Resident Evil 7 was one of the rare surprises at E3 a few months ago, it's now back with this brand new trailer.
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I hope we get some proper gameplay.
They could have done so much more with this, like set it at the Spencer Estate and you are a childhood friend of Lisa Trevor and have to witness the horryifying events of what happened to Lisa. There, that is a better setting and it was off the top of my head.
They could have done so much more with this, like set it at the Spencer Estate and you are a childhood friend of Lisa Trevor and have to witness the horryifying events of what happened to Lisa. There, that is a better setting and it was off the top of my head.
it's why soma is scary.
it's why amnesia is scary.
it's why PT was scary.
the demo sold me on this game 10 fold. it's RE back to it's roots. there has been a camera change. but that's hardly been a consistent aspect of the series anyway. so...meh.
it's why soma is scary.
it's why amnesia is scary.
it's why PT was scary.
the demo sold me on this game 10 fold. it's RE back to it's roots. there has been a camera change. but that's hardly been a consistent aspect of the series anyway. so...meh.
you could argue RE hasn't been RE for the last 3 games. it's an incredibly inconsistent series in regards to focus and approach. we've had everything from pre-rendered classics, third person shooters, first person shooters, light guns games...all of which canon. i just don't get the "this isn't resident evil" argument...and i'm not sure the people saying it do either. lol
They could have done so much more with this, like set it at the Spencer Estate and you are a childhood friend of Lisa Trevor and have to witness the horryifying events of what happened to Lisa. There, that is a better setting and it was off the top of my head.
I GUARANTEE you that part I used as an example with the crate plays out exactly like that...... every single time. And like I said, I AND everyone else who watched the trailer knew it was going to happen (and don't pretend you didn't know either). Its a stalked and stay hidden mechanic, you get caught its Game Over. And its only going to be an incredibly frustrating game if you are hiding the way the player was there and the stalker still manages to see you even when they shouldn't have.
And there is nothing wrong with backstory. Knowing that Resident Evil took place in a location called the Arklay Mountains outside a town called Raccoon City didn't ruin the atmosphere or tension in the game. In RE2, any of those moments you are outside the Police station briefly and can hear the cries of distant hordes of zombies throughout the town was equally as tense. The setting in this particular trailer looks like a location from just about every other game currently in this genre. Woooooooooo scary...... no wait, wooooooooo tension.
We'll have to see how this game turns out but I don't see anything to be completely sold on it like you are.
But I do agree with this: anything, literally ANYTHING, was going to be adequately decent compared to the absolute garbage we have seen from this series this past 10 years now. I'm not here with the typical argument "they should change RE" followed by "oh no, this isn't RE anymore" lol.
And VR lasting a year? LOL@ you. I bet you said the same for mobiles and smart phones.
See you in a year when your comment looks even more ridiculous than it already is.
https://youtu.be/AFjhM7ud0dQ?t=5m40s
The exact same sequence that was in the trailer but now in actual gameplay. How terrifyingly expected. :)
Frankly speaking, this game as it looks in this trailer is not Resident Evil, and since none of the previous 20 comments mentioned the very obvious game this most looks like, that from the very beginning I just couldn't stop thinking about it, I will say it:
"Alien: Isolation"
Period. So I do agree with the people that said that this doesn't look like a Resident Evil game, not because of the camera view, but because I literally am seeing Alien: Isolation with a different kind of paint. The 2 Resident Evil 7 E3 trailers made the game look much more like a P.T. successor, but this gameplay trailer just made the game look extremely similar to Alien: Isolation.
I have nothing against Alien: Isolation, but its systems do not evoke or resemble Resident Evil's systems aside from a few things, like managing scarce resources and being pursued by a being that you can't face head on most of the time.
I also agree with what "andrewsqual" said, at that exact moment I thought the lady with the lamp would stop and not check the crate, which she did and is a very overused cliche of mediocre Horror movies, games, etc. I even thought how stupid that whole sequence was, considering that when the lady with the lamp opens the door, it takes almost 2 seconds for the character to break line of sight from someone that's about 10 feet away. So after that any immersion or investment I had left just went away for good.
I also expected something to happen in the scene where the candles went out and the character was in the dark, but I was hoping it wouldn't be the lady with lamp and something new instead, unsurprisingly it was the former rather than the latter.
I know this game might be truly horryfying in VR, but saying this accomplishes what exactly? That's like saying that a First Person Shooter game will play better with mouse and keyboard when referring to a console version of the game.
This trailer was not in VR or was even about VR. I most likely will not play Resident Evil 7 in VR, just like most people won't as well. It is foremost a non-VR First-Person View game, and it should be judged as that if you're talking about the non-VR version, which is this one.
This is exactly the experience that you will get from the normal version, to those that think otherwise, just go watch the gameplay videos, they're not in VR for many reasons. So please don't bring VR's potential to be awesome to defend a game that as it stands, is not that interesting or appealing Horror-wise.
Yes, the game might be great with VR, but please stop to consider the opposite as well - the game might be crappy without VR. And considering that most people will play this game without a VR headset, VR shouldn't be used as an argument or excuse to say that the game will be scary [in VR].
P.T., Amnesia, Outcast, Alien: Isolation, and so many other games were scary without needing to rely on VR. I honestly have no problem if a game is only scare in VR, but then that's not an Horror game unless it's VR only. If a non-VR version comes out, it should be judged separate from the VR version, the same if the opposite happens as well.
Having said that, the truth is that this trailer is very bad, not because of the game itself, but because it was uninteresting and some parts were downright boring, I didn't feel any tension or build up and it ultimately left me disappointed with what I watched.
Great games have bad trailers all the time, so that's not a problem by itself as long as/if the final game is similar to the E3 Demo in Horror, then it will be a great Horror game, but this trailer right here just showed a poor copycat version of Alien: Isolation and if that's how the overall game will be like, then I'm saying this right now, it will get hammered by bad reviews from both critics and users, at least the non-VR version.
Hopefully I'm wrong and all this is is a bad trailer making a game look bad - which happens all the time, because Resident Evil fans deserve a much better game than what this trailer showed.
PS. To the people that keep saying Resident Evil 4 didn't have tension, you clearly played a different game than most people, Resident Evil 4 was the last great main series Resident Evil game exactly because it was the last game in the main series to be filled with tension and having many Horror moments. With one very important caveat, it had many QTE events that took the edge and broke immersion, plus once you reached that whole section with that midget evil mastermind it just made everything feel really dumb - even by Resident Evil standards - and hard to connect to. I have no idea how well it aged, but it's still one of the best Resident Evil games, main series or otherwise.