Let me start by saying RE:4 is the most fun game I've played this generation. The last time I remember spending 10+ hours with the flu in front of my tv was back when Donkey Kong Country first came out. Easily one of the best.
About 3 months before the semester started my roomate last semester convinced me to pre-order it online because it came with "The making of RE:4." I said sure, why not. He's an italian international student and he wouldn't be able to procure the PAL version until he went back home (I think RE:4 came out in March in Europe) and he would be at UNI during that time. He's a hardcore Resident Evil fan, and he ranked the RE series just behind the FF series as his favorites of all time
So I get the game and I get first crack at it. I'm blown away but how much of an improvement it is over all the older RE's. I wasn't a very hardcore Resident Evil fan to begin with, I played REmake and didn't even bother to finish RE:0, so RE:4 was completely blowing me away.
So anyways I go to class one day and come back and I find that he was playing it. You can tell that he's one of those purists by the way he plays -- conserving ammo, dodging zombies. He gets to the end of the first level and checks his menu , he realizes he has 100+ bullets and so grimmacing he throws the controller down and shuts the game off. I was in shock. I had been hyping the game up to him and how it was so much better than the other RE's. I didn't expect that reaction from him.
He didn't like the mechanics of the new RE he tells me. He wanted his static camera and old "dodge-the-zombies" gameplay. He was frustrated at the pacing of the new RE, and how you actually had "to kill" the monsters in order to proceed. He didn't like that he had 100+ bullets by the end of Chapter 1. And he told me action games aren't his thing.
Now I guess I could understand where he's coming from being frustrated and all with the direction capcom took with the new RE. But seriously I thought he should have gotten over it and just played RE:4 for what it was; it's one fun game. But no he grudgingly refused, and he never touched it again.
Well anyways IMO that's asinine. Not playing the game because it has drastically improved. But I guess I could see how Capcom alienated some of its more hardcore fanbase. So RE purists on this forum my question to you is, anyone else play RE:4 because you found it too "mainstream"? Or because capcom flipped the script with their gameplay?
About 3 months before the semester started my roomate last semester convinced me to pre-order it online because it came with "The making of RE:4." I said sure, why not. He's an italian international student and he wouldn't be able to procure the PAL version until he went back home (I think RE:4 came out in March in Europe) and he would be at UNI during that time. He's a hardcore Resident Evil fan, and he ranked the RE series just behind the FF series as his favorites of all time
So I get the game and I get first crack at it. I'm blown away but how much of an improvement it is over all the older RE's. I wasn't a very hardcore Resident Evil fan to begin with, I played REmake and didn't even bother to finish RE:0, so RE:4 was completely blowing me away.
So anyways I go to class one day and come back and I find that he was playing it. You can tell that he's one of those purists by the way he plays -- conserving ammo, dodging zombies. He gets to the end of the first level and checks his menu , he realizes he has 100+ bullets and so grimmacing he throws the controller down and shuts the game off. I was in shock. I had been hyping the game up to him and how it was so much better than the other RE's. I didn't expect that reaction from him.
He didn't like the mechanics of the new RE he tells me. He wanted his static camera and old "dodge-the-zombies" gameplay. He was frustrated at the pacing of the new RE, and how you actually had "to kill" the monsters in order to proceed. He didn't like that he had 100+ bullets by the end of Chapter 1. And he told me action games aren't his thing.
Now I guess I could understand where he's coming from being frustrated and all with the direction capcom took with the new RE. But seriously I thought he should have gotten over it and just played RE:4 for what it was; it's one fun game. But no he grudgingly refused, and he never touched it again.
Well anyways IMO that's asinine. Not playing the game because it has drastically improved. But I guess I could see how Capcom alienated some of its more hardcore fanbase. So RE purists on this forum my question to you is, anyone else play RE:4 because you found it too "mainstream"? Or because capcom flipped the script with their gameplay?
