The Like/Hate Thread

[Piper Juunanagou]

The originals were fantastic pieces of survival horror. You were thrown into a terrible situation. There wasn't endless boxes of shotgun shells/machine guns/rocket launchers lying around nor was there some creepy guy in a robe with access to some Spanish black market.

The controls and the fixed camera angles were fantastic elements of the original games. They made it feel more atmospheric and cinematic. I still think those work, just look at Amnesia. I have my problems with that game, but it truly was a piece of survival horror.

I liked RE4 for what it was: A nice breath of fresh air. I wasn't a fan of the departures from the normal, and I flipped shit when RE5 came out and took that all to the hyper extreme (srsly, look at Chris Redfield's muscles in the original game and the fifth game...jesus). The sixth game, which I remember Capcom teasing about being a reboot or a throw-back, looks like that to an even more retarded extreme. On top of that, they ruined the storyline. I got into that canon a lot when I was younger, so the stupid, stupid new elements (y'know, tentacle mind-raping monsters, zombification flowers, etc) also add to my repulsion.

I'm okay with being the only one to have my opinions. I thought Dead Space was a shitty survival horror game (better than RE5, but still not want I want in the genre).

I heard they are rebrandng the series as 'dramatic horror.' Fuck you, Capcom.