Resident Evil 4 (2023)

TheNozz

Bronze Baron of the Realm
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So I got a new PC and finally got around to playing this and....

I gave up, the difficulty is too fucking hard, even on Standard.

Seems like they went back and completely unbalanced everything about OG combat. Speaking of which; standard difficulty on this is somehow harder than OG Professional.

Final straw was the regeneradors. Way too fucking OP and requires far more precision to kill the internal parasites than you ever had to from OG.

I've had moments from other RE games that were insane (Abyss Tyrant from Revelation/Inferno Final Nemesis from RE3make), but I've never seen such a ridiculous difficulty curve in an entire RE game on normal/standard difficulty. Difficulty feels like a legit equivalent to something like the Hardcore setting.

I was able to get an S+ on Hardcore in RE2make after about 20-30 hours of playtime. I can't even beat this game after 40 hours.

Really wanted to enjoy this, but if I were to make a review, it would simply be "A Potential Masterpiece Undone By One Fatal Flaw."
 

Runnen

Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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So I got a new PC and finally got around to playing this and....

I gave up, the difficulty is too fucking hard, even on Standard.

Seems like they went back and completely unbalanced everything about OG combat. Speaking of which; standard difficulty on this is somehow harder than OG Professional.

Final straw was the regeneradors. Way too fucking OP and requires far more precision to kill the internal parasites than you ever had to from OG.

I've had moments from other RE games that were insane (Abyss Tyrant from Revelation/Inferno Final Nemesis from RE3make), but I've never seen such a ridiculous difficulty curve in an entire RE game on normal/standard difficulty. Difficulty feels like a legit equivalent to something like the Hardcore setting.

I was able to get an S+ on Hardcore in RE2make after about 20-30 hours of playtime. I can't even beat this game after 40 hours.

Really wanted to enjoy this, but if I were to make a review, it would simply be "A Potential Masterpiece Undone By One Fatal Flaw."

Are you sure you were on Standard difficulty? Cause even my 75 year old dad who plays Xbox was able to beat RE4 Remake repeatedly... and I recall not really having a hard time playing the OG RE4 at the time (and my dad beat that one too!). There's a lot of shooting and action in RE4 compared to previous entries (especially OG compared to the previous games in the series which were tank controls and slow aiming) but I don't recall feeling a huge difficulty spike..

Maybe you should reconsider your weapons loadout for the Regeneradors? Technically, you've seen most of the game since those enemies show up pretty late but still, it's a bummer that you feel unable to finish it, and I'm legit wondering if something made your game harder than it should be.
 
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