The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2 are here and 75% off
The Evil Within and The Evil Within 2 are here and 75% off
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Nice discounts IMO. EW1 with all DLC for $10, and EW2 for $10 as well atm.
Don't listen to this advice, game is fun.Avoid the first game, one of the most generic horror games I've played
The second game is scarierI played the first, it was good enough it just missed the point of what was scary on the first half during the second. The second though feels from what I've seen like it kinda missed the point even further but i should probably give it a go.
EW1 is definitely a sleepers hit.
Anyone who wants to see a faithful evolution of RE4 should check it out. The game isn't perfect, but there's good stuff in there.
Boo this man. Much better than TEW2 imo. So many memorable encounters and the Kidman DLC is legit spooky.Avoid the first game, one of the most generic horror games I've played
Don't listen to him. The Evil Within is great and in some ways I prefer to 2.Avoid the first game, one of the most generic horror games I've played
is this true, everyone?
Boo this man. Much better than TEW2 imo. So many memorable encounters and the Kidman DLC is legit spooky.
Don't listen to him. The Evil Within is great and in some ways I prefer to 2.
If a game needs to be scary to be a good horror game, then there really isn't a good horror game since they don't scare me.A game with the most generic horror tropes hastily sewed in together, mixed with bland action segments, and a plot used to justify the sudden shifting of world maps that feels cheap.
Oooh I hid in a locker and the monster stared at the locker for 2 seconds, now that's some good horror right there!
Shitty pyramid head knock-off and shitty The Ring and The Grudge knock-off.
The Evil Within isn't a good horror game, It's an experience vapid of any unique and interesting ideas, large budget wasted on a game that doesn't know what it wants to be.
A game with the most generic horror tropes hastily sewed in together, mixed with bland action segments, and a plot used to justify the sudden shifting of world maps that feels cheap.
Oooh I hid in a locker and the monster stared at the locker for 2 seconds, now that's some good horror right there!
Shitty pyramid head knock-off and shitty The Ring and The Grudge knock-off.
The Evil Within isn't a good horror game, It's an experience vapid of any unique and interesting ideas, large budget wasted on a game that doesn't know what it wants to be.
No.
If a game needs to be scary to be a good horror game, then there really isn't a good horror game since they don't scare me.
I don`t think so. Not only because of enemies, locations etc. but because of the way the story is told and the characters are portrayed. There`s much more mystery in the first game, cryptic stuff and, let`s say: enviromental storytelling. The second game is very straight forward when it comes to storytelling.
wha-No.
2 is great but leans more RE4.
1 is strait grindhouse gorefest with dread in every scenario
Avoid the second game, one of the most generic horror games I've played
Absolutely. That final chapter is so great. The music, the setting...just brilliant.Both games are great, TEW2's final hour or so is god damn exceptional.
TEW2 isn't scary either. BUT it is way more consistent. You're right that the first game feels sewn together. I wondered why it wasn't scary. It had the Art direction after all. But it's because it's all mish mashed together that it never feels scary. Still, it had much better combat imo than 2. The matches were great, no idea why 2 did away with them. It also had way better RE4-like combat encounters. The blood room in Chapter 5, the one where Kidman is trapped in a water tank, the cabin one where Joseph is trying to get a door open, the one with the gondolas, all of Chapter 3, the final gauntlet in the last chapter. It was all hectic and encouraged on the fly decisions that ultimately made it al so fun. TEW2 had like one of those and it was a more boring game for it imo. Better story and more consistent art direction, but worse gameplay. At least it did away with instant kill mechanics. That was good.A game with the most generic horror tropes hastily sewed in together, mixed with bland action segments, and a plot used to justify the sudden shifting of world maps that feels cheap.
''Oooh I hid in a locker and the monster stared at the locker for 2 seconds'' Now that's some good horror right there!
Shitty pyramid head knock-off and shitty The Ring and The Grudge knock-off.
The Evil Within isn't a good horror game, It's an experience vapid of any unique and interesting ideas, large budget wasted on a game that doesn't know what it wants to be.
Both games had Denuvo removed long ago. And yeah Void Engine is quite of a cannibalized idTech5 engine that Arkane put together for Dishonored 2, that on launch also had some huge performance issues, luckily it was somewhat fixed after all the patches and Dishonored Deat of the Outsider fixed it completely.I wish Bethesda would update their Steam releases and remove DRM when they put them out on GOG.
I suspect the issue with TEW2's awful performance is related to the engine/optimization rather than DRM, but I would like the option to test it.
As for which is better, even if it was not perfect I enjoyed TEW1 far more than TEW2's boring open world, sad dad story that tries to riff on Silent Hill 2, and extremely derivative gameplay. They lifted the cabin scene directly from RE4, and some of the other environments feel heavily inspired.
Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if it was not for the absolutely terrible performance, but I can only experience the game for the first time once. Tango at least patched TEW1 to fix its performance, but there was nothing done about it in TEW2.