Resident Evil games were never really scary to me, due to all the B-Movie scare tactics and, especially from 2 onward, you were never really at any risk of dieing unless you royally screwed up. Especially Nemesis, which gave you so many outs of potentially tricky situations. They didn't hold a candle to Silent Hill in terms of horror, but that was RE's charm really. The early RE games were almost satirical of the decades of bygone horror films.