Resident Evil 6: What went wrong?

If reviews are anything to base off of, what exactly went wrong with RE6 from people who have played it so far? I haven't played it yet but I really enjoyed RE4, and that was named Game of the Year on GameSpot if I remember correctly. Is it as bad as Gamespot says it is (4.5/10) or is it actually worth playing?

And for the record Gamespot isn't the only site to give it a bad review, apparently there were several others.

I don't put to much stock in reviews, but since I played the demo I'm in total agreement. You haven't tried the demo yet?

After playing the demo online with a friend, I immediately cancelled my preorder. While I understand this is an evolution of the series, it felt so damn frustrating. I spent half the time fighting with the camera than the enemies and everything was so dark, especially in Leon's portion and those fake 'barriers' in your path are so last generation.

There's no reason why you can climb on top of a desk, but you can't STEP OVER a bench in the hallway to proceed. The revamped inventory system was also another exercise in patience. It took me a while to figure out how to use my herbs and combine them. I wish it was more intuitive off the bat. The whole experience left a sour taste in my mouth and playing the game felt like a chore, and Chris' campaign felt like a Gears of War DLC staring RE characters.

Regardless of my opinions, we all know the game will sell millions and it will be defended till the end of time as a good game. I'll just wait for the inevitable "insert name here" edition next year with all the DLC for $40. That game isn't worth my $60, a lesson I should have learned when I paid $60 for Resident Evil 5 and beat it the same day online with a friend.

Is going to sell millions just because it says RE in hte title. Im really sad that an amazing franchise is getting more and more generic.

I enjoyed every RE to RE4 (i liked RE5 but it was a bit meh) is a sad day for RE fans.

Regardless of my opinions, we all know the game will sell millions and it will be defended till the end of time as a good game.Sophette

dont understand why it received a low score like that. I find it so much more fun than RE5...I am almost 3 hours in and I am having a blast with it so far. No issues at the moment.

I'm kind of glad it failed, now people know what us old school RE fans are talking about.

People buy RE for the survival horror, not for a mediocre action game with zombies/monsters (with guns lol). Capcom just took out everything that was original and groundbreaking about the series and so has to directly compete with the other action shooters that release at the same time (and we know how much of those are around this gen).

So congrats "new school" fans, on letting Capcom kill another once great series.

Honestly, I have a very strong feeling that most of the people who will trash talk this game into the ground will be those who never even play it. It is a good game with high production values. I picked it up last night and so far it is $ well spent. Just because it carries the RE name and people want this or that people are being unfair. Capcom said it best when they said they can't please everyone.

Too many cut scenes,button prompts and also that fac that you have to do alot of running. The inventory also sucks as well and sometimes it's so dark you can't even see what's coming at you.

I just can't believe how bad RE has gotten after RE4 because that was a masterpiece and the best in the series.

[QUOTE="Sophette"]Regardless of my opinions, we all know the game will sell millions and it will be defended till the end of time as a good game.arsenal1111

If reviews are anything to base off of, what exactly went wrong with RE6 from people who have played it so far? I haven't played it yet but I really enjoyed RE4, and that was named Game of the Year on GameSpot if I remember correctly. Is it as bad as Gamespot says it is (4.5/10) or is it actually worth playing?

And for the record Gamespot isn't the only site to give it a bad review, apparently there were several others.

Tigerman950

It's not the fact that it's a bad game, to lots of people it's fun and looks good and a good story, the fact is, it's not a great game and it isn't resident Evil, just like someone said in another comment, they will never forget resi 2 when a guy jumps through a wall at you or my personal favourite once you make it through town and you go into the shop and your collecting ammo and all of sudden they come through the window and you fight your way out into the policestation to find your police cheif dying in the office but you know he's been infected, and you need to try and help him and you walk down the corridor and you just see a glimmer of something crawl passed the window and your just not sure what it is until a few corridors later and 2 lickers burst through, that's what we want randomness in the game, to creep us out and an actual survival horror, it's them moments of not knowing which made resident evil, why can this not be done today??? why does it need to just be action based third person shooter, surely they can come up with a game like resi4 with all it's new mechanics and still make it scary, it can't be that hard, thats why the score's are low, and their is a big divide with reviews.

me personally agree with the gamespot review more than any other due to the fact he is reviewing it as a resident evil game to the franchise and not just a standalone game,

To be honest I think Kevin didn't do a bad job reviewing it.

.Its pretty hilarious.. Capcom claimed that they listened to the fans and they went back to their roots.. Day 1 release: Resident Evil 6 disproves that they listened to the fans at all and they didn't go back to their roots, they progressed more to the run and gun.. sSubZerOo

Nothing "went wrong" with RE6, it is just that people expect WAY TOO MUCH.

I kinda thought that same as some others about the demo. The demo does suck compared to the actual game itself, as I almost didn't get the game because of that demo but I am glad that I did. If you haven't played the full retail game then you really haven't played the game.

I think that RE6 is somewhat better than RE5, and yes I have played/owned all the RE games including RE: Operation Raccoon City.

I give RE6 a 9/10.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"].Its pretty hilarious.. Capcom claimed that they listened to the fans and they went back to their roots.. Day 1 release: Resident Evil 6 disproves that they listened to the fans at all and they didn't go back to their roots, they progressed more to the run and gun.. Sophette

Nothing "went wrong" with RE6, it is just that people expect WAY TOO MUCH.

ghstbstr

[QUOTE="ghstbstr"]Nothing "went wrong" with RE6, it is just that people expect WAY TOO MUCH.

arsenal1111

You obviously didn't read the rest of my post, because if you did you would have seen that I am a fan of the RE series since the first game.

Here is the rest of my post that you didn't read:

"I kinda thought that same as some others about the demo. The demo does suck compared to the actual game itself, as I almost didn't get the game because of that demo but I am glad that I did. If you haven't played the full retail game then you really haven't played the game.

I think that RE6 is somewhat better than RE5, and yes I have played/owned all the RE games including RE: Operation Raccoon City.

I give RE6 a 9/10."

Is it really so difficult to write a good survival story and incorporate Resident Evil 4 mechanics with Resident Evil 2,3 elements.. That's what the fans were asking for..not another version of RE5 with more gun-play, action oriented emphasis..

It seems to me Capcom is listening, however they are ignoring everything being written and said.

That's too bad, the new direction might appeal to new crowd of gamers to an extent but I won't be in that list. For better or worse, time will tell.

Screw the reviews, Kevin hates all the good games.

Screw the reviews, Kevin hates all the good games.

POKE777GM

In my opinion it is good that the game gets bad reviews :) It means RE6 will get very soon a price drop, and more people (including me) will buy it. Most of us know that RE6 is a great game, despite any reviews :)

In my opinion it is good that the game gets bad reviews :) It means RE6 will get very soon a price drop, and more people (including me) will buy it. Most of us know that RE6 is a great game, despite any reviews :)

demon-zer0

Im playing it atm, already completed Leon & Chris campaign..just started Jake's campaign. Its ok ..nothing great, felt more like a mish mash (looked other action games, hey let's combine them together) of everything together.