History YMMV / ResidentEvil5

** Uroboros Mkono. Even if you do it "right",[[note]][[GuideDangIt knock down the exploding canisters, wait for Mkono to absorb them, ''then'' shoot them, blast it with the easily missed flame rounds in the corridor before the boss fight]], toss the incendiary grenades in the boss arena at it, and finish it off with the [[VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck pathetically short-ranged flamethrower]][[/note]] it ''still'' takes [[DamageSponge forever to kill]]. The solution? Lower your game's FPS to 30. This is because the damage calculations for the flamethrower and similar weapons get messed up if it's set above that and the weak spots most likely won't get exposed at all as a result.

** Level 5-3. Chris and Sheva have to go through three [[OneHitKill Reapers]], a spinning ElevatorActionSequence, a small army of [[spoiler:Lickers]], Wesker, and [[spoiler:Jill]].

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: While the A.I. can perform something that normal players would have difficulty to do, like aiming down potshots easier, the A.I. would occasionally do something you really don't want to unless it's needed, like breaking boxes, or wasting healing items (as they're very important in Veteran Difficulty and higher), and they'd occasionally be doing something stupid, like trying to collect [[SchmuckBait a trapped item]], trying to melee a downed opponent close to a looming horde, or trying to shoot ''through'' you and refusing to adjust their position. They also had a terrible pathing and couldn't dodge and cheese the enemy, which makes ammo preservation a pain in the ass. Needless to say, the A.I. controlled player didn't age well, adding up another reason to play the game with other player. At least [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Ashley]] tried her best to stay out of the way and not wasting resources.

** Complete. Global. Saturation.[[note]]Said by Wesker when Chris and Sheva confront him. Capcom acknowledge the meme with Wesker using "Complete local saturation" in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake RE4 Remake]]'s of ''Separate Ways''.[[/note]]
** Fans ''ate up'' the rather ridiculous [=QTE=] where Chris '''''punches a goddamn boulder with his bare-friggin'-hands''''' to the point of a RunningGag where one meme in the wake of the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' remake has Chris give Leon very specific instructions to [[ShipperOnDeck go on a date with Claire]] while destroying Ada's car with a boulder. Even Capcom got on the joke [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage in the eighth mainline game]], where an irate Heisenberg refers to Chris as a "boulder-punching asshole".
* {{Narm}}: [[Narm/ResidentEvil It wouldn't be Resident Evil without it]].

** Creator/{{Capcom}} responded to the general vitriol surrounding [[ScrappyMechanic Action Commands]] by making them optional in later releases of the game, such as the Triple Collection for the Nintendo Switch. While they still exist mid-gameplay, like having to dodge Ndesu's attacks or rescue your partner from grapples, the player is no longer obliged to wigglestick their way through cutscenes, lest they meet an [[OneHitKill untimely, rank-damaging demise]].

* VindicatedByHistory: Although it's still seen as one of the weaker games, opinions of it have become much more favorable in recent years. No doubt aided by it's numerous re-releases onto next-gen consoles, and for having a genuinely fun multiplayer. There's also to take in account that recent multiplayer spin-offs like ''VideoGame/{{Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Umbrella Corps}}'' have made 5 look better in recent years.

* VindicatedByHistory: Although it's still seen as one of the weaker games, opinions of it have become much more favorable in recent years. No doubt aided by it's numerous re-releases onto next-gen consoles.

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: While the A.I. can perform something that normal players would have difficulty to do, like aiming down potshots easier, the A.I. would occasionally do something you really don't want to unless it's needed, like breaking boxes, or wasting healing items (as they're very important in Veteran Difficulty and higher), and they'd occasionally be doing something stupid, like trying to collect [[SchmuckBait a trapped item]], trying to melee a downed opponent close to a looming horde, or trying to shoot ''through'' you and refusing to adjust their position. They also had a terrible pathing and couldn't dodge and cheese the enemy, which makes ammo preservation a pain in the ass. Needless to say, the A.I. controlled player [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny didn't age well]], adding up another reason to play the game with other player. At least [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 Ashley]] tried her best to stay out of the way and not wasting resources.

** Mixed a little with HarsherInHindsight, considering the circumstances, but in this game, D.C. Douglas voices a villain [[spoiler:who mind-controls a leading female into being his {{Dragon}} and sics on the hero, who has to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight snap her out of it]]]]. Douglas also played [[spoiler: Alexei]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', which not only had the same plot point, but came out that same year.

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Jill, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy sort of.]]]] The fight with her was just chock full of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything fetishized fighting]]. DistractedByTheSexy indeed.

** Complete. Global. Saturation.[[note]]Said by Wesker when Chris and Sheva confront him[[/note]]

** Months after the release of Resident Evil 5,''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' came out, which depicted a version of Baroness who has a very similar story arc to Jill. Instead of being an Eastern European aristocrat and obvious Saturday morning cartoon villain, the movie's version was once an ordinary American woman named Ana and the former love interest of Duke, who got kidnapped by Rex, his former special ops teammate turned mad scientist who works for a evil military arms dealing and research corporation, and much like Jill, had a mind control system implanted on her body and was turned into Rex's Dragon, complete with a new hair colour, tight bodysuit and newly acquired unarmed fighting capabilities. Duke like Chris Redfield, avoids fighting her throughout the movie to try reason with her to resist her machine's control, and she briefly regains control only to lose it again after Rex, much like Wesker, pacifies her with his handheld control panel linked to her mind control device.

** Months after the release of Resident Evil 5,''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' came out, which depicted a version of Baroness who has a very similar story arc to Jill. Instead of being an Eastern European aristocrat and obvious Saturday morning cartoon villain, the movie's version was once an ordinary American woman named Ana and the former love interest of Duke, who got kidnapped by Rex, his former special ops teammate turned mad scientist who works for a evil military arms dealing and research corporation, and much like Jill, had a mind control system implanted on her body and was turned into Rex's personal ''Main/TheDragon'' complete with a new hair colour, tight bodysuit and newly acquired unarmed fighting capabilities. Duke like Chris Redfield, avoids fighting her throughout the movie to try reason with her to resist her machine's control, and she briefly regains control only to lose it again after Rex, much like Wesker, pacifies her with his handheld control panel linked to her mind control device.

** In one scene, Sheva refers to Chris as a superhero. Even though Chris doesn't think himself as such, his voice actor Creator/RogerCraigSmith would later go to voice ComicBook/CaptainAmerica in ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' as well as Batman in ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamOrigins''.

* HesJustHiding: [[spoiler:Countless fans don't buy the apparent WordOfGod that Albert Wesker is dead and insist that for now the character is retired, but believe he will one day return. Considering the creation of Jake Muller in the sequel and the mysterious Alex Wesker, it's clear for now Capcom now sees the gravity of their mistake killing him off early and tried to compensate for one character with two.]]

** Josh Stone is this. Reasons include his accent, his knack for saving Chris and Sheva multiple times, especially from [[spoiler:Jill]], the spectacular wrestling moves he performs in the Mercenaries Reunion Mode, and the fact that [[spoiler:he's the only minor character in the whole game that makes it out alive and was there to save Jill along she was released from Wesker's mind control and piloted the helicopter to rescue Sheva and Chris along with her]]. By the way, did you know that he's [[MemeticMutation A LEGEND]]!!!