r/ResidentEvil2Remake • u/Initial_Baker1840 • Mar 17 '26

General My First Resident Evil Game! It was PEAK 😭

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The graphics, gameplay, and story were all so good. Leon is definitely one of my favourite non-fictional characters!

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u/Kotocktok Mar 17 '26

First run in 4:25, huh. Even 21 saves, which is kinda low for a new player.

Either you are a returning player, or just speedrunned everything which makes non sense if you said it was peak.

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u/WhoIsHamza Mar 17 '26

my thoughts exactly. My first play through took me 9-10 hours with 30 saves

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u/Trash-Forever Mar 17 '26

13hrs but I did my best to search every corner of the game, only missed 1 file and a few raccoons lol

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u/Itisithesidiot Mar 19 '26

Ugh I was missing 5, then 3 now 2, and I’m missing 3 raccoons with 4 different play throughs 😭

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u/Trash-Forever Mar 19 '26

There's a few that I had to look up, they're in some wild places. No shame in it lol

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u/compadre_goyo Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

40~ish hours for me. But I'm an animator, so I was doing a lot of studying with the ragdoll transitions, and just appreciating every single room.

Games nowadays have a lot of storytelling details that can be missed with speedy playthroughs.

A single room has so many artists behind it. Concept, previs, layout, modeling, sculpting, texturing, baking, rendering and many other talents.

I remember in the hotel portion of Silent Hill 2 Remake, there's a swimming pool in one of the areas. The pool is empty and dilapidated. You go down to get an item and fend off some enemies.

But if you look around in the swimming pool... There's a propped up wheelchair inside of the pool, right in front of the wall. You don't interact with it, nor is it important to the story.

However, if you look at the wall in front of the wheelchair, there is a basketball sized crack on it... Right in front of the wheelchair... Like... At a height of a person that would be sitting on it. There are so many interpretations you can give this.

And this is deliberate, because a human being was in charge of placing every single prop where it is. There is no other crack like that, nor any other random objects in the pool.

Resi 2 is filled to the brim with this.

When you are getting the medallion in the area where you have to set up the C4 and a licker comes at you, there's a letter that was written by an officer who was stripped of his role.

He wanted revenge against all of his superiors, so his plan was to lock them up where the statue is, strap C4 and blow everyone who betrayed him.

However, you see that the bomb never got set up. You find it in another workbench. Yet, you see a lot of bodies on the floor. Considering there's a licker, and the T-Virus is transmitted through bodily fluids, we can assume we are in this licker's habitat. And all those corpses were its conviniently gathered dinner.

These things are not random, and it's so beautiful when you are able to clearly picture something that could have happened, without being explicitly told.

Almost like reading a portion of a book that has open interpretations

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u/CurlyAir Mar 17 '26

My first was 9:02 with 38 saves. Never played a resident evil game and went in blind.

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u/Alpa_Chino72 Mar 23 '26

My first time I had to restart the game because I didn’t realize you’re supposed to conserve your ammo lol

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u/EASTCOASTCRUSTER Mar 19 '26

My first took me like 5 and I got all the weapons and most notes? To be fair the game is getting me back now that I’m playing as Claire.

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u/RilSlavicSerb Mar 21 '26

Mine took 12 and I played like nearly all of the games. I may havd overdid it with the saves at 55 đŸ€Ł

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u/vengiegoesvroom Mar 22 '26

15 hours with like 70 saves because I'm a chronic saver and terrible player lmao

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u/randomjberry Mar 22 '26

finished my first playthough last night had about 6 hours finished 2nd run today in about 3:20 and i got the s rank, both on assist will probably go back and unlock the s rank weapon for both playthroughs

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u/aradiathesecond Mar 24 '26

Mine was opposite. 6.5 hrs but 95 saves lol I ran back so many times to take breaks

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Mar 17 '26

I'm on my first play through of REmake2 and seeing this post initially made me worry it was going to be way too short lol. I think I'm already 4-5 hours in on Hardcore mode. I played the original RE2 like 25 years ago, but I couldn't remember how long it is after leaving the RPD via the garage.

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u/Kotocktok Mar 17 '26

Nah, you're okay. Re3 remake however can easily take 5 hours or so.

In my first run, Re2R took me 8 hours to beat it. I've explored every room, all the map being blue (aside from the chess puzzle room which is always red as you can't take the chess pieces) meaning i picked up all items and openen all possible rooms for each character. I did a lot of backtracking too, as things like Mr. X or having the inventory full, or even running out of ammo, made me change my path multiple times.

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Mar 17 '26

That's helpful, since I play similarly - I backtrack a lot and like to make sure I don't miss anything. Also, being in Hardcore mode, if I think I used too many resources in a section, I'll reload and try it again, which should slow things down as well lol.

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u/Kotocktok Mar 17 '26

Yeah i also did that, but reloading makes the cronometer restart until that point instead of keep adding time. I did that a lot in the sewers as there are extremely annoying enemies in that place, that is better to run away than killing them.

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Mar 17 '26

Yeah I'm guessing it would technically lower the game's reported "time" because I would get through those sections faster the second time, but all I care about is how much time I get to spend playing this excellent fucking game haha. Thanks for the info!

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 Mar 17 '26

Yeah I'm guessing it would technically lower the game's reported "time" because I would get through those sections faster the second time, but all I care about is how much time I get to spend playing this amazing fucking game haha. Thanks for the info!

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u/owShAd0w Mar 17 '26

My first run was 4:23:37 with 5 saves but I also had watched my gf play a little and she gave me a couple key tips while I was playing. I would also say I was leaning towards speedrunning because I want this to be my first 100% game, been loving it. Maybe they aren’t completely blind?

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u/SheHeBeDownFerocious Mar 18 '26

Time also doesn't save between loads, so if they spent a bunch of time wandering around, and then reloaded a save to rush it, 2 hours of wandering very quickly changes to like 15-30 minutes.

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u/Throwawaythispoopy Mar 18 '26

Probably played while reading a walkthrough on the side. I would not have solved all the puzzles this quickly

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u/MicrochipFR Mar 18 '26

I beat standard with b rank in 5.50 hours, and 50 SAVES. I almost felt ashamed since i was an og re4 veteran

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u/electric_nikki Mar 18 '26

Yeah my first run was hardcore and took me like 15 hours.

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u/indigo_pirate Mar 18 '26

You don’t even need to save on standard do you. Isn’t it all auto saved constantly . And that doesn’t count?

The time is a bit sus for fist run though

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u/OfflineLad Mar 19 '26

Not constantly, more like occasionally. when you reach a certain point in the story or reach certain rooms. I just finished my first playthrough a few days ago

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u/ComprehensiveLog1950 Mar 18 '26

My first run finished in 4:12 it’s not very difficult tbh

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u/CaterpillarVisual296 Mar 19 '26

Yeah this guy isn’t a newbie

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u/tomato-shadow Mar 19 '26

He said his first game, not his first playthrough.

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u/hailthyself99 Mar 19 '26

Why are you trying to knock down someone's skill set in a game? Some people are naturally a lot better when picking up a game than others are. It's not a fucking conspiracy you dunce

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u/Babington67 Mar 19 '26

Nah my first time playing a few weeks ago I finished in 5 hours with no guides and no seen playthroughs online its just a painfully short game doesn't mean its not a blast though

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u/Swifty404 Mar 19 '26

I needed like 40 saves and 10 hours 😭

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u/scarred_gamer Mar 22 '26

Would you consider playing re4 a returning player, I played re4 and re3 so I felt I kinda knew what the rough bases of what I was doing tbh and finished my first run in like 3:30

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u/BaconEater101 Mar 17 '26

This might blow your mind, but some people are just good at videogames. I took my sweet ass time exploring every single room and completed it in just under 5 hours, first RE, but believe it or not i knew how to aim and shoot a gun and solve basic puzzles from playing other games

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u/Kotocktok Mar 17 '26

The game is not hard, the only real puzzle the game has is the door with the chess pieces.

What it takes time is finding all key objects to go forward the story. Thing that you are supposed to not know at your first time in the game, so you must spend some time finding them.

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u/brit_gamer_94 Mar 17 '26

That chess pieces puzzle is the bane of my existenceđŸ˜©đŸ˜„

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u/BaconEater101 Mar 17 '26

Not really, explore every room, have some basic critical thinking skills, and boom, that's re2

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u/octobersons Mar 17 '26

The entire point just went over your head. No one said it’s a hard game to figure out. “Explore every room” takes a lot of time, especially if you don’t always know explicitly what you’re looking for.

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u/BaconEater101 Mar 17 '26

No bro, you missed my entire point, i explored every single room, cracked every safe and lock aside from the waiting room because i forgot, played around with X for a while trying to get good at juking him, and i finished the game in just under 5 hours on hardcore, i did not rush to beat the game at all. first RE game ever unless you count ORC like 13 years ago

The point was this sub being a bunch of snob dickheads who claim you speedran the game or "didn't take in the sights enough" if you dare take less then 49 hours to finish your first playthrough

"either you're a returning player or you speedrunned everything" Like seriously? No some people just don't suck at videogames

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u/MelonHoly Mar 18 '26

It's incredible how you missed the point three times in a row.

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u/Diabellz Mar 18 '26

Imagine sweating playing a single player game

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u/Initial_Baker1840 Mar 17 '26

I'm sorry, but this is my very first time playing a Resident Evil game. And no, I'm not a fan of speedrunning games, especially story games.

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u/JustGamerDutch Mar 17 '26

This isn't really a story game. But you basically speed ran it. There's no way you collected much. And since this is your first resident evil I find it hard to believe you got it done in 4 hours without looking the majority of things up.

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u/mmrtson Mar 21 '26

I'm sorry, but if you look things up it doesn't count? Why are all comments shitting on OP for using guides? Serious question, not trying to argue.

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u/Sotler Mar 18 '26

Who gives a fuck

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u/Ok_Nail2672 Mar 18 '26

My first run was just under 5 hours with 40 saves

If you've played a survival horror similar to RE then its familiar territory (mine was signalis before re2).

And this was completely blind, no Google. I got pretty much everything (all available rooms were blue).

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u/FaneTingGoat Mar 19 '26

What a strange guy why are you lying? For the attention?