Evil Within PC Version (No Spoilers). Any Thoughts?

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Starbird

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Have already ordered it but hearing some bad buzz online on it being a terrible console port. Which would make me sad since the game looked really neat in trailers.

Anyone played it yet on PC? Decent?
 

Casual Shinji

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I haven't played it on PC, but on consoles (PS4) it's pretty terrible.

- It has unnecessary letterboxing.
- It runs at 30fps eventhough the graphics are last-gen.
- There's pop-in and clipping issues. One of the more fun ones is that when you're holding a torch while running, the fire trail just clips through your arm.
- Everytime you die there's a load screen, which wouldn't matter too much if not for the fact that death feels extremely unfair.
- The gameplay is an unfocused messy version of The Last of Us. So if you already thought that game's combat was bad, brace yourself.
- The "horror" is so ludicrously banal it could almost be a parody; Dudes with chainsaws, enemies wrapped in barbed wire etc. Seriously, Resident Evil 4 was scarier than this supposed "return to true survival horror roots".

And that's only from the first 2 hours or so of playtime. This games feels shamefully unfinished and cobbled together out of 10-year old horror tropes.