if you want to give leeway to this gay shit, he should be able to parry the chainsaws after you get infected with the las plagas because they enhance a person's body to keep them safely away from the sun, RE4R still hasn't gayly retconned that bit on the lore, so...
No shit, that's Raiden.
Please kill yourself and save the thread from your stupidity. RE4 is about Leon because he was the most popular character after RE2. Long before he became a faggot for homos to drool over Leon was the most popular RE cast member. They keep bringing him back because dildo sucking queers like yourself will clap like a seal any time they see the name despite this Leon being a zombie using the name and none of the character from the original.
At least Raiden knew what he was and how stupid that game was. It didn't straddle everything like a faggot on a dildo.
well like let's be honest with ourselves here - Resident Evil has always been a low effort game series. It's Five Nights at Freddy's. they're barely straddling the line of a point and click adventure game. They were bunch of really dated and mechanically questionable games released for a specific market that went out of it's way to not attempt to buck the formula. the plot was literally the only thing moving the game forward out of design limitations. There's like six, seven games with the exact same fixed camera tank controls before RE4 came out
making the parry a resource issue over a skill issue gives you a drastically different experience and changes how the game feels.
Calling the first game low effort is being ignorant or disingenuous. The first Resident Evil was iterating directly from Alone in The Dark, and more directly, Sweet Home on the NES. I do understand in hindsight why people dislike Resident Evil, since it marketed itself as THE WORLD OF SURVIVOR HORROR and I feel like a lot of the trailers made the games look more action packed then they really are. When in reality, the tank control resident evil games are just one big puzzle with zombies much more focused on exploration and solving smaller puzzles inside the big puzzle of the mansion in RE1, or the police station in RE2, etc.
i'm more referring to the series as a whole, you're right that the first game really nailed a formula. but all of the games then just follow that formula. And that formula, really really started to look dated very fast as technology improved. RE4 just took the exact same formula and gave it a more modern coat of paint by giving the player more agency to control the camera. Its widely considered one of the best games ever made because of it. I really don't think it's that crazy to say that later games strengths can influence your perception of a game's weaknesses.
You still have to actually time the parry. How is it not also a skill issue thats tied to a resource?
You still shoot thing, thing can lead to a QTE. Now you just have a more reactive fallback option for fucked positioning that opens up more options than simply "move away". More options in combat is better.
Bruh, the fixed camera angle system was plenty immersive and much more atmospheric with its cinematic angles that could frame certain areas in very moody ways. You just don't get that with a normal over the shoulder camera. 4 didn't revitalize shit about the franchise, all it did was throw everything about classic RE out the window in favor of generic third person shooting and QTEs.
the one thing resident evil 4 constantly evokes is this sense that you are in the wrong spot. nearly everything in the world approaches you in a hostile manner and you have to react to their threats, the camera is claustrophobic, it's cramped, and you are really limited in your ability to strike back. but when you finally run your ass to a spot that allows you to commit to violence you feel like an absolute badass
If having an actually decent camera, aiming, and movement system is enough to completely gut the concept of the game's horror, perhaps the game wasn't actually that good with horror elements to begin with.
rate me MATI but i fucking hate current day faggots going "the thing you like? actually it was always shit" kill yourself faggot
Almost forgot Resident Evil had a Matrix phase during 4 and 5.
my point was changing how a mechanic works even slightly changes how the game plays.
for as simple as OG RE4's gun interactivity is, it doesn't have weapon sway. that already makes guns feel 100% better than remake.
Didn't resident evil gaiden have him morph into an actual umbrella bioweapon. That and jills gay chest karate suit from 5. This series has always had cartoon shit since 3 I don't know why we're trying to pretend this is fatal frame or siren blood curse. Your best comparison might as well be clock tower where the 3rd game is just magic japanese women doing kawaii spells
The QTEs were babyproofed and anyone whining about them should eat a bullet for being mentally retarded.