Is this the gold standard for a remake?

Improves gameplay and adds a good knife mechanic

Voice actor was a fan of the original and gives a stellar performance

modernizes the dialogue and Leons cheesy one liners while still keeping him badass

I actually care about Ashley now

Krauser fight was kewl

It's fun but it has some noticable problems with padding. They added more sections which don't really seem to have much of a purpose (like the mandatory lake collectathons). Really strange VA direction, Leon's VA seems to take a more serious demeanor most of the time while Krauser's goes all in on the cheesiness, so there's a disconnect in tone. Laser sights are now attachments for certain weapons and playing the game with the crosshair doesn't feel anywhere near as accurate as the original with the laser sight, which adds a lot of tardiness to the weapons which can slow down and clunkify gameplay a bit.
Overall fun remake, original had much better ideas though.

modernizes the dialogue and Leons cheesy one liners while still keeping him badass

modernizes the dialogue

Wii version is still better.

Ada's voice is awful in the remake

Improves gameplay and adds a good knife mechanic

The gameplay is objectively worse in the remake

It's excellent. To be fair all of the RE are good. The only problem is 3 having cut content

nigga if there's one thing the remake nails, it's the removing most of the chaff compared to the original, which had some very fucked up padding in the second half.
Yeah, the tone is more serious overall and less cringy, but that's not all that bad, I can live without Luis ballistics joke and I'm happy all the shit talk via radio is gone.
Yeah, no upskirt from Ashley but at least this time I don't wanna crush her skull when she opens her mouth.

muh lasersight

that's the most ridiculous complain I read around. Also, the best magnum in the game has one.

This remake is likely the best thing from Capcom since RE2make, they haven't done anything worthy in the meantime

actually that would be the PS2 remake of Baroque, originally a PS1 game

Of the current modern "remakes" I'd say the best are:
RE 2 and 4
System shock
Romancing saga 2
Dead space

Muh tranny bath room

I don't give a fuck, it's excellent too

ruins movement

ruins Ada, Leon, and Krauser

ruins Ganados

ruins Del Lago

ruins bear traps

adds filler, sells Separate Ways (which was already shit filler) back to us

Nope.

No, that would be REmake 1.

Resident Evil 2 remake blows it away.
Simply experiencing the game from a different perspective puts it way ahead of RE4 remake, which is just the same thing again but with new graphics

Game is fucking boring

Nope

it isn't even the best remake in its own series so why would it be the gold standard?

Genuinely curious, what games do you like? Give me 3 examples of games that aren't boring

its an amazing remake,so good that i played it 2 times in a row(once in normal and the second in hard),overall i love it,but i have no idea why they went so stingy with ammo in hard mode,i spent 60-70% of that playthrough only using the pistol because that was the only thing that the game droped

You literally only need the pistol

also, i forgot, the game runs like butter, once of the most well optimized games i have played

The original is completely different from the remake, the remake is basically a new game

lmao kys. The minecart section changed one of the most unique encounters into the game and turned it into a generic movie segment.

there are some changes that are there JUST to change things

Which ones? The invisible zombie extra mode?

it only exists BECAUSE the original existed, playing the remake without playing the original lose meaning

I mean not really... you don't need to watch the original king kong to enjoy or appreciate any of the other ones, same with the thing or the fly.

I'm baffled as to how the remake for a game noted for not being an obnoxious escort mission managed to fall into traps the original avoided with easily.
I know it was done in an effort to chase realism but that's fucking stupid.

Barry's dialogue tree (or lack of), crimson heads, the dogs breaking in on the return trip... these changes only make sense if you take into account the original. It was a big part of their marketing at the time "The game is the same but NOT"
You can appreciate things, doesn't mean you get the full picture. "Ooh, the jumpscare in mulholland drive was scary"

yes

How exactly did we get to the point where muslims design all female vidya characters now?

Fuck no.

This one also does everything people bitch about the RE4 remake doing though.

It's old enough that we're allowed to like it

horseshoe theory. They're coming at it from the opposite end.

I'm sure, if you dig through 2002 to 2004 forums, you will find hard seeth
also, with the 2009 Wii version and 2015 rerelease, most of the people talking about it did not even play the original, and the ones disliking it did the mature thing (they're 40ish rn) and stopped thinking about it.
So you naturally only get praise for it in 2025

This shit in PSVR2 was so fucking fun. One of my favorite gameplay experiences of all time genuinely.

Its awful because it piggy backs on an already good game, instead of creating its own story, settings and characters, its lazy sloppa, like copying up the exam answers of your classmate next to you.

mandatory lake collectathons

Only thing "madatory" is the golden egg and a big fish, if you are a speedrunner and want to get the infinite ammo upgrade for the sweeper or cannon at best.

This has to be rage bait.

I love horror but I’ve never played any RE game because I’ve heard none of them are scary except for 7 and parts of 8, which I do have downloaded but I haven’t played them yet. Should I okay 4.

Improves gameplay

okay

Should I PLAY 4

Yeah, its actually pure cinema. The only downside is the yellow paint, which can be removed with a mod. That's all. Millennials are pathetic faggots who are stuck in the 90s.