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@@Mark-bn5ek In OG RE4, you can have her wait in spots to keep her out of harm's way. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do that here. Especially for players who are familiar with the layout of the levels
@Daman yes because running to the ganados is clearly much better.. The OG4 required you to position her and use your brain on spots ganados would Be agro on leon more. Remake its a 50/50 Ashley runs around like an idiot and into the ganados or actually stays behind leon for that bit.
THANK YOU. finally someone points out Ashley wasn't bad at all in the original, and i 100% agree with you about the stagger. The stagger on hardcore and professional is fucking ridiculous.
@@ridethelightning1511 You had the option to have her stay behind and hidden in most areas with enemies in the original. Modern Ashley will just get in your way. Both versions have flaws we can't ignore.
They're kinda doing it for the first 3 games tho. Also do you think that they'll keep on porting the original on the newer consoles from now on? I wouldn't bet on that. These remakes are also called just RE2,3,4 with no "Remake" subtitle or anything, so keep that in mind.
Original RE4 was something that completely changed my mindset of what i was supposed to be expecting of 3rd person shooters at the time or even all AAA titles. The combat, graphics, animations, qtc and etc. This game pioneered so many things’s that are being exploited up to this date.
Yeah, the original was one of those rare lighting in a bottle game changers for the gaming industry at whole. Can't say the same for the remake, even if it is good.
@@Gruntvc The remake doesn’t feel like it is trying to be a game changer. It just feels like a game that respects where it came from and tries to give its own interpretation of the original story without trying to replace it. I like that. I can still play the original any time I want (With the HD texture mod it is basically perfect), and play this for the fun of it.
@@Odinsday which is why its so divisive and why re1 remake is generally held in high regard because it was the only remake to stay true to the original while enhancing the experience while these past 3 remakes have been pretty heavily detached from the original for the sake of “modern gameplay.”
One thing I really related admired about OG Leon was his ability to make jokes in the face of death. I didn't have social media at that time (thankfully) so my views on him were not influenced by anything and were my own. I compared Leon as a MC to the MCs of previous games I played like Prince of Persia and God of War. One has the power to control time and the other is a fucking god. Unlike them, Leon was a normal human being but the enemies he had to fight were not. One of the aspects I find most appealing about his character is his ability to maintain a sense of humor and crack jokes, even when faced with the most gruesome and monstrous creatures. It's almost surreal to witness a normal human being like Leon boldly stand his ground and use witty remarks in the face of these merciless monsters who are clearly bent on domination and fear. Leon's quick wit send a powerful message - that he refuses to be cowed by the horrors that surround him. It's as if he's asserting his own strength and resilience in the face of adversity, letting these creatures know that he won't be easily intimidated. This aspect of his character is not just admirable, but it also adds a layer of complexity to his persona. By responding to terror with humor, Leon seems to be not only defying the monsters, but also coping with the surreal and nightmarish situation he's thrust into. In a way, Leon's humorous demeanor becomes a coping mechanism, a way for him to retain his sanity amidst the chaos. It's as if he's telling both himself and the monsters that he won't let fear dictate his actions. This unique trait not only showcases his mental fortitude, but also highlights his ability to find a glimmer of humanity and light even in the darkest of situations. I fucking love Leon's skill for cracking jokes in the face of death. It really shows off his resilience, determination, and strength of character, making him an absolute badass
I remember talking with several of my friends about in Leon when the original came out. Leon being brave in the face of terror kind of encouraged me to do the same. His attitude tells the player, "This is gonna be scary, but you can do this..."
I didn't realise how much I liked Leon until now, thank you. I also really liked how he let Ashley down easy at the ending cutscene, he's a badass with class.
To be honest: while I appreciate that joking manner of Leon’s more nowadays, it was my least favorite aspect about him initially. The way he is and plays in the remake of 4 was my original ideal version of leon and the game. That being said-it’s hard for me to decide if I like the original better because things are so much grimier as an adult that joking leon is a nice escape from that or if I like more down to earth leon since it makes him more relatable in such a situation. Either way, we have 2 versions of RE4 and that’s freaking fantastic.
@@RexVergstrongyour opinion mate. What’s the problem with him preferring the remakes voice? Both voice sounds well done and can have arguments for both voices.
@@deadly_queen6656 I don't have a problem with him preferring shitty voices. It's the comparison, remake Krauser sounds NOTHING like Dolph Lundgren, Lundgren's voice is naturally low, not forced.
Honestly this is the most accurate and understandable take on the remake vs the original. I really appreciate your takes on the gaming industry in all of your videos. Im not always looking for someone to align perfectly with my own opinion but your opinions just make sense so much of the time.
Resident Evil 4, as well as the old games, were not supposed to be taken seriously because they parodied American B-movies. The current ones, as well as the remakes, try to give seriousness to a plot that from the beginning had absurd things like a giant crocodile, an evil ppanta, a giant robotic statue or that one of its antagonists wears sunglasses all the time. I think the best of the remake is Luis Sera and Ashley
In the remake, by the time I finished the castle I was done with it. The cuts they made took away a lot of variety that broke the game up, whether you liked the cut parts or not. By the time I got to the island I was too bored to continue going through the same repetitive mob wave section after mob wave section. A side from the odd mine cart section it was very straight forward wash and repeat.
Even with the new back tracking with boat feature it still feels linear even the pacing feels off and you get no real creative freedom when play you can't shoot through doors and you can't kill enemies in a fun way it's not satisfying at all.
yeah I felt the same by the time I got to the castle lol, specifically the area before the two garradors. Stuck with it and by the time I finished it, I liked it more but man... idk. The higher amount of backtracking for side stuff felt pretty lame too. Having to speedrun through the game and skipping like 50% of the content for an S+ sounded so lame I didn't even bother trying professional.
@@keonboonehell yeah I have more than 50 hours in this game but I only played pro for s rank purposes and I have to admit it was so annoying bc of lots of reasons 1) the enemies are bullet spongy. 2) Leon having such a slow recovery animation I mean i can bear it in low difficulties but in hard core or pro it straight up kills you bc enemies don't wait hit u and you can get hit multiple times at one moment. 3) the weapon upgrades being so expensive than original and being even more expensive in pro mode makes things more harder for u especially if u are trying s+ r rank bc you aren't Gonna spend your whole time in killing everyone to get money or will try to get every single treasure. I know u can use bonus weapon and it makes game lot easier but for me it is no fun to use a single weapon for the rest of the game.
I hate modern games that require us to pay more for more content. Why can’t games be like they used to be, buy one game that is complete working base game with extra contents all under one purchase. But no, now everything goes to paid DLCs.
Well, because they started doing that nonsense and gamers said they hated it and yet bought the shit anyway. I still remember what a big gigantic clusterfuck it was when TF2 got hats.
I mean, Mercenaries is free, along with all characters and special weapons The only thing you need to pay is some skins, and the Separate Ways, which costed a lot to be produced
iirc, all the charm drops are seed-based, so you can look through a table and figure out which ones will drop when, based on the first few you pull. It's probably built this way to prevent save-scumming for a guaranteed Striker charm.
@@MarkerMurker Legendary charm of the original Striker shotgun from OG RE4. Increases the player's movement speed by 8%, as a nod to the Striker glitch from the original game that noticably increased your move speed.
@@cooper2211 yeah, that was me with the infinite hand cannon. Already had everything else including cat ears, so when I finished my last run, I loaded a save file just to pull it out of storage for the achievement and then closed the game.
The first time I played the remake, I immediately used the tactic 'fake run' only to realise it didn't work anymore,😂 And yeah I agree with Ashley being not glued to you, I had lots of game over just by trying to save her
You know, other than the sections where you were separated from her I never had much difficulty keeping her safe. The game only tells you this once, but tight formation is for evading enemies while running away. If you use it in combat she's gonna catch a lot of collateral from all the attacks coming at you. Loose formation is best for combat, then use a little situational awareness. She usually backs away from you, so if you're facing the bad guys she'll stay behind and you form the line of defense. This also helps her avoid attacks as she'll run away from enemies instead of staying behind you in damage range
@@maxmfpayne on harder difficulty number of enemies are greater and they come from a lot of direction, when loose formation is used she is vulnerable to be kidnapped while moving around needs her to be closed, forcing you to keep moving and use hit and run, the issue is staggering chance make handgun mostly useless during crowd fight (tmp, flash, Shotgun useful) and if you try to stand your ground, you need to pay attention to Ashley, and as mentioned, it's harder to keep a lookout since she's not immediately move towards you and stand behind you
@@aumialumi I'm playing on hardcore but I don't have much desire to play on professional if I'm honest. The challenge on hardcore feels like a decent balance for me, so I can't speak for professional difficulty, I should have mentioned that before. I see what you're saying, I usually just shoot at multiple heads in the group to increase my chance of stunning without killing them so I can kick for crowd control when using the pistol. I am using the dlc pistol though, which I believe does slightly less damage. If they get too close it's shotgun time. I don't have enough experience with the original to compare them though, as I've only played a bit of it so far.
@asdfqwerty420 to be fair, professional is quite hard, you either run like hell or run out of ammo, my point is the gameplay has flaw, which is that it's not design to fight hordes of enemy IMO. Regardless, it's a great game & it appeals to new players rather than old school re fan, most of them at least
@@aumialumi I can agree with that sentiment. Personally, I love it so much, even when it feels a bit unfair (stun locking) because it works with the vibe for me. I get why people criticize it though, not everyone is gonna look the other way when bullshit occurs just because the setting contextualizes the bullshit. I appreciate it for what it is, and for getting me to play through the older re games too starting with 4.
I think the best thing about the remake is that if you don't like it as much you can easily go back and play the original. I wish more games were preserved like OG RE4.
Really? I didn't think Capcom did a very good job of the HD remaster of RE4, unlike that of REmake 1 (both GCN / similar period), which had really nice polish. Main factor for me was the updated control option. Maybe on PC some fans have done a better job, I heard of 'proper' remasters like this. I guess the devs preferred REmake 1, like me 😁 I think RE4 is similar to the REmake in that it feels great at causal level, and the more you play, the more it feels like an unfinished game. Moreso the remake if I'm to be honest...
@@travistreadway3180 fair enough. I sit at a desk most of my week, so when chilling in my own time I prefer the sofa. PC seems to give a lot of options, so probably good for those less casual than me 👍🏼
After playing the remake and being a die hard fan of the original i can say this, the game is not a masterpiece. Yes it improves on some aspects like combat, inventory in some cases (tho i think the extra knife system is stupid) and some of the weapons. But ya there is alot that i disliked as well like how they changed salazar and sadlers motivation and character, Ada,Luese,Ashly (tho ashly is not too bad tho the breathing is annoying), The removal of banter using the phone calls, Stages feel lack luster sometimes (the castel epically). The over use of a dark filter, like most times environment is a bit too dark. And finally the lack of the flirty dialogue and lack of revealing outfit. While i do think that its a fun game it dose lack the personality the original had.
TBH I feel like trying to claim either game is better than the other is kind of missing the point, at least from my experience. There seems to be a trend of RE players thinking that remakes have to "replace" the original just because the first game had that lightning in a bottle of a remake that did so. The RE Engine series has never quite been that sort of series for me, moreso a sort of modern "remix" of the originals, especially prevalent when you start in different places and travel the map differently in RE4R. That doesn't excuse every choice they've made, RE3R is still getting hell, but you can see in a lot of cases how they wanted to adapt the story rather than just do it all again. RE4's a different case because I not only got to play the original last year, but others are also able to do so. RE4 Classic is a widely available game, meaning that the importance in comparison doesn't feel as strong of a need like RE2 and 3 does. I have to emulate those games because the originals aren't available on my platforms. RE4 is just ... there. After playing RE4R I straight up went back to the original just to get the different vibe. Both games are great and they both deserve love to this day.
@@WSendam RE1 is different because that was actually remade by the original creator who set out to make what they felt was their actual vision without limitations, kinda hits different when the people creating the remakes aren’t the same as those who created the original especially when they have a completely different vision, style and exist in a completely different era
@@WSendam I mean, let's be real. It's not hard to replace RE1 and improve upon it in every way. Also I've still seen people claim the Dead Space remake "ruined" the original. Like if you want everything to be exactly the same just okay the original.
@@prl4122 Not to mention the first REmake being only 6 years and one console generation apart from the OG. It was a much more impressive leap in that context.
Well said. It annoys me when certain people act like an older game is outdated and irrelevant once it’s remade. The Resident Evil fandom in particular has a few too many people with that mindset.
Yeah, I agree with this. I always took it as "hey, you like RE4? Here's a new game that's like RE4". If someone dislikes the remake on the basis of thinking the original shouldn't have been remade, its not my place to tell you you're wrong, but I do think you're missing out. I enjoyed both games, even if I think there's some things the original did better and vice versa.
As someone who can beat the original on Professional and not die once or only get hit a handful of times, this game is very much not in your favor when it comes to the combat. I enjoy the stagger and kick mechanic a lot so to see it get nerfed so much really puts a small but deep dent in the experience when playing harder difficulties. But overall still fun to play
I agree that the higher difficulties are unbalanced The Capcom intended you(the player) to play on standard. However, as a big Dark Souls fan, I enjoyed the harder difficulties regardless.
@@TheNether333 Yeeah I am a soulsbourne fan through and through, and when I told my friends that Re 4 on the higher difficulties is dogshit, is because I mean in from a place where I played the best hard games, where soulsbourne games are difficult, but really fair, and well balanced all things considered. Re 4 on hardcore and above is just not fund and loads of bs.
@@desfefe The hardcore could be bs sometimes, but I it was never the game's fault. I just had to be more tactical. Professional is not meant to be played without bonus items.
Honestly, its a good thing. Being able to stagger and kick so easily made the original game too easy. It also made it so that running out of ammo, basically never happened because you can kill 10+ enemies with like 4 bullets. No wonder so many people can play the original on the highest difficulty without ever dying. The new game is actually forcing the player to prioritize shooting their gun and conserving ammo. The stagger kick is basically a random reward at the higher difficulties.
@@reredrumuoy to be honest, I’ve gotten better at the game, and I have since prioritized perfect parries in order to kick, so I’m stingy with ammo and it’s easier. Leon’s kick is my favorite both OG and remake so I have to use it as often as I can
The white paint telling you where to go and what to do, the c4 with big red lasers and beeping, the game just has too many mechanics that handhold the player. Makes the c4 traps useless
No one can just like something or have a favorite anymore- it's gotta be a masterpiece. Everything is a goddamn masterpiece now. No nuance left in our culture.
It's good, but definitely doesn't replace the original. This Reimagining will not have the same impact RE4 2005 had on the gaming industry as a whole too. From RE4 alone we got: Dead Space, Gears of War, and Uncharted Drake's Fortune. Can't say the same for RE4 2023. Wish Capcom would give RE a break and bring back a single player focused Dino Crisis game. I'm starving to death for a great single player focused Dino game...
Reimaginings like this one and the RE2 and 3 ones are super pointless. Why would you change the f out of a fine story and characters instead of preserving it and just updating the gameplay and graphics? Like seriously who the hell goes like "i love this game but i want you to change everything about it". ??? Plus RE4 really didn't need any kind of remake.
A remake, by default, cannot be as revolutionary as the original. Common sense. I bet you think you're smart by pointing out the obvious, fucking dork.
@@AndreiCatalin42069 To be fair, the original is pretty dated and flawed that these remakes do a decent job catering newer audiences into the franchise. I mean RE2 Remake was how I fell in love with the franchise and I tried RE4 OG out and loved it… although there were so many things that were in dire need of fixing. Also the REmakes aren’t necessarily “reimaginings” because they aren’t fully changing the story and canon. The FF7 Remake is a “reimagining” because story and characters that are in the Remake did not exist in the Original 97 version
In trying to find an authentic Asian lady to portray the Asian lady character, they found the most generic Asian voice. She read those lines, which were meant to be seductive, like she was at her son's teacher parent meeting.
I thoroughly enjoyed the remake and would heartily recommend it to anyone, but yeah, the original is just one of those timeless classics like Silent Hill 2 or Majora’s Mask that perfectly encapsulates its era. Just an undefeatable, legendary game - no matter how good the remake is it can’t beat the legacy.
Playing RE4 Remake, I was mostly bored or annoyed. I got to 50% completion and decided to play the original RE4 instead. I know what you mean about the enemies being inconsistent and unflinching. This game mislead me by saying I should start on Hardcore if I've played RE4 before. Hardcore for a fresh character is pure stupidity. I ran around the village and couldn't take down more than five enemies in probably three minutes. They were just shrugging off bullets to the face like i was shooting nerf darts. A huge part of crowd control in RE4 was the stunning and melee follow ups. Now we can't do that reliably. Ashley definitely is a downgrade. There use to be a lot more hiding places we could put her in. Now she's just following close or far. I just permenantly keep her close because far seems like it's always the worse choice.
Capcom having micro transactions in RE4 Remake isn’t something they decided to start implementing with this game. They had already done the exact same thing with Devil May Cry 4 and 5. In both 4 and 5, you could purchase Red Orbs/Proud Souls with real money. You could also bypass the unlock conditions for the super versions of characters by paying for them as well. Don’t even get me started on the “DLC” Devil Breakers and Devil Arm.
I've seen people dismiss my complaints on Discord by pointing this out, but I've never been a fan of accepting that something being normalized means it's okay.
That is how it should be though. You should actually be forced to use ammo and have to worry about conserving ammo, especially on the higher difficulties. Stagger kick was way too effective in the original, being able to kill a bunch of enemies without shooting hardly any bullets, that shouldn't be an easy thing to do on higher difficulty settings.
@@reredrumuoyits just a lousy excuse for a harder challenge to do, being punished for hitting your shots on bullet sponge enemies is ridiculous. OG re4 you were still encouraged to do Kicks and knifes over full on blasting nonstop but this is an action game. not Re2 or 1, the constant melees made og re4 so much fun and the remake just taking that away in higher difficulties really ruins that charm that the original re4 had. Call it a skill issue or whatever but i dont want to play assisted mode or standard for more reliable stuns, I've always played professional on re4 og and i started both 4 remake and New separate ways on hardened and beat it again on Professional. Its just bad game design on how the enemies are built when this video also said how easily leon gets staggered
@@reredrumuoyPeople with plaga parasites are super human, a regular person would drop like a sack of potatoes if shot on the face with a 9mm(Leon’s main gun) or more powerful calibers! The remake is harder and love it!
@@reredrumuoyor they could just account for one shot staggers and filter less ammo encouraging you to place shots accurately. Og4 on professional would become hard quick if you didn’t conserve ammo and take advantage of the combat system.
@@krakenmckraken9128 so I shouldn't be able to shoot my guns? Idk OG re4 fans cope so hard when they can't knife every enemy on the ground to death ad infinitum.
20:30 Thank god someone said it! I absolutely adore the new voice for the merchant, but god did it become so grating as he talked on and on. I feel like newer games think dead air makes the game too "video gamey" like they want characters to feel real so they pumped them with voice lines. I get it, an NPC standing around only speaking when you select something is "unrealistic" but its sure isn't immersive having the other side of the coin. Love the video overall, and I share practically every sentiment! Quality stuff, dude.
I would say it's like they took the Duke from Ethan's story and tried to pour some of that into the Merchant, who was never really that kind of talky smarmy guy. So it's like a weird mash of Merchant/Duke who just never shuts up
Merchant's voice seemed weird to me, more London / cockney than pirate, like the original (and like the shooting range suggests). Feels like the localisation team took liberties, or at least made calls that some random fan (me) doesn't necessarily agree with. Hey ho.
@@Hugsloth No, they didn't put the Duke's backstory here in the remake merchant. Not once does Leon interact nor banter with him, nor does the merchant explain how he's this pirate travelling around the world. The merchant simply is a game feature, your typical store owner in video games. Nothing more and nothing less
Nu friend, Just because a new game makes a character talk more, that doesn't necessarily mean they're making it realistic. Is it realistic that the merchant repeats his line every time you see him? Is it realistic that the merchant can't shut up every time you're buying something? The devs simply added more lines to the merchant to make him stand out and offer something new. And it's not like newer games have silent NPCs or merchants. Take Elden Ring for example, most of the NPCs there barely talk and that includes the merchants.
Best fucking review omfg, that Ashley section made me so happy, when i watched faze jev play this game and talk about "how bad Ashley was in the original " it annoyed the hell out of me, im glad somone understands that if u think Ashleys ai was bad in the original, u literally just sucked at the game, the new Ashleys ai is so much worse in comparison 💀
Getting stuck in level geometry and running towards enemies is somehow not an issue for these clowns. This goes to show that popular opinion is worthless when it's grounded in complete nonsense
Look I fucking hate this game with every single atom in my body. But lord have mercy how much I love this game and the second I beat it I considered it my most favorite game ever and I still consider it that way I love and hate this game so much.
I will admit, I agree with the issue with stagger. Which is why I on my hardcore run I got rid of the SG and made the switch to the red9 then the blacktail asap. Stagger is tied to damage now. If your handgun doesn't do enough dmg, ganado will walk right through bullets. Once I made the switch and beefed up my fire power, the handguns felt reliable again.
The exclusive upgrade on the SR along with the laser sight, easy best pistol in the game. It will crit A LOT after you max it out. I played an entire NG+ with it maxed, that upgrade makes a world of difference.
Great review, man. A lot of great and valid points raised. I still don't understand how you keep getting pushback on micro-transactions of all things. Defending a corporation for mtx is like thanking someone for charging you for a climbing rope after they had thrown you down the well themselves 🤦♂️ the gullibility is baffling.
I honestly don’t even remember the new ones soundtrack but oddly enough they did an AMAZING job on the mercenaries remixes but what’s funny it’s Capcom hasn’t released these tracks or put them out anywhere 🤷♂️ when they’re legit better than the main game
I think the remake's combat works on standard difficulty, but hardcore and professional were unbalanced to entice players to buy tickets. Professional mode objectively is not a good time without bonus, skips, or cheats. I cannot understand why in a game that is about precision aiming they removed the laser sight on all weapons to make the weapons more imprecise. Imagine if Dead Space removed the lasers, gave the weapons a ridiculous amount of spread, doubled the movement of the enemies, and then expected you to make precision attacks. You could tough your way through it but you wouldn't be enjoying it.
Hardcore is really fair if you’re good at the game. You know like good at aiming, making your shots counts, picking your spots wisely, avoid getting surrounded and cornered. And by the time you reach near the end of the castle, you should have most of your weapons fully upgraded. For me, I had my hand gun(SG, my favorite), shotgun(Riot Gun), and Combat Knife all fully upgraded around the mines section(Krauser was a cakewalk with my maxed knife). Reaching the island, I get my Stingray maxed out. Ammo was never an issue and I mostly kill everything on sight with a few exceptions like the opening village fight and occasionally I’ll run by the fish farm arena(can go back to collected everything later after Del Lago enemy free). I even kill Verdugo every time just because and I don’t even use magnums. I’m fairly conservative with my shotgun ammo and very liberal with handgun ammo. I only craft flash bangs and occasionally heavy grenades later in the game. Hardcore is a fun challenge I will agree that professional is pretty rough and I only played it for 100% completion. Nothing wrong with balancing the game’s weapons. We are are free to choose how we want to play. We’ve got the good ol classic all-rounder Silver Ghost which is very precise, compatible with the laser sight, amazing at crits. The Punisher is a bit weaker but has great penetration and while I personally dismissed it at first, it certainly still has its advantages and place. The Red9 is wildly inaccurate and pretty slow but in turn packs a hefty punch. Blacktail is also powerfully and pretty fast. The Matilda is basically an smg with its stock. You get to choose your style and I find nothing wrong with that. Why would you want every gun to pretty much be the exact same? Why even bother with other weapons if they all could use the same attachments? I like what each piece offers. Enemies are smarter and more aggressive and efficient. Why is that a bad thing? The player also has increased mobility. Positioning, timing, aiming. Name of the game since day one.
@@thatoneguy1232The problem with the higher difficulties is that they readily expose the flaws in the combat system, which is the the opposite in the OG in which PRO showcased how tightly tuned the combat system was. If I'm nailing headshots and limb shots there should be feedback from enemies. I shouldn't have to shoot an enemy 5 times in the face or limb before they stagger or drop their weapon. At that point why not just remove stagger from the game entirely? I'll take some limited mobility over mediocre, inaccurate weapons every time.
@@AngryCosmonaut I never had an issue with hitting staggers. It’s not 100% guaranteed, which is fine imo(wouldn’t want the game to be too easy like the og), but more often than not, I hit them. And I have two main handguns. For challenge runs I use the Red9 which gets staggers less but still just kills the enemy outright. On regular playthroughs I use the starting SG and I guess the laser sight helps with staggers and crits. And again, by the castle my handgun is nearly or fully maxed out. For Separate Way things are a bit tougher for me. The Blacktail I don’t get as many staggers but Ada also comes with a tmp so I guess that’s not a big issue even though I personally don’t like smgs.
It shouldn't ever take five clean headshots to stagger an enemy. I don't care what the difficulty is or what handgun I'm using. The balancing on Professional is terrible. @@thatoneguy1232
@thatoneguy1232 you played on PC which is essentially easy mode. Leon's sluggish movement, the ridiculous spread of the shots, the unprecise aiming are objective flaws of the game, which despite being more action oriented is somehow more limiting in its mechanics than RE2R which was a more horror based game, ridiculous.
I hate the higher difficulties. Maybe I’m not good enough, but after getting the trophies I swore off them 😂. Standard is my preferred mode. It feels the best
I wish you could customise the difficulty like the last of us games. Having the enemies be more aggressive without them being really tanky would be awesome.
@@SergeantAngel yeah that’s one great feature last of us added to their game. I think that should definitely be a standard for all games. Gives everyone the option to play the game to their preferred difficulty style
@@MR.__Gprofessional is challenging at time but horrifically broken in others. I don’t mind challenge. This game takes it to a stupid level that ruins it.
Your review is perfect, exactly how i would summed up playing both OG and the remake as a whole, both have their pros and cons but its overall fun and enjoyable to play...and the best part is both are available in every platform unlike the previous OG trilogy which i hope will be added someday besides being limited as a PS1 game
RE4R is not available on Xbox One, I don't entirely blame them but just figured I'd add that. You can play the OG Trilogy on PC using source ports, the OG PC ports are abandonware at this point and run on the most potato of potatoes. I keep them on my flashdrive, all I need to do is plug in my flashdrive and they play on any computer without a need to do any installation. I should add I own the OG trilogy physical PC copies, before anyone calls me a pirate. I'm really hoping they do a solid Code Veronica remake next, RE5 still plays very well as far as I am concerned. If they do RE5 remake, I really hope it doesn't land until the next console generation at earliest, otherwise RE5 is still in great shape imo. To be completely honest I'd be much more interested in an RE0 and RE1 refresh before RE5. I don't think it needs a complete remake, but if they do, it would be cool to allow them to play with both fixed camera angles, and in 1st/3rd person. If you could switch between that, it would be really cool. If it is fixed camera angles, they can use pre rendered graphics, I really hope it looks photo realistic and has maximum brutality.
Just wanna say this.... Protecting Ashley remake is much harder and frustrating than original Ashley .... Seems to me no one wants to admit this just because Remake Ashley is "waifu" material.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth I mean Ashley was written better in the remake, but protecting her can be annoying at times, sure. However I didn't have many problems.
@@LethalByChoice I don't doubt she's better character wise in remake thanks to the flirting and banters, but escorting her is made way harder which I'm surprised no one is willing to point out.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth there's been times during combat before I realized the distance feature for ashley was useless, sometimes ashely would move in front of me and I would shoot her however, she had the knight armor equipped but if she didn't have that outfit she would have died. Unlike in the og it's 100% your fault if you hit her but in the remake there's a chance you can hit her on accident due to the new AI mechanic
I'm also kinda tired of RE remakes. I would like to have a Resident Evil game that have a story about Hunk and alpha team where u get to play as Hunk or somebody else in his team. Wouldnt that be great
I enjoyed both the original and remake equally. Kind of honestly similar to the re1 and its remake. To me, theyre both tonally and mechanically different but equally as good for their time
@@Schizoid_psyop I agree 1) del Lago jumpscare was better in original 2) u3 was iconic ( don't know why they removed it ) 3) garrador in original was more scary
I think I might personally prefer the remake, but it definitely does not replace the original. They feel like almost completely different and nearly equally great experiences.
This!!! That's exactly the point! These remakes are never meant to replace the original! That's why Capcom said the Remake timeline is also Canon to the story! You're supposed to love this timeline and the original one!
In the end is what people prefer. Some like the originals feel while others like the remakes feel. Personally i prefer the original in terms of story and characters.
yeah after playing the original I felt like I got to the ramon fight way too quickly in the remake, with the absence of so many castle sections and the conversations with him to build his character and make his transformation more impactful
I feel like in ten years people will look at the remake and be embarrassed that they called it the best game ever. I enjoyed it, but I’m not blind to all of the faults the game has. It’s far from perfect and I wish people would stop saying it’s a hard 10/10. Please be real and true peeps
Alright so according to your logic: It’s not perfect because I said so and everyone should agree to it. In the next ten years, you will look at the Remake and be embarrassed you didn’t take off your nostalgia glasses. Sorry little bro but that still won’t change the fact that 4 Remake is my top favorite game with 4 OG coming behind.
It's good, and you might enjoy it ( I do too with gold edition and on my third playthrough so far), but it does have its problems performance wise especially. It is not a 10/10. @monkeyboooty
I agree with most of your points laid out here, especially the Ada Wong performance. As someone who's sworn by Capcom games since I was 10, I *do* find the practice of microtransactions scummy, and to see my favorite company from childhood go down that Call of Duty road since 2010 is a stab in my heart. As a game dev myself, hiding extra content behind paywalls is just slapping the players around with a rotten fish; if devs wanna do something like that, then give them a personalized code to download the content for free after completing the game once.
The thing that's better about the original is Leon can't move while aiming. It forces you to choose between offense and defense, that's where the depth of combat arises from.
It takes me forever to beat the original because of that. I have to stop to shoot, then run backwards when the enemy gets too close to avoid getting hit since there is no parry system. I have to shoot, run back, shoot run back, shoot run forward, and on an on when there is a horde of enemies. The whole thing takes a long time and is very tedious. Also, Leon was trained by Krauser to use the knife, but in the og he never uses it to defend himself. That's the unfortunate thing about the original.
Tank controls suck and is a big reason why later titles that were 3rd person shooters never continued it. Leon stopping to shoot wasn't by design but limited technology.
@@neiloconnor7776 I haven't played many games, but with the original 4th it took me a long time co.pared to other games. I've played the original Resident Evil 4 many times and it takes me some time to beat it.
I installed mods that let you stagger with 1 shot to the leg or head, and the game became 100 times more enjoyable. The pro difficulty, outside of bullshit teleports, homing projectiles and magnetic grabs, becomes a fun challenge, except for the S+ runs. Overall, I completely agree with everything. Glad to see someone not shilling for this game.
Nobody is shilling for this game. It's a great game. No shilling needed. Also, by "it became 100 times more enjoyable" you just meant it became much easier. Skill issue.
@@loubloom1941 I beat every single challenge in this game, including Pro S+ without bonus items or mods. So, yet another drone with the skill issue argument can fuck off, goodbyyyyyyyyye
It’s nice to see someone who isn’t BLINDLY inlove with this game, it’s good and waaaay better than RE3R, but no one near reaches the heights of the RE2 Remake. It’s just really missing ALOT of the charm the OG release had.
@@cynicalbastard8855 All I know is that I got 100% on RE2 and have yet to complete RE4R as I have given up on my playthrough as I find the characters and writing to be COMPLETELY BORING. RE4 OG had so much charm and wit. the remake is just flatout boring outside of the gameplay
RE 2 remake was not that great either they completely butchered the B scenario cutting 90% of it and making it just a a copy of the A scenario with a couple of differences here and there whereas the original B scenario was a completely different story for both Leon and Claire depending with who you had played the A scenario first.
On Ada Wong's voice acting, I can't help but blame the voice director, despite the fact that pretty much everyone else's voice is on-point. At any point a voice director can step in and have an actor make the necessary changes, so we're left with two possibilities. Either the director tried and Ada's VA pulled a Bruce Willis, didn't give a damn, and thus the director had to give up to get the work done on time, or the director didn't understand Ada's character.
Kinda agree with you there, I'm sure the talented VA could pull one of many voices out of the hat. You know of these characters 'must' all be deep voiced and serious, to the point of being flat. Wesker was worse though, the nasally voiced psycho suddenly has a super deep, gravelly, generic bad guy voice. Seems to be the way it's going unfortunately... I enjoyed the voice acting in FF7R, nice variety and they generally all sounded like their character, even when the original didn't have a voice! Except Zack, which I didn't mind as he wasn't being homogenised like so many other characters.
@@Oakeybloke I can't agree with you on Wesker. RE4R is my first RE experience, so all of my experiences with it aren't informed by previous dealings with any character. So his voice seemed to fit to me- in fact, a suave-looking surely buff bad guy like that would seem very odd with a nasally voice in my opinion.
@@Ren99510 that's the character that he is. It makes sense that his voice fits the character for someone new to Wesker, given that characters 'these days' all have to fit to a stereotype; deep voiced and serious for someone who can kick ass for instance. Bit of a shame, I think. And how old do I sound saying 'these days' 😂
Well, considering that this is the same woman that played Ada in "Welcome To Raccoon City", and she was just as bad there... It may just be a skill issue on her part, too.
@@AngryAtlantean is that the one that had very bad reviews, where they messed around with the characters a lot? I heard that blonde haired, blue eyed, supreme race, essentially neo nazi Wesker was played by a black dude, for example. I avoided it so can't say for sure. Fair enough wanting to have a diverse cast of characters, why not introduce new characters for this, like the older films did. Back then I thought they messed with the characters too much lol, how little I knew 🤭
Agree with exactly what you said in regards to the microtransaction part. Cheat codes used to be amazing back in the day growing up where i was only allowed a short amount of time to play games each week, as to let me play with the silly stuff but not grind for it, because i personally didnt mind or care about the loss of gaining acheivments, i just wanted to play. The fact that most people nowadays dont even realize thata how it used to be and defend shitty practice that has littered the industry is a shame.
When do you run away more? I kill everything on sight. The beauty of Resident Evil games is that you often CAN run away. You don’t HAVE to. If you suck or low on health and/or ammo then maybe that’s the best option for you. But when do you ever HAVE to run away more?
@@MaximumPayine explains what? Please tell me you aren’t talking about what I think you’re talking about because if you are that is embarrassingly backwards 😂
The reason I prefer Remake 2 was because it was a much slower paced game, and it was survival horror. I love re 4 OG and when I went into remake 4, I understood what I should be expecting. The problem however was that remake 4 from a mechanical standpoint is similar to remake 2, but has action elements added to it. This doesnt really work though on higher difficulties. Especially how there is an RNG on the shots placed on the heads or the sensitive spots, shall we say. With remake 2, even if there was cut content, it still however met my expectations when I played it.
I was waiting for this review and it didn’t disappoint valid criticism and a balanced review in general.other criticisms I have is that the hitboxes are really bad at times and the lack of I frames allow you too get combod to death also Leon’s feels more clunky while moving but he can move in every direction so I guess it’s a trade off
@@travistreadway3180 the Lazer aim was unique because the aim could be anywhere on the screen dealing close enemies wasn't an issue unlike the remake its the generic third person cross hair where it doesn't feel like the bullets are coming out of the gun
@@travistreadway3180 that's the thing though, not everyone is a RE4 like yourself. Most of us this generation weren't even alive when the game came out, let alone interested in a PS2 when the PS5 is out now. The remake serves as an entry for new players like myself who just finished RE8 on PC like 10 minutes ago, am now purchasing RE4 remake to play tomorrow
@José Francisco Vázquez Baeza he's a child . did you play previous gen games when you were his age(maybe ayou are his age). i sure as hell didn't. i was born in 99 and started gaming towards the end of ps1 cycle. i was used to 3d graphics and never once did i got back to playing the old snes games, nintendo games cause i was used to whatever was present at that time..even now if i ever wanna go back and play old games i do not go beyond ps1. because i cannot play them. you can't expect that kid to go back and play ps2, ps1 games when they're used to playing games in ps5.
I'm really tired of the idea of soft rebooting the old Resident Evil games and calling them “Remakes” just like the Resident Evil 2 and 3 and 4 soft reboot
This game is yet another fine game on it's own, but also another pointless reimagination that changes the f out of everything that was fine, just like the last two ones. RE4 didn't really need a faithful remake either tbh, it didn't need a remake at all. Capcom is now just soft rebooting the whole series for no good reason. I guess the current devs might have something against the way the OG games were for some reason.
Been waiting for this, thanks Critical nobody. Personally I think RE4R is awesome but I wouldn’t call it perfect, if it had some of the cut content still It would probably push it over the edge for me. We have 2 amazing RE4’s though, everybody wins. I’ll be revisiting the OG sometime soon. Edit: Bro people really defending the trashy microtransation tickets, that’s disgusting dear god. People like that are why the industry is so horrendous rn. The tickets aren’t inherently a horrible thing, but if they do well, the goalpost will be moved. Y’know the whole slowly turning the temperature on a boiling frog instead of instantly turning the temperature from 1 to 100 causing it to immediately jump out. Stop being idiots please. I like RE4R too, it’s awesome, that doesn’t mean its garbage business practices should be defended.
I'm not defending the tickets, I think that microtransactions should not be a thing in single player games, but I'm guilty as hell since I actually bought like 3 tickets just so I could have an easier time on S+ Speedruns.
Exactly, everyone laughed at horse armor dlc in The Elder Scrolls Oblivion back in the day. Look where we are now. Its become ridiculous today. Give companies like Capcom an inch, they will take a mile. Never forgot the on disc paid dlc baloney they pulled with Xbox 360/PS3 games.
@@Gruntvc I don’t necessarily have an issue with microtransactions as a whole, but pay2win is pretty awful. I don’t mind some cosmetic micro transactions and if it’s a game I really like I’ll toss them the couple bucks and buy a few things here and there, but the issue is when they take it too far.
I was not at all excited for this game and had low expectations for it, as i consider the original an absolutely perfect game with almost no room for improvement, with a lot of the things that i love about it, namely the pacing of the combat encounters being so tight due to the limited movement requiring more thought than any shooter ive played, are things that couldnt be replicated today. I also played the original during my first ever heartbreak when i was 13, and it did a lot of heavy lifting at that time. Didnt think this could possibly touch that game. This remake is my favorite game of all time. Granted, this past month has been the hardest month of my life, which kind of mirrors the context which i played the original, but this past month has been just a nightmare. The amount of heavy lifting this game has done could not have been acheived by any other game. I do agree with your comments on ashley, the escorting in this one is objectively worse than the original
The biggest issue with Ashley is the fact that loose formation is just completely useless. It is never a good option and Ashley still gets in the way sometimes even acting like a ganado bodyguard, taking hits for them. In the og game Ashley was like an obedient dog, I dont know why people hated so much dealing with her back then and I honestly blame them for the way Ashley acts in the remake cause this is definitely the result of player feedback otherwise chances are we would still have "wait" and "follow me"
If Ashley gets in the way, it’s your fault. If she’s in your way then odds are you told her to back up in front of you. Tell her to come in and she will not always rush towards you and even do so while crouching if you’re aiming. That’s when you have her back up to avoid getting if enemies are close or have ranged options. She will listen to what you want her to do. If you don’t want to deal with enemies then keeping her close is the way to go but you still gotta create somewhat of a path for her. If a Ganado is in your way, they’re likely going to be in hers as well.
On normal she’s okay. I even use her to tank damage for me sometimes which is pretty funny. But I’m baffled at how I can’t tell her to wait anymore. She also doesn’t behave well if Leon is moving. I’ve had times where I’m back stepping while shooting and she gets in front of me.
@@5000Seabass Not when I'm shooting. Or trying to tactically position her. Honestly they made it so she cant die in one shot to compensate for how bad the free range chicken AI they gave her is. She actually tanked a chainsaw and said she was okay. Which made me laugh my azoff. The fact that she just gets downed after that proves they had to compensate.
The worst thing about saddler is the fact that he doesn't kill Luis. See in the original (as you know) saddler kills Luis and since luis is so likeable that gives the player a reson to want to kill saddler but in the remake giving that honor to krauser makes it so after hes dead saddler is just there because he was the villain in the original the only reason leon fights him is to save the girl who survived an impossible fall.
People that DEFEND microtransaction in a 70-60$ dollar are really cringe and this is not the first time Crapcom did this, they pulled exact same shit on Devil May Cry 5
People can't have differentiated opinions anymore. Something is either the greatest thing ever made and any critique is literal blasphemy, or absolute garbage without a single irredeemable feature
well, thing is with dmc5, you need skill to use moves (assuming if you play on harder difficulties) while in re4 remakez, with those tickets the game becomea hella easy
@@Thonato420 It doesn't matter if it affect the game. They are testing water on how much they can get away with it. You allow it now and they will push it further. Push them back before this shit gets out of control.
Couldn’t agree more! Always a pleasure watching your honest views with supporting information. (“Splinter cell, this is not.” And there it is…haha!) Masterpiece in 2005: A game so good that every mechanic is uber-polished and the gameplay is so ahead of its time that it inspired ton of other amazing games like Dead Space, Gears of War etc. A trend-setter. Masterpiece since 2010s: Everything has to be realistic and follows trends. Not to mention the fact that most will ignore any shady business practices, because people will defend anything. RE4R is fun, and I had a good time as an OG fan. I like the remake as a supplement to the OG. At the end of the day, I’m glad we’ve two versions of this game that people can enjoy. P.S. The word: “masterpiece” needs to redefined if every game will be called one - remake or not.
It is good, but none of these recent remakes have recaptured what made RE1 Remake 2002 so good. At best, they stand along side the original. Not RE3 2020 though. And yes, Capcom is definitely following trends rather than setting them now. What a shame...
@@HenryMyth I get it: you played the original since you were ten years old and haven’t moved on since. You’re childish outlook won’t allow you to admit that the remake has better controls. I understand, you can’t cheese enemies in the remake. It’s harder and you don’t like that. 🎻🎵
@@guyc1479 The remake is easier than the original game lol. You've either never played it or haven't in a really long time if you think that every enemy can be "Cheesed". Really pathetic that remake fanboys attack the original game when they have no clue what they're talking about. I actually play games on higher difficulties and for more than one playthough, unlike you clearly.
Your points about the RNG of enemy staggers, but ESPECIALLY how easy it is for the enemies to instantly stagger Leon such that he looks like a clumsy buffoon hit home especially hard. Probably my #1 criticism of the game at large on higher difficulties.
People that pay real money for unlockables essentially want an easy mode without actually picking easy. You see this in MMOs a lot, people go out of their way to cheat the system, buy currency with real money, circumvent ingame challenges or anything that requires any effort on their part. In a singleplayer game this means absolutely nothing, but it can and does absolutely destroy anything played with other people. And I hate the excuse of "hurr durr I have a real life, I don't have time to play XY game for hours on end" because that clearly means that the game isn't for you, if you need to cheat in order to participate in something, don't participate at all because all you're doing is ruining the experience for the rest of us.
Glad you mentioned lighting and the flashlight. Village had the same issue and it's the main reason I didn't give it another playthrough. Now I know to wait until this game is bundled and at a discount before purchasing. Well that and bc they usually bring "cut" content back in a dlc because people are stupid enough to keep dishing out money to them. I guarantee 4remake has costume and gun/item add ons you can buy to prove my point. Guess I should've waited before comment lol, you covered this too. Point still proven lol
Yeah, apparently the only "true" people are those who agrees with your opinion, anyone that says otherwise are apparently fake or something, that makes sense.
@deadeye anims yeah most people are shills and sheep. So it's not surprising when 90% of gamers are setting for low quality games. But that's in general. 99% of Americans are sheep's and follow the "trend".
To be fair . I loved this remake, gameplay wise is my favorite ps5 game. However it made me miss the original,and thankfully everyone has access to it.
Enemy staggers and bloom are immediately noticeable. Second I got the handgun and shotgun I thought it was extremely lame that they didn’t have laser sights.
I will never even try to get an s+ on professional in this game. Never mind the bullshit of every death adding time if you don't fully back out of the game and reset and absolutely no auto-save, the added condition of having to beat three straight chapters without saving once to get the under 15 saves condition is bullshit on the hardest difficulty. Fuck the Handcannon, I don't want it for that kind of hassle.
@@CriticalNobody Got it yesterday, thanks. Didn't know it unlocked in mercenaries since I gave up trying for it by the time it was released. Still not gonna go for the Cat Ears, though.
RE4 was revolutionary, RE4 Remake is, well a remake, it won't change gaming or wow anyone and it is definitley NOT a 10, hell even an 8 is being generous IMO, but it's a really fun game and I am on my 3rd playthrough as of now.
The remake is fine but it really serves to highlight the expertise that went into balancing and polishing the first game. As Nerrel pointed out in his review, the group battles especially highlight the gap in design between the two. If anything, the remake has made me appreciate the original more. A lot of small design details went unappreciated by me until they changed to “modernize” or “improve” the game.
removing the ability to shoot Luis for a bad ending during house defense was such a baffling choice to me. like I know it's not something most would do on purpose, but it was literally just a choice the player could make which had a built in proper response. it was showing that RE4 was very responsive to player actions (even in how its difficulty would dynamically increase or decrease depending on how well you were playing).
@@marbl3d45 it's a small thing, but i firmly believe if a remake is intending to entirely eclipse its source, at least keep the little details. don't even get me started on Leon's limp-wristed Red9 reload compared to OG
@@Zovereign yeah but the fact that not EVERYONE is going to agree that EVERY change made is an improvement means that’s the quotations serve their purpose
I think with how much faster everything is-Leon, the enemies, the guns, everything-it would trivialize the combat way too much if you got to stun enemies every single time you landed a headshot. You could play the cabin fight on professional with nothing but the starting pistol with no upgrades and get through it in like 6 shots if you were allowed to kick the enemies EVERY time. It worked in the original because of how much slower everything was, it would not work here. With the parry too? Forget about ever being in danger ever. If they ever somehow managed to get past your Chun Li kicks, you could just block their attack. Leon does control like he's wearing a 60 pound backpack sometimes tho.
I think this is the first critique I've watched that actually made me happy to hear, and didn't fall back into the same song and dance of "Oh they cut the Ballistics line, or looking up the skirt" Crap. Literally captured what I personally felt about this game. While I still heavily enjoy it and prefer it I also agree with everything. P.S Fuck the super armor on the basic enemies, shit isn't challenging its just annoying.
Hell yeah. Praise for you telling it like it is. So many TH-camrs would be afraid to put a video out like this because of the never ending 10/10 review scores. I 100% with everything you said
@@neiloconnor7776 when I first saw him in the remake, I turned to my partner and said "I'd keep my kids away from that face" but after playing, he won me over with his charm.
Yup, not when they call at best an 8/10 good game a 10/10 Masterpiece that replaces the original. Can't wait to see RE become another watered down empty soulless husk like most AAA games these days.
@Henry Myth, I agree. I only liked the Not A Hero and End of Zoe dlc for RE7 and didn't care at all for Village, except for Chris' blatant CoD knock off section lol. I haven't liked any of the new Winters characters, not one of them. The only recent RE I liked before the release of RE4 2023 was RE2 2019. I didn't want them to turn RE4 into RE2 Remake though.
It Would've been another perfect Remake if They did what they did with Re1. Improved Graphics and Add Strafing. Change lines, New Cutscenes but keep the Base game the same and ADD onto it.
No. Just forget the original altogether and make it completely different. Hell, why not use it as an opportunity to revive the hookman version? Deviating from its predecessors is what made the original RE4 so good in the first place.
Loved this game, but less than half way through the second play through, which also had the added benefit of mods... I got bored... I STILL go back and play the original. That isn't "nostalgia" doing that, it's good game design.
After your previous remake videos, I wasn't sure whether to anticipate, dread, or even expect the climax to your dissapointments with the things the remakes have cut or changed. But I am very glad that you both enjoyed your experience and expressed that enjoyment alongside your criticisms (almost as if you were just making a video about a game you wanted to talk about). More than anything, I'm glad that you haven't outright dismissed the game for not being the original. So many people in the last couple months have been caught in this senseless war of "is the remake bad or is the original bad," when in reality nobody should be asking either of those questions, because those aren't the only options to choose from. The remake is a good game in its own right, and of course the original is just as good and influential as it always has been. The real question that nobody seems to ask is whether the remake was even necessary in the first place, and whether it can justify its existence in a market overly saturated with remakes, reboots, and remasters aplenty. I'm very glad you went about answering those questions instead of dying on a hill that was invented purely to start petty arguments.
I believe that remakes only could justify their existence if they end Making the original game almost obsolete(and these are made by the original Team who had the visión and ideas) or by REAL fans who want to recreate the original Game with today technology Games like Resident Evil 1 Remake, Destroy All Humans, Black Mesa, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time from the 3Ds All Remakes should be like those in my opinión
@@mateoreyes6921 Some are just obselete because of circumstances . Due to either age or lack of distribution, some games are literally unplayable without a remake. so I half agree with your statement.
I didn’t grew up playing RE4, but 2 years ago I beat it for the first time and its damn near perfect. It has imo the most precise controls for a TPS and that’s what make it addictive I gave the remake a shot and all the precision aiming is gone and now you’ve got this floaty unresponsive aiming system that isn’t precise and Literally every enemy now feels like a punching bag rather than a dart board where getting bullseye isn’t necessary to win The parry also makes the game feel so cheap because running out of ammo doesn’t really matter either These modern conventions are fine in other games, but they totally break the fine tune gameplay of the original and any sense of atmosphere of the original is gone in favour of this generic art style. Even the menus and HUD look like a generic unreal engine template with no style or flair
Thank you! The re engine is better designed for survival horror than action horror the animations that Leon and ada have is ridiculous there is no reason why I'm getting animation locked in an animation all because I jumped out a window or jumped down a ladder and they take a long time to get up if they get knocked down too. It's so pitiful 😂
fun is subjective. especially when alot of Leons lines in the OG made him cringey and pretty lame. when i play RE i want to play someone who doesn't sound like a doofus who walked out of a comedy movie
This is what i was hoping for, thank you for making me feel like im not crazy when I tell people that i prefer the original, I like the remake i really do, but the original was just so much more enjoyable to me compared to this. I agree with with just about everything you mentioned here. However the stagger mechanic you didnt mention the part where standing still and waiting for the aim to tighten increases odds to stagger Ganados. I still dont like that mechanic but I feel like there needs to be at least more context to that issue I have with it
I feel like ever since crowbcat's video, if you don't like re4 remake, they will say that you have nostalgia glasses, if you say you don't like og re4, you are a soyjack like I've seen plenty of comment sections like this and its beyond insanity
@@Thonato420 Even before crowbcat's video they'd just blame you for nostalgia bias. It's stupid because I bet the majority of players are the new generation who refuse to play the original because it's "outdated" or "unplayable".
The tightening of the crosshairs may work on slow shambling zombies, but Ganados rush you so often it's almost not worth it. I think they only really have it as a memento of the old games.
Excellent take. I think this is one of the best games of the year so far, but I felt burnt out while doing completionism runs too so I think there's a lot of nostalgia bias floating about. 2 things: 1) the lighting is an issue. as much as I adore the RE Engine it's default light is dogshit. Are Japanese tvs just naturally brighter? I found some brightness settings on yt and they worked perfectly. If you ever play this again, google yourself some brightnes settings. 2) every single review I have seen has either called Ramon's boss fight the best or the worst of the game :D there is never an inbetween
OG Salazar's fight is dogshit, imo. The biggest problem with it isn't necessarily the design itself, it's that the prompts to dodge attacks can actually lock you into taking a different hit. The attacks weren't spaced out enough to account for the dodge prompt the game gives you.
@@beancheesedip8337 OG Salazar's fight is actually objectively dogshit whether someone likes the fight or not. The fact there this is disagreements over the remake fight means the fight is at least better than the original.
The solution to the Ashley problem: Take the characterization of the remake and combine it with the mechanics of the original. That way, she can be interesting, but still keep the core gameplay of the OG.
TL;DR - Great game, good remake, I prefer the original. I hope at least some of you actually watched the video before hitting dislike 💙
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I'm still on the fence as to which one I prefer, but I can definitely understand why some would like the original more.
YOU DARE SAY THIS CRITICAL??????
oMg i CaN’T BeLieVe U DoN’T tHinK tHe RE4 rEmaKe iS a mASteRpIeCe. I UBsuBbiNg aND DisLiKe Ur vIDeO
Honestly same.
You're blinded by nostalgia obviously
worst thing is that you cannot make ashley wait in a spot
So you want her to stay in a specific spot while enemies try to grab her? Lol
@@Mark-bn5ek In OG RE4, you can have her wait in spots to keep her out of harm's way. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do that here. Especially for players who are familiar with the layout of the levels
@Daman yes because running to the ganados is clearly much better.. The OG4 required you to position her and use your brain on spots ganados would Be agro on leon more. Remake its a 50/50 Ashley runs around like an idiot and into the ganados or actually stays behind leon for that bit.
WAIT follow me WAIT follow me etc etc
@@Mark-bn5ekWow.... you really are dumb. Play the OG again, cheesehead.
THANK YOU. finally someone points out Ashley wasn't bad at all in the original, and i 100% agree with you about the stagger. The stagger on hardcore and professional is fucking ridiculous.
The worst part about OG RE4 was Ashley's Dumbo ears gliding her into trouble 😂. Now they just gave her goofy hair to cover those champs.
Nah. She’s annoying in the OG.
@@ridethelightning1511 character wise maybe, but gameplay wise she is way better in the original.
@@ridethelightning1511 You had the option to have her stay behind and hidden in most areas with enemies in the original. Modern Ashley will just get in your way. Both versions have flaws we can't ignore.
Yeah but she's still a burden
One thing I love about this one that is Cap doesn't try to replace REmake in place of OG by pulling OG out of the shop like other publishers......
Yea for now...but when ps6 and the new xbox release do you think they will have og re4 available for purchase from the microsoft and sony store?
@@SurvivalHorror1 og re4 is literally on every console ever released. Why do you think they`re gonna stop?
EA too for Dead Space both original and remake
Yeah like Rockstar when gta remasters were coming out.
They're kinda doing it for the first 3 games tho.
Also do you think that they'll keep on porting the original on the newer consoles from now on? I wouldn't bet on that.
These remakes are also called just RE2,3,4 with no "Remake" subtitle or anything, so keep that in mind.
Original RE4 was something that completely changed my mindset of what i was supposed to be expecting of 3rd person shooters at the time or even all AAA titles. The combat, graphics, animations, qtc and etc. This game pioneered so many things’s that are being exploited up to this date.
Yeah, the original was one of those rare lighting in a bottle game changers for the gaming industry at whole.
Can't say the same for the remake, even if it is good.
@@Gruntvc The remake doesn’t feel like it is trying to be a game changer. It just feels like a game that respects where it came from and tries to give its own interpretation of the original story without trying to replace it. I like that. I can still play the original any time I want (With the HD texture mod it is basically perfect), and play this for the fun of it.
@@Odinsday finally someone sane.
@@Odinsday which is why its so divisive and why re1 remake is generally held in high regard because it was the only remake to stay true to the original while enhancing the experience while these past 3 remakes have been pretty heavily detached from the original for the sake of “modern gameplay.”
@@TFD.aep2 or because going 1:1 with outdated design decisions isn't a smart idea
One thing I really related admired about OG Leon was his ability to make jokes in the face of death. I didn't have social media at that time (thankfully) so my views on him were not influenced by anything and were my own. I compared Leon as a MC to the MCs of previous games I played like Prince of Persia and God of War. One has the power to control time and the other is a fucking god.
Unlike them, Leon was a normal human being but the enemies he had to fight were not. One of the aspects I find most appealing about his character is his ability to maintain a sense of humor and crack jokes, even when faced with the most gruesome and monstrous creatures. It's almost surreal to witness a normal human being like Leon boldly stand his ground and use witty remarks in the face of these merciless monsters who are clearly bent on domination and fear.
Leon's quick wit send a powerful message - that he refuses to be cowed by the horrors that surround him. It's as if he's asserting his own strength and resilience in the face of adversity, letting these creatures know that he won't be easily intimidated. This aspect of his character is not just admirable, but it also adds a layer of complexity to his persona. By responding to terror with humor, Leon seems to be not only defying the monsters, but also coping with the surreal and nightmarish situation he's thrust into.
In a way, Leon's humorous demeanor becomes a coping mechanism, a way for him to retain his sanity amidst the chaos. It's as if he's telling both himself and the monsters that he won't let fear dictate his actions. This unique trait not only showcases his mental fortitude, but also highlights his ability to find a glimmer of humanity and light even in the darkest of situations.
I fucking love Leon's skill for cracking jokes in the face of death. It really shows off his resilience, determination, and strength of character, making him an absolute badass
I mean he does this in the remake as well. He's not really fearful at any point.
I remember talking with several of my friends about in Leon when the original came out. Leon being brave in the face of terror kind of encouraged me to do the same. His attitude tells the player, "This is gonna be scary, but you can do this..."
I didn't realise how much I liked Leon until now, thank you.
I also really liked how he let Ashley down easy at the ending cutscene, he's a badass with class.
To be honest: while I appreciate that joking manner of Leon’s more nowadays, it was my least favorite aspect about him initially. The way he is and plays in the remake of 4 was my original ideal version of leon and the game. That being said-it’s hard for me to decide if I like the original better because things are so much grimier as an adult that joking leon is a nice escape from that or if I like more down to earth leon since it makes him more relatable in such a situation.
Either way, we have 2 versions of RE4 and that’s freaking fantastic.
@@forastero54321 "Either way, we have 2 versions of RE4 and that’s freaking fantastic."
YES
I said this a dozen times. Remake Krauser sounds like someone trying to sound tough instead of sounding tough.
he indeed souns tough, like Dolph Lungren but even tougher.
OG Krauser voice was sytaight up from cartoon (as most of OG voices tho)
@@iMost067 get your ears checked.
@@RexVergstrongyour opinion mate. What’s the problem with him preferring the remakes voice? Both voice sounds well done and can have arguments for both voices.
@@deadly_queen6656 I don't have a problem with him preferring shitty voices. It's the comparison, remake Krauser sounds NOTHING like Dolph Lundgren, Lundgren's voice is naturally low, not forced.
@@RexVergstrong so? You think the remake’s is shitty and he doesn’t. You seem like you did when you asked him to get his ears checked mate.
Honestly this is the most accurate and understandable take on the remake vs the original. I really appreciate your takes on the gaming industry in all of your videos. Im not always looking for someone to align perfectly with my own opinion but your opinions just make sense so much of the time.
Resident Evil 4, as well as the old games, were not supposed to be taken seriously because they parodied American B-movies. The current ones, as well as the remakes, try to give seriousness to a plot that from the beginning had absurd things like a giant crocodile, an evil ppanta, a giant robotic statue or that one of its antagonists wears sunglasses all the time.
I think the best of the remake is Luis Sera and Ashley
In the remake, by the time I finished the castle I was done with it. The cuts they made took away a lot of variety that broke the game up, whether you liked the cut parts or not. By the time I got to the island I was too bored to continue going through the same repetitive mob wave section after mob wave section. A side from the odd mine cart section it was very straight forward wash and repeat.
Even with the new back tracking with boat feature it still feels linear even the pacing feels off and you get no real creative freedom when play you can't shoot through doors and you can't kill enemies in a fun way it's not satisfying at all.
yeah I felt the same by the time I got to the castle lol, specifically the area before the two garradors. Stuck with it and by the time I finished it, I liked it more but man... idk. The higher amount of backtracking for side stuff felt pretty lame too. Having to speedrun through the game and skipping like 50% of the content for an S+ sounded so lame I didn't even bother trying professional.
@@Gustavozxd13 professional would have probably ruined your experience with the bullet sponge enemies I don't recommend it 😅
@@keonboonehell yeah I have more than 50 hours in this game but I only played pro for s rank purposes and I have to admit it was so annoying bc of lots of reasons
1) the enemies are bullet spongy.
2) Leon having such a slow recovery animation I mean i can bear it in low difficulties but in hard core or pro it straight up kills you bc enemies don't wait hit u and you can get hit multiple times at one moment.
3) the weapon upgrades being so expensive than original and being even more expensive in pro mode makes things more harder for u especially if u are trying s+ r rank bc you aren't Gonna spend your whole time in killing everyone to get money or will try to get every single treasure. I know u can use bonus weapon and it makes game lot easier but for me it is no fun to use a single weapon for the rest of the game.
Separate ways remake restored the biggest things that were cut.
I hate modern games that require us to pay more for more content. Why can’t games be like they used to be, buy one game that is complete working base game with extra contents all under one purchase. But no, now everything goes to paid DLCs.
Well, because they started doing that nonsense and gamers said they hated it and yet bought the shit anyway.
I still remember what a big gigantic clusterfuck it was when TF2 got hats.
I mean, Mercenaries is free, along with all characters and special weapons
The only thing you need to pay is some skins, and the Separate Ways, which costed a lot to be produced
The only thing I did not like in the game is Leon moving like a slug while enemies move in fast forward.
well it’s resident evil, not john wick, so there’s that.
iirc, all the charm drops are seed-based, so you can look through a table and figure out which ones will drop when, based on the first few you pull. It's probably built this way to prevent save-scumming for a guaranteed Striker charm.
It's based on charts and seeds for a new game. People have cracked the type of charts in relation to the combination of tokens used, though.
What's the Striker charm?
@@MarkerMurker Legendary charm of the original Striker shotgun from OG RE4. Increases the player's movement speed by 8%, as a nod to the Striker glitch from the original game that noticably increased your move speed.
Funny I got the striker on my final playthrough for treasures like oh your useless now but nice
@@cooper2211 yeah, that was me with the infinite hand cannon. Already had everything else including cat ears, so when I finished my last run, I loaded a save file just to pull it out of storage for the achievement and then closed the game.
They didn’t want Ada to be a “dragon lady”. So now she’s just a sleepy lady. (That and I hear Capcom doesn’t fux with union voice actors)
Yep that's why they change actors so much
iirc wasn't Saddler's OG VA crossed out solely because he was part of a union?
This is my favourite ada voice lol
The first time I played the remake, I immediately used the tactic 'fake run' only to realise it didn't work anymore,😂
And yeah I agree with Ashley being not glued to you, I had lots of game over just by trying to save her
You know, other than the sections where you were separated from her I never had much difficulty keeping her safe. The game only tells you this once, but tight formation is for evading enemies while running away. If you use it in combat she's gonna catch a lot of collateral from all the attacks coming at you. Loose formation is best for combat, then use a little situational awareness. She usually backs away from you, so if you're facing the bad guys she'll stay behind and you form the line of defense. This also helps her avoid attacks as she'll run away from enemies instead of staying behind you in damage range
@@maxmfpayne on harder difficulty number of enemies are greater and they come from a lot of direction, when loose formation is used she is vulnerable to be kidnapped while moving around needs her to be closed, forcing you to keep moving and use hit and run, the issue is staggering chance make handgun mostly useless during crowd fight (tmp, flash, Shotgun useful) and if you try to stand your ground, you need to pay attention to Ashley, and as mentioned, it's harder to keep a lookout since she's not immediately move towards you and stand behind you
@@aumialumi I'm playing on hardcore but I don't have much desire to play on professional if I'm honest. The challenge on hardcore feels like a decent balance for me, so I can't speak for professional difficulty, I should have mentioned that before. I see what you're saying, I usually just shoot at multiple heads in the group to increase my chance of stunning without killing them so I can kick for crowd control when using the pistol. I am using the dlc pistol though, which I believe does slightly less damage. If they get too close it's shotgun time. I don't have enough experience with the original to compare them though, as I've only played a bit of it so far.
@asdfqwerty420 to be fair, professional is quite hard, you either run like hell or run out of ammo, my point is the gameplay has flaw, which is that it's not design to fight hordes of enemy IMO. Regardless, it's a great game & it appeals to new players rather than old school re fan, most of them at least
@@aumialumi I can agree with that sentiment. Personally, I love it so much, even when it feels a bit unfair (stun locking) because it works with the vibe for me. I get why people criticize it though, not everyone is gonna look the other way when bullshit occurs just because the setting contextualizes the bullshit. I appreciate it for what it is, and for getting me to play through the older re games too starting with 4.
I think the best thing about the remake is that if you don't like it as much you can easily go back and play the original. I wish more games were preserved like OG RE4.
Really? I didn't think Capcom did a very good job of the HD remaster of RE4, unlike that of REmake 1 (both GCN / similar period), which had really nice polish. Main factor for me was the updated control option.
Maybe on PC some fans have done a better job, I heard of 'proper' remasters like this. I guess the devs preferred REmake 1, like me 😁
I think RE4 is similar to the REmake in that it feels great at causal level, and the more you play, the more it feels like an unfinished game. Moreso the remake if I'm to be honest...
@@Oakeybloke these remasters saved the PC port for sure I’ll promise you that
@Elvis Jones I don’t feel they wouldn’t do it lmao it’s the Skyrim of resident evils but unlike Skyrim you don’t need to mod it to work
@@travistreadway3180 You don’t need to mod Skyrim to make it work either. They mod it to make Skyrim to make it modern.
@@travistreadway3180 fair enough. I sit at a desk most of my week, so when chilling in my own time I prefer the sofa.
PC seems to give a lot of options, so probably good for those less casual than me 👍🏼
After playing the remake and being a die hard fan of the original i can say this, the game is not a masterpiece. Yes it improves on some aspects like combat, inventory in some cases (tho i think the extra knife system is stupid) and some of the weapons. But ya there is alot that i disliked as well like how they changed salazar and sadlers motivation and character, Ada,Luese,Ashly (tho ashly is not too bad tho the breathing is annoying), The removal of banter using the phone calls, Stages feel lack luster sometimes (the castel epically). The over use of a dark filter, like most times environment is a bit too dark. And finally the lack of the flirty dialogue and lack of revealing outfit. While i do think that its a fun game it dose lack the personality the original had.
You lost me at “lack of revealing outfit”
@@JEvans-wy9ln Adas dress to be specific.
TBH I feel like trying to claim either game is better than the other is kind of missing the point, at least from my experience. There seems to be a trend of RE players thinking that remakes have to "replace" the original just because the first game had that lightning in a bottle of a remake that did so. The RE Engine series has never quite been that sort of series for me, moreso a sort of modern "remix" of the originals, especially prevalent when you start in different places and travel the map differently in RE4R. That doesn't excuse every choice they've made, RE3R is still getting hell, but you can see in a lot of cases how they wanted to adapt the story rather than just do it all again.
RE4's a different case because I not only got to play the original last year, but others are also able to do so. RE4 Classic is a widely available game, meaning that the importance in comparison doesn't feel as strong of a need like RE2 and 3 does. I have to emulate those games because the originals aren't available on my platforms. RE4 is just ... there. After playing RE4R I straight up went back to the original just to get the different vibe. Both games are great and they both deserve love to this day.
@@WSendam RE1 is different because that was actually remade by the original creator who set out to make what they felt was their actual vision without limitations, kinda hits different when the people creating the remakes aren’t the same as those who created the original especially when they have a completely different vision, style and exist in a completely different era
@@WSendam I mean, let's be real. It's not hard to replace RE1 and improve upon it in every way. Also I've still seen people claim the Dead Space remake "ruined" the original. Like if you want everything to be exactly the same just okay the original.
@@prl4122 Not to mention the first REmake being only 6 years and one console generation apart from the OG. It was a much more impressive leap in that context.
Well said. It annoys me when certain people act like an older game is outdated and irrelevant once it’s remade. The Resident Evil fandom in particular has a few too many people with that mindset.
Yeah, I agree with this. I always took it as "hey, you like RE4? Here's a new game that's like RE4". If someone dislikes the remake on the basis of thinking the original shouldn't have been remade, its not my place to tell you you're wrong, but I do think you're missing out. I enjoyed both games, even if I think there's some things the original did better and vice versa.
As someone who can beat the original on Professional and not die once or only get hit a handful of times, this game is very much not in your favor when it comes to the combat. I enjoy the stagger and kick mechanic a lot so to see it get nerfed so much really puts a small but deep dent in the experience when playing harder difficulties. But overall still fun to play
I agree that the higher difficulties are unbalanced
The Capcom intended you(the player) to play on standard.
However, as a big Dark Souls fan, I enjoyed the harder difficulties regardless.
@@TheNether333
Yeeah I am a soulsbourne fan through and through, and when I told my friends that Re 4 on the higher difficulties is dogshit, is because I mean in from a place where I played the best hard games, where soulsbourne games are difficult, but really fair, and well balanced all things considered. Re 4 on hardcore and above is just not fund and loads of bs.
@@desfefe The hardcore could be bs sometimes, but I it was never the game's fault. I just had to be more tactical.
Professional is not meant to be played without bonus items.
Honestly, its a good thing. Being able to stagger and kick so easily made the original game too easy. It also made it so that running out of ammo, basically never happened because you can kill 10+ enemies with like 4 bullets. No wonder so many people can play the original on the highest difficulty without ever dying. The new game is actually forcing the player to prioritize shooting their gun and conserving ammo. The stagger kick is basically a random reward at the higher difficulties.
@@reredrumuoy to be honest, I’ve gotten better at the game, and I have since prioritized perfect parries in order to kick, so I’m stingy with ammo and it’s easier. Leon’s kick is my favorite both OG and remake so I have to use it as often as I can
I hate scripted flashlights, I'm glad someone has said it! If I'm playing in a bright room, I want to be able to see what I'm doing
Nexus mods and you cant get manual flash light and first person mode
This is like the 12th review of RE4R I've watched and it's crazy that I agree with every single point you laid out here.
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@@TheSoCalledZoner1your mom got RE4Rd
The white paint telling you where to go and what to do, the c4 with big red lasers and beeping, the game just has too many mechanics that handhold the player. Makes the c4 traps useless
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No one can just like something or have a favorite anymore- it's gotta be a masterpiece. Everything is a goddamn masterpiece now. No nuance left in our culture.
lol Didn't even watch the video
This
Girl shut up
it's almost like the Ada actor was not even coached on how to voice the character , just simply paid to read some line's then walked out the door
It's weird too cause this isn't even her first time playing Ada. She played her in the post credits scene of Welcome to Raccoon City.
@TheSoulGage, True, but she didn't do a good job in that cameo either.
Should've used the VA who voiced Ada in RE2 2019.
hey hey kids I'm talking krusty!
learn from a professional, kid
It's good, but definitely doesn't replace the original. This Reimagining will not have the same impact RE4 2005 had on the gaming industry as a whole too. From RE4 alone we got: Dead Space, Gears of War, and Uncharted Drake's Fortune. Can't say the same for RE4 2023.
Wish Capcom would give RE a break and bring back a single player focused Dino Crisis game. I'm starving to death for a great single player focused Dino game...
Agreed.
Reimaginings like this one and the RE2 and 3 ones are super pointless.
Why would you change the f out of a fine story and characters instead of preserving it and just updating the gameplay and graphics?
Like seriously who the hell goes like "i love this game but i want you to change everything about it". ???
Plus RE4 really didn't need any kind of remake.
A remake, by default, cannot be as revolutionary as the original. Common sense. I bet you think you're smart by pointing out the obvious, fucking dork.
@@AndreiCatalin42069 To be fair, the original is pretty dated and flawed that these remakes do a decent job catering newer audiences into the franchise. I mean RE2 Remake was how I fell in love with the franchise and I tried RE4 OG out and loved it… although there were so many things that were in dire need of fixing.
Also the REmakes aren’t necessarily “reimaginings” because they aren’t fully changing the story and canon. The FF7 Remake is a “reimagining” because story and characters that are in the Remake did not exist in the Original 97 version
@@cloudshines812 they are, the sotry changes even if it's overall the same, and the character are all different from the, some more some less
How could they get a PERFECT body and face model for Ada, who now looks better than ever... but also get the worst voice ever...
In trying to find an authentic Asian lady to portray the Asian lady character, they found the most generic Asian voice. She read those lines, which were meant to be seductive, like she was at her son's teacher parent meeting.
I thoroughly enjoyed the remake and would heartily recommend it to anyone, but yeah, the original is just one of those timeless classics like Silent Hill 2 or Majora’s Mask that perfectly encapsulates its era. Just an undefeatable, legendary game - no matter how good the remake is it can’t beat the legacy.
Playing RE4 Remake, I was mostly bored or annoyed. I got to 50% completion and decided to play the original RE4 instead.
I know what you mean about the enemies being inconsistent and unflinching. This game mislead me by saying I should start on Hardcore if I've played RE4 before. Hardcore for a fresh character is pure stupidity. I ran around the village and couldn't take down more than five enemies in probably three minutes. They were just shrugging off bullets to the face like i was shooting nerf darts. A huge part of crowd control in RE4 was the stunning and melee follow ups. Now we can't do that reliably.
Ashley definitely is a downgrade. There use to be a lot more hiding places we could put her in. Now she's just following close or far. I just permenantly keep her close because far seems like it's always the worse choice.
Capcom having micro transactions in RE4 Remake isn’t something they decided to start implementing with this game. They had already done the exact same thing with Devil May Cry 4 and 5. In both 4 and 5, you could purchase Red Orbs/Proud Souls with real money. You could also bypass the unlock conditions for the super versions of characters by paying for them as well. Don’t even get me started on the “DLC” Devil Breakers and Devil Arm.
Oh I know. It sucks anytime it happens
I've seen people dismiss my complaints on Discord by pointing this out, but I've never been a fan of accepting that something being normalized means it's okay.
I just find it funny that now people are complaining about it now.
@@jacobrich4453 Most people have been bitching about these things for years.
@@Hugsloth most aren’t going to play the game 24/7 every day
Agree with you on the Stagger part for enemies.
Occurred enough times I flat out ditch aiming to stagger. And just aim to kill.
That is how it should be though. You should actually be forced to use ammo and have to worry about conserving ammo, especially on the higher difficulties. Stagger kick was way too effective in the original, being able to kill a bunch of enemies without shooting hardly any bullets, that shouldn't be an easy thing to do on higher difficulty settings.
@@reredrumuoyits just a lousy excuse for a harder challenge to do, being punished for hitting your shots on bullet sponge enemies is ridiculous. OG re4 you were still encouraged to do Kicks and knifes over full on blasting nonstop but this is an action game. not Re2 or 1, the constant melees made og re4 so much fun and the remake just taking that away in higher difficulties really ruins that charm that the original re4 had. Call it a skill issue or whatever but i dont want to play assisted mode or standard for more reliable stuns, I've always played professional on re4 og and i started both 4 remake and New separate ways on hardened and beat it again on Professional. Its just bad game design on how the enemies are built when this video also said how easily leon gets staggered
@@reredrumuoyPeople with plaga parasites are super human, a regular person would drop like a sack of potatoes if shot on the face with a 9mm(Leon’s main gun) or more powerful calibers!
The remake is harder and love it!
@@reredrumuoyor they could just account for one shot staggers and filter less ammo encouraging you to place shots accurately. Og4 on professional would become hard quick if you didn’t conserve ammo and take advantage of the combat system.
@@krakenmckraken9128 so I shouldn't be able to shoot my guns? Idk OG re4 fans cope so hard when they can't knife every enemy on the ground to death ad infinitum.
Finally someone else said it I though I was crazy thinking Ashley's AI was better in the original.
I mean yeah in the remake you tell her to go close formation but she’s still like 20 feets away from you she cant even stick close to you lol
20:30 Thank god someone said it! I absolutely adore the new voice for the merchant, but god did it become so grating as he talked on and on. I feel like newer games think dead air makes the game too "video gamey" like they want characters to feel real so they pumped them with voice lines. I get it, an NPC standing around only speaking when you select something is "unrealistic" but its sure isn't immersive having the other side of the coin.
Love the video overall, and I share practically every sentiment! Quality stuff, dude.
I would say it's like they took the Duke from Ethan's story and tried to pour some of that into the Merchant, who was never really that kind of talky smarmy guy. So it's like a weird mash of Merchant/Duke who just never shuts up
Merchant's voice seemed weird to me, more London / cockney than pirate, like the original (and like the shooting range suggests).
Feels like the localisation team took liberties, or at least made calls that some random fan (me) doesn't necessarily agree with. Hey ho.
@@Hugsloth No, they didn't put the Duke's backstory here in the remake merchant. Not once does Leon interact nor banter with him, nor does the merchant explain how he's this pirate travelling around the world. The merchant simply is a game feature, your typical store owner in video games. Nothing more and nothing less
Nu friend, Just because a new game makes a character talk more, that doesn't necessarily mean they're making it realistic.
Is it realistic that the merchant repeats his line every time you see him? Is it realistic that the merchant can't shut up every time you're buying something?
The devs simply added more lines to the merchant to make him stand out and offer something new.
And it's not like newer games have silent NPCs or merchants. Take Elden Ring for example, most of the NPCs there barely talk and that includes the merchants.
@@struggler7164 I didn't mean his literal backstory. I meant how he talks and sounds. It's much closer to Duke than the OG merchant
Best fucking review omfg, that Ashley section made me so happy, when i watched faze jev play this game and talk about "how bad Ashley was in the original " it annoyed the hell out of me, im glad somone understands that if u think Ashleys ai was bad in the original, u literally just sucked at the game, the new Ashleys ai is so much worse in comparison 💀
Getting stuck in level geometry and running towards enemies is somehow not an issue for these clowns. This goes to show that popular opinion is worthless when it's grounded in complete nonsense
Look I fucking hate this game with every single atom in my body. But lord have mercy how much I love this game and the second I beat it I considered it my most favorite game ever and I still consider it that way I love and hate this game so much.
I will admit, I agree with the issue with stagger. Which is why I on my hardcore run I got rid of the SG and made the switch to the red9 then the blacktail asap.
Stagger is tied to damage now. If your handgun doesn't do enough dmg, ganado will walk right through bullets.
Once I made the switch and beefed up my fire power, the handguns felt reliable again.
The stagger criticism is dumb. The game is far less predictable, you no longer have the same strategy with every enemy
@@Indigo_1001 but the argument could also be made that the game is unbalanced on higher difficulties due to this
The exclusive upgrade on the SR along with the laser sight, easy best pistol in the game. It will crit A LOT after you max it out. I played an entire NG+ with it maxed, that upgrade makes a world of difference.
@@Indigo_1001 Unpredictability =/= fun. I found it made the gameplay more annoying and less engaging.
Great review, man. A lot of great and valid points raised. I still don't understand how you keep getting pushback on micro-transactions of all things.
Defending a corporation for mtx is like thanking someone for charging you for a climbing rope after they had thrown you down the well themselves 🤦♂️ the gullibility is baffling.
One thing this remakes miss the mark is the music, the original versions or Re have this haunting and beautiful soundtracks.
You can change it to the original sound track
only if you got the deluxe edition
@@MydasAU no you can buy it for 3 bucks
I honestly don’t even remember the new ones soundtrack but oddly enough they did an AMAZING job on the mercenaries remixes but what’s funny it’s Capcom hasn’t released these tracks or put them out anywhere 🤷♂️ when they’re legit better than the main game
Code Veronica has the best soundtrack, hands down!
I think the remake's combat works on standard difficulty, but hardcore and professional were unbalanced to entice players to buy tickets.
Professional mode objectively is not a good time without bonus, skips, or cheats.
I cannot understand why in a game that is about precision aiming they removed the laser sight on all weapons to make the weapons more imprecise. Imagine if Dead Space removed the lasers, gave the weapons a ridiculous amount of spread, doubled the movement of the enemies, and then expected you to make precision attacks. You could tough your way through it but you wouldn't be enjoying it.
Hardcore is really fair if you’re good at the game. You know like good at aiming, making your shots counts, picking your spots wisely, avoid getting surrounded and cornered. And by the time you reach near the end of the castle, you should have most of your weapons fully upgraded. For me, I had my hand gun(SG, my favorite), shotgun(Riot Gun), and Combat Knife all fully upgraded around the mines section(Krauser was a cakewalk with my maxed knife). Reaching the island, I get my Stingray maxed out. Ammo was never an issue and I mostly kill everything on sight with a few exceptions like the opening village fight and occasionally I’ll run by the fish farm arena(can go back to collected everything later after Del Lago enemy free). I even kill Verdugo every time just because and I don’t even use magnums. I’m fairly conservative with my shotgun ammo and very liberal with handgun ammo. I only craft flash bangs and occasionally heavy grenades later in the game. Hardcore is a fun challenge
I will agree that professional is pretty rough and I only played it for 100% completion.
Nothing wrong with balancing the game’s weapons. We are are free to choose how we want to play. We’ve got the good ol classic all-rounder Silver Ghost which is very precise, compatible with the laser sight, amazing at crits. The Punisher is a bit weaker but has great penetration and while I personally dismissed it at first, it certainly still has its advantages and place. The Red9 is wildly inaccurate and pretty slow but in turn packs a hefty punch. Blacktail is also powerfully and pretty fast. The Matilda is basically an smg with its stock. You get to choose your style and I find nothing wrong with that. Why would you want every gun to pretty much be the exact same? Why even bother with other weapons if they all could use the same attachments? I like what each piece offers. Enemies are smarter and more aggressive and efficient. Why is that a bad thing? The player also has increased mobility. Positioning, timing, aiming. Name of the game since day one.
@@thatoneguy1232The problem with the higher difficulties is that they readily expose the flaws in the combat system, which is the the opposite in the OG in which PRO showcased how tightly tuned the combat system was.
If I'm nailing headshots and limb shots there should be feedback from enemies. I shouldn't have to shoot an enemy 5 times in the face or limb before they stagger or drop their weapon. At that point why not just remove stagger from the game entirely?
I'll take some limited mobility over mediocre, inaccurate weapons every time.
@@AngryCosmonaut I never had an issue with hitting staggers. It’s not 100% guaranteed, which is fine imo(wouldn’t want the game to be too easy like the og), but more often than not, I hit them. And I have two main handguns. For challenge runs I use the Red9 which gets staggers less but still just kills the enemy outright. On regular playthroughs I use the starting SG and I guess the laser sight helps with staggers and crits. And again, by the castle my handgun is nearly or fully maxed out. For Separate Way things are a bit tougher for me. The Blacktail I don’t get as many staggers but Ada also comes with a tmp so I guess that’s not a big issue even though I personally don’t like smgs.
It shouldn't ever take five clean headshots to stagger an enemy. I don't care what the difficulty is or what handgun I'm using. The balancing on Professional is terrible. @@thatoneguy1232
@thatoneguy1232 you played on PC which is essentially easy mode. Leon's sluggish movement, the ridiculous spread of the shots, the unprecise aiming are objective flaws of the game, which despite being more action oriented is somehow more limiting in its mechanics than RE2R which was a more horror based game, ridiculous.
From start to end it was an true nostalgic and enjoyment ride
I hate the higher difficulties. Maybe I’m not good enough, but after getting the trophies I swore off them 😂. Standard is my preferred mode. It feels the best
That’s my favorite part of this game. I love how much more challenging the remake is. The original is too easy to manipulate.
I wish you could customise the difficulty like the last of us games. Having the enemies be more aggressive without them being really tanky would be awesome.
@@SergeantAngel yeah that’s one great feature last of us added to their game. I think that should definitely be a standard for all games. Gives everyone the option to play the game to their preferred difficulty style
@@MR.__Gprofessional is challenging at time but horrifically broken in others.
I don’t mind challenge. This game takes it to a stupid level that ruins it.
@@fabjtown1 what part is broken to you ?
Your review is perfect, exactly how i would summed up playing both OG and the remake as a whole, both have their pros and cons but its overall fun and enjoyable to play...and the best part is both are available in every platform unlike the previous OG trilogy which i hope will be added someday besides being limited as a PS1 game
RE4R is not available on Xbox One, I don't entirely blame them but just figured I'd add that. You can play the OG Trilogy on PC using source ports, the OG PC ports are abandonware at this point and run on the most potato of potatoes. I keep them on my flashdrive, all I need to do is plug in my flashdrive and they play on any computer without a need to do any installation. I should add I own the OG trilogy physical PC copies, before anyone calls me a pirate.
I'm really hoping they do a solid Code Veronica remake next, RE5 still plays very well as far as I am concerned. If they do RE5 remake, I really hope it doesn't land until the next console generation at earliest, otherwise RE5 is still in great shape imo.
To be completely honest I'd be much more interested in an RE0 and RE1 refresh before RE5. I don't think it needs a complete remake, but if they do, it would be cool to allow them to play with both fixed camera angles, and in 1st/3rd person. If you could switch between that, it would be really cool. If it is fixed camera angles, they can use pre rendered graphics, I really hope it looks photo realistic and has maximum brutality.
i prefer the old Ashley more than the new one i loved how i could tell her to stay there instead of stay far but still close
Just wanna say this.... Protecting Ashley remake is much harder and frustrating than original Ashley .... Seems to me no one wants to admit this just because Remake Ashley is "waifu" material.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth I mean Ashley was written better in the remake, but protecting her can be annoying at times, sure. However I didn't have many problems.
@@LethalByChoice I don't doubt she's better character wise in remake thanks to the flirting and banters, but escorting her is made way harder which I'm surprised no one is willing to point out.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth Oh Angry Joe did and it's wonderful.
@@mr.sinjin-smyth there's been times during combat before I realized the distance feature for ashley was useless, sometimes ashely would move in front of me and I would shoot her however, she had the knight armor equipped but if she didn't have that outfit she would have died. Unlike in the og it's 100% your fault if you hit her but in the remake there's a chance you can hit her on accident due to the new AI mechanic
I'm also kinda tired of RE remakes. I would like to have a Resident Evil game that have a story about Hunk and alpha team where u get to play as Hunk or somebody else in his team. Wouldnt that be great
I enjoyed both the original and remake equally. Kind of honestly similar to the re1 and its remake. To me, theyre both tonally and mechanically different but equally as good for their time
Remake is a downgrade in almost every way
@@Schizoid_psyop I agree
1) del Lago jumpscare was better in original
2) u3 was iconic ( don't know why they removed it )
3) garrador in original was more scary
@@suhailshaikh8529They didn't remove it, lol
@@Schizoid_psyopDamn, Re2 remake cut a lot more the original content and people call it a masterpiece
Re4 fans are so spoiled
@sthepcorms6747 the game is actually scary tho
Re4r downgraded everything
I think I might personally prefer the remake, but it definitely does not replace the original. They feel like almost completely different and nearly equally great experiences.
This!!! That's exactly the point! These remakes are never meant to replace the original! That's why Capcom said the Remake timeline is also Canon to the story! You're supposed to love this timeline and the original one!
In the end is what people prefer. Some like the originals feel while others like the remakes feel. Personally i prefer the original in terms of story and characters.
WHY does everyone forget how much cut of the Castelsections are before arriving to Ramon and the whole RUINS/Tomb area?
yeah after playing the original I felt like I got to the ramon fight way too quickly in the remake, with the absence of so many castle sections and the conversations with him to build his character and make his transformation more impactful
Salazar still being highly allergic to eggs and rockets is still funny
I don't recall being able to kill Salazar in the original.
@@toddpace4588 yeah he still had a fight in the original
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I know. I meant to say I don't recall being able to kill Salazar with eggs.
I feel like in ten years people will look at the remake and be embarrassed that they called it the best game ever. I enjoyed it, but I’m not blind to all of the faults the game has. It’s far from perfect and I wish people would stop saying it’s a hard 10/10. Please be real and true peeps
Sry to bring the news, but that will never happen.
Alright so according to your logic: It’s not perfect because I said so and everyone should agree to it.
In the next ten years, you will look at the Remake and be embarrassed you didn’t take off your nostalgia glasses.
Sorry little bro but that still won’t change the fact that 4 Remake is my top favorite game with 4 OG coming behind.
Yup.
It's good, and you might enjoy it ( I do too with gold edition and on my third playthrough so far), but it does have its problems performance wise especially. It is not a 10/10. @monkeyboooty
@@thepeterlafon5082 10/10 for me, never had issues about performance.
Love this review. Honest and I have the same opinion.
Ashley's AI is more cumbersome this time around.
I agree with most of your points laid out here, especially the Ada Wong performance. As someone who's sworn by Capcom games since I was 10, I *do* find the practice of microtransactions scummy, and to see my favorite company from childhood go down that Call of Duty road since 2010 is a stab in my heart. As a game dev myself, hiding extra content behind paywalls is just slapping the players around with a rotten fish; if devs wanna do something like that, then give them a personalized code to download the content for free after completing the game once.
Ada Wong voice is great
Krauser and saddlers is complete dog 💩 and ruined the characters
The person who voiced Ada Wong in the RE2 remake was a lot better. I don’t know why they changed the actor.
@@stygianjack9017 it sounds like the same woman but she just phoned in her performance this go around.
@@stygianjack9017I believe it had something to do with unions and pay.
17:23 Even the giggity joke from your original video got a remake. Awesome detail!
thankfully ashley wasnt flattened / chalk boarded
@@creatorsfreedom6734 Just could've used some jiggle physics
@@LOEKASH go into the model viewer
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@@LOEKASHnah man, the ballistics are in tact
The thing that's better about the original is Leon can't move while aiming. It forces you to choose between offense and defense, that's where the depth of combat arises from.
It takes me forever to beat the original because of that. I have to stop to shoot, then run backwards when the enemy gets too close to avoid getting hit since there is no parry system. I have to shoot, run back, shoot run back, shoot run forward, and on an on when there is a horde of enemies. The whole thing takes a long time and is very tedious. Also, Leon was trained by Krauser to use the knife, but in the og he never uses it to defend himself. That's the unfortunate thing about the original.
Tank controls suck and is a big reason why later titles that were 3rd person shooters never continued it. Leon stopping to shoot wasn't by design but limited technology.
@@NoKidsNoProblem I take it you’re new to gaming
@@neiloconnor7776 I haven't played many games, but with the original 4th it took me a long time co.pared to other games. I've played the original Resident Evil 4 many times and it takes me some time to beat it.
@@NoKidsNoProblem it’s very enjoyable once you understand movement works be utilising quick turns
You never even mentioned how bad the aiming is in this great but flawed game and how awful the shooting gallery is too.
The shooting gallerys great what are you talking about😂
Skill Issue
git gud
@@carlo5771bullshit issue
I installed mods that let you stagger with 1 shot to the leg or head, and the game became 100 times more enjoyable. The pro difficulty, outside of bullshit teleports, homing projectiles and magnetic grabs, becomes a fun challenge, except for the S+ runs. Overall, I completely agree with everything. Glad to see someone not shilling for this game.
sounds like an extreme skill issue, not surprising.
@@sylicaa8618 another drone with the "skill issue" argument. Get lost.
Nobody is shilling for this game. It's a great game. No shilling needed. Also, by "it became 100 times more enjoyable" you just meant it became much easier. Skill issue.
@@loubloom1941 I beat every single challenge in this game, including Pro S+ without bonus items or mods. So, yet another drone with the skill issue argument can fuck off, goodbyyyyyyyyye
It’s nice to see someone who isn’t BLINDLY inlove with this game, it’s good and waaaay better than RE3R, but no one near reaches the heights of the RE2 Remake. It’s just really missing ALOT of the charm the OG release had.
It’s a far better remake than 2 idk why you think 2 remake is better.
Ye re2 remake doesn't even come close, it's not even close.
@@cynicalbastard8855 All I know is that I got 100% on RE2 and have yet to complete RE4R as I have given up on my playthrough as I find the characters and writing to be COMPLETELY BORING. RE4 OG had so much charm and wit. the remake is just flatout boring outside of the gameplay
@@TheNomadJack fair enough, suppose this is all just subjective tho...
RE 2 remake was not that great either they completely butchered the B scenario cutting 90% of it and making it just a a copy of the A scenario with a couple of differences here and there whereas the original B scenario was a completely different story for both Leon and Claire depending with who you had played the A scenario first.
On Ada Wong's voice acting, I can't help but blame the voice director, despite the fact that pretty much everyone else's voice is on-point. At any point a voice director can step in and have an actor make the necessary changes, so we're left with two possibilities. Either the director tried and Ada's VA pulled a Bruce Willis, didn't give a damn, and thus the director had to give up to get the work done on time, or the director didn't understand Ada's character.
Kinda agree with you there, I'm sure the talented VA could pull one of many voices out of the hat.
You know of these characters 'must' all be deep voiced and serious, to the point of being flat.
Wesker was worse though, the nasally voiced psycho suddenly has a super deep, gravelly, generic bad guy voice. Seems to be the way it's going unfortunately...
I enjoyed the voice acting in FF7R, nice variety and they generally all sounded like their character, even when the original didn't have a voice! Except Zack, which I didn't mind as he wasn't being homogenised like so many other characters.
@@Oakeybloke I can't agree with you on Wesker. RE4R is my first RE experience, so all of my experiences with it aren't informed by previous dealings with any character. So his voice seemed to fit to me- in fact, a suave-looking surely buff bad guy like that would seem very odd with a nasally voice in my opinion.
@@Ren99510 that's the character that he is. It makes sense that his voice fits the character for someone new to Wesker, given that characters 'these days' all have to fit to a stereotype; deep voiced and serious for someone who can kick ass for instance.
Bit of a shame, I think. And how old do I sound saying 'these days' 😂
Well, considering that this is the same woman that played Ada in "Welcome To Raccoon City", and she was just as bad there... It may just be a skill issue on her part, too.
@@AngryAtlantean is that the one that had very bad reviews, where they messed around with the characters a lot? I heard that blonde haired, blue eyed, supreme race, essentially neo nazi Wesker was played by a black dude, for example. I avoided it so can't say for sure.
Fair enough wanting to have a diverse cast of characters, why not introduce new characters for this, like the older films did. Back then I thought they messed with the characters too much lol, how little I knew 🤭
Agree with exactly what you said in regards to the microtransaction part. Cheat codes used to be amazing back in the day growing up where i was only allowed a short amount of time to play games each week, as to let me play with the silly stuff but not grind for it, because i personally didnt mind or care about the loss of gaining acheivments, i just wanted to play. The fact that most people nowadays dont even realize thata how it used to be and defend shitty practice that has littered the industry is a shame.
Spot on ..Playing on harder difficulties shouldn't mean you just run away more.. Especially when its a game where the fun of it is the combat
When do you run away more? I kill everything on sight. The beauty of Resident Evil games is that you often CAN run away. You don’t HAVE to. If you suck or low on health and/or ammo then maybe that’s the best option for you. But when do you ever HAVE to run away more?
@@thatoneguy1232 Did you play with mouse and keyboard?
@@MaximumPayine I’m on controller, ps5.
@@thatoneguy1232 That explains it.
@@MaximumPayine explains what? Please tell me you aren’t talking about what I think you’re talking about because if you are that is embarrassingly backwards 😂
Personally I prefer the RE2 remake, but this was still tons of fun.
The reason I prefer Remake 2 was because it was a much slower paced game, and it was survival horror. I love re 4 OG and when I went into remake 4, I understood what I should be expecting. The problem however was that remake 4 from a mechanical standpoint is similar to remake 2, but has action elements added to it. This doesnt really work though on higher difficulties. Especially how there is an RNG on the shots placed on the heads or the sensitive spots, shall we say.
With remake 2, even if there was cut content, it still however met my expectations when I played it.
@@desfefe L. RE2R is INFERIOR to the Og
@@greatestnitemare6626
I didnt say it was better than the OG, but at least I enjoyed it more than remake 4.
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The replay value wasn't there for me with re2r like re4r
I'll never forgive capcom for taking out the "Ballistics" and "your right hand comes off" lines.
yeah how dare they make Luis not a creep and take out the fact he's harassing women >:(
@@Luna-pk7gz cuck
@@Luna-pk7gzfatherless comment
It's fine that they got rid of those lines. It's just they didn't replace them with something else.
@@Luna-pk7gzshut up you crybaby wuss. This is why everyone thinks everyone's wusses these days. It's guys like this dude just walking around here
I was waiting for this review and it didn’t disappoint valid criticism and a balanced review in general.other criticisms I have is that the hitboxes are really bad at times and the lack of I frames allow you too get combod to death also Leon’s feels more clunky while moving but he can move in every direction so I guess it’s a trade off
It’s not the hit boxes I think it’s the bullet spread they have in the game it’s not what us RE4 fans are used to cause we had a laser at least
@@travistreadway3180 the Lazer aim was unique because the aim could be anywhere on the screen dealing close enemies wasn't an issue unlike the remake its the generic third person cross hair where it doesn't feel like the bullets are coming out of the gun
@@travistreadway3180 that's the thing though, not everyone is a RE4 like yourself. Most of us this generation weren't even alive when the game came out, let alone interested in a PS2 when the PS5 is out now. The remake serves as an entry for new players like myself who just finished RE8 on PC like 10 minutes ago, am now purchasing RE4 remake to play tomorrow
@@GameoftheYear-fx4mq you need to expand your game catalog
@José Francisco Vázquez Baeza he's a child . did you play previous gen games when you were his age(maybe ayou are his age). i sure as hell didn't. i was born in 99 and
started gaming towards the end of ps1 cycle. i was used to 3d graphics and never once did i got back to playing the old snes games, nintendo games cause i was used to whatever was present at that time..even now if i ever wanna go back and play old games i do not go beyond ps1. because i cannot play them.
you can't expect that kid to go back and play ps2, ps1 games when they're used to playing games in ps5.
I'm really tired of the idea of soft rebooting the old Resident Evil games and calling them “Remakes” just like the Resident Evil 2 and 3 and 4 soft reboot
except the games are significantly different, not the same at all
Great video. This game got a lot of 10s but it doesn't mean it's flawless.
Weren't you stabbed to death?
@@Skoopyghost my spirit is immortal
This game is yet another fine game on it's own, but also another pointless reimagination that changes the f out of everything that was fine, just like the last two ones.
RE4 didn't really need a faithful remake either tbh, it didn't need a remake at all.
Capcom is now just soft rebooting the whole series for no good reason. I guess the current devs might have something against the way the OG games were for some reason.
"The only thing you can tell her is tight or loose" followed by the faintest giggity 😂😂😂
Been waiting for this, thanks Critical nobody. Personally I think RE4R is awesome but I wouldn’t call it perfect, if it had some of the cut content still It would probably push it over the edge for me. We have 2 amazing RE4’s though, everybody wins. I’ll be revisiting the OG sometime soon.
Edit: Bro people really defending the trashy microtransation tickets, that’s disgusting dear god. People like that are why the industry is so horrendous rn.
The tickets aren’t inherently a horrible thing, but if they do well, the goalpost will be moved. Y’know the whole slowly turning the temperature on a boiling frog instead of instantly turning the temperature from 1 to 100 causing it to immediately jump out. Stop being idiots please. I like RE4R too, it’s awesome, that doesn’t mean its garbage business practices should be defended.
I'm not defending the tickets, I think that microtransactions should not be a thing in single player games, but I'm guilty as hell since I actually bought like 3 tickets just so I could have an easier time on S+ Speedruns.
Exactly, everyone laughed at horse armor dlc in The Elder Scrolls Oblivion back in the day. Look where we are now. Its become ridiculous today.
Give companies like Capcom an inch, they will take a mile.
Never forgot the on disc paid dlc baloney they pulled with Xbox 360/PS3 games.
@@Gruntvc I don’t necessarily have an issue with microtransactions as a whole, but pay2win is pretty awful. I don’t mind some cosmetic micro transactions and if it’s a game I really like I’ll toss them the couple bucks and buy a few things here and there, but the issue is when they take it too far.
The original isn’t perfect either. QTEs were a major gripe for many.
@@TheVulgarPeasant I don’t mind QTE’s at all, I’ve never understood the hatred for them.
I was not at all excited for this game and had low expectations for it, as i consider the original an absolutely perfect game with almost no room for improvement, with a lot of the things that i love about it, namely the pacing of the combat encounters being so tight due to the limited movement requiring more thought than any shooter ive played, are things that couldnt be replicated today. I also played the original during my first ever heartbreak when i was 13, and it did a lot of heavy lifting at that time. Didnt think this could possibly touch that game.
This remake is my favorite game of all time. Granted, this past month has been the hardest month of my life, which kind of mirrors the context which i played the original, but this past month has been just a nightmare. The amount of heavy lifting this game has done could not have been acheived by any other game.
I do agree with your comments on ashley, the escorting in this one is objectively worse than the original
I love when critics call out game companies on their shitty practices like day 1 dlc. Makes me feel I'm not alone in the sea of consoomers
The big question is are we reviewing it as a remake or a game?
You can do both
The biggest issue with Ashley is the fact that loose formation is just completely useless. It is never a good option and Ashley still gets in the way sometimes even acting like a ganado bodyguard, taking hits for them. In the og game Ashley was like an obedient dog, I dont know why people hated so much dealing with her back then and I honestly blame them for the way Ashley acts in the remake cause this is definitely the result of player feedback otherwise chances are we would still have "wait" and "follow me"
If Ashley gets in the way, it’s your fault. If she’s in your way then odds are you told her to back up in front of you. Tell her to come in and she will not always rush towards you and even do so while crouching if you’re aiming. That’s when you have her back up to avoid getting if enemies are close or have ranged options. She will listen to what you want her to do. If you don’t want to deal with enemies then keeping her close is the way to go but you still gotta create somewhat of a path for her. If a Ganado is in your way, they’re likely going to be in hers as well.
Loose formation turns enemies aggro off her a lot of the time. You can see this for yourself in water hall.
On normal she’s okay. I even use her to tank damage for me sometimes which is pretty funny. But I’m baffled at how I can’t tell her to wait anymore. She also doesn’t behave well if Leon is moving. I’ve had times where I’m back stepping while shooting and she gets in front of me.
She’s way better than she was in the first game, stop lying because you’re bad at the gamw
@@5000Seabass Not when I'm shooting. Or trying to tactically position her. Honestly they made it so she cant die in one shot to compensate for how bad the free range chicken AI they gave her is. She actually tanked a chainsaw and said she was okay. Which made me laugh my azoff. The fact that she just gets downed after that proves they had to compensate.
Nooo they took out the laser hallway. That was so badass though. 2nd only to the knife fight
It's in Separate ways.
The worst thing about saddler is the fact that he doesn't kill Luis. See in the original (as you know) saddler kills Luis and since luis is so likeable that gives the player a reson to want to kill saddler but in the remake giving that honor to krauser makes it so after hes dead saddler is just there because he was the villain in the original the only reason leon fights him is to save the girl who survived an impossible fall.
People that DEFEND microtransaction in a 70-60$ dollar are really cringe and this is not the first time Crapcom did this, they pulled exact same shit on Devil May Cry 5
People can't have differentiated opinions anymore. Something is either the greatest thing ever made and any critique is literal blasphemy, or absolute garbage without a single irredeemable feature
well, thing is with dmc5, you need skill to use moves (assuming if you play on harder difficulties)
while in re4 remakez, with those tickets the game becomea hella easy
@@Thonato420 It doesn't matter if it affect the game. They are testing water on how much they can get away with it. You allow it now and they will push it further. Push them back before this shit gets out of control.
Couldn’t agree more! Always a pleasure watching your honest views with supporting information. (“Splinter cell, this is not.” And there it is…haha!)
Masterpiece in 2005: A game so good that every mechanic is uber-polished and the gameplay is so ahead of its time that it inspired ton of other amazing games like Dead Space, Gears of War etc. A trend-setter.
Masterpiece since 2010s: Everything has to be realistic and follows trends. Not to mention the fact that most will ignore any shady business practices, because people will defend anything.
RE4R is fun, and I had a good time as an OG fan. I like the remake as a supplement to the OG. At the end of the day, I’m glad we’ve two versions of this game that people can enjoy.
P.S. The word: “masterpiece” needs to redefined if every game will be called one - remake or not.
It is good, but none of these recent remakes have recaptured what made RE1 Remake 2002 so good. At best, they stand along side the original. Not RE3 2020 though.
And yes, Capcom is definitely following trends rather than setting them now. What a shame...
@@Gruntvc both re4R and re1 remake are my favs fr 💙🔥😎 especially 1 I really want to see that type of game again one day
Masterpiece just means a masterfully crafted work of art. Both games fit into this description.
@@reredrumuoy 🔥
Controls in the remake are so much better.
They're not. But I can see why casuals would think that.
@@HenryMyth Yes they are. But I understand why nostalgia brats would disagree.
@@guyc1479 It’s not nostalgia when I finished the original on professional several times last week, but nice try zoomer 👍
@@HenryMyth I get it: you played the original since you were ten years old and haven’t moved on since. You’re childish outlook won’t allow you to admit that the remake has better controls. I understand, you can’t cheese enemies in the remake. It’s harder and you don’t like that. 🎻🎵
@@guyc1479 The remake is easier than the original game lol. You've either never played it or haven't in a really long time if you think that every enemy can be "Cheesed". Really pathetic that remake fanboys attack the original game when they have no clue what they're talking about. I actually play games on higher difficulties and for more than one playthough, unlike you clearly.
Your points about the RNG of enemy staggers, but ESPECIALLY how easy it is for the enemies to instantly stagger Leon such that he looks like a clumsy buffoon hit home especially hard. Probably my #1 criticism of the game at large on higher difficulties.
You gonna make another video on Resident Evil?
Yea. But if you got pc version you got mods to fix it
That stagger problem was my main complaint on the professional runs especially the s+ run
@@cooper2211 if you got pc version mods fix it
@@wyattbarnett3877 Eh I just platinumed it on ps5 I'm good lol
People that pay real money for unlockables essentially want an easy mode without actually picking easy. You see this in MMOs a lot, people go out of their way to cheat the system, buy currency with real money, circumvent ingame challenges or anything that requires any effort on their part. In a singleplayer game this means absolutely nothing, but it can and does absolutely destroy anything played with other people.
And I hate the excuse of "hurr durr I have a real life, I don't have time to play XY game for hours on end" because that clearly means that the game isn't for you, if you need to cheat in order to participate in something, don't participate at all because all you're doing is ruining the experience for the rest of us.
Glad you mentioned lighting and the flashlight. Village had the same issue and it's the main reason I didn't give it another playthrough. Now I know to wait until this game is bundled and at a discount before purchasing. Well that and bc they usually bring "cut" content back in a dlc because people are stupid enough to keep dishing out money to them. I guarantee 4remake has costume and gun/item add ons you can buy to prove my point. Guess I should've waited before comment lol, you covered this too. Point still proven lol
You're the only true TH-camr who stood his opinion and actually said the OG RE4 is better! And I can't agree with you more!
There are a few others who did electric underground the gaming Brit show and synthetic man did too
“Only true youtuber” so every other youtuber who liked the remake is wrong
Yeah, apparently the only "true" people are those who agrees with your opinion, anyone that says otherwise are apparently fake or something, that makes sense.
its genuinely heart breaking how many people think re4make is better. i miss krauser when he had only 1 monster arm. and i miss the qte and U3
@deadeye anims yeah most people are shills and sheep. So it's not surprising when 90% of gamers are setting for low quality games. But that's in general. 99% of Americans are sheep's and follow the "trend".
To be fair . I loved this remake, gameplay wise is my favorite ps5 game. However it made me miss the original,and thankfully everyone has access to it.
You're right about everything.
But what I agree with the most is that you won't notice any of this unless you know the OG Version Inside & Out
Enemy staggers and bloom are immediately noticeable. Second I got the handgun and shotgun I thought it was extremely lame that they didn’t have laser sights.
I will never even try to get an s+ on professional in this game. Never mind the bullshit of every death adding time if you don't fully back out of the game and reset and absolutely no auto-save, the added condition of having to beat three straight chapters without saving once to get the under 15 saves condition is bullshit on the hardest difficulty. Fuck the Handcannon, I don't want it for that kind of hassle.
*psst* Mercenaries for the handcannon
@@CriticalNobody Got it yesterday, thanks. Didn't know it unlocked in mercenaries since I gave up trying for it by the time it was released. Still not gonna go for the Cat Ears, though.
RE4 was revolutionary, RE4 Remake is, well a remake, it won't change gaming or wow anyone and it is definitley NOT a 10, hell even an 8 is being generous IMO, but it's a really fun game and I am on my 3rd playthrough as of now.
The remake is fine but it really serves to highlight the expertise that went into balancing and polishing the first game. As Nerrel pointed out in his review, the group battles especially highlight the gap in design between the two.
If anything, the remake has made me appreciate the original more. A lot of small design details went unappreciated by me until they changed to “modernize” or “improve” the game.
removing the ability to shoot Luis for a bad ending during house defense was such a baffling choice to me. like I know it's not something most would do on purpose, but it was literally just a choice the player could make which had a built in proper response. it was showing that RE4 was very responsive to player actions (even in how its difficulty would dynamically increase or decrease depending on how well you were playing).
Put quotations around improve all you want, it definitely did and the majority would agree.
@@Hugsloth 🤓🤓
@@marbl3d45 it's a small thing, but i firmly believe if a remake is intending to entirely eclipse its source, at least keep the little details. don't even get me started on Leon's limp-wristed Red9 reload compared to OG
@@Zovereign yeah but the fact that not EVERYONE is going to agree that EVERY change made is an improvement means that’s the quotations serve their purpose
I think the Ada performance is a direction problem, personally.
I think with how much faster everything is-Leon, the enemies, the guns, everything-it would trivialize the combat way too much if you got to stun enemies every single time you landed a headshot. You could play the cabin fight on professional with nothing but the starting pistol with no upgrades and get through it in like 6 shots if you were allowed to kick the enemies EVERY time. It worked in the original because of how much slower everything was, it would not work here. With the parry too? Forget about ever being in danger ever. If they ever somehow managed to get past your Chun Li kicks, you could just block their attack. Leon does control like he's wearing a 60 pound backpack sometimes tho.
I think this is the first critique I've watched that actually made me happy to hear, and didn't fall back into the same song and dance of "Oh they cut the Ballistics line, or looking up the skirt" Crap. Literally captured what I personally felt about this game. While I still heavily enjoy it and prefer it I also agree with everything.
P.S Fuck the super armor on the basic enemies, shit isn't challenging its just annoying.
Hell yeah. Praise for you telling it like it is. So many TH-camrs would be afraid to put a video out like this because of the never ending 10/10 review scores. I 100% with everything you said
Luis is the most improved character. He is amazing in the remake.
no more sadler "jokes"
Someone said he has a “rats face” and I can’t unsee it now
@@neiloconnor7776 when I first saw him in the remake, I turned to my partner and said "I'd keep my kids away from that face" but after playing, he won me over with his charm.
@@KyleDevy I get what you mean he’s still seems creepy and looks pretty bad imo but at least he has alot more to do
he's the only character in remake i like the most, the others i just didn't care for or felt they were neutered (especially Saddler)
"We deserve better"
no, capcom fans do not.
Yup, not when they call at best an 8/10 good game a 10/10 Masterpiece that replaces the original.
Can't wait to see RE become another watered down empty soulless husk like most AAA games these days.
@@Gruntvc Village and 7 I wouldn’t even give an 8, they’re a 6 at best.
@Henry Myth, I agree. I only liked the Not A Hero and End of Zoe dlc for RE7 and didn't care at all for Village, except for Chris' blatant CoD knock off section lol. I haven't liked any of the new Winters characters, not one of them.
The only recent RE I liked before the release of RE4 2023 was RE2 2019. I didn't want them to turn RE4 into RE2 Remake though.
@@Gruntvc
Bruh,
Gamers like you are insufferable.
Guess what, games are just as good as the shot you grew up with
@@Gruntvccomplaining about 7 and 8 when the monstrosity that is 6 exists😂
It Would've been another perfect Remake if They did what they did with Re1. Improved Graphics and Add Strafing. Change lines, New Cutscenes but keep the Base game the same and ADD onto it.
No. Just forget the original altogether and make it completely different. Hell, why not use it as an opportunity to revive the hookman version?
Deviating from its predecessors is what made the original RE4 so good in the first place.
Loved this game, but less than half way through the second play through, which also had the added benefit of mods... I got bored... I STILL go back and play the original. That isn't "nostalgia" doing that, it's good game design.
After your previous remake videos, I wasn't sure whether to anticipate, dread, or even expect the climax to your dissapointments with the things the remakes have cut or changed. But I am very glad that you both enjoyed your experience and expressed that enjoyment alongside your criticisms (almost as if you were just making a video about a game you wanted to talk about). More than anything, I'm glad that you haven't outright dismissed the game for not being the original. So many people in the last couple months have been caught in this senseless war of "is the remake bad or is the original bad," when in reality nobody should be asking either of those questions, because those aren't the only options to choose from. The remake is a good game in its own right, and of course the original is just as good and influential as it always has been. The real question that nobody seems to ask is whether the remake was even necessary in the first place, and whether it can justify its existence in a market overly saturated with remakes, reboots, and remasters aplenty. I'm very glad you went about answering those questions instead of dying on a hill that was invented purely to start petty arguments.
I believe that remakes only could justify their existence if they end Making the original game almost obsolete(and these are made by the original Team who had the visión and ideas) or by REAL fans who want to recreate the original Game with today technology
Games like Resident Evil 1 Remake, Destroy All Humans, Black Mesa, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time from the 3Ds
All Remakes should be like those in my opinión
@@mateoreyes6921 Some are just obselete because of circumstances . Due to either age or lack of distribution, some games are literally unplayable without a remake. so I half agree with your statement.
@@mateoreyes6921 Too bad they didn’t remade the DLCs for Half Life.
I didn’t grew up playing RE4, but 2 years ago I beat it for the first time and its damn near perfect. It has imo the most precise controls for a TPS and that’s what make it addictive
I gave the remake a shot and all the precision aiming is gone and now you’ve got this floaty unresponsive aiming system that isn’t precise and Literally every enemy now feels like a punching bag rather than a dart board where getting bullseye isn’t necessary to win
The parry also makes the game feel so cheap because running out of ammo doesn’t really matter either
These modern conventions are fine in other games, but they totally break the fine tune gameplay of the original and any sense of atmosphere of the original is gone in favour of this generic art style. Even the menus and HUD look like a generic unreal engine template with no style or flair
Thank you! The re engine is better designed for survival horror than action horror the animations that Leon and ada have is ridiculous there is no reason why I'm getting animation locked in an animation all because I jumped out a window or jumped down a ladder and they take a long time to get up if they get knocked down too. It's so pitiful 😂
You get it
You can get the RPD outfit by getting S+ rank on all mercenaries maps with every character..... it's a pain in the ass though
Ironically, realism turns out to be way less fun than the arcade feel of the original RE4.
fun is subjective. especially when alot of Leons lines in the OG made him cringey and pretty lame. when i play RE i want to play someone who doesn't sound like a doofus who walked out of a comedy movie
@@joedatiusthe lines in the remake are far worse.
@@joedatius so like, all the games? 😅 even RE1 has some cheesy goofy lines Jill and Chris say.. Pretty weak argument there
@@joedatius are you really saying that about a series that featured "Jill's sandwich" IN THE VERY FIRST GAME?
This is what i was hoping for, thank you for making me feel like im not crazy when I tell people that i prefer the original, I like the remake i really do, but the original was just so much more enjoyable to me compared to this. I agree with with just about everything you mentioned here. However the stagger mechanic you didnt mention the part where standing still and waiting for the aim to tighten increases odds to stagger Ganados. I still dont like that mechanic but I feel like there needs to be at least more context to that issue I have with it
I feel like ever since crowbcat's video, if you don't like re4 remake, they will say that you have nostalgia glasses, if you say you don't like og re4, you are a soyjack
like I've seen plenty of comment sections like this and its beyond insanity
@@Thonato420 Even before crowbcat's video they'd just blame you for nostalgia bias. It's stupid because I bet the majority of players are the new generation who refuse to play the original because it's "outdated" or "unplayable".
The tightening of the crosshairs may work on slow shambling zombies, but Ganados rush you so often it's almost not worth it.
I think they only really have it as a memento of the old games.
@@frankkennedy6388 i agree entirely, i never liked this mechanic in the remake and would rather the stagger system was just like the original game.
I needed 3 shots from rifle to stagger an enemy carrying ashley during her water hallway section. Such a realistic approach from the dev...
Excellent take. I think this is one of the best games of the year so far, but I felt burnt out while doing completionism runs too so I think there's a lot of nostalgia bias floating about. 2 things:
1) the lighting is an issue. as much as I adore the RE Engine it's default light is dogshit. Are Japanese tvs just naturally brighter? I found some brightness settings on yt and they worked perfectly. If you ever play this again, google yourself some brightnes settings.
2) every single review I have seen has either called Ramon's boss fight the best or the worst of the game :D there is never an inbetween
OG Salazar's fight is dogshit, imo. The biggest problem with it isn't necessarily the design itself, it's that the prompts to dodge attacks can actually lock you into taking a different hit. The attacks weren't spaced out enough to account for the dodge prompt the game gives you.
@@beancheesedip8337 OG Salazar's fight is actually objectively dogshit whether someone likes the fight or not. The fact there this is disagreements over the remake fight means the fight is at least better than the original.
The solution to the Ashley problem: Take the characterization of the remake and combine it with the mechanics of the original. That way, she can be interesting, but still keep the core gameplay of the OG.
you can even play the original IN VR it definitely has been ported to EVERYTHING