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Lady Dimitrescu Will Be Shorter For Resident Evil DLC

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Yeah, she’s shorter but you’ll still need Eren Jaeger’s 3D maneuver gear to give her a smooch.
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Lady Dimitrescu, otherwise known as Tall Vampire Lady or simply Big Lady if you’re experiencing a loss for words, might have to get a more diminutive nickname that doesn’t reference her towering height come the release of Resident Evil Village’s first major DLC because Capcom will be making her a little bit shorter.

Resident Evil Village’s big upcoming DLC collection, collectively dubbed “Winters’ Expansion”, was first announced back in June during Capcom’s not-E3 broadcast. In it, players will play as protagonist Ethan Winter’s now-teenage daughter, Rose, to tie up loose ends from Village’s story. It will let you play the game’s score attack-style “The Mercenaries” mode as Chris Redfield, Karl Heisenberg, and Lady Dimitrescu. However, players won’t get to live vicariously as Lady D when it comes to her canonical height in Mercenaries mode.

In an interview with Polygon, Kento Kinoshita, the director for the Winters’ expansion, revealed that Capcom had to nerf Lady D’s height in order to give players a smoother gameplay experience. Ready for Lady DummyThicc’s new height reveal? Here we go. Instead of Lady D towering over you at a whopping 9’6″, she’ll be a bit shy of nine feet tall. If you can’t handle her at her shortest, you didn’t deserve her at her tallest.

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During the development of RE Village’s Mercenaries mode, Kinoshita told Polygon that Lady Dimitrescu’s height presented a challenge for developers. Despite the difficulties in translating Lady D’s height into Mercenaries, Kinoshita said the overwhelming fan response to that element of Lady Dimitrescu’s “tall stature” was “too important not to” include in the game mode.

“For The Mercenaries, it’s necessary that the player can control their character easily, and to make that possible we did adjust her height to a little under nine feet tall,” Kinoshita told Polygon. “At that height, the player just barely avoids bumping into the ceiling.”

Kinoshita also revealed that Capcom was also able to preserve Lady D’s “calm, dignified side, [and] excitable, deranged side” in The Mercenaries, so do with that information what you will.

All the Winters’ Expansion updates will launch October 28 and be available both separately, and as a bundle with the original game known as Resident Evil Village Gold Edition.

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RE Village Browser Demo Uses Google Stadia Tech To Great Effect

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Capcom released another Resident Evil Village demo earlier this week. It doesn’t include more content than earlier previews, but it does have the distinct advantage of being playable from your internet browser thanks to Immersive Stream for Games, a licensable version of Google’s Stadia tech.

The appropriately named Resident Evil Village Online Streaming Demo lets you play through the game’s previous “Village” and “Castle” demos via Chrome (on PCs) and Safari (on iOS) without downloading anything. It also supports PlayStation and Xbox controllers in addition to the obvious keyboard and mouse scheme. The resolution tops out at 1080p and it doesn’t use HDR, but it’s still an impressive feat.

I spent some time playing this Resident Evil Village demo and can confirm that, yep, it’s Resident Evil Village alright. The graphics leave a lot to be desired, naturally, but the framerate and latency were almost identical to playing the game on my PlayStation 5. Of course, your experience will vary depending on the speed of your internet connection (Capcom suggests 10 Mbps or higher).

Writing about games professionally can be a challenge. It’s a constant tug-of-war of wanting to remain professional while also expressing excitement and joy about our little electronic toys. We shouldn’t be in the business of writing mini commercials. I worried that that’s exactly what I was doing with this blog until I realized why I thought the browser demo was so cool: its accessibility.

Resident Evil Village is great. Anything that removes a barrier to entry for folks who want to try it before wasting bandwidth and/or spending $60 is worth celebrating. Streaming technology, even in the face of Stadia’s high-profile failure, still feels like a big step for video games, especially when it comes to topics of accessibility and preservation. Here’s hoping more developers see the benefits of letting folks check out their games this way.

It was recently announced that Resident Evil Village is also coming to PlayStation VR2 if that’s more your thing.

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What Are The Most Popular Games 2021? Resident Evil & Metroid

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Resident Evil Village is a great game! It’s easily one of my favorite games of 2021. But it’s also a game that can, at times, be scary or tricky to get through. So, I was surprised to see stats showing it as the most completed video game released in 2021.

As spotted by Axios Gaming, you can see the most completed games of 2021 according to users on the site HowLongToBeat.com. This is a site that primarily tracks how long it takes various players to complete games, letting folks quickly look up how long it takes to finish a game before starting it. (I use this site a lot to help plan out what games I’ll play next, so I’m not jumping into too many big games in a row.)

According to stats from the site, here are the top five most completed games released in 2021:

1. Resident Evil Village

2. Metroid Dread

3. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

4. It Takes Two

5. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury

I find it interesting how a large chunk of the most completed games are fairly family-friendly until you reach the very top and M-rated RE Village is number one.

Another interesting bit of data is the top games that users stopped playing for whatever reason. At the top of this list are Valheim, 12 Minutes, and Loop Hero. The site also tracks the games that are sitting in the most player backlogs, so the games a lot of people want to eventually get around to beating… one day. At the top of that list is NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… followed by Resident Evil Village and Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Oh and perhaps the oddest bit of data I found while digging around HowLongToBeat.com and all of its stats was the overall most completed game by all of its users.

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Well, then I’ll ramble for a bit so you don’t see the answer right away and so you don’t accidentally see it and okay that’s enough let’s get to the answer. Portal! Yup, Valve’s first-person puzzle-platformer, and its sequel are the top two most completed games according to the site’s stats. At number three? The 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. The more you learn!

Of course, keep in mind that all of these stats—while very interesting and fun to look at—are just a small sample of the millions of people playing games every year. Still, this is a nice bit of insight into what people are playing.

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Resident Evil Re:Verse Delayed To 2022

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Resident Evil Village was meant to launch with a multiplayer mode, Resident Evil Re:Verse. In April this year, after some not great open betas, Capcom announced it would be delayed until July. It’s July now, but look around you. Nope. Indeed, minutes ago the developers announced it has now slipped to some point in space year 2022.

So what’s gone wrong? Well, from the wooliness of the tweet, my guess would be: lots.

“Resident Evil Re:Verse is being moved to 2022,” the franchise’s official Twitter announces, “so that the team can continue working to deliver a smooth gameplay experience.” Which, when accompanied by such an ambiguously distant new date, is usually industry code for, “Shit, shit, the framerate doesn’t go over 3!”

They add, “We will share updated launch details at a later time. Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

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They go on to say in a further tweet that current Village owners should either keep their Re:Verse download code somewhere safe, or add it to their account now, “so that you are ready to play when the game launches next year.”

Delays like this are absolutely normal for games development in the 2020s, and since this has always been a freebie that was supposed to come with this year’s enormously popular Resident Evil: Village, it’d be a silly sausage who got too up in arms about it. What’s strange here, however, is the eleventh hour nature of the delay.

They must have known it wasn’t going to be ready for July, given that they’ve just added on at least another six months of development time, so why wait until halfway through the promised month before admitting it’s nowhere near done? One explanation could be that as far as the team working on it felt, it was on track, but then others higher up at Capcom threw their arms in the air/chairs out the window, and demanded it be a whole other thing.

It’s not clear how many Resievil fans were clawing at the walls for a multiplayer mode of Village, but they’ve now got lots more time to devote to looking forward to it.



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Resident Evil Village Pirate Says Cracked Release Fixes Bugs From DRM

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Resident Evil Village is a good game. But on the PC the game has suffered from annoying stuttering issues that have left many frustrated. Capcom has yet to fix these issues, but now a cracked release of the game that removes all DRM seems to have fixed all the stuttering.

As reported by Dark Side Of Gaming, the PC version of Resident Evil Village was recently cracked by EMPRESS, a famous DRM remover. Now that Village has been cracked, anyone who knows where to look can download a pirated version of the game and play it without DRM. Removing DRM from Village also seems to have fixed those nasty stuttering issues that have been plaguing the game since it was released back in May.

In a message announcing the cracked release of Village, EMPRESS claims that Capcom is using both Denuvo and its own DRM technology. And it seems that all that DRM inside Village was the culprit behind the stutters and gameplay hitches players have experienced.

“All in-game shutters like the one from when you kill a zombie are fixed because Capcom DRM’s entry points are patched out,” explained EMPRESS. “So most of their functions are never executed anymore. This results in much smoother game experience.”

Gameplay of the cracked RE Village.

According to DSOG, after testing the newly cracked version of the game for a few hours, they can confirm that it indeed runs better and is a more enjoyable experience. In a video posted by the DSOG’s EIC, you can clearly see how smooth the game now runs with all the DRM patched out. Compare that to this video of an uncracked version of the game running on RTX 3080.

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Kotaku has reached out to Capcom and Denuvo about the stuttering and the recent cracked version that appears to fix the issue in Village.

Capcom confirmed in June during E3 that it had started work on DLC for Resident Evil Village. No more details about the upcoming DLC were revealed, but hopefully, Capcom can get the PC version of Village running better before then, even if it means removing DRM from it.

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