Been making my way through RE4. Been HUNGERING to replay this game for... years, but it intensified last October and I was kinda upset the port wasn't out yet. So I waited, and waited. I even preloaded the game and checked it after midnight EST on launch a few weeks back.
Which I've never done before, and it's for a 14-year old game.
I may even have one of the Steam versions in my library.
Anyways, I got Ashley (I'm taking it a bit slow, also I'm rusty, also this is my first time playing without pointer controls.) One of the big deficiencies on the non-Wii versions I've noticed is that there doesn't seem to be a "quick knife." On Wii, you'd waggle the Nunchuk and Leon would instantly throw out his knife *and* aim at the nearest crate, barrel, or enemy simultaneously. Without that, it's a more annoying three-step process of "get knife out," then "aim at barrel/crate to make sure you can kill any snakes inside," then "knife."
Otherwise enjoying the game, though I'd really have liked some more care in the presentation. Probably won't ever get it though.
IMO RE4 is a prime candidate for the Shadow of Colossus treatment... The original game is amazing, and it can (and should) be ported everywhere, but I also still kind of long for a "full remake."
That would probably bankrupt Capcom though; the impression I get is that RE4 just has too much content, and is already too widely available, for that to be feasible in the same way it was for RE2. That said, if they did do a full remake (in the vein of the SotC one, meaning a focus on fully upgrading all the tech and smoothing some of the controls without breaking them), they could do some cool extra content and additional story stuff, and I know people would turn out for those.
