Evil Within
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A friend send me a link to these. Shinji Mikami under Bethesda developing this title. I think it looks way disturbing and creepy. I mix of RE4 gameplay, meets silent hill and Condemned. Win win, and Mikami has proved to be a real good designer and story driven games. From the trailer it looks creepy... but there is no gameplay... the screens shows more of that.
For PC, 360,PS3 and next gen consoles i guess.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/04/19/the-evil-within-debut-trailer-1080p?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
http://i.imgur.com/MQ38Upr.jpg
For PC, 360,PS3 and next gen consoles i guess.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/04/19/the-evil-within-debut-trailer-1080p?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
http://i.imgur.com/MQ38Upr.jpg
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Nice.
Hahaha, living there atm, i can say this is the truth
Premise sounds like it might be cool, but I'll wait for some gameplay footage.
Food fight!
i bought RE6 and couldnt play it for more than 5 minutes because of that narrow FOV 3rd person camera angle.
So far I see alot of so called 'bull shots' which have beauty shots and some concept, and the video I have seen, is the one with real people in it.
Did I miss something? I'm seeing this game all over the place, from Kotaku to RPS, but it's weird that it's getting so much hype when there is no information about it, so did I miss some links or something?
I'm excited to see more.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=543306
Heh, by thinking that you're only setting yourself up for it to be true. I for one expect any horror game I play to be scary even with the ability to fight back. Just because Amnesia and the like are fantastic no-fighting horrors doesn't mean that's the only way to do it now.
why do that!!! Never use art you don't own because one day you're going to goof up and not modify it enough - companies always get bit in the ass over that.
*edit*
K, it's on IGN now.
Not that far in at the moment, just finished chapter 3, so far so good.
Apart from the PC version needing some work, it looks pretty nice for a IDTech 5 game, nice to see some shadows. :P
Atmosphere is really good too, combat is nice and meaty if that's how you wanna play it, but I've been sneaking around playing stealthily so far. Stealth fans getting a treat at the moment with this and the Alien game.
tldr: The game looks miles worse than Ryse:Son of Rome and runs worse. Shameful display. Also idTech 5 should've been abandoned after RAGE.
All in all, will play after a few dozen patches. But I doubt that it will happen, because the devs obviously don't care much.
The game itself is quite enjoyable in my opinion, the levels have a nice blend of moments where you feel defenseless, and moments where you feel like you can actually fight back. The monster design is absolutely incredible as well and I definitely need to pick up the art book at some point.
My only main complaint is that the AI can do some pretty stupid things sometimes, but it's not really a huge deal in my opinion.
I'm interested in seeing what kind of a comeback the horror genre makes. Since achieving "realistic" graphics is becoming a more plausible goal for developers, I would think that it could lead to an increase in profitability for horror games since more people might be interested in the genre. Silent Hill 2 and Cry of Fear will still be the best two horror games in my book, though.
If I had to sum it up in one line, I'd say better than RE 5 and 6, worse than RE 4.
My friends said me the game is just a "stealth" game. They are very disappointed.
And reading reviews, more of the same, another failure.
Have you not the patience or the common sense to wait out a few patches?
The game design is fun. So far i don't feel its just a sneaking game. If i get discovered i feel like i have lots of options on how to tackle an encounter.
For example. Got to a point where there are tons of enemies everywhere, and there are like 4 different houses all with set up traps. I release this chainsaw guy that calls a horde on to me. There are tons of enemies, and i go to a second level of a barn, then jump down to another house, and run... only to find myself surrounded... i double back, take the stairs down and sneak past a couple of bombs... enemies crowd by the bomb and i shoot it and i must've killed like 6 of them. The chainsaw guy sneaks behind me while i was doing what i was doing and i managed to plant a shotgun shot that knocked him down. Holy cow was i freaking out. I see more clutter by the remains of the previous guys... i throw a granade and run away out of the house. See this stack of hay.. i push it to narrow down the barn entrance, and when the rest of the enemies are coming i set it on fire. Enemies that try to cross that touch it are set on fire. Go and try to sneak on the chainsaw guy.. shoot him a bunch of times, run out of ammo, gives to the chase, i try to jump out the window and the bastard caught me haha. Got chopped in half. Most intense encounter so early in the game. It was amazing. I always felt like i had options.
The game presentation is a little hectic, but i like that. It really reminds me a lot of Silent Hill with a mix of RE4. But i like it better so far. Some bits are scary, some bits are really tense. All the comments i read say the game just gets better and better and better. Can't wait to keep playing it.
On PS4, really have not noticed a dip on framerate, i have died only that once, but loading times take like maybe 5-10 seconds? but i have the sdd drive. I think i saw reports of loadings being between 10 and 15. But once the game loads, i think it runs and changes locations really smoothly.
I dunno... if you like RE4, and SH, then give it a shot. I think you'll be surprised.
Last thought.. i came into this game really hyped, with minimal knowledge of what to expect. Mostly media blackout. I am very happy i got this.
Exactly, how dare these people who pay full price for a game expect it to be playable with few issues at release? I mean, talk about self entitled!
Like mentioned above, the performance isn't all that great, especially how the game looks, doesn't justify its requirements.
The engine doesn't really feel stable, had a crash the first time I tried to start a new game, but since then that's the only crash I've had. Nothing new here this engine has never worked too well.
Game is locked to 30fps, you need to use console commands to unlock it to 60fps. You can completely unlock it, but since the performance isn't all that great there's no point really.
Apparently anything over 60fps isn't supported, but they plan to support 60fps better later. 60fps still isn't officially supported since it requires console commands.
The other problem is the forced aspect ratio more akin to cinemas. Again can be unlocked through a console command but it changes the FOV and makes it pretty unplayable to me. I've had to run it somewhere in between.
On the plus side the game does have the atmosphere nailed and it feels nice and creepy.
The combat like stated above is meaty and gorey. The stealth is pretty decent and probably the best way you should play this game rather than turning it into a third person shooter.
The controls are ok, usual WASD by default and other keys spaced decently around it.
It's not RE 4, but it does a pretty decent job of not being a generic thrid person shooter, if you play it more smartly and conserve ammo and use stealth more.
Shall update more when I've played a little more.
As I thought, the game is a technical failure on every system.
There's the difference between being right and smart
Not everybody has a console.
Digital Foundry quote on console versions:
Yeah, sounds like a better choice:thumbup:
so the real complaint is that you get a better product than the console originals but it's not quite as better as you are entitled to as a pc gamer?
Almost no graphical settings, crashes, bugs, abysmal performance. It's not a better product, it's a broken product that doesn't meet expectations of a good pc versions. No FoV settings, no VSync settings, no native 60fps support, no scaleable settings whatsoever.
Wolfenstein this year was made on the same idTech 5 engine and was a much better performing game on every system and a good pc version to boot.