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Hopefully this gets people to stop calling it "a shitty P.T./Amnesia/Outlast ripoff" that was made to "cash in on that sweet YouTube money" (despite the fact that these indie horror games don't actually sell that well, especially compared to the past couple REs). This game looks to have more in common with RE1 than any of the past 3.

A lot of people have been complaining that this game hasn't show combat yet, but I'm glad that they're doing such a slow rollout. It feels like a mystery. How often do you know so little about a game this big?

Now if the game sucks I'll be pissed, that's the downside to this kind of marketing. But I can always wait for reviews, and this has my interest more than another game like RE6.

EDIT: Beat to the punch :(

"This is a survival-horror game in which players assume the role of Ethan, a man searching for his missing wife in a derelict mansion.From a first-person perspective, players explore the environment and use pistols, shotguns, flamethrowers, explosives and chainsaws to kill mutant creatures.Combat is accompanied by realistic gunfire, screams of pain, and exaggerated blood-splatter effects. As players progress through the story, cutscenes can depict instances of gore and intense acts of violence: a character's arm dismembered by a chainsaw; a man's leg taken off at the knee with a shovel; a character impaled through the face with a shovel. Some areas also depict mutilated corpses with exposed organs/viscera. The words “f*k” and “sht” are heard in the dialogue."

Hopefully this dispels the belief that the game is a "walking simulator."

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As a defender of this game when Beginning Hour came out, I was really excited to see gameplay from the full game and a little let down by what we got. Given the way a lot of fans have criticized the game for being too similar to PT/Outlast/Amnesia, I'm surprised they didn't show any combat/puzzles.

They've implied in recent interviews that there will be multiple VHS sequences like this with minimal gameplay, and completing them will allow you to progress as the main character, whose sequences will unfold more like classic RE games. If it works anything like unlocking the drawer through the VHS in Beginning Hour, it could be awesome.

People defending this game have been saying "You wouldn't hate it if it wasn't a non-Kojima Metal Gear. It's not a bad game on its own." And they're right. If it wasn't non-Kojima Metal Gear, nobody would give a shit about it, nobody would be talking about it at all. I'd argue that's even worse.

I'm not sure what your degree is in, so I can't tell you how much time you'll have, but I remember thinking I'd barely have time for games after being told how hard university would be, but my free time has really only decreased a little, and it hasn't impacted my studies. There's still a drop, and that combined with money will be noticeable, but it wasn't too hard for me.

I think it'll be one of my favourites this year. Lots of people seem to feel that the game will be "great for a game that was supposed to be out like 6 years ago," and I get that. But beyond the visuals, I don't think I'll mind much. Shadow of the Colossus wasn't loved for its cutting edge mechanics, what made us remember it were all the weird choices that came from the fact that it was trying to be a very singular experience. If Shadow of the Colossus was released 5 years later, yeah the graphics would be disappointing and some stuff would be out of date, but the choices to have such a massive game world be empty, to make it a series of one on one fights, to make the horse have its own AI that sometimes ignored your controls (to display its free will), to be so minimalist in storytelling would still make it a classic, in my head.

I think it's really funny that people seem to be avoiding Yellow. It's my favourite colour, and my brother works for the NDP (orange but opposed to Red and Blue), so we both picked that one. I've only seen one Yellow-held gym so far and it was only recently captured.

The Japanese one looks better, but I thought the one going around that was a profile shot of Noctis or whatever the protagonist's name is looked best of all.

Inside Katamari.

So this and The Witness are tied for my GOTY so far, and I'm leaning towards this. I liked LIMBO when it came out, but not as much as a lot of people and I really don't think it's held up (the last two thirds lose the atmosphere and it basically just becomes a puzzle game at that point), but I think six years down the line we'll consider INSIDE a classic.

The blob moment was a fitting ending but my favourite sequence of the game was definitely the lockstep moment. It felt super tense, and you were forced into the situation pretty quickly.

I loved how this game, like SOMA, used its puzzles to explore its themes. The moments I've mentioned all do a great job of exploring the world through gameplay, and the mind control puzzles are an interesting moral dilemma given that the entire game paints mind control as a cruel practice.

Is this thread Jesus? Because it just rose from the fuckin' dead.

I remember this thread, though.