Resident Evil 5, an aged experience?

[Kantor]

KylieDog said:

libellule said:

Kantor said:

libellule said:
RE4 was a good game, but not really a RE game to me

RE5 should be fine : a sort of RE4.5 with little innovation outside co-op

but where is innovation in Halo3 ? Gears of war2 ? God of war 2 ? or GT ?

It is nowhere too ...

They don't need innovation. They're timeless.

If RE5 had been RE4 with a few tweaks, fine.

What's not fine is if one of those "tweaks" involves putting the entire game outdoors in broad daylight and making the enemies so stupid that it's not even remotely scary.

See, in doing that, it killed the whole "survival horror" thing and makes it a very strange, badly-controlling third person shooter. Being a TPS, it is now compared to Gears and loses.

was it not already the case in RE4 ?

 

 

 

Yes, most of those things he mentions were already in RE4.     He is also wrong about the entire game being outdoors in daylight.  Much isn't outdoors, and much isn't in daylight.

I can only judge based on what I've played. What I've played is the demo, which was two outdoor levels in broad daylight.

RE4 was not outdoors in broad daylight. Left 4 Dead was not outdoors in broad daylight. Dead Space was not outdoors in broad daylight. These games were scary. These games were horror games.

Resident Evil 5 is not scary. Therefore, it's either a failed horror game or not a horror game at all. If it's not a horror game, looking at it, it's a regular shooter. If it's a regular shooter, it has terrible controls and worse aiming.

It amuses me, KylieDog, that you can complain about KZ2's controls and yet see nothing wrong with those in RE5, which frankly were horrible. Why do I have to hold down L1 to reload? Why is X the sprint button? Why am I using an aiming laser in broad daylight?