The Evil Within 2

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If they took out the entire city chapter of the first game it would be a pretty decent game, but Mikami will never learn that games like this get shit the minute you start throwing enemies with guns at the player.

fuck that, gimmie God Hand 2.

The first wasn't necessarily bad (though it was painfully mediocre), but it was marketed incorrectly.

Gratuitous gore, insane violence, and over-the-top death scenes do not horror make. That's just torture porn. There's nothing particularly wrong with torture porn, but it's not the same thing as horror. The game was marketed as the next survival horror game, but it was arguably as much a survival horror game as RE4 (which was not a survival horror game at all). It had gratuitous gore and violence, lots of torture, a seemingly all-knowing mastermind enemy, a jumbled timeline…it wasn't survival horror, it was basically just the video game equivalent of SAW.

Also 90% of the upgrades were worthless, the stealth mechanic was straight shit that didn't function most of the time, and why the hell would you have about 50% of the game set in broad daylight?

I went in expecting a beta RE4 with more gore and better monster design, and got exactly that. But I played the PC version, where I could bump up the framerate and remove the black bars, which made the game infinitely better.

The plot was practically nonexistent, but given how utterly shit RE's story is that's not exactly a problem. It does need a better protagonist though, that'd make the game much better.

I don't really get where all the hate stems from, compared to the legion of samey horrible shit, it was okay.

The first 3 chapters show the game was originally supposed to be a stealth-horror game with emphasis on survival which is why the ammo count was horribly low in those chapters.

But then I guess somewhere in development they just wanted to make RE4 that references every other horror game and cliche under the sun. Pretty much all those hide and seek prompts are gone and enemies no longer patrol large areas where you could stealth kill them one by one.

It played well enough, but the goo upgrade system and tacked on stealth definitely didn't improve my opinion of the game. If they fixed that and made the plot a bit more coherent, then the sequel could probably make a decent nuRE4.

I rather liked it too. It had a long meaty campaign with an interestingly twisted story.

The problem with the brain juice was it was a huge downgrade from RE4 pesetas since you could also get treasures and uprgrade the treasures for even more dosh. EW barely gives you enough goo for upgrades most of the time.

TEW wasn't completely awful it was just kinda flawed, maybe they'll expand upon its strengths and bandage its weaknesses in a sequel

Shit controls. Boring fights. Not scary. If I wanted an action game with gore I'd just play doom (1995 w/ mods).

I had to play it at like 720p and even then it performed like fucking garbage. Glad I didn't pay a cent for it. Steam family sharing is pretty gud if you know someone who buys games but never plays em'.

carnival level is top tier

I had this problem with my r9 280 but my 290x runs it perfectly. Granted I bought the game in 2015 and only played the first few levels before giving up and only started playing recently. So maybe they've made fixes to the PC release, I hear it was unplayable on release.

I thought it bombed? I guess it sold enough overall to warrant another try. It will probably be first person this time to get the youtube audience.

Wasn't the first game a complete wreck, as in, the game was so poorly written and directed it made no goddamn sense at all?

I liked first too. It was deeply flawed, but enjoyable.
Also, by some reason there are a lot of slash fanfic about this game. Why?