Help me understand the appeal

[Mono]

Don't get me wrong, i'm not hating.
I just wanted to understand what's attractive about a corny Resident Evil plot straight out of cheap horror pulp books, and most of all, what's attractive about characters pulled from shōjo manga. A polished, smooth-shaven beautiful boy with an emo haircut, trying to be a badass, handing out Chuck Norris-style roundhouse kicks all around. Adult heroines with the face and voice of a little girl looking like a pedophile's wet dream. Villains as creepy and convincing as from the era of black and white silent films.
Many see these aspects positively, to me they give a gigantic cringe and incomprehension.

I can appreciate disturbing atmosphere, good jump scars, competently optimized engine and nice graphics but after all, the success of this series is not only these things.
Help me understand.

[Panthaz89]

The game is fun the story isn't important as that point.

[Hash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwHkHKi7Wg&ab_channel=evilSWA-beyondpandorafilms

[FuriousFool]

Same reason films like Evil Dead and Scream are popular - it's just fun.

Not sure where that paedophile claim came from though.

[Mono]

Originally posted by Panthaz89:

The game is fun the story isn't important as that point.

Yes, the fun of the game is a very important thing, but in my opinion for a game to be "complete" it should also have believable characters with whom you can identify on some level. If not protagonists then at least characters from the further plan or even antagonists.

[Sovereign]

Little girls? Ashley’s face model is an adult women in her mid twenties.

Anyway, a lot of people just like the fun, dumb schlock horror of things like this. You’re not supposed to take it too seriously.

[Mono]

Originally posted by FuriousFool:

Not sure where that paedophile claim came from though.

Maybe i exaggerated a bit, but Japanese culture in my opinion often tends to make the heroines of its stories more childlike. Whether it's through their faces or their voices.
Perhaps it's an innocent practice, but to me it's definitely disturbing and far from attractive.

[[STG] Dante]

RE:4 is arguably 1 of the greatest games of all time. Maybe it's you

[Mist]

Originally posted by Stefan od miesa:

Originally posted by Panthaz89:

The game is fun the story isn't important as that point.

Yes, the fun of the game is a very important thing, but in my opinion for a game to be "complete" it should also have believable characters with whom you can identify on some level. If not protagonists then at least characters from the further plan or even antagonists.

"I need to project myself to enjoy things reeeee" Cool. We don't. Move on.

[FuriousFool]

Originally posted by Stefan od miesa:

Originally posted by FuriousFool:

Not sure where that paedophile claim came from though.

Maybe i exaggerated a bit, but Japanese culture in my opinion often tends to make the heroines of its stories more childlike. Whether it's through their faces or their voices.
Perhaps it's an innocent practice, but to me it's definitely disturbing and far from attractive.

That may be true, but you can't say this is there in the RE4 Remake. I assumed you were talking about the game since this is the discussion board for the game.

[Samiel Hydeberg]

Originally posted by Stefan od miesa:

Originally posted by FuriousFool:

Not sure where that paedophile claim came from though.

Maybe i exaggerated a bit, but Japanese culture in my opinion often tends to make the heroines of its stories more childlike. Whether it's through their faces or their voices.
Perhaps it's an innocent practice, but to me it's definitely disturbing and far from attractive.

You are seeing something that is not here. At least in context of RE4.
As to why people enjoy campines of the game? Because every major game today tries too hard to be super serious and tackle "important" themes, while also having gracefullnes of mid seisure epileptic. Having silly game with cheesy villains and heroes is simply refreshing.

[shiv]

Gameplay. It's relatively challenging with plenty of variety in enemy types.

Level design - it's varied, with different locations leading to interesting and fun places to fight in and walk through, and exploration is rewarded by treasures and narrative text.

Combat - challenging and fun with variety and a degree of tactics that can be quite rewarding. This is thanks to a selection of different weapons that have different strengths and weaknesses, as well as different ways to approach combat. Very few clear 'superior' options mean that people are free to find a load out and playstyle that they enjoy.

Visuals - fantastic art design, and graphical quality makes each new boss, enemy type, location and cutscene an enjoyable discovery. The atmosphere theyve created is also quite effective and enjoyable.

Story serves mainly to tie all these things together but thanks to the cutscenes and the discoverable flavor text it does atleast make it fun to uncover the history of the place and the occuring events.

Yes it's over the top in both Story and characters but.. I mean zombies and mutants and biological experiments, ancient cults and deadly mind control parasites.. anything less than embracing the silliness would only serve to make everything laughable anyway. It's like superhero movies.. embrace the absurdity or you'll just end up with an unsatisfying joke that comes across as cheesy and sad.

And characters don't need to be identifiable with in any way I think... just consistant with the world they inhabit. And these ones surely are :D

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by Stefan od miesa:

Originally posted by Panthaz89:

The game is fun the story isn't important as that point.

Yes, the fun of the game is a very important thing, but in my opinion for a game to be "complete" it should also have believable characters with whom you can identify on some level. If not protagonists then at least characters from the further plan or even antagonists.

that is your opinion and it is not a fact, as you can see most people can enjoy a game with no story at all
look at the earlier minecraft version where there was no bosses or story or whatever

look at other popular games not all of them are story heavy or even have a story

[Diarrhea Blaster]

I wasn't really a huge fan of the original when it came out, but I'm having an absolute blast with this.

There are so many video games with so many different looking characters I don't even understand how one could question what they look like in any game really.

But the weirdest part of your past is the pedo comment, it's almost like you're projecting. It's the president's daughter, she's a kid, the fact that makes you think of "pedo wet dream" is very odd on your behalf.

[Moogal™]

For me, gameplay was always (and still is) the most important aspect of the RE series. This and OG both does this very well.

[Sandro]

The reason I love the OG Resident Evil games : 0, 1, 2, 3 is because of the modern-gothic architecture and atmosphere mixed with a proper ambient soundtrack. Add to that the mysterious almost Lovecraftian Umbrella Corporation and it's tyrant projects and they had a great formula going on. Starting with RE4 they've changed that style but still it's a great game on it's own because the action elements are balanced quite well to make up for it.