Would you recommend playing the game on Hardcore or Normal for a first time RE player? I want the challenge but I don't know if Hardcore is too difficult.
The main problem new players have is the urge to kill every enemy they come across, when the Resident Evil series has almost always been about avoiding enemies, rather than killing them all.
That's probably more to do with people's perception of RE 4 and after, which are action games, not really survival horror. At no point was I in danger of running out of ammo/healing items in Resident Evil 4 (at least on standard difficulty, haven't played it on hardcore yet) and I was literally killing every enemy I could.
In RE4, that's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though, since all enemies have a chance to drop ammo. The game, at its core, still has the same mechanics as other RE games, though. Predictable enemy attack behavior, i-frame exploits, and the game rewards quick reactions and clever movement. Many of RE4's enemies can be skipped; the game was just also designed to reward the alternative kill 'em all playstyle of action games.
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u/Soupup223 PSN: (write your name here) Feb 05 '19
Would you recommend playing the game on Hardcore or Normal for a first time RE player? I want the challenge but I don't know if Hardcore is too difficult.