RESIDENT EVIL....

#365

If my exposure to RE7 was limited to watching LPs of the pre-release demo on youtube, and if I found that demo only borderline handle-able, spook-wise, about how okay would I be watching a LP of the full game?

#366

honestly I think youā€™d be wasting it

itā€™s a horror game in an interactive medium! itā€™s all about that tension!

you donā€™t have to want to play it but an LP is just burning it for no reason

#367

The game itself is way more upsetting than the demo, particularly in the opening hour.

But: If you can handle the 70ā€™s Texas Chainsaw Massacre then you can probably handle this game.

Edit: Trying to reach for a more recent touchstone hereā€¦ If you can handle Hereditary then you can definitely handle this game.

#368

ymmv but if it helps most of the deeply deeply terrifying parts are in the prologue and the middle chapter

the rest of it is more ā€œIā€™m gonna get killed by monsters!ā€ scary than ā€œif only I could die a swift deathā€ scary.

itā€™s unbelievably good in VR

#369

@Felix I honestly donā€™t think Iā€™d be able to handle playing it myself. Iā€™ve mentioned before in the thread that Iā€™m pretty sensitive to horror (the original Siren was too much for me, and that was back in the PS2 days of graphics still being a bit wonky), so I had previously just assumed that Iā€™d never be able to see any of it, but after thinking about it a bit, I thought I might be able to do it with the extra layer of separation that an LP would provide. Really, the choice Iā€™m looking at here seems like either watching the LP or just never seeing the game at all.

@OneSecondBefore I actually havenā€™t heard of that second one, and never saw the first. I really donā€™t consume a lot of horror media! I was a huge fan of RE back in the day though because the graphics werenā€™t good enough to really make the experience visceral. I loved the intricate level design and the puzzles, and how the general structure of the game kinda enforced a slow-paced and cautious style of play. Now that the series is getting good again, Iā€™ve been hoping to try and come back to it, in a ā€œget the band back togetherā€ kind of way.

#370

Like, listen. When I was a kid, the ghost from Spelunker literally kept me awake at night.

#371

yeah Iā€™m saying Iā€™d pick never in that case, hands down

I scare pretty easy too! Or at least I did before I all but gave up watching horror movies when I was like 16 (which wouldā€™ve been a year or two after playing silent hill 2 and summarily retiring from the genre). I just really wanted to see what they could do with this game and it was entirely worth it.

but, again, Iā€™m not at all sensitive to gore and when the game pulls back on the tension and leans on the violence, itā€™s no problem for me. If you arenā€™t like that I can easily see it being too much.

#372

Iā€™m a hardened horror lover so take what I say with a grain of salt, but: The opening of RE7 made my adrenaline pump way more than it usually does for most horror movies, but of course actually being in control of it went a long way there. The rest of the game after the opening section (once you get to the mansion) was completely mild, nothing too bad there.

#373

things I can remember being terrified of as a kid:

  • the Harrison Ford vehicle what lies beneath
  • the goosebumps volume the headless ghost
#374
  • Robert Zemeckisā€™ Death Becomes Her
#375

Iā€™m pretty sure my girlfriend at the time lost a significant amount of respect for me on the basis of my reaction to the ring

#376

Serious advice, you could always read the Wikipedia plot summary of the first section of the game and then watch a play through starting when the player gets to the mansion and it turns into a regular, way less traumatic RE explore-fest.

#377

with the exception of everything even tangentially involving Marguerite, who was responsible for (almost?) every time I screamed out loud

#378

this is how i feel about mr. x

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#382

im dojng a test play on assisted and hereā€™s what ive learned so SKIP THIS POST if u dont want my hot tips

  • the knife degrades so fast in combat itā€™s honestly better used for escapes or if you absolutely need to kill a zombie thatā€™s already down.

  • mr x wont follow you into the dark room or the S.T.A.R.S. office and will walk off elsewhere after about 5 minutes

  • lickers donā€™t have opposable thumbs

-mr xā€™s times heā€™s hunting for you actually trigger and end at ceetain points. some mild sequence breaming can seripusly cut down on the time you have to deal with his fedora ass, basically _ if youā€™ve got spare time and know you can go grav some items youve left behind do it

-people have mentioned but yet when the reticle shrinks itā€™s more damage and better accuracy

so much pistol ammo you shpuld rly only be using your gunpowder for your extra guns

#383

I am bad at this game but I think it is because I am trying to kill every zombie I see. I will try just running away when I can. I have been running away from Mr X every time though.

#384

I kinda wish there was a way to stealth kill zombies so as not to alert Mr. X. They had stealth kills in Revelations 2, so Iā€™m surprised they didnā€™t add it to this game.

#385

I never once tried taking him down during my playthrough of Leon A-Claire B, probably because I heard he doesnā€™t have any drops now. If it puts him off searching a while though could be worth it.