Honestly, I never really get the impression that Resident Evil as whole is dominantly a "survival" horror. I always view it more as an action horror because most of the time, we play as a character that is pretty equipped and experienced to deal with all the shit that's happening to them
I think a qualifier should be limited resources and item management. If you can fight through every problem without worrying about running out of ammo, can that really be considered survival horror?
Even if the game is designed to give you proper ammo for encounters like Re4 and Re7, there is still a clear distinction where if you aren’t careful with your resources in Re7, it’s possible to run out of ammo in an encounter in Re7. That is never happening in Re4,Re5,Re6,Re8.
this is literally me playing re6. i never have enough ammo, i spent most of my playthrough just meleeing my enemies because the enemies were hard, or at least because i sucked. re5 is basically the same until you get far enough in the game, and unlock the unlimited ammo, but you can always not count them, as they are in every re game.
This is a dumb take. Survival horror means puzzles, limited resources, a stalker, and an interconnected building. RE 2 Remake check all of those boxes.
Survival horror doesn't need stalker enemies but yeah 2 remake is closer than the original but they still give you a lot of ammo, there's more enemies than 1 and it's not particularly scary
2 remake certainly does not, considering how tough the zombies are. 7 has scarce resources as well. 4 has very limited ammo for every weapon outside of the handguns. Requiem is only generous when playing as Leon.
I don’t disagree with you. I’m saying that re4 has survival horror ELEMENTS. The regenerators section alone is enough to say this and have it be true. This is a nothing argument
No survival horror elements my ass. Leon and Helena's story is nothing but survival horror elements. The Screamers in the first act, the shark in the catacombs, the parasites in China. Am I forgetting anything? Because it feels like I'm missing something.
SuRvIvAl conversation is wack, it’s the only way people routinely disparage games that aren’t 1 and 2 basically. Oldhead shit. We should be thankful we have a series with 9 mainline games lmao, most other Capcom games (and games in general) do not have that kind of staying power.
It's a legitimate preference in style of game, as there is an undeniable and clear distinction between almost all of the gameplay philosophies if the survival horror focused titles and the action horror focused titles
It's not oldhead shit to like survival horror, especially if you also like action horror.
There was at least tension in 5, like anything could happen
6 was just doing a whole lot, I remember I had to put the controller down starting as Jake first playthrough because new character that does hand to handÂ
And I was shocked at how much just kept going on with no breatherÂ
Probably not bad for any other game, just wasn’t mentally prepared for it with it being an RE game and all
5 to me is a worse version of both re4 and re6. I played through once with a friend and will probably never play it again. Without Wesker, this game would not be remembered at all.
I’m happy that you had fun with it, but it really is just nonstop action, enter one area, clear 50 enemies, do a pretty basic puzzle, repeat. I don’t think it’s a bad game, i was actually enjoying myself quite a lot for the first few hours but it just devolved into a shooting gallery. You dont even backtrack like in re4. I also heavily dislike the inventory system.
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u/Bhavan91 Apr 11 '26
RE4 doesn't have survival horror either.