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An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
I don't know if the EA executive is going off the one close up of an arm being cut off in the demo. Maybe it's uncensored because it's the arm of a cyborg or it doesn't happen that often (didn’t see EVE dismemberment when killed in the demo) .
In the states there's a certain amount of swear words allowed to a PG13 movie before it is deemed R. So maybe it's the same in Japan for gore?
The remake teased an expanded universe, but now a sequel has no chance of delivering on it.
Honestly i believe it was mainly as retaliation for the original devs breaking off and making colisto protocol. They've done this a few times, ignoring fan demands for the return of a belived ip until someone does it for them, then they retaliate by only then announcing an entry. Colisto protocol was announced and EA announced the remake shortly after, Session finally hit consoles and skate 4 was announced, shortly after Undisputed was shown off, talks started happening about a new fight night.
It was a solid game and we'll have to move on and accept it for what it is. Just because we're not getting a sequel (original or remake) doesn't mean there's no point anymore in what is a great, tense, well-paced single player experience. No one's taking Dead Space Remake away.
I just hope that the game isn't so technically stitched together on PC that driver updates render the game unplayable like what happened with me and my RTX 4070 last year, requiring a driver downgrade just months after the game came out. If you're a console player then you've got no worries.
Most likely for EA to cash in on the remake craze that followed Capcom when they started remaking RE games. I am glad EA did it I enjoy the game. DS is one of my favorite franchises love the sci fi horror shit. What I don't like is EA not remaking DS2. So DS1 remake did not do well with the numbers so what. DS2 has a solid fanbase and is probably the best entry in the franchise depending on the fan. DS2 remake would have been a day one for me but I got a reminder on why I hate EA. Scrap the DS2 remake for a shitty Iron Man game.
It's because the gaming community want remakes and remasters over new games.
I think that is for the best of the franchise o be left alone then to be turned into a game as a service or something like that, EA has the awful habit of trying to monetize everything.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
Great list but should have been a top 10, easily enough games to fill a top 10
and REmake is definitely the best 'survival' horror game ever, not an opinion, fact (Although I have a huge soft spot in my heart for RE2 also..the difficulty of REmake makes it the better game)
But when you start talking about story in a horror game you would have to say Silent Hill 2 is the best out there, that was the perfect mix of horror, emotion and psychological torture...a masterpiece IMO
Great to Dead Space up there too, in my top 10 games of the generation for sure
Maybe if you talking about pure scares maybe Amnesia or Fatal Frame would take the top spot but as a 'survival' horror REmake is king
Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame II: The Tormented
Fatal Frame III: Crimson Butterfly
There is your top 3.
i heard Siren Blood Curse will give you a run for your money. a shame they never released it on Blu-ray in North America, thus the reason i have yet to play it. i like my games on disc
I never played the Resident evil remake and always really wanted to but for me I would have to give the top spot to Silent Hill 2. I remember in the first hour or two thinking, 'this is kinda creepy.... I guess' as I wandered around the brightly lit foggy town but then as the game goes on it just becomes more and more like a nightmare at a brilliantly subtle pace. There was a point running through the streets with everything pitch black that wasn't illuminated by my flashlight that I truly felt like I was in a nightmare, not because the darkness made the game any more difficult or anything, just that experience of running through blackness while seeing weird spamming shapes around me for brief moments as I passed them, they just hit that strange feel of bad dreams perfectly without ever needing to ramp things up by going all out action and jump scares like I feared they would. Truly an amazing game, no other horror game comes close for me, not even any other Silent hill game.
For me :
Amnesia Dark descent
Outlast