Frightening Frank Cifaldi, Terrifying Tim Rogers, and Bone-chilling Brandon Sheffield rank every Resident Evil game after facing a gauntlet of qreepy questions by Affable Alex Jaffe.

Questions this week:

  1. How many different subgenres exist under the umbrella of “horror game?” (04:31)
  2. What are the scariest things in non-horror games? (14:58)
  3. What is the best kind of zombie? (20:19)
    Insert Credit Quick Break: See You, Space Cowboy… Cybernetics Catalogue Kickstarter (32:03)
  4. Adapt Bobby Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash" into a video game. (26:11)
  5. ThatsSoRevan asks: What are the best ways to do combat in a horror game? (33:33)
  6. What is the “My costume is I came as myself” of video games? (40:01)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranking the Resident Evil series (45:52)

Recommendations and Outro (57:52)

THE INSERT CREDIT RESIDENT EVIL SERIES RANKING

  1. Resident Evil 4 w/texture pack
  2. Resident Evil 2 Remake
  3. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
  4. Dino Crisis 2
  5. Resident Evil 6
  6. Resident Evil 2 (Original)
  7. Resident Evil 5
  8. Resident Evil 0
  9. Resident Evil CODE: Veronica
  10. Resident Evil
  11. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
  12. Resident Evil VIIIage
  13. Dino Crisis

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Brandon: Siege (1983), The Night Eats the World (2018), Wyrmwood (2014), Cargo (2017), The Horde (2009), Republic Z (2018), Blood Quantum (2019), 6/45 (2022), Dorohedoro, Octopus Girl

Tim: The short stories of Edogawa Ranpo

Jaffe: Rain Jerks

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