I just told you they did. Now you know. The fact that you never played RE4 original proves you don't have much to worry about. So the side quests shouldn't be a problem for you in the remake. If you don't want to do them, then don't. Though it is recommended you should do at least a few, so you can get the best treasures to buy the best items, weapons, and upgrades.
That's actually a cold take. Most people acknowledge that by the late 2000s and early 2010s. Shoot, Doom 64 I'd always have more fun with than Duke. Still applies now. Games like Blood (any of the recent "Boomer" [they should be called Gen X shooters really] shooters that mimic the 90s and early 2000s) and Serious Sam had more going on for them than Duke.
Really depends on the game. Imagine how many good games would be harshly judged because someone whose job was reviewing them didn’t know what they were doing.
I'm more or less the same mindset.
Sometimes it can be both.
Tell me about it. Yahtzee really got pissy for a minute at the halfway point.
When playing Forbidden West it felt like the priority was on spectacle and how epic fighting looks being more important than how moment to moment gameplay felt. I dunno of that makes any sense but yeah I agree, the Horizon games feel less great to play in terms of combat the more I play them, that's why I never replay them.
It’s partly why I’ve yet to finish FW. I mean, the game controls well and aiming is still butter smooth, but just the act of fighting most of the things feels tedious (and that’s just combat; I won’t get into dialog wheels).
Whereas I'm the complete opposite- the parkour in Dying Light and Mirror's Edge came easily to me, but I get tired of banging my head against Soulslikes very quickly. Also I've been playing FPS games for decades, but RTS games completely elude me, primarily because I can never get my units to do what I want them to do.
Tedious is an apt word to use. Which I think is pretty counter intuitive to the immediate gratification you get from using a bow and arrow.
What helps in Tsushima's favor is Jin gets two different bow types, both can be upgraded, and most things you can kill in 1-2 shots.
[emphasise mine] because the importance of that cannot be stressed enough. Ranged weaponry in combat is satisfying only when it has a major effect, like straight-up killing a dude or applying some cool status effect.
To be fair, there are quite a few real life instances where people get shot up like 6+ times and still live. IIRC muzzle velocity is mainly impacted by air resistance and gravity upon leaving the barrel, so an up close shot would technically be strongest.
Fun fact: Emmet Dalton, of the famous Dalton gang, survived the gang's last bank robbery with 23 gunshot wounds. while the rest of the gang died in the associated shootout with law enforcement. Granted, he was captured and went to prison for a while and I can only imagine he was feeling those 23 gunshot wounds for the rest of his life.
