Resident Evil 7 biohazard - "Lantern" Gameplay Trailer
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Peter Ian Staker
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I love how everyone brings Alien Isolation in this discussion when the middle third of that game (when the Alien was gone and you had to use guns to fight slow moving androids that could grab you) was the closest any recent game has come to the gameplay loop of the old REs.
It wasn't the greatest part of that game but if RE7 ends up being a much more developed version of that, I would be more than happy.
Just imagine having old school RE gameplay in first person with spooky atmosphere.
It wasn't the greatest part of that game but if RE7 ends up being a much more developed version of that, I would be more than happy.
Just imagine having old school RE gameplay in first person with spooky atmosphere.
Lord Frieza
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That's weird, because I remember a lot of weapons that shot in the pre-RE4 games, and quite a bit of shooting.
A shooter is too broad. Specifically, we're talking about a third person shooter with a tight behind the shoulder perspective. That genre was not a hugely represented one when RE4 came out. There's very few games you could point at and say, 'That's what RE4 was trying to be like.' It really invented, or at least, redefined that genre. It's not comparable at all, and if you were saying that back then, you were pretty off base.
Brian_FETO
Banned
They'll show combat when they reveal the enemy type
Right now we know it's some backwoods Bayou bullshit with spooky plantation owners. The trailer shows that they're keeping her captive for some reason. Turning her into a monster? Feeding her to them? Who knows
Right now we know it's some backwoods Bayou bullshit with spooky plantation owners. The trailer shows that they're keeping her captive for some reason. Turning her into a monster? Feeding her to them? Who knows
Not sure if this was posted. From the Facebook page.
I like that they're still using the green boxes for shotguns shells. Now just show us a bit of combat footage Capcom and I'll be all set.
Not sure if this was posted. From the Facebook page.
I never had any doubts. Maybe this will calm some fears.
People keep saying Capcom could have made this game a new IP but what would people have been saying about the comparisons to what Resi 7 would have been?
Everyone would have been comparing and laughing how this new IP is horror and they couldn't even bring Resi back to its horror roots.
To me this game looks like a first person Resi game. If they'd stuck a character model in there and a third person camera people would have been like "oh look Resident Evil is horror again". Because this game is played in first person, people can't seem to wrap their heads around a camera view change and grasp that this is clearly Resident Evil, only told through a new perspective.
Herbs are in.
Secluded Mansion is in.
Combat is in.
Resource management is in.
Umbrella is in (the demo).
The only thing that's changed is the camera perspective. If they would have gave us that list with a third person view, everyone would be screaming how classic Resi is back. People just like to shit on things for no apparent reason.
Everyone would have been comparing and laughing how this new IP is horror and they couldn't even bring Resi back to its horror roots.
To me this game looks like a first person Resi game. If they'd stuck a character model in there and a third person camera people would have been like "oh look Resident Evil is horror again". Because this game is played in first person, people can't seem to wrap their heads around a camera view change and grasp that this is clearly Resident Evil, only told through a new perspective.
Herbs are in.
Secluded Mansion is in.
Combat is in.
Resource management is in.
Umbrella is in (the demo).
The only thing that's changed is the camera perspective. If they would have gave us that list with a third person view, everyone would be screaming how classic Resi is back. People just like to shit on things for no apparent reason.
Ok I guess we shall see. So far it feels to fit completely outside of that universe. Too spiritual.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Yeah I'm tired of seeing this hide and seek gameplay. We get it Capcom, your demo made it apparent to us all the new direction for the series and I am happy. Please show us some gunplay/combat mechanics now.
Jawmuncher
Member
All those people things are in but they haven't shown it yet. That's what is bothering people. I'm indifferent to the FPS view though I would prefer TPS.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I'm curious if they think FPS is the best way to modernize the "tank controls" style of design. Removes the jank and ups the immersion
disappeared
Banned
Figured as much. I never remembered any real vitriol in those days over the initial reveal. I guess it's easy to go back, after re5 and re6, and throw shit at re4 but it's pointless because it was so damned influential on future games, and not just its own series.
Not sure if this was posted. From the Facebook page.
We do know guns are in the game. The question is, how we will use them? It could just be a way of knocking enemies down, or we might not even be able to use it as a weapon. Maybe it's just used to stop a ceiling trap from crushing you, haha. We really do need more info than this. Just sayin'.
Lord Frieza
Member
This isn't entirely true, though. There was never, at least not that I remember/am aware of, a stealth based section in any RE game like this trailer.
Jawmuncher
Member
But you can get just as much shit about the FPS controls. That was the case with ZombiU. So if they don't make aiming typical with the guns, there will probably be people who complain about that.
Why are you all judging this off found footage of a victim?!
It's like assuming the game had no combat off the back of the footage of the video crew in the demo, despite the fact that we were told it would have it afterwards.
Given the context of the video, of course it's not showing combat.
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It's like assuming the game had no combat off the back of the footage of the video crew in the demo, despite the fact that we were told it would have it afterwards.
Given the context of the video, of course it's not showing combat.
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But Capcom have confirmed it time and time again. People are choosing to ignore what they are telling us and posting stuff like "But the gameplay trailers show otherwise". Like wtf?
I liked the new camera perspective. After playing games like Soma (not really horror), Outlast etc I feel a FP Camera view is good and help bring that fear factor that comes with limited field of view. Something a TP Camera view cannot give us.
Tank controls? There were no "Tank Controls" in the demo. I know what your saying though and I feel a first person view does bring in a new level of immersion definitely.
You had to run and kind of hide from Nemesis in rooms and stuff in Resi 3.
Besides if there's new enemy types in the game that can hunt you down then sections where you run and hide help bring a sense of emergency.
Brian_FETO
Banned
I'm expecting something along the lines of: you don't even point your gun unless you hold L2, which will limit your movement and make it more of a struggle to line up shots
Definitely won't be FPS standard controls but I mean if they aren't marketing it as such (in theory) that shouldn't be an issue
Mister Wolf
Member
Looks scary as hell cant wait to play with my Oculus Rift.
My whole point if my post was to say that the core of classic Resi is back just in a new perspective.
Also I played Resi as a kid, a young kids at that and was NEVER scared whatsoever. Playing the demo the other month made me on edge even though I played it a million times searching for clues because of the first person view.
Also I played Resi as a kid, a young kids at that and was NEVER scared whatsoever. Playing the demo the other month made me on edge even though I played it a million times searching for clues because of the first person view.
I can't
I love TPS and hate FPS it's that simple and many people share the same taste/opinion with me.
Doesn't mean anything to me until I see it in action. You can have combat but the director has already gone on record saying that combat and encounters will be sparse. Everything they've shown so far is indicative of a game centered around weaker, more grounded characters so whatever gunplay to be had in this game will be much more evocative of that idea than the badass shit you did in RE4 through RE6. I can easily envision a scenario where RE7's combat is more of a hassle due to the goals Capcom has set and I don't know if I want to play that.
Not sure if this was posted. From the Facebook page.
This game would have been easier to swallow if it at least featured one of the main characters I like so much but Capcom is distancing themselves away from that too. I get why: a game like this featuring Leon or Jill wouldn't make sense given their history. So now I'm stuck playing nobodies whose faces I can't even see.
I wish this game was a joke that I wasn't in on. -_-
My inside sources tell me that the shotgun can only be used as a walking stick.
plagiarize
Banned
We either have hard evidence of these things, Capcom confirming them directly, or we already have footage or a demo that has them in it.
So no. Those things *are* all confirmed one way or another. When the director of the game just said twenty minutes ago that the game has combat and resource management, and we've played the demo that has a weapon you can swing, and a fairly detailed inventory system, I think it's really disingenuous of people to say such things aren't confirmed.
They are.
That's... your loss? Perspective isn't actually a defining tenet of ANY franchise.
Lord Frieza
Member
Uh, no you didn't? You had the choice options where you could hide from Nemesis, but that always a scripted cutscene. You never actively participated in a stealth section in the game.
Sure, but that's different from what you were trying to say in that quoted post. It's not exactly like the older games, at all. I won't say there's no similarities, but it's definitely been a different beast from what we've seen thus far even if some things hit the same note.
PezDispenser
Banned
In order to pull off atmospheric horror, or psychological horror you necessarily need SUBTLETY, which is so far out of Capcom's (and especially RE's) wheelhouse that it isn't even funny. RE is at its best when it embraces its schlock value and runs with it. This is a desperate attempt to ape something that it's just not in the wake of a humiliating previous installment.
Mark my words this will be trash, Resident Evil is in the midst of a full blown identity crisis.
Mark my words this will be trash, Resident Evil is in the midst of a full blown identity crisis.
Brian_FETO
Banned
What if it's like Mirror's Edge and you just don't need guns
Then RE is dead. Bury it.
This is kind of reaching, don't ya think? I mean, the centerpiece of this picture is a shotgun and a box of shells. Would it really make more sense for your character to grab the shotgun and swing it at an enemy in an attempt to knock them down rather than load the shotgun with shells and blow them away? That's like saying we know there are fire flowers in the new Mario game, but maybe you can't use them and they can only be picked and delivered to Princess Peach.
Jawmuncher
Member
Didn't say they arent confirmed. But they haven't been shown. I need to see it, not tjus be told.
The axe you couldn't use on anything in the demo but mannequins. So that isn't exactly helping anything on that front.
It's not a loss to skip a game in a sub-genre that you don't like when there are other games that are made for you
it saddens me to say this, because this franchise has been part of my childhood since the PS1 days.
AmethystEnd
Member
Still looking great. Glad it's not a shooter any more. Been waiting since Outbreak for another Resident Evil game.
dragonzdogma
Member
Happy for those who like it 
Wow- that's look nothing Like RE, more like:
An Indie-ish game
Boring, really (imagine replaying that part of the game)
Why hide from lantern old lady, (66 year old woman?) you could easily take her down,
just because she's ugly or whatever doesn't mean she's powerful, unless of course
she's some sorta ustanak trapped inside a 66 year old woman's body.
Lastly, the graphics look like the evil within chapter 1 but in glorious blurry muddy FPS view.
Cant wait for RE8 (luckily I can still replay R5 HD on ps4 and RE4 coming soon)
Wow- that's look nothing Like RE, more like:
An Indie-ish game
Boring, really (imagine replaying that part of the game)
Why hide from lantern old lady, (66 year old woman?) you could easily take her down,
just because she's ugly or whatever doesn't mean she's powerful, unless of course
she's some sorta ustanak trapped inside a 66 year old woman's body.
Lastly, the graphics look like the evil within chapter 1 but in glorious blurry muddy FPS view.
Cant wait for RE8 (luckily I can still replay R5 HD on ps4 and RE4 coming soon)
First person isn't a sub genre...
What your posting right now is confirmation that there were stealth sections in Resi 3. You had to run or hide from Nemesis. It doesn't matter whether it was a scripted cutscene or not, you still had a bit of stealth in the game.
The part about differing enemy types requiring you to hide was in response to the question so yes it would differ from what I was saying in my original post. Anyway, just because it has a stealth section it automatically makes the game "a different beast" now? I don't get how. Capcom have confirmed that these sections that we are seeing in the trailers are from VHS tapes that you find. They've already told us that the list I wrote is in and we already have confirmation of some of these things through watching the trailer.
Seriously. I fail to see how this game is being viewed as totally different from Resident Evil.
Being stalked by Grandma is truly the most terrifying enemy I've ever encountered
Welcome to the family, son. Where do you think you're going?
But no seriously, Lisa Trevor was at least grotesque and terrifying. This is literally just an old lady with a lantern, like, you could fight back pretty easily I think
Welcome to the family, son. Where do you think you're going?
But no seriously, Lisa Trevor was at least grotesque and terrifying. This is literally just an old lady with a lantern, like, you could fight back pretty easily I think
Well Capcom, you're destroying one of my favorite franchises. Thanks.
There have been worse Resident Evil games. Shit, they just released THE WORST ONE earlier this year.
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