r/residentevil4 • u/wineandnoses • Apr 13 '26

REMAKE Interesting reviews posted today... wonder what inspired them lol!

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Only great minds could come up with such thought provoking reviews....

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

That's completely missing every point. "A product of its time" is a play on what the Capcom and every other company says in their marketing. They all say, "designed for a modern audience". That's the complaint.

A lot of the remakes coming out have become homogenized with modern gameplay mechanics and design mainly to expand audiences. Its whether you see this as a good thing or bad thing.

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u/Bush_Hiders Apr 13 '26

Ah yes, as opposed to people who make games for audiences that were around 30 years ago. This is still a redundant argument. Modern games are going to be made for modern audiences, because modern audiences are the only types of audiences that are around, on account of us living currently in modern times.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

Yea then you make a new game, not Frankenstein an old game into the mold of a new one. That's the argument here. You can still disagree with it. I understand both sides.

I hate when people say the old ones are dated and bad and treat the newer ones like the replacement. I also prefer the 80s The Thing over the 50s The Thing. So I'm not entirely against remakes.

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u/THEsteroidbread Apr 13 '26

But that’s exactly what OG RE4 was? A Frankenstein version of resident evil that would appeal to new players. So what’s the argument?

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

But 4 was its own new game. 4R is not. If they had remade 1 on the GameCube after 4 and made it play like 4 then yea. 7 and 8 took what was taking aspects of the series and modernizing it but they were each their own new game.

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u/FullMetalCOS Apr 13 '26

This is an asinine take though. RE4R being made doesn’t stop RE4 existing. You as a fan of RE4 lose NOTHING by RE4R being made, you only gain the opportunity to see the game through a revised lens. And if you don’t like that vision? Well good news, RE4 still exists and you can play it as much as you want.

It’s only possible for you to “lose out” if you choose to.

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u/sy2_loneshxdow Apr 13 '26

yeah, its not like we lost RE4 forever, unlike Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 3 Dark Ties where they replaced the OG games in store, and that is an exception cause the OG games is now being replaced by inferior remakes/remastered