KylieDog said:
Darth Tigris said:
Darc Requiem said:
I feel sorry for fans of the older RE games. It's never good to lose out on something you enjoy. That said, I will never understand the enjoyment of shoddy controls and bad fixed camera angles. I certainly see the concern with the abundance of ammo and the lack of puzzles but their is never an excuse for a game to have substandard controls. |
I loved the old RE games (particularly RE2 and Code: Veronica), but I also really loved RE4! It felt like a fresh look at the series and, for lack of a better term, 'growth'.
As much as people complain about Halo 2 and 3 not improving much on Halo, this series (and Banjo) get ripped for their growth.
Truth is, people just like to complain. RE5 should be a great game and a great expansion of the RE franchise beyond its roots.
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RE4 is not growth. Growth implies that what was there before is still there, just expanded upon.
For RE4 they took -everything-, and that isn't an exaggeration, literally everything that made RE what it was and removed it. Replacing it completely.
That isn't growth, that is replacement. RE4 should have been a new IP.
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But we all know people don't like to try out new things, so they took RE4 and put Resident Evil in the name in order to make it sell. But, as stated above, it didn't help. Well, maybe, hold on. -checks game database-
Resident Evil 0:
GCN - 1.28 Million
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Total RE 0 Sales - 1.28 Million
Resident Evil 1:
PS - 5.06 Million
SAT - 0.17 Million
Wii - 0.04 Million
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Total RE 1 Sales (Excluding GCN Version) - 5.27 Million
Resident Evil 2:
PS - 5.82 Million
DualShock PS - .26 Million
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Total RE2 Sales (Excluding GCN, N64, and DC versions) - 6.08 Million
Resident Evil 3:
PS - 3.52 Million
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Total RE3 Sales (Excluding GCN and DC versions) - 3.52 Million
Resident Evil 4:
PS2 - 2.72 Million
GCN - 1.69 Million
Wii - 1.76 Million
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Total RE4 Sales - 6.17 Million
Now, according to the numbers in the gama database, RE4 is currently the best selling RE game in the main series. However, we're missing a bunch of numbers, namely GCN, SAT, N64, and DC sales. But, I'm not entirely sure how those sales would affect the total number.
The best selling RE games in the main franchise go:
RE4, RE2, RE, RE3, RE0
But if anyone could find the numbers for the other versions, that may change everything.
But I completely agree. It should have been an entirely new game.
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