14 Years In, Resident Evil 5 Removes Games For Windows Live, Fixes Split-Screen

@judaspete: I dunno. I guess that all depends on your definition of the severity of "significant." 1.1 points difference in a 10 point system is an 11% difference. Scientifically that is "significant," but in the gaming industry, I would chalk that up more to "mildly less positive reception than the previous title."

And yeah, lol. You are absolutely correct. I remember how badly people hated on 6 too. A lot still do. And we can be honest, it IS the worst one in the franchise. But a lot of the hate was from people who just "heard" it sucked, so they hated on it. Seems to be the trend with gamers the past decade. Much of the hate you hear on games are just from people who heard or read about how it sucked, and never actually played it.

Either way, I think the article should have addressed the past AND the present reception of all the games, seeing as how the article was addressing a current event based on a past game, and referenced both. As they stand now, they are all ranked higher by the player base than a "significant" amount of games nowadays. Critic reception is probably still terrible, but let us be real here, reviews by critics are generally heavily flawed by the fact that it is usually a single person reviewing a game, and their bias will influence the score "significantly." When you have tens of thousands of gamers who say the game isn't too shabby, and 1-10 critics who say it sucks, take your pick which to believe, but I tend to believe the gamers.

And goddamn, this turned into my own TED Talk. Thanks for listening!

@judaspete: No, what it is still sucks. There's a number of clunky design elements that still drag it down to this day and that's with regards to its action mechanics, not the lack of horror elements. If they had just fixed those problems, then, yeah, the game would count as a very good action title.

Stockholm Syndrome. : p

@Barighm: RE 5 sold well, but there was a lot of fan backlash for the focus on action. 5 and 6 were accused of abandoning the series roots in pursuit of the filthy casuals, and it it kinda worked since they sold well. But the "real fans" were definitly mad about it at the time.

@Barighm: i guess, but going back to an old game like this feels off.

@uninspiredcup: not much really, playing with wiimote and nunchuck (re4 wii) already feels kind of quick.