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Shinji Mikami's THE EVIL WITHIN |OT| Where's everyone going? Tango?
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Death Metalist
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Yup, it is. Which is why I am excited for it. Gotta support dat AAA lengthy horror games we don't if ever get those types of games anymore especially ones that are challenging like Alien and TEW are.
plagiarize
Banned
No, unless you can lure another enemy near to one. Then totally light up that corpse to burn the living one with it.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
That's another thing, how dull and monotone the characters have been throughout all five chapters. They don't seem to care about any of the wacky shit that's happening, so why should we?
"Oh, guess I'm in a hallway now. River of blood, hey, I remember The Shining. Zombie things, lets get em"
One line I laughed at when he rescued whats-his-face from the bathtub, "Lets get out here, something's weird going on in this place", just totally deadpan, the understatement of the fuckin century. Inexplicable zombie creatures and sounds that cause migraines and ghost nurses and thats his reaction.
Lucent
Member
lol awesome. So far I've been given a jar of 5,000 gel, a box with 12 shotgun shells, 3 explosive bolts, and a syringe I think. It's nice that they let you take what bullets you need and leave the rest in the locker for you later. Kinda makes the game a little easier in a way, but that's only if you're finding the keys. I'm only on chapter 4 so I dunno how bad my ammo supply will be yet.
EDIT: Also kinda lame that the double barrel shotgun isn't upgradeable. I dunno how strong it s compared to the pump shotgun or if you find it later in the game and it becomes upgradeable.
Correct on the decapitated or stealth killed, incorrect on the enviromental enemies. You never know what lurks behind a hanging body.
Death Metalist
Member
The point is to bait monsters and burn a body that is environmental or if it's an oil leak.etc when said monsters are there, as for your second part, you're right. As long as the head popped off, you're good to go.
Cool. If I wasn't sure about that I would have burned everything possible LOL
Death Metalist
Member
Yup. That's actually one of my complaints in my first impressions but I get the feeling that there is a bigger picture, something fishy kind of thing here. We'll see when we get to the ending because so far I still don't know what the fuck is going on and the game has 5 chapters left.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Never thought I would have to use the ignore user feature on GAF but this thread finally did it. Aside from that, I received The Evil Within artbook today in the mail and it's absolutely wonderful and even gives some insight into the meaning behind the enemies. 
Does anyone else feel that there were a lot more situations that accomodated stealth in the beginning missions? Around chapter 9 I realized that I really hadn't been using stealth takedowns a ton, and it wasn't because I was running and gunning. It just felt like encounters favored stealth more in the early game. Maybe it's just me.
I'd be interested to see sales figures for both of these. It's very hard to guess how these are going to sell. I agree though, I hope they do well, because I'd love the devs to get a change to do sequels.
Nooooo Slasher, you don't have to block me, I didn't mean all that about chapter 10, COME BAAAAACK.Never thought I would have to use the ignore user feature on GAF but this thread finally did it. Aside from that, I received The Evil Within artbook today in the mail and it's absolutely wonderful and even gives some insight into the meaning behind the enemies.
Never thought I would have to use the ignore user feature on GAF but this thread finally did it. Aside from that, I received The Evil Within artbook today in the mail and it's absolutely wonderful and even gives some insight into the meaning behind the enemies.
Used it twice already.
Northeastmonk
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Never thought I would have to use the ignore user feature on GAF but this thread finally did it. Aside from that, I received The Evil Within artbook today in the mail and it's absolutely wonderful and even gives some insight into the meaning behind the enemies.
Yea, it's not like other books where each page is pictures and there's nothing to read. The Sky Art of Final Fantasy did that.
PensivePen
Member
Stealth is still a viable option in many areas, but they do include more forced combat sequences as the game goes on. I also stopped bothering with stealth much at some point because I just find the combat more enjoyable than I do the sneaking.
Death Metalist
Member
Yup. I noticed that too. You could if you wanted though, had a few instances in CH10 where I could have been patient and sealth'd but I instead used my
crossbow and rifle
jacksepticeye
Member
I will agree with people that the characters are a bit flat, i would say Leon was too at times but he wasnt going through rivers of blood and mind fuckery
SlasherJPC
Banned
Matty... you would have to do more then that to get me to block you.
I'm fine with people having opinions, but I can only take so much of trolls, etc. plagiarize
Banned
He'd also already seen some shit.
Just finished chapter 2 and i'll continue tomorrow night...Midway through the second chapter the game got its hooks in me. The bars took some getting used to even though ive played games with them before, never this big. The atmosphere is awesome and I just keep taking screenshots. I honestly thought
the whole game took place in the hospital so this is pretty cool so far.
jacksepticeye
Member
That too.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
chapter 1: didnt really like it at all. baffling that they would start the game this way because i did the Gob "i've made a terrible mistake"
chapter 2: ok, heating up a little bit. the jank seems to have mostly vanished (or i got used to it?), framerate a bit more stable, feeling a bit better. nice throwback to
as well!
chapter 3: sweet, now we're cooking! really liked this chapter. some very tense moments. i panicked a few times but ended up surviving the ordeal. top notch!
i found myself getting frustrated early in the game basically because i wasn't having my hand held and giving me a free pass. this is stuff i always complain about "Why don't developers take more of a hands off approach!" and then i find myself internally bitching when they do. so i had to remind myself of that and then figured it out.
i have died quite a few times but you learn what you can and can't do in this game pretty quickly. hope the rest of the game holds up and the momentum keeps up from chapter 3
chapter 2: ok, heating up a little bit. the jank seems to have mostly vanished (or i got used to it?), framerate a bit more stable, feeling a bit better. nice throwback to
RE 1
chapter 3: sweet, now we're cooking! really liked this chapter. some very tense moments. i panicked a few times but ended up surviving the ordeal. top notch!
i found myself getting frustrated early in the game basically because i wasn't having my hand held and giving me a free pass. this is stuff i always complain about "Why don't developers take more of a hands off approach!" and then i find myself internally bitching when they do. so i had to remind myself of that and then figured it out.
i have died quite a few times but you learn what you can and can't do in this game pretty quickly. hope the rest of the game holds up and the momentum keeps up from chapter 3
I'm pretty sure some of the bodies randomly around will actually get up. If you light them on fire and they yell out and squirm they would have gotten up, if they just stay the same and burn then it wasn't needed. I don't think there's a way to distinguish it though.
But yeah, if they're decapitated or you stealth kill them it's not needed.
jacksepticeye
Member
I can really relate to this. I even found myself almost wanting a see through wall mechanic cos I got so used to it in other games and thought "what's wrong with me I hate that shit" lol
RedAssedApe
Banned
kind of explains some of the "too hard" reviewer comments in the reviews though? lol
I find Sebastian's reactions (or lack thereof) to weird things kind of strange. You just
He rarely seems to react properly, very sedate for what he's going through.
And that doctor makes me think of Kreiger every time I see him.
were hurled from one location to another, down a hallway and saw gravity shift, and you're just going to greet the doctor like nothing happened?
And that doctor makes me think of Kreiger every time I see him.
Sounds like a challenge.Matty... you would have to do more then that to get me to block you.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
yep! especially coming from that shadow of mordor/batman style "i can see everything". i feel like i had forgotten to figure things out and think creatively because of it. not always but in this game i was having to really try to figure things out.
i was also using the sony gold headset or whatever its called. really great! the audio clues and especially the shadows were helpful in the first part to me since i couldn't see the guy at all times. after chapter 3 i feel that i have adapted
It kinda hit me real early on in the ending cutscene of chapter 1 when all that shit is breaking and the world is basically ending, and he just runs out like
"hey
where's joseph?"
Yeah, they seemed to mess with the distance a lot. If you actually aim in the save hub area place it's pulled out more, though you're stuck in that other view otherwise.
jacksepticeye
Member
Thats probably what some of it is. Being too comfy with hand holding and not wanting to learn everything again to get a review out the door /speculation
Yeah I was playing a lot of Mordor and Alien and I felt naked in TWE cos I had no way of knowing where or how many enemies there were
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Double-Barreled Shotgun packs more of a punch. The standard shotgun is a single shot.
I have not went back to the DBS since I used it in Chapter 3.
I can't aim at all. I can't believe how many head shots I've missed from careless movement. I was going to upload a clip and I noticed half the time I was shooting to the far side of the enemy.
If anyone is still wondering about the fire thing.
I have made an assumption. It is the coup de grâce. Instead of wasting ammo downing everyone. Knock them on their back and hopefully you can set them on fire.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Breh, sometimes I can barely even see what I'm aiming at because the right side of the crossbow is blocking my view.
Like, what possessed them to make such a huge change to the aiming camera at the last minute? It's so much worse than the RE4 style over the shoulder camera they had in a lot of the footage :/
Corpsepyre
Banned
Does the game have fucked up, twisted, go for broke boss fights like the RE games of old?
The Last One
Member
I´m at chapter 5 and I got say, what a great fucking reference to Resident Evil 1 in chapter 2.
The Xtortionist
Member
Finished chapter 5. Game pretty much just kicked into maximum overdrive.
NoirVisage
Banned
What the..it just crashed in me for the first time, I set off a trap by accident after intentionally setting off the first now it's just frozen.
D
Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Just finished chapter 2. Game is is ace. So glad I'm playing it.
Corpsepyre
Banned
How many chapters in total? Also, those who have ended the game, rank the chapters on the scale of Ok to Fucking Hell.
Around 15
Barry Burton
Member
I'm at the beginning of Chapter 5, stopping for the night.
Enjoying it overall, but it hasn't knocked my socks off yet or anything. My big takeaway is that it plays very much like The Last of Us, but in a darker, more menacing setting. Which, in and of itself is a good thing, because I very much enjoyed how that game played, and this one as well.
But as much as the game oozes atmosphere, I just haven't felt a whole lot of tension just yet. There really hasn't been much in the way of building suspense, at least in the early going, which is a little discouraging.
So those are my early impressions with the game. It's good, I like it...but I don't love it quite yet.
Enjoying it overall, but it hasn't knocked my socks off yet or anything. My big takeaway is that it plays very much like The Last of Us, but in a darker, more menacing setting. Which, in and of itself is a good thing, because I very much enjoyed how that game played, and this one as well.
But as much as the game oozes atmosphere, I just haven't felt a whole lot of tension just yet. There really hasn't been much in the way of building suspense, at least in the early going, which is a little discouraging.
So those are my early impressions with the game. It's good, I like it...but I don't love it quite yet.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Ok, just jumped back into chapter 2 and everything is starting to click for me. Really enjoying this
H3rTz DoNuT
Member
Wife got it for me today (had no intention in buying it on release day, way too many unfinished games as it is), she install it for me and when I got home The Evil Within title screen was on my Tv.
Took a shower, grabbed something to eat, played 3 chapters and I love it. I'm so happy she actually got it today. Isolation might have to wait till I'm done with this
Took a shower, grabbed something to eat, played 3 chapters and I love it. I'm so happy she actually got it today. Isolation might have to wait till I'm done with this
abstract alien
Member
Indeed. I really felt that in my soul.
Played as long as time allowed me yesterday and finished chapter 3.
Game's great for me, feels like a horror film, doesn't take itself too seriously, and the atmosphere is amazing.
One thing that kinda underwhelmed me was
fight. I thought it was too easy (playing on survival or whatever the difficulty with 2 skulls is called).
I love it so far, and even though it has its technical issues, which i blame on the engine, i think Mikami delivered.
Can't wait to get back from work to continue.
Game's great for me, feels like a horror film, doesn't take itself too seriously, and the atmosphere is amazing.
One thing that kinda underwhelmed me was
the sadist
I love it so far, and even though it has its technical issues, which i blame on the engine, i think Mikami delivered.
Can't wait to get back from work to continue.