1st July 2003, 10:09 AM
Quote:Originally posted by EdenMaster
It's not Resident Evil thrilling, such as dogs crashing through the window. There are a lot of couch cushions with that distinct smell of urine because of that moment. ED keeps you on your toes, makes you nervous. What's going to happen next, you ask yourself? Your sanity is low, so God only knows what may happen, and while most of the hallucinations are blatant, you can't tell me that you weren't fooled at least once. Ever had your character blow up while they tried to cast a spell? Or shit yourself when you walked into a room with 30,000 zombies in it?
So no, it's not meant to scare you out of your seat, but it's not meant to be boring either.
And yes, I will call it a psychological thriller. :eek2:
The sanity effects were often funny. The only one that really got me was the one with Alex in the bathtub. However, since you have a sanity meter, you kinda expect weird things like that and that kinda kills the fun of having them. And since I had played Silent Hill dozens of times, ED was simply tame for me. ED didn't give me a sense of nervousness or dread because the only way you could really die in ED is either be careless or become surrounded in such a way that you couldn't run and had no room to swing your weapon (and that's really unfair and cheap). Plus, it was so easy to regain all of your health, sanity and magic that you are rarely in danger.
Now, that's not to say ED wasn't a good game, it was great, I loved it. But it was not scary, or even nerve-wracking, and all of the thrills in it were purely physical, little of it was psychological at all (AND CALLING IT THE FIRST PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER IS FUCKING BLASPHEMY :supermad:).
But it DID beat the hell out of Resident Evil.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR