Resident Evil 7 Hits 2.5 million copies shipped worldwide

Good point. RE4 made some of the best use of the Wiimote. And RE7 made the best use of VR.

Noice!!! might pick this up sooner rather than later. :P

Well I guess the series is dead to me because Capcom will milk the hell out of the first person perspective. I don't like first person games the perspective has boring gameplay. As a older gamer I prefer different gameplay styles. I've played so many first person games over the years I'm totally sick of them. I don't mind first person multiplayer once in a while but in single player I absolutely hate it.

You're misinterpreting things, kid.

VR unfortunately greatly affects those with motion sickness and RE7 VR has a lot of jerky movements, player controlled or not.

That is what he means by throwing up while playing it on PSVR.

On topic: I'm also glad this is turning out well for Capcom. They really needed a winner since their other games such as SFV suffered so much from a botched release.

@jg4xchamp: Yeah the marketing for RE7 wasn't that great. I've only ever seen youtube ads of it.

I want a game like it but with ghosts, like P.T.

Ghosts are the only things that still manage to scare me. Monsters and zombies just dont do nothing for me. Thats why I found Amnesia boring and not scary at all...

P.T. on the other hand... *shivers

Just finished it. And it's pretty good although a bit short. Finished it in 11 hours with full exploration.

So then why they release it on PSVR??

Apparently that's where all the Girly men are......

Girly men puke while using VR.

It kinda has that to a degree.

@charizard1605: dakur is probably the saddest cow i have ever seen online. He just sits on his computer bad mouthing ms as much as he can, probably rarely touches his ps4 that he so loves not to mention his idiotic statement he so regularly makes

Fixed your typos

I'll pick it up for sure some time, but I'm hoping this is a one off and they can pedal back to third person for their next mainline game, and really get back to horror roots. The game has too much of the hide and seek horror gene in it for me to support it up front as I despise it, and I think that that sub-genre of horror has completely tainted the pool, mostly to appeal to the youtube screamos in horror games. I can accept that they exist and can co-exist with the rest but devs seem to be chasing it like there's gold at the end of the stick and it's saddening.

it may seem hypocritical of me to also praise PT both now and in the past after stating that but it was an 'experience'(which actually didnt involve hiding at all) to lead into what would have been a third person horror game with Norman Reedus character model(so you knew it wasn't going to be first person).

All I can hope for is Evil Within 2 be announced to carry the torch. Future looks dim for third person horror though.

I don't see how me watching the marketing for the game on youtube, specifically, means I can't criticise the audience it may be aimed at that happens to be ON youtube....what would you have me do? Download marketing and dev gameplay videos through torrent from gamesyde or something? It'd make no difference, they'd be the same videos....

I'm glad to hear that though regarding the bold. Maybe it's still the initial switch in perspective and the total dulling down of combat that's souring me as this makes the game have more in common with hide and seek first person horrors than either resi 1-3 or 4-6.

Guess I'll force myself to take a chance.

have you played the fatal frame games? That could be a good shout for you. Though it won't be like PT. But Japanese ghosts, for me, are way more unnerving.

Well yeah, that's the obvious choice but that does also mean putting down money, which is the main decision on any of these things and whether it's worth it. So before I can open myself to the full game I'm gonna have nothing but the marketing and the dev previews to go on. Just to clarify, I haven't used any of the screamo face cams to actually formulate my initial opinion but even from the demo it had the vibe it was more tailored to THAT area of youtube, because of the similarities with games like amnesia and outlast.

In full agreement on the whole react thing in general. You hit the nail on the damn head there.

4 is still the sweet spot for me. Take out the QTEs, the OP melee actions and nerfing the equipment upgrades would have been my path to follow after 4, but 5 and 6 just started edging the wrong way until 6 went full on derp. I think I borrowed 5 and totally skipped 6. Perhaps it's my disappointment in Capcom's decision to 'spice' resi up fell on what resi 7 is today instead of building on resi 4 with lots more influence from the first 3.

Ah that's interesting then. Is it more contextual jump scare(as in you turn around and antag is there, etc), or constant foreboding unstoppable enemy scare?

I am not far into the game and it's not bad, but right in the second act where you're at the dinner table being force fed, then have to escape the crazed dude, it got boring. I don't dig games where you have no weapons and have to play round table cat and mouse to avoid being caught. I really hope the rest of the game is not like that.

Well like you do your whole trade in deal thing, there's a high chance I'll get it but definitely cheaper or in a few weeks perhaps. I am a big fan of horror games, but maybe I've just worked out why I might be jaded when some of my fav horror franchises are all mainstream third person horror games(Dead Space, Silent Hill, Resi to a point) are all going the way of the Dodo in different ways. Dead Space being handled by EA(RIP), Silent Hill royally bent over and sodomised by Konami(RIP) and now Resi is something I'm not too fond of, but may end up enjoying.

I mean like I stated, I don't mind these sub genres of horror co-existing, but when you have one type dying pretty fast and not being replaced by other games to plug the gaps and one main pillar morphing into the other sub-genre it's hard for me to get excited lol Which is why I'm praying there's at least an Evil Within 2 in the works.

I'll definitely end up picking it up, maybe I just need my face slapped with the cold towel of 'change'.

You are literally 3 minutes away from getting a weapon.

I urge everyone getting this game to look past the slow and tedious cutscene-heavy walking sim start.

As soon as you get a gun you've got a proper classic RE game on your hands, albeit in first person.

That's really good for Capcom, now if they could only make a new Mega Man or Devil May Cry game...

I Think this game is an absolutely incredible VR experience and a very good horror game without VR. Well done capcom.

Would like to see a new survival horror project from them.

@hitmanactual: This is prob my fav RE game of all time. Def grab it when you can. I've played all of them (except for 6... tried the demo and absolutely HATED it.) Capcom nailed it... it's classic RE but even more immersive and terrifying (it's one of the scariest survival horror titles I've ever played). Make sure you don't watch any spoilers before you play it for yourself. Going in blind is the way to experience it.

Yeah, beat the 1st one. Good game. Been looking for the 2nd and 3rd ones but they're usually being sold for way too high... :(

Cool. It's a great game, it deserves it. The only problems I had with it was some weird checkpoints(Devs, always put a checkpoint after story dialogue so you never have to listen to the same crap over and over again if you die), and no native 21:9 support for ultrawide monitors.

Go play Layers of Fear. Thank me later.

@Phazevariance: What @R10nu said. Go play the game a bit longer. You get weapons for like 90% of the game.

Man, you're right around the corner from what I'm dubbing the "Resident Evil Doors". They're a set of double doors that once you gain access to, the game opens up and becomes the Resident Evil we all know and love.

Keep going.

Congrats, hope capcom is satisfied with the numbers.