everything up to 4 should be act 1.

the horribly controlling, bad acting, first act

Bad acting you're right. No RE was as bad as the original one.

Chris: No!........Don't go!

re5 is good stop the bashing

^People seemed to be whining about how the series will change completely in the future games.

I for once am glad that Wesker is finally dead. How can a STARS captain rise to ultra evil Blofeld-like mastermind is beyond my grasp. If he were the director of the intelligence services or even police chief it would have made more sense.

RE went wrong on the cube. RE4 has too many bullets. It has become a shooter, RE5 still has a stop and shoot policy. RE6 won't have this anymore. Many people bitch about it. Capcom wants money, their fans already play fatal frame, silent hill etc.

If i'd like to kill lots of zombies i'd rather play L4D
If want to kill lots of zombies (the funny way) i'd play Dead Rising

I'm missing a survival horror game with only zombies and other manipulated animals (no monsters). They should have chosen action/adventure route instead of the shooter route.

I cannot blame them though shooters are hot on consoles since last generation. Resident Evil is their cashcow.

I will still play RE though.

I'm really glad I already knew what happened in RE5 since everyone and their mother is determined to spoil it in every RE thread on this forum despite the game only being out for few days.

Not to say the RE characters aren't great and loved by the fans but I'm sure it had to do with Survivor and Outbreak being crappy games compared to the rest as to the reason why they didn't sell. People like the characthers from a game ultimately because they liked the game.

For evidence of why the games you mentioned sold as why others didn't-

Metacritic scores

Resident Evil (PS1)- 91

Resident Evil 2 (PS1)- 89

Resident Evil Survivor (PS1)-  39

Resident Evil 4 (GC)- 96 (PS2)- 96

Resident Evil Code Veronica (PS2)- 84

Resident Evil Outbreak (PS2)- 71

Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 (PS2)- 58

Resident Evil: Dead Aim (PS2)- 65

Resident Evil (GC)- 91

Resident Evil 0 (GC)- 83

In conclusion, I doubt it's no coincidence that the games with the lower scores were less well recieved compared to games with much better reviews. 

That's a huge list

man wat happen to the RE series

there supposed to be making 6 completely different from how 4 and 5 are gameplay wise i just dont want anymore AI partners for 6 in the signal player story and for it to be scary and to have a bad ass character that u'll be playing as dont care if its a new one

but all this is old the series made a turn in 2005 with re4 just look at the story and gameplay

Well, I don't see this as a problem. I mean, what were they supposed to do, keep on relating to those storylines and characters over and over again? It would have become pretty tired and padded out - there's only so much back-story you can invent and push into the series' history with new installments before you have to say enough is enough and start afresh.