While I do generally like RE4, I don't like to put it on a pedestal like most fans do. I consider RE5 to have better ties to the series in terms of the plot, than 4 yields. Yet for some reason, 5 is detested by some of the community. Even though they're both action games, that just have some horror elements. RE5 is practically similar to 4, and RE6 feels like more of a RE game, giving how it has zombies, and a city is involved in America and Asia. But meh. Absolutely nobody besides one guy I know on another forum, seems to like 6.
I don't really like a lot of the new storylines the franchise offers up today, to be honest. I saw RE4 as the game that really got the ball rolling on the ridiculous trash that Capcom tried to shove down our throats in later years, even though 4 wasn't really directly responsible, per se. It was that change towards action oriented gameplay, however, that buggered things up.
The remakes generally disappointed me. I didn't like how the RE2 remake had tons of cut content, yet it was glazed over, and then a lot of people didn't like RE3 at all. But in my opinion, the remake of RE2 had sinned by leaving out certain story aspects, enemies and areas. Yet that's a game that a lot of people openly support.
Another reason I am iffy about RE4 and also RE8 is again, the emphasis on guns. And I think having these corny merchants is silly in any case. Nobody could get that stuff around unnoticed, or worse yet, not stolen. You see? This is mechanics that I think are suited to an action game, and not ideas that's meant to be in a creepy game where you are supposed to find things by yourself, like Joel and Ellie do it in The Last of Us, even when they meet Bill. It actually creates the opposite feeling. But yes. The games are still GOOD...
I have no idea how the RE4 remake will turn out, but I hope it's a much more hardcore horror experience we will be provided. The original RE4 is vaporware when it comes to being scary, until you get to the later locations. Then it picks up a lot.
