Resident Evil 4 Remake

[Kanon]

Finished it in a bit under 17 hours. I enjoyed it a lot, but not really as much as I thought I would, I was plain bored during some chapters. There were some really awesome parts though, my favorite being the fight against Krauser.

Gameplay was great, graphics were a bit disappointing (a step down compared to RE3R IMO), the story was... well, Resident Evil tier. I really loved the new Ashley, she looks a hundred times cuter and she's kept the ballistics (it becomes much more apparent when she loses the jacket) which actually still bounce, it's just not as exaggerated as before. I had a bit of fun with the character model. She was a lot more brave as well, I can't even remember her whining once. Still completely useless in battle though. Like, give her a gun so she can defend herself a bit.

If they release the Ada DLC for free I'll definitely play it, otherwise I'll wait for a discount.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Kanon

Still completely useless in battle though. Like, give her a gun so she can defend herself a bit.

To be fair, with how scarce ammo apparently is, would you really want her wasting shots?

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by GDB

To be fair, with how scarce ammo apparently is, would you really want her wasting shots?

Considering I must have killed like a thousand Ganados during my playthrough, I'm not sure it can be considered scarce

[GDB]

You yourself said you ran out or almost ran out of bullets at least once.

[MeoTwister5]

Well I'm at the end of NG+ Professional run and I'm running out of ammo!

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by GDB

You yourself said you ran out or almost ran out of bullets at least once.

I found a ton of them in the next chapter. In normal mode the game always throws ammo at you whenever you need them, I have never once completely ran out. It would have been nice if they had found a way to make it more natural. I don't think people use big barrels to keep one small box of five bullets.

I've been trying to think about why I didn't enjoy the game as much as I thought and I found two reasons:

1. This is the very first remake of a game I've already played that I bought full price. I always buy them heavily discounted (20€ for both RE2R and RE3R) so my expectations usually aren't too high.
2. The Last of Us happened since then. It completely removed the annoying aspect of escort missions. I know protecting Ashley is a big part of RE4, but they completely removed QTEs which were also a big part of it because it was a dated mechanics. Perhaps they should have done the same here.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really great game. It just didn't really click with me the way the original did.

[Sides]

Personally one thing I didn't not like with the RE4R release, as a matter of fact all the RE Remkes, is the drip-feeding of bonus games, that should have been part of the retail release.
I remember when I played RE4 back on the cube. What did I do after finishing the main story?- I played ada's bonus game and of course mercenaries. What did I do when finishing RE4R?- played another game until mercenaries dlc that was released this morning...but only 4 characters and 3 stages!?!

[thor23]

The past game was very good. But i will check this.

[MeoTwister5]

Separate Ways coming out next week LOL Capcom what's this low key guerilla announcement?

[Kanon]

YouTube

https://youtu.be/nHCK6Cbn3UM

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Looks like cut content from the main game will be in this. It looks really good, love that you can use Ada's grapple in battle. It's 10 bucks so I think I'll get it, especially since I never played the original (only ever played the Gamecube version of RE4)

[Kanon]

Finished Separate Ways in around 5 hours. This DLC did a really great job complementing the main story. I even had more fun than in the main game, the pace was pretty on point. It's also rather important story wise, since it explains how Resident Evil 5 will happen despite the ending of RE4R being changed.
If you have 10 bucks to spare and like RE4R, I highly recommend it.

I feel like we need another DLC now to tell us

Spoiler for Separate Ways:

What Wesker was even doing on the field. Why rely on Ada so much when he could easily do the job himself? He even had to save her ass. What was he doing the rest of the time, taking in the sights or eating chorizo with the villagers?

I hadn't played the Mercernaries mode before but I wanted to see how the newly added Wesker plays. He did not disappoint, he is a fucking BEAST. Far more so than in RE5's Mercenaries, he is actually lore accurate here (though not as durable as he should be obviously).