| NightDragon83 said: Well I think it all started when Capcom decided to shake things up a bit for the 4th installment to keep things fresh. After Code Veronica, you had the REmake on GC which was awesome of course, but RE0 was underwhelming, then the mediocre gun survivor games, Dead Aim, Outbreak etc. So when both fans and critics responded really well to RE4's more action focused (but still sticking to its survival roots) gameplay, I guess Capcom just decided that thats what most gamers wanted of the series. |
The Outbreak games aren't gun survivor games and definitely aren't mediocre. There's only one problem with the Outbreak games, or two if you count Capcom held back content from the beta to release it all as a seperate game, and that's the garbage load times. You have to think if Capcom sabotaged their own games with such poor load times in some sort of deal with Sony releasing the PS2 HDD.
The Outbreak series are my favored titles over every game in the series except for Resident Evil 2. A lot of stages feature enemies that can't be killed, zombies being no longer retained to a single area, as well as enemies that will keep coming. Ammo is extremely limited, even more so in any of the older Resident Evil titles, but there are a lot of items that you can use besides guns. It's got a scenario styled system with very little story, so it's pretty much like playing Resident Evil 5 except choosing your stage instead of just being thrown there after every event.
One of the best, if not the best looking PS2 games. Would look amazing in HD, and if Capcom fixed load times, added the online back along with voice chat, and bundled both games into a single game called Resident Evil Outbreak but include all the fixes that were done in Outbreak File 2 such as moving while aiming, etc, we'd have an amazing survival horror. I mean it's not like many people played either of the original Outbreak titles anyways, so it'll bring back survival horror and people who didn't play this amazing series of games will be like. O_O. That or. What did we see in Resident Evil 4 other than it being your standard blow everything away shooter with the Resident Evil tank controls with retarded AI zombies or Los whatever they're called?
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Even if it does seem like Capcom is trying to remove Resident Evil as far away from survival horror that it possibly can, I'm still getting Resident Evil 6. Not that I'm a fan of Resident Evil 4 at all, but the ability to play with a friend always makes a crappy game that much better(well, a decent game atleast.) Resident Evil 5 was good even with its lackluster gameplay just because you had a friend there to mow all the zombies down with you. Besides. As stupid as regenerating health is, the same could be said about the ability to bring your partner back to life a near endless amount of times.
