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Haha, I would have loved that, actually. Because then we would have had a pretty cool RE game, that was Survival Horror with ghosts, but since Leon was dead the whole time, we could've completely disregarded it in context to the rest of the series, except for the fact that Leon was dead. ^_^

His death would've sucked if he was still cool.

When you think about it, the possibility of him being dead makes sense. He was supposed to be infected...

That or he took a very strong herb and wass suffering horrifically trippy illusions. Maybe that's all 4 actually was!

Leon: DUDE I HAD THE COOLEST DREAM I WUZ AN AGENT FOR THE GOVERNMENTS AND I WAS ALL BUFF AND RESCUED THE PREZS DAUGHTER AND SHE WANTED TO SLEEP WITH ME biggrin

Everyone: Cool story bro. stare

EDIT: I never heard about the part about him being unconscious. That sounds cool. *intrigued*

Yeah, I really liked Leon in RE2. I liked his voice better too. I always wondered what it'd be like if the dude who played him in RE2 voiced him again in RE4.

rofl I wish it had been. Unfortunately, RE5 is proof that it did indeed happen.

aww evil, wesker never had a victory that was so easy rofl

he goes commando and gets wesker with SURPRISE BUTT---- ninja i think i'll cut myself off there

See, the fact that you'd be willing to sacrifice RE's pure sci-fi setting for something paranormal, just for the sake of gameplay... It would scar RE's artificial universe even worse than it is now.
I mean, we're talking about science fiction here, which means that it's based on realism, and anything out of the ordinary that happens in it (i.e. Zombies and monsters) is explained scientifically (i.e. a man-made virus). But if you threw the paranormal in there, it would change Resident Evil's universe worse than RE4 as we know it did. And that's not right. You wouldn't take a franchise like Fallout and put ghosts or werewolves into it.
You wouldn't take a franchise like CSI and put spaceships into it. Because then it goes beyond what that particular artificial universe already established.

I hate to say it, but RE4 as we know it, backstory wise, is the most reasonable of all the other versions of RE4 that didn't make the cut.

Well, yeah, but then it's practically a spinoff game.
Then it's like saying, "I wish there was a Resident Evil game where you're at the Umbrella headquarters and you have to fight against all the Umbrella guards. Like an action shooter with duck and cover mechanics, etc. etc."

Yeah, it would work, and not necessarily be outside of the artificial universe. But it's usually a one time thing, it's not like they could keep doing that sequel after sequel.
Same with the other idea, they can't just keep doing sequel after sequel of characters running away from their hallucinations.

Actually it does. And I had a hard time explaining it, but then I heard a game developer say this, and he explained it very well.

Sci-Fi means you create a universe, and establish a set of rules (for example, in this universe there's an evil bio-weapons organization that creates viruses which mutate living things into monsters), and once you establish those rules, you work within those rules. That's what makes sci-fi believable.
But then if you say, "There's an ancient monster parasite that's been buried in the earth for hundreds of years," that's already breaking the rules, because up until now, every monster in the series has been man-made, meaning in nature, everything is perfectly normal.
And once you start breaking your own rules, it's no longer sci-fi, it's fantasy. And I've never, EVER viewed Resident Evil as a fantasy franchise. Nor do I want to.