@Xylymphydyte: I can't say I'm surprised. The new ones look very pretty and are immediately fun on a very basic level. The old Pandemic games though, they had some real meat to the gameplay. A shame really, because a licensed game with genuinely good, somewhat unique gameplay is rare (and was back then, to be fair).
Any loot boxes, micro transactions or any f2p bullshit gets an INSTANT pass from me. The list of games I can actually buy without betraying my principles gets smaller with each passing day. Increasingly, it's like I can only amost exclusively play indie games.
A massive shame, as I loved Battlefront in the PS2 days.
Personally I've just bought some stuff from earlier in the year, like Thimbleweed Park, Observer & Get Even (give that a try it's pretty cool). There isn't that much of note to be buying right now imo, but I apologise if I touched a nerve and you're a fan of those games or something.
It's just that, to me, these games at the top, they're always at the top, and these are the exact games that are the number one peddlers of the micro-transaction fuelled economy, the loot box, pay to win etc. The games I mentioned have none of that stuff, but they're never at the top of the charts, because the average consumer doesn't hear about them.
That's probably a less offensive way of putting it, I admit "drone-like conformists" sounds a bit high & mighty, as true as it may be. And now you mention it I can imagine Jim saying it as the Commentocracy character lol!
(Do check out Get Even though, I'd like to know what people think of that game)
Like the Transformers and Gerard Butler films of the games industry, utterly mindless gash, but it sells every single time. Drone-like conformists buying again and again, influenced so easily by marketing and advertising (more than ever thanks to social media).
But, whatever. Not like anybody's surprised, really.
*Set in the jungle again, and you have to cover yourself in cold mud to hide from the Predator - the amount you're hidden perhaps represented in percentage, MGS3 camo style.
*One shot from Predator's laser and you're dead!
*There are other enemies with guns, sort of the equivalent of Alien Isolation's station survivors. But if the Predator sees you with a gun, he'll hunt you too!
*Watch out for the hidden, camouflaged Predator, and listen carefully for the sounds of his repeated taunts.
*Survival elements that are not chore-like (Steam early-access bullshit style).
*Set traps and ambush the Predator!
*Full day-night cycle, and large jungle open-world.
@videogameninja: RE7 felt like Resident Evil Lite™ to me. Too small, too simple. It is however, a step in the right direction, and head and shoulders above the dumb 4,5,6 era. I like Resi 7, but I don't love it. It's something I'd welcome more of though, and hopefully the new fans it's brought in will be willing to get into something more complex, along the lines of the early classics - but in first person (probably).
Also, where the **** is the Resi 2 remake? Like, literally not heard a thing here. Not a screenshot, nothing.
Personally I think Alien Isolation did a much better job of bringing the fear factor back to Alien than any of the film sequels - thanks to taking it's inspiration from the original film instead of trying to over-complicate things with overblown, unnecessary story arcs.
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