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What do you think of Resident Evil 4?
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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: one of the greatest and most influential games of all time. Also bingo.
RE4 is one of the closest games to being perfect. Easily one of the best games of all time. I can definitely see a case for being the absolute best, too.
Mind blowing at the time. Still awesome when I rebought it for the Wii. Now... couldn't really get into it with Game Pass :( Just felt clunky. IMO doesn't hold up nearly as well these days as generation "best game ever" contemporaries like Metroid Prime, Halo, or Shadow of the Colossus.
The game control is pretty weird at first. But after you get the jizz of it, it turns "okay. I can deal with it". And then after you play more further, it will turn into "okay. The control is perfect as it is and there is no way it should change even in the remake"
People playing it for the first time today might think it's just a decent action/horror game. But back when it first came out? There was no other game like it. It brought back a favorite character from a favorite series in a completely new way. I frikkin loved the gun upgrade mechanics that made exploring fun. And there was a ton to explore too! The maps were huge and there were enormous sections you'd miss if you only followed the story objective. One of the best games of all time. RE4 together with FF: Tactics will always have a perma spot in my top10.
It wouldn't have cracked my top five of 2005—not then, not now—but there is admittedly a significant degree of genre preference baked into that, and one shouldn't read it as a slight. RE4 is one of those games that was a textbook execution of something I wouldn't ordinarily find appealing, and which I therefore thought was very good. Lots of learn from it to this day when it comes to pacing and resource management, despite its rather unfortunate role in normalizing do-or-die QTEs for years to come. I look back at its rhythmic tandem of explosive set pieces and cautious forward exploration and am tempted to argue that, for a game that I already considered a tad overrated in its own day, its mastery of pacing isn't appreciated nearly enough.
I always meant to take a crack at it again in the Wii version, as I loathe stick-aiming in all its forms, and couldn't believe Capcom blew it with the Switch port when they got literally everything right with the control scheme redesign for Okami HD. No, gyro isn't the same thing as IR pointer aiming, but I can't see myself attempting this game with the original stick-based scheme again.
I always meant to take a crack at it again in the Wii version, as I loathe stick-aiming in all its forms, and couldn't believe Capcom blew it with the Switch port when they got literally everything right with the control scheme redesign for Okami HD. No, gyro isn't the same thing as IR pointer aiming, but I can't see myself attempting this game with the original stick-based scheme again.
I post in so many of these. Yes it's the best action game ever made. Yes it's perfect. It might be the best designed game ever, for sure it's the best paced. Nothing may ever top it.
Yep. re4 was a birthday gift to me given in the morning, and I decided to skip school that day. It was a legendary day for a legendary game.
One of the most overrated games I've ever played which also began the downfall of the franchise lasting 10+ years. I'm glad that finally we're getting some semblance of survival horror back that RE was originally made famous for with the recent release of RE2 Remake and upcoming RE3 Remake.
In a nutshell, RE4 is a good but dated action game, bad RE game.
In a nutshell, RE4 is a good but dated action game, bad RE game.
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I liked it, but never seen as great as many say. I find it too long and a bit boring at times, leaving is not there all the time. Also the camera is atrocious
For me the best resident evil is still the first one. The sequel is really good too, but that mansion for the very first time is one of the best moments in my gaming life
For me the best resident evil is still the first one. The sequel is really good too, but that mansion for the very first time is one of the best moments in my gaming life
Played it again about a year ago, and it still controlled like a dream. Dropping dudes with the 'ol Leon special of a kneeshot/headshot + suplex/roundhouse is still one of the best things in gaming. When you kick or suplex a dude and their head explodes too? So good.
I actively hate this game. I thibk it has ko redeeming qualities whatsoever. I know you (yes, you, dear reader) will vehemently disagree with me... But, alas, I don't care. I stand by my opinion: RE4 is the worst RE game bar none, and a bad game overall.
Yes, I thibk RE6 is a much, much better game.
Yes, I thibk RE6 is a much, much better game.
At the time I loved it, thought it was the best RE game of all time, now it's severely aged, and not in a fine wine kind of way. The worst crime is the voice acting and script/story/characters.
It was a game i loved and held in high regards in the past but after replaying it recently my opinion changed drastically. In my replay i found most combat encounters boring and didn't feel any excitement. I'm really hoping it gets the remake treatment to bring back that excitement i felt when i first played it.
I'm bittersweet about it. It's an amazing game, the best TPS I've played, my overall most replayed game, and it's firmly in my all-time top 10. I think it's objectively one of the best games ever made.
But at the same time it marked the end of classic survival horror, not just for RE but across-the-board. The rest of the industry followed suit and entered a real dark period for the genre. And while it's not RE4's fault that follow-up games were mediocre-to-bad, it started the series down a path that it didn't really recover from until a few years ago.
Also, as someone who was deeply invested in the story at that time and was irrationally hyped for RE 3.5, seeing the Umbrella story discarded just like that in the opening cutscene was brutal.
I view RE4 simultaneously as a masterpiece and as a huge bummer.
But at the same time it marked the end of classic survival horror, not just for RE but across-the-board. The rest of the industry followed suit and entered a real dark period for the genre. And while it's not RE4's fault that follow-up games were mediocre-to-bad, it started the series down a path that it didn't really recover from until a few years ago.
Also, as someone who was deeply invested in the story at that time and was irrationally hyped for RE 3.5, seeing the Umbrella story discarded just like that in the opening cutscene was brutal.
I view RE4 simultaneously as a masterpiece and as a huge bummer.
It's so good that they couldn't fit all the good in 1 game and had to make devil may cry to hold the rest of it.
It used to be my favorite RE. On the day of release, 11/10. 15 years later, 8/10. Controls always require an adjustment period and the game kick started the decline of horror RE. It wouldn't be until RE7 that RE gave me the creeps again. That fact taints it in my mind quite a bit
Worst one in the mainline series as I see it. The core mechanics were improved on by the addition of co-op for 5, but even then, it's still not what I consider a Resident Evil game. If it had a completely different title, I could safely ignore it while the masses fellate it. But it's unfortunately attached in name to one of my favorite series of games, so I have to begrudgingly accept it as a fundamentally solid and well paced game, even if it sits at the bottom of the franchise with ORC, Survivor, and Umbrella Corps.
Leon sucks, the antagonists suck, Ashley super sucks, and things like collecting money to buy upgrades should never EVER be in a horror game. Period. Resident Evil 2 Remake is everything it should have been, had they insisted on turning it into a shooter.
Leon sucks, the antagonists suck, Ashley super sucks, and things like collecting money to buy upgrades should never EVER be in a horror game. Period. Resident Evil 2 Remake is everything it should have been, had they insisted on turning it into a shooter.