Are gaming forums dead? The reason I believe they are pointless spots to contribute on now, is because I made threads about RE4 on two other busy forums, and yet as of my writing this, I didn't gain any replies so far. That's sad if you think about it. The game just came out on the 24th as well!
That's certainly a common issue online these days. Forums are just not worth a toss anymore. The users either don't want to acknowledge you because I think deep down, they know I am right. Or like I said, nobody really uses forums much anymore. So it's like you're in a bar, drunk, just yapping to the first drunk sod who feels like having a chat.
Anyway, I still think RE4 is overrated. I finished it a few weeks ago. There was a lot of cut content. But I must say, it was otherwise quite good, and the cut stuff didn't drastically lower my feelings on the game, but I felt as if the new puzzles were a bit on the irritating side, initially. Although what gets up my nose is how unscary games like RE4 and 5 truly are. It's one of the primary reasons RE went downhill in the first place, in my opinion.
To be honest, I think the idea of a guy carrying an armoury in a backpack is highly dumb. When you can purchase Rambo's arsenal as opposed to finding random guns in drawers or locked rooms in a decaying city, it's just not really a horror game anymore. Also, part of the problem is that they've constantly used the same iconic characters throughout different mediums since the franchise began, some three decades ago.
Now I'm not saying I don't like the protagonists coming back. But they've certainly did this zombies gig so many times, they cannot be terried of what's going to come their way. And they can use all of these cool martial arts moves, which just looks corny.
As boring as Ethan Winters is, at least he was a new fish in a rather large pond. So maybe that's the way to go. But I mean, please don't hide his or her face in the future. You know?
You can bring in new characters, but there's no need to present them as being so monotone, and this just comes across as dull.