Survival horror isn't for everyone.
That isn't necessarily relevant at all. A lot of people that enjoyed the classic SV games didn't care for the first game much for various reasons, while just as many seemed to think it was the best thing since ever. I personally thought the previous game was a 7/10 at best. It wasn't awful, and I'm glad that I played it, but it won't be remembered as a classic by me. It did a lot of things right, but lacked identity and focus. I suppose I enjoyed it about as much as RE7.
/shrug
Anyway, I've been mostly on a blackout regarding this game, and the initial trailers at least made it appear to me that it could be an improvement upon the first. Even if it was more concerned with the action aspects, it would at least seem more focused in what it wanted to do, and the trailers didn't show anything offputting to me.
edit: Also, fuck me. I thought this was unlocking at 10PM PST tomorrow, but it's AM?
I don't know, I don't really see that? Unless you just mean like recent games. But if you're just talking in general I feel like there's a lot of universally loved horror games.
Like what exactly? Resident Evil had a relatively large following, but a lot of people couldn't stand the originals because of the "garbage controls" and a lot of the supposed diehards threw a fit when RE4 was released, proclaiming that it was no longer horror and straight up action.
Similarly, critics and obviously many who purchased the first and second Dead Space games loved them, but a lot of people still bitched about the controls, claiming Isaac felt like an archaic tank, so that ruined the gameplay for them.
The original Alone in the Dark?