Resident Evil 4 Remake: Going To War With Fan Hype And Coming Out On Top

The original trilogy is the stuff of legends. Code Veronica X was alright. The rest of the series blows and has been ruined with the exception of the remakes. The story of 4 is still stupid as hell tho

This was an incredibly well-made video and analysis, but for me, the issue comes down to a very specific viewpoint I have:

The Horror genre needs to be serious in tone to be effective and the action genre needs to be much less serious in tone to be effective.

RE4 worked because it stopped being about horror and more about action, thus its goofy tone held it firmly together.

While the original RE games were laughable in voice acting, the tone generally was still in the horror genre.

The remakes of 1, 2 and 3 were still pretty strongly in horror and the more serious tone helped that immensely.

Now RE4 remake takes itself SO seriously in tone, it’s at odds with so much of the ridiculousness of the action genre. I think everyone did an amazing job in the RE4remake top to bottom, but the game isn’t a horror game, it’s action and thus it’s tone makes it feel off when everyone’s treating it so straight faced, at least when I’m behind the wheel playing it.

Hey avalanche, are you going to review the separate ways dlc anytime soon?

I swear im the only one that liked Ada in this game

I just miss shooting the sparkles to uncover gems. They could’ve left some in with the hanging lanterns

I like the original re 4 better than the remake

I know I’m going to be in the vast minority when I say that, but I was not a fan of the knife breaking mechanic. I felt like it made some encounters and tasks a little tedious because I would need to do one simple thing, but needed to go find a knife because I didn’t have one at the time and hadn’t repaired mine yet.

Hey, new to your channel and love your content. Feedback that you may or may not care about. You sounded a lot more energetic in your earlier videos and a much more listenable voice. The later videos you get very monotone and drone and sound a bit unenthusiastic and lazy. Also did you develop a lisp of some kind? But that’s just subjective I get it. Overall best resident evil retrospective channel I’ve found 👍🏻

So much better than the original

I stopped watching this when you said that the new voice actors were just as good as the old ones it is objective fact that most of these voice actors have little to no experience in the voice acting industry because of Capcom's refusal to hire union voice actors this is an objective fact that you cannot argue with you can look up their imbbs to see their very inexperienced and it really shines through with how poor most of their performance is this is something where you are literally unable to argue for it yet you do it anyway which shows me you put very little care or research into this video

Devil May Cry 5 is still my favorite game using the RE Engine. It just looks so good.

I do hope they push the engine even further sometime soon, but it seems like Dragons Dogma is killing that engine currently

Re4 was one year ago

I had a lot of texture issues in re4r on Xbox series s. Just turning around in a circle you would see the resolution clip in and out. I would’ve been happier if everything was just locked at the lower res setting

A little detail , Salazar isn't a south american family name, not a spanish one, because of this while in the original they always call him Salazar, here they call him Ramón all of the time so that his family name is in a second plane

I want an album of that outro music? What was that?

I’m gonna be a little harsh, but fixating on graphics and little blemishes seems…..pointless. Some of the most fun I’ve had in gaming was with old or retro style games with blocky graphics. I don’t much see the point in staring at the walls or ground and getting upset about a few blemishes that are pretty easy to look over. Idk if it’s because I couldn’t afford a high end PC until recently and had to make do with potato pc for years, I just feel so grateful that I can play gorgeous games now and I feel like gamers who’ve had a high end PC for a long time can sound pretty spoiled and bratty about visuals.

you are not knitpicking i saw the low textures in the ps4 a lot, then when i bought the ps5 everything looked brilliant in the game, you could argue that some features look better on the 5 console 100%

Surprisingly balanced review

My first time through RE4R took me over 20 hours. I was going through slow and taking my time to enjoy the surroundings and also making comparisons with the old games and see what was the same and what was different. It had been out for almost a full year before I got it, because I didn’t get an Xbox series X or S until last Christmas (2023).

Re2R Ada wasn't rehired because Capcom doesn't hire union actors, so it's on Capcom nobody else

Should RE4 get a movie adaptation...how about Johnny Depp for Luis?

Just my opinion but Ada’s voice actor fits the tone of the story she’s on a job and has no one to impress this isn’t re2

Resident Evil 2 is the dark souls 1 of the RE franchise . The original game and the remake.

If you ever actually played any role in creating video assets you’d know that the process is extremely time consuming. Reducing the quality of insignificant visual assets not only saves on performance requirements but also allows devs to focus on more important game mechanics. I dig your videos but you are be very picky when it comes to criticizing some low resolution textures on background assets that are also in a dark area lol

I recently got into RE via the remake of 2, which I loved, and then I played 3 and 7. When I started on the 4 remake (I’ve never played the original), I was assuming that the story would reveal Umbrella’s involvement in what was happening in Spain and it would tie it in with the Racoon city saga nicely…but nope, just a random aristocrat dude with some parasites in the basement, totally unrelated. I can see why fans would have been pissed off with the story at the time. At least with the remake it sounds like they tried to make it slightly more cohesive with Luis’ backstory.

Ashley still has big boobs.

Regarding the low resolution assets, apparently it has to do with some strange choices in the texture streaming.. and as confounding is it might seem, setting up your settings, as well as getting the optimal PC visuals is not as straightforward as it seems.. digital foundry did a great PC optimized settings video that sadly still holds up on account that they've never fixed it.. But you can mitigate the worst of it, and it's similar issues that the dead space remake had as well... In fact.. I think I had more problems with the dead space remake out of the box, but that might have been because I was able to solve most of them with the demo and just drag and drop them into the main game.

This required the DLAA injection along with the framework of course for that FOV fix to mitigate the zumi zooms of consolidus present.. and I highly recommend the spotlight mod for monster Hunter, which allows you to fix the tone mapping adjustments that go on in the first half of the game, and conveniently like many RE mods just plugs straight in regardless of which game you're playing.

But they did a pretty good analysis of of that very issue with the weird texture streaming, sadly, like the Dead space remake, no fixes were ever going to happen apparently.. fortunately.. getting this game to look okay and consistently functional isn't too big a deal thanks to the long legacy of RE engine modding that seems to drag and drop with each title or carry over with very little adjustments :-) God bless em' right?

One of the reasons why when people say or complain about PC titles being broken, my response is.. at least you can fix them usually or at least you have the option or possibility at times.... In addition to being able to get rid of nonsense like chromatic aberration and depth of field effects, fix the contrast and the color.. you know I would say all of the things but it's not even scratching the surface in most cases, but reshade does a lot of heavy lifting that usually is something you can count on.

Fortunately with RE titles you get a little bit more, and fortunately with this particular title you get a little bit more and more... And I wish the other RE engine games had had some of the features in modding editions that this one has.. part of it's because it's easier to manipulate things that are in the game already, which they weren't in the previous, and the other part of it is people wanted those things in this particular title... If you ever want some serious sadness about what people want.. look at the mods for RE7 and 8 lol.. satisfaction with that sadness that is those two titles blows my mind.. especially when those games have functional VR mods and ports that could solve a lot of those issues already if people cared.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't get all the RE4 hype.
It's a repetitive game with good moments. It's not scary. It's highly assisted. It has COMPLETELY random moments in the cheesy story that make no sense. Don't get me wrong it's still a good game. But it's nowhere near as good as the racoon city games. I even prefer RE3 remake to RE4 even though its about half as long.

Unpopular Opinion: Resident Evil 4 Remake is More OVERRATED than the Original.

As I'm playing 4 and 4R back-to-back I've gained a massive understanding of why 4 and later entires went in the direction they did, and that's Hideki Kamiya and Tony Redgrave, a.k.a our favorite Dante. I think that Shiji Mikami liked Devil May Cry as an idea so much that it ended up rubbing off all the action on to 4. As for 5 and 6 I could chalk that up to the fact that DMCs 2 3 and 4 fired better and better action into the mix and then dropped off so RE ended up picking up the slack. It wasn't until DMC5 absolutely killed it for action popularity in 2019 that Resident Evil could breathe again and go back to horror. Like it or not, those two series are joined at the hip and the well-being of one is the same for the other

So in regards to ammo. The original RE4 as far as I know was one of the first games to have a “director”. It would adjust how aggressive the enemies were and the drops you would get bases on how well you are playing and what you need.

As someone who is really bad at video games to a player who is bad, I die 23 times on the easy mode, so any playerlike me it fun but hard at some parts, and for players who are really good and think the game is too easy there a mod that make it so much harder

Drinking game: Every time you hear 'the original' (or) 'the remake' y ou take a shot of Gold Strike.
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I grew up playing the original re4 and never understood why someone would be opposed to a remake. There’s a bunch of kids who will never play these games otherwise. Sure it’s easy $$ but gate keeping games to the past is a bit counterproductive when older games complain about live service everywhere

The only thing I hate about RE4 remake is Mike’s voice. Mike being a super understated New York guy is what made him a charming personality. Hyperactive cowboy Mike kind of sucks. It put me in a bad mood.

I can’t believe I didn’t get this on release, I really don’t think this would be as incredible as it was.

I didn't play the original until 2021 so I don't have the nostalgia blinders on. RE4 '05 is a great but flawed game, and RE4R is a great game. The pacing, exploration, and compat are massively improved over the original. The only problem I have is how bosses always transform off screen but that's just a minor nitpick.

The race swap of Ingrid Hunnigan is reason enough not to buy this

Blacktail > Red 9 ;)

Action is survival horror.

Bro please pin this so people know or share it because i dont see anyone talking about it. For anyone who doesn't have all the RE's and has ps4 or ps5, right now there is an amazing sale on the PS store. I paid 70 for the RE4 remake and i paid only 65 dollars for every single other resident evil in the store!!! Huge sale!!! There is 60 percent off some of them. Even the 20 dollar ones are only 4.99 rn!!!