How About No
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*asks GAF while running away*
Nope, it's still active when the map's open
It's nice when a company realizes what made a game great back in the day can still make a game great today
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RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard | OT | BIOHAZARD 7 resident evil
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*asks GAF while running away*
Nope, it's still active when the map's open
It's nice when a company realizes what made a game great back in the day can still make a game great today
Their design is pretty boring imo and zombies can still cause quite a scare if used right. The recent RE3.5 fan made game had one zombie but it was tense due how atmosphere and sound design.
Booker.DeWitt
Member
holy shit
, that are of the second floor where you find the little girl is fucked up
by the way, I reached the trailer and opened the fridge and found the pig head. how far I am in? 50%?
by the way, I reached the trailer and opened the fridge and found the pig head. how far I am in? 50%?
How About No
Member
I would say so
bumpkin
Member
Hmm... So the season pass is $29.99, the first DLC pack alone is $9.99, and the second (announced) is $14.99 alone. I wonder what the third pack will cost. Usually the season pass prices are a $5-10 discount over getting them separately.
Shades of Zombi, no doubt.
Booker.DeWitt
Member
how long is the first dlc?
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Isn't that just the free May DLC? Or will there be one more on top?
Booker.DeWitt
Member
no, it is a different one, not announced yet
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
I've beaten the game twice now, and I don't even know what the spoiler is referring to.
Is it about Jack
calling Ethan "son"
Ethan's stepfather
Unless I missed something else completely.
Fancy Clown
Member
Bedroom is like 20-40 minutes depending how long it takes you on the puzzles, and is great but has no replay value.
Nightmare takes like 45min to an 60min to beat but it's pretty hard to beat on your first try and there's lots of stuff to unlock, plus another mode that unlocks when you beat it, so it has lots of replay value.
Ethan Must Die I haven't played much of but it's hard as balls and seems to have high replay value (or just takes forever to beat idk).
It's a pretty good amount of content for $10 I'd say. But Bedroom feels like the closest to the campaign and it's easily the shortest. The DLC is growing on me though, I've been having fun with Nightmare mode playing a round a night. Probably gonna spend more time with EMD and see if it doesn't suck as bad as my first impressions led me to believe.
It should take you a couple hours at least, as long as you actually dive into Nightmare and Ethan Must Die.
Booker.DeWitt
Member
awesome, will probably get the season pass when is a bit cheaper
gnarlyxcharlie
Member
Wow, madhouse mode is absolutely brutal.
Finished the game on normal an hour or so ago. So impressed. It really is a return to resident evils foundations. Aside from the last section being meh, the game is a ten
Finished the game on normal an hour or so ago. So impressed. It really is a return to resident evils foundations. Aside from the last section being meh, the game is a ten
bumpkin
Member
Hmm... Thanks for the assessment.
I bought Batman at $16 (Best Buy GCU) and that was beatable without doing everything in an hour and change. I think I ended up getting about 2.5-3 hours out of it after getting all of the trophies. And I have gone back every so often and replayed it just to experience the world in VR again. So maybe I'll bite on the RE7 season pass, it's just a bummer that it isn't all playable in VR.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
It's not too difficult. I would recommend it on Easy though. I did my first actual run on Normal and for my 4 Hour run I did it on Easy today. Not too hard to remember most of what to do. Only looked at a Speed Run for one part
(second half of the wrecked ship after viewing the Video Tape)
It is the same for Xbox One. Sucks, but it is what it is.
supaman900s
Member
Damn, is there only one repair kit in the game? - I upgraded the pistol before I obtained the broken shotgun
Jessie.Bristol
Member
There are two Repair Kits in the game.
Your friend didn't spoil anything, don't worry.
Spoilers to explain the relationships if anyone's unclear, spoils the entire story so be warned:
Mia and Alan were transporting Evie from one Umbrella compound to another.
The accident happens and the ship crashes, the Baker's find the only survivors: Evie and Mia (note: the Baker's have no relation to Mia or Ethan) and take them in.
Evie begins/continues infecting/controlling the Bakers and Mia.
Evie begins aging rapidly. This is mentioned in a file you find later in the game (a genetic flaw or fail safe of some kind in their bio-weapon).
There was never any Grandma Baker, when we see the old women at the dinner table this is simply Evie in her true form having aged rapidly since they found her in her child form.
The family talk: "son", "daddy", "'mummy", all stems from an imprint made on Evie that was supposed to allow Mia a certain amount of control. There are files found in game that also speculate that Evie latched onto the idea of family due to her nature as a creature that "brings people together" in unified group, or perhaps even due to her lack of a family when she grew up.
The accident happens and the ship crashes, the Baker's find the only survivors: Evie and Mia (note: the Baker's have no relation to Mia or Ethan) and take them in.
Evie begins/continues infecting/controlling the Bakers and Mia.
Evie begins aging rapidly. This is mentioned in a file you find later in the game (a genetic flaw or fail safe of some kind in their bio-weapon).
There was never any Grandma Baker, when we see the old women at the dinner table this is simply Evie in her true form having aged rapidly since they found her in her child form.
The family talk: "son", "daddy", "'mummy", all stems from an imprint made on Evie that was supposed to allow Mia a certain amount of control. There are files found in game that also speculate that Evie latched onto the idea of family due to her nature as a creature that "brings people together" in unified group, or perhaps even due to her lack of a family when she grew up.
Keihart
Member
I would have also preffered zombies instead of mold enemies, but i think the molds are there to make production faster while not compromising the vision of the game.
What i mean is that, the Bakers are the zombies in this game, and every zombie you encounter is a unique individual. Replacing the mold ones with zombies would have required making every zombie unique to keep the illusion son instead, since they are filler enemies, they opted for the molded desing wich is a faceless enemy.
I hope that if RE8 follows this formula, they double down on unique enemies, meaning that every zombie is a unique character and no more faceless filler like the molded ones.
"Faceless filler" is required. It's all about pacing. A game that set you up against only unique enemies would be too one sided, sometimes you need to allow the player to let off some steam by mowing through some "lesser" threats.
If it had just been running/hiding from regenerating Baker's it would have been exhausting, imo.
The Molded are a great design and very well implemented imo. There could have been a few more types or behaviors, but I didn't ever find myself growing bored of fighting them.
But then I also think the latter part of game that becomes
is wonderful too, I really love how the tone and gameplay shifts throughout.
If it had just been running/hiding from regenerating Baker's it would have been exhausting, imo.
The Molded are a great design and very well implemented imo. There could have been a few more types or behaviors, but I didn't ever find myself growing bored of fighting them.
But then I also think the latter part of game that becomes
more of an FPS
encephalon
Member
I initially found the molded scarier than Jack.
Keihart
Member
To be fair, if there were more moments where there is urgency to stop the Bakers by force you would get more than enough moments to unload, but i get the thing about pacing. They really are there to let you feel empowered towards the end although i enjoyed more unloading on Jack and wife when i didn't felt like hiding than unloading on molded. Really great RE, is my favorite since code Veronica and with 6 i though i was done with the franchise, what a surprise.
flipswitch
Member
What part is the madhouse? I'm 10hrs in, so I must have completed it surely.
Hobbestetrician
Member
It's a harder difficulty that unlocks once you finish the game.
flipswitch
Member
I see. So the game is exactly the same ( no new areas) just harder difficulty level?
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it shows you where items are located for a short time.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
It shows you where items are for a couple minutes.
"Item vision"? Or does it mark them on the map too?
Because if it's just item vision that sounds pointless. I can look around and find everything without it.
flipswitch
Member
Yes, you'll get indicators on screen where they are, not on map.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
It doesn't mark the items on the map.
I'm not sure how far you are, but once you've opened up most of the mansion. It's not a bad idea to use one and just run through the mansion in case you missed anything. You never know.
Yo, I just made it to the
and fuck, this game is so good. This is definitely Resident Evil at heart and I'm excited to see where it goes next if this is the direction they're taking it in. This game plays like a perfect pairing between survival horror shooters like The Evil Within, Dead Space, and RE4, and the anxiety and immersion that comes with games like Amnesia and Outlast. This game is fun enough to make me keep pressing on despite fear of what might happen around every corner, and honestly that's what a good horror game should be.
crashed ship
yeah, this is one of the best games I've played in a long time, and I say this as someone who doesn't like FPS and strongly objected to this game being an FPS.
I'd recommend this even to people who aren't usually fans of the genre simply because it's that good.
And whatever magic sauce Capcom used in this engine is working.. I can't believe how good it looks + solid 60 on PS4. Highest marks for presentation. The game simply wouldn't be as good at 30 fps. More devs need to understand this.
I'd recommend this even to people who aren't usually fans of the genre simply because it's that good.
And whatever magic sauce Capcom used in this engine is working.. I can't believe how good it looks + solid 60 on PS4. Highest marks for presentation. The game simply wouldn't be as good at 30 fps. More devs need to understand this.
Piston Hyundai
Member
So I took a look at the bookshelves in the Baker house, and I discovered that most of them are taken wholesale from the original Dead Rising. Murder in Cleveland is the Criminal Biography skill book and Wartime Photojournalism is the book that'd give you a PP bonus for photos. Pretty crazy how the assets were good enough to be used over a decade later.
EDIT: Okay, now I'm just curious about how many assets they just took from Dead Rising:
RE7
Dead Rising
EDIT: Okay, now I'm just curious about how many assets they just took from Dead Rising:
RE7
Dead Rising
Thats crazy! nice find.
Disagree Guy
Member
I found one on gamefaq's that was two posts long. Bullet points of exactly where to go and what to do.
Did it in 2 hours 38
It did omit the
grenade launcher
Doing an 'all collectibles' and general mop up trophy run now (like crafting one of each thing) for example
That Item you get for completing it in under 4 hours is hilarious. Everything down in seconds.
More than half of the list you gave is just because they dont make it. Not because they make it bad.
I understand the rationale behind Capcom hatres in the past few years. Buy i never understand the doubt about them being able to make a good games. Obviously it went down hill from time to time but they are still giving us not just good but great game in every generation since FC.
Im confused trying to understand your point too.
If you are planning on getting the platinum, and you're really concerned about this, play madhouse mode first and get the
infinite ammo
My best run (and I've only done one NG+ Any% so far) is 1hr and 52 minutes, and the route I used is just to get the
magnum at the start of the game (get 7 coins in the house, +1 for the dirty coin, and +1 inside the trailer), then buy the magnum and equip the infinite ammo unlock. At that point, you basically 1 shot all regular monsters (on easy), and 4 shot bosses. Magnum has 7 rounds in the clip, so you're not likely to have any problem whatsoever.
Since you don't need any other weapons / items past that, you're free to just go straight to the key items and finish up the game. Your time unless you're using speed strats will likely be closer to 2:45-3hr, depending on your recollection of the game, but that's still plenty of time.
This is the easiest, most stress free way to get the speedrun achievement, but it is predicated on a madhouse completion. (it's also, like, really fucking fun to do, since the
magnum
edit: also, you should have the
saw
albert handgun can also be used, as you get inf ammo for the high-calibre rounds
ManUnkindH
Member
Started my Madhouse run last night. Jesus Christ, what an increase in difficulty....
Will things get easier after
? Spent more than 2 hours trying to win the fight.... :| :|
Will things get easier after
Mia
Way easier. Once you get the
saw from the storage box you'll destroy almost everything instantly
You get the saw from speedrun. Honestly best way is to do speedrun/3 item box uses/3 health items on easy and then madhouse. This way you have all unlocks and on easy that run is really easy.
ManUnkindH
Member
Apparently it's a reward for completing the game in under 4 hours -- which I had remembered as being a reward for finishing normal mode :\.
If you want madhouse to be easier, then you can go for the speedrun on easy.
Noisepurge
Member
well sure, but it makes you NOT have to look around, just beeline to items. And some coins are pretty well hidden so it is helpful. I think i used them twice in my original run just to spot items in some of the larger locations.