Should I play Revelations 1/2, 5 and 6 first?

[mystemacc]

I finished 0,1,2,3 and it peaked in 2 between these 4, but 3 wasn't bad at all.

I read that 4 is better than 2, so I am thinking about saving it for before 7 and 8 so I won't peak now and then be dissapointed with all games before 7 and 8.

Are those games that much worse, and are the story spoilers that important? Because the whole narrative changes after 7 anyway, so all possible spoilers and continuity will be in relation with 4.

What do you think?

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Kraftwerk:

The game has a lot of heart, just like the originals did.

It really doesn't.

There's a reason they went with a completely different direction after 6.

Most of those people with excessive hours in 6 are people who obsessively play the multiplayer modes. The actual campaign sucks.

[Seamus]

You're well within your rights to like a bad game.

[Seamus]

Notice how he didn't dispute what I said about RE6.

[mystemacc]

I am definitely going to play it because I want to play them all, the question was about playing them before RE4 so the game peaks at RE4, or play the best now and stick with the story but play progressively worse games until RE7.

[Seamus]

Play 4 next then.

[klimat13]

In order for the plot to make sense, play RE4 before RE5 and RE5 before RE6.
RE7 and RE8 are their own thing from what I understand (never cared to play hose myself), so you can play those before or after RE4/5/6, whatever you want. Just play RE7 before RE8, that's it.
Revelations 1 and 2 are their own side stories. I don't recommend Revelations 1, it's a port of a 3DS game, the gameplay is wooden, it sucks. Revelations 2 is whatever, I didn't care for it, but you can play it if you want, it doesn't matter much at what point.

Original RE4 is super fun and campy, the remake is also amazing, but more serious and more horror, less memes. I love both, but you decide for yourself if you wan to play both or not. Remake definitely has more conventional controls and quality of life features.
RE5 is a 2 player co-op action with some horror here and there, approach it with that mindset and you will love it. It's an amazing game. Also find a friend to play with online. You can technically play with a bot, but that will lose you half of the fun.
RE6 is a 2 player co-op action that likes to pretend to be horror. It has many awesome qualities, but also some terrible BS mixed in. On one hand it has amazing combat mechanics that are still peak action RE, 4 different campaigns, hours of cutscenes, tons of different enemies. On the other hand campaign levels are mostly linear, it has QTE galore during cutscenes, mash buttons to break a grab galore, mash a button when a prompt appears to parry galore, many forced turret/vehiclal sections that are terrible, somehow worse co-op features after RE5 setting a golden standard and so on. A classic case of too many cooks working on a game too big for it's own good. I still love it though. Core RE6 combat is that good as long as it is not obstructed by other nonsense. Mercenaries mode is the best thing about the game, since it is pure combat, no BS.

[mystemacc]

Thanks for the replies.

I started playing RE4 and will maybe start playing Revelations simultaneously. If I notice anything that doesn't make sense and is related to past games I'll stop playing it and finish 4 first. I'll start 5 after 4 and Revelations 2 after 1 and then after 5, 6, 7 and 8.

[Zequinha]

Revelations 1 story was wack to be honest, love that game on the 3DS but the only thing i remember is booba nemesis and the maaaaaaaydayyy this is queeeen zenobia zambo from the story and parker is cool i guess, i still don't know who betrays who and i had that game since 2012.
Revelations 1 is after 4 and before 5, the last cutscene is the Lost in Nightmares prologue that is playable on 5 Gold Edition.

Revelations 2 i don't know nothing sorry.

4 is kinda standalone, they jumped from umbrella doing evil things to the town to umbrella is dead on the intro.
the wii\ps3 rail shooters are available nowadays? they had some cool stuff, but the operation javier stage from darkside chronicles that tells the story of Krauser and Leon seems to went kaput on the remake storyline.

[Seamus]

Nah, the rail shooters haven't seen a re-release. It'd be nice to play them with better input than the wiimote though.

[Komarimaru]

I will say as someone who played 4 a lot before the remake, get ready to be confused at first by all the combat changes in 4. Seamus watched my streaming, and I died non stop at the intro area.

Took a break, looked up combat changes and was like... Oooooo.... Now I do well enough.

7 and 8, great games. 5 I enjoyed, mostly for the coop. 6... Well, it's 6. Some like it, most hate it. 6 had a neat multiplayer, story was facepalm.

[Gam3rX{{WaR}}]

7 is garbongolo, not even a resident evil game.

[OutSIdeOfTheBoX (chrisvig71)]

Originally posted by Gam3rX{{WaR}}:

7 is garbongolo, not even a resident evil game.

7 is a good game, it's a new path for rsident evil, it's the reason the series is still alive, if it was not for 7 the series will be semi--dead and be remembered for resident evil 6 way more, resident evil 7 is a good game and a good change

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Gam3rX{{WaR}}:

7 is garbongolo, not even a resident evil game.

Objectively false.

[OutSIdeOfTheBoX (chrisvig71)]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Originally posted by Gam3rX{{WaR}}:

7 is garbongolo, not even a resident evil game.

Objectively false.

Yeah, not only because it has resident evil in the title, but the first person is the only real change, and it was changed because it fits more with the game, but then what other differences it has from other resident evils? No one, is still the same...

[Monnsteri]

Hell no