It's worse indeed if they resell later, since most of the preoders just happened because it was sold as "preoder exclusive" and it's plain as fuck.
Well to be quite honest I never faced RE4 or 5 as arcade shooters, instead I just compared to other games, them being TPS or having elements of shooting, and since most of those I compared to is fast paced, RE4 or 5 feels slow to me.
Yeah, but they could have at least used 5x5 square instead of 3x3 square for inventory and have the same benefits, without forcing the player to only have even fewer blocks for ammo, weapons and healing when they finally get protection gears.
I never played RE past 5 so I can't add much to the topic, but I tested a bit of 6 and couldn't bear even playing with cousin LOL