"action RE is just boring and horrible."

When RE4 came out, it had the least horror of ANY RE game...yet its widely regarded by many critics and publications as the best game of all time when it released.

When RE5 came out, it had even LESS horror than RE4..yet it became the best selling RE game of all time.

Do you see the pattern here? Capcom has had more critical acclaim and financial success with the action/survival hybrid REs than the all out horror REs.

You can say that action oriented REs are "boring" and "horrible" all you want...won't change the fact that the majority of RE fans disagree with you.

Personnaly I liked more the "old" RE. More atmopheric oriented then action. Still RE 4 was great and different... but 5 I felt it has less horror then 4. I would love to see a new RE like yhe old ones. Like when the remade it GC. Or I'm pretty sure there is a way to mix a little of both styles.

To me the RE and silent hill games are still head and shoulders above the horror games of this gen like, Dead Rising, Dead Island, Left for Dead. Where they only throw hordes of zombies at you and you shoot going backwards until everybody's down! Just action no atmosphere! I hope they go more down the atmospheric road then the action one with RE....

On a side note... I really like what the new silent hill looks like so far. Seems to have kept the "old" feeling... Good horror games are lacking this gen imo. All action grrrr!

People like you need more bubbles. Your absolutely right. The SCARIEST thing about the old REs were the control limitations. You could easily be outrun by lickers/other monsters and you moved like a tank. This made your character vulnerable which made the game more scary.

It was not just the range of motion that made the game scary but the lack of ammunition which usually forced you to think on which enemies are actually worth taking out. When every enemy randomly drops ammo or money to buy ammo, there is no worry of you making careless mistakes so the sense of tension in each single battle is minimized dramatically.

Next there was the damage system where as the closest you are to an enemy, the more damage you are able to do. This factor compounded with the lack of ammo made each encounter with a creature a high risk/high reward feeling which adds to the survival modus operandi of the game.

Another factor was limited saves which played a very big role in adding to the fear. Once the player knows there there is a high chance of him/her screwing themselves over in recording data, more tension fuel is added to keep player away from a comfort zone even if they were armed to the teeth.

Finally, there was the clever use of fixed camera angles. I'll use an example of this;

-A player's character opens a door rendering the camera viewing the front of him/her at the end of a hallway. The slight bit of fear of the unknown kicks in because of the obvious limits in area view but add an event that rattles them for abit. Maybe a zombie ambling right in front of the camera to look at the actual player's television screen followed by him turning to the character he/she is playing as (all of this is gameplay not a cutscene....). Have the camera change immediately to a good targeting view of the monster so it can properly be disposed of.

That brief encounter will have the person volatile every time a fixed camera angle is used because of the anticipation of a similar or worse encounter happening again giving freedom to the developer to experiment in balancing free roam camera with fixed..

You are right LIMITS were the fear of the RE genre but not in just the way you expected.......

I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.

Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead

Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.

@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.

Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot

Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing

Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.

to be very fair

being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.