DETACA
Banned
i hate it.
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balls of snow
Member
I am so in.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Nobody needs tank controls in anything ever again. Except tank games.
II_JumPeR_I
Member
Lets just wait and see? A lot of studios started small.
I rather have a bit jankyness than not having the game at all...
DETACA
Banned
very promissing!
supernova8
Banned
Is my internet connection playing up or... are there no screenshots?
edit: was my internet
I mean it looks.... fine. Looks marginally better than Red Dead Redemption 2, so my reaction is more:
than
then again I never played the original so perhaps I'm not the target audience.
edit: was my internet
I mean it looks.... fine. Looks marginally better than Red Dead Redemption 2, so my reaction is more:
than
then again I never played the original so perhaps I'm not the target audience.
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How can you tell that from a screenshot? Am I missing something?
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
It's not a AAA blockbuster game, so it's jank.
Buggy Loop
Member
I would add to this that there’s always a staff turnover / inflow and you can score a few gems of legit geniuses that make a huge difference at a studio. Assuming that a studio remains static in output quality is laughable.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Eh, of course it's over the shoulder and there will be a lot of twitchy shooting that has nothing to do with the original.
AITD was tense because the combat was awfully clunky. You had very limited ammo, the saber would break after a few hits, and you could get easily stunlocked to death. Combat was basically reserved for the few creatures you couldn't deal with otherwise; every bullet was meant to be used in a specific situation. The heavier emphasis on combat is the reason why AITD2 was already taking the series downhill.
Of course the combat here could be good, but it's not what the original game was about. I'm cautiously optimistic, but calling this a "reimagining" just because it's set in Derceto is misleading.
AITD was tense because the combat was awfully clunky. You had very limited ammo, the saber would break after a few hits, and you could get easily stunlocked to death. Combat was basically reserved for the few creatures you couldn't deal with otherwise; every bullet was meant to be used in a specific situation. The heavier emphasis on combat is the reason why AITD2 was already taking the series downhill.
Of course the combat here could be good, but it's not what the original game was about. I'm cautiously optimistic, but calling this a "reimagining" just because it's set in Derceto is misleading.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Oh hell yeah, I like the look of this reboot.
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FeastYoEyes
Member
As someone who grew up on Dead Space, RE4 and the likes, next year is going to be heaven for me.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They'll make her non-binary and we'll all complain.
mikeysdeli
Neo Member
I thought this already happened lol,
I am looking forward to hearing more about AEW mostly. I hope there is more than the trailer / announcement with Britt and Tony on the chair.
Probably not
ShaquilleOatmeal
Member
Looks alright!
But... who the hell is Pieces Interactive???
But... who the hell is Pieces Interactive???
MiguelItUp
Member
Could be a bit jank, but these shots give me more of a vibe from the original than the previous remakes/new games, so that's exciting. Hopefully we see some footage during the livestream.
SkeletonQuays
Member
Never played this... is it lovercraftian? Looks cool.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
30 years of gaming experience. It has the typical red flags. Shitty fov, unreal engine 4 assets, ugly TAA, the way they hold the weapons, the textures of the environment, etc. It all screams jank.
SlimeGooGoo
Banned
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Grildon Tundy
Member
My favorite style of games are whatever you want to call Dead Space/Resi 4-8 & recent remakes. Prefer when they lean into horror/stress of limited resources and less of the constant shooting action but its a spectrum that allows for good games throughout.
I hope this one ends up joining the ranks of the games above.
The setting looks great!
I hope this one ends up joining the ranks of the games above.
The setting looks great!
kiphalfton
Member
I've seen some people who whine about leaks. Why? I have no idea, but I'd assume because they were looking forward to whatever event is on the horizon and wanted to be surprised...
I myself get excited, since I don't really care if for instance in this particular case whether THQ announces it or some random person leaks it. Leaks are always like a couple days before whatever event, so doesn't really make THAT much of a difference.
SafeOrAlone
Banned
Skeleton looks great.
cinnamonandgravy
Member
im not mad.
let's see how it moves.
let's see how it moves.
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Well, I went from "let it die [the IP]" to "you have my attention", I suprise myself.
Let's see if it's not an epic fail... again.
Let's see if it's not an epic fail... again.
balls of snow
Member
Holy shit. Single handed written the best horror science fiction game of the last gen.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
Maybe that's the TRUE horror here....
Also, RE8 really isn't a horror game. It's so different from every other re game in tone, even compared to 7. You have a big tit giantess vampire lady stalk you across a giant mansion. How in the fuck is that scary? Jack baker wasn't that scary (not until the end) but his character was awesome and well written, you can't wait until you see him on screen again because of how unhinged and manic he is.
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
As for this, it looks really well made! I wish it were in the perspective of the original, but that's not gonna stop me from staying tuned.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
You have no idea what horror is. Horror does not always equal scary. RE8 is a horror game.
Shifty
Member
That's interesting food for thought. Where Resident Evil is an action game with light adventure elements for the lock / key progression, original AiTD seems more like the opposite - an adventure game with action elements to replace the traditional verb interface.
Reminds me a bit of Shadow of the Beast 2 - one of those attritive games that you have to learn how to do a perfect playthrough of before you can see the end. If only studios had the balls to put production money behind such things today
Pfff, RE8 is a horror-themed universal studios ride. 'Themed' being the operative word, seeing as that's what Resi becomes when it lapses into action and/or spectacle.
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64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
It's like a fucking cycle at this point, for a few games they ARE horror, then for the next few they become action. It's like it's going through a midlife crisis...that spans it's entire life
CamHostage
Member
Trailer was just shown on the livestream (no timestamp yet; it's the first game shown after the sizzle reel)
EDIT: actually, better link with direct-feed is here-
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/alon...r-ps5-series-pc-pre-order-links-live.1640095/
EDIT: actually, better link with direct-feed is here-
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/alon...r-ps5-series-pc-pre-order-links-live.1640095/
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
It had some really nice horror themes(baby house/thich mommy/sisters chase) and it's still a horror game in my eyes. I hope they do not go down the RE5/6 path again tho.
Shifty
Member
Yeah, that's easily the series' biggest issue. Capcom keep striking out in new directions and creating new sub-fanbases around different types of RE, who inevitably join everyone else in collective disappointment when it next pivots and leaves the thing they like behind.
At least everything up to 7 was limited to one identity crisis per game. 8 manages to pack five or six of them into one place, not being able to decide whether it's panic horror, gothic horror, pathos horror, psychological horror, industro-body horror, military horror, or Dragonball Z.
So in lieu of weaving those together cohesively and keeping the player feeling trapped and scared like the baker house, it slices up the map by genre and lets you queue for your rollercoaster of choice after shoving your way through all the wolfmen crowding the main thoroughfare.
Individually I'll give each of the themes credit since they riff on good classic horror tropes. I just think that none of them got enough room to breathe, and ended up feeling shallow for it.
Castle Dummythicc in particular had the potential to hold a whole game, which would have given its residents more time to flesh out as human-but-twisted villains rather than the milk mistress and her verified-twitter-user daughters.
(Sorry, cheap shot. The "Man Flesh!!!" line when they first grab Ethan stuck with me
)I quite enjoy gothic horror, but romantic underpinnings - figuratively, like SotN's Dracula / Alucard tragedy - are an important staple to make sure the themes go beyond aesthetics.
And yeah, 5/6 can stay gone as far as campaign goes. Really, Capcom needs to dumpster all of the multiplayer spinoffs they keep tacking on and put that effort into a dedicated Mercenaries side game - really get the action-first stuff out of their system, and probably make a sick game in the process given how much love they wasted on 6's dope gunplay mechanics.
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