RE4 was one of the worst games I've played in the past few years.
Johnny_Rock
Nah, it's a good game. The only thing that pisses me is that it basically killed survival horror. Awful Resident Evil game.
Resident evil 4 still great
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I'd honestly swap out games that have come out this generation like Uncharted, Gears, Dead Space for a game of Resident Evil 4s caliber.
greenskittles
They did
and it was basically the same game now with multiplayer, and a slightly shorter campaign. Don't get me wrong, I loved RE4 when it came out and played the game to death, but if RE5 came out before it, people would be complaining how RE4 is a downgrade in comparison.
What was great THEN doesn't make it great now, and RE5 is the perfect example of this.
[QUOTE="Jynxzor"] RE 5 did everything the same as RE4 with AI and more "Hardcore" action. RE4 started the slide into oblivion for the RE series, RE5 just picked up the slack.Luxen90Come on, you tried to say earlier in this thread that RE4/RE5 were generic action games. No point in having this discussion with you unless you could name 10 action games similar to RE4/5 because I surely cannot think of any despite not liking the direction RE went in. Just because RE4 gave new life to a extremly dull genre "TPS" doesn't make it great, if anything it was archaic for it's time even. But please do indulge me, what did RE4 do that made it a great action game?
What puts it apart from the crowd of similar games, if not better games that do the same thing RE4 was trying to do better? For christ sakes Dead Space is a better Action Horror game than RE4, people just love to ride on the RE4 love train because it was first. While it remains a fact without RE4 Dead Space would have never been greenlit, it doesn't mean it is a "Good" game.
I'm not sure how anything RE4 did was amazing, it had archaic controls for a TPS, and outdated quicktime events. Once you got out of the village any atmosphere that was created was shot, it was obvious that they wanted RE4 to be a normal Survival Horror game until someone took the riens and crammed in a boot-full of "Hardcore" the slow transition from slow vilagers with axes, to.
Is pretty apparant, yet it was pretty much ignored because of how much people loved the initial setting, the game faulters so hard near it's end. That tumble is further continued in RE5 where they pretty much broke the knob off at 11 at the end of RE4 and decided to crank it up to 12 for RE5.
*note the hardcore sunglasses and cigar the "Brainless manjini" has*
With the wild sucsess of RE4 despite all of it's obvious blunders gave birth to RE5, people just actually noticed it this time because there was no good "Part" to cling too like RE4's first half. Capcom is obviously dedicated to shoehorning the "hardcore" elements into everything it does even REvelations was looking good for a while until they decided to show us a character who has her hair glued to her eyes and doesn't mind a draft blowing through her open shirt.
RE4 was again, the decline of the series RE5 just kept running with the momentum without actually looking back at what made RE4 half decent for the first half of the game. If RE4 wasn't riding on the coat-tails of it's previous itterations it wouldn't have been heralded as some marvelous game. But thats just my opinion feel free to not agree.
Just because RE4 gave new life to a extremly dull genre "TPS" doesn't make it great, if anything it was archaic for it's time even. But please do indulge me, what did RE4 do that made it a great action game?
What puts it apart from the crowd of similar games, if not better games that do the same thing RE4 was trying to do better? For christ sakes Dead Space is a better Action Horror game than RE4, people just love to ride on the RE4 love train because it was first. While it remains a fact without RE4 Dead Space would have never been greenlit, it doesn't mean it is a "Good" game.
I'm not sure how anything RE4 did was amazing, it had archaic controls for a TPS, and outdated quicktime events. Once you got out of the village any atmosphere that was created was shot, it was obvious that they wanted RE4 to be a normal Survival Horror game until someone took the riens and crammed in a boot-full of "Hardcore" the slow transition from slow vilagers with axes, to.
Is pretty apparant, yet it was pretty much ignored because of how much people loved the initial setting, the game faulters so hard near it's end. That tumble is further continued in RE5 where they pretty much broke the knob off at 11 at the end of RE4 and decided to crank it up to 12 for RE5.
*note the hardcore sunglasses and cigar the "Brainless manjini" has*
With the wild sucsess of RE4 despite all of it's obvious blunders gave birth to RE5, people just actually noticed it this time because there was no good "Part" to cling too like RE4's first half. Capcom is obviously dedicated to shoehorning the "hardcore" elements into everything it does even REvelations was looking good for a while until they decided to show us a character who has her hair glued to her eyes and doesn't mind a draft blowing through her open shirt.
RE4 was again, the decline of the series RE5 just kept running with the momentum without actually looking back at what made RE4 half decent for the first half of the game. If RE4 wasn't riding on the coat-tails of it's previous itterations it wouldn't have been heralded as some marvelous game. But thats just my opinion feel free to not agree.
Jynxzor
I'm not even sure what the made you write those first two paragraphs because nowhere did I even say that Resident Evil 4 is good because it's the first to do it, that's an incredibly stupid reason and I hate stuff like that, and nor did I ever imply that.
I enjoyed Resident Evil 4, because of it's B movie Script, memorable boss fights, and I still think the gunplay is very satisfying. Sure the controls are archaic, but let's be real here, the old RE games controls are archaic too, yet they are my favorite games so I'd be a hypocritic if I were to criticize RE4 archaic controls and not talk about the past games, but I can adjust pretty fast to them regardless.
As for Dead Space being better....nah, I've say there's certainly somethings that are better in Dead Space like atmosphere, but I felt like Resident Evil 4 overall was a much more enjoyable game. I had to many problems with Dead Space, which could of been because I hyped the game up a lot since I always wanted a sci fi horror game so I ended up disapointed.
Resident Evil 5 was decent don't get me wrong, but yeah it did take the action from RE4 and x10 pretty much, but at the same time it took away stuff puzzles(I know Resident Evil 5 has some puzzles) and the cheesy dialogue which I really enjoyed in Resident Evil 4.
But anyway, I can easily tell you are RE fan who is disappointed with the direction the series has gone in and just know that I'm not comparing Resident Evil 4 to other horror games nor do I really see it as one, I think it's a really fun action game with some really well made levels.
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