Tried Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 (remake versions) for the first time. Only other Resident Evil games I've played to completion are Resident Evil 4 (remake, fairly recently) and Resident Evil Village.
The writing/acting is what it is, but I gotta say, Resident Evil 2 has some really great stuff. They managed to calibrate the intensity/speed/intelligence of Mr. X/Tyrant just right - enough to be a constant presence and genuinely frightening, but not so omnipresent and unbeatable that becomes an unintentional nuisance.
I'm sensing a theme with these games that they lose a lot of steam/momentum/intrigue when they (literally) descend into the sewers and end up in a Umbrella facility.
Resident Evil 3 was a lot of fun -- I really liked the first region topside in Raccoon City, that felt almost like something out of Bioshock -- but it too quickly gets to sewer stuff, and then you blink and the game's over. A real Child's Play 3 of the franchise.