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Gun to your head : Which is the better game - Resident Evil 4 or Bloodborne?
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At least BB is consistently great and doesn't shit the bed in its back half like Dark Souls 1, which in itself always came across to me as a poor man's Demon's Souls
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RE4 is pitch perfection. Nothing except for the pacing issues slightly in the end.
I can think of so many flaws for BOTW in comparison - Terrible combat, horrible bosses, mediocre dungeon variety. It does open world level design better than any other game. But that is about it.. I dont think BOTW comes close to RE4's greatness. Not even close imo.
Strongly disagree. Central Yharnam, Cathedral Ward, Old Yharnam... are great. The woods, Yahargul re-visited, the nightmares... are not. Not as bad as the 2nd half of DkS (first BB half is not close to be as good as the first half od DkS either), but not consistent at all. In fact, DkS III and Sekiro are far more consistent in the later areas than BB.
Well I like only one of those so it's pretty easy for me. Resident Evil 4 an infinite amount of times over Bloodborne. So far my favorite Resident Evil until potentially 7 or 2 Remake dethrone it whenever I get around to them
I'd choose BotW over both games put together and I think Resident Evil 4 is one of the highlights from its generation
Bloodborne's OST is quite possibly the best this gen and in my top 3 of all time. BSB's theme is good but there are so many others which just topple it. One of the reason I always look forward to Fromsoft's titles is their OST and this game didn't disappoint.
This theme right here is my favorite and it comes attached with a boss I thought was a throw away until I took a meteor to the face. Oh and if it wasn't clear I choose Bloodborne.
Voted RE4. Never played BB but RE4 is just so good. From an overall gameplay perspective, i think there are a few games that are actually better (Metroid Prime comes to mind) but RE4 is also just a blast to play. Pure fun.
How so?
Bloodborne is just another souls game. Saying there is nothing quite like it, is incredibly hyperbolic. Resident Evil 4 is a genre defining game that is way more important to the "canon" of video games than Bloodborne will ever be.
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None of that matters in discussions on which is the better game to play today. Otherwise all discussions on best game would have probably stopped at Pong or something. Not that I disagree with the choice of RE4. It is my favourite too!
Thing is, exploration and discovery in BotW are almost perfect, so they carry the entire game for me. I prefer a game that offers something really memorable that a game that is trying to be good all-around. And this is what BotW does to me, the perfect adventure of discovery. RE4 works far better on some aspects, but both RE4 and BB are far less ambitious games that offer a far more limited experience (which is ok of course, but means that they can polish more everything).
So yeah, my favorite game is the one that offers an experience I can't get on any other game, the second one is the game that re-invented a saga and offered one of the most memorable and best paced linear adventures ever, and the last one is the game that only uses a well-established formula with a new setting without offering nothing really new (even if the setting and lore are amazing).
I didn't vote for Bloodborne, I voted for not Resident Evil.
I'm not particularly fond of either game, but i really dislike all things Resident Evil.
I'm not particularly fond of either game, but i really dislike all things Resident Evil.
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Neither reach the same highs as Bloodborne. Also disagree your opinion on those BB areas
Though I love Bloodborne, it is RE4 no contest. I go back to it every year and do a run. Not many games have ever made me do that.
I dunno, I'm Spanish and we weren't paying with Pesetas the time the game is ambiented on, we don't speak in a strange accent (which doesn't sound spanish at all), we don't live in a middle-age setting (at least not in Barcelona)... The part about trying to kill Americanos at first sight is true though...
I agree. While I acknowledge that it is influential because of when it came out and what it did for third person shooters, it's not a good game. The insane melee, the stupidity of the AI, the dumb as rocks story.
And in saying that it shows that you don't quite understand that game. Anyway, my statement was in no way meant denigrate RE4, which is undoubtably one of the most influential video games of all time. So I don't know why you needed to share your insecurity about by my choice.
Cheers. I will not be justifying myself further. The OP asked a question and I answered my truth.
Both are masterpieces and in my top 10 games. I voted for RE4 because there's nothing like it and it has no major issues unlike Bloodborne which has the frame pacing problem and chalice dungeons.
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That's fair. RE4 does everything well. BOTW's core which is exploring Hyrule is done phenomenally well. It is a masterpiece in overworld design. Best of this gen easily. But combat does make a significant enough portion of the experience to me to warrant that criticism. With RE4 I cannot think of any.
Also I fundamentally disagree with the assertion that RE4 is less ambitious. Everything about RE4's encounter design, offset camera angle screamed ambition to me. At least most certainly for its time.
Not that this point played a role in me choosing RE4 in this poll but I think RE4 has had a bigger impact on games than BOTW. It fundamentally changed TPS games both in linear and open world games. BOTW improved on elements of Skyrim but I do not forsee it being as impactful as even Witcher 3 for open world games going forward. It might impact a specific kind of open world game set in open plains but I do not see it being as influential as RE4. Of course only time will tell.
One of my biggest gripes with bloodborne is coming from Dark Souls I absolutely hated how Bloodborne railroaded you into playing a very specific way. I think one of Dark Souls best strengths is the vast number of ways you can go at the game. Sure, each of the trick weapons had their own cadence for attacking with it but the game still very much revolved around just dodging and using the gun parry. And that bummed me out.
Bloodborne is an amazing game, one of the absolute best of this generation. But Resident Evil 4 is one of the absolute peak, all time great games. Like, Super Mario Brothers level of incredible, genre & control defining, timeless video games.
I almost suspect that people favoring BB more played Resident Evil 4 after it initially released with Bloodborne at release. As someone who played both as they released, Resident Evil 4 I think takes it.
I honestly need to go back and play more Bloodborne, and I'm actually kind of surprised that RE4 isn't winning this.
I almost suspect that people favoring BB more played Resident Evil 4 after it initially released with Bloodborne at release. As someone who played both as they released, Resident Evil 4 I think takes it.
I honestly need to go back and play more Bloodborne, and I'm actually kind of surprised that RE4 isn't winning this.
Dude, this forum loves the shit out of Bloodborne. I'd be shocked if it wasn't at least close between the two of them
