I feel like compartmentalizing the franchise helps me enjoy it more. Separating classic RE (0, 1, 2, 3, CV), from action era RE (4, 5, 6), from first person Ethan Winters era (7 and
, and the whatever the hell RE9 is really allows me to appreciate the games for what they are. Still, there are certainly better games than others across the franchise.
I do generally view RE in that way, as someone who doesn't really like the old games because of the controls, loved RE4, was very mixed on the series afterward, and then have basically loved the games from RE7 on for the most part. That doesn't really help 5 and 6, because RE4 was so great, RE5 was a step down, not just because of the forced co-op, and then RE6 was just nothing good to me whatsoever, because it is so co-op focused. Like at least I get abit of the RE4 vibe with RE5, there's none of that in RE6.
I have thought of replaying RE5, maybe soon, I see it's 5 bucks on Steam, so who knows, I might be a smidge more lenient on it these days, even if I'll never like the co-op aspect, but RE6 is just forever a big nope for me as it doesn't do what I want as an RE game, and I don't want to play it as an action shooter, because it's almost entirely built around being a co-op shooter.