/v/ - Video Games

>>15160712

Not a chance since Mikami and his studio is hamstringed by Bethesda into making a goddamn RE4 clone. And just like Dishonored, they wrap up all the loose ends a little too fast in the sequel and majority of the writing was from that movie faggot who did the DLCs in the first game.

I didn't really liked the first as it is a bit of a bait and switch from surreal to sci-fi. I get that's the point, but I'm too attached to my paranormal. The second game is completely upfront about being a virtual simulation, while still using that premise to get crazy, and it works much better that way in my opinion. I'm even a little sad it was a commercial flop.

This is The Lesbians Within, right?!

>The Evil Within

More like the BOREDOM withing

Holy shit are this games boring, and the character that moves like a 90 years old with asthma only makes things worse.

>>15160712

TEW2 is kind of a joke, 90% of the enemies you can evade by walking briskly away. Not even kidding. Open world is a bad idea for a survival horror game. Rewarding players for kills is a bad idea. Rubberband item drops is a bad idea.

Overall it misses the point that RE4 was good because it was well-paced and had funny characters, not because it had good basic survival horror mechanics. A good survival horror game needs to go the opposite direction RE4 did, meaning less player bonuses, less resources, more dangerous enemies.

>>15160990

>90% of the enemies you can evade by walking briskly away.

That's true of basically all games. How do you think speedrunning is even a thing?

>>15161002

Walking, anon, not running. In a game that calls itself survival horror. Even most bosses you can evade endlessly by walking away as they come at you weapons flailing. Makes it all rather sad.

>>15161022

Never double down on bullshit when you're called out.

>>15161031

If not for the fact that the game is some ridiculous size that I don't feel like re-torrenting atm I would install it and make a webm for you. You'll just have to take my word for it. Most enemies and plenty of bosses can be evaded indefinitely by walking away from them. Try it on giant bitch with buzzsaw.

>>15161019

The sequel was made by that John Johanas guy who did the DLCs for the first game, Shinji Mikami said he wanted to stop directing. So there you go, two games that are inherently different and with mechanics that are for the sake innovation. Really didn't like the sequel because goddamn it, it was like some Last of Us-tier game with padded bullshit, didn't like how like Dishonored 2, they forgone all pretenses and just explained every fucking thing to you on a silver platter. And Ruvik is no longer a concern for some reason. Overall, the sequel was derivative and didn't have an identity, didn't even gave a damn about the Fatherhood shit when it was too hamfisted.

Also, here's some stupid "leak" that was spread about a DLC and third and final game.

Despite selling less than the first game Bethesda and Tango don't want to abandon this franchise at least until there's a complete trilogy.

>Evil Within 2 will have 3 dlc episodes and they want them to be better and longer than the dlc for the first game(expect to hear about the first and the season pass in january).

>The first one is focused on Esmeralda Torres and will show her kidnapping Lilly before the first game and the road towards her redemption in the second. It will be more action focused. It is called "The Plan" and the current release date is March 9 2018

>The second is focused on Julian Sykes and will show him exploring a sublevel of STEM after his side mission, Anima and some new beings will be present. Tango wants this to be the scariest part of the game yet, stealth will be a priority. It's called "The Lost" and it will be released in May.

>The third is considered to be the lead up to Evil Within 3 and will feature Joseph Oda as the playable character, the main portion of the dlc will take place during the evil within 2 main game but some of it will link to the computer screen seen at the end of the game. It is called "The Awakening" and it will release in July.

>Plans for the third game are already being made, the current idea is to have it set a few years after the second with Joseph, Kidman, Lilly and Ruvik being integral to the plot. They want to have some gameplay as Lilly to explore mechanics of controlling STEM.

For a publisher like Bethesda, they have a hard time making people care about their games that aren't Fallout of Elder Scrolls.

>>15160724

To add here, that's exactly what i thought as well.

I liked Dishonored 1 too and the sequel was shit, same happend to this one.

>>15162006

>spic name

>wtf why does he look like a spicy >:(

>>15162006

>Sebastian looks like some fucking spic.

No he doesn't.

>>15162020

Just look at him.

He went from La Baguette to taco seller.

>>15162017

His skin is pink.

>>15162024

You know that humans have features aside from skin color, right? Facial features, for example.

>>15162036

No shit, point me what part of his face looks like a spic feature.

>>15161138

I was aware it was a different team, didn't know it was the people that did the DLC for the first one. I'm glad I never played it now.

>>15162006

I used the term because that's the way they advertised it

>>15162020

The only real change I see is a beard

>>15162389

You do realize that pic proves my point.

>One of the earliest surnames into the New World of the Americas, the recordings commence in Mexico as shown below

Hmmm who was the first to set up colonies in the americas. Spain.

>These recordings taken from original civil and church registers include Ribera Castellano at Asuncion, on August 24th 1669, Camallo Castellano at San Sebastian, Mexico

Oh would you look at that, that name you insisted that was french as a name for a town under spainish rule.

Also you have to consider the fact Castellanos bit was more of a homage to RE4 since that takes place in spain. And there's this shit:

>In the earlier drafts of the script where the game was supposed to take place in Spain, Sebastian was conceived as a native Spanish whose first name has a distinctively Hispanic pronunciation (Sebastián with an accent on the last syllable) before the diacritics were dropped in the final release.

I just pulled this shit off a fan wiki so I need to find the source. But it's pretty fucking clear to me, Sebastian is supposed to be of european spainish descent.

>ah fuck off, anon. Go bait somewhere else.

How about you just fucking spoon feed us with your spicfu instead or just fuck off?

>>15162526

>No, stopped reading at Roman origin like you should have.

But why should I have stopped though? If he wanted to prove his point, he shouldn't of cited a link that contradicts his claim.

>….You know, considering Japs don't give two shits about those things anyway and they portray most of their chars as Western-European as possible, I'll say we stop this conversation.

Yeah no shit, he fucking brought it up while being oblivious to that fact and I asked him to elaborate, and he just doubled down. Not my fault he went half-cocked.

>>15162227

Me to. Kid cums

>>15162526

rollan

>>15162526

Roll

>>15164311

These weakest dubs cannot overpower that of triple aughts

>>15163888

>spic

>has midwestern/Canadian accent and is from fictional city in an unnamed country

Think you jumped the gun there, bub.

>>15164516 (el atrocidad)

>trips=kike

>>15160882

It's been a weird ride for me really. TEW1 wasn't bad, but I "power-drilled" through it fast in a couple nights and felt a bit meh at the end. It was also rather buggy (PS3 ver. close to release date), but it got better with updates that also did stuff like enable toggling the black bars. I haven't tried the DLCs yet, but will get to it eventually.

The weirdest thing was just as Yahtzee stated, the first chapter starts with some 'escape pursuer' mechanics and spooky shit, but once that's done you start ch.2 and it literally turns into RE4: Lite. Even the first enemy you find does the 'zombie turns head' callback to RE. This isn't bad per se, but it kinda struck as a weird 180º. The opening ch.1 is so different that it feels like you're playing a short demo for another game.

Now,TEW2: Got it on sale while I was on a mood for some "survival"/spook ride after RE7. It started out weird but it picks up fast and unlike TEW1 it doesn't do that whole genre flip when ch2. starts. It literally opens up once you reach the first proper safehouse, and that's where it just 'clicked' for me. "Open world" games nowadays tend to be shit because it's just huge expanses of empty lands that serve as padding and it feels fucking crappy. Instead here you get a ch.3 with a moderately sized urban area to explore at your leisure, with certain things put in order so that you have the right items (e.g. fuse switch requires you to find the electric harpoon weapon). The goal was going to the clearly marked point in the map, but with each block explored I'd get new doors to check, audio signals to trace, goodies to find (e.g. weapons). This made it feel really fresh and interesting - the area has no loading times to fuck you over unless it's a computer terminal transporter and you can find all sorts of cool optional things in the form of files, the audio log records, and the optional scenes where you get chased by that Ring-like woman, sidequest you get the TEW1 revolver from.

Ch.3 worked as a great high point for the title, followed by more linear couple areas right after that, and that was followed by another open urban area but slightly smaller. I really want more games like these. Stuff like Last of Us feels boring to explore because there's literally only one fucking route all over, whereas titles like TEW2 and even "I am Alive" try to make "open" worlds that aren't really so, but sure feel like they are.

The epitome of this kind of design was Silent Hill 1 - the city areas were quite big but you had a certain limiter (roadblocks) but if you were willing to explore you could find a lot of interesting items.

And yeah, sucks that TEW2 flopped, really. I find the chances of another entry highly unlikely…

Fuck this post laura