So after the pain fest that was Resident Evil 5 for me, surely I thought RE6 could not be worse. You can actually evade, do flips, slide under enemies, and execute sick melee attacks on zombies on top of shooting and it's genuinely fun and Capcom shouldn't be ashamed of this aspect of the game and bring it back to the modern entries more. Uh, unfortunately that's the only thing I enjoyed outside of like two other things because this was ROUGH.
Everyone knows about Resident Evil 6 and its notoriety considered to be the worst Resident Evil entry, which I'd argue still goes to Code Veronica or Zero. Watching this game from afar in playthroughs and retrospectives gave me the sense that surely it can't be that bad and despite my rating here, I think this game has some things going for it like the aforementioned combat, the character models still look nice to this day, and mercenaries mode, but everything else is absolutely baffling and infuriating.
Can't name everything that bothered me, but these aspects drove me mad especially: the controls are insanely unwieldy with a terrible tutorial section in the prologue, the QTEs are god awful and too excessive even for this genre, this game's confusion on being a wacky, Michael Bay-esque, high octane action game while still shoving in survival horror elements haphazardly thrown around that actively conflict with and limited most of the campaigns and gameplay, shooting is so floaty, the soulless skillpoints system, HEALING BLOWS, the puzzles suck ass, this game's way too stingy as fuck with ammo and health, THE VEHICLES CONTROL LIKE SHIT AND ESPECIALLY THE SNOWMOBILE SECTION.
RE6 was actively painful to play and I croaked during Jake's campaign, not like I'm missing much since the overall narrative SUCKS across each campaign. I get why people call this an ambitious mess but so many of this game's ideas were downright terrible and should have been laughed out of the room at the time, but this was a different era of Capcom as they chased the western shooter trend all the way down the drain like many other popular horror developers at the time. Playing this makes me appreciate RE7 a bit more but I still feel like that was too much of a course correction. Regardless, this game sucks and I'd eject it into the vacuum of space immediately if I had the chance. Fuck this game.
Everyone knows about Resident Evil 6 and its notoriety considered to be the worst Resident Evil entry, which I'd argue still goes to Code Veronica or Zero. Watching this game from afar in playthroughs and retrospectives gave me the sense that surely it can't be that bad and despite my rating here, I think this game has some things going for it like the aforementioned combat, the character models still look nice to this day, and mercenaries mode, but everything else is absolutely baffling and infuriating.
Can't name everything that bothered me, but these aspects drove me mad especially: the controls are insanely unwieldy with a terrible tutorial section in the prologue, the QTEs are god awful and too excessive even for this genre, this game's confusion on being a wacky, Michael Bay-esque, high octane action game while still shoving in survival horror elements haphazardly thrown around that actively conflict with and limited most of the campaigns and gameplay, shooting is so floaty, the soulless skillpoints system, HEALING BLOWS, the puzzles suck ass, this game's way too stingy as fuck with ammo and health, THE VEHICLES CONTROL LIKE SHIT AND ESPECIALLY THE SNOWMOBILE SECTION.
RE6 was actively painful to play and I croaked during Jake's campaign, not like I'm missing much since the overall narrative SUCKS across each campaign. I get why people call this an ambitious mess but so many of this game's ideas were downright terrible and should have been laughed out of the room at the time, but this was a different era of Capcom as they chased the western shooter trend all the way down the drain like many other popular horror developers at the time. Playing this makes me appreciate RE7 a bit more but I still feel like that was too much of a course correction. Regardless, this game sucks and I'd eject it into the vacuum of space immediately if I had the chance. Fuck this game.