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I am curious about playing the Resident Evil Games. Should I go for the action horror ones or the survival horror?
I checked this comparison on Resident Evil 6 vs. Resident Evil 7, and it looks like the action based sequels look to be more fun than the horror sequels.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JdvHwfKc-sw
From the gameplay that I have seen, Resident Evil 9 looks to have a fair amount of action.
Classic titles (1996-2000)
These are all survival horror focused, and don't have any modern releases as in steam or current gen, most of them do have windows ports.
Going from here all of the games have modern steam releases which I recommend, this is the period where Capcom started experimenting with the series identity and RE4's success establishes the gameplay for most of the titles going forward.
These titles take the series more in the action direction that RE4 experimented with, some may argue about RE5, but RE6 is about as far away from a RE game as you can get.
A spinoff series, haven't heard much about them honestly besides that they take an episodic approach to their design, and Revelations was released originally on 3DS.
in the wake of RE6's critical failure, the series went through somewhat of a soft reboot and Capcom went back to the series roots via a new perspective, these games are mostly self contained and while RE7 takes the traditional survival horror approach, RE8 goes with the action horror approach like RE4.
I'm grouping RE9 and the modern remakes here as all of them have a similar design philosophy in mind, basically if want some modern & new, this is the place to start.
These are all survival horror focused, and don't have any modern releases as in steam or current gen, most of them do have windows ports.
- Resident Evil: Director's Cut (get the directors cut, NOT THE DUALSHOCK VERSION!)
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
- Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (get the version that has the X at the end, this one does not have a native PC port unfortunately, so emulating is likely your best bet)
Going from here all of the games have modern steam releases which I recommend, this is the period where Capcom started experimenting with the series identity and RE4's success establishes the gameplay for most of the titles going forward.
- Resident Evil 1 Remake
- Resident Evil Zero (not recommended, unless you use an item box mod)
- Resident Evil 4
- Separate Ways
These titles take the series more in the action direction that RE4 experimented with, some may argue about RE5, but RE6 is about as far away from a RE game as you can get.
- Resident Evil 5
- Untold Stories
- Resident Evil 6
A spinoff series, haven't heard much about them honestly besides that they take an episodic approach to their design, and Revelations was released originally on 3DS.
- Resident Evil: Revelations
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2
in the wake of RE6's critical failure, the series went through somewhat of a soft reboot and Capcom went back to the series roots via a new perspective, these games are mostly self contained and while RE7 takes the traditional survival horror approach, RE8 goes with the action horror approach like RE4.
- Resident Evil 7
- Banned Footage Vol. 1 & 2
- Not A Hero
- End of Zoe
- Resident Evil Village
- Shadows of Rose
I'm grouping RE9 and the modern remakes here as all of them have a similar design philosophy in mind, basically if want some modern & new, this is the place to start.
- Resident Evil 2 Remake
- Resident Evil 3 Remake (sort of not recommend, buy on sale, cuts out way too much of the orginal)
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Separate Ways Remake
- Resident Evil Requiem
- Resident Evil 1 Remake 2 (yes really)
- Resident Evil 0 Remake
- Resident Evil - Code Veronica Remake
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