Great review. I\'ve been replaying RE6 for the past few days and to be honest it wasn\'t as bad as I thought it was years ago.
I personally liked the Leon campaign best despite Capcom\'s continual treatment of him, since it felt the most like, y\'know, an actual Resident Evil and has zombies in it. That\'s not to throw the other routes under the bus since Jake\'s has some genuinely fun moments. I also enjoyed the fluid combat system of 6 and the Mercenaries mode, which caused some major muscle memory issues when I first picked up the RE2 remake.
Though you\'re absolutely right about the overuse of QTEs. Even if you could anticipate them it\'s still very easy to mess up, and the sheer amount of insta-kill run-or-die Advancing Boss of Doom segments are just ridiculous, especially since the game itself hamstrings you with awkward camera placement and movement. Sometimes I can run away just fine, but occasionally I would find myself running at the thing I\'m supposed to flee from because the camera is in front of me now, and so I died. The HAOS run was particularly annoying because of this.
Come to think of it, most of my issues with this series are technical. Probably because I\'ve grown too accustomed to playing games with smooth and fluid movement where life-or-death is dictated by your own actions, not some flashy buttons that are barely on the screen and will screw you six ways to sunday if you flub the commands. That aside, I feel this game would have been much better received had it not have the \"Resident Evil\" name.
Well said. Re 6 is quite underrated imo. The only cons ı have with the game are the amount of qtes ( thankfully you can disable some of them through the options menu. ) and limitations on skill system. ( basicly you cant equip more than 3 skills at a time unless you change the skill set. Rerev 2 improved this. ) Other than that, ı liked everything else ( or am simply fine it ); especially the story and characters.
So I’m not crazy
You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price.
Sorry for the late reply.
Unpopular opinion but for me; re6 is the best re game in the series and ı played all of them with the exception of mercenaries 3d. Replayed most of them multiple times as well with exception being some crappy spinoffs. ( Basically the games at c and d rank, see below. )
People seem to dislike the action aspect of re4, re5 and re6 but ı dont. I like it actually; ı like the over the top nature and campiness of resident evil. Also ı think the games started to become more actiony starting with re2, then re3, then recv, ( SERIOUSLY CAN PEOPLE STOP IGNORING THIS GAME?!!! Ok ı stop; sorry for caps lock. ) then re4, then re5 and finally re6. I dont like how they removed some of the fun elements of the previous re games in re7 though along with some weird changes like 1st person camera, a messy story that cant decide if it wants to connect to re franchise or wants to be a reboot, boring minigames not to mention no mercenaries mode and minigames are weird separate dlc and not a hero is too short ( I\'m not gonna talk about how they ruined chris as well. ) , no costumes, boring characters other than jack and joe etc.
Replayed the re games in december for another time and this is how ı would rate them from most to least favourite:
S rank: Re 6 > Re 4 = Re 5 > Re 2 > Remake > Rerev 2
A rank: Recv > Re 2 remake > Re 3 > Darkside chronicles > Re 0 > Umbrella chronicles
B rank: Outbreak file 2 > Outbreak > Re 1 > Rerev > Re 7 > Dead aim
C rank: Survivor > Survivor 2 > Gaiden
D rank: Reorc > Umbrella corps
\" and what the hell was that doing in Brad\'s chopper in the first place?! \"
I believe that\'s explained in a supplemental material related to re1. Which says that barry secretly put it to the stars alpha team\'s helicopter and told brad to keep this a secret from everyone.
Idk which supplemental material was it told though; but ı believe it can be found in project umbrella site as translated.
Anyways; cheers, still a good review about the game.
I think that a lot of the criticism comes from Chris\'s campaign, which does feel a lot more like the then-trendy military shooters and a lot less like a traditional RE experience. And also culminates in some infuriating platforming that had me cooling on a final level where I got to play a regenerating infectee with a sweet lightning arm.
Also, the story of that campaign was kinda wack. Chris going full hard-drinking bitter loser wasting away in a bar at the end of the world was a bridge too far.
I think the reviewer at the time I agreed with most on the subject was Phelan Porteus, who basically summed it up as okay, with some problems, and who disliked the parts I disliked for the reasons I disliked them, while liking the parts I liked for the reasons I liked \'em.
Forgot to say these things:
Re 6 campaign ranking:
I think chris\' campaign is the best.
I love jake and leon\'s campaigns equally.
Ada\'s campaign is my least favourite but still very enjoyable overall just like the other 3.
Also this was my 1st re game which got me to the franchise in 2013 so that\'s one of the reasons why ı have a special spot for it.
My favourite re6 review videos are tgbs\' \" Why re6 is awesome? \" video and archon\'s ( He made 2 mechanics video about re6; as well as one dedicated to jake. ) re6 review video.
Do you have links to those videos you cite, Mert 20004? Because you\'ve piqued my interest; I never knew those existed!
@Spectral Time: You\'re not wrong about Chris\' campaign being the most \"conventional shootery campaign\", but, at the same time... I actually felt it made a lot of sense. I mean, at this point in time, Chris has seen so much shit. He\'s been through the Arklay Lab incident in Resident Evil. He made the raid on Rockfort Island and went to Antarctica to rescue his sister in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica. He raided the last of Umbrella\'s factories and destroyed their ultimate Tyrant, the T-A.L.O.S, in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. He went to rescue Jill from the infected cruise ship in Resident Evil: Revelations. He went after Ozwell Spencer, seemingly lost Jill, then fought through the Majini hordes before finally killing Albert Wesker once and for all and regaining Jill in Resident Evil 5. After all the blood and guts, after all the fallen comrades, the years of struggle and sweat... can we really blame him for being kind of shellshocked and bitter? Likewise, doesn\'t it make sense that he blithely mows down whatever infected are in his way? Look at all he\'s done! Chris is hands down the most jaded veteran B.O.W fighter on the planet by the time of RE6!
I agree... but that\'s part of what made losing a bunch of redshirts he barely knew being the thing that broke him come across as too much. I appreciate not wanting to kill Jill, both for long-term franchise reasons and because they already did that last game, but the tragedy is still undermined for we the players because we the players don\'t have as much of an emotional connection to anyone but poor Piers.
And while I liked the part of the boss fight where I, playing as Piers, got to switch up the gameplay and use my health as a resource in combination with a sick lightning-arm, that post-boss-fight platforming sequence can fuck itself. As can the weird delay on the spinner-based QT Es. I don\'t know if they\'ve since added the ability to skip those, but I hope so.
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A Decent Game, Unfairly Maligned
No game in Resident Evil history has been as much of the black sheep as Resident Evil 6, which is near universally derided as "Not Resident Evil!" by a defensive, tightly knit group of grognards. But does it deserve to be so derided? I argue that it does not.
Resident Evil 6 is not without its share of mechanical flaws, including an overabundance of Press X to Not Die quick-time events, some counter-intuitive cover mechanics, and badly implemented skill mechanics. And it has some story flaws, like an over-use of J'avo and an under-use of zombies. But calling it "not a Resident Evil game" is going too far. Yes, the game is Action Horror and not so much Survival Horror, but this transition is both logical and internally consistent.
Resident Evil has always had its roots in Action B-movies as much as it did in Horror B-movies. Even Resident Evil has its cinematic ending where the player grabs an anti-tank rocket launcher (and what the hell was that doing in Brad's chopper in the first place?!) and blows the Tyrant to Kingdom Come with a cheesy one-liner. But the shift to an Actionized Sequel began with the original Resident Evil 2; once you got past the tense chokepoint of the initial minutes on Raccoon City's streets, you could find enough ammo to easily gun down every monster and boss in the game if you knew where to look. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis amped up the tension with the titular stalking monster and enormous array of zombies and B.O.Ws that actually replenished themselves over time, but also gave you plentiful ammunition, making "fight" almost as valid an option as "flight". Things came to a head in Resident Evil 4, which created the mechanics that underpin RE6.
Yes, the player is empowered in RE6 compared to in other games. But that's what makes it fun. Finally, after 8 games, the player can punch a zombie in the face instead of just meekly letting it bite them the moment they get touched. And anyone who's played The Evil Within and felt the visceral satisfaction of one-shotting an enemy with a Stealth Kill attack will understand the same feeling stemming from melee-killing an enemy in RE6 - the zombies are the most satisfactory, with things like axe-beheadings and stabbing them through the brain with a broken bottle.
It's also internally consistent to the characters. Yes, they were scared newcomers in the first two games. But by this point in time, each playable character (other than Jake and, technically, Sherry) has been through multiple bio-terror events. They're not scared by things the way they once were, and Capcom would be ignoring common sense and character consistency if they ignored that.
Not that RE6 isn't scary in its own right! During a firefight, there's a tension; can you manage your ammo well enough to bring down your foes before they bring you down? Zombies come at you in what feel like limitless waves, whilst J'avo force you to adapt constantly as they sprout their new mutant abilities. And that's not getting into the complete gamechangers when a Bloodshot Zombie or a J'Avo Complete Mutation shows up. There's plenty of cinematic tension, too. Roaming the halls of a zombie-infested college in near pitch-darkness, being hunted by an invisible snake the size of a bus, being stalked by Ustanak and having to hide or be killed, the chaotic panic of being caught alongside doomed civilians in the middle of the outbreak... RE6 may empower you, but it can still scare you.
If you can accept RE6 for what it is - the logical conclusion of RE's story to that point, fully embracing its campy action horror roots - then give it a shot. You might just find it's more fun than its reputation deigns to say.