As gamers we should be very concerned that this type of game with all it’s scripted garbage, simplistic puzzles, constant frame dropping, boring boss fights, lack of atmosphere, lack of horror, poor voice acting, rubbish enemies, werewolves that look more like animal from the muppets, rinse and repeat zones, average graphics and very short campaign can sell for £50 and have the entire gaming press swooning over it’s magnificence. Sadly most gamers are not one bit concerned, in fact they lap this up like a dog drinking water which is why for the foreseeable future we will be shovelled more tripe like this and charged through the nose for it, sad times.
Completely disagree with you on this one, I think this game is awesome. Graphics are amazing with Ray tracing and hdr on my 3090. Horror wise it's scary and atmospheric with that classic RE cheesy dialogue. As for frame drops you need to look at your hardware as I don't think this is a widespread problem. Mac, your opinion is just that, your opinion. Don't pretend that you speak for the gaming community with your complaints because you honestly don't. Editing this just for clarity. I'm a big fan of this channel, it's hilarious and I actually agree with a lot of the rants especially about woke or sjw stuff. I guess as a fan of the channel I feel like Mac is assuming everyone who subscribes agrees with him and this isn't the case. You don't have to agree with Mac to enjoy his work. I respect his opinion but I don't like being told that I'm part of the 'problem' with modern gaming for liking Resident Evil. I find that disrespectful as a fan of this channel.
@@grahamt19781 amazing game.... quality over quantity, performance on next gen consoles is superb and it’s aesthetic and storytelling is gripping and immersive!
I think this game will divide games some like me think it was pretty good like you I enjoyed the the way the game looked(maxed out with Ray tracing) had no frame drops luckily and reminded me of resi 4 which it was inspired by. Only thing is I do wish it was a bit longer and the story was a bit more coherent went off the rails at times and I was like wtf happened
@CaliDorko ...and yet you think Village is great? The problem isn't that you have poor taste mate, it's that you have NO taste. Based on that call alone, I'd hate to hear your music collection: as it's guaranteed to be riddled with mediocrity. You utterly lack the ability to sort the wheat from the chaff.
@@EazyDuz18 I don't understand what I did to justify you calling me dumb. He made a joke about the merchant being Lady D's ex and I laughed. Are you OK, mate?
Main Character Franchise Syndrome. There's probably people playing this who've never played RE before, just because The Tall Lady became a meme, so Ethan has to act scared and wimpy as the audience would (or should)
I mean several years have passed since re7, I know he's been military trained but has he been fighting BOWs since then? Plus, re7 was much smaller in scale and had way less shit going on
He's been living a peaceful life with Mia for 3 years since RE7. Then one day Chris busts in, kills Mia, and kidnaps Ethan and his baby. Before he can even come to terms with that going on, he wakes up in a car wreck and makes his way to the village. He barely catches a glimpse of the monsters before he's pulled down there by one and sees the pile of dead bodies. Yeah man what a pussy
Well then your missing out. I just finished it & It’s easily one of the prettiest & most ambitious RE game to come out this year. This guy has no clue what he’s talking about
Apparently the game director at Capcom said they wanted to make the game less scary because many casual gamers found RE 7 too frightening and off putting to play. From what you're saying Mack it sounds like Capcom have made the game too safe and full of dumbed down casual horror for the casuals.
Capcom should just make a difficulty option that says I am a casual gamer/pussy. Removing what was good in your game is beyond stupid, just add settings option to make it less scary is the correct approach.
well it happened to me when I played doom 3 for the first time, I needed a stress break every 45 minutes. The sound in that game was scary as fuck and the fact that you had to hold the torch instead of the gun really kept me stressed.
That's relative I guess, I didn't find RE 7 scary, just boring with scripted nonsense. Could not get myself to keep playing it too far. Sadly I bought it in deep sale and still felt ripped off.
I played the game blind . I didnt look at reviews or anything. I didnt want anyone trying to make my mind up for me. I really enjoyed it. Very good game.
60 seconds from a 12 hour game, oh no. A whole one hour sequence that is up there with some of the best horror moments in modern video games? He didn’t bother mentioning that.
@@robreich6881 Twelve hour game? I walked through it at barely nine hours, one hour sequence that's good? No part of the game was specifically better than the rest, well, no part was better than the rest but the thirty minute puppet area was pretty garbage compared to the rest of the game. The game does not live up to the hype.
@@sebastionstewart4567 The time clock on the game doesn't include cutscenes or reloads. The actual time to complete for most people including the cutscenes and reloads for deaths is gonna be 12-15 hours on hardcore. I can't speak to first playthroughs on Standard.
Marking everything with yellow is both insulting and immersion breaking. In the Moreau section, there's literally an arrow pointing up to a lock that you have to shoot. Brilliant game design.........
Resident Evil has gone down the pan over the years. The RE2: Remake was astounding and showed what they are capable of producing, sadly what has followed has been increasingly disappointing.
That looking out of the window for the combination is absolutely ridiculous 😂 Dumb.The games producer Tsuyoshi Kanda in an interview said that the devs dialled back on the scares as some people who played Resident Evil VII found them too scary. They wanted to create a sequel ‘that anybody can feel comfortable jumping in and playing’…..’so that players aren’t in constant fear’. Ahh bless.£50 my arse.
Its funny because I read that interview too and couldn't help but remember Fatal Frame received complaints about it being "too scary" and instead of dialing back the scares they double-down in fatal frame 2. This is was for max profit not for the well intention of reaching a wider audience, and even if that is the intention its still deliberately motivated for maximizing profit.
It's also a bit strange to have a modern, plastic, UK-style wheelie bin designed to be picked up by bin lorries in the middle of a mansion in the mountains of Transylvania.
This review is a masterpiece. Not only hilarious, but very intelligent and true. Pleaee don't stop doing reviews Mack. You have a gift. I worry that you're going to stop :(
That's what I read, too. It's a shame (and quite obvious) that these alleged "gamers" are probably the 12 year olds who shouldn't be playing M-rated games in the first place, but WTF does Capcom (or any gaming company) care when it comes to increasing sales, right?
It's just like how CDPR claimed that they shortened the campaign of Cyberpunk 2077 because people complained Witcher 3 was too long and some people didn't finish it. It's like who the F*** cares what those people think! these games aren't meant for short ass attention span, can't handle real horror asses. they're the minority!
I agree it's a 7/10 game just because the gunplay it's good so it' feels fun when firing the weapons and the graphics are great in some parts it's a 8/10 but they're few and far between in the castle section it's a 8/10 hisenbergs factory it's 8/10 mother Miranda's boss fight 8/10 everything else is 7/10 to 6/10 good to mediocre
What it is old boy, is its us older gamer who had the privilege to play classic games back in the day, we aren't who they cater to anymore. Gamers today are shallow and have no knowledge of substance or quality. Its all about how good it looks and that about it. Its sad.
F.E.A.R Platinum Collection- atmosphere, gun play, fear. S.T.A.L.K.E.R 1,2,3 atmosphere, gun play, fear. Metro 1,2 atmosphere, gun play and half the fear. All have emersion. Just to mention some great games. Why would you spend £50 on this game that's made for 10 year old kids, last for about 10 hours when you can get all them for half the price and last for hundreds of hours.
I had to quit out of the demo when there weren't proper DS4 prompts on Steam. There's a mod for the full game because of course there is. If a game releases on ps4/ps5, and clearly pc gamers use that controller, why not just throw in what's already programmed? Seeing YXBA is aggravating.
He haven't play old RE's, he dislikes 7. He prises remake of 2 due to it's graphics while hateing 7, 3 and 8(same RE Engine). It's just sad that lot of people here haven't got their own brains and will skip completly good game cause of this review
Aren't millenials the ones who mostly grew up with the classic RE games? I played the RE1 Director's Cut yesterday and its puzzles weren't exciting either. Did that change in the sequels? I never really got to play the games released between 1 and 4.
@@FlashheadX yeah I'm a millenial who grew up playing og re 1-3 back when the devs respected your intelligence on solving puzzles and not reminding you you can reload a fucking gun at the last boss of the game.
It’s sad really. Gaming has peaked. There’s a reason why post 2014 it went down hard. Microtransactions and suits took over the industry. It will never be the same again.
Just got out the castle after 3.5 hours, shocked at the lack of atmosphere and there's so many cut scenes but what is shocking is its actually easy and there's not much skill involved
maybe on normal, but most games these days require no skill on normal mode. normal has become the new easy, because nobody wants to admit they need easy mode so developers drastically nerfed normal to keep them from complaining. this is why those of us who enjoy a challenge never play any modern games on easy, we usually start on hard and if there's a very hard we'll do that on the 2nd playthrough. re village is pretty challenging on hard, and village of shadows is just insanely difficult.
@@klebyell Not whatsoever. but by giving her a platform it shows they have an agenda and/or sympathize with her plight which is Psychotic. I'd never deny anyone a platform.
@@brendanlucero8585 maybe, or they want to cultivate a broad spectrum of views? i think shes an idiot, so do most of us, but like it or not if any of us see her name we'll click it just to lose our minds over the nonsense shes spewing lol.
I gotta say...people do seem to make Horror Genre into a standard fps shoot-go next area-boss-repeat-cutscenes Which is why I kinda sceptical on Horror games...people call them horror for just the looks or jumpscares isn't really a horror game..it looked more like Tom&Jerry Hide&Seek kind of thing with lots of puzzles & maze of hidings🙄
Worst thing is, there is no tension. There are no stakes, if you as a player never know if the character is seriously hurt, or if he will heal anyway in 10 seconds because apparently it doesn't matter if he looses limbs or parts of his body get ripped into shreds. You can't release a horror game like this. There is no horror. No tension. Nothing at stake. And saddest of all, it means there is no atmosphere. Plus, the character is completely out of touch with the setting, his writing and VO doesn't fit his actions. Additionally they tried to include like 10 different themes, but they don't finish a single one of them. This is a patchwork gone wrong, sadly. What were they thinking.
@@OverlordZephyros well i think puzzle in Resident evil 8 is made for journalist.If this game has puzzle like Amnesia,well journalist will cry out like baby
I have a friend that was stumped for a full hour on the "look out the window" puzzle, even when staring at all the numbers. And would never had made it past the music box one if I hadn't told him what to do.
Fanbases are dumb, all of them. In a parallel universe where Capcom listened to survival horror nerds and made 30 RE games with tank controls that takes place in mansions and police stations, the fanbase is complaining they don't innovate and keep releasing the same game over and over again. Survival horror franchises died or became action oriented for a reason. There's a limit to how many times you can put an average Joe in a foggy town or a mansion that looks the same as the previous 3 games but the moment you tweak the formula just a bit the nerds start throwing tantrums.
@@Ocean5ix "takes place in mansions and police stations" thats exactly what Re7/re8 is but with retardedd vampire/lycan monsters, pathetic puzzles and a very boring main character. So maybe they should have listened to their original nerds instead of the zoomer nerds?
Did Ethan get super human powers from Re7? He still got his hand cut off before getting powers. It's super unclear why he isn't dead other than him wearing plot armor.
I don’t understand how people played RE 7 and missed the whole point that Ethan was infected in that game. He reattached his hand and hallucinating Eveline at the end of RE7. And people complain how game start to force fed info for numbskull player.
Good points although I would put less of the blame on the voice actors and more of the blame on the writers. I can't think of a way to say 'I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL BREAK YOU' in a non-cheesy way.
The problem, as you have pointed out before is, the damn bar is just set so low now. It's amazing what gamers eat up and love. I am waiting for the day when a company sells a game trailer for $60 and gamers call it game of the year. They were smart to advertise old big boobs. It got basement dwellers jerking so hard, it sold copies.
@@prince_warhero There is a difference between thinking I would like to play it to making a review for other people to decide to play it, I'm not telling anyone not to bother with it but I'm just saying RE verse was the early warning signs and now it's been confirmed as a game that's not worth £50 to me, plus Worth a buy doesn't give reviews exactly to give a rating but whether is it worth it's asking price.
Like many other Re fans, I've been playing RE since the 1996 and the series has been one of my all time favourites ever since. "RE village" unfortunately was quite a let down on so many levels... I pretty much fully agree wit everything said in this review. RE Village is basically the same as when your parents you to say to "I'm not angry with you, just dissapointed..."
Yeah seriously Mack, how is this game 9/10 on gamespot?! its obvious now? these companies are paying for good reviews.. ITS BULLSHIT! its phoney.. its 50 USD for a 8-9 hour game.. clunky mechanics, boring gameplay, and 9/10 ... wow..
Respect to the man who starts his day right, with a bacon and egg sarnie. I actally enjoyed RE8, for what it's worth, and played it extensively. Didnt pay £50 mind, so I didnt feel ripped off as others might. Still think the plot twist is dumb and raises more questions that it answers, but I don't want to trigger the brain donors in the comments any further than I already have.
@@mars188 Well I mean he did basically put his leg back on in the last game, Resident Evil 7, I didn't know this playing it, I only found out after watching another persons playthrough, when they got ethan's leg chopped off by the dads shovel near when you first meet him.
@@arcticridge Yes, indeed it does. Mack is what some people would call a child trapped in a mans body. It is not his fault to be fair. He is entitled to his opinion... and it is just that, an opinion. Even if I dont share it, it is fine. Imagine a world where you could be killed due to your opinion. I dont want to live in that world. I love the franchise and Re8 is a Good game. The PC port needs patches hur other than that as a fan I am happy.
Been playing resident evil on the xbox series x over the weekend and it is very scary I totally desa agree with you you don't know what your taking about
@@renanmalone742 that’s crazy, we have to pay so much for a game that was made for journalists because re7 was too scary for them lol, re8 to me is another sign the gaming industry is dying.
It' is fun if u just wanna shoot things and turn your brain off yes it can be enjoyable but as soon as u start to look for anything deeper than fun gameplay and impressive graphics you will be disappointed as there is nothing there for you some parts are a little scary but compared to re7 and re2 remake it was greatly tuned down so don't expect much out of the horror either just have your expectations really low and you won't be disappointed lol
Agree with all these points. The problem with puzzles nowadays is that if people don’t get them first time they just give up and google the answer online. So it’s almost a waste of time to make them complicated. Sad but true.
My problem with the RE puzzles was never that they were complicated, but that in the end, most of them were nothing else than fetch quests and that most of them do not make _any_ sense even within this universe. 1.284 steps and 392 items in order to open a door in a _police station_ that is supposed to be passed by dozens of people every day? With the items having arcane symbols on them and the puzzles making references to things that happen(ed) in places and to people with zero association with this or _any_ police station? Hmhm...
@Furzkampfbomber Well, it wouldn't make interesting gameplay if it was just, walk and shoot. Also, the previous games explained the reasoning for the puzzles' existence. In RE1, the mansion was made to be a deliberate death trap to guard and hide the lab that was making the tryant. In RE2, the police station was originally an art museum that was renovated by Chief Iron's, who was an Umbrella lackey that deliberately created the puzzles in the police station to undermine the police and ensure he kept ammo and medical resources for himself if an outbreak occurred.
RE Fans are suckers for RE games, and I'm part of the VERY VERY VERY few that callout Capcom on their BS. Unlike other forums from other games they make efforts to change the games by continuous criticism towards the devs. Since RE 3 Capcom is gonna go down even further with cliché "horror".
@@HarryB291 He is brilliant especially his heel personas but he seems to be going through a bit of burn out and he resorts to ranting, so I leave it a week and stop watching then return to see him back on form again.
I love watching the other reviews then watching yours. It's a great way to contrast and compare. As well as seeing who's really being honest with us. Thanks home 👍
The irony..lol if Mack was being honest, he'd award this game a positive review and tell you how fun it is, praise the additional combat improvements over the awful RE7 and not prpduced a 14 minute comedy skit slagging off other reviews, that ironically do a far better job on this ond
@@MorrisseyMuse na bruh even dream cast guy had issues with the game. If you can't scare that dude then you're "horror " game is a failure. You're mistreating a good technical game. For a good game of the genre. This is not a true re game homie.
I just purchased this for series x for $20 and thoroughly enjoyed it. It starts off slow walking around looking for crap but by the time you exit Dimitrescu's Castle it's starts to pick up. It actually scared me a few times too with my 5.1 setup. I definitely recommend it. The graphics and HDR in sole of the areas is pretty impressive too.
Yeah, I'm waiting to buy this game on a deep sale for about $30. I'm sure at full price, and on release that this game was trash, but for $30, it's probably a good game. I find that games are experienced differently depending on how much I paid for the game. The more I've spent on a game, the higher my expectations, and the deeper I fall into disappointment.
And the new Winters' Expansion DLC that adds "Shadows of Rose" to the game, is one of the most atmospheric Story expansions i've seen in a long while, splendid 3rd Person view included, but sadly it looks like Mack's not gonna (re)review that, ever. 🤷🏻♂️
@@Grandmastergav86 How can he be "spot on" about something he hasn't even played? 🤔 I solely speak about the "Shadows of Rose" DLC here, (and Mack hasn't tested/reviewed that, he only reviewed the main game) - busted! 😂
Absolutely correct this generation could be sold snow from eskimos, its shocking how people will fall for cut n paste garbage. Consoles have ruined pc games. Commercial dog shite
You mean journalists not actual gamers, most actual gamers would love re7s horror, it’s journalists that don’t because they complain about everything because there bad at games, because them now re8 got dumbed down which is a shame.
At first they didn't have the note in the game but then they concluded that having the solution outside the window was too much thinking outside the box/room. So they added that note.
@@leto1178 Dunno, AFAIK games have a couple of methods to show the solution for a pass or key (the usual search for a note or search in the environment...having too look at the window is nothing outside of the box if you played more than three games of this kind), being in a small room doesnt help either. Imagine those people playing a classic point and click adventure then...true horror. RE puzzles never were too hard, i get it (specially if you compare them with..dunno Silent Hill, that's outside of the box)...but this one is borderline insulting.
@@JUANMAS7ER The joke was that the solution is always inside the room/box but that one time you had to "think outside the box" (to look outside the window). I wasn't defending the easy puzzles, it was just a very dry joke.
@@leto1178Mack cut out a jumpscare that happens moments after looking out the window, which is why the solution is so obvious. It's setting up for a scare, but Mack acknowledging he got spooked would go against the narrative of the review, so he cut it out.
If your character can easily recover from danger, it becomes nothing more than a health point system. The player needs more meaningful consequence than that in order to be scared. Supply and demand, or rarity, can be used to allow for recovery to an extent without ruining the experiences of risks and danger...But, it is better in a horror game to have mortal danger, because the possibility of loss is part of what is so scary. That red plank thing is ridiculous. The player isn't supposed to be shown where the danger is! They are supposed to use their own intelligence in a game like this. Choreographing danger to the player ruins the atmosphere, the immersion, and eliminates almost all risk. That fish monsters should be chasing the player along the entire course of that plank level area, smashing the large platforms, etc.
Every time before buying a game I always watch you because even though the game looks and sounds good before playing it there are so many problems. I remember buying the division 1 and watched you before I bought it, I though “nah it still looks good what are you saying”. Maybe 4 hours in I was so disappointed and regretted buying it! You are the man bro!! You have saved me from buying so many “popular” games that turns out to be disappointing. Watch dogs legion was on my list but I had to throw it away after watching your review. I’m turning down REV now :D.
I really don't get your review scores mac. You had nothing but bad things to say about this game, other than the basic gun play, yet give it a 5/10 which is a moderate score. Game shillers give games automatic 8s and 9s for crappy games because they don't seem to grasp that on a 1 to 10 scale 5 is the average, not 7 like they seem to think. Unfortunately you're following the same asinine logic. What happened to all the 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s that terrible disappointing games should receive? 5/10 should at least have some positives to its name not all negative like your review was.
The prob is... That the older generation gamers like myself got to see all the amazing effort that was put into games back then. It was what sucked us into becoming gamers. We've been patiently wishing and waiting for developers to blow our minds like they did back then with the new installments. Only to see our hopes and expectations dashed. Over and over and over again. All Mac needs to realize is, that most of these kids literally grew up on shite games. They basically dont have an understanding of what good really is. All they know is shite. But at the end of the day, all I really wanted to say was...WTF now! X-RAY VISION, X-RAY VISION, X, X, X, X.
Lets be honest here...The puzzles weren't made so easy on behalf of the gamers...but were made easy so that the supposed "game journalists" could beat it.
There was actually a scripted jump scare in that part when you look out the window that actually got me the first time. but he edited it out because it would’ve weakened his case in the video.
I know there are a lot of people in this comment thread that are going to just blindly agree with Worthabuy here, and if you tend to agree with him, that may be correct for you to do. But for people out there that are new to the channel, or for people who liked RE4, I think you should consider trying this game. It truly is a fun game, and if you liked RE4, you with without doubt like this game. The community has spoken, and this game is overwhelmingly enjoyed by the community.
The modern gaming masses blindly rush into virtually every single new AAA game to come out now, with the vast majority either forgetting or simply being too young to remember a time when AAA gaming was like the gold standard, so "the community has spoken" makes relatively little difference in this case.. When Death Stranding first came out it was being praised like the most revolutionary game to date, hyped up beyond belief, only to turn out to be an extremely mediocre UPS simulator with pretty graphics and a famous actor for the protagonist (who can't act his way out of a paper bag just like Keanu Reeves 👀); point being, just because critics/IGN etc give it a 10/10 and the masses are blown away by it (a pretty easy thing to do now a days) really doesn't mean it's anything special 🤷
@Mable's Fatal Fable It did alot right but for me it changed way too much. I got so anoyed by the roaming Mr.X, i could not enjoy the atmosphere most of the time. Then this complete trash Chapter with Ada with fucking wallhack "puzzles"? and of coruse again Mr.X. Then a scripted chase scene... by the Alligator. And after wandering around for an hour in the fucking Sewers i dropped the Game. And RE4 isnt a Horror Game, its pure action and does it alot better then the Titles after it. So iam all for a RE4 Remake, but do it like the RE1 Remake, stay close to the original.
RE2 remake was zzzzzz I much prefer the gameplay loop of RE4 and RE8. It was also less than half the length of RE8 and RE4. Sorry, I just prefer action over your boring "atmosphere" that you're somehow experiencing looking at a computer screen LOL
@@thevomit5851 That;s fair I suppose just that 4 and 2 are two different styles 2 is a classic Survival Horror Experience with the feel of a old Romero Zombie Film. While Resident Evil 4 is a Action game with it feeling like a Action Movie.
Hey now, I'm not here to start anything with anyone. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect that. I've enjoyed Mack's content for years, and that's never been based on his or any of his viewer's opinions. He's just a solid content creator with a great personality.
"It stinks! It stinks! It stinks!!" "Yes Mr Sherman, everything stinks" If you object to paying £50 for games, wait until they're on sale. Steam is like DFS; there's usually a sale on.
I've been playing it, and it's really fun. Kind of like a combo, between RE4 or 5s cheesy characters, and writing. With 7s first person view, and plenty of dismemberment for the main character. Since Mack hated 7 it's no surprise that he bitches and whines about 8 as well. Then add to that all the people that watch him, and take his word as gospel. Most of which haven't played the game, let alone the demo.
@@laydengoddard7048 I have always considered resident evil as the best B-movie you can play. I adore the cheese and crazy shit, it feels like a Friday the 13th or nightmare on elm street. But Mack dislikes the game, that is his opinion and that fine, just let others enjoy it.
@@doorknobhandlebar I agree, he can hold his own opinion. I just find it weird that he went in having played the demo, knowing all the issues he would have with it. Like the simpler puzzles, and the writing. Then goes on to repeat that these are in fact still issues for him. Like the main game would have changed much, if anything. I don't mean to sound like I'm insulting Mack, or the viewers, it just gets under my skin when people take reviewers opinions as completely objective. Like I said, Mack hated RE7, but I loved it. So I took this review with a grain of salt, I purchased RE8, and I'm having tons of fun.
As gamers we should be very concerned that this type of game with all it’s scripted garbage, simplistic puzzles, constant frame dropping, boring boss fights, lack of atmosphere, lack of horror, poor voice acting, rubbish enemies, werewolves that look more like animal from the muppets, rinse and repeat zones, average graphics and very short campaign can sell for £50 and have the entire gaming press swooning over it’s magnificence. Sadly most gamers are not one bit concerned, in fact they lap this up like a dog drinking water which is why for the foreseeable future we will be shovelled more tripe like this and charged through the nose for it, sad times.
Ok boomer
no
Completely disagree with you on this one, I think this game is awesome. Graphics are amazing with Ray tracing and hdr on my 3090. Horror wise it's scary and atmospheric with that classic RE cheesy dialogue. As for frame drops you need to look at your hardware as I don't think this is a widespread problem. Mac, your opinion is just that, your opinion. Don't pretend that you speak for the gaming community with your complaints because you honestly don't.
Editing this just for clarity. I'm a big fan of this channel, it's hilarious and I actually agree with a lot of the rants especially about woke or sjw stuff. I guess as a fan of the channel I feel like Mac is assuming everyone who subscribes agrees with him and this isn't the case. You don't have to agree with Mac to enjoy his work. I respect his opinion but I don't like being told that I'm part of the 'problem' with modern gaming for liking Resident Evil. I find that disrespectful as a fan of this channel.
@@grahamt19781 amazing game.... quality over quantity, performance on next gen consoles is superb and it’s aesthetic and storytelling is gripping and immersive!
I think this game will divide games some like me think it was pretty good like you I enjoyed the the way the game looked(maxed out with Ray tracing) had no frame drops luckily and reminded me of resi 4 which it was inspired by. Only thing is I do wish it was a bit longer and the story was a bit more coherent went off the rails at times and I was like wtf happened
The irony that she said "no place left to run" yet you can simply run into the room with the trader lmfao
Welcome t8 the resident Evil franchise
That's all resis
IGN gave it an 8. Probably knocked off 2 points because they couldn't solve that insanely tough window puzzle
I don't think they got there. They probably got stuck in the piano puzzle.
Nah, they probably wanted it as long as TLOU2
They also gave Alien:Isolation a 6. They utterly lack the ability to sort the wheat from the chaff, so should NOT be reviewers.
Oscar Giner even the piano puzzle is pathetic
@CaliDorko ...and yet you think Village is great? The problem isn't that you have poor taste mate, it's that you have NO taste. Based on that call alone, I'd hate to hear your music collection: as it's guaranteed to be riddled with mediocrity. You utterly lack the ability to sort the wheat from the chaff.
The window puzzle cracked me up.
At least WABs are still truthful
yeah the puzzles are too easy
That one is basically a tutorial puzzle it's at the beginning of the game
"The Tall Lady didn't want to come in the room, maybe its her ex husband"
...... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 😂
Logically out of the four, Lady D is only one Duke would want to marry and she is only one of the four lords that references him.
um shes clearly too tall to get in the room dumbo
@@EazyDuz18.... who are you talking to?
@@thebatman4279 you
@@EazyDuz18 I don't understand what I did to justify you calling me dumb. He made a joke about the merchant being Lady D's ex and I laughed.
Are you OK, mate?
Vampire Lady clearly didn't want to invade your safe space
If you didnt have a bacon and egg sarnie for breakfast I can imagine the score was probably 1 or 2
I hope the eggs were organic Mack and the chickens were more happier than that Chicken in the game you was chasing about 😂
I think is more into marmite and beans
3:17 Isn't this the same guy from RE 7? Nothing should scare him anymore.
Yeah it’s same guy. The voice actor and writing is trash.
Main Character Franchise Syndrome. There's probably people playing this who've never played RE before, just because The Tall Lady became a meme, so Ethan has to act scared and wimpy as the audience would (or should)
I mean several years have passed since re7, I know he's been military trained but has he been fighting BOWs since then? Plus, re7 was much smaller in scale and had way less shit going on
He's been living a peaceful life with Mia for 3 years since RE7. Then one day Chris busts in, kills Mia, and kidnaps Ethan and his baby. Before he can even come to terms with that going on, he wakes up in a car wreck and makes his way to the village. He barely catches a glimpse of the monsters before he's pulled down there by one and sees the pile of dead bodies.
Yeah man what a pussy
@@XemnasKH funny how you skip over all his military training between the games.
No horror Mack? You're playing a horror game with no horror. That's the Horror Mack.
it's like the Twilight movie series (so bad that it's good) :p
Spot on
I loved village
It’s HORRible. Get it. Ha. Ok I’ll go
And to your own surprise, you're actually entitled to your own opinion.
the lock combination out the window is truly something lol
I was baffled how they even tell you to look out the window
Like couldn't they just use light or something? That was been done for ages to draw the viewer's attention to something.
The funniest part is, when I do that a lycan peek back at me.
That part made me jump really bad 🤣😂
@@yanuarmustika5816 bro me and kids jumped off the couch at that part
At 9:30... that happens in RE2R and 3, Tyrants don't follow you into the safe room...
Exactly. Thats the fucking purpose of a save room...
There is other threats to navigate to get to the safe rooms in those game though especially RE2 remake.
This is literally "old good new bad".
I've played loads of RE and I thought this game was good.
I didn’t even buy the game and I feel like I want my money back
Lmaooo
This is the winning comment right here.
Well then your missing out. I just finished it & It’s easily one of the prettiest & most ambitious RE game to come out this year. This guy has no clue what he’s talking about
@@donxponce7729 It is a good far cry game but people wanted skyrim cyberpunk as they previously advertised.
@@donxponce7729 honestly it’s such a great game
Over the top but so much fun
Apparently the game director at Capcom said they wanted to make the game less scary because many casual gamers found RE 7 too frightening and off putting to play. From what you're saying Mack it sounds like Capcom have made the game too safe and full of dumbed down casual horror for the casuals.
Capcom should just make a difficulty option that says I am a casual gamer/pussy.
Removing what was good in your game is beyond stupid, just add settings option to make it less scary is the correct approach.
@@jeffvella9765 imagine buying a horror game and then not playing it because it did its job too well. lol...
@@bullshitdepartment ikr like they should have just ignore that feedback.
well it happened to me when I played doom 3 for the first time, I needed a stress break every 45 minutes. The sound in that game was scary as fuck and the fact that you had to hold the torch instead of the gun really kept me stressed.
That's relative I guess, I didn't find RE 7 scary, just boring with scripted nonsense. Could not get myself to keep playing it too far. Sadly I bought it in deep sale and still felt ripped off.
I'd feel horror if I spent £50 on this.
The fact they are changing that much for a game this bad is the real scary Part indeed.
@@fire69hawk “charging”
@@RickR69 no one cares about old slow PCs they all making games for next gen ps5 and xbox x
@@EazyDuz18 Pretty sure you don't know what a FOV slider is lmfao.
I played the game blind . I didnt look at reviews or anything. I didnt want anyone trying to make my mind up for me. I really enjoyed it. Very good game.
Online Reviewers: "Resident evil 7 is too scary to play. Mom mom mom!!"
Developers: "Ok we will town it down for re8"
Gee... thanks guys.
Look out the window part killed me
60 seconds from a 12 hour game, oh no. A whole one hour sequence that is up there with some of the best horror moments in modern video games? He didn’t bother mentioning that.
@@robreich6881 Fucking this. That whole section was scarier than even RE7 and thats one of the scariest games of all time IMO
Same lol
@@robreich6881 Twelve hour game? I walked through it at barely nine hours, one hour sequence that's good? No part of the game was specifically better than the rest, well, no part was better than the rest but the thirty minute puppet area was pretty garbage compared to the rest of the game. The game does not live up to the hype.
@@sebastionstewart4567 The time clock on the game doesn't include cutscenes or reloads. The actual time to complete for most people including the cutscenes and reloads for deaths is gonna be 12-15 hours on hardcore. I can't speak to first playthroughs on Standard.
"Five in the head sir." Had me cracking up lol
LMAO so casual
Ah so basically I'm going to have too much ammo come the end game? Lol
I swear, had me crackin up
@digduck lol
The puzzles section had me laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair! It made my whole day cheers
Aged 18+ theme. Aged 3+ gameplay and story.
not only the gameplay but the puzzles too
Marking everything with yellow is both insulting and immersion breaking.
In the Moreau section, there's literally an arrow pointing up to a lock that you have to shoot.
Brilliant game design.........
Resident Evil has gone down the pan over the years. The RE2: Remake was astounding and showed what they are capable of producing, sadly what has followed has been increasingly disappointing.
I thought the game was astounding
Game was amazing
Village: not scary, no cool melee attacks...horrible story/boss fights....butchered Chris...mercenary mode doesn't hold a candle to RE5
At this point their only good games are remaking the old ones.
RE4 remake is coming too.
7:25 Your laugh is contagious as shit. I wouldn't even have found myself laughing until you did. Brilliant shit mack.
That looking out of the window for the combination is absolutely ridiculous 😂 Dumb.The games producer Tsuyoshi Kanda in an interview said that the devs dialled back on the scares as some people who played Resident Evil VII found them too scary. They wanted to create a sequel ‘that anybody can feel comfortable jumping in and playing’…..’so that players aren’t in constant fear’. Ahh bless.£50 my arse.
JackFrags thought it was genius. Lmao.
@@satnav1980 Obviously he needs to have a word with himself.
The point of the easy window "puzzle" was for the jumpscare.
Its funny because I read that interview too and couldn't help but remember Fatal Frame received complaints about it being "too scary" and instead of dialing back the scares they double-down in fatal frame 2. This is was for max profit not for the well intention of reaching a wider audience, and even if that is the intention its still deliberately motivated for maximizing profit.
So that combi thing and it not being scary to some makes it not worth the price?
It's also a bit strange to have a modern, plastic, UK-style wheelie bin designed to be picked up by bin lorries in the middle of a mansion in the mountains of Transylvania.
I died at “stand on the top, strip off and do a hula hoop naked f*cking dance” 😂
Games have been generalised for the kids who don't want a challenge.
This review is a masterpiece. Not only hilarious, but very intelligent and true. Pleaee don't stop doing reviews Mack. You have a gift. I worry that you're going to stop :(
Capcom allegedly toned down the horror in RE8 because RE7 was too scary for many ''gamers''.
I don’t want to live anymore.
That's what I read, too.
It's a shame (and quite obvious) that these alleged "gamers" are probably the 12 year olds who shouldn't be playing M-rated games in the first place, but WTF does Capcom (or any gaming company) care when it comes to increasing sales, right?
I saw that too. Sad and pathetic.
I think that's just a another bs from them
It's just like how CDPR claimed that they shortened the campaign of Cyberpunk 2077 because people complained Witcher 3 was too long and some people didn't finish it.
It's like who the F*** cares what those people think! these games aren't meant for short ass attention span, can't handle real horror asses. they're the minority!
I cant believe some people giving this a 9.5/10
I give it 9
It's a 7/10 game, it's fun and the whiners just need a reason to whine.
Lol it's your opinion the game is fun to play but as a resident evil title it misses the mark by a long shot
I agree it's a 7/10 game just because the gunplay it's good so it' feels fun when firing the weapons and the graphics are great in some parts it's a 8/10 but they're few and far between in the castle section it's a 8/10 hisenbergs factory it's 8/10 mother Miranda's boss fight 8/10 everything else is 7/10 to 6/10 good to mediocre
Your laughing while explaining the “outside the window” combination thing is the most infectious thing since.... nah, too soon.
Good one Man 😂
Delta variant? lol
What it is old boy, is its us older gamer who had the privilege to play classic games back in the day, we aren't who they cater to anymore. Gamers today are shallow and have no knowledge of substance or quality. Its all about how good it looks and that about it. Its sad.
"Had bacon & egg sarnie for breakfast" makes everyday an auto 10/10. Mack is compromised.
Bioshock 1 still has one of the best atmospheres in video game history
System Shock 2 would like a word
I would go for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
@@griddamus you mean Bioshock 2?
@@gast128 never played it lol
F.E.A.R Platinum Collection- atmosphere, gun play, fear. S.T.A.L.K.E.R 1,2,3 atmosphere, gun play, fear. Metro 1,2 atmosphere, gun play and half the fear. All have emersion. Just to mention some great games. Why would you spend £50 on this game that's made for 10 year old kids, last for about 10 hours when you can get all them for half the price and last for hundreds of hours.
One of the Steam achievments for the demo was "Played for 5 minutes" at the time of playing only 70% of players had got it. Says a lot.
Lol
70% is a lot for a achievement actually. If you'd said it was only like 10% I'd have been more interested.
@@acurisur Bro its 5 minutes, and 30% of people who played the game didnt reach it. U can spend 5 minutes loading into a game.
@@louiswoodward8095 they havent installed it yet its not that deep
I had to quit out of the demo when there weren't proper DS4 prompts on Steam. There's a mod for the full game because of course there is. If a game releases on ps4/ps5, and clearly pc gamers use that controller, why not just throw in what's already programmed? Seeing YXBA is aggravating.
I completely disagree with almost everything you said about this game. But I absolutely love your videos lol 😆. I love this game so far
He haven't play old RE's, he dislikes 7. He prises remake of 2 due to it's graphics while hateing 7, 3 and 8(same RE Engine). It's just sad that lot of people here haven't got their own brains and will skip completly good game cause of this review
@@Denethill yeah I've played all the main line series games except for 5 and 6. I've loved them all
@@tedahwooga same mate. 5 and 6 waits for me having someone to go with through them. I'm on horror side of fanbase
This game has no substance
8:37 "what's wrong with gamers today?!"
"fookin Millenials!"
Aren't millenials the ones who mostly grew up with the classic RE games?
I played the RE1 Director's Cut yesterday and its puzzles weren't exciting either. Did that change in the sequels? I never really got to play the games released between 1 and 4.
@@FlashheadX its a joke going back to mack's mocking review of star wars they did on MaulErs stream a long time ago.
First millenials and now also the bullsh!t of the zoomers we have to deal with....
@@FlashheadX yeah I'm a millenial who grew up playing og re 1-3 back when the devs respected your intelligence on solving puzzles and not reminding you you can reload a fucking gun at the last boss of the game.
@@eiszapfenderwutendenwinde3233 ok boomer
Im more interested in that bacon an egg sandwich you had for breakfast.
Apparently, they toned the horror because people thought Resident Evil 7 was too scary.
wtf is the point of a horror game then
It will probably sell better due to that which is a shame for us horror fans.
That's just not true. It's more action oriented to make it like an FPS version of Res 4
@@LG_XD it is true and the developers are on record saying it lol
horror and survival horror are very different things. resident evil has never been about horror
Decades of grooming the consumer base into thinking this tripe is exceptional gaming.
It’s sad really. Gaming has peaked. There’s a reason why post 2014 it went down hard. Microtransactions and suits took over the industry. It will never be the same again.
I don't think anything in the game can be anywhere near as creepy as that baby in the first minute of the video.
Just got out the castle after 3.5 hours, shocked at the lack of atmosphere and there's so many cut scenes but what is shocking is its actually easy and there's not much skill involved
maybe on normal, but most games these days require no skill on normal mode. normal has become the new easy, because nobody wants to admit they need easy mode so developers drastically nerfed normal to keep them from complaining.
this is why those of us who enjoy a challenge never play any modern games on easy, we usually start on hard and if there's a very hard we'll do that on the 2nd playthrough.
re village is pretty challenging on hard, and village of shadows is just insanely difficult.
All reviews...new resident evil is the most scary resident evil ever...me playing it like...really?....So happy with your review.
Lol Game Informer. I wouldn't use that magazine to line my bird cage.
@@joshw9527 They also platformed Anita Sarkeesian.
What kind of birds do you have ?
@@brendanlucero8585 so your for no platforming? you'd probably get on well with anita
@@klebyell Not whatsoever. but by giving her a platform it shows they have an agenda and/or sympathize with her plight which is Psychotic. I'd never deny anyone a platform.
@@brendanlucero8585 maybe, or they want to cultivate a broad spectrum of views? i think shes an idiot, so do most of us, but like it or not if any of us see her name we'll click it just to lose our minds over the nonsense shes spewing lol.
I gotta say...people do seem to make Horror Genre into a standard fps shoot-go next area-boss-repeat-cutscenes
Which is why I kinda sceptical on Horror games...people call them horror for just the looks or jumpscares isn't really a horror game..it looked more like Tom&Jerry Hide&Seek kind of thing with lots of puzzles & maze of hidings🙄
Worst thing is, there is no tension.
There are no stakes, if you as a player never know if the character is seriously hurt, or if he will heal anyway in 10 seconds because apparently it doesn't matter if he looses limbs or parts of his body get ripped into shreds.
You can't release a horror game like this. There is no horror. No tension. Nothing at stake. And saddest of all, it means there is no atmosphere.
Plus, the character is completely out of touch with the setting, his writing and VO doesn't fit his actions. Additionally they tried to include like 10 different themes, but they don't finish a single one of them. This is a patchwork gone wrong, sadly.
What were they thinking.
Last good Resident Evil game was 4 .... after that, the series went downhill...
your laugh is contagious mack
Laugh attack Mac
More like annoying... He sounds like a broken teapot
@@OverlordZephyros well i think puzzle in Resident evil 8 is made for journalist.If this game has puzzle like Amnesia,well journalist will cry out like baby
Those puzzles were dire. What the hell. Did some journo complain about the locker codes being too hard to find in REmake 2 or something?
Lmao probably
Can we even call these puzzles? Lol
@Siriabsolutely but that is not a good thing. Dumbing games down for a dumbed down society...
@Siri Hey, at least it is not Skyrim level of puzzles.
I have a friend that was stumped for a full hour on the "look out the window" puzzle, even when staring at all the numbers. And would never had made it past the music box one if I hadn't told him what to do.
When the fan base are more interested and hyped for remakes of games Capcom made 16 years ago than the games they make now. F’in lol.
You'd be surprised how many fans trash the remakes because their nothing like the first remake lmao
Who says the fanbase is more interested in that?
Fanbases are dumb, all of them. In a parallel universe where Capcom listened to survival horror nerds and made 30 RE games with tank controls that takes place in mansions and police stations, the fanbase is complaining they don't innovate and keep releasing the same game over and over again.
Survival horror franchises died or became action oriented for a reason. There's a limit to how many times you can put an average Joe in a foggy town or a mansion that looks the same as the previous 3 games but the moment you tweak the formula just a bit the nerds start throwing tantrums.
Resi 2 remake is sensational and scared the absolute shit out of me haha
@@Ocean5ix "takes place in mansions and police stations" thats exactly what Re7/re8 is but with retardedd vampire/lycan monsters, pathetic puzzles and a very boring main character. So maybe they should have listened to their original nerds instead of the zoomer nerds?
What's truly shocking is the 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating on Steam.
Mr. X couldn't go in safe rooms either.
Thank God
I feel like he looks for shit to cry about
@@elJossu That's the gimmick, no need to make clickbait thumbnails and titles when everyone just knows that's what you do
your laugh just got me... so genuine and with zero fucks my goodness that's how you review a game
Yeah Mack’s authenticity is what makes his reviews so good
Would love to know your thoughts on Alien Isolation. For me, a great example of modern, first person, atmospheric horror.
He has a review on it!
He loved it. One of my favourite games. In fact I’m going to replay it cheers.
Yeah he likes it
Ah, must have missed that one! Thanks guys.
I played it once and I am still reluctant to play it, now that's a scary game one that makes you question if you really want to play it again lol.
Did Ethan get super human powers from Re7? He still got his hand cut off before getting powers. It's super unclear why he isn't dead other than him wearing plot armor.
It is explained in the Village
SPOILER
He was infected in RE7
@Chris Mason he doesn’t in this case.
@Chris Mason It's still rather cheap.
I don’t understand how people played RE 7 and missed the whole point that Ethan was infected in that game. He reattached his hand and hallucinating Eveline at the end of RE7. And people complain how game start to force fed info for numbskull player.
@Strexxin I agree with this. I love watching his reviews, but sometimes he bitches about things ONLY to be funny or shocking.
Good points although I would put less of the blame on the voice actors and more of the blame on the writers. I can't think of a way to say 'I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL BREAK YOU' in a non-cheesy way.
The problem, as you have pointed out before is, the damn bar is just set so low now. It's amazing what gamers eat up and love. I am waiting for the day when a company sells a game trailer for $60 and gamers call it game of the year. They were smart to advertise old big boobs. It got basement dwellers jerking so hard, it sold copies.
“Tall vampire lady mommy milkers!”
Countess Thiccness
People with discernment aren't sold on that kind of nonsense.
@@Grandmastergav86 People without* discernment aren't sold on that kind of nonsense.
FTFY.
You should get a clown horn for when the bell isn't good enough.
You must be new here... Mack already has one.
I’ve had more fun watching this review than I probably would playing the game 🤣
I was looking forward to Mack's review than the game release lol.
how would you know ? did u play the game ?
@@prince_warhero No don't need to youtube has shown all there is to village and I'm happy to give it a pass.
@@antonygriffith9048 then i wonder why people even need to play a game to review it, can just see in youtube and review right ?
@@prince_warhero There is a difference between thinking I would like to play it to making a review for other people to decide to play it, I'm not telling anyone not to bother with it but I'm just saying RE verse was the early warning signs and now it's been confirmed as a game that's not worth £50 to me, plus Worth a buy doesn't give reviews exactly to give a rating but whether is it worth it's asking price.
Like many other Re fans, I've been playing RE since the 1996 and the series has been one of my all time favourites ever since. "RE village" unfortunately was quite a let down on so many levels... I pretty much fully agree wit everything said in this review.
RE Village is basically the same as when your parents you to say to "I'm not angry with you, just dissapointed..."
Yeah seriously Mack, how is this game 9/10 on gamespot?!
its obvious now? these companies are paying for good reviews..
ITS BULLSHIT! its phoney.. its 50 USD for a 8-9 hour game..
clunky mechanics, boring gameplay, and 9/10 ... wow..
Respect to the man who starts his day right, with a bacon and egg sarnie.
I actally enjoyed RE8, for what it's worth, and played it extensively. Didnt pay £50 mind, so I didnt feel ripped off as others might. Still think the plot twist is dumb and raises more questions that it answers, but I don't want to trigger the brain donors in the comments any further than I already have.
i like the game but the Ethan no
@@mars188 Well I mean he did basically put his leg back on in the last game, Resident Evil 7, I didn't know this playing it, I only found out after watching another persons playthrough, when they got ethan's leg chopped off by the dads shovel near when you first meet him.
@@lmcgregoruk same here. Nothing else to play so i got it. so far its okay
@@lmcgregoruk i think RE 5 the best
@@mars188 The lack of effort in this title is shocking.
Your review is on point! I’ve been watching streamers play it and it’s been a pretty boring experience.
I played through with my friend, it was brilliant
Yeah I don’t get the appeal and I like many of the other RE Games.
You can't tell if you have not played it, there's lots of games I like that I don't find entertaining to watch.
Watching other people play games can indeed be quite boring, yeah.
I enjoyed WesSideLive's stream. But I mean, it's Wes, he can make just about anything enjoyable to watch.
I love how in the demo all the negatives were about the gunplay and it's the only positive here. 😂
says alot about Mack's opinion
@@arcticridge Yes, indeed it does. Mack is what some people would call a child trapped in a mans body. It is not his fault to be fair. He is entitled to his opinion... and it is just that, an opinion. Even if I dont share it, it is fine.
Imagine a world where you could be killed due to your opinion. I dont want to live in that world. I love the franchise and Re8 is a Good game. The PC port needs patches hur other than that as a fan I am happy.
You guys honestly think this game is worth £50? Says alot about gaming
@@04warrick04 And that is your opinion. You are welcome:)
@@chrish4052 you seem like a weirdo lol
Play on hardcore and you’ll feel the ‘suspense’ more. 9/10 for me. But I’m not as attached to the resident evil franchise.
Was gonna skip this game altogether. Ended up giving it a chance cause it was on heavy sale. Garbage. Ended up quitting. Wasted my money.
"Look out of the window." Lol
if only everything was that simple "close your wallet"
Been playing resident evil on the xbox series x over the weekend and it is very scary I totally desa agree with you you don't know what your taking about
@@paulsutvh8542 Good 4 u Paul. I better use the Xbox then..lol
7:26 that's the best part of this whole video :)
50 £ please😅
@@renanmalone742 over here in Australia it’s $100 for this garbage on release, it’s ridiculous.
@@MartinMorning2 here in Brazil it is 249 reais ... very expensive too.
@@renanmalone742 that’s crazy, we have to pay so much for a game that was made for journalists because re7 was too scary for them lol, re8 to me is another sign the gaming industry is dying.
The shlurp shlurp sounds just after are hilarious too 😂 8:35
I love these reviews, great job mack. I'll wait till this is free on ps4 as I quite like the aesthetic, but I expected it to be utter balls.
If you haven't played them, play the RE1 and RE2 remakes. They're excellent. 👍
Its trash dont even bother this is a casual pro game and i own all the resident evil main games lol
Game is great.i didnt expect much but i had so much fun
It' is fun if u just wanna shoot things and turn your brain off yes it can be enjoyable but as soon as u start to look for anything deeper than fun gameplay and impressive graphics you will be disappointed as there is nothing there for you some parts are a little scary but compared to re7 and re2 remake it was greatly tuned down so don't expect much out of the horror either just have your expectations really low and you won't be disappointed lol
@@Fabian6980 Dude.... That is literally all Resident Evil ever has been.
Agree with all these points. The problem with puzzles nowadays is that if people don’t get them first time they just give up and google the answer online. So it’s almost a waste of time to make them complicated. Sad but true.
So true.
My problem with the RE puzzles was never that they were complicated, but that in the end, most of them were nothing else than fetch quests and that most of them do not make _any_ sense even within this universe. 1.284 steps and 392 items in order to open a door in a _police station_ that is supposed to be passed by dozens of people every day? With the items having arcane symbols on them and the puzzles making references to things that happen(ed) in places and to people with zero association with this or _any_ police station? Hmhm...
@Furzkampfbomber Well, it wouldn't make interesting gameplay if it was just, walk and shoot.
Also, the previous games explained the reasoning for the puzzles' existence. In RE1, the mansion was made to be a deliberate death trap to guard and hide the lab that was making the tryant. In RE2, the police station was originally an art museum that was renovated by Chief Iron's, who was an Umbrella lackey that deliberately created the puzzles in the police station to undermine the police and ensure he kept ammo and medical resources for himself if an outbreak occurred.
RE Fans are suckers for RE games, and I'm part of the VERY VERY VERY few that callout Capcom on their BS. Unlike other forums from other games they make efforts to change the games by continuous criticism towards the devs. Since RE 3 Capcom is gonna go down even further with cliché "horror".
I watched Michael does life play through this, he struggled on the puzzles while on casual... 😂
Pretty entertaining 6hour stream tho i love the guy but he has shit for brains
@@HarryB291 He is brilliant especially his heel personas but he seems to be going through a bit of burn out and he resorts to ranting, so I leave it a week and stop watching then return to see him back on form again.
Micheal does life has been falling off. He was getting really good for a while too but now he just rants or complains about his fan base
this ain't silent hill. difficulty does not affect puzzles
The puzzles are the same but to be fair re never had hard puzzles
I love watching the other reviews then watching yours. It's a great way to contrast and compare. As well as seeing who's really being honest with us. Thanks home 👍
The irony..lol if Mack was being honest, he'd award this game a positive review and tell you how fun it is, praise the additional combat improvements over the awful RE7 and not prpduced a 14 minute comedy skit slagging off other reviews, that ironically do a far better job on this ond
@@MorrisseyMuse Do capcom hire paid shills or something to defend game companies lol, I dont get it that so many peope are defending a product lol
@@MorrisseyMuse na bruh even dream cast guy had issues with the game. If you can't scare that dude then you're "horror " game is a failure. You're mistreating a good technical game. For a good game of the genre. This is not a true re game homie.
Resident Evil: Bell Edition
I just purchased this for series x for $20 and thoroughly enjoyed it. It starts off slow walking around looking for crap but by the time you exit Dimitrescu's Castle it's starts to pick up. It actually scared me a few times too with my 5.1 setup. I definitely recommend it. The graphics and HDR in sole of the areas is pretty impressive too.
Yeah, I'm waiting to buy this game on a deep sale for about $30. I'm sure at full price, and on release that this game was trash, but for $30, it's probably a good game. I find that games are experienced differently depending on how much I paid for the game. The more I've spent on a game, the higher my expectations, and the deeper I fall into disappointment.
And the new Winters' Expansion DLC that adds "Shadows of Rose" to the game, is one of the most atmospheric Story expansions i've seen in a long while, splendid 3rd Person view included, but sadly it looks like Mack's not gonna (re)review that, ever. 🤷🏻♂️
Mack was spot on, this is woeful.
@@Grandmastergav86 How can he be "spot on" about something he hasn't even played? 🤔
I solely speak about the "Shadows of Rose" DLC here, (and Mack hasn't tested/reviewed that, he only reviewed the main game) - busted! 😂
Absolutely correct this generation could be sold snow from eskimos, its shocking how people will fall for cut n paste garbage. Consoles have ruined pc games. Commercial dog shite
Dev's said that RE7 was too scary for some players to play so they made it,...well boring
You mean journalists not actual gamers, most actual gamers would love re7s horror, it’s journalists that don’t because they complain about everything because there bad at games, because them now re8 got dumbed down which is a shame.
LOL i lost it at the "look at the window"
At first they didn't have the note in the game but then they concluded that having the solution outside the window was too much thinking outside the box/room. So they added that note.
@@leto1178 Dunno, AFAIK games have a couple of methods to show the solution for a pass or key (the usual search for a note or search in the environment...having too look at the window is nothing outside of the box if you played more than three games of this kind), being in a small room doesnt help either. Imagine those people playing a classic point and click adventure then...true horror. RE puzzles never were too hard, i get it (specially if you compare them with..dunno Silent Hill, that's outside of the box)...but this one is borderline insulting.
@@JUANMAS7ER The joke was that the solution is always inside the room/box but that one time you had to "think outside the box" (to look outside the window). I wasn't defending the easy puzzles, it was just a very dry joke.
@@leto1178 Oh, im really dumb then, sorry :P
@@leto1178Mack cut out a jumpscare that happens moments after looking out the window, which is why the solution is so obvious. It's setting up for a scare, but Mack acknowledging he got spooked would go against the narrative of the review, so he cut it out.
The pistol looks like a GIF lol
If your character can easily recover from danger, it becomes nothing more than a health point system. The player needs more meaningful consequence than that in order to be scared. Supply and demand, or rarity, can be used to allow for recovery to an extent without ruining the experiences of risks and danger...But, it is better in a horror game to have mortal danger, because the possibility of loss is part of what is so scary.
That red plank thing is ridiculous. The player isn't supposed to be shown where the danger is! They are supposed to use their own intelligence in a game like this. Choreographing danger to the player ruins the atmosphere, the immersion, and eliminates almost all risk.
That fish monsters should be chasing the player along the entire course of that plank level area, smashing the large platforms, etc.
Outlast is an underrated First Person horror game. And you can get the package of Outlast and Outlast Whistleblower on Steam for less than $5.
Its shite
You Sir just earned yourself a new subscriber, Bravo.
You got me at 8:30
This has to be your best video yet.
Thank you for playing through all the crap so your fans don't have to.
Every time before buying a game I always watch you because even though the game looks and sounds good before playing it there are so many problems. I remember buying the division 1 and watched you before I bought it, I though “nah it still looks good what are you saying”. Maybe 4 hours in I was so disappointed and regretted buying it! You are the man bro!! You have saved me from buying so many “popular” games that turns out to be disappointing. Watch dogs legion was on my list but I had to throw it away after watching your review. I’m turning down REV now :D.
I really don't get your review scores mac. You had nothing but bad things to say about this game, other than the basic gun play, yet give it a 5/10 which is a moderate score. Game shillers give games automatic 8s and 9s for crappy games because they don't seem to grasp that on a 1 to 10 scale 5 is the average, not 7 like they seem to think. Unfortunately you're following the same asinine logic. What happened to all the 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s that terrible disappointing games should receive? 5/10 should at least have some positives to its name not all negative like your review was.
The prob is... That the older generation gamers like myself got to see all the amazing effort that was put into games back then. It was what sucked us into becoming gamers. We've been patiently wishing and waiting for developers to blow our minds like they did back then with the new installments. Only to see our hopes and expectations dashed. Over and over and over again. All Mac needs to realize is, that most of these kids literally grew up on shite games. They basically dont have an understanding of what good really is. All they know is shite. But at the end of the day, all I really wanted to say was...WTF now! X-RAY VISION, X-RAY VISION, X, X, X, X.
Lets be honest here...The puzzles weren't made so easy on behalf of the gamers...but were made easy so that the supposed "game journalists" could beat it.
"Look out the funking window"
and Mack has a seizure lol
There was actually a scripted jump scare in that part when you look out the window that actually got me the first time. but he edited it out because it would’ve weakened his case in the video.
@@vetisu_7719 not by a lot though. The puzzle is still no existent
It may not be worth a buy but your always worth a view.
I know there are a lot of people in this comment thread that are going to just blindly agree with Worthabuy here, and if you tend to agree with him, that may be correct for you to do. But for people out there that are new to the channel, or for people who liked RE4, I think you should consider trying this game. It truly is a fun game, and if you liked RE4, you with without doubt like this game. The community has spoken, and this game is overwhelmingly enjoyed by the community.
The modern gaming masses blindly rush into virtually every single new AAA game to come out now, with the vast majority either forgetting or simply being too young to remember a time when AAA gaming was like the gold standard, so "the community has spoken" makes relatively little difference in this case.. When Death Stranding first came out it was being praised like the most revolutionary game to date, hyped up beyond belief, only to turn out to be an extremely mediocre UPS simulator with pretty graphics and a famous actor for the protagonist (who can't act his way out of a paper bag just like Keanu Reeves 👀); point being, just because critics/IGN etc give it a 10/10 and the masses are blown away by it (a pretty easy thing to do now a days) really doesn't mean it's anything special 🤷
Got to admit if anything this game made me want to play RE 2, remake, and holy fuck that game is atmospheric.
@Mable's Fatal Fable It did alot right but for me it changed way too much.
I got so anoyed by the roaming Mr.X, i could not enjoy the atmosphere most of the time.
Then this complete trash Chapter with Ada with fucking wallhack "puzzles"? and of coruse again Mr.X.
Then a scripted chase scene... by the Alligator.
And after wandering around for an hour in the fucking Sewers i dropped the Game.
And RE4 isnt a Horror Game, its pure action and does it alot better then the Titles after it.
So iam all for a RE4 Remake, but do it like the RE1 Remake, stay close to the original.
Re2 remake was a fluke just like re4, just wait until they remove most of the bosses, enemy types and areas in re4, people will be pissed
RE2 remake was zzzzzz I much prefer the gameplay loop of RE4 and RE8. It was also less than half the length of RE8 and RE4. Sorry, I just prefer action over your boring "atmosphere" that you're somehow experiencing looking at a computer screen LOL
@@thevomit5851 That;s fair I suppose just that 4 and 2 are two different styles 2 is a classic Survival Horror Experience with the feel of a old Romero Zombie Film. While Resident Evil 4 is a Action game with it feeling like a Action Movie.
While you were struggling with this trash I kept on playing Blade of Agony. Great fun. Thanks for covering that Mack.
Blades of Agony is riveting gameplay!
Resident Evil needs to return to it's roots, that's for sure...
I'm enjoying it quite a bit actually.
I'd play re2 remake or any other resident evil game over this anyday. If you enjoying that then your easily please or blinded by a vampire woman
@@JP_LDN582 Neat, thanks for your opinion.
Me too. People on this channel just love to shit rules.
This channel is basically satire at this point. He’s unable to approach any review without an extreme bias.
Hey now, I'm not here to start anything with anyone. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I respect that. I've enjoyed Mack's content for years, and that's never been based on his or any of his viewer's opinions. He's just a solid content creator with a great personality.
"It stinks! It stinks! It stinks!!"
"Yes Mr Sherman, everything stinks"
If you object to paying £50 for games, wait until they're on sale. Steam is like DFS; there's usually a sale on.
Im shocked at how horrible this game is compared to its predecessor and yet reviewers are losing their shit over how great it is.
Who here in the comments actually played it.
Because I personally highly enjoyed it.
I've been playing it, and it's really fun. Kind of like a combo, between RE4 or 5s cheesy characters, and writing. With 7s first person view, and plenty of dismemberment for the main character.
Since Mack hated 7 it's no surprise that he bitches and whines about 8 as well. Then add to that all the people that watch him, and take his word as gospel. Most of which haven't played the game, let alone the demo.
@@laydengoddard7048
I have always considered resident evil as the best B-movie you can play.
I adore the cheese and crazy shit, it feels like a Friday the 13th or nightmare on elm street.
But Mack dislikes the game, that is his opinion and that fine, just let others enjoy it.
@@doorknobhandlebar I agree, he can hold his own opinion.
I just find it weird that he went in having played the demo, knowing all the issues he would have with it. Like the simpler puzzles, and the writing. Then goes on to repeat that these are in fact still issues for him. Like the main game would have changed much, if anything.
I don't mean to sound like I'm insulting Mack, or the viewers, it just gets under my skin when people take reviewers opinions as completely objective. Like I said, Mack hated RE7, but I loved it. So I took this review with a grain of salt, I purchased RE8, and I'm having tons of fun.
It was enjoyable but has many, many flaws. Didn't care for the story but it was pretty scary quite frequently.
Thanks Mac for calling this game out for what it is: poorly designed, overrated garbage.
Waited for this exact review. Thanks
omg I nearly choked on my drink and died at the "look out the window for the answer puzzle" part LMAO