How or Why did you come to love the series?

[beasley23803]

In my living room around 2002/2003, after playing Code Veronica X for the PS2, that was it for me.

[Vector]

I was 7 years old watching my uncle play RE1. When the dog jumped through the window, I nearly shit myself, and I had nightmares, but it was intriguing at the same time. A year or two later I got a PS1 myself and the first game I got with it...was RE2. End of story.

[riderkid]

i think i rented RE2 and did not like it as it was really slow in loading (but it turns out the disc was damamged) and my friend christian had RE1 and lent it to me for a week as well as giving me a memory card. then i ended up rerenting RE2 and loved it

[Tyrant T-002]

I always saw my brother playing RE2
He always died in the beggining lol
But when he got to the R.P.D and those hands came from the wall,I started crying and I had a lot of nightmares lol
I was only 6 years old,it was around 1999/2000

Then I started to play but I never finished the game
So in 2006 me and my friend started to play RE2 again and we beat it,I was so happy

Then I started to play all the others RE's

sorry for the bad english lol

[The Dude]

Played the RE2 Demo when it came out in OPM:UK magazine in 1998 *I think*, died upteenth times till I got the hang of the control system, after about a 2 weeks with the demo I got my brother to buy the game, the rest as they say, is history

[A-J]

way back in 1997, played the original resi evil based on a shop keeper's recommendation (even though i was horribly underage at that time, only 11) and loved every second of it, back then the live action intro was like the single most coolest thing i had ever seen in a video game. I was used to crappy 2d games before that and RE was my first proper "next gen" title.

[The Dude]

Lucky you, my first next gen title was Olympic Soccer :p

[Tyrant T-002]

My first "next-gen" was Fighting Force *-*
I loved the first one
But I was to young so I think the first game that I beat was Harry Potter 2 for ps1 8D
The I played a lot of PS2 games (basically I just bought my PS2 because of RE,so as the GC,WII,DS and I'll buy ps3 too lol).
Years later I beat RE4 (it's too much easy) and after this I beat RE2

[The_15th]

One of my friends was playing Alone in the Dark in front of me and I immediately liked it. So when I saw this OBVIOUS CLONE called RE2, I was heads over heals in love. I then enjoyed RE3 even more. Finally, Outbreak, implementing multi player at long last and the best analog control scheme so far, spoiled me for any other game.

I liked the first game a little less. I like remake alot more.

[Darkmoon]

My then brother in law was huge into games and got a Japanese game called Biohazard he heard was good. I played it, liked it, but found it hard since I couldn't understand a damn word of text. So when a friend tells me about a game called Resident Evil...

[Vector]

My then brother in law was huge into games and got a Japanese game called Biohazard he heard was good. I played it, liked it, but found it hard since I couldn't understand a damn word of text. So when a friend tells me about a game called Resident Evil...

Nice. Very nice!

[T-103]

I remember going over to Blockbuster, I had only just got a Ps1 and Resident evil looked pretty cool. Little did I know I was going to be playing that game for weeks trying to beat it, good times..

[Stars1356]

I actually rented the first game and didn't like it. Then a few weeks later I played it again at a friends house and got hooked. I went to buy and at the time only the DC version was available.

[Biohazard EX]

I was 13 years old. I rented RE2 for N64. What I loved about it was how movie-like it was.
With dramatic, fixed camera angles. The camera angles were one of the best things about RE. Plus I loved the idea that there was this "friendly" large corporation who secretly worked on bio-weapons. The idea of that conspiracy was just so awesome.

Needless to say once Resident Evil lost the Zombies, the T-Virus and Umbrella. Got rid of the camera angles. Then added a LOT of things I was unhappy about... I've given up on the series. I'll forever love the classics. But I refuse to acknowledge anything RE4 and beyond.

[Helegad]

I got RE1 for PSX from a rental store when I was something like 10. I didn't notice the cheesy voice acting then though Anyway, I saved about 8 times, and couldn't pass the life to death puzzle, then got stuck and left it until it was due back.

I actually thought you just had to get all four crests and the game was done for. Oh, how wrong I was

My next RE experience was RE2 and RE3 for PC. RE2 wouldn't goddamn work properly even on 98, so I played RE3 to completion, then persisted with getting RE2 to work okay. I succeeded, but ended up playing RE3 more than 2 anyway.

Next I ordered RE1 for PC off eBay. I remember the seller (she's no longer a member of eBay, sadly), because she sent it off to me even when I hadn't finished paying for it. How sweet of her However, I was in the process of setting up a PayPal account, which takes a few days, then sending an eCheque takes up to another week, so it would have been a long time before I got it. That's why I requested early delivery. Anyway, I gave her details of what I was up to in the PayPal process, and she believed me, so that's cool.

I can't remember anything after that, except that I got Survivor and had a good time playing it on an emulator, before I finally got to play it on a real PlayStation (which was kept at my dad's house, and I mainly lived at my mum's).

[Sevket]

One of my friends was playing Alone in the Dark in front of me and I immediately liked it. So when I saw this OBVIOUS CLONE called RE2, I was heads over heals in love. I then enjoyed RE3 even more. Finally, Outbreak, implementing multi player at long last and the best analog control scheme so far, spoiled me for any other game.

I liked the first game a little less. I like remake alot more.

I remember playing alone in the Dark 1 and 2 and getting pretty scared about it.

I have met with the series when I was reading about how great the game is from Computer and Videogames (CVG) magazine. At that time the shops were selling Resident Evil 2 like crazy (I was doing my Masters in UK). Despte being a fan of gaming since I was 10 I haven't thought of buying a PS1 to play the game.

All that has changed when I found out that first Resident Evil was available to PC. I knew that it was great and I fell in love with it right after the zombie chewing the STARS member turned around to attack me.

The first thing I did next is to buy Resident Evil 2 even before I got my PS1...

3 consoles bought just to play Resident Evil (PS1,Dreamcast and GameCube), a wife and a son later I am still a big fan waiting for Resident Evil 5.

[Scott Green]

"Wow. What a Mansion."
"Blood. Hope it's not Chris's blood"
"Watch out it's a monster"
"Help me Barry! Quickly!"
"Jill Sandwich"
"What about you Barry?"
"I have THIS!"

yea... that sums up about everything that made me start to love resident evil

Well it doesn't stop in the sequels so.... here some examples...

"Ada! Wait"
"What haaaappppend?"
"Sherry!"
"I told you it's my job to look after you."
"Game Over!"

"We have to get out of this town"
"All the foxy ladies love my accent."
"STARS!"
"You want STARS I'll give you some!"

"ahahahahaahahahahhahah..." - alfred ashford
*does not remember cv quotes well*

*insert cheesy one liners from RE4 here*

I think I was watching my brother play the first game about 11 years ago... I was 9 then...

[GuardhouseMusic]

First time playing was RE2 when I was around 8 years old– my parents were pretty lenient until they actually found out that it scared the crap out of me. Anyway, I remember getting maybe as far as the first licker and not wanting to continue on either due to fear or suckiness (probably a bit from both columns). In any case, I gave the controller to my older brother because he was just as interested and he was probably more capable. The first moment that got to me was the crow hallway. When they crashed through the window I immediately went into a fetal position on a pillow

[Gideon Quinn]

My first RE encounter was playing RE2 back in 1998 when it was released, as a 12/13 year old. Like GuardhouseMusic, i was pretty damn scared of it and ended up siphoning off the controls to my older brother, who completed it as i watched vigorously. I became attached to the characters and thought the story was outstanding (I was an impressionable 12 year old, i didn't even notice how bad the voice acting was!) and since then i've bought every new game upon release...

[Vector]

http://residentevilporn.ytmnd.com/

THIS.