I completely agree. Don't get me wrong, RE4 is a good game. But RE used to be a survival horror game. Now it's just an action game. There are way too many enemies, and even when you have a beefed up shotgun it still requires up to 6 blasts to the head to kill some of them and those enemies are usually the ones that one-hit-kill you. That's not scary... It's just annoying. If they put RE4's camera and controls into RE, 2 and 3, I think you'd have a perfect game. (and a more flexible inventory, Re2's is just bad...)

As it stands, I like RE: Dir. Cut, 2 and 3 much more. They're short, sweet, and you can get through it without dying if you're skilled & careful. RE4 on Professional just feels like the game is geared towards screwing the player with cheap insta-kill monsters and sequences, whereas RE3 was a difficult game on Hard, but not to the point you'd see "You have died" over and over.

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A new original story. (DE2 botched this up, by saying JC did every ending in the first game, instead of picking one of them, and just going with it) biggest_loser

Also, lol uhh...change the interface, fix the non-existent AI: You could walk around with your gun out and no one cared in IW.

But if you start afresh though don't you risk people complaining about it being too separate from the others? I'm just thinking about people's response to Far Cry 2 which has absolutely nothing to do with its predecessor whatsoever..