Poll: Resident Evil: The Lackening

[Ordinaryundone]

It's not worth it to play Resi 1 anymore, unless its the Remake. The original is terribad in every sense of the word.

Resi 2 and 3 are tied for second in my mind, with 3 only slightly edging out 2 for having superior weapon, location, and enemy variety. 2 has the best story, though.

Code Veronica is a pile of bull honky. Seriously, its just terrible.

Resident Evil 4 was one of the best games released on the PS2, and I still consider it to be one of the best action games ever made. Very little of its success has to do with it being a Resident Evil game. They could have called it "Leonardo DiCaprio's adventures in NotSpain" and it would still be brilliant.

Resident Evil 5 is pretty good, but it made a critical mistake by getting to invested in it's own stupid lore, rather than following RE4's example. Also, the AI partner thing is kind of a pain, though having a co-op player makes the game IMMENSELY more fun. I highly recommend it to anyone who though RE5 was lacking.

6 looks like it's heading in the same direction as 5, story-wise, which is a bit of a shame, but everything else I've seen about it looks pretty sweet.

Oh, and every single RE side game ever made is terrible, no exceptions. This includes Resident Evil 0. O:RC is EASILY the best of the bunch, if that helps to paint a picture. Dead Aim is my personal favorite for it's sheer WTF quotient.

 

[Don Savik]

You expected to be scared when you're part of a 4 man team of experts who have been trained to deal with a situation just like Raccoon City? Did you bother reading up on the game at all before you mindlessly purchased it?

^^ a million times this. They never marketed off as "HARDCORE SURVIVAL HORROR". From the first reveal trailer we saw exactly the tone they were going for. To be honest, I found RE5 more scary than 4 (im replaying 4 right now). RE4 was good until you get to the castle, then its a B-movie cheese fest. You fight a goddam napolean midget in a puzzle castle. None of that is scary. In Re5 all the towns were creepy as hell. L4D2 had daytime levels as well, and that didn't change the tone of the game at all from the first one. I think people are expecting too much from the series. Since the first Resident Evil game its been a cheesy b-movie horror.

Do I even need to link the live action opening cutscene from RE1?

 

[GiantRaven]

Do I even need to link the live action opening cutscene from RE1?

You probably should, just on the off-chance there's a single person who hasn't seen it yet. It's definitely something that shouldn't be missed.