At the beginning of the game I was hiding from Jack in the sequence before you enter the main hall. He was patrolling around in the kitchen area and I was in the hallway just outside the kitchen door. The door was opened into the hallway.
I crouched down behind the door and poked my head around. I could hear him but couldn't see him. I backed off and hid in the space behind the opened door, too terrified to really do anything other than wait.
I decided to look around the doorway again. I peaked my head around - and he was standing right there! I shouted and snapped back into position behind the door, crouched down.
He walked out of the kitchen and stood in the doorway for a few moments, mere feet away from me. I literally held my breath.
He turned and started walking the other way. I was completely still.
Suddenly he jumped around the door, and as I was crouched down, helpless, on the floor behind it, I looked up at him as he towered over me and shouted "Found you, boy!"
All of this happened "for real." I really crouched with my actual body. I poked my actual, physical head around the door. I was there in the game looking up at him, cornered, in a state of utter panic and despair. And it was all emergent gameplay.
People can't understand what VR means until they try it themselves and give themselves a few minutes to really get immersed. It's not even like the transition from 2D to 3D. It's bigger than that imo.
And no doubt RE7 itself is GOTY material. Probably won't be my GOTY given the stiff competition, but it's up there. Historic game, just like BotW, in fact probably even more so.
I'm considering buying the VR to play this, but is it a MUST to get a PS4 Pro? I already have a PS4 vanilla. That's gonna be an even hefty-er investment (like over a grand) to play 1 game.
Pro isn't necessary. I played the first half with a Slim, then upgraded to a Pro for the second half. Was there better performance? Sure, but I was playing it perfectly fine on the Slim beforehand too. Just because the Pro performance is better doesn't mean the Slim performance is bad.