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Gun to your head : Which is the better game - Resident Evil 4 or Bloodborne?
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I know they do... but it's RE4! I thought everyone considered it unmatched.
Resident Evil 4 does have some detractors. A few did see it as the end of survival horror Resident Evil, as great of a game it is
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Bloodborne. By a significant margin.
RE4 has an incredibly strong first half and overall wonderful gameplay, but the story is trite and the last quarter of the game is just shit.
Bloodborne is consistently excellent and ramps things up at the end. It also took the From/Dark Souls gameplay and made it faster/more offense based. BB's lore is masterclass.
RE4 has an incredibly strong first half and overall wonderful gameplay, but the story is trite and the last quarter of the game is just shit.
Bloodborne is consistently excellent and ramps things up at the end. It also took the From/Dark Souls gameplay and made it faster/more offense based. BB's lore is masterclass.
Miyazaki also shits on Mikami from great heights artistically
Oh, i thought you were talking about the bad weather, the cults and also tentacles coming out of your chest. Good to know at least some of it is representative.
Outside of the idea of a cosmic horror video game, pretty much 0 percent of Bloodborne does anything at all for me. Small stuff rolls together to create something that is just very much not my bag.
RE4 tho...wowee am I into that. Just reading the name makes me wanna play if again
RE4 tho...wowee am I into that. Just reading the name makes me wanna play if again
Well yeah, I was talking about the ambition of creating a big, expansive and full of possibilities game. BotW is more ambitious when talking about what the player can do and how much meaningful content the game offers. Re4 was more ambitious on creating a tightly-paced and full of really fun encounters game. It was gorgeous when it released (it is gorgeous now too) and the change over RE3 or other older RE games was really ambitious too (same can be said about BotW evolving from SS).
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I never got the RE4 aged badly comments too. Someone who has never played RE4 before should still be able to play it today and appreciate its perfection. The encounters are carefully designed around its mechanics so limitations like not being able to move and shoot should not really matter for someone willing to learn the games rules and respecting it.
Oh shit, Ya es hora de rezar and I'm here writing posts in a gaming forum...
I dont mind that because each weapon has a bigger moveset than any previous Darksouls weapon but you are talking more about the build than the actual weapons (like being a long range mage or whatever). I prefer that honestly because id rather have a bigger moveset than having more build paths that I wont use but that is just because im more input focused than rpg focused.
Ehh...if someone isn't used to how it plays or is more used to more modern third person games instead, I can totally see them having a tough time trying to get used to it. I think it plays just fine but, when I hand it over to friends, some of them struggle a bit, at least enough for them to not enjoy it as much as I do
Wow this was harder than I thought but I made a split decision for RE4–I love both games to death but there is something about RE4 that will always make it perfect for me.
And I think that is maybe were we differ on that because I look at the souls games as RPG's first and formost that just happen to have a pretty good combat system. Funnily enough I actually really enjoyed Sekiro quite a lot but I think that's because they kind of went allllllll the way into just full on action game and dropped the stat building aspect pretty much entirely.
Resident Evil 4 does more for 2005 than Bloodborne does for 2015, but Bloodborne is better iteratively and as a "start to finish" experience.
Played both as they released. While I love Resident Evil 4 on my GameCube and the Village intro is seriously one of the best intros to a game ever, I think parts of the castle and last areas / dealing with Ashley in the backhalf of the game really brings it down a notch. Bloodborne, to me is a flawless experience from beginning to end. The characters, the somber oppressive vibes, how the world connects, the lore, how the trick weapons and combat feels, the bosses, one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. It just stands way above it IMO.
Just voted to put RE4 in the lead. lol
Hmm...
Bloodborne doesn't compare IMO.
edit: and now it's back to even
Why would anyone willingly use the light theme
Perfectly balanced.
Way too early to be putting RE4 against Bloodbourne. Give it 10 years, then see if Bloodbourne is still in the consideration.
That said, from sheer impact on the gaming world, Bloodbourne is nothing. RE4 didn't just reinvigorate one game series, but it basically defined all third person action games from then forward. Bloodbourne doesn't have that legacy, and it's unlikely to (but again, who knows what time will tell on that I guess)
That said, from sheer impact on the gaming world, Bloodbourne is nothing. RE4 didn't just reinvigorate one game series, but it basically defined all third person action games from then forward. Bloodbourne doesn't have that legacy, and it's unlikely to (but again, who knows what time will tell on that I guess)
I feel RE4 is timeless. You can just get into it and play it all the way through. I have to be in a certain mindset or mood for bloodborne.
Bloodborne now that I think about it like a balance between RPG and action with full RPG being Darksouls and Sekiro being full action so it does depend on what side of that you like more so I get it if you want to do more weird stuff with your character. I definitely look at Bloodborne first and formost as an action game so the RPG stuff for me is just fashion and weapon styles. This was actually an insightful exchange lol.
I doubt that, I'd be willing to bet the average age of people on these forums is over 30.
Most folk here are old men who need a cane to get around. I somehow doubt that :P
Not really. RE4 defined the position of the camera, but everyone who tried copying it failed to learn anything from it. It led straight to Gears of War and Uncharted which turned out to be much more influential, to the detriment of the entire genre.
The fact that RE4's style of slow, methodical shooter combat died after one game might be the greatest game design injustice.
I only finished Resident Evil 4 for the first time earlier this year and it was a revelation. It feels so much better than the first person shooters that followed, it's entirely fucked up.
And..? Even better they're (we're) able to play RE4 without nostalgia and see it as the middling game it is.
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RE4 is a wonderful game today, with or without nostalgia. Hell, the fact that is 50/50 on the poll after almost 15 years proves how important the game is. I'm sure than in 10 years, BB won't be as half as popular and well-regarded as RE4 is now.
