or mercenary, since Ethan is the only playable character.

If you're going to play and don't want the game to play itself, stick to the starting inventory size or only ever purchase 1 size upgrade. Don't buy ammo from the merchant. Does this count as spoiler? Whatever. If you want to experience the game and nothing more just play on easy and kill everything in sight.

Also, don't expect enemy encounters like in RE1 or even RE4/5 or RE7. Enemies are not persistent, they'll frequently despawn between areas. An enemy that was in a cornfield a second ago will be gone after 10 minutes of watching cutscenes and returning to said cornfield. Enemies will also despawn when you run through certain thresholds or you go into a mini cutscene.
As long as you stay in the level/general area, said enemies will not despawn though.

WOw, thank you for the indepth review/reply!! >_< I ended up buying it but after reading this may get a refund and buying a few cheaper games while I wait for the next sale and the games price to drop etc. Thank you so much for your reply :):)

No worries, enjoy the game for what is if you end up playing it. I think it's worth 1 playthrough still, despite its issues. For $40 though, nah.
If you don't want to wait for a bigger sale on Steam you can find it online for cheaper. You can find it for roughly $18-20 online. That's up to you though. If $40 for 8 to 15 hours doesn't sound bad, hey keep it. I bought it for essentially $26 on Steam. Feel less so scammed than I feel sad about the state of the past 2 RE games. If you have money still or are going to refund it, get RE2 2019 if you don't already have it. Mostly great game, it has free DLC too.

[Obsidian Dragoon]

Playing once for the story is to be expected. If you feel like going through the various challenges for extra unlocks, that's probably another 5 runs depending on how many things you stack together. You don't even need to do all of them to get all of the points needed for the biggest unlocks.

[mirp10]

Unlike any other game I did 5 runs of this in a row from easy to village of shadows to going trophy hunting. And I will play it a sixth time.

While unfortunately not much unexpected will happen after the first playthrough I just found a lot of fun in the varied gameplay and feeling to the game depending on which weapons or infinite ammo you have unlocked combined with which difficulty you are at.

I did my first two playthroughs in vr via vorpx. So maybe the change in perspective might have helped in my case.

I just think it looks gorgeous and is fun to play. Makes it easy to go back. First playthrough is more about the story and thrills while the following might be more about getting good and unlocking stuff.