Even if these things are true now, it is still a ridiculous comparison to make. When RE4 first came out it was bar none one of the best looking games in all of gaming, it had fantastic atmosphere and a revolutionary control system that shaped the way we play third person games even to this day. RE4R has none of that.
No one's questioning the contribution of games like RE4 and Demon's Souls in the industry. But for many people RE4 today has many limitations in controls - limitations where this remake works on and makes it a much better and more enjoyable experience. You don't like it, that's perfectly alright, but there IS a demand from gamers like me, who were never satisfied with RE4 and this remake is a much better product. It's not a revolutionary game, nor does it to be. It only needs to improve on the limitations of the original. Which is why it is a remake and not a sequel or spiritual successor.
Nah, the goal of this remake is to improve in the original. The same way Demon's Souls remake did. It looks like they accomplished that goal.
EXACTLY.
In your opinion, not everyone is going agree with that. I personally LOVED original game and still highly looking forward to the remake.
I didn't love it, but I am pretty sure I am going to love this one XD
I don't think fucking with an all time classic is nice or a required thing to do. It's especially jarring when you do it worse and add a dash of modern politics to it. If Hollywood tried remaking Back to the Future or Star Wars OT a lot of people would rake them over the coals for it and rightfully so. But I get that money is important to a business.
Nice? Required? Fucking with? The original is still there, ported and remastered a hundred times on twenty different platforms. There is literally no reason for the remake to be a 1:1 adaption to the original. Otherwise you get people who shat on Dead Space Remake for being very faithful to the original - and even then you still get people who claim it was ruined because Isaac's armor has now 47 metal plates on the shoulder instead of 46 which was perfection (rolls eyes).
I also chuckle when I hear things like 'they made this product because, money'. Yeah, no shit. You think that the original RE4 was made for charity and world peace? Both products were made for money and both products were made to be sold to an audience that was willing to part with their money in exchange for a good product to enjoy. Nothing changed in that regard. You people make it sound like Mikami sat on a bonfire with seven Capcom employees twenty years ago and talked about how to bring love, pathos and culture to the world by making RE4 or something. They were making SH games. People were getting bored of the same formula after the dwindling sales of the Gamecube remake and zero - which is probably why they canned the idea to remake 2 and 3, the gameplay was getting stale, they needed to revamp and change things. And they came up with RE4.
That's the irony. RE4 was especially made to make Capcom make money because the last RE entries weren't selling as well as the older ones did. IT WAS MADE ENTIRELY for MORE money. It was LITERALLY the definition of a business move by a company to keep its IP relevant.
