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Resident Evil 4 Wii

Been meaning to get a Wii for a while... especially when I heard RE4 was coming to it and you've just sealed the deal :D
 
Igantius said:
Been meaning to get a Wii for a while... especially when I heard RE4 was coming to it and you've just sealed the deal :D
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As a huge RE4 fan, RE4 is worth a Wii purchase IMO. I would say the same thing about a Cube and RE4 as well, but the Wii version is far and beyond the pinnacle of the RE4 experience.

I'm almost mad at myself for thinking about selling the system a few weeks ago, but I'm damn glad that I didn't.

Wii RE4 is just incredible. :D
Again - I would love the game unless they screwed it up, and really, the only way they could've screwed it up is if the Wii controls were screwed up. And they're not. Granted, it took me about 20-30 minutes before I was fully comfortable with the controls, but once I was...straight butter baby. :p

And as for the ammo being a little more short than on the Cube one - it's not really an issue if you knife a lot (which was a good strategy to begin with).

I got to around 2-2 before upgrading a weapon for the first time, and that was merely because I needed some shotty ammo and there was none to be found. I had around 240,000 pesetas with an unupgraded shotgun and [freebie] punisher +1 damage, so I went and upgraded the shotgun 2x on ammo count and went ahead and spent another 20,000 on damage and reload. Really - (ideally, if you're familiar with the game already) starting out this way is the best bet. It is possible to finish the game with an unupgraded pistol (or, the free punisher), shotgun + BAR. Not as EASY, but...do-able. That's what I was going for this time around, so I have the pesetas when I'm finished with my first go around to get some of the unlockable weapons (with their high price tags).

If anybody needs help with the game or you get in a stuck spot, feel free to ask me (either post here or IM me). I'm not 'the best' RE4 player out there, but I (not trying to be conceited) certainly am a high level player and know my way around the game plenty well. ;)

Just a few pointers for everyone -
-Conserve ammo. Aim for the knees to knock down. If the enemy gets on one knee, run up and kick them, then knife them while they're down. If you shoot the knee while they are running, they instantly fall which then again is your opening to run up and knife them while they're down. Work on this strategy til it's second nature for you and you will save a lot of pistol ammo. Do not rely on the pistol past 2-1 for anything but knocking enemies down to knife them.

BUT

don't EVEN try to think about knifing a level 2 or level 3 ganado (with the visible plagas). It'll be awhile before you see 3's, but it's a BAD idea on 2's as well (the ones that whip around with the bladed end). In any event - flash grenades will instantly kill any exposed plagas, so if there's a bunch of 2's or 3's ganados, toss a flash grenade to finish the job.

-Shotgun = crowd control (gets enemies away from you and gives you breathing room). Don't even bother bringing out a pistol weapon if you're surrounded or have 4+ ganados on your tail. 3 or 4, I'll usually work on knock down -> knifing them, if it's more than 4 (or there's a level 2 in there somewhere and I have no flash grenades) I will pull out the shotgun.

-Spend your pesetas wisely.
(IMO) order of preference -
#1 upgrade your case FIRST

then try to hold on to as much money as possible. If you need to upgrade weapons up until around 4-1, that's ok, but around 3-3 / 4-1 it's not really that feasible. New weapons appear every once in awhile, and selling old weapons (whether upgraded or not) gives you a 50% price cut on what you actually paid for those weapons.

Be greedy, be a miser...but don't put yourself into a struggle/situation or make it too hard on yourself. Again, I just upgraded my shotgun at 3-2 'cause I had no ammo. Which is another word of note - if you're low on ammo, upgrade the ammo capacity on the weapon and it will instantly fill that weapon to that upgraded capacity. Say you have a shotty with 0 ammo. Upgrade it to level 2 ammo and you gain +9 shotgun bullets/ammo right then and there (or whatever the level 2 is, I forget). Where I was (3-2), I was at the path split...going left...and I needed shotgun ammo. I gained 2 shells from the camp area but couldn't find any more, so I backtracked to the nearest merchant and upgraded to level 3 on ammo and instantly had 12 (?) shotgun ammo, which got me through the area I was having trouble with.

-Use ladders and doors to your advantage. If you have the opportunity, go up somewhere, make ganados climb up the ladder, the knife them when they get near the top to knock them down again. Rinse and repeat. Spent gun ammo = 0. ;) Doors you can use to keep yourself in favorable odds; ie lead 1 ganado into a doored room, leave his friends in the other room, kill him one on one, then lead another one into the same room.

-Use herbs before eggs. Eggs take up 1 case slot. Herbs are 2. Hold on to eggs for dear life. Treat combined herbs like gold. (especially combined yellow ones) On that note - you may want to use yellow only on Leon first, then Ashley when Leon's full. Ashley should never be in danger enough to need lots of life; if she's in that kind of danger, you're not protecting her well. She's annoying, hell yes, but keep her out of danger. Hide her. Normal ganados will not actively seek her out, but minibosses will even if she's hiding in a crate. If anything else (because the crates are only in a few areas), go to a corridor or long hallway, put her at the end of it where no one can get her without going through you. Stand in the middle of the corridor and fire away.
 
The hardest bit about the controls for me was the last big game I finished was TP...so it was more my fault. Just too much muscle memory for that control scheme...now that I've logged a few hours on R4 things are moving fine....

Paul
 
I forgot to add: there's only 1 thing about RE4 Wii that I dislike.

...now I am dying to get a component cable. :D :p

With the Cube, I was going to get a component cable, but I couldn't find any, and never got around to calling Nintendo to see if they had any available (which they reportedly did, if you called & asked).

Now, with the Wii of course - component cables are pretty widely available; I've seen the Nintendo brand ones at Gamestop for $30 USD (including yesterday). Aargh though...we're broke. ;) I got RE4 Wii for $7 after tax because I had a $25 gift card, but otherwise...we're broke. I was trying to think of games I could trade in for credit to get the Wii component cable, but I really don't have any games I'll part with, so - I guess I'll have to wait 'til payday next week. :)

(Not that the game looks bad through composite or anything, but I really want to see how nice it looks in 480p.)

One more thing: here's a funny article related to the RE series (and survival horror games in general). ;)
 
Antares said:
:p Well, you seem to enjoy this game. So, how does it play on the Classic Controller? I picked up REWii last night and will play it as soon as I finish up Super Paper Mario.
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Blasphemy! :D
I can't imagine playing this game with anything but the Wiimote, sans maybe the Cube controller if you're having difficulty grasping the Wiimote/nunchuck control scheme. But that's the thing...in my initial 20-30 minutes, I literally started wondering if I'd ever 'get it' and get the controls down to a comfortable level; again though, once past that break-in period, it's sublime with the Wiimote/nunchuck.

I don't have a classic controller, nor do I have my Cube anymore, so it's Wiimote or nothing as my options. ;)
 
Haha, im glad to see all the good comments and reviews about this game. I just had a few quick questions that i hope someone could answer here.

1. How do you use the laser sight on the punisher/pistol you start with? (im not sure if its an upgrade or what)

2. When is the Large Attache Case become available? Ive got the Medium but im constantly running out of room. I cant even get the red9 to fit into it no matter how much organizing i do!
 
AppleGuy08 said:
1. How do you use the laser sight on the punisher/pistol you start with? (im not sure if its an upgrade or what)
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It seems to me like the aiming reticule is the same on all of the shooting weapons I've used thus far, with the exception of the bolt action rifle (BAR). On the pistol, punisher, and shot gun, the reticule is always on the screen and looks the same no matter which of those 3 weapons you are using.

-With grenades (and likely eggs) equipped, there is no reticule.

-With the BAR (and likely the semi-auto rifle [SAR]), there is no reticule until you hold the B button to aim, and then it's a scope. Well, I'm getting a little ahead of myself...you can use both rifles without the scope (although I don't know why you'd want to), so I don't know if there's a reticule on screen when you are not using the scope.

I've never seen any upgrades for a pistol (regulars and magnums) that involved some sort of a scope or sight enhancer; it's always just been the little red laser dot.

AppleGuy08 said:
2. When is the Large Attache Case become available? Ive got the Medium but im constantly running out of room. I cant even get the red9 to fit into it no matter how much organizing i do!
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My medium's half empty where I am now. ;) LOL
Let me see if I can remember my inventory off the top of my head...
Punisher w 2 boxes of ammo
Shotgun w 2 boxes of ammo
BAR with scope + 3 boxes of ammo
1 box of TMP ammo (to be sold 'cause IMO the TMP is useless and I never bother with it)
1 G+R+Y herb
1 G+R herb
7 eggs (5 white, 1 brown, 1 yellow)
1 grenade each (flash, explosive, incendiary)

I think the Large attache case is available for sale around the beginning of chapter 3 at the first merchant you see. I know I'm at the end of 2 (2-3) and visited the last merchant of chapter 2 and he doesn't have it, so I believe it's in 3-1. (if memory serves me correctly)

If anyone's wondering - IMO the best faqs for RE4 are both of these.. Yami Shuryou and A I e x.
Specific to the Cube version, but all the info is relevant; the Wii/Ps2 extras you can find on other faqs.
I used both of those for pointers when I started playing Mercs and sucked. ;)

Mercs is an uphill climb...so those of you who try it out - don't get discouraged. Another big help for me was watching Lorax86's vids, which (back when I played) were linked off Gamefaqs boards but I believe all of his vids have been uploaded to Google videos here.
 
Zero2Dash. Shoot me a PM. I have spare component cables for the Wii and I'll send one to you as a freebie since your broke my friend :)
 
Ah nice, im at 2-2 right now. For some reason i thought you could have a laser attachment or something. I thought i saw it in a youtube video, i was probably just seeing things. Im gonna sell my SMG and orig. pistol. Ill jsut put the money i have into the punisher.
 
By the way, when you guys encounter those pesky K9's, try using the TMP gun on them. It keeps them at bay and the magazine is quite large enough to take down a group of 4 or 5 of them. I find using the TMP on them is more effective than, say, the shotguns because of the time it takes before taking another shot.

Gun spoilers in this tip below in white:
I advise against upgrading the Handgun, Punisher, Shotgun, Riot Shotgun, Rifle, Broken Butterfly, and Red9. Instead, save your money to upgrade the guns: Blacktail, Striker, Semi-Auto Rifle, and the TMP.
 
AppleGuy08 said:
Ah nice, im at 2-2 right now.
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Yeah, Large attache case is at 3-1 at the beginning. Might have been...40,000 pesetas?

AppleGuy08 said:
Im gonna sell my SMG and orig. pistol. Ill jsut put the money i have into the punisher.
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Don't do it unless you need the ammo.
Better weapons are forthcoming. ;)

michaelltd said:
By the way, when you guys encounter those pesky K9's, try using the TMP gun on them. It keeps them at bay and the magazine is quite large enough to take down a group of 4 or 5 of them. I find using the TMP on them is more effective than, say, the shotguns because of the time it takes before taking another shot.
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Yeah but the shotgun is almost always an instant knockdown on any enemy other than a boss (even the minibosses). I hate those frickin' dogs though...especially later in the game in the garden/maze


michaelltd said:
Gun spoilers in this tip below in white:
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**spoilers in white**
I agree on all except the TMP. You're better off saving up the money for the Chicago Typewriter if you're on a machine gun kick. The TMP doesn't do enough damage and since it uses it's own ammo (as opposed to normal handgun ammo), it's even less favorable of a weapon IMO. I just started 3-2, it wasn't even tempting to get a BB or a Riot gun since I know the Striker appears around...4-1 or 4-2?
 
RE4 wallpapers

Don't know who does or doesn't have these but here's some official Capcom RE4 wallpapers straight from their Japanese website and linked through IGN boards (which, these were then put on Imageshack 'cause capcom.co.jp took 'em down or moved them)

(All are 1280x1024 with black borders on the sides, so you could easily add some black if necessary to make them suitable for a widescreen monitor.)

Ada
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/1718/residentevil4ada1qn.jpg

Ashley
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/9412/residentevil4ashley1rf.jpg

Krauser
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/319/residentevil4krauser4jl.jpg

Leon
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/3701/residentevil4leon2pu.jpg

Leon + Dr. Salvador
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/1086/residentevil4leon26eb.jpg

(I think Biohazard's such a cooler name, but...whatever. ;))
 
i went on a survey at work two days ago. when i got back on the subway to the manhantan mall, i walked passed a gamestop.

i now own WIIRE4 lol.
 
This whole post of mine is gonna be spoilers for those not up to chapter 4, so its in white starting now: In the beginning of chapter 4 i had almost 300,000ptas to spend, so sold my rifle, pistol, punisher and broken butterfly for a little bit more money. I was left with my shotty, smg and semi auto. I then bought the blacktail. That blacktail is the **** btw! Then i picked up a free RPG in one of those rooms, i cant remember which one. Anyways, i upgraded the shiz outta all the guns and now they are so badass. Ive got the large attache case, and im debating buying the XL. Do you think ill need it?

Ok, now its not spoilers :)
 
in reply to AppleGuy:
Yeah, Blacktail is the best pistol. Good damage, large clip, insanely quick reload (which is where it really beats the pants off the Red9). Semi-Auto has good reload, fast firing speed, good clip. TMP...I'm still...meh. :p Don't bother with the Riot Gun if you haven't already; keep your standard Shotgun and sell it for the Striker due to the Striker's exclusive upgrade of 100 shell capacity *in the gun*, therefore you will no longer occupy space with shotgun shells (unless the gun has 100 already).

XL attache case you will need for subsequent playthroughs, especially when you get the pesetas to buy the unlockable weapons. On the Cube one, I had an XL case with the Hand Cannon, the Chicago Typewriter, Infinite Rocket Launcher, Striker, Semi-Auto Rifle, and about 16 Health Sprays...and I *still* had extra room for getting stuff and then selling it to the merchant. You may not necessarily need the XL case right now, but you will need it sooner or later...
 
**spoilers...4-3 area**
So I was playing last night for an hour or so and got to where you fight Salazar, and knew he was coming up. I was going to save and quit for later, but thought - what the hell, I'll go in and see if I can get this over quick. Got some decent damage on him before ending up getting killed, which then ticked me off, so I said "ok then, you're mine". Gladly paid out the 30,000 pesetas to buy a launcher just to 0wN his ass (since doing the smart thing and using the freebie launcher on Verdugo). Finished there, bust up some boxes near the next merchant, do some deals and save it before the Island...5-1.
/end spoilers/msg :D
 
Finally finished my 1st playthrough last night (haven't played in a few days ;)) and then got on to playing through Separate Ways...I think I finished it in around 3hr 50min (would've been under 3:30 if not for a few cheap 1hit kills that happened with a full health bar and lame BS machine gun fire from JJ).

Separate Ways is great, I had a blast playing through it. Some of the things they came up with in terms of tying Ada's story with Leon's story were really good...lots of original ideas. Ada's was also nice because it's action - action - action, no slower paced areas (like half of the things you have to do with Ashley as Leon). I wish they'd make another one or more spinoffs based on RE4...similar play style, aiming/movement system, etc. but with new stories and/or characters. Very good stuff. ;)
 
yah i finished my first playthrough on wednesday. Now im starting separate ways as well. I was surprised at how short the first round was. when i saw the creds i was like WTF!?!
 
Once you finish Separate Ways, be sure to go back into Ada's Report under the Extras menu (I believe) to watch Report 5...they don't show Report 5 at the end of Separate Ways, Chapter 5 like they do with the other chapters and their respective reports.

Separate Ways...man it's just great. I was so thrilled with how well it was done. Not that I thought it would be bad or anything, but I didn't think they'd put as much effort and thought into the storylines that come out of Separate Ways. Really makes me want more. ;) :D
 
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