Whats the last game you got?

Actually Vandal does have a point.
It's all about perspectives and the control scheme.
If a camera perspective changes then the input value is going to change accordingly to match that of the new value or in this case camera perspective.
Focal length and field of vision play a big role in the feeling of motion as well.
The more narrow the vision field the more motion feels more fluid, however this is just a trick of the eye.
Dynamic camera angles move with the player so this also give the impression and feeling of more natural movement and thus encouraging our minds to think it looks and feels more natural.
I do agree with you that the controls are a little smoother but they are virtually the same as Resident Evil 2's controls.
The FPS and updated hardware that renders faster really makes a difference.
If you play RE2 on the PC and then RE4 you feel that there is not that big a difference in terms of smoothness.
It's all to do with visual perspectives and of coarse a higher rendering rate.  

Oh P.S - Another perfect example of what I've just spoken about is the mod patch for RE4 on the PC that reverts the game to the older camera perspectives.
Play that and you will see all that what I've spoken come into action.

No problem.
It just dawned on me that importing now a days can be cheaper sometimes and also
in this day and age there is all kinds of hacking software or swap disk or reqion free mods
for consoles so you can play games of the past on the consoles.
Back years ago importing was costly and also you never had the technology or resources in order to play games or ports from different regions.
The happiest day (in the PS2 era) was when I bought a action replay disk out a game store when I purchasing a game and realising
that it had a region unblocker on it.
It was only temperamental and you had to put the action replay disk in and then insert your imported game, but it was the best thing I ever came across.
That's why I love the PS3 because I can play all the Japanese only releases without the fear of them not working on a PAL console.
This is also partly the reason I loved the Dreamcast because the first PAL versions when the console came out could play burned games without chipping or modding.
You could literally compress a ISO onto even a CD-RW and just pop it in and play.
This was also a good feature to have because the amount of amazing Japanese only titles that where released for the DC was outstanding.
They even had a Resident Evil 2 side scrolling, punch-em-up title that was like streets of rage.
I'm pretty sure that was mod made by a small modding team but it was still great to play.
 

Yeah totally.
Emulators are good for quick fixes for gaming when you don't own a certain game anymore, but nothing will beat the joy of having the physical in your collection IMO.
I might be oldskool that way but I love having a physical collection of games, sort of merit and right of passage for hardcore gamers.
Shame that today's young gamers and social trends are swaying towards digital only and thus eventually making hard copies extinct .
I wish that this reality will never come to be but it seems like it's imminent, unfortunately.

I take it by the tone of your reply that you completely disregarded my previous comment explaining the effects of perspectives in regards to game
design.
Nevermind my comment still stands as it is.
If you understood fully all that was said then your once perceived ideas of the two games would have changed or gave you a little insight.
I will still tell you to go and install the RE4 mod that converts the game to the "oldskool" way of static camera perspectives and then form your opinion.
However if you don't then I will at least ask you to take in all the information I have given as I do not sit day in and day out learning about this stuff in my coarse work.
Whether that be from a game design, photography (it ties in with the coarse but still a great area to learn about) or digital media and 3D design and engineering perspective.
It doesn't matter as it is all valid in correlation with focal and imagery perspective.  

Well you wont know the difference then.
As far as I know Resident Evil 2 is programmed the same as every other video game.
Once an input is registered the code will execute that specific command and give the result in which it was designed to give.
I will yet again refer you to my previous post in which I explain simply how the camera perspectives effect the control scheme and feel to the character physics.
I will now explain it again in a little more detail.
right lets say for instance the static camera is positioned pointing up a corridor and your character is running down that corridor towards the camera, the input in which to run in that direction would be the "down arrow key/analogue", now lets say the corridor turns to the left and the next camera position is down at the bottom of the next part of the corridor then turning that corner you would then press and hold the "left arrow button(left analogue)" in order to turn that corner to continue down the next part.
Now at that exact point of the camera position changing to the next scene it would then switch up the perspective and then the code would follow it's usual pattern in which you would have to then press and hold the "down arrow key/analogue".
This is what tripped people up in older RE titles and made the controls feel awkward because there was maybe 3 or more different camera positions in one area boundary.
You see it was nothing to do wit the control scheme being "sluggish" or "less smooth", it was all to do with the camera angles executing different perspectives and thus constantly tripping up the input commands for the controller.
You don't get that problem with RE4 as the camera fluidly follows behind the character and like I pointed out in my earlier comment this also gives the apparent feeling of smoother motion as the player is basically following the characters every move and angle.  

P.S - Trust me if you where to get PC copy of RE4 and download the mod you would most definitely see there is no difference.
The only difference would be that little extra smoothness you get from the FPS rendering but that's all really.
Apart from that the character movements still feel as if it where RE2.
Bare in mind that it's next to impossible to play the full of RE4 in this mod as you've not got the lock on aiming system that the older games had.
It's more of a what if RE4 had static camera angles and in this case gives an accurate comparison to the debate at hand.