Resident Evil Series is overrated.

I personally think this series is way overrated. Im really mainly going to talk about Resident Evil 2 because its the best one to the describe the series overrall.

Those god awful camera angles would drive me insane. I am walking along and the camera switch's on me and all of a sudden a Zombie is chewing on my neck. its annoying and the developers tried their best to annoy us with this. It makes aiming very hard in some parts of the game and can make you miss alot of shots overall. Its just so horrible and the camera will jerk around at times if your getting attacked making it hard to see whats going on. Its just terrible overall and they knew that the was horrible but went with it any way. It makes it hard to pick up items and interact with stuff with such a horrible camera.

Another thing that annoys me about Resident Evil is that its not very scary. Most of the time the scares are cheap and when you get out of the police station the game is no longer scary and uses cheap scares to scare you. What I mean by cheap scares is something coming out of no where. I hate it when an enemy falls from the celling followed by a loud noise. That is not scary just very irritating.

The tank controls are also terrible. Along with terrible camera angles its just a night mare with these controls. Its so hard to pick up certain items or do certain things because of this...

But the worse thing about this game is THE BACKTRACKING. Jesus this drove me insane. You are given very little space for your items so you have to constantly run back to item boxes to get the right item you need for a puzzle and such. Meaning you have to store healing items,Weapons,ammo, and other puzzle items away for other items. Its just stupid and very frustrating overall and it annoys the hell out of me.

I find this series to be overrated overall. Resident Evil 4 fixed alot of these things but it blows my mind that these past games had these terrible annoyances.

Anyone else agree?

The only thing that used to annoy me about the games was the camera angles, and RE4 fixed that very well. bethwo

[QUOTE="bethwo"]The only thing that used to annoy me about the games was the camera angles, and RE4 fixed that very well. Salt_The_Fries

[QUOTE="Salt_The_Fries"][QUOTE="bethwo"]The only thing that used to annoy me about the games was the camera angles, and RE4 fixed that very well. bethwo

[QUOTE="bethwo"][QUOTE="Salt_The_Fries"] But vaporized many other things.Star650

edit: I haven't played RE4 in a while, I forgot about the puzzles that the game apparently includes.

i think the best one was nemises. probably because it was the only one i bothered to finish lol but veronica x was pretty decent just pretty hard at times

No not overrated.

Just NOT Scary anymore.

Still buying RE5, though.

your just bored, aren't you? Resident Evil ISN'T overrated, its just that dam good and loved by many. What's overrated is the term 'OVERRATED'....people need to stop using it. Eyezonmii

[QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]your just bored, aren't you? Resident Evil ISN'T overrated, its just that dam good and loved by many. What's overrated is the term 'OVERRATED'....people need to stop using it. JangoWuzHere

[QUOTE="JangoWuzHere"][QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]your just bored, aren't you? Resident Evil ISN'T overrated, its just that dam good and loved by many. What's overrated is the term 'OVERRATED'....people need to stop using it. Eyezonmii

Hold your horses there.

Firstly,
Resident evil 2 > Resident evil 4.
re2 was an amazing game at that time.
Dead space > resident evil 5. For me so far

I personally think this series is way overrated. Im really mainly going to talk about Resident Evil 2 because its the best one to the describe the series overrall.

Those god awful camera angles would drive me insane. I am walking along and the camera switch's on me and all of a sudden a Zombie is chewing on my neck. its annoying and the developers tried their best to annoy us with this. It makes aiming very hard in some parts of the game and can make you miss alot of shots overall. Its just so horrible and the camera will jerk around at times if your getting attacked making it hard to see whats going on. Its just terrible overall and they knew that the was horrible but went with it any way. It makes it hard to pick up items and interact with stuff with such a horrible camera.

Another thing that annoys me about Resident Evil is that its not very scary. Most of the time the scares are cheap and when you get out of the police station the game is no longer scary and uses cheap scares to scare you. What I mean by cheap scares is something coming out of no where. I hate it when an enemy falls from the celling followed by a loud noise. That is not scary just very irritating.

The tank controls are also terrible. Along with terrible camera angles its just a night mare with these controls. Its so hard to pick up certain items or do certain things because of this...

But the worse thing about this game is THE BACKTRACKING. Jesus this drove me insane. You are given very little space for your items so you have to constantly run back to item boxes to get the right item you need for a puzzle and such. Meaning you have to store healing items,Weapons,ammo, and other puzzle items away for other items. Its just stupid and very frustrating overall and it annoys the hell out of me.

I find this series to be overrated overall. Resident Evil 4 fixed alot of these things but it blows my mind that these past games had these terrible annoyances.

Anyone else agree?

JangoWuzHere

That's what makes it a classic :D

I personally think this series is way overrated. Im really mainly going to talk about Resident Evil 2 because its the best one to the describe the series overrall.

Those god awful camera angles would drive me insane. I am walking along and the camera switch's on me and all of a sudden a Zombie is chewing on my neck. its annoying and the developers tried their best to annoy us with this. It makes aiming very hard in some parts of the game and can make you miss alot of shots overall. Its just so horrible and the camera will jerk around at times if your getting attacked making it hard to see whats going on. Its just terrible overall and they knew that the was horrible but went with it any way. It makes it hard to pick up items and interact with stuff with such a horrible camera.

Another thing that annoys me about Resident Evil is that its not very scary. Most of the time the scares are cheap and when you get out of the police station the game is no longer scary and uses cheap scares to scare you. What I mean by cheap scares is something coming out of no where. I hate it when an enemy falls from the celling followed by a loud noise. That is not scary just very irritating.

The tank controls are also terrible. Along with terrible camera angles its just a night mare with these controls. Its so hard to pick up certain items or do certain things because of this...

But the worse thing about this game is THE BACKTRACKING. Jesus this drove me insane. You are given very little space for your items so you have to constantly run back to item boxes to get the right item you need for a puzzle and such. Meaning you have to store healing items,Weapons,ammo, and other puzzle items away for other items. Its just stupid and very frustrating overall and it annoys the hell out of me.

I find this series to be overrated overall. Resident Evil 4 fixed alot of these things but it blows my mind that these past games had these terrible annoyances.

Anyone else agree?

That's what makes it a classic :D

You've basically just said the entire survival horror genre is overrated. :| Anyway RE4 is just a generic thrid person shooter now, for the no brainer casual gamers. That want easy games.Dahaka-UK

[QUOTE="Eyezonmii"] RE is the only survival horror with such awesome character and story development, from the whole virus issues. Its entertaining and simply, well done...with Silent Hill right behind it. Just because you don't fancy it, doesn't make it overrated....it just isn't your game. lolSilent-Hal

I just really enjoy the characters, virus setting for Resident Evil, its well done.

Hold your horses there.

Firstly,
Resident evil 2 > Resident evil 4.
re2 was an amazing game at that time.
Dead space > resident evil 5. For me so far

g0ddyX

I don't understand why you kids compare re4 to any of the previous installments. The only things they have in common are names and they both involve shooting guns. The old resident evils aren't for everyone, and I am personally sad that they are now replaced with the action-genre resident evil.flclempire

[QUOTE="bethwo"]The only thing that used to annoy me about the games was the camera angles, and RE4 fixed that very well. Salt_The_Fries

I think the reason people are complaining is that they stuck with the bad control scheme even after it was readily apparent that they were bad, up until resident evil 4.

Whats funny about these controls comparisons in RE is, we didn't know the controls were bad. These newer control schemes weren't invented yet. It's like comparing '80s cell phones to the iphone. Back then it was all there was, so no problem.cainetao11

I think the reason people are complaining is that they stuck with the bad control scheme even after it was readily apparent that they were bad, up until resident evil 4.

Whats funny about these controls comparisons in RE is, we didn't know the controls were bad. These newer control schemes weren't invented yet. It's like comparing '80s cell phones to the iphone. Back then it was all there was, so no problem.cainetao11

i got used to the controls pretty quickly, and i think the work well for what Capcom was trying to do. if the controls were like other games, it would be WAY too easy to dodge the zombies.

while i like RE4s camera better, the camera in the others isnt much of an issue. if you have a bad view, you simply listen for a moan, if you hear one, wait for the zombie to come into view before you shoot or run from it. if you dont hear one, move along.

as for scares, what did you really expect? ive never played a game that actually scared me, and i doubt i ever will. the things that suprise you are as close to a scare that you will get from any game.

the item boxes are spread out pretty well, so you never have to go that far to get an item you need. its a tiny annoyance, but i think its more realistic that you can carry only a few items at a time, and it also adds to the "survival horror" theme since you cant have 10 healing items and 15 guns with 500 ammo for each one on you.