[QUOTE="Angry_Beaver"]You're doing a No True Scotsman to Resident Evil 4. It was a Resident Evil game, no matter the differences.On topic, I've beaten RE: Deadly Silence, RE0, and RE4, and I've played some of CODE: Veronica X. My favorite main-line RE game, out of what I've played, is RE4, though obviously it's sort of a side-story (with important tie-ins, such as Ada's mode). Second favorite at this point in time is probably RE0, then Deadly Silence, then CVX (just because I haven't played much of it). I really want to get all the REs on GameCube.
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"Resident Evil" by which standards? It is hardly similar to the games before it. If they are accepted as the formula that defines "Resident Evil" (as they are the games that preceded number 4 and were the originators of the series itself) then RE4 fails to meet that definition.
Just because the game bears the name doesn't necessarily make it that type of game. Fallout 3 bears the Fallout name and the post-apocalyptic atmosphere but bears little resemblance otherwise to the games that preceded it. I never said RE4 was a bad game... I'm just saying, it isn't "Resident Evil."Resident Evil by the standard of title convention: if it bears the same title, it's part of the series. Your quotation marks around the title are there to sneak in personal bias--otherwise, they wouldn't be necessary. The bias is indicated by "if they are accepted as the formula that defines 'Resident Evil'". Many series evolve over time. Is Super Mario 64 a "Mario" game? Is Metroid Prime a "Metroid" game? What's the difference between a Mario game and a "Mario" game? Putting the quotation marks around the name is engaging in textual deception. You could just as easily state that RE4 fails to fit the formula that initially defined the series, which is absolutely true, but the fact is that since the series is now different, its defining characteristics are also, necessarily, different.
The topic is about what people's favorite RE game is, not what everyone's favorite main-RE-series-games-minus-RE4 game is, which is what using phrases like "Resident Evil" in quotation marks actually means. And since it's about every game in the series and not just those that fit the old defining characteristics, it's not about a specific type of game at all. If the title asked about Far Cry, then Far Cry 2 would be a legitimate answer for someone to give.
One of the points I'd like to make clear, though, is that I don't see a place for the aforementioned biased differentiation in a thread like this. I can definitely see legitimate disgust from people who dislike RE4 as a game and because it's in the main line of RE games almost by title alone, but that's all completely tangential, IMO.
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