Capcom has just released three new gameplay videos of Resident Evil 7 biohazard to give you a better look at the frightnening Baker family home and its twisted residents. As a reminder, the demo (and its last update) is avaialble on PS4 and will hit Xbox One this Friday then PC on December 19. The game releases worldwide January 24 2017.
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I played the demo and this should have been called something other than RE. No thanks!
I played the demo and this should have been called something other than RE. No thanks!
They look rather prerendered...
I don't know how someone can play this in VR - dead secret on the gear VR was already too nerve wrecking for me :)
What part of "me" throughout that explanation didn't you understand. To "me," that isn't the survival horror game resident evil started off to be. To "me" it's a wannabe silent hills/P.T.
You don't have to understand anything when I direct it all towards myself. Buy it. I never told anyone else not to. I never tried to convince anyone else the way you are trying to for whatever reason. I won't buy this ever.
What part of "me" throughout that explanation didn't you understand. To "me," that isn't the survival horror game resident evil started off to be. To "me" it's a wannabe silent hills/P.T.
You don't have to understand anything when I direct it all towards myself. Buy it. I never told anyone else not to. I never tried to convince anyone else the way you are trying to for whatever reason. I won't buy this ever.
It's edgy enough for YouTube millennials I guess
It's edgy enough for YouTube millennials I guess
Yet here you are trying to, ahem what exactly?
Anyhow, here's a topic speaking specifically on what I'm saying ( hint: I'm in the topic)
http://www.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1323268
Yet here you are trying to, ahem what exactly?
Anyhow, here's a topic speaking specifically on what I'm saying ( hint: I'm in the topic)
http://www.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1323268
but please, continue :)
It's hard to specify exactly why Resident Evil 7 is much more close to a spin-off than to any of the numbered main games in the series - Resident Evil 1-6. But I believe it has to do with the fact that its main goal from the concept phase throughout development has always been to be an Horror game instead of a Survival Horror game, or at the very least an Horror game first and a Survival Horror game second.
The distinction is subtle, true, but it can make a big difference in a game. Horror games aren't Survival Horror games, and vice-versa. It's very similar to how an On-Rails FPS Shooter is very different than a FPS Shooter, even though your main goal is to aim and shoot enemies before they kill you.
That's why Resident Evil 7 feels off to me when I think of the franchise, it has lost something that screams "Resident Evil" in exchange for something that screams "P.T.". And we should only need to ask ourselves 2 questions:
If Resident Evil 7 is more similar to Resident Evil 1-6 or to P.T.?
And if any of us while playing or watching P.T. ever felt it reminded of Resident Evil in any way whatsoever?
As long as the answer to those 2 questions are: P.T. (instead of Resident Evil 1-6) and No, respectively, Resident Evil 7 can be titled whatever it wants, but it will never feel like a proper Resident Evil game at its core.
Ironically, Capcom traded Survival Horror for Action, and now it has traded Action for Horror - in a sense, Capcom traded Survival Horror for Horror. It might be a great game and very successful, but it's definitely not the same experience where it matters most, regardless of the perspective - just like the aforementioned First-Person View Resident Evil games, as well as Third-Person View ones like Resident Evil Outbreak, Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and Umbrella Corps.
PS. Feel free to complain about the post's length, and not the message therein lies. While that is pathetic, I understand that this much text can be a big inconvenience for an illiterate person. And as you yourself said, you're done playing games in which you need to read texts as well. Therefore, it falls on me the responsibility and empathy to understand and accept your sensibility regarding this matter.
What part of "me" throughout that explanation didn't you understand. To "me," that isn't the survival horror game resident evil started off to be. To "me" it's a wannabe silent hills/P.T.
You don't have to understand anything when I direct it all towards myself. Buy it. I never told anyone else not to. I never tried to convince anyone else the way you are trying to for whatever reason. I won't buy this ever.
Now, with that in context, when you actually compare that vision to that of RE7, is it that far off? No. In fact, this would probably be closer to what Mikami first envisaged. The entire draw to the original RE game to begin with was a gory horror featuring Romero style zombies. Something that hadn't really been seen in a video game before, and this was well before the popular zombie explosion with is prevalent in everything these days.
Now, if you ask me, had they went with the usual 3rd person perspective, fixed camera route, would it resemble RE more closely? Obviously, but only for nostalgia's sake. Tank controls, fixed camera, pre rendered backdrops, even 3d backdrops *yawn" been there, done it. No doubt people would moan about the lack of originality if they went down that route, but instead, here we are, in 2016 and VR is the new kid on the block to drive the horror genre forward. You can see why Capcom ultimately - and bravely - defied the fanboy outcry and went (correctly in my opinion) with a 1st person survival horror game designed for VR, to bring fear to the next level by actually placing you inside it, and it doesn't get much more immersive than that. This game will scare you more than the original's design ever could, so it's got the horror element nailed, and the lack of guns and other stuff means that a single enemy on screen poses a very serious threat once again (just like the original's zombies when you first encountered them) so it's still got that element to it, along with the inventory system, lack of supplies, storage boxes, save rooms, and tape recorders instead of ink and type writers to save the game.
Now, if that isn't survival horror, or indeed RE, I don't know what the fuck else to call it. Anyone claiming it isn't is just falling under the casual internet trend of being a moan.