Yeah!  Me and my friend were playing last night and he was like "I think this is what a zombie apocalypse would be like if it were to happen".  We then finished Chapter 1 and were like "This took us 2.5 hours and there's 4 more chapters to go" and that's just Leon's campaign!

Oh, that sounds absolutely right. Now I want that game too.

Final Fantasy hasn't been good since FFIX, and RE4 was regarded as one of the best in the series. FFIX came out in 2000 and RE4 came out in 2005, so I'd say Final Fantasy has fallen the lowest.

Even though FFXIII sold a lot, it still sucked. 9.43 million people just didn't know any better (including myself).

Sarcasm ?

NO. I think limited resources worked very well for earlier RE games.

The Resident Evil 6 demo felt just like Dead Space to me.

I'm going with Final Fantasy. After FFX I haven't really enjoyed a Final Fantasy game. XII had potential but I don't think it was fulfilled whilst XIII was just a complete development failure. The sequel wasn't much better and I haven't even started on XIV. From such a highly regarded franchise, the recent incarnations have really been a fall from grace.

To be fair though, I haven't enjoyed a Resident Evil since the PS1 days. Yes they had tank-like controls but for the time they were also brilliantly executed and had bundles of atmosphere that seemed to be lost in the following gen with RE4 and Code Veronica.

I can understand that a lot of people liked RE4, but you could predict the downfall of the series from there (a bit like FF after X). They really started to push it towards the action side which wasn't what the RE franchise was all about. In the end, it seems they attempt to try to cover both horror and action elements but with an emphasis on action (based on 4 & 5, I won't be playing 6).

I don't understand people saying Final Fantasy sucked after IX. X had some things it was missing (world map, mostly), and XII did things a little different, but both were fantastic games with tonnes of things to do, fantastic gameplay, and awesome characters. X has one of the best stories in the games, and when it comes to sheer volume of content, I'd say XII is the best in the series.

Don'tknow why people don't like them.

Resident Evil by far- at least SE actually attempts to make their games good.
At least their motto isn't "let's make it an action game so we get more money."

Both have fallen off the face of the earth and are trying to do exactly what western developers are doing instead of doing (which is dumbing down games for graphics, cinematics) what Japanese companies do. This is what endears western gamers to the Japanese .Japanese games are about thinking, technique, gaining every inch with nothing being given, while having flash and flair to boot. This is the problem.