Survival horror

It's taken me a bit of time to sort of get used to it because the stamina is so limited that melee combat is...

I appreciate that they want it to be a liability to keep that sort of survival horror thing of running away.

But there are moments where it feels almost inevitable because the monsters will not let you do anything unless you kill them.

And then if you don't have firearms... any given fight can fuck you over if you are if you make just one or two mistakes so it's and because of the save system where it's like you have to spend a dollar to use a payphone like it's the ink ribbon kind of thing bit more generous but it still makes you really not want to save especially since the money you could use to save can also buy things Even though I'm really liking it so far, I can foresee this game potentially getting fucking frustrating in sort of the later midpoint.

As it stands so far, put a couple hours into it, and the style's off the charts, the story is really interesting, and the puzzles and gameplay, it's all...

Not much new in that department.

You know, there are elements that could hark back to a game like Lone Survivor and that game's elements are all taken, you know, inspired by very well-worn survival horror concepts.

And I don't say that as a negative, just, you know, if you like survival horror, you know exactly what you're getting into with a lot of this.

Again, it is Resident Evil 7 Biohazard on the podcast today.

It is a first-person survival horror game developed and published by Capcom for PC, PS4, and Xbox One in 2017.

There are a lot of people that were involved in making this game, but I'm going to run down the main credits here.

The director of the game was Koshi Nakanishi.

What's interesting to me about this game is that I think it's a pretty confusing game.

I hear a lot of people talk about the way that the gameplay changes as you play.

It starts out as a very tense resources or scarce type of survival horror.

Count your shots because you might have 12 bullets and you're probably going to need 10 to take down the enemies in front of you.

At least to the point I've made it to.

Gameplay-wise, it's a shift because the first three Resident Evil mainline titles and some of the side titles are straight-up survival horror.

This is an action adventure game.

Leon could just as well be Indiana Jones in this game.

And that's what I love

about it.

I mean, Resident Evil invented the survival horror genre.

And, you know, as they got along, they decided to kind of grow past it.

It is best played with one GM and three to five players by the light of 10 tea light candles, which provide atmosphere, act as a countdown timer for the game and allow you to literally burn your character sheet away as you play.

Ten Candles is described as a tragic horror game rather than survival horror for one main reason.

In Ten Candles, there are no survivors.

In the final scene of the game, when only one candle remains, all of the characters will die.

An omen is a clue to a mystery, and if players can solve that mystery, maybe they won't die.

Or at least, maybe they'll die later.

Listen, in survival horror, we gotta take what we can get.

Pay attention to this part.

It's like 20 bucks, but it is essentially a 2D Resident Evil game mixed in with maybe some Silent Hill elements as well.

But yeah, it's a 2D survival horror game.

You play as a private detective.

that is looking for this individual.

I cannot recommend it enough.

I think I'm a few hours in now at this point.

And yeah, I mean, if you're a lover of Resident Evil, Survival Horror, Silent Hill, Metro Bandits especially, this game, I think, is going to be very, very special.

Yeah.

What's your love affair with Resident Evil? What's going on here?

I mean, just the, the, the way that it broke open survival horror, um, which, you know, a whole new style of video games.

Uh, the, the resource scarcity, like it just, it's so tense because you're, you're-

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OK. 1996 through 1999 is the golden age of horror resource management and action tension.

Resident Evil 1996 coined the term survival horror popular popularizing tight inventory limits, scarce ammunition, ink ribbon saving and high stakes combat against biological horrors.

All right, so let's say Resident Evil.

Let's look it up so y'all can see it.

So I feel like you said all that needs to be said.

The only thing else I'd say is I look forward to the future of horror games because they find a way to make it more and more interesting, just like fame.

He played a fairly old game, but it shows just how far AI has come in terms of like four games and stuff like that and the next game is coming out they said the ai for the rope for the alien is going to be even more intelligent than this the one that's in the game right now

no for sure for sure uh mr elijah is there uh anything that you would like to add into the i mean especially since you've written a horror book like uh you know what what are the things that attract you the most so horror and you know i mean are you excited about the future of horror