Astral Dog
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wow i was not expecting that at all
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Resident Evil 7 ESRB info confirms combat with firearms, explosives, chainsaws, more
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robotzombie
Member
You guys realize that description does not suggest Chainsaw combat right? It is specifically referenced as a gorey cutscene
Edit: Oh sorry! I'm a dumb dumb, didn't notice two different chainsaw references
Edit: Oh sorry! I'm a dumb dumb, didn't notice two different chainsaw references
Jawmuncher
Member
It says the player uses it to kill monsters? It'll be pretty lame if it's a cutscene.
This all sounds awesome. Just hope Capcom show some of this off at TGS.
Yes, and that's a very good thing. I want guns to be the focus of RE7's combat, not melee weapons.
Edit: Actually, the description does make it sound like you can fight things with a chainsaw. Hmm, not sure how I feel about that. Hopefully it's just a one-off thing or something.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
players explore the environment and use pistols, shotguns, flamethrowers, explosives and chainsaws to kill mutant creatures
Chainsaw combat baby !
Nemesis_
Member
He must be searching for his wife REGINA
brandonh83
Banned
Of all the GAF people that have played through the game you'd think we'd have some reviews by now.
... Resident Evil Gets Its New Antagonist?
Sounds like something Sean Murray would say about No Man's Sky.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
So, the second gif in the poll with the rocket shield, what is that?
Black Ops 3.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
ethomaz
Banned
Well this news is really old... they confirmed all these stuffs at E3...
But people choose to focus on a demo that is not part of the game showing how puzzles will works in the final game.
It's the zombies mode specifically which is a bit different in that it contains things like 1920s BioShock-esque settings and dragons.Neato. I was thinking of finding that game but I have no interest sadly in COD
This is exactly how I feel. If you've got awesome combat, you should SHOW it to people. The marketing for this game is absolutely bizarre. However, the ESRB's description is really reassuring to me. It sounds much more like the game I actually want it to be. It just seems like Capcom is more clueless about their marketing and what their fanbase wants, than anything else. Also, like you said, it makes me wonder if this game will actually be ready come January. I have a feeling we could be looking at a major delay here, if they aren't ready to show off combat.
Spieler Eins
Member
Anyone with common sense saw the NMS failure coming two years ago. And I'm not sure what that has to do with this. This wasn't a no-name indie developer promising the most revolutionary game of the decade, but Capcom saying that the structure of their soon-to-be-released title takes notes from how they did things in the past successfully and that their series that always had combat still has combat.
StrongBelwas
Banned
Resident Evil 7 shaping up great first RE I'll be buying since 4. Really can't wait for this much needed shake up to the series.
We knew there were guns, and that there was some form of combat. That could mean so many things, though. Can you really blame anyone for being skeptical when all they've shown is a demo that was nothing more than a walking simulator, and that Lantern "Gameplay" trailer that was straight up trying to invoke Amnesia and Outlast? The marketing for a game should accurately convey what a game is going to be like, not showcase it as something it's not. We were being told one thing by the Devs, and shown something completely different in the marketing, and I think that's where all the confusion and frustration with this game came from.
ethomaz
Banned
Correct me if I'm wrong.
They choose at E3 to show 7 demos/trailers showing differents elements of the game.
Right now they showed 2 of them via VHS...
- Puzzles (why show gun combat if you want to show puzzles???)
- Hide and seek (how you make a child victim to use guns to fight? Of course this VHS will be hide and seek)
It is pretty clear combat is one of the seven.
brandonh83
Banned
Might as well play something like Slender: The Arrival in the meantime, as RE7 is clearly just a shameless copy of those first person indie games.
Jawmuncher
Member
The best twist
SolidSnakex
Member
So what are they supposed to do? If they show a lot of the game they'll be criticized like Naughty Dog was for showing a lot of Uncharted 3, if they don't then apparently they're making NMS.
The Last One
Member
Pretty much lol
THIS!
Also mutant creatures,derelict mansion,and searching for your missing wife? Silent Hill 2 all over again,I mean come on. These cliche story pitches are so overdone thats its tiring,boring,and unoriginal.
brandonh83
Banned
What
7 demo's/trailers? Haven't heard of that before. Did they state that was their plan?
Yeah, it's pretty generic, huh? Still, the thing I care about most is that he can shoot zombies.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
So why the fuck are they wasting time with these anti-hype teasers? Trying to sell people on slow paced VR horror when you've got a visceral action shooter underneath seems counterproductive, when the latter sells far more than the former.
brandonh83
Banned
A horror series literally built on tropes has tropey premise!?
It's not about the premise, but the why, and what follows.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Please be good.
The Last One
Member
The premise of Silent Hill 2 is about a man looking for his dead wife and it turned out great.
Neff
Member
Sounds really dull, compounds the idea of the main character being an average joe, not to mention another slice of evidence that Capcom wants to brute force the Silent Hill audience into the RE experience, no matter how artistically incompatible.
Besides Barry, since when was a RE protagonist ever married, anyway? They're all supposed to be young, unattached sex machines.
I thought it sucked, and I say this as someone who likes the first Silent Hill.
brandonh83
Banned
I think they're trying to say that since it's been done before, it's generic.
The problem with this logic is that a basic premise is not the story. Silent Hill 2's usage of it ended up being brilliant because of the story that followed. We literally know nothing about RE7's story beyond its setup.
It's no different than the first-person = Amnesia spinoff junk.
This is conjecture at its finest.
...but now we're mortal enemies.
Kwansu Dudes
Member
It's generating a lot of buzz that's for sure.
Chris, a man searching for his missing compatriots, Bravo team.
Claire, a woman searching for her missing brother.
Chris, a man searching for his missing sister.
Leon, a man searching for his president's missing daughter.
Chris, a man searching for his missing, presumed dead pardnuh.
Claire, a woman searching for her missing brother.
Chris, a man searching for his missing sister.
Leon, a man searching for his president's missing daughter.
Chris, a man searching for his missing, presumed dead pardnuh.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
A mountain of negative attention and griping isn't the same as hype.
If the best thing you can say about a gameplay trailer is "don't worry, the game doesn't actually play like that", why does that trailer exist? It defeats the express purpose of trailers!
brandonh83
Banned
It's not out until January. They don't really need to start marketing proper until 2-3 months out from that. If anything they generally splooge on games to the point where they show too much and build too much hype. They have a mysterious story/setting that they're revealing by trickling out small teasers until they're ready to go head-on, and I appreciate that a fuckton more than showing a game 2-3 years away. I presume that starting with TGS in September and on, we'll probably start to see too much, and then people will start making reverse arguments.
Baloonatic
Member
You're not allowed to judge games on what developers actually show any more, hadn't you heard.
Still weird people mocking others who say it has looked like an Amnesia style game in trailers... when that is literally all we've seen. Of course people are going to think that.
The Last One
Member
I understand what you guys are saying and a I agree. But with this premise we'll get lots of questions like "Why my wife is missing?" "Why this creatures exist?" "What the hell is this mansion?" "Who's behind this?". That's sounds a lot like RE 1 and I think that's what they want.
And about the main character being an average joe I think that's what they want. Then progressing through the game he won't be an average joe anymore because we'll get to know him like we did with the previous characters in the series.