[JamesE]

Mention of this game sent me scurrying for the Cube to shoot some shit in the head with guns. I love this game so much.

I first played this paralytically drunk in the early hours of april 15th, 2006. A drunken man had wedgied my pants halfway off my arse, and I had been described by at least one person as "some fucked up guy". I had eaten a delicious lamb and chicken kebab. I can't remember much, except that my first spinkick decked four zombies.

The next day we spent a shameful amount of time (I was sleeping round a friend's house) screaming and laughing and shouting and passing the controller. Highlights were the lake boss, the cabin seige and the entry of the parasites. In my opinion no game is as stupidly fun and exciting to play.

Share your resident evil 4 happy times here!

[Intentionally Wrong]

Man, James. And here I'd almost resisted the urge to play from that ridiculous article. But no, you had to go and start a thread, and now I've gotta pop Four Swords Adventure out of the Wii and find my copy of RE4.

Sometimes, I'd just stop and spend a minute reorganizing my inventory.
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[unhappy days]

Man, I made my ex-girlfirend almost throw up from playing resident evil 4! Really!

Yeah!

[haircute]

I stayed home instead of going to a New Year's Eve bash just so I could play this. I don't regret it.
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[JamesE]

[diplo]

this was the game of the dorm last year

much screaming and laughing was had

especially in mercenaries where the chainsaw dude follows you around faster than you can believe

[boojiboy7]

Double Donger is my vote for best arch nemesis ever.

[Mikey]

I'm pretty glad that I didn't play any of the Resident Evil games that came before this one. This game is the perfect entry point to the series for anyone else who missed the boat like I did.

Incendiary grenades probably put too big of a smile on my face for it to be completely healthy. For some reason, I always felt safer when I had them in my inventory. They filled me with a weird bravado.

The shady arms dealer should have his own game.

[Predator Goose]

And here I thought I might never find something to agree with you on JamesE.

My favorite moments of the game have to come from the Mercenaries mode. I once found double donger asleep in a room.

"Is he asleep?"
--"I don't know."
shoots double donger with the shotgun
-Then runs, literally screaming, from the room as double donger springs to life revving up his two chainsaws.
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[ikuzobaba]

There really are too many "moments" in this game to lay out here, but I absolutely loved the boss fights. I even went sofar as to keep a save file handy before each one, just in case I wanted to show any of my nonbelieving friends. Shame about the low-capacity GC cards though (at least the older ones, aka all of mine).

I also maintain the highest score in Merc mode that I've seen without cheats, hacks and other such tomfoolery, in the village w/Wesker and some 179,000 pts or so last I checked.

Heres to hoping 5 brings with it some form of coop play....
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[Mikey]

He should be a playable character in Marvel Vs Capcom III

[Sklabah]

I love this game so much I bought it twice.

Yeah, analysing it's Freudian tendancies may be craptastic, but this game, this GAME, is so fun and cool and jugular...I really, really enjoy it, from the camp to the homages it pays to the jump-scares to the feeling you get when you finally have enough ammo and weapons to kick the ever-lovin' crap outta the base enemies.

High Point: Fighting two giants in a lava pit and dumping one into said pit, then running around like a fool trying to kill the second one without getting stomped or thrown from the scaffolding. First off, it's scary and exciting. Secondly, why was the scaffolding and zip-line there in the first place? To make a fun set piece is why! So I could have videogamey fun. Thanks, Capcom!

I'm not sorry I linked that other article. Good for a laugh. Not necessarily good. Whatevah.
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[Lestrade]

Okay, so for all RE4 lovers (I count myself among them); if you had to go back and play it, would you:

a) play the PS2 version?
b) play the GC version via Wii?

I've only played the PS2 version, as I didn't have a GameCube at the time.
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[Mr. Pointy]

Play the GC version on the Wii. The Wii makes a very sexy game even sexier.
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[Sklabah]

I'd say play the GC version for your first playthrough. Better graphics and the controls feel perfect. PS2 version is a good game with lots of extras, but it's a port, there's a slight downgrade to the graphics and... Hell, it's still great. Plus, the extra's are very worth it to me. I really liked what they added for the PS2 release.

But I won't get rid of my GC version. I'm dumb like that.
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[Lestrade]

I already played and finished the PS2 version, though I found myself a lot less interested in the extras than I thought I'd be.

Does the GC version support Dolby Pro Logic II like the PS2 version does?

EDIT: Never mind, I answered my own question.
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[firenze]

[Tim]

[Ebrey]

The only problem with RE 4 is that the village is so awesome is makes the castle disappointing. If the castle had been before the village the game would probably have been perfect.

The jump from classic RE to RE 4 is one of the biggest and best in a franchise, though. I'd like to see the GTA series get the Resident Evil 4 treatment - you know, great controls and great gameplay without taking away any of what made the previous games awesome.

[Predator Goose]

[Toups]

[dark steve]

Iron Maidens, dude. Those things freak the shit out of me every time. Although yeah, the set pieces start loosing their sense of urgency after the long walk in the rain and the cabin defense.

And the hedge maze.

And the right hand..!

[Mikey]

[Toups]

[Frequent Pilgrim]

REmake is actually amazingly well done. In my mind 4 and REmake are equally as good as each other. It probably helps that I didn't play the original before REmake.

[ani]

I just played through this game for the first time about a week ago. And I really loved it, as a guilty pleasure of sorts. It's mastered the idea of throwing a lot of different gimmicky gameplay scenarios at you for short enough periods of time where they're fun without actually feeling gimmicky, even if you know that they really are (Dynamite Headdy!).

The ending as contrasted to the beginning of the game really sucked (if you don't compare it to the beginning of the game, though, it was pretty good; the final boss was okay, and the second-to-last boss was awesome). In the beginning, upon getting the rifle and feeling amazingly all-powerful while at the same time fearing the very real possiblity of getting my head chopped off, I decided that, henceforth, if a game does not grab my attention within the first fifteen minutes, I will stop playing it.

[JamesE]

[JamesE]

[boojiboy7]

[Mikey]

RE5's protagonist should be able to grab two zombies by the head and bash them together. That's pretty much the only way you could wind up with someone more bad ass than Leon.

[JamesE]

[Predator Goose]

Wait till you unlock Hunk and Wesker. Krauser is still the best, especially since he can make clouds of blood, but those two have some fantastic quick time events.

And I really wish they would have let you play through the game with those characters. It wouldn't have made any sense, but it's not like I care about silly things like that.
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[JamesE]

STRAIGHT PUNCH

[Predator Goose]

[remote]

We all talk and talk and talk about the Silent Hill games, and at least a couple of those are really, really great, but none of them pack the sheer visceral punch that RE4 does. In no other videogame do you see a potato sack-headed motherfucker run at you screaming and chainsaw your head off, then drop your jaw and babble about how fucking awesome that was — and probably burst into a fit of laughter because of it.

A friend of mine told me that he actually couldn't continue playing beyond a point because he was terrified of being attacked from behind.
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[JamesE]

I remember vividly the end of the cabin seige first time through my health was at it's lowest ebb, and a plaga was swinging at me from some dude's neck. I'd just got the red9 sight on it when they called retreat.

Man, that was some shit.

[Dracko]

I kick so much arse with Hunk, it's ungodly. He's just so God damn brilliant.

I think the island was underwhelming after the castle. They should have set it beforehand or something, and the castle be the last area.
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[Tezcat]

This game totally defined the dynamic between me and my roomates for 2 years. I think the game (both ps2 and GC version) has been beaten about 25 to 30 times between all of us. Classic moments have been:


The Suplex. Seriously, if you haven't done it yet, pop the game in and get a zombie to kneel (shoot the lower leg), run up, and enjoy.

The first time a truck starts driving towards you while other zombies are coming at you. This was our first time, and we had already met Luis. So I see him coming, and I say, "Hey, that's my buddy." Like, he'd run over the zombies for me. Boom. Crash. I'm dead. "......Hey buddy"

Fuckin a, the double donger was awesome.

We'd just pop in this game whenever we needed to get out stress. Man it's made things great. That and god of war

[Baines]

[Ebrey]

I find it interesting that Half-Life 2, MGS 3, and RE 4 came out in relatively close proximity to each other. All three are inspired by a lot of the same American movies - blockbusters and cult classics, as opposed to arthouse stuff. All three are especially great installments of series that were already respected. All of them have FPS elements but are about more than just shooting things.

I personally love the types of movies that Kojima and Mikami and Valve are inspired by, and I like that these games evoke them in ways only a videogame could. On the other hand, there is the danger that action, sci fi and zombie flicks have been mimicked so well that people will think that's what video games do best, in the same way that for a long time people thought superheroes were what comics did best.