Yeah, those were just jokes but come on now, you can’t expect a game to be completely equal to a real life adaptation, it’s hard enough to do what you’ve seen in the trailer, it’s practically impossible to imagine every possible action that could happen in a real life situation.

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“I like the way he SETS A FIRE AXE ON FIRE”

Brilliant.

I really like that inventory system and the lighting looks superb.

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The original AITD demo that I played in a CompUSA when I was a young impressionable lad scared me silly. Years later after I became a Mac Heretic, I bought the mac AITD collection with all three games. Never touched ‘em. I do have some hope for this installment, if only because I played RE4 for GC and enjoyed it immensely. (Hated every other RE).

I also agree about the “crossed swords on the wall” bit, in theory. (I had the same thought during RE4). But in this case, something high up – how often would shooting a wall-mounted display sword actually make it fall?

However…what is still kind of sad is that only now can we decide to pick up a chair and light it on fire and we call it “interactivity”. However, this is in a “survival horror” game, which will likely be a game that mostly involves picking things up, swinging them, shooting them, and having things burn/electrify/go boom. Most likely there will still only be a very limited set of item/action combos, so even in the limited scope of “using things in the world to kill monsters” if you see something that you want to try that could conceivably be done in real life (say, strangle a monster w/ a telephone/ethernet cable, or roll a board in super glue and brocken glass), unless the developers said “wouldn’t it be cool if you could X”, mostly likely you won’t be able to do X. Not that that means it won’t be a good, fun game, or that I think you should necessarily be able to pull the distribution cap on a car to keep it from starting in, say, Battlefield 3 or something, just I wish we’d quit hailing every little advance in being able to break/shoot/blow up things as interactivity.

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I look at these new AITD games and I see flashy graphics first, generic Resident Evil gameplay second. Where once the series led, it now follows. How pathetic.

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@Kast: of the series, Resident Evil 2 and 4 are the best, but avoid the PC versions if you can…

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You know, on the middle of the video, there’s a huge *something on fire* flying in front of the character, who subsequently turns around and walks the other way, IN A TOTAL APATHETIC STATE, just like if he remembered to buy canned peas before queuing at the cash desk.

So many things look “”"realistic”"” that his typical 3rd-person-videogame-character-attitude seems a bit out of place.
… except if he’s actually lobotomised/zombified. You never know ;)

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imagine such an inventory for a normal shooter like half life (gordon freeman, the drudge)

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