What happened to the Horror genre???

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RE4 is what happened ...

Nevermind setting it's own series down the path we see it now, it became the final nail in the coffin for AAA horror games ...

When Silent Hill or Fatal Frame was declining, nearly everybody looked to Resident Evil as an example for high quality AAA horror games at the time but RE4 came around and it immediately became a macho third person shooter. RE4 didn't attract fans of the horror genre, it attracted third person shooting action junkies ...

RE4 set to divide it's own fanbase because of the success it garnered for Capcom. Pure horror games couldn't compete anymore when they were out bested by an imposter ...

The subsequent self proclaimed AAA horror games by the developers were at a loss for what to do when RE4 redefined what horror games were for the worse ...