Ok, honest opinions guys. This or RE2R?

[King of Persia]

I'm currently up to Chapter 13 over the past day. Will likely finish the game by tomorrow.

But SO FAR, up to the point I've played, I think RE2R is still the goat? It was such a well made game, balanced, had replayability (especially since there's 2 characters and Claire's great). Bosses, enemies and puzzles were also more fun in RE2R in my opinion.

That's not to say RE4R isn't a good game, in fact it's great and I am enjoying it. I also can't wait for the release of mercenaries mode (fingers crossed for original 4 characters from re4 mercs mode as well as some additions like Luis, maybe even Claire and RE3R Jill?).

What do you guys think? Between this and RE2R?

[Moogal™]

This 100%

[Timedye]

I prefer the OG RE2 to OG RE4, and I expect that will be the case here.

I'm in Chapter 10 and I'm enjoying the hell out of RE4R, but RE2 and RE2R will always be very special to me.

[Krypto]

This. 110% this. Better combat. Larger variety of areas. More interesting enemy encounters, plus enemy variety. Upgrade system. Kicking open boxes. Kicking enemies in the face. Kicking enemies off bear traps so their leg explodes. Kicking chainsaw man to death.

[Dante]

I think RE4R for me as it has more replay value compared to RE2R but I still love them both equally. Also, where is the RE3R option ;)

[Leadbelly]

Both.

[Timedye]

Also, some technical issues for RE4R are holding it back for me (playing on PS5). If Capcom patches it up, that will bring it even higher in my estimation.

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by Midnight:

I think RE4R for me as it has more replay value compared to RE2R but I still love them both equally. Also, where is the RE3R option ;)

Well I beat RE3R 100%, in less than 3 hours on the hardest difficulty, So that game clearly does not go on any pedestal.

[RWND]

I also prefer RE2R too, but with just a single patch they can turn it around but i highly doubt that's gonna happen

[BowlingDonutsMD]

They made RE2 Remake the perfect survival horror game. Then they removed the survival horror aspects in 3 Remake and now have completely abandoned all elements of that Remake in favor of simply doing Re4 again. Which I think is a step backwards. It's still fun, but I feel like Re4 Remake has too much jank. The shooting doesn't feel great, but they thankfully made it more impactful which in Re2, you could shoot the same enemy for days and not do any damage it seems. I understand it was done so purposefully to not kill every enemy you see and instead conserve ammo.

Re4 just feels like an old game. It's fun still, but I prefer the way the original played. The remake allows you to move and shoot but you move so slowly you might as well not be able to move and shoot at all. Also the environments are more detailed, but so small. Leon can barely fit in some hallways. I get it's more realistic, but more janky moving around. The prompt to vault over fences also doesn't come up when the fence is slightly higher or lower so when you run to a fence you have to kind of run into it and slide one or two feet until the prompt appears which makes the game feel awkward. The camera is slow and running from enemies makes it so you can't see where you are going at times that the 2nd person camera from the original makes more sense.

It like tries to replicate all the systems of Re4 original but does them worse. It's not a bad game, but it's a step down for me as well.

The Re4 gameplay is so good that even in this clumsy form it's still pretty fun when it's working.

[Bolski]

For me, RE4 Remake is the better game. And I absolutely love the Remake of RE2. It was one of my all-time favorites, but this game takes it up a notch and it actually stayed pretty darned faithful to the OG while still being a completely new experience. Areas that seemed the same turned out different. Events happen at different areas. And the game-play mechanics are vastly superior to RE2 Remake IMHO. Both are great games, but for me, RE4 Remake is the best of all the recent remakes of RE.

[thorin106]

I prefer both as each one has a different setting and it hard for me just to choose just one, so I choose both. I do have to get used to how to control my characters as for me it is not cut and dry.

[Eren Jäger]

I find it difficult to compare. I love both games. But if I had a choice and would build the perfect resi game, it would be the level design from resi 2/8 (police station/Dimitriscu Castle) and general gameplay, Gunplay and story from resi 4

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

I like this game better, but RE2R was fine. I wasn't really that impressed, but I didn't grow up with the originals.

[karmazyn1]

This. No annoying, undestructible Mr X. But this one is more like an action game and the other one was pure horror. bro...

[Vyadhi]

This.

RE2R is great but I feel like the OG RE2 is superior. This game, so far, is roughly equal to the OG.