Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps Trademarked in Europe and Japan

@Gblazer01: That's exactly my point, yeah it was a replica in terms of combat mechanics, and yet it was an infinitely better game. Why? Because guess what, there's more to a game than combat mechanics.

It has nothing to do with nostalgia. People weren't nostalgic about it the day it came out, but that didn't stop it averaging a 9.5. Show me another game in the series that can do that. Right, there aren't any. For anyone who cares about atmosphere, character, charm, level design, enemy design, story, and a dedicated single player experience, RE4 is the vastly superior game. Nothing to do with “moving on”, it simply is better in every conceivable way except graphics, and as a multiplayer experience.

RE5 single-player was a generic baby-sitting simulator without a memorable line of dialogue in the entire game. You hardly had any darkness or atmosphere, you were *never* alone but always playing a stupid inventory juggling mini game with an AI idiot who follows you everywhere. The same unimaginative, shapeless blob of an enemy recycled about 5 times. The same generic action film music in the background at every moment. The enemies actually raise their hands straight out in front of them and shout “rrrarrrrarrrr” before they start running towards you, like a mother might when playing with a 3-year-old. Puzzles have been taken out of the series entirely. A ridiculous camera angle where Chris's monster triceps (am I supposed to feel helpless?) take up 30% of the FOV. Enemies simply drop down from the sky the majority of the time because the weak, linear level design doesn't provide them an adequate spawn point, so you can't counter-strategise mid-fight. All the guns names have been replaced with military designations to destroy even more of the charm and make it even more like a military shooter. You can buy an AK-47 in a Resident Evil game (that's the point where I gave up thinking I'd get a memorable experience out of RE5). You can just jump back and forth between chapters at will, so that tense part that you found tricky and uncomfortable? Guess what, just skip it. Cause the story and atmosphere were just tacked-on afterthoughts anyway, so knock yourself out.

Again, this doesn't say anything about it as a game. As a game, it's objectively good, even though I personally hated it since I had expectations for the series. As a Resident Evil game, it's god damn awful. And I'm not stuck in the past either, I loved RE1, but loved RE4 even more the moment it came out, and acknowledged you can't produce games with RE1 mechanics any more and expect them to sell. But it's the former game reviewers rightfully focus on, not the latter, so of course it achieved a good score, like COD achieves a good score. You can't objectively say that COD is a “bad” game. This proves people aren't just “stuck in the past.” RE6 on the other hand was awful in both respects, and so, naturally, received bad scores.

“when the studio FINALLY revamps the combat mechanics nearly 100x fold and its fluid as flu-like diarrhea , everyone then again finds something to b!tch about.”

Are you implying that, because they revamped the combat, we shouldn't complain about every other stupid decision in the game? We should just look at the combat and praise it for being different, then just keep our mouths shut about everything else and be grateful?

“You don't have to slam people for games that they like which so happen to be games you don't like.” I wasn't talking about people, I was talking about RE6, just like most of the gaming community. The only one complaining about people's opinions here is you. “...everyone then again finds something to b!tch about.”

All I want is a good game that maintains the series' integrity. I like the series... because I like the series. I don't like the series just so that it can turn into a military cover shooter as soon as they feel they can squeeze more money out of it. The final 30% of RE5 was just embarrassing. I had an AK-47, they all had an AK-47, “press A to take cover”, and just wait until their head pops up then blow it off. Absolute sell-out.

@deathstream: To be underrated is has to be... well... underrated.

It scored around the 8 or 9 mark everywhere it went.

Personally I didn't enjoy the game for a number of stupid design decisions that really surfaced when playing in single player, boring characters and dialogue and an utterly forgettable story.

But at the same time I could sort of see that the mechanics were very solid, and the environments varied, and the controls and gameplay were sharp and responsive, and objectively (and that was difficult for me), it was actually a good game.

The problem was just that it was only one step or two away from a military shooter, and god knows I am sick of military shooters everywhere I look. It was that character that made the series intriguing in the first place, and it's evaporating right before our eyes.