New Resident Evil 7 Videos Reveal Save Rooms, Classic Weapon With New Function

A writer for MONG talks about the return of save points, knives, shotguns, and more in Resident Evil 7.

[DEEBO]

My vr HMD is ready.

[S2Killinit]

I hear you. I just gotta find someone willing to sit next to me while I play this in VR. Or else I might be too chicken.

[Artemidorus]

Best off turning the lights out at home and make people jump at scary bits.

[S2Killinit]

The reports suggest they are going back to their horroe roots. I think its great. Cant wait.

[sdcard4gb]

Resident Evil going back to it's roots ?
Um, where is the old camera and controls ? I am not sure I can seriously accept this as a "comeback to roots".

[S2Killinit]

the "survival horror" roots. its going to get scary again, like it used to be back in the day (especially before RE5)

[sdcard4gb]

Well, okay, but... From what I saw the First Person camera angle actually dictates what kind of scares the game has and how exactly the player will encounter them... For example... That jumpscare when the father breaks through the corridor wall in one of the trailers doesn't strike the player even half as hard as that SAME jumpscare back in RE2 with Mister X breaking through a wall of a still background in RCPD after you already had quite a while to walk around and fall into a false sense of safety mostly because the game never made you expect something like this to come out of a still image which basically were original Resident Evil games's backgrounds...
I fail to see how this game, conceptually speaking, is in any way a step up from the original three games in the series other then the obvious audio-visual side.

[Cha0tik]

It's not about beating the first three. They were inspired by the first three games and other recent games to create something that was true to the RE roots yet different and new for the series. "Back to the roots" doesn't always mean that a game is going to be exactly like the past games... it means that the game will feel and play a lot like (<- these two keywords) the old survival horror games. Not imitate them.

[DarkOcelet]

Resident Evil is the only game that can hype me by making a trailer showing an Item Box and a save room.

Day one!

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[sdcard4gb]

And no music in the save room... So sad...

[DarkOcelet]

Actually, the YouTube link I posted is said to be the leaked theme for the save room.

[sdcard4gb]

My apologies.

[sdcard4gb]

Good, at least the original save rooms are back. I don't hear any melodic soundtrack while we are in the save room (which is very odd) and I don't see any limited tapes that could be used to save progress seeing how we are using tape recorders now (which is very sad, mostly because people are no longer tense about saving)... But hey, the trusty item box is still standing there in the corner, so I guess this game at least remembers how these used to work once...
You almost had my interest, CAPCOM. Almost. Who knows, you may end up getting it... But that'll demand you to fully redo the controls and camera of the game, so I highly doubt you'll have the balls enough to release a old style Resident Evil in today's First-Person horror world...
Right now this game seems like some usual First-Person walking-hiding simulator game which is inspired by Resident Evil, but nothing else, really.
Too bad they never released that Resident Evil 4 Hook Version... I just had this sudden urge to play it... Too tired of this First-Person horror game we were playing for at least 6+ years now since Slender and Amnesia came along and made every single person decide that horror can only be effective if you are stuck in first person. If you really think that it is true then I would recommend Clock Tower, Silent Hill 1,2,3, Resident Evil 1,2,3 and Eternal Darkness. Horror is the creation of those who create it and to think that it works best with only one kind of perspective is ludicrous disrespect to the survival horror games of old.

[mnlorain]

I shared your thoughts until fairly recently. At the very least we know it isn't a complete walking simulator, because there ARE weapons to use and supposedly the game also won't rely on hiding in lockers.

As for the saves, agreed. I enjoyed Alien: Isolation so much because of how punishing it was in this regard, with save stations placed pretty far apart. It made things INTENSE when you made a lot of progress, but hadn't saved in a long time -- and suddenly the damn alien drops into the room and gets your heart pumping! I hope RE7 replicates this, but I know it'll probably have checkpoints too...

The first-person camera bums me out the most, though. I really wish there was a third-person option to make it feel even more like Resident Evil. I understand them wanting to double-down on VR, but very few people playing the game will actually have a headset.

All I know is, if the RE2 remake releases and doesn't at least have the OPTION for static camera angles, I'll have to quit buying Capcom products. I think ideally the gameplay would actually be somewhat of a hybrid, with static angles while exploring, but over-the-shoulder views while aiming -- pretty much what RE4's hook version was like. That provides atmosphere AND accuracy.

[sdcard4gb]

I want people to have some respect to old video game franchises in terms of their original gameplay mechanics. All these Alien:Isolations can be good games all they want, but I HIGHLY don't appreciate people making numbered games in the already established series's and completely revamping the original controls. This is a problem, because the preservation of this series is no longer possible...
I am just a kind of guy who wants to play one and the same game over the years which becomes better and better while retaining it's own self. I don't want these indie titles to manipulate the franchises like Resident Evil to become like them only because it's trendy...
...I just want to go home. I'm just 24 and I haven't been home for years now... There hasn't been a proper Resident Evil game since 4 (which is really a true Resident Evil game, no matter what everyone says, I mean - look at the shlocky story, the ridiculous one liners, the bosses, the music, ofcourse it's pure Resident Evil), I haven't had a Devil May Cry since DMC4, I haven't had a Silent Hill since The Room, I haven't seen a good Thief game for what seems to be decades now... So many disappointments, so many false promises... So tired.

[mnlorain]

I hear ya. The way RE7 looks, it would have been an amazing Resident Evil spin-off game. Almost like an evolution of what Survivor was. It looks more like something Capcom would release to tide us over until the real seventh entry was released. No matter how good it is, I'll be at least somewhat disappointed that it had to be so different from the best of the main games. I kept waiting for the series to go back to basics, but now it's been taken in this direction.

Still, I'm more optimistic about it lately. Especially because most of the info that was leaked several months ago has now been proven true, and that means a specific character from the series will be in this game. There's stuff to like, others to dislike. It could be a whole lot worse, the series damn-near turned into a third-person Call of Duty for a bit.

I'm hoping any remakes they do are faithful, at least.

[sdcard4gb]

Same here :)
It's not hard making a good Resident Evil game.

I'm still waiting for Bethesda to greenlight The Evil Within 2. I haven't played another game that SHOULD HAVE BEEN a Resident Evil 5 more then TEW. Shlocky in few parts, artsy in few parts, strange, surreal, bloody, messy, tense and really engaging.

[mnlorain]

Ah, The Evil Within! Yeah, I'm DYING for a sequel.

It was initially disappointing because I didn't expect it to be that action-heavy, and it played a bit like a RE4 remake (a village with a chainsaw maniac, big ogres, that kind of thing). The Kidman DLC was AMAZING though, giving me exactly what I wanted. It also prompted me to replay the main game, which was SO MUCH better the second time around. The nods to RE (like the first enemy's shoulder glance) were fun to see also.

[Batzi]

Can't wait to play this in VR!

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Return of the save room, nice!