Resident Evil 2, first screen, by Kate Glasheen.

For whatever reason, I kind of fell out of gaming after the Super Nintendo/Genesis days.  I still played what I had here and there, but I had no idea what was happening in the market for a few years.  Out of nowhere, I asked for a Playstation and Resident Evil 2 as my 15th or 16th birthday present and it changed my f***ing life. I became a survival horror junkie from that point on despite how poorly I can handle being scared.

Resident Evil 2, path secret costumes, by peterbasmalord.

This is a quick map of the start of Resident Evil 2 with notes on how to get the Brad Zombie who drops the key to the alternate costume room! I think I first got this from a friend on my 11th Birthday and it was pretty much immediately my favourite game (replacing the first one!) still its up there in the top ten, would be amazing to get a remake. One with pre-rendered backdrops and puzzles and no motion controls!

[Josh says: awesome.  I love how explicitly this is a map of the path/process rather than a geographically proportional map of the territory.  With a fixed-camera game like the early Residents Evil that makes even more sense, too, since progress through the game is sort of a camera-angle at a time rather than a smooth traversal of a 3D space.]