Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Check your area and ask. Some areas are holding midnight releases as enough pre-orders for the various games releasing that day (the two most notable being The Evil Within and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel).
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Shinji Mikami's THE EVIL WITHIN |OT| Where's everyone going? Tango?
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Check your area and ask. Some areas are holding midnight releases as enough pre-orders for the various games releasing that day (the two most notable being The Evil Within and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel).
The Xtortionist
Member
Holy shit guys!
Amazon just shipped my game! Amazon just shipped me a brand new horror-themed third-person shooter with elements of stealth and survival that's directed by Shinji Fucking Mikami!
It's happening!
Amazon just shipped my game! Amazon just shipped me a brand new horror-themed third-person shooter with elements of stealth and survival that's directed by Shinji Fucking Mikami!
It's happening!
Lé Blade Runner
Member
I haven't played a good survival horror game in ages. I might get this once I finish Shadow of Mordor.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Holy shit guys!
Amazon just shipped my game! Amazon just shipped me a brand new horror-themed third-person shooter with elements of stealth and survival that's directed by Shinji Fucking Mikami!
It's happening!
I'm already preloaded.
NoirVisage
Banned
A good example is the Axe can't remember if they use it efficiently in the vid though!
Mine is. I'll be there. I hope I won't be alone!
Holy shit guys!
Amazon just shipped my game! Amazon just shipped me a brand new horror-themed third-person shooter with elements of stealth and survival that's directed by Shinji Fucking Mikami!
It's happening!
"not yet shipped"
^lol
They only talked about how it disappeared when they returned to the hub world and how they missed it...they had a zoomed-in slow mo of the guy holding the axe as a vintage memory heh.
23hours
They only talked about how it disappeared when they returned to the hub world and how they missed it...they had a zoomed-in slow mo of the guy holding the axe as a vintage memory heh.
23hours
SolidSnakex
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http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/13/evil-within-looks-japans-gore-mode/
Basically they're avoiding Japan's Cero Z rating by offering the Gore Mode as DLC, which allows the base game to not get hit with that rating (it's going t be rated Cero D).
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http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/13/evil-within-looks-japans-gore-mode/
Basically they're avoiding Japan's Cero Z rating by offering the Gore Mode as DLC, which allows the base game to not get hit with that rating (it's going t be rated Cero D).
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
The axe was in the demo, it's very satisfying, but yes, one-time use.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Japanese Gore mode off vs. on
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On
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http://www.siliconera.com/2014/10/13/evil-within-looks-japans-gore-mode/
Basically they're avoiding Japan's Cero Z rating by offering the Gore Mode as DLC, which allows the base game to not get hit with that rating (it's going t be rated Cero D).
As a heads-up, in the demo there was a 'censor' option on the options menu, so if you feel likei t you can play in censored mode or uncensored mode yourself.
The Xtortionist
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Sanctuary
Member
Someone just sounds bitter that some recent releases they've enjoyed didn't get unanimous praise.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=911321
Finish it, and if there wasn't anything gamebreakingly bad about it, play it again in after Akumu unlocks.
This game met with lukewarm reviews and I liked it well enough, although I fully understood some of the complaints (which I shared...imagine that!).
Burgess_101
Member
Will I see any PC impressions before release day tomorrow? I would love to buy it now and preload it so I can play ASAP tomorrow but I can't do that if I don't know if 60fps breaks the game.
-MD-
Member
I don't know what that's supposed to mean but holy shit I hadn't looked at the Bayo 2 thread, amazing scores.
Wanna fill me in? I'm not even quite sure what game you referring to in your previous post that I was bitter about not getting unanimous praise but regardless of how a game reviews if I'm interested in it I will play it. Unless of course scores are 1-4 across the board which signals that it's a broken mess. TEW getting a 5 or a 6/10 won't make me enjoy it any less, Bayo 2 getting a 9 or a 10 won't make me enjoy it anymore, I would've played Bayo 2 if it had gotten a 5.
Sanctuary
Member
Hahaha, you just kind of displayed exactly what the point of me linking that thread was. It's also probably the most common phenomenon on GAF too.
Sanctuary
Member
So many people on this site claim that reviews don't matter and that they have zero influence on them, purchase decision or otherwise. Every time a game they like gets a score they don't agree with it's only because those reviewers suck at life and don't know how to play, or they just didn't play it at all.
Yet these very same people who claim reviews don't matter will constantly read reviews and review threads anyway. They will also chime in about how a specific game that they love that got near unanimous critical praise has all of the review scores it deserves, only to go right back to claiming reviews don't matter when the next game that they love has a different reaction from critics.
It's as though people feel insulted when scores are lower for something they had played and really enjoyed and high when they coincide like it's validating or invalidating their experience somehow. I've never actually understood this. If you went in blind or simply decided to pick up a game that was right around the "above average" mark and greatly enjoyed it, that's all that should matter right?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I am fortunate I don't have like, almost anything to do this week. Staying up all night so I can sleep all day so I can wake up and be up all night to play the game when it unlocks on Steam.
Today should also be the day when the launch trailer hits. I expect it to pop up somewhere in 9-12 hours.
Today should also be the day when the launch trailer hits. I expect it to pop up somewhere in 9-12 hours.
-MD-
Member
Recently in the case of Styx this is 100% true. Most reviewers are bad at video games, downright terrible even.
My reaction to the Bayo scores were simply because I had expected it to get 6's and 7's, seeing straight 9's and 10's surprised me.
The biggest reason low scores on a game I love bother me is because so many people put stock in review scores. If a meta score is under 75 it's a rental, if it's 85+ it's a must own. When I see a game I love get 6's and 7's I know it's going to cut into that game's sales and I'm likely not going to get a sequel. Twisted Metal likely suffered from having a 73 metacritic, that game was fantastic but I guarantee a couple hundred thousand people saw the average scores and went "nah, I'll pass". That shit bothers me. It's also infuriating to see a review go "this game is shit the platforming sucks, 4.5/10" and see people say "haha shit game, i knew this would suck" when in reality the platforming DOESN'T suck and the reviewer just fucking blows at his job. Lookin at you, Styx reviewers.
If I was a Bayonetta fan I'd be pumped, with scores like that they have a real shot at actually getting a 3rd entry.
Edit: In my very first post I said I wouldn't care at all, I meant it wouldn't affect my opinion of the game at all. It will bother me if it flops critically and in turn flops in sales and once again the genre goes into hiding for another decade. That would bother me quite a bit.
Lightning Count
Member
For those interested, I will stream my playthrough of this. Been experimenting with the PS4's sharing modes.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Reviewers honestly do not influence my purchases, but I do take some stock into them. They make no influence on my purchasing decisions because I buy games that interest me, even bad games, as many games others find bad I enjoy (even though I recognize many of them as bad games), and I collect horror games in particular, and like to support devs.
But if there's a game I have interest in, I am curious of the general consensus, this includes critically and maybe most importantly critically, as people to put value in certain review places/people/general consensus.
But there's something of a broken public view of reviews these days that's basically everyone's fault (gamers, critics, publishers) that have caused gamers to not trust reviewers, review scores to be enflated and scores like 6-7s, or even 8s being viewed as meaning the game is 'bad', and a number of other issues entirely that just combine to make the scene of reviews both interesting but also overly important, yet at the same time, dramatic and personal.
I don't know how to describe it, but basically in my view where game reviews are in the now, the overall scene of game reviews is severely flawed due to a number of smaller problems that have developed over time with the video game review scene.
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
You might as well post your stream in the link below
The Evil Within Spoiler Thread | The SPOILERS Within
for obvious reasons
Lightning Count
Member
Didn't see this thread before, thanks.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
A bit careful with the spoiler thread, I have posted some legitimate spoilers in there. I haven't actually looked at most of them, but I know they're spoilers. I kind of just copied and pasted most the images outside of unlockables.
I almost never bring up I'm streaming on NeoGAF, but yes I'll be streaming the moment I get this on GAF. I guess since this is a super anticipated title for me I'll bring it up here when I'm about to start.
Be playing the PC version, I stream several horror games a month, and do commentate but I don't particularly try to be funny. Still, not a stream style for everyone but it's how I do things and I've had a lot of fun doing it, and viewership has grown recently because of it. Also do it now exclusively on Hitbox.
I almost never bring up I'm streaming on NeoGAF, but yes I'll be streaming the moment I get this on GAF. I guess since this is a super anticipated title for me I'll bring it up here when I'm about to start.
Be playing the PC version, I stream several horror games a month, and do commentate but I don't particularly try to be funny. Still, not a stream style for everyone but it's how I do things and I've had a lot of fun doing it, and viewership has grown recently because of it. Also do it now exclusively on Hitbox.
It's gotten to the point were most gamers in their 20s+ have played enough games to have an opinion they trust.
Reviewers don't always play games for the same reason consumers do.
It's their job to write about it. There are time limits, pressures to press on with a game even when you're not in the mood. Different game genres being suitable for different people. And then having to talk about how they think other people will experience the game as opposed to purely their impression.
For example, most review sites employ a nintendo guy to take care of those reviews because they know it takes an oddball to enjoy them that much and give them good scores with a straight face. But not all genres have their guys at these places.
Quick look at some gameplay videos, a few impressions from people who've played enough of the game to talk about it with reasons and I'm usually good.
Reviewers don't always play games for the same reason consumers do.
It's their job to write about it. There are time limits, pressures to press on with a game even when you're not in the mood. Different game genres being suitable for different people. And then having to talk about how they think other people will experience the game as opposed to purely their impression.
For example, most review sites employ a nintendo guy to take care of those reviews because they know it takes an oddball to enjoy them that much and give them good scores with a straight face. But not all genres have their guys at these places.
Quick look at some gameplay videos, a few impressions from people who've played enough of the game to talk about it with reasons and I'm usually good.
Lightning Count
Member
I see, given that twitch funtcionality is built in for PS4, that's what I'll be using.
I'm actually new to this streaming stuff myself, so I expect the first few tries to be a bit hit and miss if I'm honest.
Just don't do it today. I streamed 2 hours on Saturday on Twitch and got suspended for 24 hours. Fun Fact: There were other channels which streamed it too (with many viewers, otherwise I wouldn't have done that...)
My playthrough still is on my past broadcasts: www.twitch.tv/videogamesforu
Sanctuary
Member
I had thought about asking you this before (even though you don't really know me, and would have to simply take my word on it), but then just decided not to. But since this has come up again; what if I had purchased Styx blindly and had ended up getting entirely frustrated for the same reasons?
Age isn't really everything, but I think I can safely say I'm pretty fucking experienced in gaming, and I happen to gravitate towards those that are more technical. The majority of the last gen games that I've played were rarely a challenge if not playing on the higher or highest difficulties and more than that bored me to death not because I wasn't good at them, but because I'd seen it all before countless times already.
Right, but if you're convinced that reviewers suck at gaming, why should you bother to take notice about what they are saying? I certainly don't care about the opinions of people I have no respect for. Why would you be surprised at the scores? Even though it scored higher than you might have expected, it still shouldn't matter since reviewers don't matter.
That's just been an escalating issue with the "gaming public" with each new explosion of the medium's popularity. First in the late 90s and then in the mid 2000s. You can't change how people make purchasing decisions, so you may as well get used to it just like you can't change people that post with the spelling and grammar skills of someone who did not make it beyond the sixth grade. There are a whole lot of games that I've really enjoyed that I'll probably never see a sequel to, but that's life. The "gaming industry" as a whole is just radically different now, and it's also all many twenty-somethings and below know. Not to imply that all twenty-somethings fit into this category, but that seems to be the typical age group of those that do flybys in regards to reviews.
Death Metalist
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Running away is better than melee-ing in the game, trust me. Takes like 5 - 10 punches to kill one enemy lol. I know their patterns though, two punches, move away from their strike then go back in for 2 more punches, rinse and repeat.
Sephiroth_GR_
Member
Welp, i hope that's not the case for Survival, Nightmare, and Akumu modes...
grandwizard
Member
Has anyone found the manual for the PC version online anywhere?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Look at this train, look at it.
It's almost at its destination.
Now a train can crash, or it can flow.
Be a train my friend.
I am the Train.
Audioboxer
Member
The game is straight up SP isn't it, no stupid MP component? How does NG+ work as well?
Waiting for my pre-order to ship still!
Waiting for my pre-order to ship still!
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Yup, absolutely no multiplayer.
New Game+ allows you to play the game again on the difficulty you've beaten the game on and lower difficulty with all the weapons/upgrades/unlockables you've obtained, but not on higher difficulties. So for example, if I beat the game on Normal, I can then play New Game+ on Normal and Easy, but not on Hard and Akumu.
Game also has unlockables for doing things, and there's a chapter select in New Game+.
-MD-
Member
100% single player.
NG+ (I believe) lets you carry over equipment/skills/unlockables into a 2nd playthrough on an equal or lower difficulty setting.
Once you complete the game on casual/survivor (easy/normal) you'll unlock nightmare/akumu (hard/
1 shot kill
Edit: b10
Sanctuary
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I'm not sure if you're actually agreeing or not, but ZombiU was very much a Survival Horror game. The perspective doesn't really change that. It was no Dead Island. In fact, it's the last true Survival Horror game to come out until now.
Fuck. I hope it's not too late to get my money back on both copies.
Bl@de
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mekes
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Only minutes in, is it too early to say I love it?!
Scene is set perfectly. Love the bluntness of the lines, it is kind of cheesy, but it has that RE Mikami feel to it, from the lines, to the characters to the camera work. In a way I feel like I'm playing a PS2 era AAA, but one that would be on level in terms of presentation for today.
Scene is set perfectly. Love the bluntness of the lines, it is kind of cheesy, but it has that RE Mikami feel to it, from the lines, to the characters to the camera work. In a way I feel like I'm playing a PS2 era AAA, but one that would be on level in terms of presentation for today.
Death Metalist
Member
It gets even better so much more man, lol you wouldn't believe it. I'm at chapter 7 now and I'm surprised if it would get better than this.
Apparently it does.
I am the Train.
I'll ask again: people who have preordered on amazon uk, has your game been sent yet?
Mine is 'not yet dispatched' and is to arrive on the 15th or 16th
I need to play this game asap, I think I've just been unwillingly spoiled by a moron on big plot points T-T
Retail shops will have it by midnight/tomorrow.
Unless shipping is instant, just cancel it and go grab your copy.
I can't, I'm in France and I want to play with English voices :'(
Fuck you Bethesda for not including them in all versions!!
Ahh yes that FIGS thing again to stop cross-region swapping.
Didnt' think about that.
Amazon.de won't work either.
I don't know if there are import (online) shops In France.
That's kindof bullshit I have to say.
US PSN store is your friend.