>>11856789 (OP)I only care about RE2 and RE3.
The rest are vary. RE1 PS1 sure is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me. The rest are from passable to downright bad games IMO.
>>11856812From that trilogy, only 4 has any worth of discussion, even though I hate it and cringe to it.
>>11857260I'll bite, Yes the franchise was stagnant and SH1 made a massive blow on the genre that they didn't find the way to approach the franchise to keep it fresh. With their desperation goes as far as CV even borrowing stuff from games like Parasite Eve or even the Clock Tower games.
I can't in the right mind, accept that RE4 schlock while humorous, fun and action packed Austin Powers meets Resident Evil slop became the identity of the franchise onwards. At the time of release it carried the burden of the lore and the experience of the previous games. And this made an impact on how the people that followed this games closely perceived RE4 on time of release. You talk about revisionism? People never talk about the schism that RE4 made in the audience of these games in the time of release. Because people talk about "new direction" was in essence an entire different franchise that slapped the on the brand on it's name.
>>11857274I enjoyed RE2R with the classic music, it made me at least use my nostalgia and imagination for a moment putting a spell on me attempting to look it past it's flaws, but I hated how it stripped out the soul of the original through character assassination and all the remakes did is, Nuking the B Scenario from Orbit didn't helped either in RE2R. The only recent RE game that I genuinely enjoyed 100% was Village, it wore it's heart on the sleeve at least compared to the rest of the games since RE4.