Resident Evil Village

antijoke · 23 Jan 2021 at 16:55

So not sure if this forum is dying or not but did anyone else catch the Resident Evil showcase the other day where they showed off a trailer for Resident Evil 8?

Those enemies in the torture chamber look like they could be series top tier enemies!

Thought it looked fantastic, and cannot wait for this. Really liked RE7 (although quality dropped off immensely outside the house).

Game releases May 7th on PS5/Xbox/PS4/Xbox one and PC and an exclusive demo is available for PS5 players right now.

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/01/21/resident-evil-village-maiden-demo-hits-ps5-today/amp/

antijoke · 24 Jan 2021 at 10:03

Yes, the setting looks incredible!

antijoke · 6 May 2021 at 11:42

Got it pre ordered on my Xbox, hoping the region swapping works and I can play it early tonight

antijoke · 6 May 2021 at 12:26

It does carry on from 7, main character is from 7.

antijoke · 6 May 2021 at 15:47

Story is supposedly anywhere from 10-15 hours I believe.

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 08:16

beachBOYken said:
Screw it I'm going to get this, hearing it looks impressive graphically as well. I will just find a video of resi 7 ending.

When you start RE8 there’s an option to watch an RE7 story recap video, so they got you covered.

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 09:21

Anyone else playing on an OLED?

The start of the game is virtually pitch black in the dark areas lol, I can’t see ****! I’ve adjusted it in the menu and isn’t a whole lot brighter, do I need to crank the brightness upon my tv?

My TV brightness was set to 50, upped it to 80 and it’s maybe a bit too bright now, what do others use who have an OLED/C9

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 09:32

CaptainRAVE said:
I think digital foundry said you need to turn on one of the settings on the tv. Might be worth watching their review.

was it the review or the tech analysis?

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 09:58

CaptainRAVE said:
I want to say the review, but I could be wrong.

just watched it, I see the brightness on his TV is 50 as well, and I already have dynamic tone mapping enabled, I think my problem is I’m not playing in a dark room lol

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 12:25

mmj_uk said:
Try tweaking the HDR brightness settings either in the console menu or game?

i ended up resetting the brightness back to 50 on the TV, it makes it more atmospheric. I think I’m just playing in a bright room which isn’t helping.

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 12:54

beachBOYken said:
The DF video mentions using that BFI motion setting on high, that makes it even darker as well I think, although its a choice between that and VRR, can't do both.

Are you using raytracing with this?

No, I have ray tracing off, I read there was marginal differences so didn’t bother

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 15:18

Almost exactly 4 hours in and I’m really enjoying it!

Exploring is fun and it’s really atmospheric, I can’t imagine how good it sounds when playing with headphones, lots of creepy bits and a couple of jump scares.

The opening encounter was tense.

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 17:17

hyperseven said:
Is it set up correctly? Vincent did a really good setup video for LG OLED on the hdtvtest YouTube channel

never touched it, as it came from the factory

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 21:08

Yes it’s a fantastic game! If it continues like this it might be towards the top 3 favourite RE games for me. It’s that good.

antijoke · 7 May 2021 at 21:55

Now I’m playing in a dark room the game looks fantastic! Sunlight was obviously the problem.

However, playing with Dolby Atmos and headphones is another level of fear.

antijoke · 10 May 2021 at 09:52

wingman said:
My copy was delivered on Saturday but I'd started playing VII again as I'd got stuck two years ago and not picked it back up again. Gameranx suggested finishing VII before playing VIII, which I now agree with.

I was quite far through VII though and finished it off quite quickly, and started playing VIII Saturday night, what a fantastic game so far. I don't consider myself a fan of the RE series but looking back I've pretty much played and completed them all, except for 5 and 6.

Just to chime in with a non OLED TV here and experiencing very much the same problems, a very dark game in more ways than one.

I found that once I got into the castle it wasn’t half as bad, and when I then went outside afterwards it was much better. I also played it at night in the dark and didn’t suffer any problems with it being too dark.

I did crank the TV brightness up to 80 (from 50) though to start with but it just didn’t look right.

antijoke · 10 May 2021 at 22:40

wingman said:
Okay, just finished the second section which was hella creepy. Does the game get any scarier from that point on? Not sure how much more I can handle!

It’s very jumpy! I’m near the end and it’s been pretty consistent with it’s jump scares and tension throughout the areas.

antijoke · 11 May 2021 at 14:20

Saw someone say they managed a run on easy in 1hr 55 mins, once you know what’s happening you can breeze through it.

For me the factory was right up there with the creations there, I hated them, yes they’re easy to deal with but still not a fun encounter.

antijoke · 12 May 2021 at 10:31

wingman said:
Is there an achievement to finishing the game under a timeframe like in VII do we know?

I believe there is yes, for under 3 hours I think.

Yes, factory is near the end.