Why is RE4 so highly praised but not RE5? They're essentially the same game mechanically

The actual game is fine but olaying with the AI is goddamn awful.
Aside from actual gameplay fuckups the inventory management aspect of the game means you have to go through incredibly tedious swaps constantly.

Look at 4's opening section in the village and then 5's. 5's opening village section is 4's but worse. Now apply that to the entire game

No, 4 doesn't come to a screeching halt. Also I don't have to convince a co-op partner to sit through it or babysit retarded AI.

I've hemorrhaged so many co-op partners to RE5, more than any other game. Where the fuck are all these people claiming it's a fun co-op game coming from?

Wanna hear something funny?

Resident Evil 5 was released in 2009.
It will be 20 years-old by 2029.
Resident Evil 4 is 15 years-old right now.
Its already getting a remake.
RE4 is Capcom's fourth best selling game of all time.
RE5 is the second best selling.
Screencap this, we will be getting a RE5 remake before this decade ends.

I doubt it dude. RE5 was when people stopped taking RE seriously. It was the first game in the downward spiral that lasted for years

Pacing and level design. That's why.

Not really, there are some improvements over RE4 (robust melee combat for example) but overall it's not enjoyable or memorable as RE4.
Some missions are terrible, like the car-chasing scene and then giant boss fight.
The rising platform is also terrible because it's difficult to aim precisely.
Sheva as a partner is worse than Ashley simply because her AI can't handle the enemies. If you for example give her a rocket launcher and set her to Attack she would blow up you or herself.
Lickers and cockroachs are fun, but gatling guys are not.
Ouroboros is also not interesting as the pale skin boss theme in RE4.

>muh inventory
casual shitter detected. no pause mid combat for you.
that's one thing 5 got right, made fights way more intense

One of the coolest things about 5 is managing your inventory while in a melee attack animation.

5 is a shitty 4 that's designed for co-op, and fuck co-op.

Nothing to do with not pausing mid combat. Having to fuck around only having 9 spaces while the game throws at you shit loads of weapons, ammo, grenades, and health to juggle around with is insanity.
The game dosen't tell you to, but knowing that at a checkpoint you can "reset" back into the inventory managment/merchant screen while keeping progress saves so much bullshit

>Forced co-op partner is fucking awful. Don't tell me "It's good with friends" because a fucking funeral is fun with friends.
>Ungodly amount of QTEs, every bossfight is pro mode Salazar tier.
>Spongy enemies. Just compare the chainsaw and minigun guys.
>The movement is typical over the shoulder console shooter instead of the pseudo tank controls from RE4.
>Inventory removes all resource management from the game, even worse in replays because every gun can have infinite ammo.
>Melee got the shaft because co-op partner is fucking retarded.
>Sheva is just boring in general. No one remembers anything about her save for the unlock able leopard print bikini.
>Hitscan enemies.

If kijuju was 2 hours longer and their would be one chapter at night in the city 10/10 no complain but in the game we seem to rush out of the city as fast as we can and their is literally no night scene except the end on the boat and a turret seuece against nigigante, it's really weird i feel like they got scared because black people would be to black in the dark so they made it all in day time

And you can just drag ammo into your weapons in the inventory to instantly reload any weapon. So much for tension.

I love RE4 and 5 but I've played 5 more times. it has more content and is very fun multiplayer.

>but the same can be said for Ashley in RE4
You are a brainlet if Ashley caused issues for you. She followed closely, would stay put at the press of a button, and in certain areas, you could tell her to hop in a dumpster while you go to town on Ganados.

Because unlike 5, 4 actually had a genuine horror element to it. RE5 barely even tried to be scary, instead relying way too much on the action elements. Whereas 4 had a good blend of horror and action, 5 just made the horror near nonexistent while cranking up the action slider to 11. Niggers just aren't as scary as cultist farmer villagers, especially when you're basically just mowing down swarms of them with a machine gun.

5 was a retread with a worse story. Not that that made it a bad game, I had a lot of fun, but it's not as good as 4 as a result.

This, tetris inventory is much more fun than quick swap inventory.
In the RE4 remake I think they will keep the tetris inventory system but allow binding like REmake2.

The co-op/AI gimmick ruins it

Enemies are only bullet sponges with unupgraded weapons. The game is actually difficult on the higher difficulties if you want it to be or it can be easier depending on if you have upgraded or unupgraded weapons with you. There is so much replay value to this game. Also sheva is fucking best girl

I will also say that while I like RE5, the tone of the game was decidedly not scary.

>hurr hurr, no video game is scary

No one cares what you think. RE4 had you traversing gothic locales, had creepy chanting cultists, and mostly took place at night or on a cloudy day.

RE5 just isn't that good and it began what many saw as a long slide. I played the demo for RE5 and decided to pass on the game since I had already played the village section in RE4. I did like the on rails shooters but I just happen to like those kinds of games and they really don't get many releases so Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles were an itch scratched.

Find the terrorist is way better than rescue the president daughter

Anyone here still hasn't done the Jill/Josh mini campaign?

You guys should download the Alone in Africa mod to totally remove the AI partner. It makes the game feel more like RE4 and less like a generic Western TPS

It's not the lack of pause it's just the fact that AI can't be trusted and juggling items is tedious.
The game was just clearly designed for two actual thinking people.

Does the game give advantages to the AI partner on higher difficulties? I've played the game with AI on veteran only and I don't remember having problems with it.

No it's not fuck you.

I remember starting it. I don't know if I finished.

Well the "rumors" are that RE8 will have RE4's inventory.
Which makes be believe that REmake 4 is certain to be a shitty asset flip of RE8. But whatever, that's for a different thread.

I love the tetris inventory though. Good shit.

only from 1 to 4 matters

>You guys should download the Alone in Africa mod to totally remove the AI partner
This is the first time in my life I regret not being a PCfag

> Why is REmake so highly praised but not RE0? They're essentially the same game mechanically
Get it yet?

Sheva killed herself or died a lot in Professional.
I stopped doing a pro run when she kept dying in the area just after the dark cave where you have to use a lantern.
At least she has better aim than me. I always put her on the grenade launcher in Irving fight because I can never ever hit him with it.

I was thinking about mercenaries mode, obviously you can cheese the campaign by bringing infinite ammo magnum guns. The only difficult part of the campaign is getting the braindead CPU partner to hold Jill during her bossfight.
Also Sheva is a cardboard cut-out, tell me what's her personality, any unique traits, hopes, dreams? Nothing, she is just some random pretty African woman whit a generic Batman backstory. 90% chance you are a coomer with jungle fever.