OrbitalBeard
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Anyone in this thread playing the game on Xbox One? If so, how does it perform? I'm aware the PS4 and PC versions run better but is the X1 version still enjoyable to play?
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Shinji Mikami's THE EVIL WITHIN |OT| Where's everyone going? Tango?
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ArkkAngel007
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The chainsaw guy is chained up behind some boards in the barn. If you go in the front entrance, shoot at him, or get too close to his spot on the first floor, you'll trigger him early from the moment CastleRyeBread already mentioned. Generally you'll want to enter the barn from a set of stairs in an alley and sneak around on the upper floors. Also not a bad place to engage him since you can get some free shots in as he's climbing up the ladder to get after you and isn't far from the trap house.
My own opinion disclaimer: I never found any of the RE games to be scary, and never really expected this to be any different. Only game I've played thus far that was legit-fear inducing was P.T., and that was only the part where
you first see the specter and as you walk forward the lights go out and the hall is complete darkness with the most unsettling sound playing.
Horror is just a pain in the ass to work with in games due to how reliant it is not just on the balance within the game mechanics and presentation itself, but also the subjectivity of the end user.
WheelHoss1
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Just finished Chapter 6 last night. What a wonderful change of pace! It just . . . worked, on so many levels.
This game has so many things going on with it that are good, that it's definitely an example of the sum being greater than the parts. The gunplay is so damn crunchy; I hope Fallout 4 can reach these heights. I just feel so satisfied to find one more secret, upgrade on more stat, or beat one more badass boss. Definitely a contender for GotY (Shadow of Mordor was a great ride, too). Never played Resident Evil 4 back-in-the-day, but I imagine this is what it felt like, on some level.
This game has so many things going on with it that are good, that it's definitely an example of the sum being greater than the parts. The gunplay is so damn crunchy; I hope Fallout 4 can reach these heights. I just feel so satisfied to find one more secret, upgrade on more stat, or beat one more badass boss. Definitely a contender for GotY (Shadow of Mordor was a great ride, too). Never played Resident Evil 4 back-in-the-day, but I imagine this is what it felt like, on some level.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Okay, NG+ is really good.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I'll be playing the rest of 5 and hopefully making some good progress today, so hopefully that progression will bump off Alien Isolation as the game to win my heart this year.
As for RE4, it's not even close. RE4 played rather tight and wasn't so...hand holdy with the tutorials from the off, though I understand why it is so in The Evil Within's case due to all of the mechanics thrown in there. There was also a level of polish and execution that thus far I've not seen with this game. I'm also not too keen on what I've heard about the post-game rewards either, which was one of the things next to Mercenaries that helped drive the replayability of RE4 (and other RE titles).
But that's coming from having played RE4, so maybe the feeling is similar if just being introduced to this game.
WheelHoss1
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This. I always found parts of Skyrim sophomoric, because the story in Oblivion got me much more (
dude turns into a dragonbadass
-MD-
Member
Honestly.
Stealth is very viable in at least half a dozen chapters.
Enemy awareness goes way up in akumu so you might have a bad time.
Whoa man 10 deaths in 15 hours? Even with all the unfair trial and error gameplay people claim the game has? You must be a wizard.
ArkkAngel007
Member
Same with my wife, though we encountered a game breaking bug that introduced her to the hatred of glitchy Bethesda titles too : )
Sanctuary
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So what you're basically saying is that the game only has three enemy types? Two of which are bosses and one that is just a more powerful normal enemy? I must have played a different game. The majority of enemies on Nightmare and below do not have one-hit kills. That's on Akumu, which you obviously haven't played.
Honeymoon phase 2 weeks after release?
This can still be one of his worst works outside of P.N.03 and still be worth playing. I got my money's worth, but I'll probably never touch this game again; unlike how I'll be replaying REmake next year, and RE4 again after the texture project is finished.
Somnium986
Member
Yeah easily the worst rocket launcher I've ever used. Can't move while it's equipped, and there doesn't seem to be a way to replenish ammo. Might as well just use a fully upgraded magnum.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Stealth is extremely important in the early chapters where resources are more scarce and your in-game abilities as well as your gaming skills aren't that good yet. Stealth help conserve ammo and even out the odds against numerous enemies. It because less important once you got the hang of the game mechanics.
That said if nothing else it's an option for people who wants that playstyle, nothing wrong with more options
I suspect he included stuff like traps and Haunted with explosives, either that or he was at constant low health that one good enemy grab would trigger the unique kill animation and he thought it was a 1-hit kill.
the black pearl
Member
Chapter 14 is pretty solid. liking the game again.
Onlythisfar41
Neo Member
I did the same thing haha. I got stuck on chapter 2 and just said fuck it and bumped it down to nightmare. I'm having a blast playing through the game again.
I also like that they add more enemy types to earlier encounters like fake Ruvik in the 3rd chapter. It added a nice extra challenge besides just upping the difficulty.
TheSpaceBetween
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A lot of people seem to like it... It was one of my least favorite in the game. 13 and 15 I loved though.
Sanctuary
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I had actually considered all of that, but figured no one could be that blind.
I feel like Nightmare is probably about where the game could be considered "balanced" for those wanting somewhat of a challenge (outside of a select few parts, Survivial just doesn't offer it and Akumu is just cheap as fuck).
JimmyRustler
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This is a Mikami game. That guy is my videogame hero. I need to finish this, no matter how bad it is.
Sorry if I'm being too offensive here. I just need to vent. I expected this game to be the second coming. And then I get this.
And sorry guys, but a game that punishes me for not knowing what's gonna happen (and TEW does that a lot) is not a good game. That is textbook bad game design.
Better own Vanquish if Mikami is anything to you. Besides everyone pretty much owns RE4 that doesn't count.
JimmyRustler
Member
I actually owned and finished Vanquish. That was one hell of a accomplishment from Mikami considering that I hate that setting.
Somnium986
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So can you get the brass knuckles on Nightmare, or do you need to finish the game on Akumu?
Playing on Akumu mode now in-between sessions of Bayonetta 2 and it's okay. I think the bonus modes from REmake are still the best (Real Survivor & Invisible Enemy Mode). My thoughts on the game haven't changed much since my first run of the game though. There's just so many little details from older survival horror games that I wanted to see here, but they're just serviceable at best. For example, I LOVE reading key item descriptions and memos in these games. Everything in TEW is written so amateur-like. I don't know how else to describe it. Just replay a game like RE2 and check the various plaques/statues/etc, throughout the locations and everything just seems so much more poetic. Even the "puzzle"-related descriptions (like most of what you can read/see in CH.9) are so "blah". Really, really disappointed in that aspect of the game.
The perfect Dark
Banned
NG + Question:
because I killed
with two shots, lol.
Do you find ammo for your Rocket Launcher?
Laura
Sanctuary
Member
You can get them from Nightmare as far as I know. You just get them from Akumu as well because it counts all of the difficulties below it.
What, what is this? Do you normally read Nintendo Power walkthroughs or watch a full game run on "Let's Play" before playing games? You might have a valid argument if the game wasn't so generous with checkpoints and save rooms.
No, and that also won't work on chapter 10. As long as you use them very sparringly, you should have enough to bypass most fights you really don't care for. I think I ended up with at least 10 left after my first run. But after you complete the game again through NG+, it doesn't replenish. I also have no idea what use the
machine gun
Sanctuary
Member
I wouldn't waste gel on
Similarly, I wouldn't bother with
And I'm not sure what the base chance to crit with the handgun is, but it definitely doesn't start at 0%. I blew up the heads of enemies way more than I thought I should with no upgrades in critical, so it makes me wonder if the upgrades are multiplicative and not additive. So if the base is 20%, maxing out handgun crit would only give you a 30% chance to explode heads.
freeze bolt, nor would I actually spend trap parts on them.
Explosive until you're running with a surplus of gel and have upgraded other weapons much higher. Harpoon and Flash are the only worthwhile bolts to max out (although you don't really need more than 13s with Flash) and the only two worth spending trap parts on. You can just save the Freeze/Spark bolts you find for when you actually need them; which is rare enough that you would never need to make them, which also makes spending gel on them kind of pointless.
And I'm not sure what the base chance to crit with the handgun is, but it definitely doesn't start at 0%. I blew up the heads of enemies way more than I thought I should with no upgrades in critical, so it makes me wonder if the upgrades are multiplicative and not additive. So if the base is 20%, maxing out handgun crit would only give you a 30% chance to explode heads.
AgentOtaku
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Just finished Ch.12
Honestly everything about it is completely fine..... that last stretch tho, lol
Honestly everything about it is completely fine..... that last stretch tho, lol
The perfect Dark
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Sanctuary
Member
NG+ isn't really a full game run though. It's a chapter select where you can choose to run the entire game if you want, or just pick chapters where you missed items. So think about it. You could just repeatedly do chapter 15 for infinite ammo otherwise.
My connection got upgraded a bit so I'm seeing if it's up to streaming. Doing NG+
http://www.twitch.tv/roboplato
http://www.twitch.tv/roboplato
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I learned quickly to just mash X like a mothafucka when I'm walking up to them, even if the prompt doesn't show up.
-MD-
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Watching videos I think the prompts actually end up killing people, glad I turned them off. You can initiate a kill from behind well before it actually pops up.
Even when I am 20 feet behind an enemy I mash like a madman.
Spieler Eins
Member
oh man, as messy as big parts of this game are, at least it again has good post-ending content, after the extreme lack of such in Vanquish was quite an awful surprise (even though I still finished it like four times).
I already complemented several collectables in the early chapters I missed, plus some storybits and for the end of chapter 2 I had the
all up in this bitch. Do you ever get
?
Also, do you have weapons in NG+ chapter 1? I skipped it for now.
I already complemented several collectables in the early chapters I missed, plus some storybits and for the end of chapter 2 I had the
rocket launcher
new ammo for the bonus weapons though
Also, do you have weapons in NG+ chapter 1? I skipped it for now.
I am pretty sure you only get the weapons when you pick up the pistol in chapter 2.
Spieler Eins
Member
I already had my full inventory (with the ability to use it) before I picked up the pistol in chapter 2, hence I was wondering.
ArkkAngel007
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I haven't watched [REC]3, but I hope Apocalypse is received much better. First two films were pretty damn good, despite the sudden drop in pacing in [REC]2, and I really enjoyed watching them back to back at the Music Box Theater in Chicago. Place is pretty creepy looking in of itself.
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
How long are chapter 13 and 14?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
About 45 mins each I would say (not counting the ending sequence of Ch. 15)
DryvBy
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I'm currently streaming (PS4) if anyone cares to watch. I'm on chapter 3 now. Obvious spoilers.
Ohhhhh shiiiiii ban has been lifted.
Rurmor has it there's a "small pistol" in this and there used to be flashbangs and a knife.
Honest opinion: This game stops right before the end of chapter 10.
The rest of the game is a freefall drop in quality, it's like they outsourced those last few chapters. What the hell was that ?
Rurmor has it there's a "small pistol" in this and there used to be flashbangs and a knife.
Honest opinion: This game stops right before the end of chapter 10.
The rest of the game is a freefall drop in quality, it's like they outsourced those last few chapters. What the hell was that ?