Personally, I'm really liking it so far! However, I am heavily predisposed to liking horror games…
The Evil Within (new Shinji Mikami game)
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The PC version is the best. Not because "OMFG GRAPHIC SETTINGS" it just has better performance and you can do things like remove the letterboxing. Currently, tragically, it appears the Xbone version is better than the PS4 version. PS4 has a real buggy framerate. Xbone got a 7GB patch, PS4 has not (yet?).
FWIW there was an update patch I had to install when I ran the PS4 version, but it seems to be related to online connectivity somehow.
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Dammit, I've followed this game since day one, I preordered and paid it off in advance, I picked it up yesterday. Still haven't played it… I'm totally chicken to play it.
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Dammit, I've followed this game since day one, I preordered and paid it off in advance, I picked it up yesterday. Still haven't played it… I'm totally chicken to play it.
I finished the first 3 chapters last night and it's not that scary. Haven't had a single jump scare yet. I've died several times though.
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There's some misinformation about how burning bodies with matches work in the game (Bethseda's marketing didn't help). It's not REmake, enemies don't come back as Crimson Heads, hell you don't even backtrack in the game. If you kill an enemy with a stealth kill (knife to the head) or with headshots, they are dead, completely. If you kill an enemy by other means; such as body shots, melee, or explosives; they can pretend to be dead and will either get up on their own after a few seconds or wait for you to approach them. To find out rather they're really dead or not just approach them and melee them on the ground. If they are actually dead they'll simply ragdoll from the hit and stay on the ground. If they're alive they'll react and slowly get up, during this you have a brief chance to still drop a match on them (which you should, else it'll be more ammo). As you enter new areas you'll find enemies already on the ground. Same rules apply. Some are dead, some are pretending. Just melee them to get your answer.
However during a couple chapters of the game it is tempting to burn bodies even if they're dead, because
! One of the stalking boss characters; RE-bone Laura, use dead bodies and pools of blood as spawn points. If you burn bodies then you cut down her spawn points.
Other than that they can be used as a good weapon. If you burn a downed enemy surrounded by other enemies then you'll light them all on fire and kill them all. You can also try to group enemies together and blast them to the ground with either a shotgun blast or an explosive bolt then drop a match and burn them all. Killing 5 enemies with just a single shotgun round and match is definitely a good thing to try to make happen.
Just thought I'd post this as finding it out definitely eased my worries.
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No discussion here? I finally worked up the courage (to play on casual lol) to play it tonight and IT'S GOOD! It's not the magic of RE4, but it's still damn good.
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I'm loving it too. Personally, I like it more than RE4. But I've also never really been a huge Leon fan.
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I posted some thoughts on the game in the What Are You Playing thread, after I beat it. Main points of interest is I found it really good whenever it DIDN'T try to become an inferior version of RE4. In other words, when it wasn't making me fight off enormous infinite-spawn hordes or do battle with wave after wave of enemies with high-powered weaponry. Those sections all felt really awful to me as the game isn't properly designed around that kind of thing (nor the controls properly polished). So much that as much as the challenge of Akumu difficulty got me excited, every time I thought about doing those parts I just went "meh." So my Akumu run basically got dropped during chapter 3.
In specific terms, there are some really bullshit sections in chapter 6, and then again in chapters 10+. Maybe some cool post-game unlockables would be more motivating, but… the NG+ perks are very very lackluster. No way to get infinite ammo for anything, and even the powerful weapons you do have (or earn by beating the game / collecting things) have very limited ammo and more of it seem to rarely, if ever, drop. Not to mention they are severely under-powered. The brass knuckles seem to be the only really fun bonus (for beating the game on Nightmare or above), but it just isn't worth it to me.
Oh and the story leaves a lot to be desired, probably "oh it'll be explained in DLC!" which leaves a sour taste in my mouth but oh well, I'll be fine with just reading it later. Didn't come in expecting a great story.
So my overall feelings are that the game for the most part is pretty solid, with amazing art direction and such. Some chapters and sections definitely drop it below being able to call the game amazing, but I was thoroughly satisfied with my run on Survival (and I played it with a VERY minimalistic survival approach so it made things a lot harder and I ended up with way too much ammo and trap parts by the end haha). There is some replay value but I, for one, am very unattracted to it, so I think unless I at some point experience a huge gaming lull and/or feel masochistic, I won't be replaying it or finishing my Akumu run.
