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EVER WANTED TO RELIVE OUTBREAK!?....

WELL CAPCOM AINT BRINGING BACK THOSE SERVERS, SO WE CAN DO THIS THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW.
ROLEPLAYING.

Hi, I'm Chaos. But you can call me awesome. You see, I haven't posted on here for years as I have been busy with other things, such as life and using the bathroom.
Now that I hopefully have your undivided attention I want you to know something special about this Roleplay in particular.

You CAN EASILY die in this game. As the gamemaster using a semi-traditional stat and dice system, I am hosting a once in a lifetime opportunity for YOU to experience a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City.

The setting takes place within Raccoon city, though the locations are more randomized then they once were before. Where you might see some familiar places you will also find a lot of new places as well. As a survivor you'll have to work together with your teammates to solve puzzles, fight off monsters with what little you have. (sorry, Jill, Leon, Claire, Chris and Carlos took most of the ammo)

Your character will get some special abilities, as you once did in outbreak, which will accordingly correspond with your character's background (ie; med student can make first aid sprays, high school student has more inventory space with his backpack, Cop can drift cars well etc.)

You will start the game together, however, you will often find yourselves split from the rest due to unwanted circumstances.
It's up to you how to figure out how to get to each other again...if you're still alive to see that happen.

You may make one character.
Once that character dies. You cannot re-enter the game.
Does that scare you? The aspect of having only one life?
Good. You'd better be. You've got only one life to cling on to, and I guarantee that if you don't lose it, one of your friends will.

At the start, you will not post anything about your character besides a description of their age, appearance, equipment, name, and a one word personality description: (shy, violent, joker, serious, etc.)
The reason being because realistically, that's how you judge strangers at first impression. Despite being all in this together, your characters will know nothing about each other, it's up to you whether to share any background in-game with each other. You will meet people you can trust, and people you can't trust.
You may be forced to work with both at some point.

Your starting weapon will be random, and your groups starting location will be too.

As the Gamemaster, I will tell you your scenario, spawn enemies, and keep track of your stats and hits. I don't play as any characters in this game aside from NPCs and enemies.
I will not help you "win", but I will give you survivor advice at crucial times if I feel you deserve it, but if you're an RE Veteran you may not need my help...

The missions will be given simply, for example:
1.Escape the Bar alive.
2.Find a way to kill the monster. (in a run and die situation)
3.Help the wounded survivors escape (optional, but rewards will be given if successful)

The Game will be called: Resident Evil Outbreak: Return.
It will be held in the Warren masterpiece Guild subforum of this guild.

While the game cannot go on without me (unless another volunteer GM would like to assist) I am willing to run some today if enough people post in the thread.

If you are unable to attend a playdate, then the "CPU" will play for you.

See you there.

If you go to the roleplaying section, it's up. I only put up the standards, health, how it works, combat, and character creation.

I think I kept it to a good length without too much reading. It's up and it's a go-go when people are ready. You can go ahead and take a look and give your opinion in that thread as well, stuff might change and a lot of stuff is pretty set.

Ok people I came across something really funny while browsing through a picture gallery. This will show you why Nemesis likes STARS so much.

Yeah. He had such a unique voice too. Like, the metal scene is overflowing with pointless growlers right now, and there aren't too many vocalists who had really unique voices or styles. And Steele was one of them.



I think what you meant to say was, "Old game is good." Since the vast majority of JRPGs today are ALL flash and NO substance, I kinda wanted something that was actualy, you know, good. And fun. And since I haven't had the pleasure to play the original, and have been craving a new RPG. Pretty clear choice.

And no, it doesn't have that intro music. Since it was remade for PS1 in 1999 (NA), they used that version to remake from. Hence all the Anime cutscenes are taken from the PS1 version, including the intro which has the music from the PS1 version, only remastered.
The in-game graphics got a complete overhaul though, the game looks awesome on the PSP. Still 2D, but very nicely rendered and animated.

Best of all, the battle system is fairly simple. That's the thing. These days, RPGs try to make their gameplay deeper by making the battle systems overly complicated, but frankly, I don't wanna go through a 5 hour tutorial just on the battle system. The battle system should be accessible enough that when you start playing, you know exactly what to do, and all those little innovations and additions should reveal themselves slowly as you go through the game, so that you don't end up needing a tutorial at all.

By the way, welcome back, Stranger. Where have you been?

Well, that's just the FMVs. Like I said, the in-game graphics got completely redone, so it looks much better. But yeah, to be fair though, what was the more logical choice? The FMVs or the slideshow type graphics from the Sega CD version? I mean, I understand that it'd probabl kill the nostalgia factor for you, but I have no point of reference. So to me, this is pretty much a brand new RPG, and frankly, I needed it.

Well, sorry to hear that things haven't been ideal lately. But that's life, man, ups and downs. I've been living it for the past 2 years like this. Everything is great now, but if it's gonna be like the past 2 years, I'm gonna be fairly miserable by September. Let's hope not, though.

hhmm.......no one has commented on the picture....oh well.

Still, I'm just saying. If they decided to redo the cutscenes into full blown Anime FMVs back then, chances are, those are the ones they're gonna reuse for THIS remake. Either way, so far so fun.

Ah yes, ObsCure the Aftermath. Well, you know I enjoyed it. I hope you do too. If not, maybe you need to get a friend to play it with you, cause that was the case for me. Since it's co-op.