It appears that Shinji Mikami, best known as the creative mind behind the Resident Evil franchise (par the bad ones) intends to use the T-virus in order to reanimate the practically dead Survival Horror franchise, so to finish this awkwardly phrased simile, will we get a brain dead Zombie or an unstoppable Tyrant? my bet is on a Tyrant right now, but as it stands it's anybody's guess.
Now to get to the point of this blog, recently we were all treated to an eerie trailer (and a few pics) of Shinji Mikami's latest contribution to the Survival Horror genre "The Evil Within" for those of you not in the know, Shinji Mikami is touted as being the father of the survival horror genre for having headed development of the hugely successful and critically acclaimed Resident Evil franchise, he also stated a while back that this new game will be his attempt at revitalising the Survival Horror genre.
So, if any of you have been wondering why people are practically loosing it with excitement in the comments section over the recent news and trailer, now you know.
Resident Evil may have fallen on hard time as of late, many fans attribute this fact to the franchise straying too far from its Survival horror roots, a decision made by Capcom themselves who believe survival horror to be too niche of a market, a view shared sadly by many other pubs/devs, however no one can deny the huge impact Resident Evil had on the industry when it debuted on the PSX (Sony Playstation) all those years back.
The truth is however, there have been many Survival horror games that came about well before Resident evil, some of the most notable of which are, "Haunted House" "Clock Tower" and "Alone in the dark" Resident Evil however is the franchise that ultimately popularised the Survival Horror genre, solidifying it as the definitive Survival horror franchise... Well up until Capcom ballsed it up, but we all know how that goes.
The success of Resident Evil sparked a wave of new Survival horror IP's coming from other devs hoping to get a piece of the scary pie, this led to some pretty crappy titles getting rolled out but also brought us many of the best survival horror franchises to date, such as "Parasite Eve" "Silent Hill" "Siren" "Project Zero" (AKA Fatal Frame for the US) and of course "Dead Space".
Apart from post RE4 Resident Evil dressing up every now and then, and masquerading as a "Survival Horror" game while we all point and laugh until it just stopped trying, and the American dev team who are now in charge of Silent Hill coming to terms with the fact that what actually made a Japanese survival horror game "scary" was the "Japanese" (seriously, if you can make grown men crap their pants at the mere sight of a little girl then let them handle the scares) Dead Space, is the only mainstream franchise that could legitimately be called a Survival horror game, but again sadly EA seems ever intent on doing away with the survival horror aspect all together and sought to make the sequels into action games with some jump scares thrown in... Much to Visceral Games dismay I would imagine (sigh)
Now I'm a huge fan of Project Zero (that's Fatal Frame for our American friends) but it's not everyone's "cup 'o tea" and that's fine, but I think it's pretty safe to say that it's becoming increasingly difficult now to find a satisfying fix for our survival horror itch, that's where The Evil Within comes... Well, in.
The moment news began to circulate that Shinji friggin Mikami of all people, was developing a Survival Horror game and that he hopes it will revitalise the genre that he practically established, people began to see his new game as a beacon of hope, hope that the genre so many of us grew up with that ended up falling by the way side to more "popular" genres may be coming back with avengeance, and the fact that the father of the Survival Horror genre mite be the man to do it, well my friends that is big news.
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We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
One trailer which looks like a Nine Inch Nails music video does not constitute a comeback.
Even if the game (of which we have seen next to nothing) turns out to be good then it will be one good game in a genre of stagnant shite.
Give me 3 or more quality horror titles and then we can talk about it making a comeback.
Try the Dreadout demo, is a SH loosely based on fatal frame.
I hope they come back, we need more scarier tittles.
Survival horror is already on its way back, at least on PC. Games like Penumbra, Amnesia, and Slender have all thrived on PC. Console gamers don't seem to like the genre anymore (based on the sales of SH games like Siren, Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame 4).
Survival horror needs more games. Here is hoping "The Evil Within" turns out to be good.
A little to soon for that