Majin-Tenshinhan on 06 December 2009
| KylieDog said: "It feels sacrilegious to say the Resident Evil games were once growing stale, but after the remake of the original game and prequel Zero released on the GameCube, the once revolutionary series started to feel uninspired. Even worse, the completely archaic control scheme and awkward camera angles -- while passable on the PlayStation -- were completely out of date. Resident Evil 4 changed everything. Gone were the pre-rendered backgrounds and set camera angles. Replacing them was a behind-the-shoulder view that followed hero Leon Kennedy as he journeyed through a fully 3D world. Not only did this complete visual overhaul look incredible, it managed to turn the Resident Evil series’ laughable B-movie vibe (“master of unlocking!”) into a game that could genuinely terrify you. It is impossible to forget the first time Leon steps foot in the opening Spanish village and is chased by the now-iconic chainsaw-wielding maniac. It is one of the most visceral and haunting videogame sequences of all time. From the first stunning set piece to the last, Resident Evil 4 is absolute perfection. There may never be a survival horror game as good." So much ignorance in this. The "awkward camera angles" are in fact classic horror movie style camera angles, since that is what the RE games are influenced by. Aside from the aiming the controls of RE4 are also identical to older RE games, the perspective has just changed. The 'laughable B-movie vibe' was like the camera angles part of the influence of classic horror movies, RE1 the haunted house movie, RE2 the zombie apocalypse, RE3 the chasing slasher movie. It is great how he quotes the very first game though when all the other games released afterwards took a much more seriously acted approach which was far better than RE4s cheesy action flick vibe. ...and 'could genuinely terrify you'. RE4 was absent of any set shock pieces, it was in your face action start through finish. As proven by everything else he typed he clearly has no understanding of what survival horror is and thus lables RE4 wrongly at the end. The biggest crime would be the writing off of REmake though. I'm not even going to touch that except to say the impact of such comments is enough to discredit the entire list of games, though the rest of the comments for this game alone would do that too, without the REmake comment. |
I agree with everything you just said. Kudos.
