Did anyone notice the part where Leon goes to the surveillance room and Ashley is screaming "Leon! HALP!" to the camera and out of nowhere that one Ganado looks right into the camera and makes this noise and then signals to the other Ganado to flip off the switch?

Okay whoever wrote that part of the story is an idiot. I'd like to think that Mikami was completely oblivious to the entire story honestly. Think about this for a moment. Let's assume that Ashley just likes to scream to Leon. I can accept that. Then she is screaming into the surveillance camera for some reason. Fair enough.

Why the hell then does that Ganado just coincidentally think Leon is in the surveillance room? Out of all places? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep it on in case Leon got there and they saw it and needed to send more guys? Now this brings me to my second point - why is there a switch to switch it off in the room? Does not that defeat the purpose of the surveillance?

That's one of my many problems with this stupid story. This game was fun but it completely ruined RE with it's stupid ass story. Also the AI is too funny in this game. Lastly as soon as that cutscene mentioned above is over I like to knife the screens and I know you do too.

Oh great. Everyone's moving onto RE5 but some people still feel the need to pick apart the most minor, insignificant details from the LAST game

NEWSFLASH RE4 wasn't the first game to feature a bad guy staring into a surveilance camera!

Big Stu, do you know the part where Ada's glasses say "Warning! About to explode!"?

Probably.

Why?

Well I think that that proves without a shadow of a doubt that RE4 is guilty of the crime of which it is accused. The statute of limitations never runs out on criminally bad storylines. Thank you. There will be no further questions.

Court is adjourned.

So Resident Evil 4 has a dumb story. And it's taken you how long to notice?

Move on.

So you show your true colors you crazy liberal!

RE4 may have been a bit crazy, but having Zombies in an abandoned mansion is no picnic either. In conclusion, the fictional aspect of it all isn't suppost to make sense. Most of the time you're left to ponder what just happened.

RE4 was basically what I want in a game's plot, just not an RE plot.

I love games that have very light, and simple plots. Then when you add all the games in the series together, it all becomes a huge epic. An example is Metroid. Granted, they are fighting games, but King of Fighters is another good example (Events surrounding KOF 95 - 97, are still affecting events in KOF2003 - KOFXII).

It didn't work very well as an RE storyline, because we all expect very deep and involving stories from the games. Granted, it does connect to the other games in the series, but not as well as it should have.

That's why they released The Umbrella Chronicles. They wanted to give the T-Virus story a good send off, as it felt like there was unfinished business with Umbrella.

People cried heresy over RE4. But now people don't think of it like that so much, because of how much the series has evolved over time.