Actual Proof the Professional Difficulty is RIGGED in the Resident Evil 4 Remake 

Going with that logic, i guess that would explain why in hardcore mode the Horde in the house was so dammed difficult! I died 15 times where i hadn't died until that point in the game. I was about to rage quit until suddenly it was easier, just enough. Even the game threw me more healing items and better ammo drops. It was ridiculous

@@neftalicruzluciano precisely. You dropped an entire rating by dying.

But if professional has a static difficulty rating why would you say its inconsistent lol? That would make it literally the only difficulty that is actually consistent.

I don't know if professional doesn't exactly change, or at least change enemies depending on performance. Recently I did my very first professional run, my performance in gameplay is usually average, I wouldn't say I'm bad but sometimes I make a lot of mistakes. This is all to say that during my professional run I was having a bit of trouble during the helicopter sequence, I'd died about 3-4 times, and on my last run through the area with the gate section and switches, upon activating one of them I noticed that the brute enemy didn't spawn, whilst on every other occasion it had. So I wonder if there is some difference in that 10 rate for enemy spawns at least.

Yeah that bugged me in the other remakes, I hate adaptive difficulties in games. You should be rewarded for playing well, not have the game cheat behind the scenes to artificially pump up the difficulty. Edit: Firstly I disagree about it not considered cheating on the part of the game. If a DM quietly decided you were doing too well and fudged the numbers in their favor behind the scenes, or teleported enemies around willy nilly, would that not be cheating? Second, I disagree about it making players "Git gud" in response. You can't really plan or get better at dealing with random bullshit. As demonstrated in the video, he played smart and skillfully but was fucked over because the game blatantly cheated or broke. Was he just not good enough and should have anticipated a chainsaw enemy would teleport behind that door? Or that an unavoidable regenerator would suddenly become unkillable? No that's ridiculous and no fault of the player, the game just randomly fucks you over.

Thanks for the answer

"nO, ToXiC ViDeo gAmE bEhaViOr"

It basically means Take Cover

Though they were sayin “Pan Comierto!”

@@HuggableX0X0 xD nonono, that doesn't make sense, "Pan" would be "bread" and "comierto" is not a word

Happened to me on hardcore lmfao

Ashley wins my vote for the most annoying videogame character. She must've rolled around in glue for her to get grabbed so goddammit often

@@rong2962 Facts, literally restarted so many times because she decided to stand there and wait for them to grab her.

@@hemogoblin69 The worst part is that I didn't save since the beginning of the chapter so I had to navigate the catapult section and garrador again....Lmao

Just run back too her before they grab her. I rather fight those soldiers than that rengenador 😂

Hell yeah lmao

Yea, I finished my Hardcore run a few days ago and it was so bad and frustration filled that I pretty much don’t want to play the game anymore for a time, and has basically made me want NOTHING to do with playing it on professional, and sad part is because almost all the unlocks are tied to speed running the game, I ended up getting a B rank on my run so I didn’t get jack squat for finishing the mode, absolutely hate the way they did unlocks in the remake.

@@Qballiz2kool it’s giving skill issue

@@Qballiz2kool just finished 100% got my professional S+ earlier, I’d highly recommend sticking too it it’s such a fun rewarding game. Haven’t had a good time waster like this since elden ring lol

@@Qballiz2kool Same! The perfect knife parry rule is a bit intimidating. I’m trying to speed run assisted, you get an accessory that increases melee damage. I can only imagine what those swarms of godforsaken Beatles do to you in professional.

It's honestly ridiculous. 10 birthdays pass and he's still sighing and recovering from a daze after being hit once.

Worst is when a torch enemy lightly brushes against you and you get literally get comboed to death on full life.

In the Original you had a moment of invincibility and a opening to move after being damaged. (Besides flails and garradors that can stun lock leon) This design choice is questionable and no i-frames after performing traversals is just outright bad.

I know the og didn't have it but I have no idea why on earth they didn't give us a dodge. The knife parry is nice but a dodge would have been 100× better

@@michaelkuhn8853 The second part is actually even worse. Not only do you get zero i-frames when jumping through a window etc. but the enemies have priority and if they're ANYWHERE close to Leon when attempting to interact they'll make him stumble by just touching him (not even pushing him). Really obvious in the Mercenaries mode in the Village map, happens all the time.

Literally the speed of an eye blink

Same in Wo Long on NG+. Other genre but the same brutal short parry window.

I thought the parry Times were pretty good, it forces you to concentrate and tests your reaction speed without you constantly spamming parry button. A few enemies can be parried and dodged easily but then you have annoying enemies with shovels and pitchforks who are the worst. Don't even get me started on the fkn dynamite enemies

God forbid parrying the first parasite heads attacks😩

@@sensoeirensen tf are you talking about?

Yeah it has adaptive difficulty

It's called game rank. Miss a shot, it goes down. Get hit, get killed etc.. it goes down. Make your shots, get kills don't get hit. It goes up. Up means difficult, down means easier. Professional and maybe hardcore are forced at the top notch, without being able to go down.

Funny how Mikami gave the original adaptive difficulty 18 years ago that worked perfectly, and the remake's attempt at it is just "lol enemy go teleport or appear out of thin air".

@@kannyboy1847 good point. I'm not sure if the remake has adaptive difficulty.

​@@LeYoIdBeHe it does

It's not difficult in the least

That started in BO3 to keep up with new movement players had.

@@johndodo2062 the professional, difficulty to try and get the cat ears is a joke I can’t even do it with infinite ammo, bonus weapons and no I don’t suck it’s just too damn hard!

@@Texasmade713 Professional difficulty is actually easy. If you have a hard time go play mario.

yes you can. I found it. Go to the fenced area with the single crate. enemies cant go behind you because they cant climb that fence. they will only come at you from the front. That's where I noticed that the bells are triggered once you kill a certain amount of them because it was triggered so damn fast xD

yeah the garradors just slowly coming towards u is total bs, ive crouched no noise and he just slowly comes over to you

@Poniesplease lol 😆

@@GrimmReaperz95 If you say that, then I gonna have to buy game and I show how to beat him without getting hit. The old one is to easy So im glad the remake is harder why do you need to crouch?

@@Melodie_Info3 because it's intended for the game

@@The_Cholosseum You didnt get what I say did you? I say If I show you then dont complain how bad you are at playing.

Facts. Just started my New Game+ and cabin drained me of all my resources despite the fact I have all my upgraded weapons and plenty of ammo.

Yeah its a Dynamic Difficulty adjustment system to present ups and downs to the player and is entirely manipulatable similar to what was present in the original RE4. If it works the same way it means on Profession the dynamic scaler is always locked at its absolute highest. With the Chainsaw in the village it gets kinda finicky though cause there are context sensitive triggers that will teleport the chainsaw man to specific locations, like if your grabbed on a certain side of a support archway the chainsaw man will be teleported there to play out the scene where he cuts down the supports.

@@azure98 Regardless, it's still dumb that DA is a thing on the hardest difficulty which wasn't a thing until RE3r inferno mode.

@@azure98 What I'm trying to say is that the dynamic difficulty system is really noticeable on standard. Once you have hit the requirements, some enemies feel like they are using a gameshark and then after enough damage has been done or enough resources have been spent they go back to kind of sauntering around. The game felt better to play on professional because it seemed more consistent, but by the time I had played through it on pro I had played through a few times on the other difficulties so I could have a weird bias where when I first played it I was just that terrible. lol.

Honestly, just given the fact that that is a famous Hollywood horror movie trope (like Friday The 13th's Jason appearing across the way in protagonist's sight ahead, protagonist turns around and runs, around a corner, throws open a door, and it's Jason in front of them), it makes sense to do in an unfair, but devious way. That's life for a Professional, I guess!

Yeah that is just normal enemy spawns, capcom placed them there on purpose. I did 8 playthroughs and played on all difficulties and the spawns stay the same. I agree it is kinda scummy to place enemy spawns behind you after you already cleared said area.

Bro that's just the regular spawns lol

Its fixed the amount of enemies that spawn and the spawn points. Inside the cave the spawns are above you in holes

​@@michaelkuhn88538 times? Wtf? Have you been outside and touched some grass since the game came out?

@@HerotsLament I am something of a speedrunner😅 it is currently my 11th run so far

I had to turn the music off so I can have full alertness.

Good im glad they made it harder im glad

Amount of times some old hag teleports 10 feat away and grabs me I can’t even bro 😂

Sounds like a you problem

Thank Christ people are admitting to this now, I was on Reddit being told it was a "skill issue" and that I am "just looking for things to complain about" lmao

@Fuc Ker Sorta true. Unfairness can be fun, like the Lethal difficulty of State of Decay 2 and it's insta-spawing zeds.

ninja gaiden, all of em on master ninja are peak bs

@@77-7- Ninja Gaiden 2 (from the OG Xbox 360) is the worst to complete in Master Ninja.

Artificial difficulty in modern gaming is increasing

@@SourClout Why wouldn't they? For over a decade "Hey this part isn't actually difficult but just kinda bullshit" have been aggressively hand waved with "git gud" and more recently "skill issue"

Had Salvador do something very similar on normal except he spawned behind that building

Iron maiden was a nightmare to kill because his head was made outta vibranium

yeah, definitely a bug, it looks like the game has some problems with updating an enemy's health when it's in the middle of an animation. Sometimes you can blast a magnum shot up one of those "plagas head" and it deals no damage because it was in the middle of the "coming out" animation

Yeah it's 100% a bug, I beat the game on professional twice and never once encountered an invincible regenerator lmao

I think the salvador thing is a semi-bug and the way I see it is that he can be spawned in (technically just teleported from somewhere else on the map) through certain events. 1. Too much time goes by or you kill too many enemies and he comes through the gate. 2. You go into the house and barricade it while he breaks down the door (most common). 3. Maybe he can spawn in that specific building as well. If he can spawn there then there is a chance that the game assumed he did not teleport properly because there was no line of sight or proximity so he was able to be teleported a second time. But that theory all relies on if it’s a spawn point

Which is why I don't like his chosen term for it, "random bullshit". It's not random, it's more intentional bullshit made to appear as random, or IBMTAAR for short! :) That said, though, it really does make sense in a Hollywood horror movie trope kind of way. Dr.. Salvadore is very much a 'turn around and run from him, only to find him in front of you again around the corner' Jason/Texas Chainsaw Massacre type.

Can you elaborate?

There is actually an event in the village where they knock a roof over to block you and Salvador appears no matter where he was previously.

not related to difficulty. it's a scripted event

@@xThunderxWolfx this bit happened to me the other day and I was panicking thinking I was gonna get killed in that cutscene

Had that happen in Regular too.

Could be a hdd problem too when u go into the area too fast

@@user-vn5sz9fv3c I had similar happen when i went back to do the painting egg request in the castle's throne room. On my way in, passing through the doors, i noticed a stutter, and did a quick turn, only to see the formerly empty room was now occupied by hostilities, and had to open fire. I was playing on Assisted to farm for money and spinels. 3rd run of that file.

This happens 100% of the time in the canyon area, on the ridge leading up to the Ruby and the crank to open the gate. The enemies simply don't exist until you run up there. It's goofy as hell, and i imagine they did that so you don't snipe them beforehand.

Also when you climb up the ladder in the house in that same area, 3 enemies spawn at the base of the ladder climb up behind you lol it's hilarious the lengths they went to make sure you're never safe

Yeah it is really annoying. Like I wouldn't mind more spawns but having the game give some kind of indication it is happening would be nice instead of randomly getting sliced in the back by a dude and his friends who didn't exist in the area before the game decided to spawn them behind me.

That’s the one thing that bothered me as well

Also, wouldn’t enemies in the original literally yell saying “Behind you, idiot”? Do the ganados not say that buffer in here?

The encounters are actually rigged as well so it's not good balancing. The system works in certain parts of the game where if you kill some enemies, more will spawn. Then you kill that wave, even more would spawn than the first. It's actually taught now to not kill many enemies for the sake of doubling the next wave of enemies. It's such a great game.

@@fluidwolf Tip: always watch out for your health bar popping up seemingly for no reason. It pops up when near an enemy in stealth mode or when engaged in combat with an enemy. An example I can give is chapter 2. I had just completed the valley with the dynamite Ganados. I was about to reach Mendez’s house. It’s the part where a chainsaw Ganado is waiting to ambush you. I was walking up towards that area, no enemies in sight. Suddenly on the bottom right corner of the screen, I see Leon’s health bar pop up. I utilize the quick turn and sure enough I see two fuckers trying to sneak up on me. So I recommend always watching to see if your health bar mysteriously pops up for no reason if you’re looking for indications of enemy spawns.

Yep, the mob is basically telling his friends that they should take cover.

I thought he was sayin equipando, equipping

I experience only the number 1, but man that's a lot of crap on pro

I hate fighting Del Lago in hard and Pro cause you can only hit the boat around 2 or 3 times before death and it takes so many shots, sometimes it can go smoothly sometimes its a pain in the ass. At least in Hardcore for the stun and melee it was like 3 pistol shots for the most part, I stopped bothering to melee in Pro cause it would take anywhere to 5,6 or more headshots or knee shots for a stun even with a full power blacktail

Do not compare L4D's ai to this piece of crap. The l4d director is way better designed and smarter than what they did here.

the s problem is a real one, it was my biggest gripe when I started playing the game, until I got used to no rely on it, I would do certain actions that in the original would give me s consistently, to protect myself from something, only to find out that it doesn't work, except... when it does decide to work. Maybe they decided the parry in conjuction with reliable predictable s would be too OP, I still don't like inconsistency though.

@@fenix_tx_1342 even as I got used to it, I just booted the game up to test a few last things, the major problem is without s the game will cause Leon to collide with an enemy but they didn't actually ensure that Leon would simply get pushed back to where he was. You can actually get hung up on terrain and take massive damage, give enemies tremendous time to home in on your position... This isn't really acceptable to me, because it only shows massive negatives. The developers were willing to make sure things on the game end work properly, but for players, Leon floating in mid air above a fence is a happy outcome. Most exploits on the player side of things are good, because typically it won't stop the player from playing the game. Watching Leon hover helplessly over a window pane I was trying to jump over is just asinine, I can't interact with that but I can, in fact, experience death sequences that cannot be skipped as a result. I mean, the Reach for the Moon team are absolutely bad at action, but these are very amateurish mistakes and they only have negative implications across the board. They are things you can "get used to" but you can't actually stop a lot of this stupid shit from happening. Because you'll often find yourself in situations that have unreasonably bad strategic value. The things you both should do and want to do are run up against stupid design decisions. Getting stuck on a window wasn't the problem, the problem was that there isn't really fun or favorable outcomes in, say, the opening village battle if you're wasting ammo and resources. The run and gun shooting is nerfed so it's just a matter of wanting to spite the player for being skilled, but skilled in specific ways. It's absolutely insane how unwilling these designers were to account for and accommodate other solutions and playstyles. It makes the design of the game open to massive negative criticism.

As long as the invinciblity frames aren't like in RE5 where you're invincible for practically the whole game.

I don't really think Hardcore is all that bad if you're new to re4. But if you're new to action games then I'd say standard or assisted would be a good start

Exactly, every 2004 veteran should first play on Standard. The devs really fucked me over with this Hardcore shit.

Glad I'm not the only one to experience it because I had it happen on normal

@@dutchvanderlinde2002 only thing i don't know is how people used it to get multiple at the same time, I've heard of it but haven't seen it. Mine usually despawns one whenever it spawns in a different one so I can't figure out what others did for it to not despawn.

I had it happen on the demo before release. It's absolutely a scripted moment the devs put in. In fact, in the demo, you could get a TMP that way if you climb down the previously closed grate after Salazar destroys the pillar and opens it up. I'm assuming that was something that was for an early build cause the TMP isn't found there anymore when you go through that area to get to the church after the tall building collapses.

@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams nope my Salvador never destroyed the pillers it's not scripted and I wasn't playing the demo either

@@deletedaccount7 never had two before that would be horrific

I did a Professional S run yesterday (with NG+ stuff, of course)... the mine cart segment and Krauser fight afterwards are particularly frustrating without the checkpoints.

I beat professional S+ without any bonus weapons and it was very Challenging.

To be quite frank, it's not a skill issue, if that's what you believe. The AI cheats and the game will work against you at all times, because that's how the game is designed. If you read other comments, every issue they are expressing is a gameplay issue with either Leon's shit mechanics or the abysmal, cheesy AI.

@@DarkEinherjar Dr Salvador on the minecarts made me want to commit suicide on professional difficulty..

You can use the aim assit using the gas mask

@@aterraxanime whaaaaaaaaaaaaaattt 😱😱😱😱, Didn't know that Saved me from playing absolute hell, Gas mask and knight armor it is then 🤣😅 Thank you 🤜 🤛

In that section don’t waste your amp and be careful to move around the bags to avoid the regenerator from hoping out of the bag

​​​@@lilportalzoom1352 But regenerators will be instantly killed if you directly hit them with rockets, it's the same bug that happens to some people (idk what triggers this but I heard it's mostly by shooting them too early)

@@lilportalzoom1352 Yes I had to reload and just not hit the bag so it wouldn't spawn.

I knew about it the day i played it there was something odd with the entire way i was supposed to play it.

Something the Remake does that isn't actually explained, same as the RE2 remake, is that reticle bloom does have an impact on your weapon's performance. It doesn't chance actual damage, (At least, I haven't seen any evidence of it) but stagger and critical hit chance are affected by how tight your crosshair is with pistols, SMG's, and the BB. Surprisingly, the laser sight is actually really helpful, particularly for the SG09 and the Sentinel, since it also means they maintain max critical hit chance, even when moving.

I sorta gussed something like was happening but still that was a mechanic I hate, so I hate that they put it into this game. If you can hit multiple headshots in a row with recoil, bloom, the enemy moving, etc. You should be rewarded. Not punished. Sitting still and waiting for easier shots is boring and takes up more time. It works in the old games with tank controls because every enemy moved very slowly, in re 4 remake where enemies charge you in half a second that style of gunplay does not fit IMO. It makes the early game feel awful, your pistol does jack all damage and no CC. On proffesional your best bet is too just run past everything not required. The combonation of that bloom mechanic and eneimes just being more hard to stagger at base, brutes taking 5 shoutgun shells, it makes most of the combat with pistols or smgs feel awful. They're not even worth upgrading till late game.

Yup me too

git gud

No it's not

@@ghost656metal8 Yea it is

@@ghost656metal8 It absolutely is bad design. The only reason it's there is to make the village section more "cinematic".

Thank you!

Bro, it's blatantly unfair - it's actually a painful experience and just not fun. Everything's going smoothly until one parry misses (it's like these pitchfork-wielding bastards can't be parried) and you get triple/quadruple stun-locked and the run ends. Sometimes, Leon gets hit and it takes him 4 weeks to man up and snap out of the daze. Fucking ridiculous. S+ Pro is driving me up the wall.

@@Philosopheraptor smt that helped me was realizing that I could alt f4 when I died makes the game not keep your time so you can restart the segment without wanting too off yourself

@@chadking8767 Uhhh, you just have to press quit game in the death screen (which only quits to main menu) and load/continue. No need to actually close the game entirely.

@@IGNNotFound huh the more you know thanks

@@IGNNotFound I figured it was a bug I was used too save scumming the master chief collection for my LASO runs the same way lol

yeah I love getting grabbed by zombie I shot 6 times in the head and didn't stagger it's so skilled! who would want the fair fun and enjoyable run in the original where skill actually matters more than BS difficulty let's all consume slop and be happy about it!

Not "elite", infinitely patient players willing to suffer tedium and grinding in order to figure out the best ways to cheese an unbalanced mode.

It's just unfair. Lol

This makes a lot of sense

Yeah the game is quite keenly aware of the old cheese and goes out of its way to punish you for trying to use it- like the sniper nest collapsing on you.

That does not make any sense. The mechanics are completely different in the game. You can longer do any of that chesse it simply will not work. They solved the problem by adding in the window do why would they need to also teleport him. He teleports because of tge new adaptive diffuculty. Not because pf some grugde against decade old cheese strats.

@@uyeah1234 You could do this on assisted with critical health and i guarantee the same thing will happen. It's scripted so that he teleports if you try to go into that house in an attempt to cheese the encounter. Adaptive difficulty has nothing to do with it. I know its because of the cheese strat because the first time I entered the village on my first playthrough that's what happened to me. It was Capcom throwing shade because that was my plan the first time I got to the village.

@@uyeah1234 they didn't even give us the cheesiest gun for mercs in the prl instead we got another alternative to unlock the handcannon. Yes Capcom did had their grudges. They work hard to make these games only to see them get absolutely speed run with cheese tactics such as the ditman glitch.

The amount of time I'll almost finish it, then I get comboed.

I can agree. I think capcom designed it this way intentionally to encourage the parry mechanic. Either you shoot a genado in the head and perform a kick or perform a parry and a kick to get a opening to run past. However enemies don't consistently flinch on higher difficulties so your best option would be to execute a perfect parry which is very strict to perform. The stun lock is definitely annoying and unfair... The teleporting enemies are very common when one-shot enemies are within the area, especially grappler enemies.

Who said we’re getting the PRL ? Where you heard that at?

@@projectiony4048 there’s hope, please don’t jinx it 🥲

@@projectiony4048 i mean, what else can we have? they gave us already the handcannon which was the original prize for beating the mercenaries. and professional S+ run only give us the infinnite ammo.

@@ReiHerrera I ain’t saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying we have no evidence. We could be get getting nothing or something entirely different as far as we know

So the mode leaked and... no PRL, no rewards even

#1: Yeah, I feel like it is. Designers are going to throw things in like this just to keep an experienced player on their toes (talking about the original.) They know where players are probably going to head. #2 is a bug. I haven't heard of anybody going through professional mode and being unable to kill a Regenerador due to being unable to locate and kill the final parasite.

@@ChaosTheory0 it happened with me...one time I was not able to kill regenerator on hardcore mode

What are the differences between hardcore and professional? Can someone list them? Please and thank you.

@@Cr1ms0nRav3n >Can only save at typewriters >Can only perfect parry >No artificial limits on weapon upgrades. For Pro. Other than that it's identical to hardcore. I've heard claims that enemies move a little faster but I've not seen any empirical evidence yet.

@@SpadeDraco yes there are faster, even throwing stuffs are faster, and when anyone grabs Leon there is always someone able to punch you almost instantly

Sounds like your Dr. Salvador has been studying magic tricks😂

yea it's a bug, my magnum, rile or shotgun deal with them like normal..

I would say that they appeared to be slightly tankier on professional (maybe 5% more over Hardcore) But if you are familiar with Hardcore already, it should feel almost the same. The big issue usually comes from not being able to parry most of the time and being brought back to the latest typewriter upon death

Yes both hardcore and pro are bullshit sometimes

basically COD mp tactic. Good thing is no one camp for you. lol

Nope jump on roof keep pushing ladders down again and again

I noticed this aswell and its very common during a fight with any one-shot enemy. The game will occasionally teleport a grappler enemy behind you that will hold you in place for a chainsaw or plaga 2 to one-shot you. I believe this is intentional by capcoms part to encourage a more hit and run type of play and to eliminate the campiness that the original had. It's still a bad choice, because it can cause your death and it's completely out of your control.

@@michaelkuhn8853 Yeah, RE4 Remake is something I associate with the Remake team's inability to reconcile wanting a survival horror game while having to address the clearly ACTION based sequences that occur within the Resident Evil Series. Resident Evil 2 is standard, fun Survival Horror resource management, learning movement notwithstanding, the major test of the game is to use items effectively. Going by the JP versions and the later US versions that put auto aiming back into the game, aiming isn't an issue. The fact that manually aiming to make the game harder and "rent proof" is something that Hideki Kamiya even talks about during Carcinogen's RE2 special with him, I want to say that this is something where I feel the Remake team just isn't able to reconcile fairly testing the player. If you have the Sparkshot in RE2 Classic, the reward is that it will be effective based on you pointing and shooting it at your target. You don't spend the time with it in your menu, unable to use other items, and then get put into a boss fight test where things the game is assumed to use to make itself "more tense" suddenly step all over your feet as you're tested on a precision boss fight where your character isn't precisely tuned. That's not a fair test, that is breaking player trust to me and the major thing is that it hurts the perception of action games, which Survival Horror games like Resident Evil ARE. So when you have the Sparkshot in RE2 Remake, you have to aim, you have to deal with Focus Shot, you have to deal with enemy movement. Regardless of whether this can be learned, it is incredibly shitty to subject the player to this on top of resource management. It makes the game feel like, and honestly I think the way that players talk about "Yeah I S/S+ Ranked RE2-3-4 Remake" that this is precisely the effect, a chore. In RE4 Remake, they apply these same ideas while trying to use, often 1:1, set pieces from the original Resident Evil 4. But Resident Evil 4 was fairly consistent about being a test of marksmanship, that was the big turn from classic Survival Horror Resident Evil to that point. The escalation in the story partly represents the fact that Leon can AIM, he can aim precisely. There's literally a firing range in the game! Resident Evil 4 Remake, and I think the firing range is a great example of this, introduces inconsistency. It introduces RNG so as to make it so that, in some designer's mind, you can't "Trivialize the game." But that wasn't trivializing the game, the fundamental skill was MARKSMANSHIP. Despite some of things that haven't aged well, managing your resource of ammo was about shooting effectively. Now you have a game that front loads all this difficulty while simultaneously abandoning this core test. Focus Shot actually makes the Firing Range in RE4 Remake random, vs a genuine test of precision. Being told to use the TMP which you cannot aim precisely to begin with... this is something that was knowingly put in the game to ensure that the player didn't use it during a speed run without risking huge time loss most likely... But the consequence is you've achieved this by sabotaging the test. Instead of changing the game in a fundamentally interesting way, the designers of the various games, RE2, 3 and 4 Remake just cheat and don't really do their job well.

@@ArctheLadder You make alotta good points, I agree with all the way. In my opinion aiming in the original re4 felt tough but it was something you could easily master and after enough experience you can trivialise the enitire game with just marksmanship. I feel the new direction they want to take with the aiming does not feel like it can be mastered like the original, because of random elements namely bloom. Bloom ads RNG to your shots, anything that is a gamble is not a test of skill but luck instead. The shooting range portion of the game I find it "too strict", because the score ranking demands you to be near-perfect to achieve an S rank but with some weapons especially the TMP...the power and control of the situation is stripped away from the player and replaced with random bullet spread. For the most part i find Re4 Remake too be alot of fun, because Re4 Original still is a fun game if you catch my drift. The gameplay i have mixed feelings about. On higher difficulty levels: Enemies won't consistently flinch after being shot, the parry window for a perfect parry is too small and very risky vs safe hit and run tactics (Game does not encourage me to go for the parries), Enemies will somehow teleport behind you if a one-shot enemy is in the area (This could lead to your death and is a situation the player has no control over), Traversals don't have i-frames and leon gets stunned way too easily and can sometimes be stun-locked till death. (Another situation the player has no control over) Something else that caught my attention was the El gigante fight. This entire fight is based on positioning and repositioning every few seconds, however El gigante's attacks cover a distance that Leon cannot strafe or reliably run away from on the higher difficulties. Giving enemies more health, damage and hyper armor wasn't enough...they are given a speed boost that is faster than most of Leon's movements. The difficulty of the game feels like a huge mess and rigged with RNG. Not providing a suitable test of movement, resource management, marksmanship or skill...i have beaten the game 8 times already and with all that skill and experience i still get pushed into situations in the game that strips me of my control. Thank you for your comment and thoughts!

@@michaelkuhn8853 I'm glad there are people out there such as yourself who can really speak to the kind of experience this game is creating. I'm sad primarily because this is an age where developers can patch games, but what I see for Resident Evil 4 Remake, most likely, is a promotional life cycle where I'm meant to help celebrate the game, contribute to its sales and then move on with my life... as the game remains, as you described it, something that is frequently infuriating and always stripping agency away while putting the player in situations that only appear like fair tests of skill. It definitely strikes me as a game you're supposed to play "the right way", but the developers were more concerned with me playing the game the way they imagined vs making a game that is fun to play.

@@ArctheLadder I know the feeling my friend. We are just eating anything the developers are putting on the table. Gaming used to be so much simpler and brain dead fun. Re4 remake is not a bad game, if i had to rate it on all it's flaws it would be about 6/10... My personal rating is 8/10 because of my love for the original that got me hooked on RE games from the start. Capcom might not have any intention of balancing the difficulty of the game...they are too busy watching "RE4R is a masterpiece!" Or "RE4R is the greatest game ever made!" on RU-vid instead of listening to the die hard fans.

Bro with time you will improve and start ti love only pro xD! I m at 12th run and can't play anything else

They run and twitching their body a lot now, so it's much harder to hit the plagas, so I use the LE 5 most of the time ever since I got it

Sadly true

you can still kill them with regular methods in this game too. just takes more ammo

@@Eversoul12 I'm sure that is the case, but the one showed in this video looked completely bugged to me, it was tanking all of the shots without getting stunned once.

Did you get the ones on the back of them? You can't see it from the front in the original, you'd have to knock them on their stomachs to see it.

@@miningminer2587 ofc they didn't

@@miningminer2587 the one on the lower back? Yeah, still happened.

Can’t kill regenerators with the infinite rpg either 😭

@@gardzz3622 must be a glitch then cuz I've literally never seen this happen

I feel like getting a +S is way to difficult. And I say that as a person who started on hardcore and beat it the same day. It took a lot of effort, I didn’t rush, I had the. Day off so I spent it playing the game and one thing that messes you up is how weak the pistol is when you start. I’m not excited to start on professional either because unlike the original professional felt like a challenge but not the point it’s impossible, this version it’s almost quite impossible unless you do use those skip tactics. Which I’m sure capcom didn’t intend for people to get a S+ by skipping anything, whoever made this game played through it and was able to achieve a S+ without skipping anything and that’s crazy to me that is even possible

If they put a harder difficulty in this game, then games are starting to change I can’t remember the last game i played that was this difficult

​@@myheadhurtbro6692 I'm just speculating here. The asset for the burning Salazar isn't used in the main game but was in the demo, so it's either gonna be seen in Mercenaries mode or a higher difficulty or both. I still don't think Professional is that bad aside from Ashley screwing up a couple of my runs in the castle so far but it does seem tailor made for the speedrunners. I'm sure there's glitch free/skip free runs of NG Pro already on RU-vid. I'll go look for them.

@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams I remember the big buff steroid Salazar in the original mercenaries.

@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams I agree with that it may be in mercenaries once they add that mode, and if you do find a gameplay of pro with no skipping I’d love to see it link me to it!

Same thoughts. That did not happen in my professional run.

I finished RE3 on Inferno and IMO that's not a good comparison because the last boss (Nemesis) doesn't actually work; that part of the game is broken/unfinished. The developers never patched it and I don't think they ever will.

This is the most frustrating thing about the remake to me. In the first cutscene you literally show me Leon killing a man with single roundhouse kick, breaking his neck. But in-game, my boy is a useless pushover without knives or ammo. He can't even stealth kill without a resource.

It spawns a 5th when the regenerator gets active.