NBrid

I hate this game too, asshole, and I ain't a "noob". I was playing video games when you were crawling around in diapers. I am a true resident evil veteran and that's why I despise this new game. True fans of the genre know this game fails in comparison.

if you pulled your head out of your ass you wouldn't be saying that. Haha looks like you;re the one who got scared as this game is utterly laughable!! Please, this ain't even survival horror it is an action game, children.

1. I did not find the story bad. It could have been fleshed out a bit but that does not make the story bad. what would you rather? 2 hour long cut scenes like in MGS? I like to play my games not watch them. The cut scenes were long enoufe for me to understand the story and the characters more interisting than characters from most RPGs.

2. Hmm, not being able to sidestep is a flaw. The only flaw with this game.

3. Entering the menu to change wepons is alot better than having to press a button to change wepon. Those FPS shoots were you have to keep pressing a button to get out a specifice gun can be extemly anoying when you are geting shot at. With the menu I can change to what ever wepon I want in about 3 seconds. Much better.

4.How is not being able to zoom in on an item in the menu a problem? That is the most pathetic critisom of RE4 I have ever heard.

5. Of course the game has missed opertinites. Every game on the earth has missed opertinites at some point.

Conculsion: Only one of your five arguments have any logic to them. Shut the hell up because you do not know shit!

ugh, xenosaga was killer, more than 7 freakin hours of cut scenes, damnit!

Okay, first of all, you're saying it sucks for all the wrong reasons, they are very minor.
The game doesn't suck, but it isn't Resident Evil.
It's a bastardization of the series, and was a big disappointment to me. If it was called something else, I might have enjoyed it, but since Capcom decided to sell out and turn it into another mindless shooting game, I'm starting to feel uneasy about the future RE games. I played the orinal game when it was first released, I know what made the game great, now we have all these idiots who have never played RE before saying 'I AM THE GOD AT ALL RE GAMES ROFLMAO 1337 H@XX0rZ!!!1".
I played through the game, and was thouroughly disgusted that Capcom tore out everything that made the game what it was, and turned it into Splinter Cell with monsters (shooting games are WAY overrated.). This is a moral complaint, the game is just fine, but Capcom turned RE into another shooter game to make a quick buck. (Just like Halo)
The original point of the RE series was to scare, but I wasn't scared once while playing through RE4, it was truly a disgrace to the series (I usually go through the game without killing things, and just go for the sheer thrill, not the mindless shooting and gore.). So if Capcom is going to take a perfectly good series, and make it just like every other shooter game, many are going to disown the series... I always have Silent Hill, which at this point I have more respect for than RE. At least Konami didn't sell out like a bunch of low-lives.
And if you don't like what I have to say, you can kiss my ass.

Sincerely: Someone with his own opinion, unlike all you conformists.

This is sthe smartest thing I've heard in a while. You speak with the truth.

even tho i sorta agree with you, the didn't sell out. the don't make games because we like the games, they make the games to make money. thats the major flaw of alot of gamers. don't think of game makers as game makers, because they are, firt and formost, buisness men.

i have a few words for you bonestormer you are a dumbass and you deserve to die a very painfull death

right.....

another dumbass that needs to pull his head out of his ass

why don't you go suck leon's dick

So pissed off for the dozenth time that I did a google search for "Resident evil 4 sucks", and, well, I found it didn't I?

Great look, everything well textured and designed, pretty good levels and such, but NO ZOMBIES??? WTF do they think we buy RE for? And scary? F*** NO. "Uh-oh, he's going to kill me. There, I blew his head off." Not scary - unless you're a pussssay!

Resident Evil has it's own self-desciption, for all you non-noobs will remember - "SURVIVAL HORROR." RE4 is NEITHER. It's JAFS... Just Another Fucking Shooter.

Ok, actually that disappointment is minor. The real problem is the Gameplay, it's SHIT.

What Fucking MORON designs a SHOOTER with RE1 controls??? It's 10 times too fucking slow!! If a fucking Farmer runs at you, but runs to one side to avoid your aim, you turn to blast him, but you CAN"T KEEP UP with him?!? It's so fucking STUPID!!

For more Gameplay garbage, try this;
In the castle, after you meet the first blind man, get past the flaming statues and enter the hall with 4 pools and a lot of Monks -
Throw a grenade... the Fucking grenade goes off to the right about 45 degrees and lands in a pool. Why the FUCK do you spawn in the room aimed off to the right?? And no pointer for the grenade? How fucking hard is it to throw something directly in front of you?? Pretty fucking hard, if you're playing RE4.

The controls just suck ass. They're much slower than your reflexes, and for a Shooter, that's Bullshit. Ever turn around and hit a button, but nothing happens - because you didn't wait until you finished turning around? And PS2/3 thumbsticks don't do anything in the first third or the last third of it's movement; there's just a tiny area of analog movement. It may as well be a button. I hope it's better on Gamecube.

And having to wait until the little icon of your button displays on your screen before you can do anything, like jumping off a ledge?? And you have to stand in just the right place too?!?

Why the HELL do you have to wait until RE tells you that you can duck, kick or jump??

......You suck dude...or chick

Im hoping Bone was not serious with that article. Especially not after all the hoopla weve caused around here.

And shame on you Alexandra. Only Code Veronica compares in anyway.

Well me thinks Alexandra caught my sarcasim...

Everything I listed I do think are valid points (especially the points about the story not being flushed out enough), but obviously they don't ruin the game. Far from it. RE4 might be my faorite GC game, just beating out Metroid Prime. That or it's a tie.

Obviously you havn't played the game through. When rating a game, first you pull your head out of your ass, secondly you play the game through, realizing that previous games may have been good, but instead of giving us another generic zombie survival game, Capcom decided to take a risk with an already great genre to make it an awsome one. (Yes I've played EVERY RE game, so don't start telling me I'm some idiotic n00b trying to tell you what's right) So if you're gonna' take a giant peice out of one of the best games of the year, try and LOOK at the screen while playing you jackass. If you're gonna harp on the RE series, harp on Gaiden, the worst of them all.

I am gonna rip out your eyeballs and skullfuck you. You are a piece of shit, and I think you are the dumbest SOB to ever play a video game... EVER.

your a total dickhead resident evil 4 is a sweet game i beat you up nerdy whore

resident evil kicks ass your an fucking duambass im with pyro from dexy

I AGREE

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DONT BE NARKING ON RE4 AND DONT BE SAYING IM A NOOB WHO NEVER PLAYED AN RE GAME BEFORE, YES I HAVE PLAYED EVERY RE GAME EVER MADE IF YOUR GONNA SAY ANYTHING RE RELATED SUCKS THEN TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES!!! FUCK ALL Re HATERS!!

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what the fuck!?!?!?!?! spinning fuckin objects!!!!! thats is THE worst fuckin review i ever fuckin read!!! what the fuck is wrong wit you faggot just stop fuckin playin video games yur a fuckin disgrace to the world you idiot. if i knew who the fuck you were id fuckin rape you 2 death you asshole!!!!!!!!

Right b4 you go all shouting hear me out... Resident evil 4 does suck.. NO umbrella No zombies.. and Presidents daughter omg wtf?
i thought it was a poor storyline it was poorly thought about.. the action game play was totally amazing i give it that fast action but just this once think the RE4 game play style on RE2 or 3 in raccoon city with zombies on a online multi playerr like outbreak.. anyway's i think the RE4 should have went like. the government tried to shut down umbrella and its bio experiments but umbrella refused so the government try's to take it by force army and shit.. when umbrella was nearly killed it just unleashes bio missiles of the G viruses on some city's all over the world then the game starts like EARTH POPULATION 6,000,000,000 - shows you a guy checking up on a girl to she if shes alright then he gets bit then it goes like POPULATION 5,999,999,999 then the digits start to fall faster and faster as mini videos of zombies taking over and crap as the digits fall the earth gets darker and darker RE 4 Global Biohazard or Infection.
i think with that idea they could make an ultimate survival game especially online multi player.

So what if their is no Umbrella or Zombies? And dont call me a noob since i been playing RE since Directors cut and to me 4 is probally my favorite one, So action packed. And you never know what might pop out at you. and that is like the 1st game to have so much detial.. Shooting the torches and the villagers can actually go on fire.. Shooting the TNT makes the explode. Shooting a Sythe or a axe while its flying at you makes it fall, You can evan shoot down the rocks without using the Dynamite. But thats just me. Not everyone likes the same thing and before i post this. CAN EVERYONE STOP USING THE WORD NOOB?!?!?! Its not nice, LoL. nah. Its just very annoying. And i think calling someone a noobie when they suck or first get the game is kind of gay. Specially since that doesnt help them get any better.

I don't care what anyone says: Resident Evil '4' is a travesty because it's detrimental to the series: the developers have blatantly squatted and rubbed their rear against the Resident Evil series by taking an ill-written, un-atmospheric, action packed side game and trying to make it canon and trying to take it seriously.

There's nothing scary about the game at all because all atmospherics are smothered by the action packed incredulousness in the cut-scenes and the gameplay alone. The story can't be taken seriously at all by turning any and all returning characters into childish action packed idiots who fill out more stereotypes than characterizations they did from the games they starred in. And those antagonists?? My god, it's like Capcom took all the things that made Clock Tower '3' so ridiculous and added it to Resident Evil 4!

I can appreciate anyone who admires this game as nothing but a ridiculous, addictive action game, but to actually consider it a scary addition to the series is down right disgusting. Resident Evil 4 is one of the reasons why people these days won't accept any horror media unless it's jam packed so much with action and sex appeal BS and horribly written plots that any and all atmospherics are snuffed out.

What's scary about being surrounded and hounded by incessant human-like enemies? Nothing. It's obnoxious, especially when the camera zooms in on your shoulder and restricts your periphrial vision during combat.

And what else is there? Gore? Excessive gore doesn't make a survival horror game. Though it is getting a bit under-rated to have a gore-less horror game, the blood and gore doesn't make Resident Evil 4 scary as aside from one impalement, the majority of character deaths are minmal and head popping is so abundant its ridiculous: since when can you kick someone's head off?

Ashely puts any and all comic releif characters from any horror game or movie to shame with her sexist design: not only can she not climb down ladders on her own, she can't even protect herself from being picked up and hauled through what appear to be red-bordered portals that come out of nowhere.

And let's not forget how inhuman Leon has become: Not only has Capcom figured he'd become a crabby idiot, but he's somehow figured out how to jump from twenty foot ledges, land on his feet and walk UNHARMED.

Resident Evil 4 is the detriment of Survival Horror gaming.

PS: In case anyone intends on calling me a Noob: I admire all of the Resident Evil games before this mess and obviously disregarding the shooter based side stories (Gun Survivor and Dead Aim). I have the original uncut Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, 3 Nemesis and ,I'll admit as silly as some of it was, Code Veronica (which as far as I'm concerend is where Capcom should've stopped).

the review has several good points. my$0.02: this game borrows the wrong things from other games. example: instead of ripping off codec style communication from MGS, they could have ripped off the MGS quick-change menu system. anything would be better than exiting gameplay entirely just to change weapons. RE4 isn't an action game. God of War is a fucking action game. RE4 is a halfassed sequel targeted towards an existing fanbase. without fanboy support, this game would fail. martian gothic was a better survival horror game, for fuck's sake.

the plot was just as halfassed as the controls. here is the gist of it: the illuminatti...er, "los illuminados" kidnap the presidents daughter so they can use her to spread parasitic hive-minded mind controlling organisms to all three branches of the US government, thus eliminating our system of checks and balances, and then using our mind controlled nation to conquer the world!!!1!!!one!!1!

i can't believe how many ppl are raving about this game being good. i give it a 6/10.

Agreed. RE4 sucks. It is probably the most overrated game ever to be released on this green earth, right next to the Twilight Princess.

It IS one of the most overrated games. There are lots of flaws in it anyway.