This right here ercked me. I don't understand why you think the people that didn't like RE4 and RE5 aren't "real" RE fans. I have played every RE game that has been released in the US, including the one for Gameboy, read every novel, read the comic book series, seen every movie, cosplayed RE, I've even read the 50 page thesis explaining how/why/if it could really happen, and when I was younger my friends and I would pretend that we were actual characters in the game and shoot cap guns at nothing pretending they were zombies. But just because I don't like RE4 and RE5 I'm not a "real" RE fan? Or naive for not liking 4 and 5? It's not fair and certain not right to just flat out say everyone but you is not a "real" fan. A "real" fan is someone just genuinely likes the series, openly expresses their views on the many different universes, whether it be good or bad. Furthermore, just because someone doesn't agree with your outlook on certain games, doesn't mean they are wrong. It's their opinion, not yours. You are more than welcome to discuss the whys/why nots, just don't make assumptions and make yourself out to be the RE king.
I am the RE King, but that's not what this is about.
Now perhaps I shouldn't generalize, as I hate it when others do, so to save myself from being a total hypocrite, the thing about the fans is general. I assumed that went without saying, but yes, and there is a reason I put that.
That is a huge majority of the fanbase. Splitting the fans between RE4 pretty much. You can't deny there is a certain stigma attached to liking RE4. To say your favorite game in the series is RE4, immediately people will assume you are an RE4 fanboy, Leon fanboy, etc. Anyway, it's really a class system, this isn't my opinion, just an observation from being on RE forums, Youtube, etc.
Again, generalizing is the word. The things in RE4 generally generalized are the things there, for horror purproses that are generalized as being simply, "not scary", while the stuff in pretty much anything prior to, being, "classic", "scary", etc. I just get tired of all the, "nothing is better than the original" bullsh*t.
RE4 & RE5. Yes similar, but not the same, no more than RE1 & RE2 are the same. But, I'm not defending RE5, I know that action was one of the biggest things in that game, and having it go from action, to horror, then back to action, then back to horror just doesn't work. The atmosphere and mood needs to be set, and RE5 didn't.
RE4 though, it did, from the very beginning. RE4 had horror, puzzles, survival, etc.
The village part, though during the day, was one of my favorite, and surely one of the best parts of the game. The atmosphere, mood, isolation, everything all of a sudden going to hell, that was all there at the beginning, and that awesome stuff continued 'til the end.
"Fear of being attacked at every single moment". That sure doesn't describe my time with RE1, RE2, RE3, or CVX....
There is definately an obligation to kill everything before moving on to the next area in RE4. Perhaps because we can now handle a single enemy with ease(that is once you are familiar with the aiming and all. The enemies also drop items, a big no-no as far as I'm concerned. But there is nothing wrong with being able to(as Leon for example since he's one of the most experienced characters in the series, along with Chris, Jill, Claire) take on a ganado and not feel like you are fighting fighting a single zombie in RE2. Leon, after 6 years I would think would have learned a thing or two about BOWs.
Perhaps I've typed enough for now, I'll just wait for the response to retort.
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