RE5 Mercs Guide - Possible Rewrite

If you're close to me because of RE5 or have ever mentioned my Mercs guide to me for RE5 then you probably know my thoughts on my existing Mercs guide on GameFAQs right now.

RE5 Mercs guide

^ That guide is very out-of-date and basically crap at the moment from my view. I have people that mention how much the guide helped them, but when I look back on it now, much of the info in it is so embarrassing compared to what I know now. It's literally based off my experience with the game for 3 months after its release.

I've been saying that I would update a bunch of it, but I still haven't yet. Just yesterday, I started thinking even more about it. Updating it wouldn't really satisfy me at this point. There's just too much stuff in the guide to read it over again and go through and add stuff.

I want to make a hardcore guide that appeals to a crowd that really wants to play RE5 Mercs for scores and not just those that want to play it for SS-ranks. Right now, the current guide is kind of a mixture. If I updated it, it would stay the same way.

So I decided...

I'll fully rewrite EVERYTHING from the ground up!

The new guide that I make will be as hardcore as I can make it. I'll try to go in depth with every character and ESPECIALLY the stages. There will be no SS-rank or material that will help you unlock all characters easily with an A-rank. This will be strictly for those that want to play the game for scores. All formatting will be changed...

NOTHING will stay the same.

In order to satisfy those that are happy with the current guide, I've decided that I will keep the existing Mercs guide up, but it will be added to my RE5 guide on GameFAQs (you'll have to open up the full guide to see it). The new guide will replace the current one up above.

At the moment, this is all still talk, though I have actually started on some of the new guide already. As long as I can keep up the motivation for it, I think I can get it done in a few weeks or a month.

With FAQ writing I find it SO MUCH easier to write a new guide rather than go back and update an existing guide. With a new guide, you're free to do anything you want! With an existing guide, you have to read over several parts of it to make sure that what you're adding stays consistent with everything else.

I have told a few people that I wish I could go back in time with what I know now and start on the Mercs guide for the first time once again. The game is old now, but I want to rewrite it for myself mainly. I want to be satified with what I see on that RE5 GameFAQs page when I see my Mercs guide. Maybe this will give me that chance to finally do so.

I'll make a post here and/or add some info on my youtube page as I progress with this. It might possibly spawn a few other ideas besides just a Mercs guide rewrite. I'm still considering a few extras other than the rewrite.

Marvel vs Capcom 3 - Chris Guide

Marvel vs Capcom 3
Chris Redfield Guide

This is just a little note to mention that I made up a Chris guide for Marvel vs Capcom 3. This is my first time writing for a fighting game, so hopefully it looks alright. I'll update this more as the weeks progress.

Dead Rising 2 Guide

Dead Rising 2 Guide by Berserker

Chuck Greene is the man! Thanks to him and his fantastic game, I am now back into FAQ writing once again and I am absolutely having a blast with it.

Thank you, Chuck.

And I did a little something for Case Zero also:

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero guide by Berserker

Case West will be released sometimes down the line and I'll be sure to do something for that also!

By now, I definitely know my way around a zombie or two.

Most Amusing Email of the Week #1

I just got through checking through my email, which I only spend time doing about once every month lately, and came across this email. I love humorous emails and this one stood out to me, so I though I might share:

I just finished whupping up on Zues' treacherous ass thanks to you. I initially ended up on IGN because I had gotten stuck somewhere in the middle of the game, (it is my first time playing the God of War series, I never got around to it on the original PS2) and I came across the fantastic guide that you had put on there (written July 4, 2007). I can honestly say that I would have thrown my controller through my tv and lit the bluray of GOW collection on fire and laughed maniacally as i watched it burn.....if, I wouldn't have had this guide. But alas Berserker was there and he saved me a controller, a tv, a game disc and my sanity. Sony should really just pack your guide in with the gamedisc, forget the stupid manual, (c'mon, who doesn't know what the start button does?), or at least give a link to it.

- excerpt from email by Gordy

Thanks a lot, Gordy!

I'll post up other good emails if I get anymore.

Moving on from Resident Evil 5.

Just a few weeks ago, I was playing Resident Evil 5 like I have been in my free time for the past... year... and decided to take a small break from the game and play some others for a while. I watched a preview of another game and it reminded me just how much I've been addicted to RE5 over the year and have completely forgotten about other good games out there.

It's been quite a while since I've even written a guide seriously. The last guide that I actually worked really hard on was Resident Evil 5. I planned for that to be my last, but... you know the way that works. You never quit something that you love so much. It just doesn't work that way. :)

It's really time to move on from Resident Evil 5 and get to more important stuff out there though.

Stuff like...



Hitting zombies over the head with a chair...

Beating zombies over head with a sledgehammer and crushing their skulls into the ground...

Taking on the role of Chuck Green to cover the zombie outbreak in Sin City!

Chuck doesn't cover wars. He makes his own wars!

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero will be released on August 31, 2010 and the full game is scheduled for release on September 29, 2010. If you'll be picking up Dead Rising 2 and need help from GameFAQs, I'll see you there. ;)


Disclaimer: I never will quit playing Resident Evil 5 entirely any time soon, but I will take frequent breaks from the game and get to other games. It's FAR past time to move on from it.

Resident Evil 5 - Mercenaries Reunion Guide

Hey, you know I always keep my promises.

Who said the line up above? Fail, if you don't know! >=(

Chris Redfield mentioned that phrase to Claire in the closing cutscene to Resident Evil: Code Veronica. It sort of has meaning to this post too.

The Mercenaries Reunion minigame isn't exactly what hardcore RE5 Mercs players were hoping for. It completely reversed the main concept of RE5 Mercs. Instead of the focus being on building time while trying to maintain a full kill combo, the focus is now on keeping a full kill combo while trying to build time. The kill combo takes priority over EVERYTHING in a run on Mercenaries Reunion. Losing the combo is like dying basically to a player that wants to achieve the highest score.

I was very pumped to write a guide for Reunion when it was first announced. A few weeks after playing it, I noticed that there was very little interest in Mercenaries Reunion in the minds of hardcore players. Many of them were simply returning to normal Mercs. I have to admit that I thought there was going to be little demand for info for Mercs Reunion because of the little interest in it among hardcore players, but many RE5 fans are still playing it.

I said I was going to write a guide for Mercs Reunion and I stuck with my word, so here it is:

Resident Evil 5: The Mercenaries Reunion guide
by Berserker

I basically opened up the original Mercs guide on my laptop and started editing it for Reunion (I use previous guides as templates a bunch). It's FAR from just a cut and paste job though.

Pretty much every little detail of Mercenaries Reunion was all figured by myself with the help of other Mercs players. There is no official guide to give us weapon stats or the full combo bonus system so all that had to figured from scratch. Some of it is off but a good majority of it should be close to the actual info.

If you haven't yet, bet sure to check out the Biohazard Mercenaries site. You'll find a bunch more info about RE5 Mercs and RE5 Mercenaries Reunion. I like to recommend the site to all of my readers since it really is the best source of English information that a player will find for both modes. Make sure you tell them Berserker sent you! :)

I'm most likely going to spend the rest of this year updating the Mercs Reunion guide and redoing some of my old RE5 Mercs guide. Writing for the game is really more fun than playing it to me at this point. Ever since the end of last year, I've basically been playing it to write anyway.

This may very well be a good stopping point in FAQ writing for me. I don't like to mention the term "Retiring" or "Quitting" or whatever so I wouldn't ever say that because I wouldn't stick with it most likely. Once we get a new Resident Evil game, that will probably change my current mood, but as for now, I don't really have the motivation to write outside of Resident Evil 5. If I ever do stop though, I can look back on Resident Evil 5 and say to myself:

That's the best time I ever had writing for a game!

Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares and Desperate Escape Guides

Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares guide
by Berserker

This guide has been up for a while actually. I first posted it a few weeks after Lost in Nightmares was released. To me, Lost in Nightmares is the best part of RE5 overall. It really takes a player back to the horror experience that RE5 used to be while maintaining the newer action gameplay. I'd love to see Resident Evil 6 take this type of approach.

Resident Evil 5: Desperate Escape guide
by Berserker

I just posted this guide about a week ago. In a way this one is rushed, kind of like Lost in Nightmares. Desperate Escape feels too much like more of the main game of RE5 overall to me. It does have some good tense moments like the final battle, but overall, it feels like a Mercs game... it even has exploding bosses! xD


Now there is only one thing left that I need to do...

Just one more thing...

A God of War III guide!




No...

A Mercenaries Reunion guide of course!

Visit the Biohazard Mercenaries site and view the strategy board to see what I have done on this guide so far. I'm going to try to be as detailed as my original Mercs guide.