Resident Evil VII_I_age coming 2021

Mangler said:
I noticed some oversharpening when I tried out FSR in Village.

But ultra quality at 4k seems to be a pretty good fit.
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Just don't try Performance. It's like if someone took an FXAA rendered scene and smeared it everywhere.
 
Playing this now. I wish the menus were better. So clunky with mouse and keyboard. Also I hate games that can't take a steam screenshot without desyncing the audio in cut scenes. I though that would be fixed by now...
 
Game is pretty good at least. I loved the doll house. The giant mutant baby thing stalking you in the house was cool. You can hear it say DADA and ****. So odd lol

Combat is decent, exploration is fine and feels pretty standard RE. I thought the vampire daughters would play a bigger role in the game. You meet them once together when you first get to the mansion. Also I think you avoid one once to get in the cellar area. But then the next time you meet each one it's a boss battle and they're dead. Definitely not enough sexy vampire daughters imo.
 
I want to get this but I still need to play RE7.

Have it just not gotten to it yet. Been playing so much Nioh past couple months the backlog is starting to build up again.
 
Well that was a very good game. Has far more variety than RE7, but the flipside of that is that it's not as intimate or personal with its enemies (bosses don't have multiple rounds like in RE7) and it's less about hiding/horror. It's basically like they took RE7 and just made more resident evily. And it works fairly well.

Maybe it spreads itself too thin? Probably not, as the variety is good and it's longer without being boring. Most bosses were pretty good without dragging out too much. It also doesn't collapse in the last third like RE7 did. Has an actiony bit near the end but it's short and sweet.

The bit in the factory against heisenberg reminded me of Quake stroggification or Star Trek borg. They were pretty cool to fight.

Overall quite impressive. Uses sound very well in a lot of cases.

8/10 solid effort and one of the best games this year I'd say.
 
Was a tight game that didn’t overstay its welcome. Even though it was longer than 7 but I really left 7 for a long time before I finished it. This one I played all the way till the end just like I did to produce you guys.
 
KAC said:
Was a tight game that didn’t overstay its welcome. Even though it was longer than 7 but I really left 7 for a long time before I finished it. This one I played all the way till the end just like I did to produce you guys.
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must be a good game if KAC approves of the boning of Lady Demitrescu
 
KAC said:
Was a tight game that didn’t overstay its welcome. Even though it was longer than 7 but I really left 7 for a long time before I finished it. This one I played all the way till the end just like I did to produce you guys.
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If I replay RE7, I get to the Ship, remember how fkin long and drawn out it is, and put the game aside.

This one though was a very rare 100%er achievement-wise for me.
 
Megaman said:
I just finished up the doll house :D, collecting them flasks.
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Good news, if memory serves me that's almost definitely less than 80% of the game. :D You are probably 60-70% in. That is one of the best horror sections of the game, definitely one of my favorites.
 
I actually just finished my first playthrough of RE7. I have avoided almost all content for RE Village aside from a few reviews early on which I hardly remember and was starting to wonder how it differs from RE7. I know its still in first person, but did they change the gameplay at all? I believe I remember hearing it has more emphasis on action this time. Rather than puzzle/exploration survival horror.

I did enjoy RE7. They accomplished a return to form of the original PS1 RE games, just in first person. I suppose it worked for the slower survival horror gameplay, but I wasn't really feeling it once it turned more action focused towards the end. The movement is too slow for the game to allow facing more than 2-3 enemies max at a time. So the last section of the game where they try to ramp up the action was kind of a let down.

If RE8 is more action based I would assume they'd have to tweak the player movement? Maybe I'll watch some early gameplay footage to see how it plays.
 
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Meteor_of_War said:
I actually just finished my first playthrough of RE7. I have avoided almost all content for RE Village aside from a few reviews early on which I hardly remember and was starting to wonder how it differs from RE7. I know its still in first person, but did they change the gameplay at all? I believe I remember hearing it has more emphasis on action this time. Rather than puzzle/exploration survival horror.

I did enjoy RE7. They accomplished a return to form of the original PS1 RE games, just in first person. I suppose it worked for the slower survival horror gameplay, but I wasn't really feeling it once it turned more action focused towards the end. The movement is too slow for the game to allow facing more than 2-3 enemies max at a time. So the last section of the game where they try to ramp up the action was kind of a let down.

If RE8 is more action based I would assume they'd have to tweak the player movement? Maybe I'll watch some early gameplay footage to see how it plays.
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Village has more consistent action. You spend quite a bit of time in the village, coming back there between detours, and enemies return. You scrounge for resources and then go off to another area nearby. But even though it has more action, it's not drab like RE7 was near the end. RE7 was a good intimate horror game for the first 2/3rds or so then it was just a bore fest of samey dull action in the last bit. It went from a 8/10 game to a 5/10 imo.

RE village maintains a good pace throughout, gives you plenty of variety, via different enemy types and locations and bosses, and also adds some horror bits here and there. So early on you know what you're going to get from the whole experience in terms of action but it constantly changes the setting and introduces new characters. I think the action works fairly well in village. It's a bit stiff but enemies are fairly slow and telegraph moves. Variety is probably the #1 reason action is superior in village vs 7.
 
Meteor_of_War said:
I actually just finished my first playthrough of RE7. I have avoided almost all content for RE Village aside from a few reviews early on which I hardly remember and was starting to wonder how it differs from RE7. I know its still in first person, but did they change the gameplay at all? I believe I remember hearing it has more emphasis on action this time. Rather than puzzle/exploration survival horror.

I did enjoy RE7. They accomplished a return to form of the original PS1 RE games, just in first person. I suppose it worked for the slower survival horror gameplay, but I wasn't really feeling it once it turned more action focused towards the end. The movement is too slow for the game to allow facing more than 2-3 enemies max at a time. So the last section of the game where they try to ramp up the action was kind of a let down.

If RE8 is more action based I would assume they'd have to tweak the player movement? Maybe I'll watch some early gameplay footage to see how it plays.
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Basically, what nutrcracker said. The final RE7 section has action yeah but it's rather repetitive (until you get to the lab, sorta). RE8 has a lot more variety and ups and downs plus weapon, enemy AND location variety. It also has an awesome horror section that will throw you off as an RE fan.
 
Yeah the game has a lot of variety it borrows from other titles like FEAR, the original Resident Evil, Amnesia etc... It's not your typical zombie shooter, in fact I don't think there are any zombies in this at all.

You have first person shooter survival through some sections of the game which then turn into your regular puzzle solving theme and then it gets better with the "**** your pants" moments and the run and hide under a bed theme like in Amnesia.

It looks really nice indoors and has some really good scenes.

I have decided to stop playing this and do another thorough play through from the beginning later on with headphones and lights off :D

The doll house and the 3 sisters were the best parts out of this so far.

EDIT: oh and what Nutcracker said since I missed his post.
 
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