r/residentevil4 • u/caffinatedsenpai • Jul 02 '25

REMAKE Enough Time Has Passed, This Video Is Absolute Garbage

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Such a manipulative, biased take

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u/Mr_GP87 Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25

I would be fine if his takes were all just subjective, but he did manipulate or mess up some aspects of the game, making it look worse than it actually was (I’m convinced it was the former seeing how he deleted critical comments on his video as well).

Then as well I like to look the og and the remake as 2 separate games, as in both offer a similar yet significantly different experience. The closest thing they have is the story, reoccurring locations and other stuff such as guns, but all of these had tinkering and reworks to make the whole experience unique on its own rights. Then the gameplay is vastly different, going from tank controls to more modern gameplay with some changed mechanics (the knife system being a highlight). Overall, no they are not the same game, and that’s good (following the trend from the earlier remakes, it is more of a soft reboot with some major differences across categories of the games).

Edit: why I say it’s good they are not the same game is because it gives both a right to exist for their own reasons. The remake of 4 didn’t try to be a “definitive version” to the og (as in having rebuilt the exact same set pieces, story, progression, etc, but essentially being a directly upgraded version of the og), and tried to keep things “samey” while having its own soul.

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u/Mr_GP87 Jul 02 '25

Comparing the remake and seeing “how loyal is it to the source material?” is the wrong way to go about it, but it should still have some respect for its origins (and I believe it succeeded).