Resident Evil Village is reportedly our most-completed game of 2021.
According to the users on the site HowLongToBeat.com (thanks, Axios) - a user-led site that helps gamers see how long a game is before picking it up, even differentiating by main story, main plus extras, and completionist runs - of all the games that released in 2021 (and there was a lot of 'em), its users were mostly keen to see the conclusion of Resident Evil Village.Metroid Dread is runner-up, followed by Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, It Takes Two, and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury respectively.
The rest of the top ten includes 12 Minutes, Psychonauts 2, Nier Replicant ver.122474487139..., The Medium, and one of my favourite games of the year, Little Nightmares 2.
Naturally, this only reflects the views of the users of this particular site and is by no means a full and complete survey, but it's an interesting glimpse into gamer behaviour nonetheless.As for the most "retired" games of 2021 - that is, the games we most quickly gave up on? Valheim is apparently leading the charge, followed by 12 Minutes (yes, as well as the being the sixth most-completed, apparently) and Loop Hero.
The site also reveals what game is the all-time most-completed title of them all - Portal! The very excellent Portal 2 takes the silver, with the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot clocking in a very respectable third place.
ICYMI, Resident Evil Village, has now sold over 5m copies, up from 4.5m copies in July. It's yet to top the success of its predecessor, Resident Evil 7, though, which has increased from 9 to 10 million copies in the same time period.Capcom has been utilising the revived success of the Resident Evil brand to branch into film and TV.
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, a CG-animated series, was released on Netflix in July (albeit to mixed reception).
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We've also had a trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, a reboot of the series' movie franchise.
Welcome to Racoon City is inspired by the events of the first and second games, and the newly released trailer has more than its fair share of fan-pleasing nods to the originals - including a recreation of that classic zombie reveal shot, familiar locations including Racoon City PD and the iconic innards of the Spencer Mansion, zombie dogs, old-school outfits, and more.Resident Evil Village has arrived and while the various demos over the last few weeks gave us a chance to sample the technology, we've now played through the entire game and have had a chance to fully process it. As a sequel to Resident Evil 7, this game retains the first-person perspective but with some key improvements. It's also a remarkable showcase for the excellent RE Engine, with image quality, performance and ray tracing enhancements for the next generation of consoles combined with a dramatic boost in scale and scene complexity across the board.
This is what stands out the most to my eye - every scene feels carefully pieced together in a beautiful marriage of art and technology. Yes, the RE Engine powers the game but it's the art team within Capcom that really steals the show. All areas are carefully crafted with an eye towards overall scene composition above all else. In exterior scenes, the distant background lends the world a sense of scale, mid-field objects are placed in a way to connect the background to the foreground and that foreground is packed with fine detail.
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