Sanctuary
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The price is next-gen too though.
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Shinji Mikami's THE EVIL WITHIN |OT| Where's everyone going? Tango?
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The price is next-gen too though.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
Member
Wish there was a demo but depending on the reviews I will certainly purchase this game next week. I fully trust Mikami but don't quite trust Bathesda who could have interfered with the game. I just hope it delivers because it is right up my alley in terms of survival horror and action.
DarkChronic
Member
So I've been a little out of the loop, sorry if this has been asked a bunch: you CAN remove the black bars on the PC version, correct? Any impressions on how this makes the game look? Leaning towards the PC version because of this.
Played the demo at PAX and those black bars were pretty darn big.
Played the demo at PAX and those black bars were pretty darn big.
Sanctuary
Member
He's assuming it will be a case of "series fatigue", even though he hasn't even played the game enough to know if it really is that close to RE4 or not.
Well, i'm not willing to spend $60 to find out and all the reviews/impressions can't go 10 words without mentioning RE4, so....I can get a good look at a t-bone by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it.
MyEpitomeCliché
Member
Some quick and dirty thoughts from a couple hours with the PS4 version last night:
Good:
-Very creepy atmosphere
-Nice lighting from the environment and Sebastian's lamp
-Combat feels tight. Headshots are so damn satisfying and look brutal
-Playing on normal, supplies seem quite constrained
-Encounters with the Haunted are very tense
-Gloriously nasty deaths for poor Sebastian. I recommend dying at the first
encounter
Bad:
-Framerate takes some pretty bad dives in spots
-Textures loading in frequently during cutscenes and area transitions, saw some really muddy textures as well
-Not positive it's a fact, but I noticed the reticle stays on the screen, even when not aiming. Options only allow either on or off, no auto-hide during exploration
-The 'skip' option that displays during cutscenes is obtrusive and immersion-breaking
Ugly:
-Voice-acting is awful
-Writing is stilted, in dialogue and journals
-Sebastian's animations are hit and miss. Most of the misses are already well-documented and haven't improved
Ghastly:
-Those goddamn black bars. Hate 'em. I really wish they could be turned off
I'm only just at Chapter 3, so obviously still very early. Despite some technical and creative setbacks, I think this game will be a strong return to form for the genre. Whether it's even up to par with or surpasses RE4 remains to be seen for me. I will say that I'm excited to keep playing and seeing how it pans out. I think the mainstream press won't be as kind to it, though. Get ready for those 6's and 7's.
Good:
-Very creepy atmosphere
-Nice lighting from the environment and Sebastian's lamp
-Combat feels tight. Headshots are so damn satisfying and look brutal
-Playing on normal, supplies seem quite constrained
-Encounters with the Haunted are very tense
-Gloriously nasty deaths for poor Sebastian. I recommend dying at the first
Butcher
Bad:
-Framerate takes some pretty bad dives in spots
-Textures loading in frequently during cutscenes and area transitions, saw some really muddy textures as well
-Not positive it's a fact, but I noticed the reticle stays on the screen, even when not aiming. Options only allow either on or off, no auto-hide during exploration
-The 'skip' option that displays during cutscenes is obtrusive and immersion-breaking
Ugly:
-Voice-acting is awful
-Writing is stilted, in dialogue and journals
-Sebastian's animations are hit and miss. Most of the misses are already well-documented and haven't improved
Ghastly:
-Those goddamn black bars. Hate 'em. I really wish they could be turned off
I'm only just at Chapter 3, so obviously still very early. Despite some technical and creative setbacks, I think this game will be a strong return to form for the genre. Whether it's even up to par with or surpasses RE4 remains to be seen for me. I will say that I'm excited to keep playing and seeing how it pans out. I think the mainstream press won't be as kind to it, though. Get ready for those 6's and 7's.
Sanctuary
Member
I wasn't criticizing you. There's a lot of game series that I won't give a second look to because I'm either burnt out on the genre itself, or the series seems to just cannibalize itself.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Yeah anything burnable will always prompt the matches button.
This troll again, I'll play along.
Thanks for those excellent hands-on expressions. This game does suck ass. Share with us how you would make a scary game.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Don't say that or you'll start believing it. They are two different worlds and ideas. Stop the hate it's only the 11th.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Maybe I'm crazy and not remember it correctly, but I thought they came back much quicker than Crimson heads. I could have sworn I watched the main Twitch stream where gstaff "killed" a guy, ran around and picked up an item from the room, and then the dead guy popped back up and was really aggressive. I'm curious if anyone tested how this mechanic actually works.
MyEpitomeCliché;133882910 said:
Thanks for the impressions. This is honestly holding me back, I expected bad voice acting and translation, doesn't feel right without those to me for survival horror, lol.
How is replay value? Challenge rooms or anything that lets you play with the weapons? Is new game+ just replaying it on a harder difficulty? So torn.
I never found the RE series scary. Manhunt was my scariest game ever by leaps and bounds, everything from the faux John Carpenter soundtrack to the feeling of being hunted was so fucking awesome in that game. The world was sadly not ready. End game spoiler;
Piggsy was fucking terrifying...
How would you compare the game to Manhunt? Anyone who has played?
UrbanDandy
Member
Currently watching some streams; it's odd - with YouTube, the sound is constantly going in and out, and there's a lot of screen tearing (don't remember which version). While on Twitch, during gameplay, it keeps cutting from frame to frame. But the thing is it's being played live. How is that possible?
TetraGenesis
Member
Gamefly just shipped my ps4 copy. Can't wait to play it, especially if driveclub servers are still down by tuesday lol.
Me too! I get so excited when they ship on Saturday because it means I should have it by release day. Except for Destiny. Which took an infuriating five-six days to ship. That's never happened before though so I'm chocking it up to a one-time error on the part of the postal service. If it happens again I'll be contacting their customer service. It's not Gamefly's fault (they sent Destiny the Monday before release) but it's burning through my subscription days for something that's supposed to ship in two days.
Chapter 5 was probably the best so far and a few bits were quite scary but the framerate in one of the big encounters was horrible. I'm not a framerate expert but I'd guess it was low to mid 20s for the entire battle. PS4 version. Pretty disappointed they couldn't get this even close to locked at 30.
The same thing has been happening to me for several months. I live in Columbus and my shipping times from Kansas City and Seattle are actually faster than my primary center...in Pittsburgh...a three-hour drive away. Most recently with Forza Horizon 2, but I've had several titles I believed to be lost in the mail only to show up 7-10 days later.
Don't even bother with customer service. They're robots and don't help at all. Even after a two and a half week shipping time they basically told me to shove it.
Karak
Member
Hey thanks for this. Game seems to be available many places actually. I may try to go pick up a copy this morning and test my luck.Game is avaiable at GamesCastle Hamburg.
Played through to Chapter 9, currently played 5 hours. Playing on middle difficulty.
Ammo is quiet rare but when shit happens you always have things to kill these monsters. Playing the PS3 version... it's bad. Framedrops everywhere, resolution is crap, game looks... not that good, texture popups.
Monster designs are very nice, action is cool and the environments give you cool tools. Gore is 10/10, story is okaish and full of mindfucks.
I played every Resident Evil, Amnesia, Alien and many other Horror games or Survival games like the Last of Us. Shooting feels good, menus look good and the way to upgrade things is good too.
Game is a good 8/10, but nothing... GOTY worthy, but nice to play once imo (be reminded that I have not finished it yet).
Spoiler for monster type:
P.S.I hate invisible enemies
IcyRhythms
Member
Oh no
Hearing about these frame rate issues is disappointing. What does it mean for the PC version
Really? For simply being turned off by impressions and reviews so far and not being 100% aboard the hype train? You realize that it's bad to blindly worship the game too. It's apparently to the point where you've lost objectivity and start calling people "troll" because they're not right there next to you spinning every potential flaw and cumming over every trailer and making cute little uniform avatars advertising the game. And now a pre-requisite of not being impressed is that you have to be able to come up with a better horror game...amazing.
I waited to read impressions and reviews before commenting on it, like people would ideally do before signing their souls over. I'm going to keep reading them through post-launch and maybe eventually play the game, when I get the need for a horror TPS again. Did I say it's a bad game or post a million times antagonizing the thread? Is it really bad to factor in the comparisons to RE4 that everybody else who has written impressions so far has mentioned? No, I didn't and it's not.
So, please, don't call me troll, fanboy.
how was my comment even remotely hateful?
Same. Really looking forward to playing this!
DarknessTear
Banned
Surprised Gamefly ships so early now. I just got a notification that mine is sending.
NoirVisage
Banned
dude, its made by Mikami, how you expect NOT to hear about RE4 is beyond the most advanced reasoning.
Demon Lizardman
Banned
Are there any boss fights int he game?
New update to the RE4HD project is impressive to say the least.
http://re4hd.com/
The textures are just IdTech5 in a nutshell, I am surprised they are having performance problems with all of the consolations they have made.
First thing I'm going to do is remove the black bars and unlock to 60 FPS.
http://re4hd.com/
MyEpitomeCliché;133882910 said:
The textures are just IdTech5 in a nutshell, I am surprised they are having performance problems with all of the consolations they have made.
MyEpitomeCliché;133882910 said:
First thing I'm going to do is remove the black bars and unlock to 60 FPS.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Dude, it's made by a japanese designer/director
They would put boss-fights in their ramen too if it was somehow possible
Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy.
NoirVisage
Banned
Other dude with the game (mohdfikree) posted a review and score on the official site, i'll post the last part but he breaks it down in categories and gives a final score which i won't post (go read the review and see for yourself):
"The Evil Within is a survival horror game old school Resident Evil fans have been asking for, but still not sure if newcomers will appreciate the game. There were frame rate issues and some visual looked washed out in some (or most depending on what system you’re playing with) moments. The gameplay mechanic could have done better, but it was still decent to play with. The game’s sound design was excellent and so is the soundtrack. The game’s length as long and I appreciated that. Had a great and weird experience with The Evil Within and I look forward for its DLC."
that was too funny.
"The Evil Within is a survival horror game old school Resident Evil fans have been asking for, but still not sure if newcomers will appreciate the game. There were frame rate issues and some visual looked washed out in some (or most depending on what system you’re playing with) moments. The gameplay mechanic could have done better, but it was still decent to play with. The game’s sound design was excellent and so is the soundtrack. The game’s length as long and I appreciated that. Had a great and weird experience with The Evil Within and I look forward for its DLC."
that was too funny.
Acquiescence
Member
I hate you.
jacksepticeye
Member
Choppy framerate has always been a concern of mine since they first showed footage. It has always looked poor in places and it seems it hasn't been fixed in the final version which is a shame.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Ugh, these impressions regarding the shitty framerate are really killing my hype
It's fairly smooth the majority of the time. Unless you can't look past the moments it does dip, you shouldn't be too worried.
No he's right. Stop calling him troll just because he doesn't like stuff you like.
DEAL. WITH. IT.
NoirVisage
Banned
That's not why they're calling him a troll.. and you're doing it wrong.
Sanctuary
Member
Try to remember what thread you're in and on what forum. Just be glad this isn't TLOU, or you would probably be receiving death threats by now.
Haha, omg.
Criticizing TLOU on GAF will get you burned at the stake.
I have noticed that pre-release threads can turn into somewhat of a circle jerk as marketing and excitement get the best of people, with any criticisms being ostracized.
For example, when I criticized the new aiming viewpoint yesterday.
Thanks for confirmation. I received it today as well and didn't even open it. I'll either sell it or return it. :-/
I won't even answer that, you should make a thread about it first.
Here's my number.
So call me maybe.
Exr
Member
My exact feelings as well. Was really excited for this when the partnership was announced but footage of the game has killed a bit of my hype. More impressions please people.
Refreshment.01
Member
Not sure about his other posts regarding the game, but in this case he was just been critical towards it, "hateful" is not a word i would use to describe that post.
