Now, please don't get me wrong. RE is still a great series (sometimes). But over the last decade, there's only been a few decent games, in my opinion.
The RE2 remake is overrated dog shit.
RE3 is just that. Dog shit!
RE4 is vastly overrated, and NOT scary, but still great to play.
RE5 is actually better than 4, YET no-one likes it.
RE6 has a more RE like plot, but nobody cares.
RE7 is a good game, but Ethan is so boring.
RE8 = dumb, and Capcom lied by saying RE7 was "too scary!"
Can we just act like 95% of the movies and side story games don't count?
And Bethesda gives you a choice of camera perspectives.
And no. I hate new RE games for a genuine reason. It's not because the games don't have fixed camera angles any longer, or zombies, or any of the other things people like to pick on people over. It's because Capcom has hired all of these developers to replace the old ones, and they read Wikipedia to get the jist of what Capcom wants them to do for their products. They also keep going back to 1998, when it's time to let go of Raccoon City, and go elsewhere.
RE4 and RE8 are NOT even scary horror games. The Evil Within 2 is 1000 times more scary than RE8, with that tall tart, Lady Dimitrescu, and that fatty, lard-ass merchant, Duke. The whole of that game is just dumb. Like, come on.
A living puppet. A guy turning into a Transformer. A baby in a house.
VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES!?
Uh!
Oh, and I hate merchants being in horror games anyway, as these games are not creepy at all, and have a tendency to be boring, shooter-ish, and linear. And besides, I even think games like Days Gone does it better, as those people trading with you, do it in small camps to earn a living, and so that they have a roof over their heads away from the Freakers, and bad people, like the Rippers. Duke is just a greedy guts. It also makes zero sense that both himself and that other vendor may cart their goods around, undetected. LOL!
And okay, yeah. The Evil Within games have a shopping format too, where you use gel like it's currency. But at least they are scarier games, take longer to play through, and feel sort of like Konami's Silent Hill series, which is definitely a bonus plus, because they still in fact play like RE4, etc, which gained a reputation as wrecking the formula of horror gaming.
And where's the creepy music in these games today, huh? You know? RE1, 2, 3, 0, CV and several other RE games all had eerie sounds, and low level music, that really set the atmospheric tone. The games now are so quiet, your farts are probably gonna be more frightening. And bullets fall out of dead monsters. Eh!?
That's... just not survival horror gaming how I grew up playing it in the late 90s, and of course, the first half of the noughties. Back then, you only occasionally received help from a side character, with no vendors around.
All of these bad RE spin off games and half-assed remakes suck so much. Meanwhile, Bethesda's series goes a little unappreciated. It's like, "Oh, screw Shinji's game for him leaving Capcom!"
Hell. The Last of Us II has more meat on the bone, and a compelling story to match, and things you shoot at aren't bullet sponges either. New RE games are too lacking in replay value, and what little story they have, has forced in plot twists, and Chris is so stupid currently. They're just so, one and ya are now done nowadays...