What difficulty do you have your game set to?

[Feurthan]

I wasn't expecting this game to be so hard. I had to go with Assisted. I tried standard, but the enemies were unexpectedly hard. I just wanted to play through the game without being frustrated and/or dying over and over again. I've beaten the original RE4 and had no problem, but I feel like they made this game way too hard. Thoughts?

[Krypto]

Played on Standard. Honestly? Pretty easy if you ask me. Next time will be on hardcore.

[ChiefMendez]

Original is significantly easier with 1 hit stagger > kick > knife routine yes. Remake's gonados are also significantly more aggressive even on standard.

[Zombie Roger]

I played Hardcore. In my game, I found the trick is to make the resource drops and utilizing the dodge/parry system. The other trick is to make the resource drops better and to shoot at the merchant range to get some charms that can increase production.

With that said, I hated every minute of the game. lol. It was excruciatingly difficult for me. By the time I finished the game, I had exactly 4 rounds of pistol left. I can't even re-play a new game+ because I'm so low on ammo and basically got 0 ammo available. Every part for me came down to the line. I always had nearly 0 ammo. Sometimes I would get lucky break and be able to have a few rounds of rifle ammo but overall had to stick to simply fighting my way out every inch.

I did not feel like I completed the game, to be honest, even though I beat the game. The easiest boss was the last boss as I did not died once during the fight. But overall I felt like each part of the game as being cheap enough and frustrating enough that I did not feel like I made progress but instead somehow lucked out and made it through.

In RE2 and RE1 even I felt like I was making it. That despite having low ammo in those games, you had to be careful about where you used them and made smart decisions. Once you figured out the game you could easily get by without shooting much. In RE4 Remake, I felt like you couldn't make smart decisions and instead had to hope you could pull together the right number of resources in each part and break through.

[KRON]

I played on Assisted, Standard and Professional. If I ever do another play through, I'll set it to standard. Assisted is too easy, Hardcore is pretty much the same as Professional, except there are autosaves and the parries are not limited to perfect, and even then it's too hard. Standard is called standard for a reason.

[Codester]

Maybe you just got worse at gaming?
The game is super easy. Shoot an enemy in the head, sprint at them and melee, stab them to death to save ammo.
Parrying on all the difficulty's is super generous and easy.
No longer have to deal with the QTE's like in the original.
Game also has stealth kills now and you can take advantage of it a lot and kill a lot of people before they even see you, mini-bosses included. I duno, I personally feel the game is actually easier than the original but maybe that's just me.

[Feurthan]

Originally posted by Codester:

Maybe you just got worse at gaming?
The game is super easy. Shoot an enemy in the head, sprint at them and melee, stab them to death to save ammo.
Parrying on all the difficulty's is super generous and easy.
No longer have to deal with the QTE's like in the original.
Game also has stealth kills now and you can take advantage of it a lot and kill a lot of people before they even see you, mini-bosses included. I duno, I personally feel the game is actually easier than the original but maybe that's just me.

Whenever I start a new game, I'll make sure and play on hardcore. I just wanted my first playthrough of the remake to be relaxing.

[Zombie Roger]

Originally posted by Codester:

Maybe you just got worse at gaming?
The game is super easy. Shoot an enemy in the head, sprint at them and melee, stab them to death to save ammo.
Parrying on all the difficulty's is super generous and easy.
No longer have to deal with the QTE's like in the original.
Game also has stealth kills now and you can take advantage of it a lot and kill a lot of people before they even see you, mini-bosses included. I duno, I personally feel the game is actually easier than the original but maybe that's just me.

For someone who only got 9 achievements and haven't even completed the game, I find your statement a little hard to believe fully.

[Bansheebutt]

First playthrough was on standard, because that's always how I play videogames. I struggled in parts the developers probably intended you to struggle in, like the cabin, fishing area, castle wall gauntlet, or the island ruins, but was never stuck for too long.

By the end of that first playthrough I got a lot better about parrying and my second playthrough on a fresh Hardcore run is totally manageable.

Something else that I think helped was that I undervalued Rate of Fire upgrades in that first playthrough, specifically on the pistol. It helps a lot since you can't just stagger every ganado with a single bullet like you can in the original.

If you traded for the Black Case at the merchant thinking "cool! more resource items!" switch back to silver. The thing is a beginner's trap and I think it's only real use is for challenge runs where you don't want to use a pistol. (Pistols being the best overall weapon category.)

[Moogal™]

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[KRON]

Originally posted by Codester:

Maybe you just got worse at gaming?
The game is super easy. Shoot an enemy in the head, sprint at them and melee, stab them to death to save ammo.
Parrying on all the difficulty's is super generous and easy.

None of that applies to Professional.
1) Shooting them in the head once doesn't do anything, shooting twice most of the time doesn't do anything either, and by the time you're trying to shoot the third time they've already grabbed you

2) In the early game stabbing is the last resort, because you stab them while they're down like 4 times and your knife is gone

3) Parrying is limited to only perfect parrys, which have a split second window. Hardly generous. And they're easy only after dozens of hours of practice.

[ggAkatsukiP]

Originally posted by Feurthan:

I wasn't expecting this game to be so hard. I had to go with Assisted.

14 years ago, I can't even beat og re4 in Easy.

Now I'm playing re4make in ng pro like breakfast.

You will become better, just the matter of time.

Same thing I can't beat PE2 at Bounty mode 15 years ago, now I'm playing Nightmare mode like daily supper.

[Moogal™]

Originally posted by ggAkatsukiP:

Originally posted by Feurthan:

I wasn't expecting this game to be so hard. I had to go with Assisted.

14 years ago, I can't even beat og re4 in Easy.

Now I'm playing re4make in ng pro like breakfast.

You will become better, just the matter of time.

Same thing I can't beat PE2 at Bounty mode 15 years ago, now I'm playing Nightmare mode like daily supper.

PE2 is a really good and interesting game. Sometime i wish i could play and finish it.

[Zombie Roger]

Originally posted by KRON:

Originally posted by Codester:

Maybe you just got worse at gaming?
The game is super easy. Shoot an enemy in the head, sprint at them and melee, stab them to death to save ammo.
Parrying on all the difficulty's is super generous and easy.

None of that applies to Professional.
1) Shooting them in the head once doesn't do anything, shooting twice most of the time doesn't do anything either, and by the time you're trying to shoot the third time they've already grabbed you

2) In the early game stabbing is the last resort, because you stab them while they're down like 4 times and your knife is gone

3) Parrying is limited to only perfect parrys, which have a split second window. Hardly generous. And they're easy only after dozens of hours of practice.

Don't listen to that guy. He hasn't even completed the game. Based on his achievements I think he's on about chapter 4-8, which to me was pretty easy up until chapter 9 and onwards where some of the game's flaws start to become apparent.

[Krypto]

Originally posted by Zombie Roger:

Originally posted by KRON:

None of that applies to Professional.
1) Shooting them in the head once doesn't do anything, shooting twice most of the time doesn't do anything either, and by the time you're trying to shoot the third time they've already grabbed you

2) In the early game stabbing is the last resort, because you stab them while they're down like 4 times and your knife is gone

3) Parrying is limited to only perfect parrys, which have a split second window. Hardly generous. And they're easy only after dozens of hours of practice.

Don't listen to that guy. He hasn't even completed the game. Based on his achievements I think he's on about chapter 4-8, which to me was pretty easy up until chapter 9 and onwards where some of the game's flaws start to become apparent.

What flaws are we talking about?

[Lost Drunk]

Originally posted by Feurthan:

I wasn't expecting this game to be so hard. I had to go with Assisted. I tried standard, but the enemies were unexpectedly hard. I just wanted to play through the game without being frustrated and/or dying over and over again. I've beaten the original RE4 and had no problem, but I feel like they made this game way too hard. Thoughts?

This game have several cheap tricks like enemies spawning behind you and combat mechanics are bad for a TPS game (RE Engine will never be a good engine for FPS/TPS games). Is first parts the number of beartraps and tripmines are insane and unbalanced with the player intuition also every damage are around 1/3 of your health bar.
Some moments you can't have any chance to heal due damage animations on player are too long and enemies can hit you again and again.
Unfortunately guns on beginning are useless while knife can do mostly job to kill or avoid damage. (knife is probably the most overpower/unbalanced weapon of the game)
My experience so far is that village part is incredibly full of traps, enemy hordes and low recovery resources. Adding all these things with the combat mechanics you will take a frustrating gameplay until get good upgrades on weapons.