george_us said:
Just beat it an hour ago. The game does pick up towards the end but it's still quite a ways from RE4. In any case, it's still a great game and is worthy of GOTY status. I guess I just have to keep in mind that RE4 was a once in a generation game.
This is why I can't wait for RE6 if they are planning to do another overhaul like they say they are. I mentioned this earlier but it really sucks thinking how long it will take for them to do this RE reboot with 6.
I like to think of this analogy: RE5 is to RE4 as RE3 is to RE2 or RE2 is to RE1 in different ways...
see RE2 and RE1 I could consider almost the same game but with a different setting/characters and minor improvements. RE2 kinda makes RE1 more "co-op" with the changes made when you play as leon after claire or vice versa, and RE5 makes RE4 co-op in a different way.
RE3 comes around and you're just jill but switch to carlos for a part, but yet again its the same way of controlling RE2 and RE1 (but now you have nemesis), so RE5 is to RE4 with the same controls.
You didnt have to wait too long for RE3 to come out after RE2, so it is with RE5 (compared to the wait between 3 and 4 and between 5 and future 6 "reboot").
RE3 even had what you could call a better mercs mode, because 2 had its own little minigame at the end and then it becomes much more compelling with RE3 and a scoring system, extra time for kills and characters with different loadouts, much more fleshed out than RE2's hunk and tofu and whatnot. So it is with 5, its 4's mercs mode but with 160 different A, S, or SS ranks to obtain for each combo of solo/duo+character+level compared to RE4's 4 maps with 5 characters = 20 ranks to obtain that arent even properly recorded for each character if i recall.
SO I know all that is really confusing but my point is that its like how RE3 comes out and it's not as good (in most people's eyes) compared to RE2 but still a solid addition to the series and worth your time and money. So everyone seems to think with RE5, its just as fun as RE4 and well worth your money, but yeah RE4 scored better and still is considered the better game.
If you don't really agree with all that, think of it this way, would you rather have an RE 4.5 with co-op now, or have to wait longer for the game, but its another complete reboot like RE4 was and RE6 will supposedly be? I'm overjoyed to have more RE4 to play with, this time with a partner! (although it sucks that the RE6 reboot is delayed because of RE5's development time)