I own RE1, 2, and 4. All awesome games

Like roto said, comparing 4 to the others isn't going to get you anywhere, but in terms of 'smurf YEAH I JUST KNEECAPPED A MONK WITH A MOTHERsmurfING SHOTGUN THEN SUPLEXED HIM AND HIS HEAD SPLATTED OVER THE FLOORS' value RE4 just snuffs it as my favourite one.

RE2 was similarly awesome and my second favourite, but giving you a small army's worth of handgun ammo right at the start made it a bit too easy.

RE1 is the only game thats ever given me the chills (I haven't played silent hill yet lol), probably because it was so damn hard. I got as far as the catacombs before realising I'd missed getting the DOOM BOOK I at the start of the game, and had to run the half mile back to the mansion and look through every single room for it, being forced to kill every monster that was in there.


So yeah, I feel like getting RE3 now