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[@theescapist]

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[@44Quantum]

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.

[@Ragetiger1]

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.

[@superanxiety261]

Oh shit, I'm down for the gdc diaries

[@rocko7711]

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[@zackwarrington7272]

Big ups to the recognition with that early code yahtzee!

[@scaper12123]

“I didn’t realize Adobe were getting into the weapons business.” This statement is both hilarious and alarmingly sensible…

[@brianward1292]

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

[@DanGamingFan2406]

It's probably more accurate than we think.

[@stormtempterf8058]

*Autodesk has entered chat*

[@billybob7653]

Wait till he hears about Texas Instruments

[@kanmeridoc1784]

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

[@fighteer1]

I heard “sensible” and then I heard “parrying a chainsaw with a knife” and then I had a little accident in my brain.

[@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa3805]

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

[@keith3761]

@@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.

[@TheOvy]

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?!

[@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa3805]

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

[@yukiokami8380]

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

[@venomsnekko]

Jokes like the retroactive "Fuck yoooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" that made me rewind the video to see if it actually did start with that, are why I subscribed to this channel.

[@wanderingrandomer]

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

[@DanGamingFan2406]

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

[@Mene0]

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

[@hackcubit9663]

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.

[@lukeblackman6508]

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

[@ArifRWinandar]

I hope we get to see more of Yahtzee's "-oooou" sprite in the future.

[@weirdTedE91]

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

[@thecryingsoul]

Presumably to be used along with various phallically shaped objects

[@Chaosrain112]

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

[@half_real]

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

[@SpacedOut311]

Welp

[@Asaski09]

That 'fuck youuuu' timeloop was excellent.

[@Gboy86ify]

Gotta feel bad for Kess having to hear Yahtzee going “OOOOOOOOO” the entire night while trying to sleep.

[@ratking1608]

She's probably used to it

[@OdaSwifteye]

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

[@DanGamingFan2406]

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

[@jordanj809]

I wasn’t expecting this until mid April. Astonishing to see a publisher cooperate with Yatz

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

It's like a cow cooperating with the butcher

[@DanGamingFan2406]

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

[@hazukichanx408]

@@DanGamingFan2406 "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

[@LanceThumping]

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

[@Xenobears]

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.

[@USMC49er]

Where are all the comments at? Bingo?

[@AKidNamedHiggs]

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

[@coltoncarreras6694]

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

[@Conejoazul2018]

Idk bluey

[@conorskerritt-morgan4045]

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

[@musalmaniac6328]

All the funny comments are atleast

[@spenceduggs]

I genuinely thought the beginning of the video was cut awkwardly - how silly I seem now, having doubted Yahtzee's writing chops

[@mikedawolf95]

5:10 the one thing that they removed that I didn’t like was that if you shoot Luis too many times he turns on you and shoots you and giving you a game over.

[@Heavenlyhounds96]

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

[@H3Vtux]

Adios leon....

[@evilchicken314]

​@@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.

[@mariozappini7784]

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.

[@michaelbourland1238]

"You need to go back to the dollar store and get a refund on your knife Leon, mate!" is going to be occupying real estate in my mind for a while.

[@MintyCoolness]

FR, lol~

[@Triceratopping]

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

[@igorthelight]

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

[@DanGamingFan2406]

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

[@CD-Gaming]

@@DanGamingFan2406 Cuz it's a spoon! Ya... spoon!

[@axis6333]

The "O lasting until the beginning of this video" along with seemingly cutting the S off of "So capcom" for the opening line was really clever

[@jackobrien47]

My favourite reaction to this game was the schizopost that listed every single instance of Ashley's panties being shown that had been removed from the remake. He went into quite a lot of detail.

[@kismet8010]

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

[@meloncholy428]

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

[@jackobrien47]

@@meloncholy428 F

[@IplayTeemoasaWard]

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.

[@FIREDAN075]

​@@kismet8010 instead her character became great and enjoyable

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

The biggest winners aren’t even fans or capcom themselves: it’s all the porn animators that get fresh work injected into their coomer veins the same way Fromsoft game theorists were huffing on fumes before Elden Ring showed up to ensure they can have enough content for another half a dozen winters.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

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

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

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.

[@rikusschulze6249]

@@JohnSmith-of2gu good comment, have a like

[@art-cs6us]

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

[@LuisSoto-fw3if]

​@@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.

[@justaghostinthesea]

That "Oooh" gag was probably the most brilliant bit of comedy I've seen in a while

[@RatBashTurd]

"That's a nice full health bar you've got there. Show it to someone who gives a shit! Bzzzzzz!" is one of my all time favorite Yahtzee lines now.

[@abuttnugget6753]

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!

[@Veladus]

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

[@amiableconciliator697]

In what world *parrying* a chainsaw with a *knife* is MORE sensible ?!

[@uberculex]

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.

[@Tickerchicken]

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

[@ArifRWinandar]

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

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

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

[@echomjp]

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.

[@johnolivera2369]

That "ooooooo" joke was so good.

[@jadenprice1463]

the only way the game would have been improved in a remake would have been if you got to fight the giant salazar robot with him piloting it senator armstrong style

[@LeQuack147]

Standing heeeeeeere, I reaaaaliiiiiiize!

[@deemedlight3647]

Nano machines Leon

[@MintyCoolness]

THEN HIS RIGHT HAND COULD COME OFF-- WDILSHKVCLIASHVDIL

[@ArifRWinandar]

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

[@lamborghinea-pig5663]

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

[@hamsterhuey3880]

"My knife has a fucking subscription fee." Classic

[@malikoniousjoe]

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

[@RabidNemo]

​@@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

[@ElJefeRules]

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

[@9seed.]

That opening brick gag, holy fuck that was good.

[@MindOfGenius]

2:24 I'm gonna miss that "...Your right hand comes off?" line.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

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

[@GldnClaw]

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.

[@kristoffer8609]

Something was different, and I didn't clap.

[@ghostpinguin]

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

[@causewaybob3651]

Surprise shotgun party is probability the best way to describe the original

[@Birmanncat]

Ostin Powers with zombies

[@jordanj809]

With the way, Yahtzee has banged on about this game incessantly for the past 15 years I was prepared to listen to him for over an hour. That outro music was like a sucker punch reminder that these are only 5 minutes

[@strangebot8492]

I'm kinda baffled by some of the comments in this. Leon is constantly spouting quips and one-liners and Ashely has plenty of goofy fun moments. I played through RE4 countless times, and yeah it's not QUITE as campy as the original, but I never once thought it was taking itself seriously.

[@MarkMightBeBetter]

these people havent played the actual game lmao...

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

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

[@TheRedCap30]

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

[@Discombobulate453]

@@TheRedCap30 WELCOME TO THE INTERNET PAL

[@LegendaryPlank]

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.

[@gerardotejada2531]

There is a big crowd that loves RE original trilogy and HATES RE4, because It was campy action instead of survival horror. This remake is for them.

[@SanFran51]

Plus the only reason it was originally Campy not scary because the original RE4 was a PRODUCTION NIGHTMARE and the script was written in two and a half weeks. Hence why the ideas in the original is so undercooked.

[@seokkyunhong8812]

​@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 so you love it?

[@widexawake_]

I don't hate the OG RE4 because it's too "Camp." My favourite RE in the series is Code Veronica. I hate the OG RE4 because while it revolutionised action games (for better or worse) it's a god awful Resident Evil game.

[@LEWIS1992]

Other stuff that got cut: incendiary grenades, the choice of 2 different paths after the cabin fight, and a version of Ramon Salazar that doesn't look like Margaret Thatcher.

[@travismattingly1414]

Yahtzee complained about lack of camp and then called Leon "just a guy good at roundhouse kicking" Kennedy parrying a chainsaw with a kitchen knife "sensible" and not "camp". I just...

[@GuyOnAChair]

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

[@angellara7040]

​@@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

[@Burger_Nun]

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

[@angellara7040]

@@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

[@Burger_Nun]

@@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.

[@synysterdawn8913]

I'm kind of confused at the notion that Leon isn't as quippy. It's a shame we don't get the radio conversations with antagonists anymore, but Leon is still constantly dropping lines in combat and cutscene. Dude literally says "Nighty night, knights" after the mandatory armor fight, and that alone might eclipse just about anything he said in the original.

[@qaenyin]

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.

[@aiceriz7923]

@@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.

[@enterprise9001]

@@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.

[@eb2681]

@@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.

[@aiceriz7923]

​@@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.

[@gracecalis5421]

I'm not sure how the remake going from "You die immediately when this giant dude swipes at you with a chainsaw" to "Leon parries a fucking chainsaw with a small-ass knife" is the remake being more sensible, but you do you, Yahtzee

[@brodericksiz625]

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.

[@gracecalis5421]

@@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?

[@TheCommanderjoe]

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

[@shelbyherring92]

​@@TheCommanderjoeSeethe.

[@TheCommanderjoe]

@@shelbyherring92 grrrr how dare u 😤

[@spaceidiot200]

as someone whos played the original 30 or so times (not kidding), I was glad for a mashup of new and old mechanics / set pieces in the new remake. I had finally started getting bored of playing the original.

[@TheCyclicGamer]

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

[@nessarolla]

I miss Ashley yelling for Leon at every turn. 😂 The camp parts were the best but noooo we gotta be serious triple A game.

[@li-limandragon9287]

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.

[@cornfed_corn5628]

@@li-limandragon9287he does miss it

[@li-limandragon9287]

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

[@mrblack5145]

I never quite got to speedrun level, nor was I incredibly proficient at it.. but there was something so cathartic about playing through the game then starting 'new game +'. Over and over. Again and again. It was like therapy to my younger self. I dont have the time or ability to play this one, but I've seen some of the "Lets Play" footage and it is remarkable seeing my memories on screen, through the eyes of another.. of course the GameCube couldn't have the most detail and polygons but in my imagination the gaps were more than filled in. With the remake it's all so crisp and clear and wet. It does look beautiful; and the memorable set pieces are stunning. I can't lament what's been cut, even though He's right that the 'campiness' has been removed. My memories will remain with me, and hopefully some young person will play this updated version and start the whole process anew. Between this game- and the Dead Space remake- it's really making me feel old, watching my favorite childhood games get a buff and polish.

[@Mikidy]

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

[@spencercartwright6628]

But Yatz you didnt mention if the ending is still the wonderfully camp event of Ashely hitting on Leon him NWF her and then immediately getting shot down by Hunnigan who he was hitting on? cause that's one of the funniest game ending ever and needs to still be here

[@requiem762]

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.

[@thebuddah1253]

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

[@TheBfutgreg]

@@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?

[@thebuddah1253]

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

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

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

[@roryschussler]

On the one hand, I miss the campiest parts that got taken out. On the other hand, they changed a scene to have Leon just fucking shoot Salazar mid-monologue, and little could be more delightful.

[@ProxyDoug]

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

[@fernando47180]

@@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.

[@mariozappini7784]

@@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

[@Sayiism]

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.

[@kameronschadt5246]

​@@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

[@chopper8209]

Unlike 2 and especially 3, you can play the original version on modern consoles.

[@hollandscottthomas]

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.

[@SillyPillow]

@@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

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

@@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

[@SillyPillow]

​@@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.

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

@@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

[@giantWario]

As far as the story and characters go I did generally like the camp of the original better but I like this version of Ashley considerably more than the original. I went from muting the game during some battle sequences just because her screaming was annoying me too much in the original to feeling like I have to protect her at all costs in the remake.

[@SinHurr]

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.

[@ObiJohnKenobi67]

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.

[@lukeskywalker987]

​@@ObiJohnKenobi67 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.

[@CryoJnik]

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

[@Jabbernut-games]

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

[@JimIBobIJones]

A bit plus for me was the combat and enemy AI. The more versatile, agile and aggressive enemies really work wonders. One of my concerns going in was that modern controls would make combat too easy, but on the first play through at least the intensity of the original is retained thanks to the smoother controls being countered by more aggressive enemies. That combined with the slow realisation that sunset, the dogs and the exposed palga heads were coming added a genuine sense of nostalgic dread. It all added up to feeling like how one remembers playing the original RE whilst still being a more polished, modern game.

[@PlaidSuitPinstripeWorld]

Did anyone else reach the hedge maze with almost no ammo on their first play through of the original, and proceed to have the exact same thing happen again on their first play through of the remake? Or was that just me?

[@squidyouknow]

Happened in remake for me

[@MintyCoolness]

Me ;-;

[@fieryrebirth]

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.

[@jenkinsuu]

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

[@LJW1912]

"call that a knife mate, this is a bloody knife" *breaks*

[@FurnaxIkki]

I'm fine with the revisions and I think there's still a lot of new silliness to be found in the remake. I like how they revised the writing for Ashley too, making her more proactive at times, and the playable sequence with her was way better. "I'm done with armor!" And then she ends up in a room full of the suits and within five minutes she's running for her life surrounded by a bazillion suits swinging for her.

[@fieryrebirth]

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.

[@drew1080]

Sometimes Yahtzee's cynical yuckster attitude that we all love him for gets in the way of his quality as a game critic. The knife point is a great example. The combat and knife system is far more complex in the Remake. In the original you could do horizontal slashes to stun/damage enemies and it was your fallback weapon. In the Remake, you can parry, perfect parry into melee, perform horizontal slashes for damage/stun, perform precise stabs for damage/stun, stealth kill, execute stunned enemies, execute enemies who are about to enter a second phase, block insta-kill attacks, block projectiles, and even delimb enemies. This new knife system is so OP that making it breakable and in need of repairs is a no-brainer for balance. And if you're skilled enough, upgrade it, and use other knife consumables wisely you'll need to repair it less. Yet the main takeaway from this review is "yes it's neat you can now parry and do stealth, but you're lame for making my knife breakable". It's such an oversimplification and sounds almost whiny for the sake of "it's not exactly like the thing I remember is."

[@mildsome9713]

the criticisms towards the side quests make no sense when the original game had you literally shooting blue coins for bonus weapons

[@sriramramesh8203]

This video is honestly very poorly written compared to older videos where you can at least get where he is coming from

[@tonystarrk4859]

Yeah, the new abilities with the knife were the best additions to the gameplay. The combat (especially the bosses) is objectively better. Yahtzee's such a fanboy of the original that he complains about any changes, positive or negative. He already had the narrative of the Remake being the original with its "edges sanded off" months ago (he talked about it in a podcast). He complains about how there's no Salazar robot section but never mentions that there's a fire breathing Salazar statue in the elevator room (or how the new minecart section is far more campy than the original version). He even turns being able to parry the chainsaw into a negative somehow.

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

Yeah the combat here in RE4 Remake is objectively deeper, more engaging, and WAY smoother while having a higher skill ceiling. Parrying, knife degradation, and aiming while moving dramatically change the feel for the better across the board, it both forces you to be more mindful and measured in your movements and actions, while also making said movements and actions blend together and animate 100x better. Saying anything else reveals the rose tinged glasses that nostalgia whores are wearing lol. I literally played RE4 OG and Remake back to back and they're both excellent, but in terms of the feel of the core combat it's a HUGE improvement for Remake. Though to be fair, Yahtzee has never been a remotely legitimate game critic IMO, he's always incredibly biased and reductive/dismissive of anything that doesn't cater to his exact tastes. He's a comedy writer and games are the subject. Though TBH, I find Worth A Buy much funnier, as his outrage is so genuine and over the top that it's impossible not to enjoy it lol, Yahtzee's pretentiousness and snarky dismissiveness is more annoying than funny as of late IMO.

[@Need_RnR]

Ohhhh ... I'm sorryyyyyyy.... I thought We *WERE* GOING FOR A MOAR **R E A L I S T I C** .... APPROACH ..... Excuse me while I PARRY A FUCKING *CHAINSAWWWW...* WITH A F*CKING KNIFE !!!!!!

[@SarhcBannitoot]

I have to disagree with him on Leon being less campy. If anything I’ve found him to be an even bigger shit head and I absolutely love it.

[@thomasraines1396]

Doesn’t he say one liners in combat now?

[@JHawke1]

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

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

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.

[@thomasraines1396]

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

[@TheChriskilla100]

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.

[@thatjeff7550]

Starts video: Huh. What's the deal with Yahtzee screaming "ooooooo!" at the beginning? 4:03: Oh. Now that is a well timed gag.

[@gabrote42]

The humor on this one was one of the better one's I've seen! Certainly on par with some of the highlighted episodes

[@HolyHadou]

All I'll say is I do not know how parrying a chainsaw with a knife is a dial tick towards sensible.

[@ultimatehamsandwich734]

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

[@mildsome9713]

@@ultimatehamsandwich734 You parry a chainsaw.

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

@@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

[@Burger_Nun]

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.

[@damonkatumaru]

If there's one thing I didn't like is Ada's new Voice Actress. What happened to the one in the Resident Evil 2 remake? Why did they make that sudden change? It just dose not fit and that decision only leaves questions for later. It's like the odd changes in Carmalita Fox VA from the Sly Cooper series.

[@Red-S-267]

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

[@atomic747]

@@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.

[@CboTheSecond]

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.

[@JustCallMeMatt517]

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

[@superbproductions7193]

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

[@nicklager1666]

It was a tall order to top the original. I mean it still is a great game as it was in the original, and im glad new gamers get a chance to play it. But it was just something about the insanity in the gamecube original that grabbed me.

[@BloodyMistGeneral]

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.

[@UomoPolpetta]

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

[@2canwin635]

@@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

[@hollandscottthomas]

@@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.

[@hollandscottthomas]

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

[@xanderfulton3186]

Yahtzee in 2019: “Who cares if the Resident Evil 2 Remake is true to the original?” Yahtzee in 2023: “If they cut out the bingo line we burn them”

[@afernandez9579]

Yeah, it was clearly pure nostalgia fueling this video, or at least nostalgia baiting.

[@xanderfulton3186]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 okay

[@afernandez9579]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 I mean, I have not played RE2 remake but was it that bad as you describe?

[@afernandez9579]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 oh, then how come you called RE2 remake dog shit? Weird for a game you liked 🤔

[@afernandez9579]

@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421 You don't really seem to notice when someone is teasing you for having a bad take.

[@KarazolaX]

Listen Yahtzee, the original game never had "Nighty-night, Knights." Remake's not bad.

[@DonChups]

"that's a nice health bar you got there" really cracked me. Thanks for youtubeing, crew.

[@EllieBerryPie]

The only thing I really wanted in the remake was modern controls. I beat RE4 on the GameCube back in 2006 and the controls weren’t an issue but going back after almost 20 years of more modern games, stopping to aim and using the same stick to aim and shoot just doesn’t feel good. That said, sacrificing the camp for more modern controls just doesn’t feel like a good trade.

[@lauraazure6462]

Same

[@AngryAtlantean]

It brings me unspeakable amounts of glee knowing I'm not the only jaded asshole that sees this remake for what it is: the complete obliteration of what made Resident Evil 4 great. People are going to eat this up like avocado toast, blissfully unaware that the avocado was switched with baby vomit.

[@jordanj809]

Baby vomit is a bit dramatic. The new avocados just aren’t as fresh

[@EllieBerryPie]

“Complete obliteration” feels really harsh, I think it just seems like a more tame version of a great game, and I would rather someone experience a more tame version of a game I love than not experience it at all, and it might lead them to go back and play the original after they beat the new one. That was what happened when I played the 2001 remake of the first RE on the GameCube, which in general was a more serious less campy version of the original.

[@AngryAtlantean]

​​@@EllieBerryPie When many of the greatest parts of the original are removed from the remade version, on top of other tidbits, you're removing parts that gave the original the heart and soul. "Tame version of a great game"? Nah... Obliteration is underselling it. That said, the remake of the first RE game on GameCube is the perfect representation of what an excellent remake is, because that game never excised anything that made Resident Evil 1 the gem it was., it only added extra layers to it.

[@EllieBerryPie]

@@AngryAtlantean I do get the heart and soul being lost, I was really hoping this would be more of a remaster. Better graphics and controls while keeping the same gameplay and tone. I'm curious what you thought of the remakes of the 2nd. They felt like they gutted a lot of the soul of the original by moving away from the fixed camera, but I know I am in the minority there and come off as "old person yells at cloud" if I go on about it too much.

[@aqueelkadri8371]

Props to capcom for sending a review code to Yahtz for ZP. No other AAA company has the balls to do that anymore

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

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

[@aqueelkadri8371]

@@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.

[@User-Ryan135]

@@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.

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

@@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.

[@User-Ryan135]

@@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

[@desireless4092]

>knife parries a chainsaw >knife breaks at some old lady's neck ..... wat?

[@Urubu_de_terno]

And now we reached the point where the next remake material will be RE5... Unless Capcom remembers that Code Veronica or RE0 exists and both need a remake far more than RE4 or RE5. Seriously i still cant wrap my head around why would they feel the need to remake RE4... That game came in more plataforms than Tetris so basically anyone with a PC, Wii, PS3, PS4, PS2, XBox 360 or One, and is as solid as it was back then.

[@HeyLookaSandwich]

The knife parry alone makes me want to consider the remake the "better" version. It's just so much fun, and feels like a really good evolution of the combat system. Overall the remake was stellar. Going to take a couple more playtroughs to figure out which of the 4s I like more though.

[@TrevorFisch]

It’s funny that the focus is on what’s not directly pulled from the OG game, and not on how well Capcom was able to pay homage, reference, remix all of those elements into a “modern” package. If you didn’t like it, thats cool. But it’s not like they just removed things without having something else in its place. Jfc

[@ordinaryhuman5645]

Some people are getting bored by all of the modern packages that new games are boxing themselves into, and if that packaging involves removing stuff you liked and adding stuff you don't like, then that's even worse.

[@mildsome9713]

@@ordinaryhuman5645 not liking the new stuff is a forgone conclusion. nostalgia is a helluva drug

[@Wolfs0n]

You can't pioneer twice is the lesson here.

[@Broomer52]

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.

[@ravensflockmate]

No just that yahtzee is aggressively wrong for one video

[@galacticpopcorn9981]

That Ari Aster joke had me SOARING

[@Igorcastrochucre]

How many times has Yathzee reviewed Resident Evil 4 in some way since this series started? He did mention it every time he reviewed an RE game and that includes 5, Umbrella Chronicles, RE Revelations, 5, 6, RE Revelation 2, 6, 7, Village, REmake 2 and REmake 3; he did an Extra Punctuation on the series as a whole and 4 was mentioned, and he reviewed 4 properly, then 4 VR edition and now this. That's a total of 15 videos where RE 4's praises were sung and that's not counting ones like The Evil Within where it was mentioned and praised there, but ain't no way I'm watching hours of ZP to count those.

[@xcellentcreations3312]

1:54 in Leon's defense, his first time fending off zombies in raccoon city did a number on his sanity, to the point where he willingly joined a brutal training session when he was forced into a government combat troop. So he's justified in his brooding

[@44Quantum]

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.

[@Mrinsecure]

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.

[@LeahThe3th]

@@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.

[@weirdo911aw]

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

[@diodamke1007]

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.

[@emerickjosh8]

Aside from what he said and some broken puzzles, i will say the whole game experience is 100% better with the huge trimming of the ungodly amount of QTEs. Now i can enjoy cutscenes without being on edge of whether or not I'll be caught by surpise with QTE BS

[@Tylericous]

The original Krauser fight broke my fucking brain man, the amount of times I missed QTE’s and had to restart was so horrible. Skill issues for sure but it was dumb, because I beat his ass for real in the actual fight

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

@@Tylericous I actually liked that Krauser encounter. Granted I failed air it a lot but I feel it really helped play into it being a verbal sparring while they waited for openings to strike

[@atomic747]

skill issue?

[@RothSchatten]

"Wasn't it great back when we knew how to have fun?"

[@JonasGS3294]

90% of people in this comment section complaining about the game being too serious or about the knife durability either haven't played the game and are parroting what Yahtzee is saying or are just blinded by nostalgia, i swear. RE4R is made with so much love and care that it's impossible to not acknowledge that, yet this review conveniently does not say that yes the Salazar robot is still in the game, yes Leon still says dumb one liners throughout the whole game, and the fucking minecart section in chapter 11 is possibly the craziest shit i've seen in recent videogame memory. Dude they even have Saddler come out nowhere just to pose in front of an explosion like a B movie villain. They have Krauser unapologetically saying I WANT POWER in the corniest, cheesiest way. But nah, right? The remake is too serious. Gtfo here with that shit.

[@jesuszamora6949]

This is sort of the problem with remakes in general. Yeah, you're going to get a lot of people loving it for nostalgic reasons, but you're also going to get a lot of people hating it for same. It's kind of the same shit that happened with the RE3 remake. People act like that game is this huge downgrade from the original, and while there are certainly parts the original RE3 did better (Nemesis was more organic), people forget that the original was a mostly loveless cash grab done because Code Veronica was taking too goddamn long, and that the "action-oriented RE" spin they were going for isn't realized anywhere near as well in the original, owing to the camera angles not jiving with an action game.

[@chaoskrys]

I've watched this series for too long. I noticed that the ZP Leon seemed different from the RE4 Retro Review and indeed he has been Remade for this.

[@Aluze]

"Great so my knife has a fucking subscription fee" killed me

[@mmy2k48]

I don't usually disagree with Yahtzee but this review felt a bit cynical. Which I get it, it's Yahtzee's thing, but he didn't even mention the new enemies/weapons, the incredible attention to detail involving some of the original secrets and such (shooting the lake still does the thing for example), the expanded areas, and the fact that despite a couple areas not making it into the remake it's still a good 90% of the original game. Love ya yahtz but this is a good ass remake

[@blitzstange]

Agreed MMY2K. I don't think I've disagreed with Yahtzee's opinion more than on this review. His grips are reasonable, but he ignored all the fun stuff ! It feels like he got the cliff notes on what was bad in the game then wrote a review without playing it.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

You can still get one-hit KO'd by the chainsaws from the back. You can craft ammo now so you can play the game more how you want instead of ONLY using the guns the game gives you ammo for. A lot more depth was added.He doesn't hack your walkie, but he talks to you through the castle PA system. I understand your complaints, but you''re being way too picky.

[@funky_dude709]

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.

[@ratdoller77]

Did yahtzee play the game? leon is still a one line machine and just as much fun as the old. Yeah missing the codec stuff but its characters are still weirdos. oh but his hair is slightly different that means he's serious. Like i get he doesn't focus on positive stuff as a gimmick but jesus.

[@nolanlehman6392]

I agree he was way off the mark here. I love the original and this game

[@OneOfTheLoveless]

The chainsaw people added so much to the horde-horror-factor of RE4. You were always focusing then down somewhat and the adrenaline was so high when they decided to stand up again after a shotgun blast and you having no sniper bullets. But with weapon degradation and knife blocking that just Falls flat. Now your blood pressure is just high from annoyances not adrenaline.

[@fredericklawton548]

I like how the remake says fuck you when you try to hide in the tower in the village in the beginning

[@OneofmanyASMR]

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)

[@marcosdheleno]

@@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?

[@fredericklawton548]

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

[@mariozappini7784]

​@@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

[@PlaidSuitPinstripeWorld]

@@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.

[@HonkeyKongLive]

Remakes like this just baffle me. It's like a movie studio doing a full remake every 15 years. It doesn't exist for any good reason.

[@kurobara3]

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

[@EllieBerryPie]

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.

[@EllieBerryPie]

@@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.

[@thomasfire0717]

It exists because the controls for the orginal are dogshit

[@sdbzfan1]

RE4R is an example of good enough, and sometimes good enough is just sad, i miss when game studios were shooting for the moon because when they succeed it was great, and if they fail its a train wreck you had to see

[@TheForever206]

To be fair, why would a publisher shoot for the moon when consumers pay full price and then some for a simple half assed jump?

[@ignacioledesma3382]

I actually think the RE 4 Remake is pretty damn good. I'm 15 hours in and i'm having a blast so far, of course there are a few things that I miss from the original like the campiness (And that U3 fight that was cut off, that was dissapointing) but overall there are a lot of improvements over the base game, the Krauser boss fight was damn awesome, combat feels great and I like what they did with some characters. This is coming from someone who has the OG RE 4 as one of the best games ever

[@sdbzfan1]

​@@TheForever206 thats the biggest issue, unlike when gaming wasnt mainstream game studios had to be unique or have their own style to stick out, now just put shiny graphics on something and keep microtransaction at a minimum and people will buy it, gamers of today just have less barrier of entry to be impressed but they're missing out on truely loving gaming when they see it as just a passtime(which to be fair it is)

[@sdbzfan1]

​@@ignacioledesma3382 i never said it was bad, i said it checks off all the boxes to be a good game, but being good enough isnt as interesting as an influential game like OG 4 was

[@logiclunacy606]

I mean half of the returning areas are more fleshed out, u3 and invisible bug room aside the cut rooms didn't offer too much. There's also new areas which Yahtzee forgot to mention which are all really memorable. Oh and the knights have more of presence in the remake

[@Mr___f]

Cutting IT and the hacked radio is actually pretty sad. The scariest part and funniest part being cut out stinks.

[@GuyOnAChair]

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

[@stephensmith7327]

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

[@Nofixdahdress]

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.

[@ProxyDoug]

@@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.

[@hauntedheathen2732]

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

[@igorthelight]

For all who are still miss the good old RE4 - try RE4 HD Project ;-)

[@Princeps32]

great video, funny review, disagree strongly with most criticisms

[@TehSEOULMAN]

When anyone says the remake doesn’t have any of the campiness of the original I have to wonder if we played the same game or if they just skipped all of the cutscenes and turned the dialogue off. Leon still throws out lame one-liners, now even during combat. The castle still has goofy shit like the rollercoaster and the giant Salazar robot (it just doesn’t chase you). The Salazar boss fight has him and Leon just constantly shit-talking each other back and forth. Basically every goofy line that was removed has a new one take its place. A lot of the complaints on that front really just seem to be “It’s not exactly the same as the original so it’s bad”

[@2canwin635]

They didn’t bro😂 this shit is campy and goofy too but they didn’t play it so they just take Yahtzee words as gospel

[@TehSEOULMAN]

@@2canwin635 yeah all of the “Guess I’ll just stick with the original then!” comments here seem like they’re from people who were waiting for a negative review they could point to to justify hating a game they haven’t played

[@LithFox]

They also went back and either explain stuff that didn't make sense or basically made them make sense. I had a few examples but unfortunately I have ADHD and I have since forgot them but I do remember liking the remake more and resident evil 4 was my first resident evil game. As someone who got into resident evil through resident evil 4 I'm going to say: really enjoyed it in every capacity yes there was a few things that are missing but I also didn't notice they were gone. They still have the statue and it's still technically chases you over a bridge just it does it automatically. Not sure if you just didn't notice that. They just took out all of the scenes that had QTEs. But it still chases you across the bridge just you don't do anything for it because it was a QTE.

[@LithFox]

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

[@hanniballahr94]

Honestly it's the Del Lago fight that my Thalassophobic ass is worried about.

[@Atelierwanwan]

Wow, someone who loved the original and didn't think this was the best game of all time. Honestly it feels like every youtube title I've seen are praising this game as the ultimate game never to be topped. No small number of "masterpiece" being thrown around even.

[@triplehate6759]

Magpies getting excited over the latest new shiny object, which will quickly be forgotten when the NEXT new shiny object (new release) enters their field of vision.

[@li-limandragon9287]

@Atelierwanwan The real problem is that RE4R didn’t “need” to happen CV remake did but RE4 is more well known.

[@tonystarrk4859]

I like the Remake better. Parries make the combat way more engaging for me. Knife degradation was never an issue for me, I think I only had one instance in 25 hours where I didn't have a knife (they give you so many extras that it easily carries you until you upgrade durability). Boss fights are for the most part objectively better, pacing in the 3rd act doesn't drag as much, characters feel slightly less one-dimensional, there is more enemy variety, and defensive gameplay is infinitely better. Yahtzee's review basically boils down to "MUH CAMP".

[@brentblayoneblayone3948]

It's a better game, from every aspect of game, combat, encounter and level design. Even the camp factor is absolutely still there. RE4 OG had a ton of scenes that needed to be reworked or cut to fit a modern game, stuff that didn't age well at all. They made the right cuts and added stuff to fill the gaps. Yahtzee is really revealing his biases here

[@TheRedCap30]

As much credit as I give Yahtzee he seemed dead set to dislike the remake before even playing it (from what he said on the slightly something else podcast anyway). I think both can coexist and offer different flavors of RE4 to different audiences. Personally I think both are great.

[@Discombobulate453]

@@TheRedCap30 ego usually factors into that somewhere. Big creators who pre dislike a game, then make content on it is (most of the time) a VERY awkward experience.

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Well, at least the bingo line is still in it. Too bad about the giant robot Ramon, though. If it weren't for the fact that he had to record this video, He would probably still be shouting that extra long fuck yooooouuuuu to this day. They don't call the show "Zero Punctuation" for nothing. Beating or even matching the original was always going to be a challenge. It was such an amazing, campy and hilarious, if a bit hard to control masterpiece. It's such a shame how much the remake got neutered and watered down. Especially since I like a lot of the new stuff. It just doesn't quite feel the same. But hey, at least the bingo line is still in it. Too bad about the giant robot Ramon, though.

[@watershipup7101]

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

[@genjis5155]

Yeah, he'd probably never stop.

[@MintyCoolness]

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

[@khiryhelms]

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

[@ultimatehamsandwich734]

Bingo

[@blackbirdfrost]

4:32 I had to...I had to pause...laughed too hard at this line! I'm glad I was between sips of my soda, or I'd need a new keyboard right now! 🤣

[@MaskedHeroLucky]

I mean the Salazar robot is still in the game, it stands in the room where you climb up to where the boss is and it breathes fire at you. It doesn’t chase you across a bridge, but it’s not like they cut it entirely. Also, U-III (It) is still mentioned in documents, it’s possible that Ada will fight it whenever her inevitable side campaign is released.

[@SkellyHertz]

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.

[@Shinigami13133]

U-3 is just another Verdugo though

[@Evnyofdeath]

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"

[@SlackerXYZ]

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

[@angellara7040]

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

[@sasaki999pro]

If theres one thing I'll give Metal Gear Solid The Phantom Pain credit for, it was never being ashamed of its legacy in this age of modern gaming. It dealt with serious subjects like PTSD, but never strayed away from that goofy campy cantankerous spirit hidden under the surface.

[@TheDalekCaan_]

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.

[@lukew6725]

Why even bother playing a remake when you're just gonna complain about everything that isn't exactly the same? Also you're a complete liar about Leon's dialogue.

[@KelleyEngineering]

Hahahahaha I was wondering what the "ooooo" was at the beginning. Great setup, great payoff

[@OddsAndAtrocities]

In a rare moment of 'huh', I genuinely don't agree with Yahtzee this time. This game is stupid good fun, Leon's still a dork, and everyone's character was made better overall.

[@angellara7040]

Ashley actually helps in the game and grows to be pretty competent

[@荼毘í]

I’m use to Yahtz hating but this time feels so unwarranted. This game is perfect

[@li-limandragon9287]

Yahtz has narrow view of RE, he likes 4 and 7. Doesn’t give a shit about of the rest of the games.

[@FredericoLohmannJr]

The best part is Yahtzee's real effort to find problems in the game. =D PS: About the knife degradation, it's a great balance solution to give the player defense agency.

[@darkzentai7417]

I’m still trying to work out why someone who is trying to save the president’s daughter, goes armed with a pistol and only 12 bullets.

[@ohjeezriles]

I feel as though you’re right in terms of the general OVERALL tone being much, much less campy - but I honestly get a really big kick out of seeing hyper-realistic RE Engine™️ Ada Wong wearing what is essentially “Sailor Moon Villain”. Thigh high vinyl stilettos aren’t exactly what I’d call ‘tactical espionage’ footwear.

[@elrondmcbong6392]

I think, after years of watching yahtzee, this is first time im disagreeing with him. Imo capcom has been knocking it out of the park with the RE remakes and especially RE4. Leon is honestly as campy as ever (yeah, the hand line is gone, but they added ALOT of combat banter thats just as cheesy), the knife mechanic actually makes a lot of sense and works well with the new stealth takedowns (if you think about it, the knifes durability is just another form of "ammo", that you need to manage, as you should in a survival horror game. Otherwise the knife would be OP as hell, considering you can take down semi-bosses like the potato sack or the new cow-enemys), i like ashley way more as a character (even tho they removed her "ballistics" lmao) and her voice actor makes me feel genuinely sorry for the poor girl, being stuck in that hell) All the new areas and enemys also fit right into the world. The quests, admittedly, are just an expansion of the blue medallions from the first RE4, but are still nice to have. Especially the ones that have you fight elite enemys make sense for the game imo. Do you skip it and conserve your spare ressources, or do you risk burning through your entire inventory for the chance of additional loot?

[@pointblank2890]

This disagreement shows exactly the usefulness of a critic: their consistency of tastes and opinions. Learning what they like and dislike, alongside their specific biases, lets you know whether a game would be a good recommendation for you. It's perfectly fine to disagree with Yahtzee's takes every now and then, because it shows that it shows the range of what you and him agree with, which helps us better judge whether a game is worth playing or not, based on his reviews

[@li-limandragon9287]

@@pointblank2890With RE Yahtzee just has such a narrow view. He only considers RE4 and RE7 worth any praise and hates the rest.

[@MysticalRK]

Yahtzee didn't mentioned to a lack of QTE aka a "Press to not die" mechanic on remake though it was replaced by parrying with a knife to not die.

[@MexicanfNinja]

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

[@angelcat00]

I love how everyone's first question about the remake is "but did they keep the bingo line?"

[@shelbyherring92]

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.

[@AB-fh9zh]

And now we can all keep the fuck yoooooouuuuuu going forever. Adding micro transactions after launch, after all the reviews, after millions of sales.

[@angellara7040]

Are you dumb? Capcom has done that after every launch since dmc4

[@IvanDubsK7]

Did Yahtzee miss the parts of the game where Leon constantly cracks jokes at the enemy’s expense?

[@GuyOnAChair]

He missed an entire fire spewing Salazar robot.

[@angellara7040]

"It has teeth?!" "Wiggly bastard". *kick a grannies leg off* "must have slipped".

[@Zeryurijin]

Always been my tiff with "remakes". They change the game to appeal to the new generation while hoping the nostalgia group will still love it for what it is. Only to gasp when we list complaints of said changes and the collective why? The old saying,"If it isn't broke, why fix it?" Its why I've not touched any of the RE remakes nor FF 7 remake cause of said changes.