If you ever hang out on Resident Evil fan-sites, I've often found it interesting that Resident Evil 0 and Resident Evil Remake, are both seen as huge let-downs to the series.
Personally I can't help but think tha major reason people give the games so much grief is because they are GameCube only. Zero in particular almost every 'hardcore' fan I know will make fun of Rebecca, claim there is no story, and the game is too short.
Though imo, these people are the reason I got sick and tired of hanging around Resident Evil fan boards. I mean sorry but Resident Evil Remake is quite simply THE hardest of all of the games period.
I've played and completed the original, Code Veronica X comes close; but Remake is by far the hardest even on the easiest mode.
Ammo is scarse and your looking at unloading entire clips to take down zombies or such that
will kill you in only 2 hits. Medical supplies are also very rare about the game. Oh and if you forget or can't burn the bodies of a dead zombie; a few minutes later they will reappear with puffs of smoke around them running super speeds and MUCH harder to kill.
I always felt Alien Vs Predator (playing as Humans or Aliens) was tough as nails, but Remake takes that crown with ease.
With the release of Resident Evil 4, I'll agree that it is by far the best in the series; hell it's definately earnt a placement in my best games list. Although personally I've always loved Resident Evil 0 as well. I mean one reason is it's the only exclusive GC game, which I personally waited since it was announced in 1999 for it to be released. Also because the characters in the game evolve.
Unlike the other Resident Evil's where characters are often 1-D and you know where you stand really. In Zero you start out with a very clear picture of Billy and Rebecca; yet throughout the game your perception of them changes, and thier relationship also changes from one of Officer & Prisoner... to people who would trust each other with thier lives. It also seems interesting to me how they're figuring out the story throughout; while obviously caught in the middle of the whole 'assasination plot'. The game adds to much to not only the history of Umbrella but some of the more mysterious characters like Wesker.
It's by far one of the easiest in terms of Zombie killing, but then Resident Evil 2 was quite easy in that way too; because only the numbers of them really make it more difficult. Still personally I don't see this as a bad thing. I know that I'm hardly amazingly good at these games (well RE4 I loved cause it was awesome being able to play similar to an FPS), but I've strongly felt that they were too hard for the adverage game on easy mode.
I don't care much how much more difficult that Production Studio 4 decided to make them for Normal and Hard modes... hell give users a knife and tie them to a super-zombie for all I care. For new people to the series or people like myself who prefer to explore everywhere and kill everything without trying to avoid as many monsters as possible. Well the games on the whole are a little too hard on Easy mode.
I find it a little annoying how because I've always found the games a little harder except Zero (I think it's difficulty settings were a perfect balance between the levels of player) and don't complete them in stupidly ridiculous times (someone completed RE remake in 2hr30min aparently... it took me closer to 13hours!) then I'm not considered some hardcore fan. Total BS if you ask me, cause I can tell you more about the story in all of the games than most of those self-proclaimed Hardcore fans. Who cares if you can complete a game if you never understood or even realised there was a plot behind it. They might as well go and play some typical mindless game like R-Type instead.
