Thank you for articulating this. I wanted to point out the hypocrisy of him wielding a MGS avatar and championing MGS4 as some masterpiece when he accuses anyone who likes RE6 of "just being a fan." Fuck no, if anything, long-time RE fans are the ones least able to come to grips with the radical changes here. (And I personally think RE1-CV sucked from a controls standpoint.)
Exactly. Basically, the people who hate RE6 are telling people who like RE6 that they don't really like RE6. Sorry, but that's not their call to make.
Pretty much. I'm loving the game but it's very clear to me why a lot of others don't care for it.
- Calibrate your TV
You miss his point: The critics praised MGS4, but nowadays at GAF it's pretty much seen as shit. In other words: Make up your own goddamn mind. Stop caring what others think. Why does it bother you that people -enjoy- RE6? You don't see them trying to convince those who dislike it to feel otherwise. They just explain why they like it. So why sling nonsense like "You only like it because you're a fan?" What? Fuck no. In fact, the long-time fans are probably the ones most alienated, if anything.
Um, RE6's controls having deep mechanics is irrefutable fact -- there's nothing subjective about the presence of them. You can list all the tactical options at your disposal and it's there.
The fan bit wasn't directed at you. I was speaking to this "debate" in general. The bottom line is: the people who like it, genuinely like it. Those who don't, don't, though I hope they actually -played- the game and gave it some time to make that determination. And I have repeatedly said I don't care if people don't like the game -- I just don't like them challenging the "authenticity" of the people who do.
And yet I find myself having to defend MGS4 in every LTTP on it (yes, I actually like the game). MGS4 is unquestionably a polarizing game, very much a confused one mechanically and bloated and self-indulgent, yet like RE6, I like it regardless.
And it does have tank controls with a different camera perspective.
They offered a LOT of additional freedom to the player in terms of navigation but, most importantly, it was the quality of the enemies and the way they reacted to your attacks that made the most difference.
A quality that is sorely missing in RE6.
Well, that and the camera no longer being abysmal.
excuse me?
Reaction of enemies to your attacks is very watered down compared to previous games. The quality of that aspect of the game is just not there making the combat just less entertaining.
It's still there but it's definitely not handled anywhere near as well as RE4.
Maybe the bosses and some of the mutations are bullet-spongy, but the humanoid enemies give feedback. They shudder and stagger and trip when shot, you can flinch them with dazing headshots for over-the-top melees, and they dramatically disintegrate (or melt: see zombies) when killed, sometimes before even fully collapsing to the ground.
