For me it's

  1. Resident Evil 1 (1996)

  2. Resident Evil 2 (1998)

  3. Resident Evil Outbreak (File 1 and 2 because it's pretty much one game split into two)

1 will always hold a special place in my heart since it's the first I played. 2 because it improved on everything that 1 did and it was the first Biohazard game I played to completion. Outbreak because it took the series online and introduced multiplayer while still sticking true to it's survival horror themes.

  • machinya [it/its, fae/faer]
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    3 months ago
    1. RE2 (1998) - hard to beat. great in every aspect. having 2 scenarios that affect each other is sooo good that i want more games doing that. extra modes are quite challenging and fun to play.
    2. REmake (2002 GC) - perfect in almost every way. I'm very sad that there were no more games in that style since for me it's probably the perfect survival horror experience. I still like the original but the remake improved almost every single aspect of it.
    3. RE3 (1999) - it has a bunch of problems but is probably the funnier one to play. making up challenges to finish the game gives it an arcade-like feeling. nemesis keeps being scary even when i have every place he can appear memorized

    honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer. between it and REmake were two very good ways of moving the franchise forward and keeping the formula interesting. sadly, they went the action route so we got okay-ish games (4 is great although it still ranks way below the classics for me) instead of hypotetical masterpieces.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 months ago

      honorable mention to outbreak. i only played it in single player mode but i'm sure it would probably enter the list if i had the chance to play multiplayer.

      Oh yeah multiplayer was where it's at, never to late to try it out though as fans have kept the game alive via private servers you can easily connect pcsx2 up to.