Resident Evil 4 remake is woke trash

Modders will fix this

I also am primarily a console gamer. But you realize you can still get the game on PC right? It’s called piracy. Yep, I said it. I bought Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes on console, but I also pirated them so I could mod them and enjoy some “fun” versions of Jill and Claire…if you know what I mean. :) Nexus Mods ftw.

I say forget everything about the “woke” part of it and focus on the changes they appear to be making that will undoubtedly affect the game negatively on release: The appearances of Capcom trying to make the game fall more in line with the “gritty realism” they tried shoehorning into both Resi2 and Resi3 remakes.

Not for nothing, but, Resident Evil has always been at it’s best when it indulges in the camp and inherent goofiness the plot presents, and still asks you to take the story seriously enough to get you invested. The emphasis on the horror aspects in the classics–however limited they were. I mean… The most unnerving thing about the games were some of the more outlandish creatures. Zombies were just mostly in large numbers, not anything unusual.

Resident Evil 4 strayed from the horror aspects of the classics that mostly revolved around strategically placed–and, dare I say, truly cinematic–camera angles and instead lopped the camera off its perch and placed it lovingly on a stop sign, and proceeded to jam it up Leon’s ass.

This added a different level of horror in the fact that Leon could only look and observe one direction in… Idk, roughly a 100° range, if I’m being generous. That, and, it never quite did away with the limited item supply. Sure, goodies spew forth from Ganados like fleshy pinatas, but, it wasn’t guaranteed, and you still needed to play smart.

I’m willing to bet they’re going to push home the RE2 Remake controls much to the possible detriment of the gameplay, and I’m also willing to bet they won’t bother with adaptive difficulty like the original had.

It’s borderline impossible to catch lightning in a bottle twice, and Capcom has been trying since Resi5 to do that.

Some may say the RE2 Remake was Capcom catching that formula again, and, it’s arguably factual–I don’t believe that to be the case, because much of the fanfare over the game was aimed at the wrong aspects. Whether you like that particular game or not, it was the first real instance that Capcom has no interest in being overly faithful to the source material, and were more than willing to haphazardly finish a game just to bank on nostalgia.

Compare Resi1 Remake to the Original, and then make that same comparison between Resi2 Remake and its original. The Resi1 Remake wasn’t only faithful to what came before, it only really added to the story beats and gameplay elements, it didn’t strip them away.