First, determination was Spider-Man’s infamous Puddlegate. Then determination were the not-so-watery streets of Cyberpunk 2077. Now it seems video crippled fans’ adjacent watery, pre-release contention involves the dense rainfall seen successful immoderate aboriginal gameplay of the Resident Evil 4 remake. Some deliberation it looks arsenic atrocious arsenic the awful-looking rainfall the GTA Trilogy remasters. Others are convinced it’s conscionable video compression. And remember: None of them person really played the crippled yet.

Rumored for immoderate time, Resident Evil 4 was officially announced by Capcom backmost successful June 2022. This caller remake volition update the game’s controls and combat, portion keeping the aforesaid basal communicative and characters. Once again players volition play arsenic Leon arsenic helium travels to a agrarian portion of Western Europe to prevention the President’s girl and gets caught up successful a full lotta campy, horrific shenanigans. But based connected newly released gameplay by Game Informer, immoderate Resident Evil fans look to deliberation Leon’s biggest menace won’t beryllium elephantine monsters oregon infected villagers, but lackluster rain.

Across Reddit and Twitter, you tin find many players who think the in-game rainfall looks awful successful the upcoming remake. While I’m not definite who was the archetypal idiosyncratic to stock these concerns online, they’ve rapidly dispersed astir the community. Some person adjacent suggested the rain looks arsenic bad arsenic the infamously horrendous rainfall seen successful the critically thrashed Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: Definitive Edition. That rainfall was truthful atrocious looking that it made the crippled astir unplayable during storms and was yet improved by the devs via a post-release patch.

Anyway, here’s the remade RE4’s rainfall that’s causing specified a kerfuffle:

I’ll afloat admit that I watched this footage doubly erstwhile Game Informer archetypal posted the video and didn’t deliberation thing of the rain. But adjacent successful the comments connected YouTube, you tin find radical disquieted astir however aggravated and distracting it is.

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Kotaku has contacted Capcom astir the upwind successful the upcoming remake.

Others deliberation radical are being excessively nitpicky and suggest that the existent occupation isn’t the rainfall but YouTube’s atrocious video compression. I’m inclined to deliberation YouTube’s compression is decidedly not helping this rainfall look good, but I tin besides spot however immoderate mightiness find the ample and chiseled achromatic drops of h2o to beryllium excessively much.

Of course, this being the net and gamers, immoderate radical are going excessively acold and suggesting the devs are lazy oregon that this is simply a motion the full crippled volition beryllium a giant, rushed “cash grab.” That is wholly silly and asinine. Remember: None of america person played the game, which isn’t adjacent finished yet.

Resident Evil 4 is owed retired March 24, 2023 connected PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Maybe it should see a rainfall strength slider.