"Zwei" New survival horror gamer from Shinji Mikami

[valentinesdead?]

Just thought I'd leave this here. . .

http://www.psu.com/Shinji-Mikamis-pedigree-makes-Zwei-most-exciting-Survival-Horror-game-in-years---a015236-p0.php

Man, does this article get me all hyped up. Mikami is just simply one of the best game designers ever, although they're are a couple holes in games he's made I do need to catch up on.(Namely, God's Hand, Vanquish, and Shadows of the Damned).

[Aleff]

What the holy shit crap I got scared by that screenshot! Bring it on Mikami! I guess it will be the triumphant return of survival horror to the gaming world, seriously I've never been so scared by a videogame character like...

[Darkmoon]

I'd love to.

[Wrathborne]

True. It has horror elements in it, but other elements tend to counteract them (Most Leon). Perhaps it would be more accurate to say I'm bitching about the lack of effective horror? Also, more eyeballs and tentacles do not equal scary.

Tell that to the RE5 design team.

[The_15th]

I am enthusiastic for Zwei right now, but if they show a US Marine with a full arsenal of big GUNZ pwning Zweis, then I will simply stop caring. I want classic horror, with ambiance, creepy mansion, the works, the whole nine yards!!!

[Anders]

Great, another thread about RE4/RE5, and which of them destroyed the genre/renewed the genre/has survival/lacks survival/has horror/lacks horror/etc...

[Darkmoon]

True. It has horror elements in it, but other elements tend to counteract them (Most Leon). Perhaps it would be more accurate to say I'm bitching about the lack of effective horror? Also, more eyeballs and tentacles do not equal scary.

[Pikminister]

Oh, you know full well he's not alone. I've been bitching about the lack of horror in RE4 for years.

And you've been doing it wrong, for years.

I thought we had already agreed that RE4 had horror elements in it. Because it does. The setting, plot and the general atmosphere, is certainly horrific in nature. Not the type of stuff you find in a typical Kirby game, for instance..... (>")>

What we also agreed upon (or so I thought), was that being scared of those horror elements is entirely up to each individual. It's entirely subjective. Some find the horror elements within RE3 to be scary. I didn't. Yet the survival elements in RE3, made up for that. Big time.

So what RE4 really lacks are those pesky SURVIVAL elements that RE games had been missing for such a long time. The survival factor is something that RE4 needed to enhance the horror elements that were definitely in it. Because when you mix survival + horror you get a game that can be very, very tense... and yes, even scary.

[Darkmoon]

Oh, you know full well he's not alone. I've been bitching about the lack of horror in RE4 for years.

[Wrathborne]

Not only are you the only one...you're the only one and your by yourself

[Vito]

Horror is subjective true but RE4 did shit for me in that department. Sorry but in that department Mikami disappointed me, Big time. I can't be the only one.

[Wrathborne]

I have mixed feelings about Mikami, on one hand he was the one that brought me the best survival horror experience in my life, in the other hand he was the one who destroyed the genre 7 years ago.

You've got RE4 confused with RE5 again. RE4 still had some horror in it, would have liked more horror than it had, but it had enough to keep most of us happy.

[Pikminister]

I haven't played ORC in more than a week and over a YEAR since I have played COD.

And RE4 dates back to 2005.

Between then and now, how many shooters did gamers in general BUY?

My point right there. We need to look in the mirror before we start pointing the bony finger of shame when blaming who destroyed the Survival-Horror genre.

Yep, he destroyed it and the era of Third person shooters began.

I was kidding before, but are you a millennial? Nobody who's been gaming at least since the PSX era would say that.

[Vito]

I haven't played ORC in more than a week and over a YEAR since I have played COD.

Yep, he destroyed it and the era of Third person shooters began.

[Pikminister]

he was the one who destroyed the genre

He destroyed the GENRE?

Bullshit.

btw, look in the mirror next time you boot up ORC and CoD.