With a list like this i cant help but think you only played 4 games but wanted to add all the titles so put them in random places. How revelations 1 & 2 can be 2 of the 4 worst Resident Evil games of all time when they are up there with the best really baffles me. And its also worrying how you equated jump scares to being a good thing, specially when you listed how there was an abundance of jump scares. They are the lowest, cheapest form of horror. Not to mention if they are scripted then the 2nd time around the game will be completely dead of atmosphere.
I have every single RE game released, including 3 different versions of the original and RE2, I have every re-release of 4/5/6, the Gamecube ports of 2/3/CV, the Wii ports, the PS3 re-releases of Umbrella/Darkside chronicles and ORC.
Jump scares come with this perspective. Im not talking about scripted events. Im talking You turn around and a moulder is there, it grabs me, throws me to the floor, rips my neck out and im dead. Retry and the moulder spawns somewhere else or not at all. Every time I have died, the enemy has come at me differently to the way it killed me. The game makes you jumpy, even a crackle of thunder is genuinely unsettling.
Regarding my list, I personally dont rate either Revelations game. I find the stories rubbish. I dont like stealth camo hunters, awful 'dumb' side characters, bland ooze enemies which are pink regenerators and dumber than zombies. Revelations 2 is just genuinely boring 90% of the time. I finished it for the 4th time this morning and it was the ultimate chore. I hate babysitting another character.
Im a huge fan of RE Zero. The continuity of Rebecca is annoying but I love the story, I love the training facility, I love the enemy designs, a fantastic soundtrack and I enjoyed partner switching. I liked seeing Wesker and Birkin watching the facility from the labs seen in RE2. Id love to have outbreak higher but I find the gameplay nearly unbearable. Looking back, the gameplay did need the overhaul we got with RE4. Survivor was a great G-Con game. I remember having both that and Time Crisis. It had a good story and I loved the design of Hypnos. I enjoyed Dead Aim too.
Im surprised people arent moaning about prefering RE3 over RE2 but my list is a mix of how I enjoy the game. I hold each game differently; I rate RE5 less than CV but I still love CV; better story, better enemy design, better soundtrack (suspended doll is utter perfection), but I prefer the nature of RE5's pick up and play mindlessness.
Ill be honest, Ive finished RE4 more than any other RE game, but Its story is naff, the AI is awful, they ruined Leon's character, I detest Ashley, I detest babysitting her but I love picking it up, finding any old save and just rocket launchering Novistador nests or Typewrittering everything in sight. Still rate many games higher than it but it doesnt make it any less of a great game. Like RE6. Its still a lengthy, polished game. Just too American World War Z for me, but I respect the effort put into it.
Except Survivor 2. That truly is awful.
