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This game going to have weapons or any nature of combat?
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RE: This game going to have weapons or any nature of combat?

To be honest, inability to fight is always ruined suspence of disbelief in the horror games. No, no, hear me out first, lower that pitchfork! I mean, that even if it would make sense, player will never attempt to pick up anything that can be used as an weapon, even if there is several pipe wrenches laying around. Even when he know that shit gone down and his life is at stake. Yes, so I'd be glad to see ability to fight back in the horror game. But. I also agree that ability to kill or scare away monster (like in Alien: Isolation) is a major blow to the horror atmosphere and tension. Like in said Alien: Isolation, the entire second half of the game feels more like "Ha, get away from me YOU BITCH, here's some FIRE IN YO FACE!" rather than horror.

So, what if you can ATTEMPT to fight back, but it will be either alltogether unsuccesfull, resulting in you being killed, or it will hinder your enemy for max of several seconds (the blow of the wrench throwed him\it off the balance for example), but otherwise didn't affected the enemy at all, and he is still after you, but that attack can possibly get you out of tight situations when you are cornered and nowhere to run or hide. In othere games in such situation only two things usually happen: the monster is either grabs you by the throat, look at you very closely, then throws you away in such way that you could escape him now, or it starts to hit you, often several times before you finally die. Both of these situations are somewhat of game-breaker somewhat, first one just don't make sense (it hunted you for half of the game, and when it finally grabbed you, it just angrily throwed you across the room? WTF?!) and second one is reminding you that it is a game with game mechanics of monster attacks (but that case is lifted if it's attacks are one-hit kills) which also breaks suspence of disbelief.
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2015, 04:34 PM by Darth Biomech.)
05-27-2015, 04:32 PM
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RE: This game going to have weapons or any nature of combat? - by Darth Biomech - 05-27-2015, 04:32 PM



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