The Evil Within's New Trailer is Downright Freaky

[Fox12]

Wow, so much hate. I think it looks interesting. It's basically an action game with a horror style added, but RE4 did that and people seemed to like it then.

The title has me curious though. The theme seems to be that the real threat isn't a bunch of monsters it's... (wait for it) the evil within! It's certainly a more thoughtful approach to the genre. It makes me wonder what kind of person the lead character is. Admittedly this is similar to SH2, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

This game reminds a lot of Resident E- Oh yeah same director. Honestly, this trailer has gotten me pretty hype for a game that on my radar (Bethesda+good director) but not exactly "hype". I definitely like the spooky wooded forest theme. So many horror games are just rusty metal hallways. And I'm actually more interested now that know you can fight in the game rather than it being a running around and puzzle solving game

Wow, so much hate. I think it looks interesting. It's basically an action game with a horror style added, but RE4 did that and people seemed to like it then.

The title has me curious though. The theme seems to be that the real threat isn't a bunch of monsters it's... (wait for it) the evil within! It's certainly a more thoughtful approach to the genre. It makes me wonder what kind of person the lead character is. Admittedly this is similar to SH2, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

Exactly. As someone who didn't play RE4 until the HD re-release, the years of massive hype build up didn't stop it from being one of my favorite games. I would like more games like it. I don't get this belief that horror characters need to be defenseless. Fuck, he's already going up against zombies, big hammer guys, giant flesh arms, freaky 6-armed girl, and psychic brain exposed guy. He has a stick that shoots limited quantities of metal really fast. He doesn't exactly have an advantage over them. If anything, the "defenseless" characters that survive encounter after encounter with horrible monsters are less scary cause you know you'll get out of any situation by solving a puzzle in the nick-of-time or through a scripted event. At the very least, you can run faster than any monster. That's made RE4 scary, you had to stand still shoot your attackers as they move towards you

 

[LysanderNemoinis]

This game reminds a lot of Resident E- Oh yeah same director. Honestly, this trailer has gotten me pretty hype for a game that on my radar (Bethesda+good director) but not exactly "hype". I definitely like the spooky wooded forest theme. So many horror games are just rusty metal hallways. And I'm actually more interested now that know you can fight in the game rather than it being a running around and puzzle solving game

Wow, so much hate. I think it looks interesting. It's basically an action game with a horror style added, but RE4 did that and people seemed to like it then.

The title has me curious though. The theme seems to be that the real threat isn't a bunch of monsters it's... (wait for it) the evil within! It's certainly a more thoughtful approach to the genre. It makes me wonder what kind of person the lead character is. Admittedly this is similar to SH2, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

Exactly. As someone who didn't play RE4 until the HD re-release, the years of massive hype build up didn't stop it from being one of my favorite games. I would like more games like it. I don't get this belief that horror characters need to be defenseless. Fuck, he's already going up against zombies, big hammer guys, giant flesh arms, freaky 6-armed girl, and psychic brain exposed guy. He has a stick that shoots limited quantities of metal really fast. He doesn't exactly have an advantage over them. If anything, the "defenseless" characters that survive encounter after encounter with horrible monsters are less scary cause you know you'll get out of any situation by solving a puzzle in the nick-of-time or through a scripted event. At the very least, you can run faster than any monster. That's made RE4 scary, you had to stand still shoot your attackers as they move towards you

Yes, yes, sweet merciful crap YES! I absolutely love the Resident Evil series, always have, always will (even 5 and 6...which I will admit weren't that scary but were two of the best third-person shooters I've ever played - Vanquish being the absolute best), and having some Silent Hill mind-fuckery just makes it sound even better.
As for the survival horror aspect with a cop, well most of the RE protagonists were police and had training of some sort, and they were just as underpowered as anyone else. With every trailer I see, the more excited I am. If this game is even half as awesome as it looks, I'm going to be the happiest asshole this side of the nuthouse.

 

[TheRookie8]

A nice combination of Resident Evil 4 cheese, Silent Hill environments, a touch of Last of Us, gothic Dark Souls and...sunflowers...?

Also, the story is fittingly vague from these trailers, which is nice in these types of games...you want to find out yourself while crazy things happen.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm definitely playing this but to be honest the trailer has probably trumped the fear factor considerably... I mean I just saw probably half the monsters in the game, and what they can do, and in what section I'll meet them. And it's just so over-the-top, with the gushing blood down the hallway and the burning spiked pyre and the guillotine and the mincers and murdered farm animal number #43... not exactly atmospheric... in fact I'm getting a Haunting Ground kind of vibe from the trailer. All very lavish and baroque, some very unnerving parts, but ultimately narmful.

 

[RJ 17]

Anyone else get to enjoy the surreal moment of watching a game trailer as an ad preceding a...game trailer?

Other than that, what's the deal with survival horror games almost always having something to do with hospitals? In particular mental hospitals?

 

[Sonicron]

I might try it somewhere down the line, but somehow I'm less excited now than at the initial announcement when the entire vibe was still vague. I'm all for the wet sticky icky thing, and I do like me some grotesque abominations, but these elements usually work best in concert with a surreal twist on everyday situations and imagery, whereas this new trailer more gives the impression of a straight-faced horror/action blend like Resident Evil, which I don't like much. (Yes, I know, Mikami. Shut up.)

-Big guy with metal cover on head and giant weapon: oh the Silent Hill rip-off! Sure it's not a pyramid shape, but instead a box (like that matters). That's still a giant red flag of unoriginality.

I have to agree. Pyramid Head was a great monster, he still is, but can horror game developers please stop raping his corpse already? We've been over this obvious charade so often now it's becoming downright sad.

 

[Deathfish15]

Other than that, what's the deal with survival horror games almost always having something to do with hospitals? In particular mental hospitals?

It is the conceptual paranoia that the mentally ill may not be so much "mentally ill" when seeing dead people, ghosts, poltergeists, demons, and other worldly creatures. And it also is that during late parts of the 1800's and early parts of the 1900's, mental hospitals were notorious for performing experiments that would otherwise be considered criminal acts by today's standards on patients. Think electroshock therapy and lobotomy.

An example of one such case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cotton_(doctor)