@sahalarious: I’ll try to do that. You know why I think this was really disappointing? I think you’re right. The tension of the first person one RE was nice and what I actually hoped was they would have the first person ones be super tense and the 3rd person ones be kind of fun and goofy. Instead they combined them and maybe I’m just mad they didn’t go the direction I wanted.
Sorry, I didn't really have time to read every reply, but I have to call bullshit here. You are, of course, free to feel however you like about the games and obviously not everyone's gonna like everything.
But "super" tense" vs "fun and goofy?"
Where do people keep getting this idea that any Resident Evil game has been anything but camp and cheese? There are no super serious ultra tense Resident Evil experiences. They're all cheesy nonsense. 1 is cheesy, 2 is cheesy, 3 is cheesy, 4 is cheesy, 5 is cheesy, 6 is cheesy, 7 is cheesy, 8 is cheesy, Rev and Rev 2 are cheesy. They're all campy as hell, Resident Evil has never been super serious horror. 1 was only as "scary" as it was for the time because back then the concept of scary games was still novel. Even by 2 the scare factor had gone way down. That doesn't mean there aren't scary moments, but that's different.
Yes, the opening of 7 was kind of tense I guess, it seemed to really scare a lot of people which I don't really get as I found Jack delightfully hilarious, but even if you found that scary, once you get out of that house like an hour, maybe an hour and a half into the game, it was pure cheese. Or were people super scared of Marguerite's hornet crotch? When Jack pulled out a chainsaw and said "Groovy" and Ethan said "that's not groovy," was everyone quaking in their boots?
When Barry uses a crane to smash open a door in Rev 2 and says "who's the master of unlocking now?" was that serious horror? How about Leon and Claire's relentless cheesy flirting in RE2R? Jill yelling "I'll show you STARS"? How about getting chomped on by a giant snake and going "There's a terrible demon! Ouch!"
RESIDENT EVIL IS CAMPY HORROR. It always has been, and it always will be. It's almost never actually scary, and even when it is, it's only scary for a little bit. It always has a dumb story, it always has cheesy lines, it always barely makes sense if it makes sense at all. Resident Evil 8 is like 4 because it's a lot more action-based, has a merchant, upgradeable weapons, treasure to find and sell, and a very large arsenal of fun tools with which to blast enemies.
I don't know where this super serious Resident Evil series people have been playing it is, but as someone who's played every single game since the first one released on the PSX, I sure as shit haven't found it yet.
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