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Q+A with Ed boon coming later tonight on Keighleyâs show
Says 7:55 pm. Im guessing ET
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âScaryâ games tend to be filled with stuff I hate, cheap jump scares, scarce resources, an abundance of instant kills, enemies popping up from behind you, terrible check points, respawning enemies, and a painfully weak playable character.
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I guess you wouldnât like Silent Hill on the Wii. You canât fight at all, only run. Mightâve as well called it âSilent Hill: Run Awayâ edition.
Isnât that most horror games in the past decade, letâs take away all their weapons and force them to hide in a closet for 10 minutes.
Most INDIE Horror titles are hide and go seek simulators yes.
They probably just donât have a budget for a decent combat system after most of it went towards the GFX so they make you able to hide in lockers and call it a day.
Amnesia was one of the shittiest games Iâve ever played. Decent atmosphere but cornhole everything else.
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Weak playable characters varies for the premise of the game.
We expect the 12 year old girl in a victorian era game to be weak, we donât expect paramilitary police with some fancy name (like S.T.A.R.S. ) to be weak.
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The resource issue in horror games is a delicate balancing act. Too far in either direction and it doesnt work.
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My personal favorite horror game last-gen was Dead Space 1
My favorite horror title this generation is The Evil Within 1
Itâs especially annoying with dyanmic difficulty depending on how well youâre doing in some games. REmake 2 would make it so you need literally 7+ headshots to kill ONE zombie if you were playing too well, which was so goddamn dumb. I think REmake 3 did away with this or at least revamped it, it never took more than a couple of shots to take down a zombie in that game.
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Yea sometimes it took a lot. I didnt bother killing most of the zombies when i pkayed RE2R. I mostly disabled by knee capping and removing arms instead.
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When it comes to Resident Evil I avoid the zombies rather than kill them in my first couple of runs. I go gun blazing when I know the game well enough.
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I clapped almost every zombie in REmake 2 & 3. I know I have to backtrack so I donât want that many surprises when I do. That and, you do have the resources. I was swimming in ammo in RE3 especially.
Also point blank shotgun blasts is too satisfying in those games.
GOAT Horror titles
Killer7
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill
RE (PSX)
Zombi U
I started REmake but still need to finish it. My favorite line about RE from the younger generationâŚâItâs too easy to run out of ammo, and the zombieâs are bullet spongesâ.
Silent Hill 2 is one of the GOATâs.
You should be slapped for putting Zombi U there though. I played through the PS4 port, itâs a decent game but thatâs about it.
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From what Iâve played of RE7 so far, it does an excellent job of balancing resources. The game is fucking fun, and extremely well built and written. Graphics are amazing, great performance, great character. The game drips with creepy atmosphere, and the sound design is up there with the best.
My problem with it is that itâs not fun having to change my drawers every time I enter a new area 
So I guess itâs more of me being a pussy than anything else 
The game does its job. Extremely well.
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I wonder would a modernized remake of Silent Hill 2 would work. I enjoyed watching my buddy play it back in the day (of course Iâm still not buyin it, Iâm too much of a beech ass neega to play that scary ass game )
Iâll like to see it if a Japanese team does it. If Konami farms it out to a western dev will would be a shitshow.
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Wii U version was awesome, for what it was. I get uneasy playing these and the Game Pad usage was fun and added to the tension of going through inventory while the game is still going.
Game had some cool ideas, like the characters that die on you becoming part of the game, and a part of your friends game if they play online, when the online was up anyways.
I want to get to the Evil Within games but horror games arenât really my jam.
I forget which section, but I remember we made my, at the time, roommates girlfriend play for us, lol. The soundtrack is legendary.
You are talking modern Konami⌠They would farm it off to whoever is the cheapest whether Western or Eastern.
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