Difficult controls shouldn't be the key for a challenging game. It's all about the balancing.

Besides, RE1 & 2 were way easier than 4 and 5.

When I first played Resident Evil 2 when I just turned 8 years old I shut off the game after the licker fell down from the ceiling.

I got over it later and could play RE2 just fine. But then Nemesis scared me even worse when I played RE3 when I was 10.

Definitely thought that the first Resident Evil (IIRC) for the PS1 was scary as hell at the time that I played it.. It was just suspenseful, what with the choppy controls, slow movement and lack of ammunition.. I wasn't sure if I was going to get eaten or not. From what I remember, as soon as I started playing I walked into a building by some burning cars, talked to some shop owner (who had his flesh ripped apart moments later) and can't remember what happened after that.. But at the time I was young and new to it all.

To be honest, the shitty graphics actually made it all look creepier, if anyone could understand. They looked more mysterious, as if my mind was putting it's own creepy ideas into the fuzzy ambiguous pixelated figures that simply walked into characters and made them disappear or fall to the floor in a mangled blob of bloody peach pixels.. and that cheesy scream.. Ahh, how I yearn for all of that..

To me it was Code: veronica. It was not very scary but if i had to pick on it would be that one

REmake ;_;

I'm currently playing it, and in all honesty I cried twice.
Once was when I was walking up the bending stairs
with the letter Wesbert/Barry leaves for you.
I swear a hunter was supposed to crash in from the window that
was constantly open. My cat made a noise outside my door,
I jumped a little cause I was staring at the window and thought
that there was going to be a hunter flying in. And I sat there
and cried cause I didn't have a shotgun but was on the way
to get it.

I am the noob of all noobs in this game. And I've been REALLY
REALLY lucky, I have 150 Handgun Magazine. And have had several
headshots with the handgun. Loads of health, I mostly walk around
with an Orange caution. Dodging bastards along the way.

For me? REmake for sure. Code Veronica in close second however.

Scariest RE Game? For me, It would be RE3. When i first played it, I was only 10 years old. Cause of Nemesis. It was like your in a running and hiding process. I didn't even know where Nemesis is going to appear. There's a lot of zombies everywhere, the whole city. In the Helicopter part where Jill saw the Helicopter. I thought it was really over and then suddenly Nemesis got his bad ass rocket launcher and shoot it. Its really hard being with Nemesis. Also, In the Hospital part with Carlos. Cause the hunter is there. I really hate that thing. So for me it's RE3.