Excellent review as always, although I think the QTEs should have been able to be toggled on or off, instead of removed entirely. Also sounds like Yahtzee had fun at GDC, maybe he found a new indie darling.

GDC those poor people having to come to Hell. . . I mean California. SF of all places too where the weather is most unpredictable even when the weatherman tells you.

Oh shit, I'm down for the gdc diaries

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Big ups to the recognition with that early code yahtzee!

Yahtzee must be unaware that Adobe Indesign is the 3rd leading cause of death in the workplace.

It's probably more accurate than we think.

*Autodesk has entered chat*

Wait till he hears about Texas Instruments

Swat team breaches a door, shoulders their rifles, pulls trigger, click. *we're sorry, your Adobe Trigger Assembly subscription has expired*

I'd actually be amazed if you stuck a knife into a chainsaw and it didn't instantly stall tbh.

@@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa3805 More likely the chain would just deflect your knife away and down from it and you would get your wrist sawed into as the chainsaw will be at full power when he is swinging it at you.

Yeaaaaah, Yahtzee is trying to have it both ways: "it's not as ludicrous as it used to be" vs. "it's ludicrous you can block a chainsaw with a KNIFE." He wants his hardcore item management and difficulty, but WHY DOES THE KNIFE BREAK?!

@@keith3761 You can try yourself and jam a knife in. The chain will catch and the thing stall.

It's an upgrade from the original, you could only parry the chainsaw with your body.

I wondered what that was about at the start. Ok, that's amazing!

I never would have noticed that. Great catch. You have to admire this man's consistency.

Lol, I thought it was more like "Sooooo, Capcom..." but this is much better

When the video started I was like, "I wonder how long into the video it'll be before Yahtzee explains that one." But I knew he'd explain it eventually. Only thing that might have been funnier would be for his very last line to be something about a fuck you so hard it loops back to the start of the video.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who did this

It's simultaneously unsettling and hilarious to see Yahtz with a mouth...

Presumably to be used along with various phallically shaped objects

it's got a subtle cyanide and happiness vibe to it i think

It kinda looks like he's getting into position for that foreign porno.

Welp

There's only around 12. Little rough, don't you think?

I don't know maybe they said no thanks "bro"

Idk bluey

I went to type one but my right hand came off.

All the funny comments are atleast

It's like a cow cooperating with the butcher

Poor, Capcom. They were so sure he'd love this since he praised the original.

@@DanGamingFan2846 "This is like the original, but more bland and boring! How could he not love it?!" -Someone at Capcom who apparently doesn't actually watch ZP

@@ProjectEkerTest33 Maybe one day Yahtzee will have whipped publishers into being more like the cows in the Hitchhiker's Guide series.

Hey, gotta respect a publisher who puts their games in front of someone as famously acerbic as Yahtzee. It takes real balls to dangle yours in front of a rabid crocodile like that. Besides, I’m still interested in getting this game eventually just to see how it differs from the original. By Yahtzee’s standards, this review was practically positive. He only just barely mauled Capcom for blandifying a beloved classic.

She's probably used to it

The dog probably howls when he does it if it's anything like my dog.

She's probably more surprised when he doesn't do that.

So they pulled an Animal Crossing New Horizons. Your friendly NPCs just can't get mad at you, whatsoever.

Adios leon....

​@@Heavenlyhounds96 Well it's not that he doesn't get mad, he just kind of dies for a little bit because you shot him in the face. He gets better.

Considering how chaotic the cabin fight is in hardcore, i think they initially had that feature and the scrapped It After they kept getting killed by Luis by accident

@@evilchicken314 Well it's only friendly fire. Hardly a reason to miss work.

FR, lol~

"my knife has a fucking subscription fee" had me wheezing

"Is that a knoyfe?" with strong Australian accent ;-)

Dundee: That's not a knife. This is a- damnit! It just degraded.

@@DanGamingFan2846 Cuz it's a spoon! Ya... spoon!

Standing heeeeeeere, I reaaaaliiiiiiize!

Nano machines Leon

THEN HIS RIGHT HAND COULD COME OFF-- WDILSHKVCLIASHVDIL

"Why won't you die?!" "Las Plagas, son! It hardens in response to dismemberment!"

Can't wait for the mod that adds a RULES OF NATURE audio sting every time you parry the chainsaw

Honestly, chain saws are not that good at cutting through metal so it probably would ruin the chainsaw and the knife. They can be a bit fussy. The real issue is how is Leon's grip strength that of a god's.

@@uberculex there’s also his eyes surviving all the sparks and shards of chain

@@Tickerchicken his eyes are shielded by his magical perpetually perfect hair

In terms of realism? None, but this is RE. In terms of game design? Some

It wouldn't be that unsensible compared to the nonsensical nature of the game itself, except that in the early chainsaw scene the chainsaw is literally shown to cut through things like solid wood like it's a light-saber instantaneously rather than being a chainsaw. Gameplay-wise I actually like the idea of being able to parry it, though, as long as it's not easy and is still extremely risky. Some might argue this takes the tension out of it - but I think that loss of tension is worthwhile to some extent if it makes you feel like a badass for pulling something like that off. Kinda like how I felt about Alien Isolation, my favorite pure horror game experience of all time (I wouldn't count RE4 or games like Dead Space as "pure horror"). In that game you'll die to the Alien if you get caught and mostly need to sneak around, but there are times where you can stun it and escape later in the game as it is sprinting towards you which while making it "easier" also are very cathartic and tense experiences in their own right.

That moment HAS to be clipped!! It's too glorious not too! I keep replaying that part over and over laughing as much as I did the first time it's just that fucking good!

Now I know how all those demons in DOOM felt... It's not as fun on this side of the chainsaw instakill...

It's been removed?? Now I'm definitely not buying it

Great now how else am I supposed to get my rocks off

@@meloncholy428 F

I will never get this obsession when nowadays we have high polygon models of every conceivable female NPC with modeled genitals and are THIS close to making infinite amounts of specialised AI porn. "But noooo, C cant cum without those piss-yellow pixels of ashleys panties that I saw hints of during my early days of puberty" is kind of an awkward phrase to mutter when your first blind date questions the amount of weirdly crusty figurines next to your bed.

​@@kismet8010 instead her character became great and enjoyable

I'm not, because I'll just play the original.

First quote I checked for was going back to the car at the beginning for the "Did you forget your makeup or something?" and was greatly disappointed.

Something was different, and I didn't clap.

The original still has its place. The remake changed certain thing enough to keep the OG unique.

On that note, fuck BotW 2 for keeping the weapon degradation

​@@malikoniousjoe I'll tell you what concerns me with tears of the kingdom is they claim it started as DLC for breath of the wild which I find interesting because it was pretty clear that they intended to do three DLCs so that means they withheld a DLC to start developing a new game based off of that DLC and much like the epilogue of a good story you can only take it so far although it's worth going deeper into the world of breath of the wild I hope that it turns out to be a good game

It’s a strange gameplay scenario when you opt to use handgun ammo to save on knife durability.

Ostin Powers with zombies

Don't forget all the guys who make nude mods for the characters in the game.

When you remake a very popular game and the best achievement you get out of it is "we gave the R34 creators a lot of feedstock", that is not positive praise of your skills.

@@JohnSmith-of2gu good comment, have a like

@@JohnSmith-of2gu did people even bother with making OW2 porn.

​@@JohnSmith-of2gu what else? If your game doesn't get R34 treatment, was it ever a good game to begin with? I propose that it was, indeed, not.

You're just older, but you aren't old :D

You don’t miss it, I like Ashely being a character not a stereotype now. Ada ironically is weak link now but that’s mainly voice acting.

@@li-limandragon9287he does miss it

@@cornfed_corn5628Nobody who doesn’t self harm misses OG Ashlin’s screaming. She’s way better now.

Nah, they traded that for a scene of Ada saying "lol nope" to Wesker when he flat out admitted he was going to use Las Plagas for genocide.

Ashley flirts with him more now. Sucks the Hunnigan thing didn't happen.

@@thebuddah1253 Hunnigan was hotter.....at least in the OG, new Ashley is pretty cute though, especially since she isn't Sandy from Spongebob anymore....what's her canonical age so I can decide how to feel about a fictional character that doesn't matter?

@@TheBfutgreg I think she's 20 in the remake

@@thebuddah1253 This getting weird. She was 20 in the original. Why do people think she was underage?

Happened in remake for me

Me ;-;

The hedge maze was surprisingly one of the few things that didn't change much in the remake. I still remembered the dog spawn spots and certain treasures. I had an easier time there than I thought.

Once I realized how easy it was to cheese the dogs I barely even used any ammo

Well that's what happens when you play a game 30 times or so.

Yeah, and it sucks. The controls are terrible. I say this as someone who's played every RE game from the first until this remake, and beat the original 4 many times. The new games just flat out have better controls and make for a more polished experience, even if you lose a bit of the silliness.

@@hollandscottthomas I think you'll find that it *rules*, and the controls are great, actually 🤓 Jokes aside: the original is great. Can't speak for the remake. I just know that the original is bloody fantastic, and it's only real problem is honestly the QTEs, since they're insanely difficult on hard when playing with 60fps haha

@@SillyPillow lock the game at the original FPS. If a game wasn’t made for such variable FPSs, then it’s better to not make it try to meet them for basically exactly this reason, timings can get messed up and much faster if something was linked to frame rate

​@@lazydroidproductions1087 I'm aware. It's really only the QTEs that are noticeably impacted in RE4, and it's only really a big issue on hard. At least that's the only thing I remember noticing.

@@hollandscottthomas OG RE4 is one of my favourite games of all times and I think the controls work fine for the game they designed. BUT I absolutely agree that the purists are just lying to themselves that this isn't just an objectively WAY better playing video game lol. The movement, shooting, melee, knife, added stealth kills all feels, looks and sounds WAY better. Especially on PC at 120 FPS , being able to accurately nail my shots like John Wick is perfectly balanced by the faster and more overwhelming numbers of enemies. Some of the other changes are understandably a little more controversial, but particularly in terms of combat and gameplay I think this is just an across the board massive improvement! It's still one of the best paced, most satisfying action games of all times and now with modernized controls and movement it feels 10 x better

the campy vs sensible is in the context of the tone of the game and the parrying is a game mechanic not the tone

@@ultimatehamsandwich734 You parry a chainsaw.

@@ultimatehamsandwich734 Um the game mechanics are absolutely part of the tone lol, and the tone is clearly still in the realm of camp. They clearly also wanted it to be more of a horror game with a darker atmosphere, and I think they nailed the balance. There's still tons of silliness and 1 liners

He was saying it's more sensible to give players a way to block damage, and he was specifically referring to getting one hit killed by the chainsaw. It's sensible to have a counter to that. That's what he meant.

these people havent played the actual game lmao...

Yeah I'm certain that 90% of the people agreeing with Yahtzee's ridiculous nostalgia whore fanboying didn't even play the remake.

It annoys me how so many people are just parroting Yahtzee's opinions

@@TheRedCap30 WELCOME TO THE INTERNET PAL

The villains are definitely way more serious. Saddler lost all of his personality, Ramon is pretty toned downed and Krauser is literally a disenfranchised, traumatised veteran. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it seems clear to me that they were trying to overall be more serious.

It's not a matter of the quips so much as that the quips aren't cringe enough. Leon is too competent, and part of the charm of his one liners in RE4 was how insanely cringe they were.

@@qaenyin Zoomer moment. Leon's quips in the original were not cringy at all. Leon in the og was charismatic, fun, and his oneliners perfectly matched the tone of the game. Remake Leon is boring as shit, and you can say the same about almost all the other characters, especially the antagonists.

@@aiceriz7923 Leon in RE4 is similar to Dante in DMC3: they're so lame that they're wrap right back around to being cool. His one-liners were terrible and any time he talks to Ada he sounds like he wants to suck her toes. That was the appeal of the character, at least to me (and it was a fairly believable development from the lovesick idiot he is in RE2). RE4R Leon in turn is a believable development of the RE2R Leon. It's just different, and given that the remakes haven't overwritten the originals ala Warcraft 3 Deforged or the GTA Trilogy I find the changes acceptable.

@@aiceriz7923 nostalgia moment. Re4 is like Tommy Wiseau's The Room of the resident evil franchise. Yahtzee likes laughing AT the game not with it. I do, too, though because it's utterly bonkers in a very entertaining way.

​@@enterprise9001 I heavily disagree. DMC3 Dante was actually cool, super fun, and it's the only good written version of his character in the entire series with a proper character arc to boot. The only "lame" aspect of his character was his deliberately juvenile cocky attitude early on that made you think that he was full of himself, which is something that he grows out of throughout the game which is directly tied to his character arc focused around him growing into his father's footsteps. His character became lame in DMC4&5 when they turned him into flanderized clown with no purpose in the story. Also: "any time he talks to Ada he sounds like he wants to suck her toes" Did we play the same series? RE4 Leon clearly cared about her but he never sounded like a simp and he never let his feelings cloud his judgment, that's why he chases her after she stole the sample. The Damnation movie shows that he can act plenty casual around her and RE6 shows that he's lovesick and cannot let her go, to the point where he's willing to protect her with his life. Og games also hinted that Ada clearly has feelings for him despite everything. I don't see it at all in REmake 4.

Same. And even some of the boss characters have a bit of personality and back story now. Chief Mendez likes photography! Or did before he was turned into a Crombie. There's more focus on what would be called "standard" character development and interaction. Like, obviously I miss some of the camp nonsense but over all I'm very happy with how this turned out.

I agree, Ashley came across as way more likeable and her interactions are much more cute, but I feel like the lack of camp kind of takes away from some characters. Salazar is honestly the best example of this. He went from the comedic highlight of the game to sort of a forgettable antagonist imo.

​@@northseapirate2313 Personally I thought Salazar was very interesting; He's a small and repulsive heir to a line of legendary heroes, and grew up on their stories while receiving nothing but disgust and contempt from everyone around him. So when Leon shows up like a modern hero, Salazar treats him with a surprising respect by calling him a "knight" and treating their conflict as theatrical. He only drops the act when Leon goes off script by shooting him during a monologue. I think it's really clever that they adapted the original's campiness into someone more Romantic and Theatrical to fit the greater focus on horror. Granted, it's not exactly clear and requires you to read random files across the castle so I'm sure a lot of people missed it.

No lie. Hell I wouldn't mind if Ashley actually followed through with wanting to be an agent and showed up in re9

@@CryoJnik An Ashley / Rose (RE8) teamup could be interesting for sure.

They never did settle on one actress for her did they. Each was good but it would have been nice to be consistent.

@@Red-S-267 I say original re 4 and re6 of ada's voice actors were good. I feel this lady is new to voice acting.

Saw this on an another video so it may not be true but apparently it's the voice actor from one of recent CG movies? Hard agree though I had mental whiplash when I heard her for the first time.

@@CboTheSecond She's the lady that played Ada in the cameo at the end of the new live action movie.

I’m pretty sure a white woman played Ada in RE2 remake

Which is a different take on his pinning his hand to the wall with a knife which was also hilarious.

@@ProxyDoug Oh, so that's what happened in the original! I knew I remembered something similar happening in that game as well. I would argue pinning his hand with a damn knife was cooler, but fuck me if I'd ever throw my precious knife in the remake. That shit's a premium comodity there.

@@ProxyDoug They added another hilarious detail about Ramon: He's allergic to eggs. I don't remember which log has it but apparently he has an allergy to eggs and that's been implemented into gameplay aswell, if you throw an egg directly at ramon during the bossfight he gets stunned while a golden egg will take away 70% of his max hp and also stun him which is just hilarious to think about, dude's only weaknesses are Rocket launchers and eggs

I don't get why people are saying this because the game is still campy is fuck. Leon spouts one liners ever 2 seconds, he parries chainsaws with a knife, and even more. It's slower in the first third but really picks up by the end and never strays away from the campy bullshit.

​@@Sayiism I think it's because it feels like the game takes itself a lot more seriously during cutscenes. It's not like the camp doesn't seep in during some dialogue, but overall the tone when out of combat dialogue happens feels like it's somewhat more realistic, and less deliciously schlocky stuff like "you're small time" I definitely agree there's still plenty of camp and Leon does his fair share to get that across, but it does feel like the game reins it in a little compared to the original

It was really the dialogue mixed with the tank controls that gave it the perfect balance of B Movie Horror. It's not as scary when I can react twice as fast as I used to be able. Plus, the laser sight was a fun way to aim.

New gamers could already play the original because it’s literally everywhere

@@BloodyMistGeneral the laser sight is still in the game and easily attainable which you’d know if you actually played the remake instead of living off of Yahtzee opinions

@@UomoPolpetta The original's controls are shiiiiiiiiiiiiit by modern standards tho. I beat the hell out of that game on the GC, but it's borderline unplayable now.

@@2canwin635 I think they might mean by using the Wiimote's pointer, which was indeed a rad way to play the game.

He explicitly said that it was meant in a mechanical sense. It's more sensible to give the player an option to survive an instakill because instakills with no recourse can feel unfair, and common sense in game design is to make the game feel fair to the player.

@@brodericksiz625 So the game becomes more hammy thematically (which is good for what RE4 is going for) but more sensible mechanically (which is good for any game, period) And that's somehow a bad thing?

​@gracecalis5421 no its worse because parrying chainsaw with knife is dumb and the original was way better

​@@TheCommanderjoeSeethe.

@@shelbyherring92 grrrr how dare u 😤

Yeah. She really does nail the "College girl in the early 2000s in a b-horror movie" vibe with her dialogue without being too obnoxious and actually becomes less obnoxious later because she's actually getting used to the insane shit by now. An unexpected, but needed change.

They shouldn't bother he's just going to ignore anything that you accomplish and nit pick arbitrary shit because it's not what he likes from 25 years ago

@@brentblayoneblayone3948 Bruh.....😂 Why are you here if ya hate him so much? We all already know what you said. Every company knows it too. Which is why none of them send review codes to the escapist. I'm saying capcom was the only one that had the courage to send a review code despite knowing all this so good for them.

@@brentblayoneblayone3948 To be fair if his "review" which is known for taking the piss is going to sway your opinion on the game, you were on the fence about it anyway and probably weren't going to bother, they're for entertainment first and foremost. If you're interested in something, you'd get it, if a Yhatz review is what companies fear, then they're focusing on the wrong things. Even games he praises he takes the piss out of.

@@User-Ryan135 yeah when it comes to propper “reviews”, Yahtzee isn’t particularly talented at it, & you could probably find far better critics pretty easily. It’s primarily for the presentation, - I.e. snark & wordplay ~ but even, then it’s a kind of humor that may be very dated or just lacking depending on who you ask. From my own perspective he’s only become nicher & “samey” as time went on. But RE4 is his baby as it is mine, so it’s only fair I listen.

@@puffythedestroyer8878 His tastes have changed as he has, and as he states these are his opinions, it's his verdict on how he sees them, his experience. Yours may differ, it may not, I like the humour as much as the insights he gives into development and production from the back end soemtimes

Honestly as Disney has proven in recent years when remaking something the best you can hope for is that it’s as good as the original, the worst you can hope for is that it’s lesser but still fun regardless. You can’t reinvent the wheel but you can sure as hell build on the basic concept.

No just that yahtzee is aggressively wrong for one video

Same

Two women weilding chainsaws come at him and he literally says "I am flattered but I'm a one girl type of guy."

​@@GuyOnAChair he's so meta that he reference games he isn't even in "I was almost a pancake" or Ashley calling herself the master of unlocking

He means sensible in a game design sense, not realistic.

@@Burger_Nun watch the context of his rant. He refences things such as Salazar statue and Leon's personally. Camp doesn't even mean anything interm of game design

@@angellara7040 lmao what? The context is literally him talking about how adding the parry is sensible in terms of game design, specifically him talking about getting one hit killed by the chainsaw, and how it's more sensible to add a way for players to dodge that. He said THAT is sensible.

True, the Umbrella corporation covered it up, and will obviously repeat their mistakes, so Leon wanted to be prepared for next time. I miss the arrogant smarmy quipping, but this is a more serious version, it would have been much worse.

Sure, logically, it makes sense as a character turn... but in terms of tone, it's way more *fun* to have him be a snarky B-movie badass quipping his way through hordes of cartoonishly evil villains. "More realistic" is not synonymous with "better" and it's high time a lot of people realize that.

@@Mrinsecure This all the way, the last 10-15 years have been filled with writing tropes that are easily summed up as "more realistic" or "more serious" with disregard to how a unique tone can matter more than anything in a story, and I can only assume it's just following the scent of the money through the MCU taking the path of "what if comical thing but serious" I'm not going to say Capcom did a bad job at it, because that'd be a big fat lie but I will say that the tropes in the writing have worn themselves out just as much as the Hollywood actors in what is best (or worst) described as gritty spandex, and it is about time that the snowglobe of trends gets shaken up a bit now that all the stuff that abused the writing tropes the worst are going belly-up.

thats the point tho... making the character more "sensible" removes the contrast between the serious and the fun sides of the game in the original. the remake is more of on the serious side. which is a bit of a bummer but still a great remake

It's Resident Evil though, does it need to be that serious? Do people really feel like they need to have the characters act realistically and have PTSD over the constant terrifying extremely violent situations they end up in? I know it's horror but come on, RE4 in particular is not that serious. Even the more recent games have been pretty campy with shit like the chainsaw duel in 7 or the woman who shoots bugs out of her crotch and the OP hillbilly who just fucking punches all the monsters to death, or in 8 the bit where you fight a dragon and later on have a mecha battle. And those games still managed to be scary and have good survival horror gameplay while being full of silly shit like that, it isn't even like some tradeoff where you have to sacrifice the horror or the more slow-paced, strategic gameplay in exchange for the fun campiness. RE7 showed you could have both.

No cutscene qte but they have some sick dodges that are still there

It does have a cool end event early thing tho. Just shoot the bell with the rifle! (Don't think that in original I find that neat)

@@OneofmanyASMR i remember shooting the bell to test it out and it working when i first played the og a decade or so ago, are you sure its not there?

@@OneofmanyASMR really wow i gotta do that my next olay thru awesome

​@@marcosdheleno It's not there, otherwise speedrunners would do that instead of wasting 2 granades in RNG positions to get the 13 ganado kills to progress the stage, it's a new addition that the remake introduced

@@marcosdheleno you can shoot the bell once you reach the church in the original and all it does is spawn a few Ganados, in the remake you can shoot the bell from the village and end the siege early. In the OG you do have the Ada campaign though in which it's revealed that she rang the bell for Leon, so maybe you're remembering that? I can't remember if you physically have to shoot the bell as Ada though or if it's just a cutscene or something.

Yeah. I get his channel is kind of trying to find the bad things and making them funny, but RE4 Remake has way more replayability than the original.

Not sure why Yahtzee wants a QTE back now that I think about it...

They combined the giant robot and fire-breathing statues from the lava room into a single obstacle for the Gigante gauntlet, which i felt worked great.

U-3 is just another Verdugo though

U 3 is retconned into being the Verdugo. The notes call the Novistadors U-2, named after the guy who made them. And then the same guy later creates the Verdugo and then turns himself into one calling them "U-3"

The best fight int the entire game. Horrifying, Intense, heart racing fear. Cut for what? Less fun...

​@@SlackerXYZ wdym Salazar is still the boss of castle and he's so much better

I genuinely didn't like U3/IT but it looks like it will be in seperate ways.

Word is IT is being saved for an Ada DLC as IT'S suspended areana works better for her Grappling Hook gameplay.

I feel like I'm the only one who was glad they cut U3. Like, its just Verdugo again. Except where Verdugo is built up with the ominous cloaked figure appearing before, and is cool because its half a boss fight and half a "just survive this" encounter, U3 appears out of nowhere with no build up aside form a single radio call immediately beforehand, and then is just a basic "kill this asshole" fight.

@@Nofixdahdress Yeah, I wouldn't say I'm glad it was cut, but it's not a fight I liked and felt very little for that boss in particular.

IT was part of the reason why the island was a slog in the OG imo

there's DOZENS of us!

No bingo line or Napoleon lookalike would have been a deal breaker.

Yeah, he'd probably never stop.

Yeah, even I will admit as some who liked the remake, it was odd what they chose to keep and yeet out the window..

When I found out that Capcom removed the "ballistics" joke, it told me everything I needed to know about this game

Bingo

Doesn’t he say one liners in combat now?

Thing is, he had less opportunities in the narrative to be a shithead because he no longer keeps in touch with Saddler or Salazar on the radio

Yeah he drops a ton of one liners and they're delightfully dumb. The game keeps the camp and just adds more horror, which was absolutely lacking for most of OG RE4. Yahtzee's just salty and incredibly biased against any modern AAA game.

@@brentblayoneblayone3948 I’m really looking forward to playing it.

I even remember a video of him describing that he wishes that RE doesn't go through the same cycle of being cheesy action games again and now he's complaining about it even if it retains plenty of cheesiness.

His voice is also way lamer

I think this remake might not be its not the same. I think the effect of time is a lot worse for games then it is films and games are often not available in a reasonable way for a new player because its not on a system they currently have access to. Think graphics and mechanics mean a game dates a lot quicker then a film that is less true now but there are a lot of games that are 15 to 20 years old that arent that new player friendly. For example i think the re1 and re2 remakes make a lot more sense then this one

I think in concept, a remake or maybe something closer to a remaster makes sense on some level. Even as someone who beat the original back when it was new , going back to the controls and, although smooth for the time, now somewhat clunky movement are difficult to go back to. Having to stop moving to aim would put a lot of people off these days, and having to then aim with the same stick you use to move is really jaring. (And personally I don't think it's jaring in a way that adds to the sense of horror like fixed camera in Silent Hill or the original RE games) Apparently the modern consoles ports fix that part. And honestly the new graphics are a welcome addition. The fact they changed the tone is where the biggest problem it seems, but hey if someone who wouldn't play the original because how off putting the controls are plays this, well at least they are playing a version of one of my favorites games ever made, even if it isnt the version that I fell in love with.

@@kurobara3the way games age quicker is a huge reason remakes are a thing. I actually think RE4's dated bits feel like the clash more with it being in the style of a modern action game. Fixed camera, tank control games feel like a genera that doesn't really exist any more that I honestly feel less frustrated playing them. That might just be me though.

It exists because the controls for the orginal are dogshit

Resident Evil 4 Remake is campy as hell. Yahtzee is high, man. If there's one thing I don't get, is saying that it's "ashamed" of the OG. It's just better written, which is you know, to be expected from a remake with twenty years of hindsight. There's still a ludicrous amount of goofy shit. And that's great.

I think Nick Apostalides even said they wanted to try something else but that it was just too iconic that they had to put it back in. I mean, let's be real - that's perhaps the ONE thing that if it were removed entirely would have sunk this game.

You truely cant catch lighning in a bottle twice

I think Yahtz himself once said something to the effect of art being a response to limitations

The camp is also still here Leon ends most fights with a one liner and makes quips and little jokes with ashley all the time in the game.

Ah well since it was only accidentally good I guess that means it never really was good at all then? What the fuck kind of opinion is this

@@AnotherCraig Thats one of the issues with the re4 remake you can easily aim at anything. In the orginal you had to be calm and careful,now you can just snap onto enemies. I feel like it will be a similar Situation with the Silent Hill 2 Remake that game cannot be made in the modern day.

If you're being rushed and got a memo, he's Spanish. Which is likely what happened in the original

For future reference, "not unironically" can also be written as "ironically". Or perhaps the double negative was unintentional?

@@hazukichanx408 it was intentional, I was quoting him verbatim for comedic effect

Yeah the ganado are on steroids in the remake, they can throw like a pitcher too.

No the REm4ke is still camp as a drag queen reciting Maleficent’s baby shower monologue, it’s just slightly less in-your-face goofy and Leon’s one liners are more context-appropriate instead of being complete non-sequitors. “Saddler, you’re small time” has been replaced with a full on dad joke that’s too excellent to spoil

The game is still full of camp, but it's less of cockiness and more comedic cope the characters are doing to the horror.

The camp and shlock is not gone at all , Yahtzee just hates literally everything

Have we been playing different games? That is literally the remake, Leon constantly spouts one liners.

I mean in remake he tells the big cheese In his second phase that it looks like his tap dancing days are over. And the end of the fight is followed up with the most bad ass thing Leon's probably ever said "give my regards to your god".