Resident Evil: Horror or Action?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Do you like Resident Evil as a horror franchise or an action franchise?

I think RE4 got it perfect.. it was scary because you were overwhelmed with enemies, and the artwork done on the atmosphere was nothing short of amazing, so you really got involved in the games world and the game engine (despite it being action-y) made it so you can deal with all of them

5 just.. meh.. I loved having RE4 controls and co-op.. and there were certain enemy types that were really nice and terrifying.. (my personal choice, being the big majini with the metal totem mask and the huge spiked mace).. however.. alot of what I feel to be the scaryness had been watered down.. they still did a great job, dont get me wrong.. I think the swamp was amazingly creepy.. but there coulda been more enemies

I think enemies like the regenerator were what I was looking for more of in 5.. something interesting and really difficult to kill

I'm glad they are going to start from a fresh story arc though.. I dont expect the creepy / horror of silent hill from them.. but.. I kinda want back the moments, like in the first game where the friggin shark tank blows up and floods the room.. I dont think I ever backed out of a room and contemplated going back inside before that moment XD

What I love most about Resident Evil is the fact that this whole thing essentially stems from the sinister, diabolical and immoral aspirations of what was just a regular pharmaceutical company.

Regardless of whether it's man-made or created, Umbrella have somehow found a way to do just about the worst things with it.

The enemies, while scary, were never what scared me the most. The very fact that those things existed as a result of people saying "Let's test this virus." or whatever, is what's f*cked.

To a lesser degree, it actually goes on. As a friend pointed out; any time you go through the toiletries aisle in a store, just remember how most of those substances were tested on (And probably harmed or killed) live beings in a lab somewhere. It has a very real element to it.

Silent Hill has that unexplainable, impossible kind of horror that works very well. Resident Evil is very much a style of horror that while impossible, isn't as crudely impossible as some other things. Ok, we're never gonna get zombies, but it's not impossible for living beings to become horribly mutated by testing. You know when you play the game that it's impossible, but it's just real enough of a source (A biological corporation doing tests) that you have that thought in the back of your mind like "What if...?".

I don't sit there thinking "Shit, what if Silent Hill is happening right now.". Silent Hill scares while the game is on, Resident Evil gives me thoughts that I find truly sinister even when I'm not playing.

That's the horror that Resident Evil brings to the table, and does a fine job of it, in my opinion.

-AC

That's a why in looking at it.

I just got freaked out when getting surrounded in RE4.

Resident Evil's storyline could be scary if the dialogue weren't so cheesy.

Good to see that the horror is coming back in the Darkside Chronicles.

It didn't ever leave, for one. Not sure why that's still being discussed.

Two, I find it funny that you cite 4 and 5 as not horror because they lack the ability to scare you. Yet, you'll gladly cite a rail shooter as scary (Implied, as you called it a horror and to you a horror is a scary game, although you're wrong).

-AC

I know 4 was horror.. but I dont really see how 5 was anything more than a sci-fi / action-thriller

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
I know 4 was horror.. but I dont really see how 5 was anything more than a sci-fi / action-thriller

Indeed. Resident Evil 4 gives a few scares while RE5's "scares" are laughable. Honestly I don't think enemies in bright day light can give you that much of a fright 😬

That's bullshit.

It doesn't have to be dark to scare somebody.

Indeed, the thing that kept RE5 from being as scary as the others isn't that it was bright - I actually thought that the scenes in the beginning of the game, when it was bright, were the scariest in the entire game - but it's that it ended up playing more like a clunky version of Gears of War than a RE game.

Originally posted by Smasandian
That's bullshit.

It doesn't have to be dark to scare somebody.

Think what you will but to me, darkness > daylight.

To me, the day light makes enemies look less scary.

Originally posted by BackFire
Indeed, the thing that kept RE5 from being as scary as the others isn't that it was bright - I actually thought that the scenes in the beginning of the game, when it was bright, were the scariest in the entire game - but it's that it ended up playing more like a clunky version of Gears of War than a RE game.

I've only played half way through so I can't really comment about RE5 but RE4 was scary for me.

RE 5, in my honest opinion, was not the least bit scary.

Action packed? Oh, Hell, yes.

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Indeed. Resident Evil 4 gives a few scares while RE5's "scares" are laughable. Honestly I don't think enemies in bright day light can give you that much of a fright 😬

Are you a legit retard?

Why have I got to explain this to you again? Horror doesn't need you to find it scary to BE horror.

-AC

Originally posted by §P0oONY
Resident Evil's storyline could be scary if the dialogue weren't so cheesy.

Maybe thats the whole point.....

they are heavily influenced by George A. Romero's Dead films and they are'nt exactly A grade films.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Are you a legit retard?

Why have I got to explain this to you again? Horror doesn't need you to find it scary to BE horror.

-AC

Are you a jackass that easily gets pissy at people that don't look at things the same way you do?

You don't have to explain crap because if I don't think RE5 is scary, I don't think it's scary so stop acting like someone pissed in your cheerios and start letting people think what they want to think.

But its still a horror game regardless.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Are you a legit retard?

Why have I got to explain this to you again? Horror doesn't need you to find it scary to BE horror.

-AC

Yeah, Nemesis X, stop with the flaming also.

(Wasn't just me, by the way)

Originally posted by Nemesis X
Are you a jackass that easily gets pissy at people that don't look at things the same way you do?

You don't have to explain crap because if I don't think RE5 is scary, I don't think it's scary so stop acting like someone pissed in your cheerios and start letting people think what they want to think.

It's not a matter of subjectivity.

I'm not saying you can't find it unscary, I'm saying that by fact, this does not mean it's no longer a horror game in part or at all. It factually is, in just about every definition of the word.

This doesn't require your agreement, so to ignore it is the word I previously used to describe you, which though accurate, is deemed as flaming.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yeah, Nemesis X, stop with the flaming also.

(Wasn't just me, by the way)

It's not a matter of subjectivity.

You're the one who started the stupid flaming in the first place just because I don't think RE5 is scary.