Bethesda Reveals The Evil Within

[Darken12]

Let's see. Overexposed camera, check. Dimly lit abandoned locale, check. Wheelchair, check. Visual and audio cues referring to the 1920-1950 period, check. Torture instruments, check. Skulls, check. Jump scare, check. Barbed wire, check. Butcher figure, check. Body horror, check. Massive amounts of blood, check. Mutilated corpses, check. Always more body horror, check. Incomprehensible plot, check.

Wow, this trailer has so many movie references I actually can't even begin to list them all. It's like a distilled, hyperfocused zeitgeist of the horror movie genre of the past 10-13 years.

I get the feeling it's going to be disappointingly underwhelming.

 

[triggrhappy94]

No video game bady will ever look scary in live action.

 

[Headsprouter]

Oh, my lord this is fucked up. I love fucked up shit. I can't wait to piss my pants then want to re-piss them for sake of getting a second split-second look at the messed up imagery. I watched the trailer twice, as you probably guessed. Haha.

I need to get a new Internet alias: "Safe-face". That dude is COOL.

Nah, fuck that. I'd rather be obscure to those not members of my fandom.

EDIT: watched the trailer again. Officially in love with Blood-spider-girl, now, too. AND the owl which flashes on the scream...that really happened- SCREEN for about half a second.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Wow that was a bit unexpecting.... Anyways wonder what the stoy and gameplay is like.

 

[Xathos]

Well that was a bit creepy. I'm not really into the survival horror genre as I'm far too much of a wuss and get scared quite easily, but this at least looks interesting. Going to have to see some gameplay of course, but I liked this trailer.

 

[Olas]

A new IP, sewed together from the remains of countless others before it, brought unnaturally to life. No soul, just a horrid imitation.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

They can really make a good movie out of the trailer's concept! I'm impressed!

 

[Nouw]

15 seconds in this trailer has won some of my approval by using Air on the G String. 5 seconds later, my approval has been lost. Why did they cut it out D:<? Anyhow, the monsters look interesting but the 'villain' was a tad too generic for me. Close-ups of someone making barbed-wire isn't what comes to mind when I think of a horror-game antagonist. Doesn't help that the trailer is standard horror-fare with quick cuts to low-lit and shocking images. Doesn't help either that it's live-action.

Sounds Baroque.

I know that piece, and I think it may be a Haydn one? Either way, Harpsichord strongly hints at it.

Although why the hell Baroque? 16th-17th century is an odd time to have your music from.

Baroque indeed. Air on the G string, an arrangement of the 2nd movement from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major by August Wilhelmj.

And why Baroque you may ask? Well, first off Japan loves using classical music -excuse my liberal use of classical in his context- in media, particularly in a contrapuntal manner. This song is often used, probably because it's so damn beautiful This same song plays during an anime character's horrific last stand.

Props to you for recognizing which time period it's from just by listening to it. That's really impressive!

 

[Namehere]

Wow... the was... That irritated me like an announcement from EA. I mean I'm left sitting here thinking: "What? Seriously?" I shouldn't feel that way when Bethesda makes an announcement or launches an add for something, let alone new IP. WTF is going on here? Man... Whoever saw that trailer at the big board meeting and sprung up announcing: "That! That's the one guys! That's gonna sell it right over the edge!" That fellow is a serious risk to the employee insurance fund. He or she is surely going to the loony bin one day, because releasing that was crazy. Crazy in a BAD WAY.

If the game's only half as bad as the add campaign for it's been it'll be terrible. PLEASE make better adds. I never thought I'd see the day where I'd say it...

 

[AlwaysPractical]

That trailer was absolute rubbish but Shinji Mikami has a good record, with his work on the better Resident Evil games, as well as pretty good games like Shadows of the Damned and God Hand. I'm interested to see what will come of this.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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I think the person making the barbed wire is supposed to be the protagonist. The use of traps is part of the gameplay. Then he cuts his hand by accident and 4 armed blood lady comes to get him...

For some reason I think they have included tropes deliberately I mean even the title looks like a late 80's horror movie.

Moonlight Sonata was used in Resident Evil which is my favorite classical tune.

 

[jackinmydaniels]

Ugh, I despise live action trailers, especially live action trailers that don't tell you anything about the game. If this had been done in engine, then at least we could've seen what the game'll look like.

 

[lacktheknack]

I dunno, I think the idea of monstrosities crawling out of blood pools is a brilliant idea with tons of scare potential.

 

[PatrickXD]

I watched this with my brother and every three seconds at least one of us went "Oooooohhhh, whaaaaaat!? NOOOOOOO"
So yeah.
Looking forward to more.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Ugh, I despise live action trailers, especially live action trailers that don't tell you anything about the game. If this had been done in engine, then at least we could've seen what the game'll look like.

There's some screenshots up on the net already taken from famitsu. I linked them earlier in the thread.

 

[Gray Firion]

A survival horror game from the man who not only basically defined the genre but has also worked on some other stellar titles, such as Viewtiful Joe, Killer 7 and Devil May Cry?

Yes please =D

This, so much. A new IP from Shinji Mikami always gathers a cult following for a reason. ^^

 

[GoaThief]

Idtech5 engine and horror? Fuck yes.

I'm very interested now, Beth. Good job.

 

[grey_space]

Yes yes yes Bethsesda ,barbed wire everywhere and yer man has a box for his head. Very scary.

Now shut the fuck up and make me Fallout 4.

 

[GeekFury]

Anyone else finish watching that and instantly think 'Hey it's a 13 Ghosts video game!', man that movie sucked...

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Drink Psychobreak! Made from the juices of real people! It'll quench ya!

Psychobreak! The sanity-quencher!

I'm pretty underwhelmed by the trailer, myself, but a bad trailer does not necessarily make for a bad game (or the converse). Still, I'll hold off on any sort of excitement until I see something actually shot in-game.