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Resident Evil 5 launched 15 years ago today - and it continues to stand as a stepping stone from the good to the bad.
One of my favourites because of the co-op. Then Resi 6 arrived and the series nosedived further.
I enjoyed the game co-oping with a friend I know the game in solo the AI can be an idiot but RE5 is way better then RE6. I played RE6 with a friend if it wasn't cheap when I got I would have avoided RE6.
5 was excellent, still play Mercs with my brother.
I would love a fully remastered RE:5, with some added, reworked content. The DLC for 5 was also excellent.
6 was awful.
I never understood why the game was misunderstood. It was a fantastic game at launch and is still fun today to play. It’s as action packed as Resident Evil 4 was, yet that’s regarded a masterpiece 🤷♂️
it was "misunderstood" because they introduced co-op into the franchise at a time when people loved to have fake rage about co-op. like, you could play the game as a solo experience, but people chose to have their bandwagon rage because it was cool at the time lol
What the hell are you talking about? Fake Rage? Bandwagon? Come on.
You can play it solo but you are forced to carry around a shitty AI partner you have to micro manage. It wasn't as fun solo.
Co-op sucked all the horror, tension and suspense from the game because having a partner covering you was like a safety net. Enemy trying to sneak up on you? No sweat the AI will just automatically lock on, alert you while they shoot first telling you where they are basically.
It was the start of Capcoms fall with the Resident Evil series where it basically become an over the top generic action game which betrayed it's own survival horror roots. Least RE4 had a good blend of both but Capcom just went the wrong way with RE5, especially going off what they were going to do during the RE4.5 beta phase before co-op was added.
At least the game was a ton of fun tho. If the game was bad, the outrage would’ve been justified. They simply pivoted for a couple of games. At this point it’s bad because it’s called Resident evil 5? But if was called something else it would’ve been good? Please.
like i said: fake baby rage and bandwagon hate. res4 wasn't really that scary, either, and was already taking the series into more of an action-oriented direction at the time. 5 was a good game that people fake-hated because of co-op that you didn't even have to play lol hence the fake rage and bandwagon hate. i mean, it obviously did well enough for capcom to go ahead and make 6 the way they did, right? if 5 was so bad, they would have changed what 6 was during development. the difference is that 6 was actually just bad.
people "hate" 5 because res4 was so good, and 5 was just unfortunate enough to be its successor. like i said, 4 wasn't scary, either, and relied more on tension than horror, but it was already more of an action game. if you don't wanna like 5 because it's not scary or whatever- that's fine, but it wasn't meant to be strictly a horror game anymore at that point anyways. the gameplay was a lot faster-paced than 4, so saying that the ai helping you by potentially shooting someone that was sneaking up behind you is a moot point. there were more enemies that were more aggressive, along with newer threats.
5 isn't as good as 4, but it's not a bad game by any stretch.
What? I always thought RE5 had fake controversy because it was set in South Africa and you shot a bunch of black zombies. I live in South Africa and thought the game was absolutely awesome, played the whole thing co-op with my brother.
@Foxtrot I think you're confusing the garbage Dead Space 3 with Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 was already a hyper action game and had zero fear factor other than the grotesque appearance of some enemies.
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Resident Evil 6 was awful!
I still play RE5 Mercenary mode with my brother.
5 merc mode is so damn fun and challenging..we been got SS on all maps but we still go for the 150 combo. RE:Revelation tried to add some stuff to the mode but felt to much like a indie game..not as solid as 5.
I wish they would bring multiplayer Merc back, Single player Merc mode is nowhere near as fun.
Lol. I don't get the sales, Resident Evil 5 was literally the game which started the change within Resident Evil to action.
People always bitch about Resident Evil 4 but forgetting that it blended action and horror pretty well, a game where the small criticism of needing a little bit more horror could have easily been applied in Resident Evil 5 but they just ignored that and did the opposite. Pretty much ramping up the things we didn't like about Resident Evil 4 while the things people did like they changed, such as having the overall structure become little missions rather than a on going flow you just progressed to in the next area, something you could back track or having the merchant at the end of the level once you've completed it rather than within the actual level for you to find.
Then they added co-op which was just a stupid decision, yeah sure it's great for two friends playing a co-op game but it was a shit Resident Evil game for it and especially a horror game. It totally sucks the fear out of the game when your forced AI partner locks on, shoots and yells at something just as it enters the screen, so by then you are alerted and know where they are.
If they just stuck with their original ideas before co-op and did the things they cut you can read about in the Resident Evil 4.5 articles, it would have been a fantastic Resident Evil game.
Oh and the real slap to the face was having this be Weskers final game but developing the final act against him with Chris and Sheva, no Jill, no Barry, no Rebecca but Sheva, a character with no development with him. It should have been a STARS focused game.
To be fair, the thought of keeping Sheva alive and still needing to give her ammo for her to protect herself but praying for her to not waste ammo, still gives me nightmares. That's one kind of horror, I guess.
Theirs a few good exceptions, some are better for MP and others better for their experience. Resident Evil: Outbreak, RE5, RE6, RE7:Biohazard, RE8:Village Which is very good. Many others like the Remakes are good. But I was just mentioning unique and Story progressive ones which changes up the Gameplay.