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Resident Evil and Tomb Raider have actually aged pretty terribly, TR a lot more than RE but still do not replay them unless your nostalgia goggles are pretty big, and especially don't play them in a 42" plasma.
Anyways Resident Evil on a handheld has actually worked alright, not those Tiger RE games but RE Gaiden for the GBC was surprisingly good when it came out. It was a GBC exclusive and out near the end of the systems life not to mention a RE game on the GB so it did not sell well at all but I actually owned it and it did a pretty good job in making it scary, it wasn't even developed by capcom. The DS enhanced port of the first RE also felt scarier playing through it than actually playing it on the PS1. I don't know you kinda get into the game with portables, and portables are great don't diss them, I'll agree that the best handheld games are games designed to be played on a handheld and not just "lets make that console game portable".
I was a fan of RE, still am but not as much, Capcom has really done the franchise a disservice for a long time now, I even have problems with RE4, great action game but its not RE. But thats Capcom in a nutshell, they always make amazing franchises and beat them to the ground and keep beating on them without actually realizing.
And I know this is about the games but what the hey, I like the first RE movie, hated the second, liked the third, haven't seen the fourth.
And since you mention TR, the games were good for the time but aged terribly and quickly. The reboot was awesome, too bad they are rebooting it again which looks terrible and goes to show everything that is wrong with the VG industry today. ugh. They should look at Lara from the original games, a cel shaded Lara makes more sense than her new design.
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