Okay so I honestly barely cared about this game's announcement back then. I never considered myself a RE fan but I like the original trilogy + 4 quite a bit, so every time a new one is announced I still get a bit excited thinking maybe this time it's going to appeal to me... And the first person gameplay definitely didn't grab me with this one.
I appreciated the first demo because it was scary but that was it.
Then previews started to surface, and people start comparing it to RE1, so I get pretty excited and decide to go on media blackout for it.
Fast forward to past thursday and I bought this, caving in after all the positive reception. Then I marathon the game every afternoon with my girlfriend until now that I just finished it.
Holy shit that was so good! It really does feel like a modern take on RE1, and everything from presentation to gameplay and atmosphere feels so high quality, it's really hard for me to believe this is modern Capcom. Hell, I even dug the story, which I rarely care for in RE games.
So yeah, I'm seriously hooked and planning to give it a second go in a harder difficulty. I'm even getting the season pass at the moment... Sorry for being part of the problem.
I seriously thought I'd never be excited for a mainline RE game ever again, the closest thing was enjoying Revelations on the 3DS but that's about it haha. If Capcom decides to handle the series this way from here, I could even consider myself a fan, and that's crazy.