Ok well Resident Evil 5 just came out a few weeks ago and as a fan of the series i wanted to know which one was most favorited by gamers... Mine personally would probably be the remake of the first one mainly because it was the first to come out and i like the actual "zombies" that it has instead of the plaga stuff that has been recently used in the past two games released..

REmake easily

Resident Evil 2 followed by REmake.

REmake and Resident Evil 4

I wasn't much of a fan of 4 and 5 mainly because they took the whole meaning of a zombie and changed it. It used to be where the dead walked and they ate you and if you were bitten then it wouldn't be long before you turned into one. Now its evolved to pretty much a cult of people trying to convert everybody to their religion or something and there aren't anymore zombies. From the way i see it, it went from a game that could question the mind "what if it could really happen" to "there ain't no damn way".

REmake
RE 4
RE 2

Resident Evil 2

I actually first played it on my N64.  When I finally got a PS1 I purchased all of the Resident Evil games for it.

REmake by far

Resident evil 2........... 2 playable characters, 4 scenarios..... Magic.

REmake is unquestionably great too though.

REmake, easily.