Horror Games

Cappy I have begun Dreadout 2. It's... yeah. Quite janky isn't it. Took me ages to do that first ghost fight until I realised I wasn't trying to take the pic when the camera was going proper glitchy, which is why it wasn't working.

I do like it so far though. I love stuff that incorporates all this folklore and superstition that I was never previously aware of. Surprisingly creepy as well.

Hah. I don't mind a bit of jank to be fair. I've got a soft spot for this kind of thing anyway.

Also can someone tell me how to deal with these freaking rats - I feel like I'm wasting my resources just because I need to pass through them every time, and they return even if I blow them up.

That's a good idea. Though I'd have thought that blowing up the body would have had the same effect. Oh well... I have the fuel but no lighter yet.

I have also discovered that I can sometimes bait the monster into breaking a door open for me, although it's very risky.

Progress will be made, slowly but surely.

Yep I found the lighter just a while ago. It's... not as useful as I'd hoped.

Trying to find the wrench now, it says the Foreman should have it but his room looks empty. Must be somewhere else. There's a tunnel full of rats leading to the pillbox... I got past them somehow, but of course it needs a key. Probably in the Chapel. Then I tripped a wire and died.

I swear those rats are much worse than the monster. Change of plans for now, I'll see if I can get into the Mess Hall in the Soldiers' Quarters.

You could borrow freddy's cat

I kind of like Operation Raccoon City, there's some interesting stuff for fans of original Resident Evil 2 & 3 in there. At it's best you sometimes get the sense of getting to explore areas that were in the background but could never reach in the original games.

A lot of people hate it but I even like the alternate ending where things can diverge into an alternate timeline where Claire and Leon don't make it.

Some of the fights can try your patience, Hunters take so much firepower to put down, which is as it should be, Hunters are supposed to be top tier and a problem to deal with. At one point you end up having to deal with a duo of Mr X's which is kind of fun, it ties back to that brief scene in Resident Evil 2 when Mr X is deployed and you can see that there are missing canisters, suggesting that Umbrella had already dropped off a few in the City and we finally get to meet them.

gog has a Horror sale going on for a few days. Good prices on some good games.

Hellnight doesn't really have that particular sense of classic jank due to playing out in first person, making a lot of the jank invisible, your partners are always behind you too so you don't see them doing much either.

That's why so many PC indie games opted for first person in the 2000s. It's cheap and far less of a headache.

Hellnight's a pretty interesting game, extra kudos if you have an original copy. I've got mine, plus Dark Messiah the Japanese original.

I started Death Mark 2, which is quite nice. Switched from dungeon crawler perspective to more of a Twilight Syndrome (or Detention for more modern example) perspective but atill quite interesting so far.

I am onto chapter 3 and enjoying it. The new perspective works and it has the same atmosphere as the prequels.

I gave into to temptation. Resident Evil 3 remake was on sale, I'd heard some not so positive things, I'd not been so enamoured by the remake of Resident Evil 2 either. But it's on sale!

It's everything the previous remake was but worse. Featuring the same frustrating gun play, is three head shots enough? Six? When did Resident Evil games start doing loading screen tips? One such tip informed me that head shots are governed by RNG. Great. You want to me to take the trouble to aim whilst a zombie shit-bag sways and lurches around, then you get to roll a vitual dice and tell me that my head shot was ineffective. You can do that, if the game is turn based.

Fine. It seems like a waste of time shooting anything. I'll make heavy use of the dodge and avoid enemies instead. But they're always right there in the way when you need to do something and you've got no reliable means of getting rid of them. It's pure frustration.

To add insult to injury the remake is incredibly light on content and cuts chunks out of what was already a short game originally. What about Resistance? An entire mode that could have been as fun as the Revelations 2 raid mode, that could easily redeem this whole thing. No offline mode. What? Why would you do this when you are already short on content?

Throw the entire Capcom team responsible for this into an olympic size swimming pool filled to the brim with shit and used tampons and make them stay there. Then set up a remake style virtual dice roll to determine when they can come out, they'll be masters of doing the doggy paddle through filth.