Poll: RE4: action or horror?

[Grimm91]

Well this is a debate that a friend of mine have been in for about 6 months now. He says that RE4 is an action game with horror elements. I say a horror game with action elements but I see totally where he is coming from. He liked the original RE games that quote "Made you sleep with a butcher knife." I on the other hand liked the new system that I say "Makes you feel true despair." So what do you people think?

 

[geldonyetich]

What makes me feel true despair is you can't accept the game is both.

 

[naftali1]

Somewhere in between...pushing way towards action though. They give you way too much ammo for me to consider it horror.

 

[PirateKing]

I thought it was more action but it did have a good atmosphere. But I think it's a good example of horror action.

 

[JokerGrin]

It's an action horror game. More action I'd say. The previous games I'd call survival horror.

 

[Ravenholm27]

What makes me feel true despair is you can't accept the game is both.

i kinda agree on that one grimm i felt more annoyance while i constantly ran out of ammo and died in new innovative ways

 

[Hamsterlad]

thats is what i told him it is an action game with horror elements
1. there is too much ammo for a horror
2.the first thing that they have you do is kill a bunch of baddies right from the biginning
3.the first two only realy needed to riun off of the sound of the mosters to make you scared instead of the music.
4.also the quick time events for me ruined it to and gave away anything scary.
5.the chain saw guy was a dead give away in any part of the game and was just a pain to kill.

 

[xitel]

What makes me feel true despair is you can't accept the game is both.

Thank you. It's a combination of both with a focus on action.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Horror? Action? All I know is that Resident Evil 4 is totally freakin' awesome. I've said it before, but it is one of my most satisfying gaming experiences to date.

 

[Hamsterlad]

Horror? Action? All I know is that Resident Evil 4 is totally freakin' awesome. I've said it before, but it is one of my most satisfying gaming experiences to date.

but what would you say it is? that dosn't give much information.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Horror? Action? All I know is that Resident Evil 4 is totally freakin' awesome. I've said it before, but it is one of my most satisfying gaming experiences to date.

but what would you say it is? that dosn't give much information.

Well, if pressed I'd probably fall on the side of horror. While it gives you lots of ammo and health items, the game still maintains a degree of realism (i.e. not being able to run too fast, not moving while firing) which makes it scary. Maybe it's not as 'horror' as the first 3 games, but I was so relieved that I could see what I was doing without having to fight the controls.

 

[Audemas]

Hmmmm Action or Horror.....Yes.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

What makes me feel true despair is you can't accept the game is both.

That^

 

[oni565]

I played the game and got scared at a few points but more of just a startle. I'd classify as action

 

[Eiseman]

I think I missed the part where RE4 was scary. When was that?

 

[CulexVanda]

It was scary at first, but horror is throughtly blow to bit once u get either the infinite rocket launcher or tommy gun on ur second playthrough

 

[The Wooster]

I don't think the game was hard enough to be scary. With a little bit of smart weapon management you could be a ammo stock piling murder machine very early on in the game. The fact the broken butterfly acts as a get out of jail free card didn't help either. Ultimately though, I think it was the stupid-ass story that killed any chance of the game actually scaring people. Zombies are scary on a fairly deep level. Zombie outbreaks essentially epitomise all our fears, from mob rule to social decay, it brings them all together and throws in a bit of brain munching to boot. Watching a bunch of zombies eating a dude in the underwear isle in wall mart (it has been known to happen during Christmas season) because we're seeing something terrible juxtaposed against something reassuringly mundane. Sadly I didn't grow up in a Spanish peasant village or an African shanty town so watching zombies fuck up Pablo's house doesn't have the same effect on me as the first games did. The game was still unsettling for a while ("why the fuck are these greasy Spaniards attacking me?") but the game quickly lost steam when I ended up fighting crossbow wielding triffid monks inside a fucking castle while being threatened by a midget that looked like Napoleon.

Resident Evil 4 turned the series from a stale, human tank simulator that had long lost the survival horror war into an enjoyable action game. It's a nice proof of concept. Now stop fucking around with plant people and shitty poverty ridden shitholes and give me zombies streaming out of a Mcdonalds.

 

[Acidburn50]

I agree with Decoy Doctorpus and everyone else who has catagorized this game as purely action. Any slight horror elements that happened to make it into that game seem to have made it there by acciident. The scariest (and by scary i mean starteling at best!) parts in that game was the blind miniboss with the claw things on his hands. Mabey the game would be scary if I was as young as i was when i played the first games in the series but i just feel that there was nothing scary about the over all vibe of that game. The colors wernt dark enough for my blood. A true survival horror game is dark practically black and white with enemies nearly materializing out of the pitch black horror that awaits you in every corner. The only bright colors should be blood red crimson death seeping out of every blown off limb that you encounter on your dark and gory quest to zombie genocide. Ohh and the Ammo factor touched on by naftali1 could not be a better call. A true horror game should consist of minimal ammo that leaves you conserving ammo and and having to play smart so not to screw yourself.

 

[Antiparticle]

RE4 wasn't as scary as the earlier games. It was more fast-paced, with more guns, and less spooky. I agree it still has some elements of horror as well as action, but if I had to choose I would (and I did) vote for 'Action' in this poll.
And although it doesn't necessarily follow that zombies = scary, I really do missed them in RE4. The crazy spanish guys just weren't as creepy.

Having said all this, RE4 is definitely an awesome game, but I'm still glad I have RE 0 - 3 too.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Ammo is really easy to find, unlike the old games where you needed good eyesight and a few cheats to find it.
It's not horror per say, as they don't use zombies anymore, but it still scares me when they come towards you with a chainsaw or machine gun.
Of course, it's still quite gory, except now they seemed to be filled with piss instead of blood XD
I thought the dialogue was scarier than the games at times, especially at the end.
Saddler says he doesn't like cliche's, then turns into a huge monster thing.
Hmm hmm.