Best Resident Evil Games

[hwdoble]

I've only played RE2 (PSX) and RE4 (Gamecube).

Bonus question. Are the movies worth watching?

 

[Octopus]

Objective best to me is probably REmake. It's the best representation of the old school survival horror style, is still spooky to this day and still somehow looks fantastic visually. After that I'd say REmake2 as the best of the third person games.

Subjectively, RE5 is one of my personal favorites along with the remake of 4, and honourable mentions to RE6 (if you go in knowing what you're going to be getting) which has the greatest action game control scheme that's never been stolen by anything else.

The first movie is decent actually even outside of ironic 'good-bad' entertainment. Some of the later ones are a schlocky mess but still entertaining at least, like Apocalypse and Afterlife, and the rest are abysmal basically.

 

[hwdoble]

Objective best to me is probably REmake. It's the best representation of the old school survival horror style, is still spooky to this day and still somehow looks fantastic visually. After that I'd say REmake2 as the best of the third person games.

Subjectively, RE5 is one of my personal favorites along with the remake of 4, and honourable mentions to RE6 (if you go in knowing what you're going to be getting) which has the greatest action game control scheme that's never been stolen by anything else.

The first movie is decent actually even outside of ironic 'good-bad' entertainment. Some of the later ones are a schlocky mess but still entertaining at least, like Apocalypse and Afterlife, and the rest are abysmal basically.

REmake. Is that the 2002 Gamecube release?

 

[Octopus]

REmake. Is that the 2002 Gamecube release?

Yes, that's the one. It's also on some other consoles now of course.

 

[Questless Knight]

For me 0-6 + Revelation 1 and 2 + outbreak.


And 1-3 + revelation 1 are best of them all.

 

[Neb Lleb]

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I've only played RE2 (PSX) and RE4 (Gamecube).

Bonus question. Are the movies worth watching?

REmake and 3: Nemesis do it for me, with 2, CODE: Veronica, 4, VII: Biohazard and REmakes 2 & 4 also being great.

As for the movies, the 2002 film is actually really entertaining and a solid attempt, even though it was hampered by a nightmarish production (there's an entire documentary about one particular era of the production titled "George A. Romero's Resident Evil", which looks really fascinating). The 2021 reboot, Welcome to Raccoon City, is hampered by combining two stories into one, with disastrous results, the 2026 reboot is set to adapt the formula, style and mythology of the games with an original story and looks promising, and the sequels to the 2002 movie are terrible. I watched Phelous' reviews of them, and the only reason why I would buy copies of the sequels on 4K (moreso Apocalypse and Extinction) would be for completion's sake.

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honourable mentions to RE6 (if you go in knowing what you're going to be getting) which has the greatest action game control scheme that's never been stolen by anything else.

Dude. No. That game is ass. It's not even the "greatest action game control scheme that's never been stolen by anything else", it's a slippery, overly circular mess where most of the functions aren't even required most of the time.

Don't even think about accusing me of "MUH SKILL ISSUE". Just don't. It's bad, deal with it.

 

[ThunderBoy]

For me, te best are:
-Resident Evil 2
-Residen Evil Remake (Game Cube)
-Resident Evil 7

 

[Azura]

Resident Evil Chronicles is cool too

 

[Octopus]

Dude. No. That game is ass. It's not even the "greatest action game control scheme that's never been stolen by anything else", it's a slippery, overly circular mess where most of the functions aren't even required most of the time.

Don't even think about accusing me of "MUH SKILL ISSUE". Just don't. It's bad, deal with it.

Okay, I'll deal with it.

I haven't watched Return to Racoon City (the newest movie) yet actually. Was it any good? I'm assuming since I basically heard nothing about it after it came out that it probably wasn't.

 

[Neb Lleb]

Okay, I'll deal with it.

I haven't watched Return to Racoon City (the newest movie) yet actually. Was it any good? I'm assuming since I basically heard nothing about it after it came out that it probably wasn't.

Yeah, it's famed for not being very good and a monkey's paw moment for the film series, where the fans and audiences got the adaptation of the game stories they were hoping for, but it turned out to not be very good and just as unfaithful as Resident Alice (the prior film series).

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

For some reason... Nemesis was the only one to really click with me, but it did so so spectacularly that I'm STILL kinda afraid of playing it, which is one hell of an impressive achievement.

 

[Elwiwi]

I'll share this again because it's obviously the only true re tier list

 

[MrYesterday]

I only ever finished the Steam release of Resident Evil 4 (original), and I thought it was pretty good.

 

[Octopus]

For some reason... Nemesis was the only one to really click with me, but it did so so spectacularly that I'm STILL kinda afraid of playing it, which is one hell of an impressive achievement.

I still get nervous in OG RE3, and I'm a XX year old alleged adult now. It's the police station that always gets me, that one random spawn he does in the staircase hallway next to the 1F save room where he jumps through the window sometimes. Masterful.

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

My favorite Resident are
1.) Resident Evil Code Veronica
2.) Resident Evil 4
3.) Resident Evil 2
4.) Resident Evil
5.) Resident Evil 5

(I haven't play any remake because I don't jave thr modern console to play

But my personal favorite is Outbreak file 1 and 2 my personal favorite Re series

 

[moonbits]

Are the movies worth watching?

no

 

[JellyjamLu]

I wont make a tier list or anything, will not include every single one but here are my top 5:

1 - Resident Evil 2 OG
(Recommend Seamless HD & Biorand, So perfect and the 2nd scenario for both characters is awesome)

2 - RE Remake
(Solid, Pure classic horror encapsulated, Crimson heads)

3 - RE3 OG
(Same recommendations for RE2, also I like the decision making and alternate routes,)

4- Code Veronica
(Amazing atmosphere & music & I enjoy Steve cheese)

5 - RE2 Remake
(may have some cut content but still pretty amazing in my eyes)

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I still get nervous in OG RE3, and I'm a XX year old alleged adult now. It's the police station that always gets me, that one random spawn he does in the staircase hallway next to the 1F save room where he jumps through the window sometimes. Masterful.

I don't know what does it for me... I think it's a combination of world-building + music + atmosphere -- reading all those files while the ominous score keeps playing and getting that foreboding written warning from less fortunate souls while roaming around areas with just the right amount of decay (so you can kinda see that this was a functioning city not long ago) gives me that distinct "I'm gonna be next" vibe that's impossible to shake off even as you get the infinite rifle and junk.

It's an incredible game.

 

[VidiyaGaemer]

Biased towards the classic games.

RE2, REmake, and RE4 are my top 3. Honorable mentions to RE0, RE96, and CODE Veronica