Originally Posted by bbfg

I loved both SOCOM 1 and SOCOM 2 and yes they introduced online gaming to consoles and were amazing tactical shooters, but I don't think they deserve a spot in a top 10.

Originally Posted by CheckRaise_

The early socoms were just revolutionary for online console gaming, while they literally are my favorite games of all time, I point at that the socom series were the most popular and successful PlayStation 2 titles ever but, did you guys know that the ass holes at sony just shut down zipper interactive like 2 months ago? they blamed zipper for socom 4 being a failure even though it was obviously sony's ****ing fault for letting the psn get hacked and shut down for 5 weeks when socom 4 launched

Originally Posted by Count Chocula

it's not damn near unplayable when I'm sure a million people have beaten the game. I think it's only something that stands out as having bad controls when you play it today, back then I really had no issues with it. People complain about resident evil control scheme because it took the series so long to evolve past that, not because it was released with intentionally bad controls or whatever ridiculous claim you made.

Originally Posted by bbfg

I agree fixed angles were very irritating sometimes, especially in the bigger rooms with enemies since often you had to run from enemies and came into a spot where you could defend again but were at such an awkard angle that you had no idea wether you were shooting the zombie or a wall 10 feet next to it... but they certainly also had advantages. It DID add to the scary factor if you compare it to its generation. People did not expect free cameramovement yet, a ton of games had a form of uncontrolable or limited camera movement.

Note that in RE1 Capcom deliberately used it as a sort of mechanic. It was very often you were exploring an area and knew there was a zombie in it since it was mumbling, but had no way of seeing it yet. Imo that worked in making **** intense. Walking "into" a camera holding a knife because the zombie could pop up right in front of you any second was awesome.

Originally Posted by bbfg

RE4 was an excellent game but it already started to show signs of the bad turns the series took in RE5. RE games shouldn't be about large open spaces where you have to mow down hundreds of zombies with your enormous amount of weapons and ammo to get across to the other side of the field.

Resident Evil was best when it was about small narrow spaces with limited ammo and the fear of coming across just a single enemy was really there.

I remember just sitting in front of my Playstation and the legendary door animation coming on the screen and I was just praying that there wouldn't be any zombie mumbling in the next room because I was 1 bite away from dying and only had some ammo left and needed to find a typewriter fast. Or coming across a boss when I had literally no ammo or health left and just had to replay through an entire portion of the game because **** what else was I going to do? Those were the moments about RE that I'll never forget, not some epic boss fight that wasn't really unique or scary which were the best moments in RE4.

I think I found RE1 the most scary one but RE2 slightly better all around. RE3 was decent but aside from a few scares when Nemesis blasted on your screen the game wasn't challenging enough to become legimately scary. RE4 was very good but felt like than an action game. Sometimes you get a scare because of a new enemy and the chainsaw guys will always be a little scary, but it's about blasting through enemies instead of survival. The only few times where it becomes scary is when the enemies are threatening to overrun you, but you're never walking around thinking "I better not come across enemies right now because I can't ****ing handle them right now".