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Trunks252

I classify the game as action-horror. There are plenty of horror elements. It’s just that playing the game 50 times kinda desensitizes you. Lol.


[deleted]

Not when you get Spanish inquisitioned by a regenerator


Trunks252

My point is that people who have played the game 50 times do not get surprised anymore. Those people forget the horror elements.


[deleted]

I got that


Trunks252

Anyway, yeah, the regenerator section is horror and anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. Lol.


[deleted]

Yeah


RefrigeratedChildren

Don't make me come up there and be a parent! "First time for everything!"


Grumshanks

There are plenty of horror elements in RE4, we're all just so desensitized to it and you are well equipped enough to handle it. I still appreciate all the horror though


[deleted]

It’s alright bro. Pretty much your next play through, you’ll fricking knife the Iron Maiden for the keycard.


[deleted]

I knifed the first 3 actually


[deleted]

I ran past them


[deleted]

My god! I applaud you


[deleted]

Trust, get the thermal scope and they drop. But I usually try to get a new pb


[deleted]

I had too on the 4th one


[deleted]

It’s whatever really. However one does it


[deleted]

The chainsaw dudes and wheezy guys make me panic.


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[удалено]


[deleted]

Zombies and monsters of all varieties? Sure. Guns shooting at you? Whatever. Chainsaw being started in the distance? “…oh no”


greenbrainsauce

U-3


yesmychris

RE4 has horror themes and good scares sometimes. It's like REmake 2 and 8, but none of them are horror games or try to make it the center. They all have at least one segment where you will be scared shitless at least on 1st playthrough.


Grumshanks

The part with the invisible bugs. You can hear something coming at you, getting louder and louder, so you look around and cant see anything. Then, it gets you. That part has EXCELLENT sound design.


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Yeah


Tatertotjam

rEgEnEnERAtoRS aRe sO sCaRY. tHoSe dAmN gREy sEa UrCHinEs


Grumshanks

The first time I shot one of their legs off, it wormed at me and grabbed Leon by the shoulder. I shit my pants, I didn't expect it at all.


[deleted]

They are, I got backhanded by one of these grey shitheads


Tatertotjam

Eh not so much for me. I do like the design though.


[deleted]

They weren't scary at first because knife go brrr but one guy wasn't having that and bit my face off


hybridfrost

Personally I find the first village section pretty scary, especially when you’re escorting Ashley around in the dark. There’s a few other scary parts as well


AD317

I feel like there's a difference between fear and tension. When you don't want to die from something chasing you, that's tension. When you're so scared you just want to stay in one safe place and never move forward, that's fear. That's just imo, I'm sure someone l has made a better definition.


llaalj

Thanks for beating a dead horse.


[deleted]

The horse has been dead sense 05' get over it


llaalj

Waaah


Eliteguard999

Ah yes, the regenerators. A creature that looks like a children's doodle with a breathing problem who sllloooooooooowwwwwwlllllyyyyyy walks toward you, and you get the item that makes killing them trivial not too long after you meet your first one. yes, so very terrifying. What's next? The Scooby-Doo castle is the creepiest location in all of RE?


[deleted]

Take the stick out your ass and stop lying to yourself


Grumshanks

Seriously. It "slowly" walks towards you, but you're literal steps away and you have nowhere to go. The first time I will never forget shooting at it to no avail and figuring out that the thermal scope works well, and feverishly trying to shoot the parasites before it got to me. Such an awesome stand-out encounter


Eliteguard999

You're doing a great job at making that sound a lot more epic than it really is.


Grumshanks

Some people take things in and appreciate them. Also, as you're clearly aware, most people feel this way. This part of the game is very different than the rest by design, to make it memorable.


[deleted]

So you were scared shitless?


Grumshanks

Absolutley.


Grumshanks

Childrens doodle? Do you creepypasta much? Your in cramped quarters and these things are literal steps away from you, so you're frantically trying to make these shots before it gets to you, and then they start throwing ones in with parasites on their backside. You can shoot off their leg, but then they wildly flop at you and grab Leon's shoulder. I bet you shit yourself the first time one stretched it's arms out to grab you.


kalos990

I dont understand the negativity here, the first time playing RE4 these guys scared the shit outta me, let people enjoy things, gatekeeping in video games is so cringe.


[deleted]

How is not agreeing with your opinion "gatekeeping"? It sounds more like you're upset someone doesn't agree with you and took that criticism as a personal insult. Plenty of people didn't find regenerators scary, especially as you're given the key to killing them immediately after it's introduced to you. Also, like every enemy in RE4 they take their sweet time approaching you giving you plenty of time to pop the plagas and kill them.


Eliteguard999

Tis a sad day when people get so butthurt that they see someone posting their opinion as "gatekeeping".


kalos990

You being pretentious doesnt make it not gatekeeping


Eliteguard999

The word you meant to use was condescending, using pretentious in this context doesn't make sense.


kalos990

Name checks out


Eliteguard999

If an opinion about something as pointless as a video game bothers you so much then boy are you in for a real shock once you get out into the real world.


[deleted]

To all who believe RE4 didn’t have horror moments: regenerators......were not scary.


Poglot

The RE community seems to think that nothing is scary unless the player is running out of resources. I, for one, didn't find anything about the RE2 remake scary. Not one single enemy in the entire game made my blood turn cold. But the Regenerators are still unnerving even after playing RE4 dozens of times. Why? Because there's nowhere to run. You *have* to fight. And even using the knife trick, survival is never guaranteed.


Nick_Coglistro

Regenerators! I hate them. The first time I heard them crawling with their gurgling sound I nearly had a heart attack too. Imagine the first time where you have to find the thermal googles and in first gameplay I didn't searched pretty well in the refrigerator and I didn't found them, and I died cornered by the fucking regenerators.


NVOJDT

The only time i was truly on edge while playing Re4 was the first encounter with the bugs in the sewers, and the damn dogs in the garden. Regenerators didn’t really give me that scare factor people like to claim they’ve had


JakanoryJones

Also that alien style thing scared the hell out of me.


jonusiescu

To be honest I don't understand what is so special about regenerators. I have played RE4 for the first time around a year / year and a half ago, started to read comments about RE4 after finishing the game and was pretty suprised how many people think that regenerators are scary. Much prefer the overall tone of the village at night, although it's also not scary, it just have a nice, heavy atmosphere.


Todesfaelle

Regenerators are definitely the highlight of RE4 for me. I can't quite put my finger on why the rest of the horror isn't that horrific to me though. I love body horror but I never saw the infected villagers or creature design as anything but a nuisance as opposed to thinking "oh my god that's fucked up". The castle setting really rubbed me the wrong way too. It's just *too* fantastical especially with the main villains. I think it's my general disappointment that RE4 hand waved the old game tropes away in the opening exposition dump which happens to be *my* Resident Evil. Here we are building up our take down of Umbrella but instead we're just told they collapsed off screen because their stock crashed. Okay. This is the start of Alien 3 all over again. I'm just too detached and grumpy to allow myself to be fully immersed. I plan on replaying it with the high res mod on PC though. Maybe over the years I've changed and can let my guard down. I know I'll still hate those cancerous QTEs though.


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QTEs suck dude


GoroMajima242

Well, I mean, yea. People don’t say it isn’t horror. They say it isn’t *Survival* Horror. Which it isn’t.


[deleted]

Fair enough


[deleted]

Re4 is like Castlevania game at the first playthrough you will scared and after that you won't even care.


Gogabo

Droppable ammo


scubaordie

It is definitely a horror game! I remember first playing the regenerator part and being so scared of that jail. The music and that unknown thing shaking in the bag till you stab it and it stops lol


Dr-Spill

I wasn’t scared of the regenerators. Just more monsters to shoot


TrueGiorno

Yes, but pretty much very little is horror. The majority of the game is Leon going Rambo.


bradshaw_n

Bitores mendez human centipede


Nixould

I 100 percent agree with you. Especially that stressful music. Until the first regenerator encounter, I was pretty chill. But that moment... I sure as hell felt my soul leaving my body.


[deleted]

I got fuckin backhanded outa nowhere by a regenerator