The Evil Within's New Trailer is Downright Freaky

[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)