I somehow don't understand the point of this thread. What should you post here? Anything hot?
Controversial or not of the norm/unpopular opinions.
Like this:
Evil Within 2 I find a better
Resident Evil game than
RE4-RE8. While
EW2 does have plenty of action, it still focuses and has greater emphasis on the psychological factor. The problem I have with later
RE games, and those that follow
RE4 specifically, is that they drag on too long.
RE6 being the worst of course, but
RE4 I don't like playing much has gotten way overpraised and over rated to the detriment of other survival horror games. I don't like the QTEs, the loop takes too long to get started.
RE5 is only really fun when there is co-op (though I had a blast in single player, so it's up to personal taste), and the less said about
RE6, the better.
What
EW2 has over all of these games, in addition to the horror, are open ended level design, better emphasis on exploration, and optional objectives side quests. Many of them that reward you with either weapons, ammo, character reveal/development, lore, or just neat little Easter Eggs Tango did not have to do. More interesting side character, that I actually care about.
RE4 has Luis, and
RE5 has Josh, so I give Capcom some credit there.
EW2 has a better Ada Wong than Ada Wong. Her name is Julie Kidman. Ironic, because she started off as a somewhat shallow version of Ada. Unless you bothered to play both DLC campaigns of the first game. Tango managed to do more for Kidman, than Capcom did for Ada within 3 years, compared to the latter's over two decades and we still no nothing about Ada or who she is constantly working for. Something Capcom more or less dropped and gave up on with
RE7.
Speaking of
RE7 & 8, they're not bad games, but I just don't find them interesting compared to
EW1 or
2.
RE7 took some risks, but is literally
RE1 in first person with lame enemy variety, and a character that moves way too slow.
RE8 is just
RE4 without the QTEs and universal monsters instead of a parasitic virus. Seriously,
RE4 gets way too much attention, love, and nostalgia blinding, it is infuriating. Even more infuriating, because Capcom did remake
RE4 any way, nearly making
RE8 pointless on a gameplay scale. If you want to count
EW1 in to the mix, this will be the 3rd time
RE4 will be remade.
EW1 was just
RE4, but
Nightmare on Elm Street/The Cell Edition. I can argue that both
Evil Within games are the best modern
Silent Hill games, from the AAA side at least. Though opinion has changed somewhat with the new titles we've been getting recently. I've only played
SH2R to completion, and have not gotten to
SHf yet.
Extra: I actually prefer
Shadows of the Damned over all of the later
RE games,
4-8.
