RE4: Bad --> Good (Beware: Opinions Present)

I'll be honest, I got this game for GC when it 1st came out and wasn't a big fan. Something about it kept it from grabbing me and I could never bring myself to get more than a few hours in (in 4 different tries) before getting frustrated or bored.

I have no idea why (probably because I hate that my Wii is collecting dust), but I picked up the Wii version today..... and played it for 4 hours straight and enjoyed every minute of it. I really think the controls are what changed this game for me. It's more intuitive and isn't distracting from the game. I love just slashing my Wiimote to use the knife (with the tracking system) instead of pulling it out with a trigger, aiming, etc. The shooting is a much better experience and doesn't leave me frustrated like it did in the original version.

Long story short, I'm now beginning to understand why this game has the acclaim it does. I never did before.

polaris550- yup ps2 is a great console, not the best ever though, regarding your sig.

as for nosferatu (funny name btw) i dont see how the controls for GC didn't get you but w/e, glad you enjoy the wii version.

I'll be honest, I got this game for GC when it 1st came out and wasn't a big fan. Something about it kept it from grabbing me and I could never bring myself to get more than a few hours in (in 4 different tries) before getting frustrated or bored.

I have no idea why (probably because I hate that my Wii is collecting dust), but I picked up the Wii version today..... and played it for 4 hours straight and enjoyed every minute of it. I really think the controls are what changed this game for me. It's more intuitive and isn't distracting from the game. I love just slashing my Wiimote to use the knife (with the tracking system) instead of pulling it out with a trigger, aiming, etc. The shooting is a much better experience and doesn't leave me frustrated like it did in the original version.

Long story short, I'm now beginning to understand why this game has the acclaim it does. I never did before.

nosferatu

i feel the same way about the GC version. I couldn't ever get into it because I simply couldn't get used to aiming that way quickly enough for it to be intuitive. I'm planning on trading it in and getting the Wii version soon though.

Long story short, I'm now beginning to understand why this game has the acclaim it does. I never did before.

nosferatu

Kinda shot yourself in the foot there, your basing this on the Wii remote and controls but RE4 had this acclaim before the Wii version was ever planned.

[QUOTE="nosferatu"]

Long story short, I'm now beginning to understand why this game has the acclaim it does. I never did before.

KingKoop

Kinda shot yourself in the foot there, your basing this on the Wii remote and controls but RE4 had this acclaim before the Wii version was ever planned.

Huh? I see a game as its own entity with story, gameplay, etc... the content. The controls, while an extremely important element as this topic would show, play the bridge between the player and the game to me. I really don't see how that comment detracted from anything I said. Of courseI know there wasn't always a Wii(or PS2 version) planned and that it got its acclaim with the old controls. Those controls proved to be a barrier to me experiencing the content and thus didn't provide that bridge between me and the game. Thus, I didn't enjoy the content of the game.... that's what I was referring to.

EXAMPLE:
I realized that my explanation was confusing and weird so I thought about it and came back with this example to explain it. The Bible, despite my irreligiousness, makes for a great example.

Millions of people love the stories of the Bible, but they can be delivered in numerous ways and this delivery can severely affect their enjoyment of them although it is not technically a part of its content. You can read them in a book or on a computer, you can have them preached to you or simply recounted, or you can dig for 2000 year old copper scrolls and read them off those. Some deliveries will be far more conducive to your sense of enjoyment and which one works best will differ between people and to their impact will be todifferent degrees.

This is similar to how I feel about controls and their impact on a game: the delivery method is important, but is a separate element from the actual content of the game. I hope that made a bit more sense.

well that was 2 years ago. so youwear 2 years younger and when u get older. u like those big guns and shooting zombies black_steel_4u

Yeah, cept your tastes don't really change all that much over the course of 2 years once you hit your mid 20s ;)

The Cube version is still last gen's best game for me.tomarlyn

For me, it's a tie between RE4 and Metroid Prime.

[QUOTE="KingKoop"][QUOTE="nosferatu"]

Long story short, I'm now beginning to understand why this game has the acclaim it does. I never did before.

nosferatu

Kinda shot yourself in the foot there, your basing this on the Wii remote and controls but RE4 had this acclaim before the Wii version was ever planned.

Huh? I see a game as its own entity with story, gameplay, etc... the content. The controls, while an extremely important element as this topic would show, play the bridge between the player and the game to me. I really don't see how that comment detracted from anything I said. Of courseI know there wasn't always a Wii(or PS2 version) planned and that it got its acclaim with the old controls. Those controls proved to be a barrier to me experiencing the content and thus didn't provide that bridge between me and the game. Thus, I didn't enjoy the content of the game.... that's what I was referring to.

EXAMPLE:
I realized that my explanation was confusing and weird so I thought about it and came back with this example to explain it. The Bible, despite my irreligiousness, makes for a great example.

Millions of people love the stories of the Bible, but they can be delivered in numerous ways and this delivery can severely affect their enjoyment of them although it is not technically a part of its content. You can read them in a book or on a computer, you can have them preached to you or simply recounted, or you can dig for 2000 year old copper scrolls and read them off those. Some deliveries will be far more conducive to your sense of enjoyment and which one works best will differ between people and to their impact will be todifferent degrees.

This is similar to how I feel about controls and their impact on a game: the delivery method is important, but is a separate element from the actual content of the game. I hope that made a bit more sense.

Nice reply. I gotcha. ;)

[QUOTE="black_steel_4u"]well that was 2 years ago. so youwear 2 years younger and when u get older. u like those big guns and shooting zombies nosferatu

Yeah, cept your tastes don't really change all that much over the course of 2 years once you hit your mid 20s ;)

I'll second that, I've always loved RE4 on any format GC - Visually the best looking, PS2 - For the extras after completion like seperate ways and I'm sure the Wii version because of the combination of the two.

I loved the Cube version, and while I didn't dislike the controls, they were admittedly unique. It took a while to get used to them, and I'm not sure I was ever confortable with them.

The Wii version, however, changes that. The gameplay is amazing, and the controls get so comfortable and natural, you feel very much a part of the game. It's so much fun to play: I haven't put it down yet except to eat, sleep, and work, and that I did with much reluctance.

Is $30 too much? Because that's the retail price, and I think it's worth every penny.

I want to pick it up but $50 is to much for a game I beat numerous times already.wooooode

Good thing its only $30 then. Trade in your copy of the gamecube version...put about $20 with it and you'll be set!

I think RE4 was the perfect deviation the old controllers needed

I've never played it on wii, but it was groundbreaking on the GC (it brought second person view back to life, as well as RE. It also redefinied action games, and somemajor games have copied it(Gears of War for example)
it was one of the few games to push the GC (that and MP did, as well as Zelda TP)

but since I loved it so much for GC, and played it so much I think I'll leave the Wii version alone

I loved the GC version but I'm really anticipating what the Wii version will be like.