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How was the first time you played: Resident Evil 4

The first time I played it I enjoyed it a lot but I don't recall finding it OMG ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER material, but it's game where my appreciation of it goes up every time I play it, and as I learn more about game design I realise more of the subtly great design choices in it. It's also one of the few games that actually manages to have interesting unlockables AND helpful items to collect during play, as opposed to one or the other (which makes it one of the few games where I've bothered playing around much with the unlockables). It also makes great use of control limitations to enhance gameplay rather than being held back by them.
 
I don't see how people can praise RE4 so much yet rip into RE6. They are almost identical.

I liked RE4 but it was the start of moving the series away from zombies, tight spaces and just making it an action game. RE6 is more action packed and a better game.

Yeah I said it!
 
Thought it was amazing. It was scary, and overwhelming, and empowering all at the same time. It's a balance that hasn't been struck my RE since. The story ultimately kind of sucks, but I guess that's true of most of RE.
 
I didn't like the controls solely because I don't like analog aiming. As such, it took me forever to get far in the game because I would stop playing it for lengthy periods of time. When the Wii version was announced, I stopped completely. By that point I had reached somewhere around the end of the first disc.

When I bought the Wii version I was finally able to fully enjoy the experience and played through to the end in no time.
 
I bought a Gamecube in 2005 purely to play RE4. For some reason I thought that the entire game would take place within the village in which you start the game. This was probably due to clever box art and non-spoilery previews in magazines.

Suffice to say, I played through the main game at least 4 times and still think it's one of the greatest games ever made. I'm glad I now own a Wii so I can play the definitive version of the game.
 
- aiight, RE4 lets go
- WTF @ these controls... I cant...etc etc...
- WTF. danmit controlz!!!!!
- ohhh, that was cool
- Oh shit oh shit oh shit
- oh that disgusting
- hmmm, nice
- Reload Reload RELOAD!!!!!
- Holy SHIT!!!!
- Crap Crap CRAP!!
- ..coo
- Nice
- Hold That Bullet U ugly FUCK!!
- This Game is GREAT
- Move Asley MOVE!!!!
- WTF is this shit!!
- ewww
-- Why can You Die U creepy Fuck!!?!
- Wooooow
- Holy SHIT!!!
- FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
- GOAT!!!
 
I gave it a try but I couldnt get past the fact they did away with regular zombies. But I will give it another try some time soon. :3
 
The first time I played dr. Salvador beheaded me. So I stopped playing for like 2 months because it freaked me out. After I went back to it I was enamored. Even though the last boss was weak, the game is probably in my top 5 ( maybe even three) of all time.

Also the regenerators scared me to death. Really the first encounter with everything scared and freaked me out.
 
Wow. Great topic! Easily my number 1 game of all time...

I remember reading previews about the game online and hearing extraordinary word of mouth. It was finally released in the USA so (being an Aussie) I imported the game for the cube along with a freeloader to play it.

After a week waiting for the game it finally arrived. I was 25 at the time and my younger brother was 21. We both were so pumped to play it. So excited. The 1st time a villager approached Leon we couldn't believe how amazing it seemed. We were in awe so much that I died straight away! After much composure I played it properly with my brother watching all the way through. It was incredible.
Stand out area for me being the castle area, and especially that massive room starting with you and el presidente's daughter being flanked by the monks, with the 2 guys shooting arrows at you above, and culminating in you lifting her above to rotate the cranks whilst defending her and yourself! Talk about a tense area. It's my favorite area of any game I've played! Why they haven't made a PROPER sequel to this game is beyond me. It was just perfect.
 
XxSlasherMcGirkxX said:
I thought the game was very fun but I hated the direction it took the franchise and the bastardazation of Leon's character.
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He's fine in the original Japanese script. The localization/voice direction changed quite a few things, made the plot more confusing and added quite a bit of anti-American rhetoric. On top of all the usual amateur mistranslations the series is accustomed to.
 
Mixed feelings for me. There were some good elements for sure, but you could sense the series moving away from survival horror. Me being a survival horror fan, I wasn't happy to see one of the most prominent franchises in the genre moving away from it, but the game obviously still worked great as an action title. I've warmed up to it over time.
 
Absolutely mindblowing. I wasn't too interested in the game until I watched GameSpot's video review of the game. After that I ran down to my local gameshop and grabbed it day one. I absolutely tore through that game within a three day period, maybe four. There were times I had to pause the game and mark the fuck out over some of the moments in the game. RE4 is one of the few games where the devs could of charged $200 and I still would of felt like I owed the developers money. I haven't felt like that since.

Edit: Ha I had no idea I already posted in this thread.
 
I had just bought a surround sound system with my hard earned high school job cash. Lovin the game until I got to the maze at around 2 am. Dog. My first ever nope.jpg in a game. Wonderful time.
 
I will never stop talking about RE4. It is, in my opinion, the greatest game ever. I hate saying that for anything really, but it really just is for me.

I actually started with the GC version, my cousin had it, and I was playing it at his house. I didn't like it at the beginning (I didn't get to the chainsaw part), the controls were just so foreign to me at the time. I didn't understand the love for the game. So I didn't play it until the Wii version came out. And that was it, once I got to the chainsaw part at the beginning, I got it. I now understood why this game is so amazing. The Wii controls helped so much, it eased me into it.

There really isn't anything left to say that hasn't already been said, but I personally feel it is the only game that I can say is perfect. And that is very much subjective, but I have played it at least 15 times, and I can't recall a single second that I didn't like. It's just scary how good it is really.
 
I hated it. I honestly do not understand the love for RE4 at all. I found it slow, clumsy and awkward. I got to a point about half an hour in where some guys start throwing explosives at you. Something exploded at my feet without giving me a chance to react, and I died. I didn't bother carrying on.

Just for clarification, I played the Wii version - would that affect my experience?
 
Was pretty good while you were fighting villagers and things like that. But the moment you started having to fight those monks and be in that castle the game just turned to shit. And at the end where you are fighting guys with machine guns and gatlin guns the game didnt deserve to be named resident evil.

It's not nearly as bad as RE5 and 6, but my love for the RE series pretty much ended with the appearances of las plagas as enemies
 
dcx4610 said:
I don't see how people can praise RE4 so much yet rip into RE6. They are almost identical.
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Mechanically, they're similar; you can play RE6 like RE4, if you wanted.

But for me, one of the things RE6 could've done better was weapon management and balance. Yes, it was nice that everybody had their own basic loadout that only got bigger as you found more guns in RE6. However, there was no incentive to use one over another.

Take, for example, Piers' anti-materiel rifle. He'd never need to use any other sniper rifle because it had better damage output and piercing (shot speed isn't an issue with quick-switch cancelling). RE4 gave you the choice of using the semi-auto rifle for faster shots, or the bolt-action for more power and a sexier reload animation.

Also, I'd also prefer the individual weapon upgrade system to the flat skill system implemented in 6.
 
I remember really liking the build up of tension and suspension towards the end, with one badass boss after another until I reached Saddler and the trivial water scooter sequence.

That's when my opinion about RE4 took a nasty nose dive on the curve.

But hey, nothing's perfect.
 
RE4 release came and went without me giving much of a shit.

Then my friend's little brother was like "The game is really good". and i was like nah. Then some other time, he was like "just borrow it dude," So i borrowed the game and a gamecube controller to play it. I never gave either back. RE4 blew me completely away.

Then Wii Edition came out and I officially had my favorite game of all time.
 
It was fucking amazing.

I don't remember how old I was, but I wasn't old enough to purchase it. My best friend's mom went to gamestop to buy it for me after I gave him the money. He brought it to me the next day. One of the best games I've ever played, and actually completed numerous times. The game was great, and really scary for me. I loved it. Still do.
 
Around the time when Resident Evil 4 came out, I started to have a shorter attention span when playing video games. I found it very difficult to remain seated to play a game for more than an hour. I suppose that's when first-person shooters started becoming popular, and so online gameplay took up most of my time, and I found it very difficult to get offline and devote my time to single player games I would normally love.

I decided to get Resident Evil 4 the same week it came out, ignoring my friends' comments about it being a bad game (they were so wrong). I started it up, and I didn't put it down until I first found the president's daughter (I forgot her name). That took more than five hours for me at the time, and I didn't want to stop. I ended up beating it just two days later, and restarted to do it again that same week.

The game was phenomenal. Despite taking a step away from its original formula as seen in past games, the third person setup was arguably a better approach for this game. It still maintained its spooky atmosphere at times and some scary elements (that monster that chases you down in the basement and blows through the ceiling and has to be frozen to stop its movement; those monsters that require thermal imaging in order to spot their weak points).

I also didn't find any area of the game to be a chore, or too boring to complete. Most other beloved games of mine have a few of those dreaded areas (water temple in Ocarina of Time; swimming with Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2), but I was hard pressed to feel that way about this game. Just when I began to think I was completing a task that was rather boring, the game threw me out of the loop and back into the zone.

And on top of that, the controls for its time were refreshingly fun to use. I really wish I could go back to experience the game for a first-time. It was simply amazing to play.

10/10
 
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