RE4 by far.

We'll get similar results here as the post-TLOU high is still going, while RE4 is 9 years old.

The Last Of Us was a much better game to me.

Although, for me, the older RE games are all miles better than RE4 so I don't like RE4 much to begin with.

To answer your other questions that everyone else is ignoring:

Leon would beat Joel quite easily
Ada would also kick the crap out of Tess
However, Ellie would beat the dog shit out of Ashley...

resident evil 4 over tlou in every way except the story which was a big cliche but still enjoyable.

Resident Evil 4 has more varied and classic gameplay, so that's my favourite.

The Last of Us is still great though.

Huh. People, reply to my questions of fights! Also, which was scarier for you, the Ganado or Coryceps?

I detest the shit out of the whole Resident Evil franchise so I guess it's The Last of Us it is for me then ...

Not going to talk about The Last of Us because no contest it's better. I'll give my opinion on Resident Evil 4 and some other sixth gen games that didn't fare as well..

Resident Evil 4 is pretty meh. Despite limitations in its gameplay it's not as bad as Resident Evil 6, but Resident Evil 4 is a pretty crappy third person shooter.

Resident Evil 4 has AI that will run up to you and then pause for long periods of time before attacking along with what feels like an infinite amount of ammo at the players disposal, especially if you take shooting enemies in the kneecap or the head then doing a melee attack on them to launch them into another dimension into consideration. Resident Evil 5 is the same gameplay with a more limited supply of inventory, smarter AI and is so much better, and it's a decent third person shooter, but far and away one of the best games ever made.

Now maybe I'm giving it away saying I'm a Final Fantasy fan, but one game that, while has an absolute shitfest worth of a story, is a well developed and really good third person shooter that didn't deserve the hate it got. I bashed the game and never purchased it until after I played it at a friends house and it was a lot better than I thought it'd be. That game is of course, Dirge of Cerberus.

Dirge of Cerberus FF7 was panned by Final Fantasy fans like myself because it wasn't your average Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy has always been known to have a unique combat system for each game, but this was a massive departure. Even Chrystal Chronicles was similar in style because as an adventure game, it's slightly similar to the mana games. This was one no one ever expected to come from Squaresoft.

Dirge of Cerberus is one of the most fluid third person shooters I've played whether it's moving around in all directions while shooting, moving around and aiming, etc. The targeting reticule moves smoothly around the screen, and since the average Final Fantasy fan at the time may not have been proficient in shooters, there's an easier system available at default that increases the size of the reticule by 5-10. You can actually reduce the size to the reticule to what's an average size for shooters.

Dirge of Cerberus is a newer game than Resident Evil 4, but unlike Resident Evil 4 which you had to go into the menu to switch your weapon, Dirge of Cerberus had one weapon you could customize in several ways and able to quick swap between your three current customizations. Didn't like one of your three customizations or maybe you need something more specific that isn't one of your main customizations? Switch it up any time you like. You can quick swap, use equipped materia, and use an item without having to enter your menu. Not very revolutionary, but revolutionary compared to Resident Evil 4's limitations.

Then there's two great Resident Evil games that were ignored because Capcom wanted to push online connectivity and the PS2's HDD The Resident Evil Outbreak series were actual good games and the progression that you assumed the Resident Evil series would take and not have Capcom milking the hell out of the Resident Evil 4 formula.

Outbreak was a group of survivors and gameplay was based off classic Resident Evil gameplay. Survival. Zombies didn't stay in a single location, they roamed around the area. In some stages, the zombies would actually continue to spawn endlessly. You could use guns lying around, but trying something new, players could pick up and use melee weapons that had a certain amount of uses and would break. The eight survivors that you could play as had different skills so each one would benefit more than another in different ways.

The Outbreak series was a series was just before its time. If this series came out after the launch of the PS3 and 360, or maybe launched on the Xbox instead of the PS2, the games may have sold well and we'd see a true evolution in the franchise instead of the de evolution that Resident Evil 4 brought us.

Resident Evil 4. Such a meh game that everyone loves for some reason.  The beginning of the end for the Resident Evil franchise is what it was.

I wouldn't categorize either as survival horror. There action adventure with a horror theme. I'd say they're about equal though.

RE4 all the way.