sisslethecat
Sigh, this isn’t what I felt like waking up to this morning.
Resident Evil 4 just released today for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. I would normally be ecstatically playing through it and writing out my fourth-coming review of the latest port of one of my favorite games of all time – but I can’t. You see, there’s unfortunately a problem with this release, at least on Xbox One, and it’s causing no end of grief for day-one buyers like myself. When booting up the game, you will be prompted to update it, an issue in and of itself. RE4 is an 11 year old game this year, why in the world would it need an update – on it’s bajillionth port, no less. But the real problem is that the update doesn’t download. When you hit ‘okay’ to begin the update, it’ll simply tell you that ‘something went wrong’, and to try again. This effectively locks you out of the game.
There is a solution, figured out by diligent gamers who just want their damn RE4, supposedly uninstalling and then reinstalling seems to fix the problem, but it’s a huge pain in the ass for a game that is so old it should reasonably function on your phone (barring that awful iPhone demake from a few years back). Our full review should be coming later today (I’m very good at Resident Evil 4 by now), but this does not bode well right off the bat. There is a chance that it’s some sort of technical issue on Xbox’s end, and I have yet to hear of the problem popping up on PlayStation 4, but I’ve also never heard of such a problem before, and that’s what worries me. Resident Evil 5‘s Xbox One/PS4 release was pretty bumpy as well, but only in so far as a few new bugs that hadn’t been present before (one in particular that makes it so you can’t break more than one wooden crate at a time with your knife, which I missed somehow when writing my review of it). Fingers crossed that this is the only issue to be found in the latest version of Resident Evil 4.
