I like CVX and 0 because I like the old formula, but it's not like I could recommend them nearly as easily as the GOATs 2 and REmake. Definitely very flawed games. 3 on the other hand isn't nearly as mediocre as I remembered, despite some weak aspects.
I always loved RE4 for what it is, but I was one of the snobs annoyed by the new direction. I wouldn't have minded the new camera (the cancelled ogRE4 demo looked amazing), but it went from adventure to corridor shooter with a story that was very different in style despite the shared clownery between old and new. It's like following up Alien with Terminator 2... like, yeah the latter is great, but how does it fit? Then RE5 felt like a Chinese RE4-ripoff, just trash. Played it twice coop with a friend but never even bought it myself. Didn't bother with 6 afterwards.
Revelations 2 was great, a very satisyfing comeback for Claire and Barry with good selfaware writing and setting. The gameplay was kind of a toned-down RE4 to at least somewhat feel in line with the old games, which worked quite well for me. Then RE7 had some of the better moments in the entire series and RE2make looks like an even more refined RE7 in 3rd person. Hopefully that calladuty/party game phase of the series is forever dead.