I had his videos autoplaying in the background while I did other stuff and I legitimately went to switch videos because I thought it brought me to a different channel.
My favorite game of all time(tied with Ocarina of Time) but for PS2 the graphics are out of this world!!! Decades ahead of its time. Still worth playing today
I llllloooooovvvveeeddd RE4. I've replayed it a hundred times. One of my absolute favorites. Leon Kennedy has to be my favorite game character as well.
@@dani_i8942 well yes over a decade later our standards should be higher lol but that doesn’t change how fun the game was when it came out and for the many years that followed. Until RE 2 remake, RE 4 was the last game that was near perfect. It’s not about standards, it’s about taking the timeline into consideration. For many years RE 4 was the holy grail of the series that peaked up until they finally remade 2.
@@dani_i8942 I played it for the first time a few months ago and thought it was amazing. I think the only thing that could be considered "outdated" would be the tank controls, but the game was so well designed around it that it didn't bother me, except in some of the boss fights maybe
@@kboci88 no worries. I don’t think I’ve actually read Jayne Eyre to be honest. May have seen a TV adaption. It’s just one of those famous literary lines.
RE4's enemy AI was well done as well. I remember the beginning level when you're surrounded. I climbed up a bell tower, planning to funnel the villagers one at a time up the ladder. Instead they the Molotov cocktails through the tower window, forcing me to return to the horde on the ground.
A good tip of u want to save ammo and shit, climb up then jump down then climb up and jump down again. Keep doing this for like 2 minutes and it skips the village sequence although it's not the fastest way.
Jeggson Vohees Haha! Same! I stood waiting for them to climb 1 at a time only to get burnt 🥵 I had to make the jump that would realistically break ur legs Lol.
I disagree about enemy AI. Very often when you aggro an enemy They will sit and point and say something even if you're standing right next to them. Still a great game tho, looking forward to remake.
I have replayed this damn game to the point three different disks started to malfunction. I know every nook and cranny every hit box every pixel and have unlocked every single thing you can possibly do on ps2 And I STILL love playing it
I once challenged myself to kill the whole village on the first level with the knife only. The knife was amazing in this game it wasnt too strong but not completely weak af either.
I understand that a lot of people get an impression that RE4 is the beginning of the era for what is to come, but damn is the game still good to play even to this day.
I'm with u 100%, I loved this game, enjoyed every play through ( the infinite Tommy gun was awesome ), the mercinary mode was great too, sunk so many hours into this game.
@@Dacho_Shaki I bought it then sold it to make space for the P.R.L 412 Laser cannon, fully upgraded hand cannon, the Chicago typewriter, blacktail, the base handgun, and got to a point I was able to buy the rocket launcher again.
Blew it out on the Switch in portable mode, most recently. I've double-played through RE4 on no less than 7 different platforms! I love RE4, 5 & 6's Mercenary modes.
I think my favourite thing about this game is the sheer variety in the locations you visit. You never stay somewhere so long that it gets boring and there was never anything like it and hasn't been to this day. Seriously, for a PS2 game going from a village to castle to a secret island to an secret lab all with their own unique enemy types, puzzles, textures and equipment was and still is some of the most diverse locations you can get in a single game. How they managed it all onto a single disc still amazes me.
Without a doubt! 😍 I love how you can replay the game over with all your weapons from b4 and can upgrade em into a triple barrel shotty, .44 long barrel, tommy gun with unlimited ammo. So good
This is unironically the best version of Leon ever. I thought the Remake would do Leon best, but RE4's Leon is still the most charismatic and badass version of him... though since he is from an horror series maybe being "baddass" isn't ideal, but I don't personaly don't care. Leon is fucking cool.
@Dominic dominic No. The kind of game I feel nostalgia is Super Mario World or Final Fantasy VII. I'm that old. I still play RE4 from time to time so there's no reason for me to feel nostalgia. I genuinely think RE4 is best Leon and I'm curious to hear why you would disagree.
'Badass' and 'horror setting' aren't mutually exclusive. Aliens walked that line well. Personally, I like both of Leon's incarnations: the rookiee cop out of his depth but rising to the occasion in RE2, and the highly trained special agent who never gives up in RE4.
@@tba113 Me too. But many would disagree. It's basically a consensus regarding horror games that it must have a vulnerable protagonist. Thing is, being badass is not mutually exclusive to being vunerable too, but many don't realise this.
RE4 is when many players were introduced to Leon for the first time, even though the original RE2 came out first (both as a game and story-wise). Rookie Leon in Raccoon City being weak and vulnerable is a great background build-up for the badass agent in RE4, and the difference in genres (survival horror vs action) suits the character development
The best game of a generation, it is literally genius!!!! Had this game on the game cube and words cannot describe how immersive this game actually is.
My favorite game of all time(tied with Ocarina of Time) but for PS2 the graphics are out of this world!!! Decades ahead of its time. Still worth playing today
"It would be like setting the game in Scotland and having the locals living in mud huts and attacking each other with claymore swords." You mean you guys don't do that? :p
I cannot cope with this straight laced commentary without the enjoyable and ridiculous character he went on to create. This perfectly demonstrates the choice to spice up the presentation and make the experience more fun and less generic was unquestionably a great move.
I have to claim a touch of good-natured sadism when I played this game. My favorite tactic in bonus play was to park "Armored Ashley" in the middle of the kill zone then pick off the villagers at my leisure as they tossed and bludgeoned her with impunity. Good Times!
Lol I loved the armor suit. Made her fun to play with instead of a pain in the ass. She loves to run 🏃♀️ right into swarms of zombies 🧟♂️ like a moth to flame 🔥
As a Spaniard, the medieval looking depiction of our villages made me laugh a lot. Same with the Mexican accent the Ganados have for no reason. What I'll be forever grateful to this game for is that it inspired the creation of Dead Space. The first two games are still in my top 10 games ever.
I used to have a Japanese pen pal and he was a big Resident Evil fan. He once asked me where RE4 was set and what language the Ganados were speaking. He genuinely had no idea, so if that tells you Japan's understanding of Spain.
"No two battles are ever quite the same in RE4." *aim at leg, shoot kneecap, run as fast as you can to suplex that sucka, pull out knife, start slashing* Heh, nice try my man. It's like you don't even like your ammo.
That how you gotta play on pro if you want a decent time. I ended the game with more than enough ammo and alot of healing supplies but the game is generous anyways.
@@stolenname94 What works best for Pro as well is to make the most crowd combos (basically hitting one guy that makes everyone else get stunned or fall down), then use the knife. I absolutely love that game on Pro, and it is a proper resident evil experience on it, and not quite as action as most people say it is. One poor choice, one failed set piece, and all of a sudden you find yourself with no ammo, and barely any health. Luckily the smart engine knows this (whatever that difficulty thing is lol) and will supply you with ammo to scrap by and fill up again. That is how a game should be. My first playthough on pro remains the best RE experience I ever had, even better than what I experienced with Remake.
I used my TMP like a pistol for professional doing exact that, played everything safe, and saved a metric crap ton of ammo, as well as enough money to buy 15 rocket launchers by the final boss fight. So I bought one, and dealt with Saddler within a minute. lol
@@desfefe I agree with everything you said other than it being a proper resident evil experience. And no it isn't a lack of zombies its everything about the game entirely. I find i waaay to forgiving has plenty of checkpoints as many saves as you like tons and tons of ammo and health really easy puzzles a narrative that tries nothing to connect it to the franchise. My biggest gripe is there is no strategy I never once have had any issues running out of ammo or health not once. older re games made resource management an actual thing miss one bullet that very well could be end game for you use a herb at the wrong time then your also fucked forgot to adjust your inventory for ahead your really fucked. There is a lot I can say about this game as to why I disagree with your there the way I see it resident evil 4 is really just an action game with a sprinkle of horror its re in name only for me and for them to call it survival horror is just a reach it not even close. However even though it sounds like I hate the game I don't its an easy 10/10 game but Imo it ain't no resident evil game
@@TheSlammurai it can be said but "vete a la mierda" is the go to. This game got the Spanish part all wrong haha I don't think the creators ever went to Spain or bothered to get actors who spoke Castilian, still fun as hell though.
The "Hook Man" version looks great! You can't beat a good old claustrophobic haunted mansion for location, and the supernatural aspects make a welcome change to the drudgery of zombies. Maybe they should have just turned this version into a new game franchise, along the same lines as the original Alone in the Dark.
I, first, played RE4 on my PS2. I ended up beating the game 18 times in a row. I had AT LEAST 25 play-throughs of this one game. To say Resident Evil 4 is a good game...is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! However, playing on the Wii and using the Wii-mote and Nunchuck was a game changer! It played SO MUCH BETTER being able to aim and shoot with my wrist and trigger finger, instead of two thumb-sticks and the R1 Button. So, I ended up putting an additional dozen play-throughs on the Wii version. I just couldn't get bored of this game. I played the first Resident Evil; and got bored of the puzzle aspect of it (never beat it). Resident Evil 2 had my attention at near full-peak, and play the living crap out of it. Resident Evil 3 was more like Resident Evil 2; but, not as good (played and beat it three times). So, when Resident Evil 4 came out, I thought it would be like Resident Evil 3; which made me have no interest in playing it. Then, I ended up buying it on sale for $10...and what resulted was the first and 2nd "paragraphs" of this comment. I was kicking myself for not buying it sooner.
It's still funny to me that it never crossed anyone's mind that being a Nintendo exclusive meant _RE_ fans had to run out and not only buy a new console just to keep playing their favorite series, but a console that didn't have many other options suited to their tastes. It was a much bigger gamble than Nintendo or Capcom assumed it would be and it most certainly didn't pay off like they thought it would.
Hearing Drinker’s RE4 review is so funny when compared to his RE4 remake review. He was still finding his niche and it feels like a completely different person lol love your content!
A masterpiece and don't diss on the bad guys! Saddler and Salazar are far better and more interesting characters than other RE villains- I also loved the use of the video link where Saddler hacks into and talks to you directky.
Lol you sound pretty sober here. I really like the extra info about the RE4 development in addition to the review of the finished game! Thank you for the upload
Definitely! By far. The graphics alone are light years ahead of its time! Nothing was comparable. Crash Bandicoot was another legendary PS2 game. But RE4 is my favorite game of all time(tied with ‘Ocarina of Time’)
This was the first game I desperately wanted to kill the antagonist. He was like Napoleon Bonaparte and Kevin McAllisters love child. He even had the house full of traps.
Exactly why I’m super worried about RE4 Remake. It took the four tries to get it right the first time, how the hell is a remake going to duplicate that?
I played PS1 constantly but got bored with gaming, Resident evil 4 brought back my love for gaming with a vengeance! I replayed this game back to back more times than I could possibly remember and still love it to today. There were absolutely some very annoying aspects to the game, especially Ashley! She was a consistent source of face palming every time she got captured, and it was strange that the village was 18th century gothic, but the game was as SOOOO good you were willing to overlook these things.
Basically: Version 1: "meh, not RE enough" Version 2: "it's too creative and different, it'll alienate RE fans, redo it" Version 3: "Its too much like other RE games, be more creative" Devs: "ARE YOU F'CKING KIDDING ME?!"
Played RE4 in 1st person back in 2005 on the PS2 and had to quit in frustration at a part I couldn't get through. Covid boredom and the XBox One led me to go back again and try and right some wrongs this year. Loved it. My third play-through with the unlimited rocket launcher and tommy gun was a lap of honour......
I love this game. I remember when I played it for the first time back in early 2005, I was both frightened and exhilarated. When I finished the game, i thought: "That was an absolute blast! If I was to make a Resident Evil game, I would have done this!" I still enjoy playing it to this day. A perfect game. It's a completely bonkers story (RE8 says hi), but it is so much fun. And Leon is such a badass in this one, complete with the cheesy insults ("Your right hand comes off?"). Plus there is the influence it had on future game development and design. "Stranger, Stranger! Now that's a weapon!"
Bro...his failure turned into one a the biggest cult classics and my own favorite franchise....Devil May Cry... That's like having a one night stand, and your bastard son becomes president of the country, even though you're never around....
As much as I love your reviews sounding as drunk as Barney Gumbel, you are actually quite an engaging and interesting critic when it comes to your sober sounding videos like these.
I love RE4. I love the atmosphere and the gothic Spanish settings. Yes--the game palette is pretty brown throughout, but that's all right. I also love the add-on games. The Mercenaries, Ada's Mission and even the shooting gallery. Great fun.
You start relatively slow, you kill a handful of dudes, a couple of gem carrying crows, save a puppy, and all of a sudden you are in Pueblo, surrounded by dozens of yelling, screaming villagers, and you got your head severed by some kind of Leatherface wearing a bag on his face... I do remember me, the third time I was dying, overwhelmed by the mob, far beyond the initial shock and awe, saying to myself, "ok, that's gonna be tougher that expected..." with a gritty smile on my face. Priceless!
The one thing I liked about the escort missions was that you could tell Ashley to hide in a barrel when shit was about to go down. Also, 14:34: "It'd be like setting their next game in Scotland and having the locals living in mud huts and attacking each other with Claymore swords." I fail to see how that would be anything less than awesome.
One other thing I think worth mentioning was the dynamic difficulty level. Miss enough shots and get hit enough and without telling you enemies become fewer in number and less aggressive. Shoot more accurately and avoid being hit and you get more numerous enemies which attack you more aggressively. I didn't even realize it was doing this until it was pointed out to me.
Probably WAY too late to the party on this one. But I'm enjoying this entire series of yours. Now I'm wondering your thoughts on (if you've played of course) The Suffering (PS2) & Dead Space.
@@davidabest7195 Fully agreed. The Suffering is nigh incomparable. It was the first game I ever played where decisions really felt like they mattered. Current Gen would be a gift!
Thank you! This is the most honest honest review of this game I've seen. Thanks for not just gushing over a game that, at best, is just good. And if it wasn't a Resident Evil game, it would've been great. I think people got too carried away with the new action/adventure style that they didn't realize how much it didn't fit into the world that RE 0-3 had built. I get so chapped when people say it's the best RE game and I'm still salty about how it changed the RE games for so long.
Press X Props well all of the reviews of this game are honest this is just one that you happen to agree with which is how echo chambers are started. Re4 didn’t change the series as you can see the original creators who made the games have min since left capcom and so did their vision for the future of the franchise. If we’re gonna blame re4 for the existence of re5 and 6 then we have to praise it for the existence of remake 2 which uses the foundation that re4 created. I dunno it just gets upsetting to see people bash re4 for what it’s not instead of what it is
I played the crap out of this game when it was on the GameCube, and man… I loved every minute of it. Played it so much that I had virtually ‘unlimited’ everything and ran around blowing everything up with my RPG with unlimited ammo. Just tried playing it again on my Xbox One shortly before Village was released, and I didn’t make it past the first chapter before I just gave up. The controls are so, so bad now. So bad. The good news is that a remake is apparently in the works, and I am super-excited!
@@DakotaBeckerMAGA thankfully the RE4 Remake is fantastic; I’ve played through it four times since it was released. Now I’m on the last chapter of my second Separate Ways play through and will be starting on my third here in an hour or so. It’s so much fun.
Those....things that would burst out of the bad guys heads after you progressed a bit more always creeped me out a bit, kinda like an even more freakish facehugger! And those lanky black monsters in the lab areas, it had what seemed to me this wierd breathy laugh that was awesomely disturbing, despite the drab color scheme in this game it had some seriously atmospheric areas, loved the layouts. It will always be my favourite RE game.
The first question I'd ask about bad sales of Gamecube games would have been "How is the _Gamecube_ selling?" This needs a remake. One with proper mouse-look, unlike the PC version.
On the whole, I love everything about Resident Evil 4 EXCEPT that it is a Resident Evil game. I wish they'd created a sister franchise with everything 4 has except the connection to previous RE games.
I found RE4 a perfect mix of action and horror and I’m big into survival horror, the audio in RE4, the chanting cultists in the castle in particular made the hairs on my arms stand up, RE4 is in my top 10 games of all time, RE5 and especially 6 went WAY overboard with action, I enjoyed 5 but not as much as 4 it wasn’t as scary and 6 was just ridiculous, I think there’s a middle ground that I like and RE4 was that for me.
My favourite Resident Evil game, played all modes, and played story mode many time😂 , with infinite launcher and the super shotgun and That laser gun thing.
one of my favorite games ever by far. the resi 2 remake is also super good but maybe that's just because of how much i liked this. it was like a strong prequel
Couldn't agree more. It's a fantastic game but it completely killed Resident Evil as we knew it. Took until 2017 to finally get back on track. It's a small suggestion, but there's a very simple thing they could've done to make us feel like it was more of a Resident Evil game. And no, it's nothing to do with the story. There are several doors that lead to area transitions that come with a black "Now Loading..." screen... If those traditional door opening animations were there instead, that would've been a huge difference.
Best game in the series in my opinion when you take into account the timeless nature of the game and the multiple remakes it stands apart from any and all competition it has a lot of replay value (I have lost count of how many times I completed it ) and it also managed to take a series from a niche struggling survival horror since at the time it was actually getting out of style and make it into a massive success while still respecting and continuing the Resident Evil story line
Dead space and evil within are also imitations of resident evil 4 and are both fantastic but nothing will ever top THE KING of all games resident evil 4
I bought the Gamecube purely for Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, but then this came out not long after and was the icing on the cake. The RE games literally defined the Gamecube around this time, Nintendo were absolutely killing it with their relationship with Capcom. Still can't believe how monumentally they f**ked up after the Gamecube.
I respect your opinion of course drinker but in my mind Salazar was one of the best things about this game. I absolutely loved the castle part of the game just because I knew he was big baddie in that section.
The drinker before breaking his sobriety
I know, it's kinda weird hearing his voice sound normal. I thought it was a different person. I prefer the "drunk" voice.
He invested in better audio gear as well.
You almost have to ask Who is this eh?
I had his videos autoplaying in the background while I did other stuff and I legitimately went to switch videos because I thought it brought me to a different channel.
It's always trippy to hear. lol
It's so weird hearing the drinker speak in a sober tone lol
He just hasn’t had his vodka breakfast yet.
I prefer him using that tone than the drunken one
@@Hunter-tq2ux It's essentially his trademark, otherwise he'd just be like any other TH-camr reviewer trying to making niche jokes every now and then.
@@The_Caledonian Possum reviews also has that gimmick, not sure if it's conicidental or not.
Right! Must have updated video!!
The only game I’ve ever played until the end 10 times or so
Man 30 times over the course of rerrleases lol pro mode eh 3 or 4 times lol
I've probably played this game well over 100 times on the gamecube, ps2, xbox 360 and xbox one
I played this game on Playstation 2 and it's still one of my favorite games to this day.
Exactly
I had it on Gamecube....I actually passed on PS2 cuz this was Gamecube exclusive. Then they released it on PS2 😳
Me too. Probably the best PS2 game I played
My favorite game of all time(tied with Ocarina of Time) but for PS2 the graphics are out of this world!!! Decades ahead of its time. Still worth playing today
I llllloooooovvvveeeddd RE4. I've replayed it a hundred times. One of my absolute favorites. Leon Kennedy has to be my favorite game character as well.
For me have hard time sayin it was better than the first 3 cause they are so awesome but 4 is with em it's so freakin great!
I’m a Chris Redfield guy
You need to raise your standards.....game hasn't aged well at all. RE2 remake makes this game look terrible.
@@dani_i8942 well yes over a decade later our standards should be higher lol but that doesn’t change how fun the game was when it came out and for the many years that followed. Until RE 2 remake, RE 4 was the last game that was near perfect. It’s not about standards, it’s about taking the timeline into consideration. For many years RE 4 was the holy grail of the series that peaked up until they finally remade 2.
@@dani_i8942 I played it for the first time a few months ago and thought it was amazing. I think the only thing that could be considered "outdated" would be the tank controls, but the game was so well designed around it that it didn't bother me, except in some of the boss fights maybe
I bought a GameCube just to play this. Well, my girlfriend at the time bought one for me.
Dear reader, I married her.
That is a Philip Roth reference, right?
@@kboci88 it’s a 'Jayne Eyre' reference I believe, so Charlotte Bronte.
@@TeachReads You are right. I haven't read any of her books and the first time I encountered this was in a book by Philip Roth.
@@kboci88 no worries. I don’t think I’ve actually read Jayne Eyre to be honest. May have seen a TV adaption. It’s just one of those famous literary lines.
RE4's enemy AI was well done as well. I remember the beginning level when you're surrounded. I climbed up a bell tower, planning to funnel the villagers one at a time up the ladder.
Instead they the Molotov cocktails through the tower window, forcing me to return to the horde on the ground.
I remember trying to do the same. I think I found out you can take them down when you fall on them.
A good tip of u want to save ammo and shit, climb up then jump down then climb up and jump down again. Keep doing this for like 2 minutes and it skips the village sequence although it's not the fastest way.
Jeggson Vohees Haha! Same! I stood waiting for them to climb 1 at a time only to get burnt 🥵 I had to make the jump that would realistically break ur legs Lol.
I disagree about enemy AI. Very often when you aggro an enemy They will sit and point and say something even if you're standing right next to them. Still a great game tho, looking forward to remake.
@@stolenname94 shoot a hole in the door on the house to the right as you enter and just knife everyone through it
I have replayed this damn game to the point three different disks started to malfunction.
I know every nook and cranny every hit box every pixel and have unlocked every single thing you can possibly do on ps2
And I STILL love playing it
I once challenged myself to kill the whole village on the first level with the knife only. The knife was amazing in this game it wasnt too strong but not completely weak af either.
@@Kn1ghtborne its the best knife narrowly beaten by code veronica knife which is just a katana
Congrats for doing that with a shit version of the game.
@@robojokes2274 You must be happy in life.
You need to play better games...
I still have that annoying "Leeeooonn -- Heelp!" stuck in my head, more than a decade latter.
Boi 😂
I still have "UN FORASTERO!"
not mentioning holding it back when someone is called Leon right before you
HELP ME LEON
Say what you want about the game, but it left an impression. Even if it is a scarring one. xD
I understand that a lot of people get an impression that RE4 is the beginning of the era for what is to come, but damn is the game still good to play even to this day.
I'm with u 100%, I loved this game, enjoyed every play through ( the infinite Tommy gun was awesome ), the mercinary mode was great too, sunk so many hours into this game.
@@wastedpotential616 I've replayed this game so much that I bought the overly expensive infinite rocket launcher.
@@Dacho_Shaki I bought it then sold it to make space for the P.R.L 412 Laser cannon, fully upgraded hand cannon, the Chicago typewriter, blacktail, the base handgun, and got to a point I was able to buy the rocket launcher again.
Blew it out on the Switch in portable mode, most recently. I've double-played through RE4 on no less than 7 different platforms! I love RE4, 5 & 6's Mercenary modes.
With real leadership crappy pt5 etc could be this level of polish and action heavy.
I think my favourite thing about this game is the sheer variety in the locations you visit. You never stay somewhere so long that it gets boring and there was never anything like it and hasn't been to this day. Seriously, for a PS2 game going from a village to castle to a secret island to an secret lab all with their own unique enemy types, puzzles, textures and equipment was and still is some of the most diverse locations you can get in a single game. How they managed it all onto a single disc still amazes me.
Amen to that
The only other game I can think of with such diverse locations is The Last of Us Part II, but we all know how the story of that one turned out.
still one of my fav games to play. One of the best games of all time.
Without a doubt! 😍 I love how you can replay the game over with all your weapons from b4 and can upgrade em into a triple barrel shotty, .44 long barrel, tommy gun with unlimited ammo. So good
This game gave me my love of bolt-action rifles.
What's your rifle of choice brother?
RE4 was and is one of the defining milestones in gaming. Good to know that another one of my favorite games Devil May Cry got it's start here.
I'm not gonna lie, the hook man version of the game actually looks really damn good.
I think you can play it if you find it
This is unironically the best version of Leon ever. I thought the Remake would do Leon best, but RE4's Leon is still the most charismatic and badass version of him... though since he is from an horror series maybe being "baddass" isn't ideal, but I don't personaly don't care. Leon is fucking cool.
@Dominic dominic No. The kind of game I feel nostalgia is Super Mario World or Final Fantasy VII. I'm that old.
I still play RE4 from time to time so there's no reason for me to feel nostalgia.
I genuinely think RE4 is best Leon and I'm curious to hear why you would disagree.
'Badass' and 'horror setting' aren't mutually exclusive. Aliens walked that line well.
Personally, I like both of Leon's incarnations: the rookiee cop out of his depth but rising to the occasion in RE2, and the highly trained special agent who never gives up in RE4.
@@tba113 Me too. But many would disagree. It's basically a consensus regarding horror games that it must have a vulnerable protagonist.
Thing is, being badass is not mutually exclusive to being vunerable too, but many don't realise this.
I love this Leon and his awful quips
RE4 is when many players were introduced to Leon for the first time, even though the original RE2 came out first (both as a game and story-wise). Rookie Leon in Raccoon City being weak and vulnerable is a great background build-up for the badass agent in RE4, and the difference in genres (survival horror vs action) suits the character development
The best game of a generation, it is literally genius!!!! Had this game on the game cube and words cannot describe how immersive this game actually is.
Hard to believe it was a PS2 game - admittedly right at the end of the cycle but still very impressive when you look at other ps2 games
My favorite game of all time(tied with Ocarina of Time) but for PS2 the graphics are out of this world!!! Decades ahead of its time. Still worth playing today
Salazar was great in the original! Such a little twerp and fun to see hazed.
Loved all the banter in the original
"It would be like setting the game in Scotland and having the locals living in mud huts and attacking each other with claymore swords." You mean you guys don't do that? :p
I cannot cope with this straight laced commentary without the enjoyable and ridiculous character he went on to create. This perfectly demonstrates the choice to spice up the presentation and make the experience more fun and less generic was unquestionably a great move.
It's an 80's action movie with great gameplay ☕🌠
Agreed
This game rocks. Everything about it is so unique and fun.
I have to claim a touch of good-natured sadism when I played this game. My favorite tactic in bonus play was to park "Armored Ashley" in the middle of the kill zone then pick off the villagers at my leisure as they tossed and bludgeoned her with impunity.
Good Times!
You Ashlebater, you!
@@favoritemustard3542 Yeah, but I drew the line at dragging her around the map in the "Pimp Suit," a guy has to have SOME kind of standards...
And every guy heard "What are you looking at pervert?". 👀
Lol I loved the armor suit. Made her fun to play with instead of a pain in the ass. She loves to run 🏃♀️ right into swarms of zombies 🧟♂️ like a moth to flame 🔥
As a Spaniard, the medieval looking depiction of our villages made me laugh a lot. Same with the Mexican accent the Ganados have for no reason.
What I'll be forever grateful to this game for is that it inspired the creation of Dead Space. The first two games are still in my top 10 games ever.
@Alex Arviso No, I'm saying we Spaniard have...
Wait for it...
Spanish accent!
Shocking, isn't it? 🤣
I used to have a Japanese pen pal and he was a big Resident Evil fan. He once asked me where RE4 was set and what language the Ganados were speaking. He genuinely had no idea, so if that tells you Japan's understanding of Spain.
"No two battles are ever quite the same in RE4."
*aim at leg, shoot kneecap, run as fast as you can to suplex that sucka, pull out knife, start slashing*
Heh, nice try my man. It's like you don't even like your ammo.
That how you gotta play on pro if you want a decent time. I ended the game with more than enough ammo and alot of healing supplies but the game is generous anyways.
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What works best for Pro as well is to make the most crowd combos (basically hitting one guy that makes everyone else get stunned or fall down), then use the knife. I absolutely love that game on Pro, and it is a proper resident evil experience on it, and not quite as action as most people say it is. One poor choice, one failed set piece, and all of a sudden you find yourself with no ammo, and barely any health. Luckily the smart engine knows this (whatever that difficulty thing is lol) and will supply you with ammo to scrap by and fill up again. That is how a game should be.
My first playthough on pro remains the best RE experience I ever had, even better than what I experienced with Remake.
I used my TMP like a pistol for professional doing exact that, played everything safe, and saved a metric crap ton of ammo, as well as enough money to buy 15 rocket launchers by the final boss fight. So I bought one, and dealt with Saddler within a minute. lol
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tbh the rocket launcher is a cheat. They should have let that be purchasable that early at least.
@@desfefe I agree with everything you said other than it being a proper resident evil experience. And no it isn't a lack of zombies its everything about the game entirely. I find i waaay to forgiving has plenty of checkpoints as many saves as you like tons and tons of ammo and health really easy puzzles a narrative that tries nothing to connect it to the franchise. My biggest gripe is there is no strategy I never once have had any issues running out of ammo or health not once. older re games made resource management an actual thing miss one bullet that very well could be end game for you use a herb at the wrong time then your also fucked forgot to adjust your inventory for ahead your really fucked. There is a lot I can say about this game as to why I disagree with your there the way I see it resident evil 4 is really just an action game with a sprinkle of horror its re in name only for me and for them to call it survival horror is just a reach it not even close. However even though it sounds like I hate the game I don't its an easy 10/10 game but Imo it ain't no resident evil game
As a spaniard I can tell you that a typical joke here is about those "spaniards" villagers with mexican accent
I mean is "largate cabron" even a Spainish phrase? I always hear Mexicans and Cubans saying it the most.
@@TheSlammurai it can be said but "vete a la mierda" is the go to. This game got the Spanish part all wrong haha I don't think the creators ever went to Spain or bothered to get actors who spoke Castilian, still fun as hell though.
I absolutely loved this game. Back in my 420 days I would play this game for hour after hour
The "Hook Man" version looks great! You can't beat a good old claustrophobic haunted mansion for location, and the supernatural aspects make a welcome change to the drudgery of zombies. Maybe they should have just turned this version into a new game franchise, along the same lines as the original Alone in the Dark.
At least Code Veronica had an area like that, even if it was disappointingly short.
@Paul Bell The super creepy Ashford mansion.
"Welcome to part 7 of the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil 4"
...go away now.
I, first, played RE4 on my PS2. I ended up beating the game 18 times in a row. I had AT LEAST 25 play-throughs of this one game. To say Resident Evil 4 is a good game...is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
However, playing on the Wii and using the Wii-mote and Nunchuck was a game changer! It played SO MUCH BETTER being able to aim and shoot with my wrist and trigger finger, instead of two thumb-sticks and the R1 Button. So, I ended up putting an additional dozen play-throughs on the Wii version.
I just couldn't get bored of this game. I played the first Resident Evil; and got bored of the puzzle aspect of it (never beat it). Resident Evil 2 had my attention at near full-peak, and play the living crap out of it. Resident Evil 3 was more like Resident Evil 2; but, not as good (played and beat it three times). So, when Resident Evil 4 came out, I thought it would be like Resident Evil 3; which made me have no interest in playing it. Then, I ended up buying it on sale for $10...and what resulted was the first and 2nd "paragraphs" of this comment. I was kicking myself for not buying it sooner.
Finding Drinker's channel while he was drunk and then suddenly now he's sober. I cannot properly say how uncomfortable this is.
It's still funny to me that it never crossed anyone's mind that being a Nintendo exclusive meant _RE_ fans had to run out and not only buy a new console just to keep playing their favorite series, but a console that didn't have many other options suited to their tastes. It was a much bigger gamble than Nintendo or Capcom assumed it would be and it most certainly didn't pay off like they thought it would.
Resident Evil 4 & Devil May Cry 3 are in my TOP 10 games of all time list.
Hearing Drinker’s RE4 review is so funny when compared to his RE4 remake review. He was still finding his niche and it feels like a completely different person lol love your content!
A masterpiece and don't diss on the bad guys! Saddler and Salazar are far better and more interesting characters than other RE villains- I also loved the use of the video link where Saddler hacks into and talks to you directky.
Lol you sound pretty sober here. I really like the extra info about the RE4 development in addition to the review of the finished game! Thank you for the upload
This game is perfection to me and I love the villans lol
I must have beaten this game 10+ times over the years - absolute masterpiece and arguably the best game released on PS2.
Definitely! By far. The graphics alone are light years ahead of its time! Nothing was comparable. Crash Bandicoot was another legendary PS2 game. But RE4 is my favorite game of all time(tied with ‘Ocarina of Time’)
"Weird arm things from Code Veronica." That would be a Bandersnatch LOL
This was the first game I desperately wanted to kill the antagonist. He was like Napoleon Bonaparte and Kevin McAllisters love child. He even had the house full of traps.
Lightning in a bottle. Capcom has never been able to surpass this, at least in the RE series.
🤔 Yet original RE2 is the best in the RE series and RE remake is better than 4 as well.
Exactly why I’m super worried about RE4 Remake. It took the four tries to get it right the first time, how the hell is a remake going to duplicate that?
I played PS1 constantly but got bored with gaming, Resident evil 4 brought back my love for gaming with a vengeance! I replayed this game back to back more times than I could possibly remember and still love it to today. There were absolutely some very annoying aspects to the game, especially Ashley! She was a consistent source of face palming every time she got captured, and it was strange that the village was 18th century gothic, but the game was as SOOOO good you were willing to overlook these things.
Basically:
Version 1: "meh, not RE enough"
Version 2: "it's too creative and different, it'll alienate RE fans, redo it"
Version 3: "Its too much like other RE games, be more creative"
Devs: "ARE YOU F'CKING KIDDING ME?!"
Not sure if I trust you on this one.... sounds like you're SOBER!!! 🤔😂
Played RE4 in 1st person back in 2005 on the PS2 and had to quit in frustration at a part I couldn't get through. Covid boredom and the XBox One led me to go back again and try and right some wrongs this year. Loved it. My third play-through with the unlimited rocket launcher and tommy gun was a lap of honour......
I love this game. I remember when I played it for the first time back in early 2005, I was both frightened and exhilarated. When I finished the game, i thought: "That was an absolute blast! If I was to make a Resident Evil game, I would have done this!" I still enjoy playing it to this day. A perfect game. It's a completely bonkers story (RE8 says hi), but it is so much fun. And Leon is such a badass in this one, complete with the cheesy insults ("Your right hand comes off?"). Plus there is the influence it had on future game development and design.
"Stranger, Stranger! Now that's a weapon!"
I remember buying a gamecube just to play this game
Marc....me too! Then they put it out on PS2 and I traded in that Gamecube lol
I had a GameCube and picked it up, great game, now I have it on my switch
I did too 😊
Bro...his failure turned into one a the biggest cult classics and my own favorite franchise....Devil May Cry...
That's like having a one night stand, and your bastard son becomes president of the country, even though you're never around....
As much as I love your reviews sounding as drunk as Barney Gumbel, you are actually quite an engaging and interesting critic when it comes to your sober sounding videos like these.
So this was back when Drinker was more sweethearted, polite, and sober.....WOW!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I love RE4. I love the atmosphere and the gothic Spanish settings. Yes--the game palette is pretty brown throughout, but that's all right. I also love the add-on games. The Mercenaries, Ada's Mission and even the shooting gallery. Great fun.
You start relatively slow, you kill a handful of dudes, a couple of gem carrying crows, save a puppy, and all of a sudden you are in Pueblo, surrounded by dozens of yelling, screaming villagers, and you got your head severed by some kind of Leatherface wearing a bag on his face...
I do remember me, the third time I was dying, overwhelmed by the mob, far beyond the initial shock and awe, saying to myself, "ok, that's gonna be tougher that expected..." with a gritty smile on my face.
Priceless!
What a memories hope they not screw the remake of this classic awesome game
Bad Resident Evil game often times but still one of the best games of all time.
Still the best review of RE4, cheers sober drinker from the past!
I love seeing that so many aspects from the scrapped versions (gothic architecture and paranormal stuff) made it into RE8.
The one thing I liked about the escort missions was that you could tell Ashley to hide in a barrel when shit was about to go down.
Also, 14:34: "It'd be like setting their next game in Scotland and having the locals living in mud huts and attacking each other with Claymore swords." I fail to see how that would be anything less than awesome.
RE4 on the Wii was my gateway to the franchise and to gaming in general.
Whenever i want to have some cheesy laughs with great gameplay i boot up this game.
the movie "DAGON" was a huge influence on this game.
The Gamecube version is one of the best games ever released.
One other thing I think worth mentioning was the dynamic difficulty level. Miss enough shots and get hit enough and without telling you enemies become fewer in number and less aggressive. Shoot more accurately and avoid being hit and you get more numerous enemies which attack you more aggressively. I didn't even realize it was doing this until it was pointed out to me.
Probably WAY too late to the party on this one. But I'm enjoying this entire series of yours. Now I'm wondering your thoughts on (if you've played of course) The Suffering (PS2) & Dead Space.
The Suffering and it's sequel Ties that bind are my favorite games ever made. Wish they made one for current gen.
@@davidabest7195 Fully agreed. The Suffering is nigh incomparable. It was the first game I ever played where decisions really felt like they mattered. Current Gen would be a gift!
I would love to see the drinker review Dead Space. I think he would nail it
Wow. Hearing the Drinker sober is kind of weird. Half expect to see Rod Sterling talking in the corner of the room as the Twilight Zone music plays.
Thank you! This is the most honest honest review of this game I've seen. Thanks for not just gushing over a game that, at best, is just good. And if it wasn't a Resident Evil game, it would've been great. I think people got too carried away with the new action/adventure style that they didn't realize how much it didn't fit into the world that RE 0-3 had built. I get so chapped when people say it's the best RE game and I'm still salty about how it changed the RE games for so long.
Press X Props well all of the reviews of this game are honest this is just one that you happen to agree with which is how echo chambers are started.
Re4 didn’t change the series as you can see the original creators who made the games have min since left capcom and so did their vision for the future of the franchise. If we’re gonna blame re4 for the existence of re5 and 6 then we have to praise it for the existence of remake 2 which uses the foundation that re4 created.
I dunno it just gets upsetting to see people bash re4 for what it’s not instead of what it is
7.8 million copies sold, at least a dozen of those are mine
I played the crap out of this game when it was on the GameCube, and man… I loved every minute of it. Played it so much that I had virtually ‘unlimited’ everything and ran around blowing everything up with my RPG with unlimited ammo.
Just tried playing it again on my Xbox One shortly before Village was released, and I didn’t make it past the first chapter before I just gave up. The controls are so, so bad now. So bad.
The good news is that a remake is apparently in the works, and I am super-excited!
Yea dude I tried too but the controls are shite 💩 now. The game is glitchy and unplayable 😢
@@DakotaBeckerMAGA thankfully the RE4 Remake is fantastic; I’ve played through it four times since it was released. Now I’m on the last chapter of my second Separate Ways play through and will be starting on my third here in an hour or so. It’s so much fun.
One of the most seminal games in Video-Game history
Those....things that would burst out of the bad guys heads after you progressed a bit more always creeped me out a bit, kinda like an even more freakish facehugger! And those lanky black monsters in the lab areas, it had what seemed to me this wierd breathy laugh that was awesomely disturbing, despite the drab color scheme in this game it had some seriously atmospheric areas, loved the layouts. It will always be my favourite RE game.
The first question I'd ask about bad sales of Gamecube games would have been
"How is the _Gamecube_ selling?"
This needs a remake. One with proper mouse-look, unlike the PC version.
On the whole, I love everything about Resident Evil 4 EXCEPT that it is a Resident Evil game. I wish they'd created a sister franchise with everything 4 has except the connection to previous RE games.
I found RE4 a perfect mix of action and horror and I’m big into survival horror, the audio in RE4, the chanting cultists in the castle in particular made the hairs on my arms stand up, RE4 is in my top 10 games of all time, RE5 and especially 6 went WAY overboard with action, I enjoyed 5 but not as much as 4 it wasn’t as scary and 6 was just ridiculous, I think there’s a middle ground that I like and RE4 was that for me.
My favourite Resident Evil game, played all modes, and played story mode many time😂 , with infinite launcher and the super shotgun and That laser gun thing.
This is the first and only RE game I played, and I did love it.
Just saw your Resident Evil 8 review, and now I'm going down the list. Found this one not long after.
Guess this was when you were The Critical Sober.
one of my favorite games ever by far. the resi 2 remake is also super good but maybe that's just because of how much i liked this. it was like a strong prequel
So deep a mark i played on game cube and brought on xb1 to keep in my collection.
Playing on the future xsx via bc a wicked bonus.
RE4 is one of those games that you don't fully appreciate until you try to remember what games were like before it came along.
This was a trippy video. It felt like I got sent to an alternate reality.
No mention of the GREATEST NPC character of all time, the Allmighty MERCHANT?
I’ve got some RARE things on sale stranger..
I've lost count how many times I played through RE4. I bought this game 6 times
I’ve played and beaten RE4 no less than 100 times on PS2, Xbox 360 and PC.
Couldn't agree more. It's a fantastic game but it completely killed Resident Evil as we knew it. Took until 2017 to finally get back on track.
It's a small suggestion, but there's a very simple thing they could've done to make us feel like it was more of a Resident Evil game. And no, it's nothing to do with the story. There are several doors that lead to area transitions that come with a black "Now Loading..." screen... If those traditional door opening animations were there instead, that would've been a huge difference.
I’m making sure I watch every one of drinkers videos so he gets fully paid and I get fully entertained
RE4 is the only game in my vast library that I went out and bought every physical version of. If it gets yet another rerelease, I'll buy that one too.
I want to play the three original forms of Resident Evil 4. The Devil May Cry cut, the breaking into Umbrella cut, and the Hook Cut...
Can't wait for the remake jeezus
Best game in the series in my opinion when you take into account the timeless nature of the game and the multiple remakes it stands apart from any and all competition it has a lot of replay value (I have lost count of how many times I completed it ) and it also managed to take a series from a niche struggling survival horror since at the time it was actually getting out of style and make it into a massive success while still respecting and continuing the Resident Evil story line
A legend was born
Dead space and evil within are also imitations of resident evil 4 and are both fantastic but nothing will ever top THE KING of all games resident evil 4
I bought the Gamecube purely for Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2, but then this came out not long after and was the icing on the cake.
The RE games literally defined the Gamecube around this time, Nintendo were absolutely killing it with their relationship with Capcom.
Still can't believe how monumentally they f**ked up after the Gamecube.
Another great video.
Resident Evil 1 (remake on GC) was the best, it’s everything that made the series what it’s iconic for
I agree; it captured everything that Resident Evil was and made it better.
So cool how this guy likes alot of franchises I love, cheers
This is still the greatest video game I've played
My guy its time to do a new recording using the new HD remaster!!
One of my favorite games of All Time !!!
I'd like to see that "Hookman" version.
I respect your opinion of course drinker but in my mind Salazar was one of the best things about this game. I absolutely loved the castle part of the game just because I knew he was big baddie in that section.