duckroll said:
Well, I think in the end, this is more of the problem for you than the game. RE5 is designed to be a much faster paced game and is definitely geared towards firepower and speed. It simply doesn't cater to players who want to play the game slower. Not every game is designed to accomedate every sort of play style.
Then it's ignoring one of the most addicting aspects of RE4. RE4 allowed you to play the game however you wanted to. The better you got at the game the more you wanted to show off how good you were by not wasting a lot of ammo on enemies you can suplex or roundhouse off platforms. I mastered the stutter step in RE4 that would make the enemy miss their lunge leaving them wide open to a knife to the face to suplex or round house. If a lot of enemies were surrounding you then roundhouse if only a couple then suplex and hope for the head pop.
I've completed RE4 21 times between 3 different versions so I was glad to see they kept a lot of the exploits intact. The stutter step works just as well on RE5 enemies so setting up the melee attack would work just as well if Shiva wasn't so completely inept. She may not for you guys but Shiva WASTES my ammo. I ALWAYS go for the weak point to set up a melee attack depending on the situation. For me that is the majority of the fun in RE4/5 not shooting someone in random places until they die. That's boring.
The only time I used my heavy weapons like shotgun and rifle was when the situation deemed it necessary. Enemies too far away? Snipe em with headshots. A horde of Enemies got the jump on you or facing off against thicker skinned enemies? Break out the shottie and wait until their nice and close for maximum damage. Otherwise I was using my pistol to set up melee attacks.
If I give Shiva ammo for ANY weapon she is screwing up my melee attacks on normal enemies. She will combo heavy enemies with me but how she handles the fodder irks the hell out of me. When I tell her to be more offensive she will go do her thing but then she kills my ammo supply so I don't set her to that often except maybe boss fights. I like some of the new things like adrenaline shots and helping me heal but imo they sacrificed too much about what was so fun about playing by yourself in RE4.
So here we have a game that is designed towards one sort of playing style. What is the motivation to replay it? I was never the type to enjoy plowing through a game with an unlimited ammo super weapon feeling invincible. I would need to find a person who enjoys conserving ammo and exploiting melee attacks as much as I do but even then their doing half the work that I want to be doing myself. RE4 was a great mastery game.
Damn negativity. Start emphasizing the positive for a change.