Jesus Christ I feel like we blew our load far too early with Resident Evil 7 and now that it's October and I'm actively looking for shit to spook me I don't have anything. I've been having to go back and replay old horror games. But not only do I not really have anything to play right now, but it doesn't look like there's much good on the horizon either.
I decided to do something very uncharacteristic of me which is to go and look up the upcoming horror titles to get myself excited for something in the future. What I got was a great amount of disappointment. Most of the games I found were you usual "horror" fair. Walking simulators in first person that thinks horror is dark empty buildings full of jump scares but some titles were so offensively bad I'm going to put them in this blog post
First is The Evil Within 2 (pictured above), a game I think will be so shitty that I can't help but feel that if you saw the trailer and got excited you may want to see a doctor about your mental state. Did you play the first game? Did you see that shit?! The first game was a horribly paced, horribly designed, unscary and clunky piece of shit and from what little I've heard about the new game it's just more of that. This is the game that thought that they could make their own Pyramid Head by putting a large man in a butcher apron and then placing a SAFE of all fucking things on his head. Clearly the team behind The Evil Within don't have a fucking clue what they are doing so don't get too excited for this one.
Days Gone is coming second on the list and it's one of those games I just can't figured out why people are getting excited for it. First of all, it's a fucking zombie survival game so already in belongs on the trash pile along with all the other zombie survival games I found. The thing that really grinds me about this game is that the only gimmick the game seems to have aside from vaguely ripping off The Last of Us is that they put enough zombies on screen that would make a Warriors game blush. It doesn't look bad per se but it looks just so fucking by the books boring as fuck "survival" "horror" in an open world that I just don't care.
This one I find particularly offensive to my eyes because it reminds me out Outlast and anything that reminds me of THAT steaming pile of shit needs to be put down immediately. Judging from the trailer I found on IGN it seems to be the aforementioned walking simulator type game in a dirty building probably filled with jump scares. What makes this really bad though is the story intro I got was "An abandoned prison, a character with amnesia" which is that kind of line that makes me roll my eyes and scroll down the page. Why use such a cliche setting and such a cliche plot in an age where you can load up Steam and literally find HUNDREDS of games like that for probably a lot less money and probably about the same quality that this game is offering. Outlast burnt me once and I'm not falling for your shit Inmates.
I could do this all day but I'm gonna talk about this game last because when I first saw it I thought it may have seemed like a neat idea. The idea is that you have to escape a house and the guy in the house will try to stop you and then catch you. The gimmick is that every play you do, the AI learns how you play and will adapt to your style. Now I saw this game for the first time almost straight after seeing Don't Breathe and I thought this basically sounds like that movie only the villain isn't blind. Maybe more like The Collector now I think about it. Anyway when I actually sat down and thought about the concept behind the game I realized that it's probably going to be bullshit. It may be effective for the first couple of times but once you realize what makes the AI tick you'll just game it so hard that you'll be guaranteed to win every time. It reminds me of a game called Warning Forever, a free to play shmup boss rush game where the enemy ship changes based on your play style, basically the shmup version of this. However once you figured out what the game was looking for to make the boss grow a certain way you just did that every time for crazy high scores and after that it just became boring. Unless this game is like, £5 or you have the brain function of a goldfish then I'd probably wait for a big sale on this one.
Anyway, I know I'm being super negative and the upcoming list of games did have SOME interesting ideas on it so I'll cover those tomorrow. I'm also secretly hoping that all these games will prove me wrong and just being fucking fantastic once they're released.
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