And then I tried out Mercenaries and hated it. Tuuuurrrriibl mapz. Going back to RE5.
This is the most important part of your post to me. I DEFINITELY agree - RE6 has some of the WORST maps in RE Mercs history. They're just...hnng wtf horrible. Like, who INSPIRED those maps, let alone created them? I thought Prison from RE5 was bad, just take ANY map from RE6 bar Creature Workshop and it completely overtakes Prison as a bad map. -.-
As for the rest of yo assessment, I respect it but also disagree. It was announced well before release that Resident Evil 6 was going to be the straw that broke classic RE's back - with the comments about it being "dramatic horror". Because of that, I say many fans have no REASON to be disappointed on the grounds that the game was a huge action flick. It's not like they made comments like "if XYZ doesn't beat OoT, there may not be anymore Zelda" with 6. :I
But yeah, I respect it and definitely see where you're coming from. Before I atcually played the game, I hated it for those exact reasons...but now I can only see it as the true evolution of Resident Evil.