Good starting points would be the Resident Evil HD Remaster (REmake), the Resident Evil 2 Remake, or Resident Evil 4. And by "good starting points" I mean "play all three."
The REmake is undeniably the best of the classic resident evil games. It makes significant improvements over the original game, and is an absolute masterpiece. It's undeniably one of the best survival horror games ever made.
Resident Evil 4 marks the series transition from "Survival Horror" to "Action". Of the games in this style, it's undeniably the best, and by a very wide margin. Unlike RE5 and RE6, RE4 still takes …