I Ranked Every Resident Evil From How Scary They Are
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2025
- This is Part 1 of 2 of ranking every single Resident evil game from how scary they are. Today we cover Resident evil 1 to Resident evil 4 i hope you enjoy! i wonder which direction Resident evil 9 is going to go. horror or action?
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Wheres part 2? You said a week, hut its been 2 at this point. Im looking forward to seeing where you put 7, since its personally my favorite Resident Evil game
@@Cheesecurd333 very soon I’m working on it while writing this comment. I decided I wasn’t happy with part 1 so I decided to completely rewrite and make part 2 the best I can. I barely worked on it last week though cause it was a mix of being busy and just being unmotivated but I’m almost done I just have to finish the Re village and re4 remake sections then figure out how I wanna do the spin offs. I’m aiming the finish today. Thank you for watching and being patient
@itsvolskay hey, no problem this was the first video of yours i have seen and I enjoyed it so much I wanted to watch part 2 right away. Take your time and you earned yourself a new subscriber
@@Cheesecurd333 video is done. I’m gonna set it as a premier so look out for it in the next couple of hours
Actually changed my mind. Not gonna have it as a premiere. But it’ll still be up soon
@@itsvolskay I watched part 2 first.
To understand what made RE4 scary when it first came out was not the survival horror atmosphere - but the sheer amount of enemies swarming you. We had never seen anything in that capacity, let alone the 1 hit kills that the chainsaws could do if they caught you off guard. The village swarm at the beginning really set the tone as to what you were in for
Exactly and the same with 5.. I remember when me and my dad played re5 for the first time and was ambushed in the village. We just looked at eachother and was like yo this is insane
All that being said, I was under the impression that while hype and intense, RE4 wasn't nearly as scary as the first 3. Maybe I'm projecting a bit, but I didnt get the impression anyone who played the games before 4 thought it was scarier than any of them except for CV at the time.
I agree. It is brought up that the availability of the tech for the tech the game wanted to produce was a big part of the terror. But the house with the guy wielding the red9 was probably the feel the rest of the scares the game really had to offer on its fear factor.
It's probably not the video for this comment, but I think that the Resident Evil remakes are some of the best around, because they don't make the originals obsolete. I know people gripe about RE3R and RE4R but, especially with RE4R, it was respectful yet different enough from the original that anyone new to the franchise has solid reasons to play both. Overall, this series is just great and just one of the many reasons I'll always be a CAPCOM fanboy.
Real shi
Then why aren't the originals remastered?
damn the RE glaze is crazy...
and im all for it
People hate Re4 remake??
@BucketIHead yeah, some do apparently. Say its "soulless" compared to the original. Personally, I loved it. They made the village at night incredibly scary in the Remake. Before that, the regenerator was the only scary thing about RE4 I feel.
that thumbnail was a crime against humanity
Apart from RE1 Remake
My first time playing RE4, I got a REALLY lucky shot on the first Regenerator, and thought "oh okay, that looked scary but it wasn't so bad."
That's how good luck screwed you over because I'm guessing the next time you encountered one you were so confused and scared
I played RE4 when I was a kid on the GameCube.
I can confidently say that RE4 is both a scary game and a fun action game in one package. It’s the main reason why it’s a masterpiece.
But I would say that more often than not,the games goal isn’t to scare you, it’s to stress you out.
Everything from the movement, the enemies intentionally surrounding you, the audio and all the different enemy types are designed to make you feel stressed out more than scared.
Parts of the game definitely scared me as a kid, like the chainsaws, the entire lab area, the castle cultists and the dogs. But stress was the dominant emotion.
I love this game.
4:02 apparently those fixed camera angles allow for more photo realistic backgrounds because it doesn't have to exist in a 3D state so you just see the one side until you change the angle. So you're basically getting a pre rendered painting of a background which helps these games hold up sooo well
I'm so sick of hearing people say how old games are no longer worth playing. These games walked so the franchises, which you claim to love so much, could run. I think it's a really bad attitude to have and if you care even a bit about where the franchises you love came from, you owe it to yourself to experience them.
I liked the video btw and this isn't a criticism directed specifically towards you. It's just something I hear echoed quite a lot these days and it makes me sad.
Didn’t I say that in the video? My wording was shit but that’s just how I am without a script. I think I said something like it’s not worth playing unless you’re a hardcore fan. Basically what I mean is the remake is so good that it replaced the original in alot of ways.
@@itsvolskayI get what you are saying, the tank controls definitely don't hold off well today and for someone who wasn't around that era, they would definitely not appreciate them. And considering Capcom have remade all 3, people today will probably play those versions. Saying that, I definitely think people need to play those original 3 as they were classics, and also re3 remake left a lot out that was in the original, and nemesis stalking you in that one was a lot more terrifying
You kept saying that you were rambling, but it‘s actually really fun to listen to, adds to the feeling of listening to your friend yap about their hyperfixation. 🥳🥳 can‘t wait for pt 2
Don’t tell me I’m the only one who heard Tifa’s theme from Remake during the RE2 section???😅
The only thing I’ve seen of complaints of RE4R is that Leon and the whole game wasn’t campy as the og was, and the campy bits what made RE4 og shine
I remember watching my dad play RE4 back in 2005-‘06 and man it would put me on edge! It was super scary so much so that to this day I flinch when I hear a chainsaw lol. That game on release was definitely on another level but definitely with players skills these days the game became more action based, but that first play through will always be horrifying
Re7 is the scariest and honestly my fav resident evil game of all time
You said you wanted to rate them based on how they felt when they first came out, then constantly bring up current experiences. RE4 was horrifying when it first came out. Maybe not the top of the tier list, but definitely scarier than what you think it as today
I remember playing RE4 for the first time when i was 8-9 years old, and i just freak out in the first house when you have to defeat the first zombie, i almost cryed and tell to my dad to play instead. Years later i start playing only when a frend come to my house cause i was scared to play alone
Today I'm 23 and im ngl i played alone again and sometimes i took some jump scares that make me shit myself again.
It blows my mind you find RE4 scary man. I would advise you to stay away from Dead Space and Silent Hill 2 remake they would probably give you a heart attack.
@@sugarray6250 bro i bought outlast and have to refund it, i was not able to pass the first checkpoint, i'm weak af to terror games
Hear me out:
The VR modes in 4,7 and 8 make the games way scarier because they’re in your face.
I know it probably doesn’t change your ranking but if anyone has the chance, try the VR modes.
Reading through the criticism of this video and having watched an older video of mine that is so much better, I’m starting not really not like this video it’s way too rambly and too poorly edited and rushed to make sure I upload weekly. I know I can do so much better then this so give me time with part 2. This isn’t the quality I want to have and I know I can do much better so I will. but thank you to all the people who watched and enjoyed and subscribed despite it and I’ll see you all in a minute!
Idk it was kinda fun to watch and hear your unfiltered thoughts
Im enjoying it so far personally
I’m was scared as shit when I saw my cousins play the the original Resident Evil. 5 year old me was terrified.
You're dead on with the 'have to be there' syndrome. For the time RE1 was released, the era of graphics and gaming as a whole, it was ground breaking. The generic gameplay wasn't too scary to begin with, but as you progressed through the game and the settings evolved, there were some major jump scares / shocks. The controls, camera work and tight spaces all engineered the feeling of being trapped etc. Especially once Hunters infested the previously cleared rooms. RE1 remake took that baseline and made a masterpiece, though.
I played RE 2 original for the first time recently through GOG and it's so much fun. I already played the remake before and loved it but it is so worth it to check out the original as well
Solid point about Resi 4, I remember the first time I saw a regenerator as a wee lad and I turned off my PS2 immediately and didn't return to the game until a year had passed. They were terrifying at the time.
I played re4 probably around 2007 I was born in 2003, My dad and brother were big re fans we had the og classics on ps1 and RE was always a game genre in my life, I was really young and never found it scary compared to re1 re2 re3, I was really scared of those like REALLY SCARED, re4 I never actually was scared of playing it even though I was REALLY young, only part I was scared was the Regenerators, Dr. Salvador wasnt scary but he put me under pressure same with the twin chainsaw girls, and the castle was kinda of creepy. My favorite RE game ever but definitely not that scary compared to the others
RE3 is one of, if not THE, best one in the series. Obviously I mean that just based on my personal experience. Ppl always talk about it like its so much more action based when it is really not that drastic. The ammo is definitely thrown at you a lot more so to be fair it does encourage more action, but the mood/music, the fact that Nemesis can pop up anywhere, it just makes for such a tense experience. A few of the encounters are scripted but he can show up pretty much anywhere (for the most part), unlike the remake which is entirely scripted. One thing that always stuck with me tho.......so last year I was playing through it for what was prob like the 30-40th time and I decided to play a few of the live selections in a way I hadnt even thought of before. I dont feel like getting into what I did exactly bc this is already a long comment but Nemesis showed up in some places I had NEVER ever seen before and I thought I'd made every combination of choices possible since I first played it. I can still go back to it to this day, especially after the abortion that was the RE3 remake.
I can't agree more
Before anyone burns me at the stake for at least hinting at it being better than RE4….i say this bc i didn’t play the original RE4 until well over a decade after its release. I didn’t have the same experience many ppl did and it just didn’t stand out to me. There’s no arguing the effect it had on the industry and I don’t hate the game even a little bit. RE3 just hit a bit different with me
@@whiskeybuddha1995 Believe me I know all the big fans of the series like bawksoup .sphere hunter these are one of the old ones . And guess which part was the best for them ever it was Re3 it wasn't just the best Re for them it was the best game they played in their life and they always say this in their videos there is action but the game is very scary Capcom knew how to integrate it well I think it's the scariest in the series after Re7. Re3 is really something different
@@whiskeybuddha1995 RE3 is not even top 5. it definitely is more action based by evidence and for your information: nemesis is 100% scripted. you should either look into the code or if you are not familiar with programming watch some videos about it, there are pretty good ones out there. 0% RNG because he is 100% scripted.
@ we all appreciate your brilliant insight. Thank you so much, I don’t know what I’d do without ppl telling me how to experience games. I guess I’ll never enjoy the og RE3 again the same way.
Sheva isn’t even that bad, I just beat it, only thing I noticed is the game always has her go behide you, and since Chris is already super slow, it’s hard to turn around and run to get out of the way of an attack in time before getting hit, other than that she mostly came in clutch many times, it’s the remastered one, so maybe it’s just improved idk
I think og RE4 still has the best balance of horror and action
lol, nope. RE4 has almost 0 horror in it but tension. that's not the same thing
Og RE4 has no horror at all
I agree. When I played it as a kid it just hit different. Some people just don't understand that. No it's not the scariest entry compared to the original games but the atmosphere was creepy and foreboding. Plenty of monsters that had my heart pumping out my chest. Stuff like the death scene where the fly monsters can puke acid onto you, melting your face are things I still think about. Great horror game imo. Especially for that time. Ashley was annoying AF though.
@@trentdeviant2868 almost 0 horror. just because you were scared as a KID doesn't mean it's a (great) horror game. take off those biased nostalgia goggles
@@bepohal They're off. I'm saying some things don't seem as scary as time goes on. That sorta of thing happens with movies for example. Not saying it's a "great" horror. I think they went too far into the action with it. I even felt that way as a kid. It was the beginning of a downhill slope, but it tried to retain its horror and I think it was a good mix. After that it just went to shit.
I can definitely understand the "you had to be there when they came out". Nothing in this franchise scared me as a kid more than OG Re2 death animations, watching your character get eaten alive by a horde of zombies scarred me back then to the point where if I was in danger with no health items, it was an instant reset. Now as an adult I'm barely phased by anything, both Re4s, Re5, Re6, and Re7 are not scary in the slightest... Well, that hiding section in the Re6 Jake/Sherry campaign was slightly scary but other than that nothing all that scary. The scariest modern Re game was either Rev1 or Re8's baby section or Rev2 glasp sections, I can't stand glasps, easily the scariest RE enemy in the franchise to me.
RE7 was scary for the first half of the game.
Re 1, 2 and 7 are real horror game, the rest are action. Don’t come at me, I enjoyed playing the rest especially re4 but they’re not scary.
Re4 remake was my childhood dream come true and it met every expectation I wanted DLC and mercenary mode too lord so much fun and it’s easy to mod on PC gameplay LOVELY
As someone who played RE4OG when it came out... the main (and sometimes only) complaint that a lot of people had was that it wasn't scary precisely because it turned the series from survival horror into a straight out action game. Maybe you've been hearing from some people whose nostalgia goggles have fogged up on them...
there where several complaints. basically RE4 is a fatastic game but a horrible RE itself
I just played a Resident Evil game for the first time, it was Resident Evil 4 on VR, and I would say that there were times around the end when I was low on all my ammo and I had to kill the regenerators with 2 bullets and a knife, and I would say that the regenerators are creepy ass hell, but also any invisble enemies were creepy
Yea they are creepy lol
The re outbreak music for re2 is crazy
Lol I got carted by creater. And I'm getting a backwards compatible ps3 (ceche01) to play outbreak and a few other games
the first time a Regenerator got me, i screamed lmao
Oh wow perfect timing w this vid. I just played silent hill 2 remake like a month ago and it made me wanna go and finish re remake. Amazing game and def see ur point abt how this defined survival horror. Was explaining to my homie how yes silent hill is amazing, this game is the one that started it all so respect.
RE2 ambience and soundtrack elevate the game to amazing heights imo, probably the most grim stuff I've heard. Not that I've heard a lot but, damn...
As a 12 year kid, Director's Cut scared the crap out of me until I got a hang of it. That first zombie killed me a few times while I spun around in circles, trying to figure out the controls 😅
I got introduced to resident evil with 0 as a really little kid so it held a special place in ny heart sucks to know its everyone's least favorite lol
I was so scared to play resident evil 4 in my childhood but I played it and also the game where theres fire in the first level (I forgot the name)
Edit it's re3
RE game imagery with FF background music. The crossover we didn't knew we needed.
By the way, the og RE4 was never considered any scary.
Resident Evil was never scary in the same way that something like Silent Hill was. It was always more tense because of how tight resources were
RE > SH
@@bepohalI never said it was worse and I agree. Just saying RE has never really been that scary
@@Torinna_ depends, i'd say
Village is the scariest solely for the dollhouse baby scene
1:50 "Resident Evil was the starting point"
" *FAX* "
When you were talking about RE1 I thought you were talking about the remake hahahahaha. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. That mansion creeps me the fuck out.
RE4 on your first run was tense AF. There is also the issue that the mechanics severely limited your options while playing. Like, just the fact you cant move while reloading and aiming meant you had to often take calculated risks in order to shot your enemies. Maybe sometimes you would be cornered and bet everything on a head shot stagger kick to push of everyone but then you would get a crit by some devilish miracle and the parasite would pop up making everything even worse...
thank you Resident Evil for giving us Silent Hill
My uncle got me Resident Evil 4 back in 2005 for my birthday. I can tell you it was fucking horrifying back then 😂
Crazy our parents let us play that shit, now it’s 20 years later
Comparing resident evil one to modern survival hoarder is like comparing a Hitchcock classic to a modern film. Same reason that people say that the Beatles are overrated. Because they’re comparing it to what’s going on right now. They’re not really thinking of it in the context of when it released.
the prison level on the suffering....straight up terrifying.
regenarator still scared the shit out of me in remake
Your videos are very well made good job!
Re revelations 2 theme and re4 OG theme hits so hard
So in 2000 I played RE3. I was so scared, I never finished it and anything that had Resident Evil in the title I stayed away from. I watched my brother play through RE4 about a thousand times. To me it still looked scary but over time I got over it. I never played it. Then RE5 came out and I played it with my brother many times. We loved it. Mostly for the co-op. It wasn’t scary at all. Then I got brave enough to try RE games by myself and bought a copy of RE6. It was so awful I completely wrote off RE games for years. Then I picked up RE4 remake to use on my VR2. It was so good, I went through RE Village, RE 7, RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake, even finished RE 6 and now I’m firmly a fan of RE.
1:50 even the game agrees with you telling facts
Dude you have FF7 music going through an RE scariest game review
6 year old me was terrified of resident evil 4😂
Resi1 sat playing with my little bro he was like 4 thunder and lighting outside in the loft room with the lights off. He wet the bed until he was 14 lol
btw the so called RE1 REMAKE isn't a remake like 2, 3 and 4 its a REMASTER which is why there is a lot of rumours about a true RE1 remake in being in the works and imo the setting of RE1 has potential to be the scariest in the franchise
Horror is not about fear (subjective by definition). That's the common mistake everyone makes. And it truncates the rankings.
For me, the most horrifying one was the first, and even the remaster, that first zombie scene destroyed me. Then its re2 remake, at 25 that shit made me so scared i didnt want to complete it at 100%
What is the song playing during the beginning of the video during the resident evil 1 section?
“Meeting Rebecca” from re1. I’m pretty sure it’s the version from remake, I can’t remember but the remake and the original version are pretty similar
I’ve only played up to RE7. My list, starting with most scary:
RE7
RE3
REmake
RE2
RECV
RE Revelations
RE4
RE1
RE5
RE6
Wait are remakes included
@ Just RE1make. Haven’t played the others.
havent even watched the video yet but you've gained a like and a sub just for making a tier alllll the way at the bottom for re6
Re remake 2002 is still one of the scariest games ever
Great video dude
I will say RE0 and RE6 will be pretty dang difficult to remake. Harder than all the others. Just for obvious reasons. They will for sure have to get creative with the redsign aspects
Re4 is not about horror is more abaout feel rushed, tensed, overwhelmed by the enemies you are all the time in a stressful situation where you dont have any break to breath
aint none scary like RESIDENT EVIL 2 REMAKE, THE FEELING OF DREAD WALKING AROUND THAT POLICE STATION.THE HORDES OF ZOMBIES PACKED IN EACH ROOM. PLUS THEY'RE ALL ATTRACTED TO SOUND. THEN WORST MR. X IS HUNTING YOU DOWN CONSTANTLY
lol the thumbnail
I wonder what would happen if you took kids from the 90's and gave them the horror content we have today
3:28 Nah youre not getting how crazy what you said is. They scrapped Biohazard 1.5? That means they scrapped the game TWICE! Because Devil may cry was originally Resident evil 2!
This is some whiplash "again" type shit. The game wasnt perfect and they werent having it.
Imho none of the games past RE3 are really "scary". In RE2 or the HD remake of RE1 both the game design (can I survive, the limited resources, the stiffness of the combat) and the atmosphere lends themselves to horror really well. That completely goes out of the window somewhere mid RE3 where the "action" becomes the main genre, grotesque monsters appear and the game turns into slaughterfest. RE4 then completely seals the deal by being furthest from scary with it's weird occult angle, the parasites being the focus instead of living dead, the spannish hillbilies, etc.
What about the chainsaw man? Gory one-hit kills are scary.
RE7
don’t lie and say you didn’t find 7 scary
@@10alexir Ok RE7 sure, that one was scary. Hell even some parts of the Village were. I honestly wasn't thinking about the 1st person games.
@@nuadarstark CV, REV1, REV2, RE7. and RE3 was way more tense than scary
Resident even 4 and 5 were horrifying to me I bought the remake and played it and I’m just as fucking scared as I was back then. For no reason either 😭 my dad would just watch me run around screaming
RE4 was ALWAYS and still is a Scary Gamee despite more Action
Naurrrrrr the video got cut short! Love the unscripted raw type of video
should have 100x the amount of views
no it shouldn't its a lazy video with not even half the RE games and worthless analysis
@@EKk8819 It's the main games dawg
And how is it lazy
If you don’t put RE2 remake then your capping. I don’t think 3,4 or 5 comes close to it
Was totally watching this, then he said that he didn’t like code Veronica… 🤦🏻♂️ not another one
I like code veronica, but I understand why people dont like it, the backtracking is insane and you can softlock( or almost impossible to beat situations) your game very easily
Also Steve.
@@otaviojohannjardim1702 I can’t defend Steve… that’s just a reminder in Life that nothing will be “perfect” haha
FF7 track in the back-round👀
I wonder how the remakes could change up re6
Now Rate It From How Hot The Characters are.
Re engine is the best thing that ever happened to resident evil with out it idk how resident evil will be
Silent hill 2 was out at the time re1 remake came out and I’d say it’s scarier
Please tell me RE7 being in the bottom tier is clickbait (because it worked)
The old games were scary back then, of course coming from today and HD graphics it will not be as scary anymore.
Judging from the thumbnail alone I dont think you know what survival horror means.
I love re6. It's my second favorite among all re games (re4 comes 1st) but yeah it ain't horror at all lmaoo... I felt like I was playing some God Eater type game
Bro forgot the re1 bosses 💀
I love all the classic resident evil games my favourite sare 2 and 3
where's part two, william?
@@ketchupunicorn1750 I’m really hard at work on it now. I was really unmotivated last week. But it’s fully written and I’m deep into editing it. Im really happy with how it’s going. It’s so much better then the first video. My confidence and motivation is back. I’m very excited for you to see it.
@itsvolskay can't wait to see it, you're doing great man keep it up 💪🏻 I'm glad you're feeling better too
3:00 Wait, you opened by saying this thing is dated and doesn't hold up, so why is it going second to the top? Because it was a big deal 27 years ago? Who cares?
@@MichaelAronson I explain in the video that I find it not scary and dated but I can understand and see it how it was when it came out. I also say that I still think there’s games scarier then re1 even looking at it from when it came out
@@itsvolskay But why does it deserve to be that high *_in 2024?_*
because I’m looking at it as they were when they came out. I did say that in the video but kinda shoved it in between sentences cause I forgot to mention it at the start. It’s more out of respect. Just how I chose to do this video
@@itsvolskay Who cares what people thought of a game 27 years ago?
Me?
Resident Evil 5 needs to be called Resident Action.
It’s the scariest game in the series…zombie terrorists are WAY worse than normal ones
@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays There is no horror atmosphere is why I said Resident Action.
@@LordBelial1978 do you know how scary boulders are? I’d punch one too
@TheOnlyPedroGameplays They’re so scary they even make Leon run
@@itsvolskayChris punched the boulder for Leon so he continue the redfield bloodline
Re4 being your favorite game of all time made me sub, only game I have over RE4 for me is new vegas that’s it under it is bully those games are forever my favorite games now re4 remake takes 2 with the OG as well
@@travistreadway3180 I started new Vegas but didn’t get super into it at the time. I’ve been wanting to go back to it though
@ with the way I play games you can create characters I make people irl or make someone up predetermined in a sense like a real job then fit the points accordingly but that’s just me trying to play by the roleplay too which I feel my autism makes that’s more possible and allows me to enjoy the game more so
None of them are scary. I’ve played them all and I never even jumped once. They are just fun.
Got to first point and i already disagree. Re1 directors cut especially is really good.
Also those spiders on ps1 are creepy as hell. They look so furry and disgusting. Also i really love re1 not just the remake but the original i still play the ps1 version as much as i play the remake.
But i still remember the first time i saw the hunters or plant 42, or the first zombie and the cutscene where it turns around from eating a corpse.
Also the fight with tyrant is a great memory as well.
8:26 Lol hahaha
I would argue resident evil 2 is survival horror and not that much action yeah sure gun upgrades are amazing and kicking ass and holding your own but it’s not action at all it’s just survival horror your adapting as the scary enemies are as well and another thing resident evil four is a mixture between horror and action, which is not bad at all if anything was perfect, but five just wrapped it up to action and then there was no horror out at all
I lovees the original RE4 then came RE4 remake and i will never go back
Hot take the only RE game I felt scared was Resident Evil Remake. The first RE I played and the only one I felt scared in lol
@@kyleisreal_tv Only re game that scared me was og re2 when I where like 10.
Now the game is more like comedy.
@ That’s what my friend tells me he was like you had to be there lol. When i was a kid we couldn’t own these games wasn’t tell I was in my late 20s I finally started playing them lol
@NisseDood HOLD YOUR FIRE! IM A HUMAN
Umm none of them are really scary except maybe 7 on a first play through
I got RE4 on launch date on the GCN. This game was never scary.
clicked off as soon as i heard the opinion on the 1st game, idc what the reason is, RE1 is a MUST PLAY no matter how goofy or outdated some things are especially since you could argue most games during the same era that "hold up to today's standards" were exactly like how you described RE1 in certain aspects