That's a sign of intelligent game design, really. When you can just hunker down in one spot and shoot until you can move up, it gets dull. When you have to deal with ranged enemies in conjunction with "cover busters", it gets really exciting, especially if their AI is good enough for them to work together, and even more so if the game presents you with interesting mechanics, weapons or gadgets with which to deal with the situation.CkretAznMan said:
RE5 actually made a few steps forward from RE4 (such as allowing dual analogue stick control), in addition to more than a few steps back. The inventory system was the perfect example of Capcom's meandering when it comes to advancement.Beautiful End said:
RE4's inventory was great. A sniper rifle was the size of a sniper rifle and herbs were the size of herbs. But pausing the damn game every few minutes to switch weapons or heal up was a pain in the ass. Having to switch out your weapon to a grenade, then throw the grenade, then switch back was even more a pain in the ass. Not to mention it was frankly insulting given that Halo had pioneered the "dedicated button for grenades" thing around four years before RE4's release, so it's not like they couldn't have known any better.
RE5's inventory system made a step forward by letting you switch weapons or use healing items on the fly. Then it took a step back by using the old, unintuitive inventory system wherein a single green herb occupies the same amount of space as a combat shotgun. Then they made no progress at all by still requiring you to switch out your weapon for a grenade before using it, making the game less mechanically modern than an 8-year-old FPS from the previous generation.
All in all, Capcom needs to really book their ideas up when it comes to RE6. Let us move while shooting, let us dodge and melee manually. And don't give me that "you can't because tension!" shit. Resident Evil stopped pretending to be a horror game a long time ago, and they need to find a way to build tension and difficulty without artificially handicapping the player. Swarm them with enemies, make the enemies intelligently co-operate with each other. Make them move and attack unpredictably and when they hit, make it hurt. When a player takes damage in a game, it should be their own fault, not because the game rooted them to the spot and neglected to give them a dodge ability, forcing them to awkwardly lower their gun, turn in place, and jog forwards in an attempt to avoid an attack.
Give us a dodge ability, let us move while shooting, and make whatever upgrades to your enemies that are necessary to compensate for the fact that the players can now move and react like actual human beings as opposed to awkwardly designed automatons.
