The perfect Dark
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Still no cohesive world/ level design it seems which was one of the most disappointing things in the first game. It does look cool though
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The Evil Within 2 - Gameplay Trailer
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Lucky for you, this is not scary at all.
the game is semi-open world, so I imagine much of the world design will be consistent
freethought
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My mind is ready
sixteen-bit
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lighting is atmospheric af
Gameplay looks a lot more smoother and fluid than the first game, which was admittedly rough around the edges at points.
Looks like Sebastian has a new voice actor, which honestly might be better because Anson Mount sounded bored as hell in the first game (although I'm unsure if this was him or the voice direction in general). I'm also curious as to whose brain we'll be diving into this time, it can't be Ruvik again can it? Unless (first game spoilers)
Pleased it's coming so soon as well. This and Wolfenstein in the same month is going to be killer.
Looks like Sebastian has a new voice actor, which honestly might be better because Anson Mount sounded bored as hell in the first game (although I'm unsure if this was him or the voice direction in general). I'm also curious as to whose brain we'll be diving into this time, it can't be Ruvik again can it? Unless (first game spoilers)
it's just Leslie's brain possessed by Ruvik
Pleased it's coming so soon as well. This and Wolfenstein in the same month is going to be killer.
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It's the other way around. The Evil Within is the game's proper title. It was changed for Japan because "The Evil Within" is too hard to say in Japanese.
Relaxed Muscle
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How About No
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aw yeah RE3.5 LIVES
The perfect Dark
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And I'm out again. What the fuck is wrong with developers? Get the fuck out with your open world crap. Just like GOW. I can't stand this anymore. It's enough. This damn industry, holy shit I'm angry now.
edit: Or do you mean semi -open world just like the old RE games?
Autoignition
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It's not open world. Relax.
From the way Bethesda describes it, it sounds like the levels are just bigger. There are some sidequests, but they actually take the role of being side content instead of the meat of the game like true open worlds.
Relaxed Muscle
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Why don't you wait until you see how is implemented?
I doubt this is "ubisoft open world" game design style.
re_fan1996
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I won't spoil it but combat in the first one didn't really come to fruition until the end of chapter 3. It's fucking fun as hell and people who quit too soon really didn't get to experience it in it's fullest. This looks incredible so far and I can't wait!!!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
yeah, that seemed like it was put in there specifically for the old fans.
Looks awesome. Even more crazy than the first, and this time they're not restricted by previous gen versions at all.
Yeah, game had problems at the start (and other chapters too). Hope it's better balanced this time.
Yeah, game had problems at the start (and other chapters too). Hope it's better balanced this time.
Really? I guess I should've expected as much from a Mikami game.
I wonder if that means that the English localizations are the intended vision.
CherryIcee
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I need it. I need it now. I haven't looked at much information on it besides the trailers but I hope Akumu mode is in this in some way. I need to scratch my masochistic itch.
The perfect Dark
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eh....side quests....
Because I want my linear adventure games. And I hate it when they change the formula instead of fixing the mistakes of the first game. You liked the first game and were disappointed by the flaws....well then fuck you, here's a new concept for the next game. Less linear and side quests because...everyone loves side quests, right?
Okay, I wait and see. But damn I hate this industry nowadays.
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They are. The rest are dubs. It's kind of goofy watching TEW in Japanese because Sebastian's seiyuu in particular doesn't sound like Anson Mount, but it's a dub so they kept all of Anson Mount's effort/pain noises in and just dubbed over the dialogue with the seiyuu.
I feel the same way. I hate side quests. But with this game, I feel like they're all going to be story-heavy and relevant, so I'm not particularly worried. I doubt they'll be annoying fetch quests or something like that.
SolarPowered
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Maybe it's just me, but the animation looks so much better than TEW as well.
I'm pretty sure it's also got quick turn. It was sorely missed in TEW.
Relaxed Muscle
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I thought the spanish dub was quite good, I hope the sequel is also dubbed in spanish.
Aggelos
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if RE3.5 lives, then the director of TEW2 is Hiroshi Shibata?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aBvWWFERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q90jSQx0PPI
The gameplay changes drastically throughout the game. The first couple of chapters are nothing. Sometimes it's stealth, sometimes it's fear/running away, sometimes its balls-out RE-style combat and shot guns and explosives.
How About No
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This was the biggest problem with TEW for me tbh
Simbabbad
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Because NeoGAF.
I didn't play the first game but this looks really interesting.
dancingphlower
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Looks creepy and chaotic. Just like the first one. I am excited, but hopefully they can nail the pacing this time around.
Allonym
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I don't mean to jump on you but the developers do and should have more of a say in how they want their game to evolve than you do. It's probably best to take a "wait and see" approach rather than jumping to malformed conclusions. I for one wouldn't mind sandboxy levels returning like the village in Chpt.3 from TEW.
Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
The game got meh, just like RE, when enemies started toting guns and could perform OHKs.
The perfect Dark
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I don't get it.
That's not a sandbox, it's still linear level and gameplay design
If "vague surreal mindfuck" qualifies, then yes I suppose. I don't see as strong of an influence from David Lynch type films as I would from other things. I mean surface level, but it definitely had more in common with the splatter film that just throws bizarre shit at the wall than some sort of brooding surrealism.
The only Silent Hill/strongest Lynchian vibes were some parts of he beginning and the asylum nurse bits I thought. Maybe the part with the brain experiments in the mansion to some degree. The Evil Dead/Saw vibes comparison is pretty on point moreso.
Magic Mushroom
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Fear is incredibly subjective. I know people who couldn't play EW at all.
Relax man, it's not an open world game.
Magic Mushroom
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Bloodborne.
The perfect Dark
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And how do you know this? Apparently it's semi-open world.
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TEW pulls heavily from Lost Highway in particular in terms of weird premonitions, time loops, and body swapping. The Administrator felt like he was fashioned together from several characters in Mulholland Drive. The whole classical music motif was also very Lynchian.
ProgenitorCastle
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There is a quick turn in TEW, although it's kind of tricky to execute. You got to be sprinting for a little bit, and then flick the analog stick in the opposite direction you held it initially
Magic Mushroom
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Nothing about it looks open world. Sandbox levels perhaps, as in open spaces that you can tackle in different ways, like the village in Resi 4.
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear! Instead a central hub area like that asylum wing in the first game, now there's a small town to explore. There are various areas you enter while in this town that transition into standard linear stages like in the first game
-MD-
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These knee-jerk reactions.
It's obviously not going to be open world, you aren't going to be running from one end of the city to the other. Think more of chapter 3, possibly expanded on. It says there's a mix of linear and more open environments, tons of those were in the art book for the original but didn't make it into the game.
Chill, it'll be fine.
100%TrophyMaster
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Fucking Laura man
lol I feel you. I literally was sitting there going "Noooo nooooo!!!!" When I saw her grab Seb in the trailer. I got so much anxiety from her sections in the first game.
Hm. Well you just may have inspired me to revisit it for the second time this year. The music I'll say off hand I do recall, but I don't remember it's use in Lynch films too much. I'll have to pay closer attention to the Lost Highway ideas, but the themes are also fairly generic sci-fi as well, depending on how you want to interpret what the hell is going on in the plot. That's the part that reminds me of RE the most- trippy and weird violence, but essentially a schlocky sci-fi b-movie horror concept, not that it's bad.
I'm not sure what you mean by the old RE games being semi-open world, unless you mean lots of backtracking. I'm sure this will be more non-linear, not open world; maybe hub-areas that are more like a Souls game for a recent reference. Non-linear game design can be really good for stuff like this.
I really don't see it. I can't even remember any instances of Lynch relying on known classical music.
EDIT: Well, except early on in The Elephant Man.
purpleblastoise
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I think it was described in a way similar to Dark Souls 1, with multiple routes to take that are somewhat linear themself but with secrets to discover off the beaten track.