If I played RE 1-3, can I skip 4 and go straight to 5?

[BinaryGhost]

The controls in RE4 are murder. I'd rather wait for the remake. In the meantime, can I skip it and continue to play 5?

[Wuajin]

RE5 plays similarly to RE4. Personally I think RE4 is better in many regards. Only plus to RE5 is multiplayer.

[Lanzagranadas]

You can skip any game. If you mean if you're going to lose anything important story-wise, you won't, RE4 has a very self-contained plot without any important connections with the other games.

[DarkSamus]

Only thing that may confuse is early in RE5 Chris mentions that the Majini are acting like those reported in the "Kennedy Report".

The Kennedy report is everything that happened in RE4.
From the top of my head I believe that is the only reference to RE4 in RE5.

[hboyqtwr]

just hook up a controller for re4, it helps alot, plus the game is amazing aside from the controls

[guardhousetv]

You can skip them all and just play RE5. RE5 has an encyclopedia about all the previous games

[SLISKI JOHNNY]

you can switch RE4 button layout to be the same as RE5's. Instead of choosing layout A or B, choose C (i think it's C, you'll know it's the right one if aim is under LT and fire is under RT). If you skip RE4, you'll be missing one hell of an experience. And that's not even nostalgia, I played RE4 for the first time like a year ago, after playing RE5 for years

[Gabriel5000]

Originally posted by BinaryGhost:

The controls in RE4 are murder. I'd rather wait for the remake. In the meantime, can I skip it and continue to play 5?

RE5 has no connection to RE4 so yea

[Talilover]

Lol all these people saying you should force yourself through 4.

Nah bro you're good, skip that noise

[BonBomb]

RE4's controls are 'murder?' I must be undead to like that game as much as I do.

[BinaryGhost]

UPDATE: turns out the the controls don't suck if you play with a controller. I'm at chapter 2 now.

[Titan]

Originally posted by BinaryGhost:

UPDATE: turns out the the controls don't suck if you play with a controller. I'm at chapter 2 now.

lol what lmfao it plays ten times worse on a controller. Have fun with analogue stick aiming.

[Meowcat]

Originally posted by BinaryGhost:

The controls in RE4 are murder. I'd rather wait for the remake. In the meantime, can I skip it and continue to play 5?

sure you can.play as what you feel the best thing you should do. No limitations in playing games .
stay safe and happy hunting xD

[Anarchy]

Originally posted by Talilover:

Lol all these people saying you should force yourself through 4.

Nah bro you're good, skip that noise

No one is forcing here. We are saying Re4 it's a very good game and if he want, he can play it, as the controls are pretty same.

[Baloubafish]

Originally posted by Titan:

Originally posted by BinaryGhost:

UPDATE: turns out the the controls don't suck if you play with a controller. I'm at chapter 2 now.

lol what lmfao it plays ten times worse on a controller. Have fun with analogue stick aiming.

Do you really find it that hard to play RE4 with a controller? Regardless of your preferred method of control, the analogue stick gives you more than enough precision to easily pull off headshots and knee shots as often as you like.

This isn't CS:GO - most of the enemies in RE4 will stand still or slowly shuffle directly towards you, giving you more than enough time to line up your shots, and you get a laser dot that shows you exactly where each one of your shots will land.

If you are unable to play this game well using an analogue stick, I think that it says more about your lack of familiarity and skill with using an analogue controller than it does about the quality or viability of analogue control.