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Here Are Some of the Horrors That Await You in The Evil Within

"There's something wrong with this place." REALLY. What was your first clue?

Apr. 9 2014

Posted by: Alex

In This Episode:

The Evil Within

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Game looks fine to me. I'm diggin' the disturbing vibe. Hopefully the story holds up.

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Does look dated to me, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Atmosphere and all that. And in fact, I find the atmosphere posed by this trailer to be doing it's job pretty efficiently.

I do not particularly care for horror, though I deal with it in games pretty well. This I found disturbing. Whereas The Binding of Isaac doesn't because I think I understand the theme underneath. And I can have a dark sense of humor. But except for the outlast like dude at the end, this trailer is full frontal-weird ass. Pretty good, really.

And of course I have a nice computer waiting for it if they do a PC port... Pat has to be interested in tis I would think.

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Really should have captured from the PC version for that trailer.

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We need another Condemned instead of this...

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Wow, even the logo is distrubing.

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Is this trailer last gen? I thought there was a PS4/X1 version coming too.

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@benjo_t said:

@str33tph4rm: I think graphics and gameplay are both important. A game should play well and also have a strong visual style with technical flair. That is the ideal. Yes, a good game can have shoddy graphics occasionally, but that's not something we should be complacent about. Nor should you expect a visually stunning game with lackluster gameplay. You should expect the best from your games.

Well, I didn't mean all that because I do understand what your saying. I just don't think people should turn into OCD Perfectionists when it comes to graphics and that's what I'm seeing a lot.

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@str33tph4rm: I think graphics and gameplay are both important. A game should play well and also have a strong visual style with technical flair. That is the ideal. Yes, a good game can have shoddy graphics occasionally, but that's not something we should be complacent about. Nor should you expect a visually stunning game with lackluster gameplay. You should expect the best from your games.

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@xbob42 said:

@str33tph4rm said:

When I start seeing people complain about "textures" and judging a whole game on graphics that they don't think are up to par. I hate the human race and especially gamers even more. Some of us, SOME of us are impossible to please I swear. Why not just judge the game on whether its a GOOD GAME?

Because WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH A TRAILER.

Oh please if you think thats what I meant, judge a game on whether its a good game by looking at a trailer then you are simple minded. Just saying too many people nitpick about stupid things.

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When I start seeing people complain about "textures" and judging a whole game on graphics that they don't think are up to par. I hate the human race and especially gamers even more. Some of us, SOME of us are impossible to please I swear. Why not just judge the game on whether its a GOOD GAME?

Because WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH A TRAILER.

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I'm most worried about the house and sunflower field. That seems like it was supposed to creep the character out more than the player.

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This game looks pretty damn gnarly!

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this one watched the whole thing muted since scary things or something

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Woah, didn't expect to be interested in this game. I'm a sucker for games with good looking crazy monsters.

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A lot of people seem down because it's not a real mental hospital killer place. I'm psyched about playing a game about having my(the character's) mind be broken and traversing through horrors brought on by it. The movement also looks interesting, but I really wonder how they're gonna twist all the interactivity and modern control with the horror. Modern horror in other games seems to be moving towards observing and escaping, not fighting at all.

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Those that complain about graphics = Didn't get to play in the 80's.

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When I start seeing people complain about "textures" and judging a whole game on graphics that they don't think are up to par. I hate the human race and especially gamers even more. Some of us, SOME of us are impossible to please I swear. Why not just judge the game on whether its a GOOD GAME?

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@herbiebug: Some people don't need jump scares and darkness to enjoy a horror game.

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Does a horror game need a Sephiroth? I don't think so.

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This is too well lit to be a good horror game. If I can see the details of the enemy design clearly, that's too much light. Detail generally being visible is less scary as a rule. Scary shit you imagine is much more frightening than scary shit you are shown and think to yourself okay that is a lot of barbed wire and stitches and stuff and I'm sure that thing doesn't smell great. :/

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But....will Scoops get spooked?

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I'm really up for this. What is it about mental hospitals that always manage to attract bad vibes though? These things never start at an acid party or something.

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OK, so the big reveal is going to be you're a patient of the asylum and not really a cop right? Shutter Island style.

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I never did get any other thing out of it that it would have monsters. The freeky multible handed woman was there in the start so I dont know what trailers you been watching. I know that the gameplay they showed just showed the one huge butcher dude, but I didnt think that would be the only person in that game.

I for one am amazed that people say the graphics are shit. They are good enough. It doesnt look realy awesome like some one said but it is good enough graphics and I think they are kind of same level as dark souls 2 has. I still am waiting to see more of this game and more info for people who will test it out in E3.

Looks good enough and I hope we will get a good AAA-horror game out of cause we need those too. Like Square enix have said that they have seen error of their ways and not catering to the masses but to make games that are good games that people who like that genre will love it. I hope this takes that same idea in to their hearths too and make really good survival horror game.

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If "The Evil Within" just turns out to be a better looking "The Suffering" I will be A.O.K. with that. Sadly, "The Suffering" does not hold up technically, but it had some awesome heavy-metal-horror hooks in it.

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The game looked a lot better than this in earlier trailers. (graphically)
I imagine this is PS3/360.

Regardless, I'm very much looking forward to this game. Shinji, I believe!

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Looks like it could be great. Those textures, though. Ugh.

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Stopped the trailer half way through.. There is enough original imagery that I'm sold, and don't want any spoilers.

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Yeah, hate to look on the negative but this looks like a PS3 game. Come on Bethesda, you guys have know this gen. was coming for quite sometime?... surely.

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Looks like a spiritual successor to Resident Evil 4. Which is cool, cuz I think that game is pretty good!

Graphics look kind of like shit tho.

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I don't get it..didn't it look better in an old gameplay video I saw? I guess that happens often enough and is possible. Was really grossed out by some of the textures mainly because in my head the game had looked much better but now I'm not sure it actually did. I still love everything else that seems to be going on atleast.

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As much as I'm looking forward to this, I couldn't help but groan at the mention of another Mental Hospital.

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I really hope this is great. Don't let me down, Mikami!

@deadward: So what you're saying is... Pet Sematary is your favorite movie. Right?

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@joshwent said:

I guess I maybe just jumped to the conclusion, but I thought the whole hook of this game was that it was survival horror in terms of you being captured by a real(ish) kind of serial killer. Giant monster arms, blood-filled hallways, and pyramid box head, seem to argue otherwise.

Damn. I was more excited about the game that, apparently, only existed in my head.

I had a fantasy version of this game in my head too. I don't know why I was expecting more than what seems to be a carnival of cliché horrors. But hey it might still be fun!

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People think women have it bad in video games! Mental hospitals have never been anything helpful in any form of media, ever!

Now that you mention it…

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Way into it.

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People think women have it bad in video games! Mental hospitals have never been anything helpful in any form of media, ever!

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@sub_o said:

What's the name of the classical song playing in the background?

It's 'Clair De Lune' by Claude Debussy

@teh_destroyer said:

Guys, guys, this is a Bethesda game, and I am sure as hell hoping its good.

Yeah, when I saw the logo my heart kind of sank just a little bit. Still, I'm gonna try and remain optimistic.

To be fair, they're only acting as publisher. They dont have their sticky mitts on the development.

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I love how incredibly fucking twisted this looks. Pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood.

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I'm so glad to be getting a new Shinji Mikami horror game.

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If the combat is on par with Resident Evil 4 then I am probably down for this game.

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What's Booker DeWitt doing in a horror game?

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What garbage can did they pick those textures out from

Besides that this comes out on my birthday so guess what I'm gifting myself

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For some reason, there is almost nothing that makes me cringe quite so much as the idea of a slice to the achilles tendon

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Hopefully this is not the PS4 or Xbox One version, because it doesn't look so great.

Otherwise, I think the game looks interesting, might be a purchase for me.

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@deltaalphabravo: Terrible? Man. I was just thinking it looked fucking amazing. Guess I was wrong.

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Guys, guys, this is a Bethesda game, and I am sure as hell hoping its good.

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I don't know.. While not the best graphics I have ever seen, the graphics looked good enough to tell it's story. What else do you need?