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Resident Evil 4 Review thread

I'm struggling a little bit with Leon's movement speed.

His walk is to slow and has to much sway.

His run is a little bit too fast.

My fingers are crossed they tweak it.

The game has a ton of input lag. Over 200ms.

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angrod14

Member
Man, this game is HARD. Enemies run faster than those zombies from 28 Weeks Later, and they flank you all the time so it's pretty much impossible to stay still. And f--- those bear traps.
 

DavidGzz

Member
Ok, got maybe 1.5 hours in, loving it! I moved to New Zealand to get in a little early. Playing it with my daughters so I have to wait until they're available again some time tomorrow so we'll be taking it really slow.
 
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YESSSSSSSSS!!!!! F*CKING EPIC. GAMING IS FINALLY BACK

In all seriousness I can't wait to replay the game and have to replay rat assassination sidequests and sections where the optimal approach is stealth kills.

By the way while I'm here having an autistic meltdown can I get mad about bear traps too? They're fucking impossible to see and in some instances placed directly behind thick layers of grass in areas where there are also enemies about. You'd have to be clairvoyant not to run into these things.
 
Game looks fine on PS5 with lens and ca off and hair on. I’m running it on resolution mode with RT on and a VRR set and haven’t had an issue through chapter 1.
 
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Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Might be the quickest refund of my life. No clue how from the demo to now they didn't fix this D3D error crash.

I have a 3080, playing at 1440P instead of 4k, and with settings resulting in 7GB of the 9. In orange color usage.

Just crash the game every 5 minutes or so. I started on 4K unlimited FPS at 4GB textures, had 8.5 GB usage of the 9 it allotted me. Not running other programs or chrome, etc. I was getting 100FPS. Crashes. Turn it down to 3GB to get into orange. Crashes. Turn it to 1440P to lower it to 7GB, still orange, crashes.

I can run RE2 remake and RE3 remake no issue on this thing maxed out at 4K without these crashes.

Wtf do I need to tweak?
 

Northeastmonk

Gold Member
I’m trying to get over Leon in this blue sport coat. It’s cool, but part of me wants to switch back to his OG costume. It makes me wish he had a slightly tougher/rougher option to his OG costume. I am having a great time, about done with chapter 2. They summed up some things, but I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing. They kept a lot of the core feeling and made everything look fantastic. Got my DLC weapons. I should have checked my stash before I started upgrading my handgun.
 
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VEZ1R

Neo Member
Might be the quickest refund of my life. No clue how from the demo to now they didn't fix this D3D error crash.

I have a 3080, playing at 1440P instead of 4k, and with settings resulting in 7GB of the 9. In orange color usage.

Just crash the game every 5 minutes or so. I started on 4K unlimited FPS at 4GB textures, had 8.5 GB usage of the 9 it allotted me. Not running other programs or chrome, etc. I was getting 100FPS. Crashes. Turn it down to 3GB to get into orange. Crashes. Turn it to 1440P to lower it to 7GB, still orange, crashes.

I can run RE2 remake and RE3 remake no issue on this thing maxed out at 4K without these crashes.

Wtf do I need to tweak?
Tried to disable ray tracing? In demo only ray tracing caused crashes for me.
 

Hugare

Member
Played it until finding Luis

Loving the redesigns and how agressive enemies are. Everythings feels just familiar enough to bring that nostalgia, while also doing its own thing. Really great.

What is not great tho are the controls. Feels slooow on PS5. But even on PC where its snapier, it doesnt feel as satisfying as the original.

I cant figure exactly why. The original certainly feels more "arcadey", but it feels good in a way that this one doesnt.

I'm enjoying it a lot, but I dont see this one completely replacing the original for me.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Tried to disable ray tracing? In demo only ray tracing caused crashes for me.
Eh. Then the reflections in the game are total trash.

I ended up turning textures to 2GB which put me at 6.17GB used, turning it to white instead of orange. Didn't crash the entire village section so it seems fixed?

When I check it says I'm barely using my VRAM allotment. 4/12 ....
 

Bkdk

Member
Capcom truly has some of the best productivity right now, they manage to churn out solid big RE titles almost yearly, that is insanely impressive. AAA studios need to learn from capcom of how to release titles of a big series quicker and still maintain solid quality.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
Wish I didn't have to go to the gym after work.

Good news is I have a week off for my birthday, so it's game binge central.

I feel like a kid again, so excited...can't be assed with work lol
 
Chapter 3, taking a short piss break, game is incredible, totally hooked. Everything is improved and expanded upon, so many more combat options whether it's parrying with the knife, stealth kills, baiting enemies into bear traps and so much more with those sweet PS5 haptics making it sing. New merchant is dope, can't wait to see what they did with that first boss battle, one of my favourites in all of gaming 🤞
 

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
So far, I like it. Not as charming as the original. Definitely feels like RE2 remake, in the RE4 map. Visually on par with the PS5 versions of RE2/3 remakes. Nothing amazing, but good nonetheless.

It’s definitely easier on standard. But I think that’s because the limit the knife.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
The IQ on PS5 is atrocious, ugh…

I even went and checked if it was the latest version, I can’t believe Capcom released the game in this state.

Switch all those settings off and play in resolution mode. Hopefully you have a VRR TV?

It was too much for me, I couldn't choose that version becuase of the IQ but everyone's different.
 

ssringo

Member
Just got Ashley back and gonna call it a night. Loving everything about the game so far.

Tip for anyone still early. Before you get Ashley make sure you've done everything from the quarry and back around the lake. The merchant warns you prior to returning to the church but while it sounds like he's talking about the lake, it actually extends basically to the church.

Edit: Super awesome we have the OT created for the release of this very hyped game for us to chat in...
 
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DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
Capcom really hate the xboys uh?!

Deffo, they know the rats prefer the best graphics and also have the most skill so they gave them best looking version but then tried to hamper their skills with shite controls.....bloody capcom...more like crapcom am I right?
 

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
The skull shaker shotgun is pretty fucking sweet. And to answer my question asked earlier, Leon does flip the shotgun to load the next shell.
 

DavidGzz

Member
You can do 180 move, nobody mentioned that RB+down left stick.

I don't think I could get used to that so I changed my controls to B-1 which puts it on down and B like the last two remakes.

As for input lag. I don' really notice it on Xbox. I do hate when there is lag like in Killzone but maybe it's the animations and the third person perspective but it's fine to me.
 
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Smoked the lake monster, 0 boat damage. Seems like that 1st boss battle in the cabin was cut? Shame, unless they moved it to later on.

Pro-tip: you can still shoot the wall charges after disarming the wires, experimentation ftw.
 
This game is God tier! I'm loving it! Taking a break after completing Chapter 1 and a bulk of Chapter 2. It's starting off this good, like the OG, it's only gonna get better. Can't wait for Mercenaries on April 7
 

xPikYx

Member
Played a bit last night, I made the mistake of running the game in hardcore mode which was advised for who played the original and lol, the game is hard as fuck, enemies are super aggressive I died already ten times in the village demo part lol
 

Beer Baelly

Al Pachinko, Konami President
Smoked the lake monster, 0 boat damage. Seems like that 1st boss battle in the cabin was cut? Shame, unless they moved it to later on.

Pro-tip: you can still shoot the wall charges after disarming the wires, experimentation ftw.

Lake boss is first boss.
 

Spaceman292

Banned
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YESSSSSSSSS!!!!! F*CKING EPIC. GAMING IS FINALLY BACK

In all seriousness I can't wait to replay the game and have to replay rat assassination sidequests and sections where the optimal approach is stealth kills.

By the way while I'm here having an autistic meltdown can I get mad about bear traps too? They're fucking impossible to see and in some instances placed directly behind thick layers of grass in areas where there are also enemies about. You'd have to be clairvoyant not to run into these things.
It was the same in the original. They're all in awkward places. It's almost like they're made for trapping things
 
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