IGN - "The Best Resident Evil?"

[aris13]

Pretty sure RE2 sold about 4.5 million copies on the PS1 alone. Sorry, RE4. You lose.

We're looking for the best game not the most successful one. I love all the games and it's difficult for me to pick the best.

[Canas Renvall]

Most likely not anymore.

Pretty sure RE2 sold about 4.5 million copies on the PS1 alone. Sorry, RE4. You lose. REmake or RE2 are my favorites.

Not to mention RE2 is their second-best selling game overall (behind Street Fighter II).

And really, who cares about IGN? If they aren't the most biased reporters going on what's popular and what's not, I don't know who is.

[rewak]

Move 4 below Code Veronica and that list would be about right.

[CubedSphere]

Call it a personal opinion and get it over with instead of insisting on it as if were a fact. The new style is mainstream action with the hallmark controls of the series slightly modified. The original games were all about exploration and solving puzzles with some action.

They're different and you're not going to convince anyone that one is better than the other; it's just preference and older fans do prefer the original style better.

And yes, I've heard "I've been with the series from day one" a lot of times before

I stated it was my "unpopular opinion" in my first post in this thread. It helps to read.

[aris13]

My opinion.

1. Resident Evil 1
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Resident Evil CVX
4. Resident Evil 2 & 3 - For me these two are one game.
5. Resident Evil 0

[Rakkoon]

1. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis
2. Resident Evil 2
3. REmake
4. Resident Evil
5. Resident Evil 0
6. Resident Evil 4
7. Resident Evil CODE:Veronica X

MY opinion.

Note that IGN even has the Dead Aim thing on the list there, so I can guess some of the people who voted didn't even know what they were voting for.

Okay, would anyone argue that there are A LOT of people who have ONLY played RE4 without ever playing any of the classics, but have still given their vote despite that fact? And would anyone argue that a ton of people born after 1990, who have come across RE4 FIRST, played it with their mind set to think it's the one true RE they're playing, and then just browsed through the other REs, have most likely concluded rightaway that RE4 is a much better game? Well, as far as they're concerned, RE4 is indeed the best, truest Resident Evil out there, since that's the way they first saw and experienced Resident Evil in the first place. And let's not forget the people who watched the movie first and loved it, and then learned they'd actually made a game based on the movie, and then saw RE4 and didn't even wonder why a first game would have a huge 4 in the title, and then upon realizing there was no Alice in it either, they started complaining it's nothing like the movie and they were totally disappointed how the true Resident Evil had been ruined and butchered like that. Maybe they voted too.

I love RE4. I've played it countless times and I've done just about everything there is to do there. I love so many things about RE4. Seriously. It's just not better than the older games...it just doesn't feel better to me when I play it. RE4 feels a lot more like a game game rather than a whole experience captured in a game. I'm not even talking about any story, because there is none in RE4. The first thing I immediately hated about RE4 was the lack of real exploration and puzzle solving. Way too much action that could have been left for a bonus game, such as The Mercenaries, and way too much butchering of the original Resident Evil feeling by stuffing all that action into the main game.

If a 'true Resident Evil fan' cannot acknowledge that, then I would not call them a true Resident Evil fan. Therefore, I would not count their vote.

RE4 didn't ruin the series, not at all. But it lacked a lot that SHOULD have been there. If Capcom brought the old Resident Evil feeling into a new game, I would be the first to go 'BANZAAAI!!'

[Dark_Chris]

1. resident evil 4
2. resident evil remake
3. resident evil code Veronica

[missvalentine]

Totally. Worst storyline by far in the canon series. But, yes, in terms of gameplay I don't think the old games come close to 4. And just because I'm new to this site doesn't mean I'm new to the series. I've been with this franchise since the week RE1 came out on the PS1 in '96, and even I can admit that 4 and 5 are just much better games than the others.

doesn't matter when you started, you can start a series from the beginning and still not be a huge fan of it. example, i have the getaway on my PS2, so technically, iim a fan since the first game, and you know what, i didn't even bother with any after that, so when you started does not give you any credit at all. hell i started RE about a year ago, and im a hardcore classic RE fan and hate RE4 for what it's done to the series, and im a shooter fan as well.

and with Gameplay, i think the classics win by a mile in that catagory, i loved the style of gameplay they used in the classics, it was such a departure from the usual games i played, it was unique to me, and i love it so much better than i liked RE4 which i felt i had already played a million times before when i played it.

when i was playing the RE5 demo for the first time, it just felt old, like id played it a million times before already. same with RE4, after i played the RE5 demo i went and played RE3 for a little while, and it was so much better.

i think, in my opinion, that the best RE games, go in this order.

1. Resident Evil 3 NEMESIS
2. Resident Evil (Remake)
3. Resident Evil Outbreak File #2

then the rest of the classics all tie for 4th place, and RE4 gets 5th. and the RE5 demo gets 9903748923752309758923573927th.

Resident Evil 2 is actually Capcom's best selling RE.

no, it just appears that way, RE1 is the highest selling RE game, it's just capcom is retarded an counts RE1 directors cut,a dn RE1, Duel Shock edition and all the after released as complete seperate games.

if you simply add them together, not including Remake, as that is seperate, RE1 still sold higher than RE2 did.

funny thing is, capcom themselves don't know this, cause in the degeneration special features someone says RE2 was the highest selling, a common misconception.

here's my proof,and here.

[Stars_g36]

wow is this really happening...who the hell cares...

[atlier00]

I'm assuming you're adding up the totals for all SKU's here, right?

I'm going by Capcom's site.

[Alzaire]

Results for these kinds of things are going to be heavily skewed and should be taken with a grain of salt for several reasons.

First, you have to take into consideration the site doing the poll and the kind of memberbase it has that is going to answer. IGN is a more mainstream site with a more generalized population of gamers. Most of those 20,000 people were probably not real hardcore fans of the series that frequent the actual fansites. I'd probably guarantee that if the main fansites were polled the results would not be as skewed as IGNs. Even if I were to give you an RE4 win, I'd bet you it wouldn't be such an overwhelming one of 59% to RE2's 17% (comparison on the idea that RE2 is generally considered the best of the classics usually).

Also, keep in mind that 59% is not as much as an overwhelming victory as it looks. This means that 41% of the respondents picked one of the older pre-RE4 classics. Even though RE4 won the poll by itself beating all the others, taking into considering it's always been a RE4 Vs. Classics (all lumped together) argument, then I'd say the classics put up a great fight even in a mainstream poll from a site such as IGN.

The series is 13 years old now. It is no question that RE4's style attracted a ton of mainstream gamers with it's more action oriented gameplay, new controls which the mainstream liked more than the old classic controls (even if they still have some complaints), and flashy top-notch graphics. Most of these people probably never played any of the classics, and like your average person in many formats, will not or did not appreciate them as much as veterans would. There are always exceptions, as there are a decent amount of older fans who like RE4 and would agree it's the best, as well as newer fans who might have played the classics after RE4 and liked them better.

Note, I'm not bashing RE4 or anything. I'm just saying the results from a mainstream site are going to be skewed compared to what the results would be from polled fansites most likely. And that even in a mainstream poll, the classics together put up a fight with only 18% difference, making it not really a landslide victory. Still seems that a very large portion of fans, almost half, vote for the classics. With the margin of error of mainstream vs. hardcore fans, it's all probably a nearly half and half fanbase.

Also, I should say that I don't think it's too fair to call just the outspoken anti-RE4 people elitists. Many of the RE4 fans and defenders are just as nasty, bias, rude and elitist as people from the other camp (and the RE4 fans more often bait the arguments). But it seems that the veterans who stand by their opinions are branded elitists more often than the shitheads of the RE4 fans who aren't any better at all. There's nothing wrong with having difference of opinions. I just think people these days don't really seem to know how to present their opinions as opinions, they want to present them as fact or be rude about it, causing arguments and fights. But there are still decent folk on both sides of the fence at least, so it's not like everyone is bad.

[Umon Daisuke]

I'm assuming you're adding up the totals for all SKU's here, right?

[cvxfreak]

Resident Evil 2 is actually Capcom's best selling RE.

Most likely not anymore.

[Umon Daisuke]

It's really no different than what you're accusing the poster above you of.

Read his post and then mine. There is difference between saying that one style is better than another and being neutral in the sense of acknowledging it's a matter of preference. I've merely expressed strong preference to the old series. Cubed basically said that "as an old fan" he can admit that RE4/5 are much better... which is subjective and I replied that it's an opinion and ended it with that remark since I hear that claim oh so often.

When I say that neither style is definitively superior to the other, it's the truth. Then when I also said that older fans prefer the old style better, it's also truthful, or would you prefer if I said "most" old fans?

EDIT: Yeah, well I figured you read the edit. If not, feel free to have the last word.

[atlier00]

4 is quite obviously the best game. Unpopular opinion around here, but that's the way it is. And it's also quite obvious that RE4 was going to crush the competition in this list. It's by far the best rated and highest selling RE game (all iterations considered).

Resident Evil 2 is actually Capcom's best selling RE.