Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I missed this question, but Easy and Normal are unlocked from the start for everyone. Madhouse is only unlocked from the start if you pre-order the game, otherwise it's unlocked once you've beaten the game once.
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Resident Evil 7 - Early Impressions Thread (MARK SPOILERS!!)
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I missed this question, but Easy and Normal are unlocked from the start for everyone. Madhouse is only unlocked from the start if you pre-order the game, otherwise it's unlocked once you've beaten the game once.
BBPunjabi816
Member
Is this something we know from the demo already? I haven't played the demo yet so was wondering.
thanks, that sounds good, as I don't want any MP thing in my horror games.
I wished I could come to terms with the first person thing,
I am trying to avoid media but every time I watch seconds of a trailer I get motion sickness with the ridiculousy shaky camera, which happens every time the main character runs or fights,
I am looking for a game to fill the evil within void and I want to hope this game can be it.
who are we playing as anyway? is the camera view that of "random lost guy"?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Madhouse Mode is the game's hardest difficulty, but it does a number of differences.
Here's how I understand it at this point:
Casual (which I guess is the difficulty whoever the guy is that most GAF'ers are watching on stream):
-Frequent Checkpoints.
-High Regenerating Health (regenerates about a third to a half of your health back, plus regenerates a lot faster).
-Much slower enemies with less frequent attacks and dumber AI
-Less damage from enemy attacks
-Can save at Cassette Recorders whenever you want.
Normal:
-Moderate Checkpoints.
-Moderate Regenerating Health (regenerates a fifth to a fourth of your health back, but a bigger pause in regeneration and much slower than on Casual).
-Normal Speed enemies with Normal attacks (moves over twice as fast than Casual I hear) with more intelligent tracking AI.
-Normal damage from enemy attacks.
-Can save at Cassette Recorders whenever you want.
Madhouse:
-No Checkpoints.
-No Regenerating Health.
-Faster Enemies with Special Attacks (may be able to do more deadly moves) with much smarter AI that are far harder to lose.
-Higher damage from enemy attacks.
-Cassette Recorders can only be saved at if you find a cassette tape, a new item exclusive to Madhouse which takes up inventory space and there's finite of. Basically Typewriters and Ink Ribbons from past games.
-Unconfirmed, but may be some special traps, enemies, and elements you need to survive as well not in other difficulties.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I mean, I'm not watching the stream. But something I found interesting is that some of the peeps who worked on Haunting Ground worked on this game, many of them hadn't worked on a horror game since Haunting Ground, so that's promising.
Aside from what's unconfirmed and the faster/stronger enemies, it seems like Madhouse is basically the classic RE experience. I can't wait 9 days.
Graphics Horse
Member
Only seen that really blurry leak from a day or two ago but I just want to say I called it about how you enter the house 
is this a joke
What!?!
O..M..G!!!
This game went from being the highest hyped game for me since RE5 to I NEED THIS NOW!!!
Please arrive tommorw
Lucent
Member
Does digital count? I preordered on the psn store. Guess I didn't look at the details.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Yup, digital will 100% count. It's how I have the game pre-ordered but on PC, but it says when you pre-order about this.
Whoa whoa whoa, now that's something I wasn't expecting to read. Very nice.
Finally preordered. Now to decide if I want to start of madhouse right of the bat or just stick to normal. Hm.
Nice drive by, junior.
Nice drive by, junior.
Lucent
Member
Nice. I'm ready for the 23rd to hit midnight. And I've been playing the demo in vr to prepare. I'm able to play with all comfort options turned off (can use normal speed and that angle crap turned off.) without getting sick. The visual clarity takes a bit of a hit, but it's much more immersive.
Caffeine
Member
this dude is playing in vr with out the brightness on max
lol nevermind he got banned
Lucent
Member
You can't adjust brightness in vr mode in the demo, so I guess you can't here.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Wait a minute, will this get Vive support on PC at some point?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
PSVR has VR exclusivity for a year, and we'll see after that.
Though probably some mod will be released before then.
Drive by or not, is there any validity to his/her claim? I love me some RE, even if 7 seems to be going in a different direction but I really didn't enjoy Outlast (not disputing its qualities as a potentially good game just that those kind of absolutely 'defence-less' games aren't my thing).
SomedayTheFire
Member
VHS sections are optional pieces of side content.
How About No
Member
Oh fucking wow
Lucent
Member
There are tapes in the game where you can play out events that happened with other people. Some have you playing as totally defenseless characters. That's probably what he saw and left at. They are optional, but can have interesting ways of possibly affecting the main game. Your main character in the game is not defenseless.
Talking of which. Any psvr impressions?
Lucent
Member
My personal impressions are from the demo. It let's you do things you can't really do in the game from what I've seen. I could peek around corners without moving my character (but it was limited enough to be believable). And you can aim the reticle with your face positioning, so I had a much easier time getting headshots. The vr is well done and really immersive. The only thing that sucks is if you're not positioned right, you can see your hands being disembodied. And sometimes when you interact with things, the game does little quick cuts.
oneofthose
Banned
Yeah i think I'll skip this looks / plays like a indy western horror game, just using the RE brand name.
IIRC you can adjust the brightness in the headset
Driveby hot takes.
Jawmuncher
Member
Doesn't seem like it is.
Lucent
Member
Damn. I gotta play those if so. =p
Hmm I'll have to try that out. I think the balance was pretty good by default. There were parts where I couldn't see the end of a hall until I got a few feet from the wall. Lol
I wish western indies had the budget to do guns and enemies like RE7. Why they tried so hard to hide this stuff I don't know.
DOT DASH DOT
Member
Can anyone confirm HDR on this pup?
No it's not. Ethan opened a door to a basement and you could hear someone feigning. Then you see Mia climbing the stairs completely possessed and hitting you with a knife that she stabs in your hand. Then she kind of speak about an higher entity like "mother" in a schyzo way, anyways she is in a semi aware state, she's trying to resist to kill you and then she start to blow her head on the wall till she pass out. Pretty hardcore stuff I like that.
Yes it's there, even in the demo. 4k is also supported.
That sounds perfect for me.
Lucent
Member
Yeah. I kinda wanna do this mode, too. I want this to feel like some real survival stuff. If the stakes are higher, the threat will feel more real. I want to be shaking after every encounter. Lol.
Daffy Duck
Member
Adding early access to difficulty levels to pre orders is fucking lame.
Its not tied to a season pass though, right there in the post you quoted it says if you pre-order. Still sucks but get it right.
I'd love to play those games, what are they?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
It's not in the season pass, it's for pre-order the game in general.
I do agree it's dumb, but has been discussed. Season Pass is just additional content.
Daffy Duck
Member
Yeah I stupidly misread the post, edited.
But it's still lame that it's a pre order bonus.
I mean the other pre order bonuses for this game are also lame. Not every game needs them FFS.
Lucent
Member
Yeah. I'm gonna choose not to download the survival pack. I don't want help. Lol
Daffy Duck
Member
When I had an email from shopto saying RE7 pre order bonus I wondered what it could be, I laughed to myself when I opened the email.