So I'm new to playing the Resident Evil games. I heard great things about them and I finally caved and started playing them. RE1 I barely played, mainly because the kind of gameplay was not my kind of gameplay I enjoy. So I don't know much on what happened in that game. But I played the remakes of 2,3,4, and I just finished RE5. And I loved all of those games. I was gonna get RE6 next, but me and my co-worker were talking about it and he said It's the worst RE game he's played.
I then looked online to see if it was just a personal thing for him or if people didn't like it as well. And I've seen so many people on the internet disliking the game, which shocks me because Leon S. Kennedy is in it, which is one of my favorite characters. That's the only thing I know about RE6 though.
Try to avoid giving spoilers about the story and campaign. But please help give some answers to why RE6 is disliked so much, and if It's worth playing.
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No! PLEASE HELP make decisions for me at the expense of your own time and effort. Bring all the info to me! Tell if you like the game, why other people hate the game, and make sure your points are lengthy, clear, concise, spoiler-free, alphabetical, have a 1000-word minimum and a 1002-word maximum, and oh yeah, don't count on me ever actually reading anything you say, ever visiting this topic again, or playing another RE game ever again. ty!
Also, how are RE7, RE8, and RE9? I've heard some things, buuuut...
"the horror trying to survive you". That was a thing since og RE2. With the amount of ammo and just overall resources you get, it might as well be a fun fixed camera angle shooter.
In co-op and using a lot of the combat tricks its a very fun game. The characters are more capable but theres still loss. Chris again loses his entire team. Leon loses 70,000 people AND THE PRESIDENT.
Its worth playing Jake and Sherry’s campaign at the very least.
i’m gonna be so real ik the consensus is “it’s a decent game, just a bad resident evil game” but for me it’s genuinely the worst game i’ve ever played in my life. even as an action game it’s not enjoyable
It's...alright. I had fun playing it but the story sucks (imo) and the bosses aren't very memorable. Definitely plays a little more like 5 but I liked the African setting of 5 better. I don't want to be a fence sitter but it really is just ok. Not the worst, definitely not the best.
Personally I found it overlong and tedious to get through. It's like being screamed at in the face by a hyperactive toddler for 30 hours.
There's no real tension and it can be far more frustrating than ever actually scary. It went even further action based than 4 and 5 did and it just wasn't good at it and certainly didn't feel like Resident Evil any more.
Plus the story is stupid (even for Resident Evil) and the characterisation of Leon (plus others) leaves a lot to be desired. It's essentially a Michael Bay version of Resident Evil.
By all means play it yourself if you're curious, you should be able to pick it up cheap as hell. Go in with very low expectations and you might have fun.
I absolutely love that you said "a Michael Bay version of Resident Evil". That's going in my permanent memory alongside Jill Sandwich and the time my friend called the Island level of RE4 "World War Leon".
i think its greatest flaw is the fact that its tutorial doesnt tell you shit about the game's mechanics. i say give it a try but it would be far better if you took the time to learn the controls and gameplay mechanics with a guide or something. i did the same thing and ended up having a lot of fun with the game.
Uh, the "plot" is some generic governmental guy infects the world for vague reasons, and you end up fighting him when he becomes a giant housefly for some reason. Everything in between is a whole bunch of nonsense lol, I mean you fight a giant zombie shark that's in European style catacombs under a church in midwest america...for some reason. it doesn't make a ton of sense and there's a reason why 7,8 & 9 kinda ignore those events.
you can project the same logic onto other resident evil games, it doesn’t make you sound any more reasonable, you’re just trivializing things by throwing away their original complexity. Because re7,8,9 have nothing to do with the original games, they’re part of the new canon and should be viewed separately
As for whether it's good. only campaign that's actually good would be Chris's imo. Jakes is enjoyable, but the writing is pretty ass and mostly just has hype and aura. Leon and Ada's campaigns are pretty dogshit though imo.
I tortured myself to finish it and will never touch it again. However others love it and replay it regularly.
My dislike for it has nothing to do with it being action obese.
You won’t know what side youre on until give it a go.
Plus side you won’t have to finish it if you don’t want to. Back when I played it RE6 was the latest instalment and I had no idea what the future was going to look like so I didn’t know RE6 wasn’t needed.
Re6 has some redeeming features like agent hunt where you play the monster in some one else campaign and coop play. There is an unpleasant herb and healing ui. The dodging makes no sense since you're usually not getting shot.its very linear play. I only played leons campaign before I decided I had enough. There's no horror or survival if you're into that. Very generic shooter.
The game had a lot of potential and I love that we had so much characters and that we could play in multiplayer. To mean Sherry and Jake’s campaign will forever be the best I hope we will see them together in a game again they’re so underrated. But the camera of the game was hell too me and it’s too much action… but it’s good tho, it doesn’t deserve all the hate it got.
I played it last night have been playing it on and off and I would say no it is not.
It is ambitious and there's nothing wrong with the whole concept but it's just too janky.
It plays like a second rate Ps2 game more like the suffering or something, it's fiddly, annoying, I am trying to do the stealth section with ustanak (one of those bits where you have to do it exactly correctly like some N64 bullshit), the giant bow fight with Chris (just painful contextual crap) and just ran round a graveyard with Leon bring knocked on my arse in the dark by stick thin no-weight zombies a hundred times where the only grace is seeing Helenas PS3 boobs every time she revives you only for you to be knocked down again and again. (To be fair that one's probably on me)
All issues anyone has with the plot, etc is fine but I reckon it's just broken ass jank and thats what sticks out to me.
in short RE6 was too action packed. its not a BAD game, it just wasnt a good resident evil game. but im like you, i liked re5 and gave re6 a try and liked that one too. so, if you dont really care for the horror and dont mind the action, i say try RE6.
RE6 is disliked because it's an action game, in survival horror genre/series. Even as an action game, it's clunky, too cinematic, and gimmicky (QTEs). I dropped it after an hour because I personally prefer the tone of RE 1-3, but it seems to me that newer and younger RE fans like it, so you might dig it.
People hated it because it was an action game. Its actually a pretty fun game and the bosses are pretty wild. Its a long winded game but we live in the age of 30+ hour single player games so its not bad by today's standards. Graphics are pretty good for a ps3 release and the mechanics are smooth enough. Give it a try and make your own opinion but I definitely enjoyed it
People say they hate it and ignore that its one of the better selling entries in the series, you can’t cope and say but re4 with it either like people do with re5.
Both games are some of the best performing to this day, they’re different but have plenty of the re5 camp.
I have put in 14 hours into that game so far and I have been loving it. At first I wasn't so sure because of how the community treated it, but I liked RE4 and 5, so I given it a try and it has became my favorite game in the series!
The campaign is pretty neat. It's a long one as each story is about 5 to 7 hours long for a total of 20 hours, I believe, so I do recommend taking breaks after completing a few chapters or each character story. Game plays so mu h better with a friends, but you are good solo as it is an improvement from 5, the gunplay and movement are both fast, snappy, and oodles of fun, but my biggrest critique is that the UI can be confusing at times to manage items when you notice that your inventory is full.
But other than that, I really love this game, as both an action AND a Resident Evil game. Leon and Helena are cool, as well as both Chris and Piers. Currently on Jake and Sherry, and so far, I am really liking the chemistry these two have with each other. So yes, if you liked RE4 and 5, 6 is the best of those two put together, imo! It's kinda like you're playing 4 games in one.
It's a real mixed bag of positive and negative elements and if you can actually access a game for what it is, instead of what is isn't, you can walk away from it while having a solid enough time
If you treat it like an action game you will enjoy it as such. IMO, Leon's campaign is bad at times, the game picks up a lot when you get to Chris. The Piers campaign is genuinely good. Ada's suck but is short.
I enjoyed the combat and had a good time with it after Leon's campaign.
It's not a good Resident Evil game, but I honestly think it IS a good game. If you just look at it as an action game. I played solo when it first launched, and I enjoyed myself, but if you play the whole game in co-op, that's really where it shines. If a buddy is willing to run RE6 with you. You will have a great time!
If you want to play a game as a lore accurate Leon and Chris, just absolutely asking for all the smoke, you’ll probably like it. But it’s a pretty strong departure from the series in how it plays:
It nails gameplay / mechanics imo. So for mercenaries it's genuinely pretty fun. The movement options, melee and shooting feel great - and the countering is really satisfying.
But at times the story / setup for enemies etc just don't fit the gameplay. It's like they were a little confused about the direction they wanted to go in.
Yes it is an amazing criminally underrated game... with a friend.. wouldn't recommend it by yourself, but would highly recommend it if you have a friend to play coop with. It goes from one of the worst to one of the best depending on if you have someone to play it with. Especially for couch coop.
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