Resident Evil 7

If you show me where you can get any weapon in Amnesia/ Outlast/ P.T I'll gladly jump on the "this game is like the others" bandwagon. If not the only comparison I see is to Alien: Isolation where you could engage threats more directly with addition of stealth tactics.

The comparison is not absurd, RE7 share a lot of features with those horror games. 

- The fear and scares as focus of the entertainment.
- The player is in disadvantage with their enemies.
- The game promote the isolation and tension.
- The characters are normal people what makes easier for the player to can identify himself with them.
- The pacing of these games are slow.
- Their progression relies in puzzles solving. 
- They don't doubt in make the character to suffer tortures, amputations and deaths in plot, even the player character.

RE7 have combat and weapons, but as told in IGN interviews and these TGS famitsu articles; there are few enemies, and these ones tend to be more stalkers enemies related with the story (as Haunting Ground) and not filler monsters (Like the RE games prior RE7), a lot of these encounters are more oriented to puzzle defeats more than shooting (like those other horror games), others segments of the games are not able to use weapons, (is not only for the Latern video, it looks like that a lot of scenes of the game will be like that). The combat in RE7 also has been handicaped erasing skills to the player, leaving just the basics ones. 

That combat in it will be welcome, sure, (better than nothing), but the general mood of the game looks far to be affected by it. So at the end, it's more like an Outlast "with weapons", and "that" supossing that those weapons really have an impact in the general game, because that thing about the first hours of the game you can't barely defend yourself, does not give good vibes about making it different than those other horror games...

As far as i know, it is Resident evil, atleast compared to the latter titles.

Even if they named it "resident evil 7" atleast they could let it out of the main titles, because this one doesnt deserve to be a main title (of the series).

If you'd ask me RER2 is much "closer" to the resident evil than this one.

To note in regards to saying its 'not resident evil'


Resident Evil, known as Biohazard (バイオハザード Baiohazādo?) in Japan, is a survival horror video game based media franchise created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara[1][2] and owned by the video game company Capcom. The franchise focuses around a series of survival horror video games, but has since branched out into comic books, novels, and novelizations, sound dramas, live-action films, animated sequels to the games, and a variety of associated merchandise, such as action figures. The series' overarching plot focuses on multiple characters, and their roles in recurring outbreaks of zombies and other monsters, initially due to the release of the T-virus, but still more biological weapons over time, created mainly by the fictional Umbrella Corporation and various other organizations in later games.

The game was previously shown to contain zombies, but the whole plot of the entire game series is

'bio-weapons'

We can see in the RE7 videos that the 'family' enemies seem to be somewhat superhuman or at least not as absorbant to pain as a human would be.

The guy had his arm sawed into and hardly really reacted, one of the other members was on fire and took multiple shots and STILL walked towards the player.

Its to be assumed the game WILL have ties to bio-weaponry, and knowing Capcom we're most definitley going to be seeing some monsters.

So what we're seeing is most likely just the first layer, we barley have seen enough gameplay to assume a few things

-Sneaking will be a part of it
-Weapons WILL be useable, whether or not this influences fight or flight mechanics in this game who knows.
-Umbrella is referenced
-Game is heavily tied to what appears to be puzzle similar to RE1, confirming they intend on going back to their roots 
-Game seems to push more psychological horror rather than survival horror which CAN be okay, considering it looks like ghosts and demons and all that are NOT what we're seeing in RE7
-Limited inventory
-Game referenced ammunition, which can be assumed to note that their will be enough of it since mentioned to fight more than JUST the family.

So im not saying we should bash on it right away, there is hidden potential in this game, and they obviously wanted to try something new, after the failure of umbrella corps its clear we pushed onto them we WANT horror back, they will definitley deliver after their experiments with the remake sales and how badly UC did.

Im positive, I would ask everyone else at least TRY to be positive, even if you really REALLY dislike what you see

Just remember we have a choice of refunds if you dont like it, and you can always watch a YouTuber or a streamer play it and base your final thoughts that way.

Sorry long-ass wall of text. pardon my typing its bad I know, I type fast and I apologize.

I feel like that is what majority of us think about RE7 in terms of where its going.  

All I can say is Thank You.


EDIT:I also just learned from reddit that there will be save rooms WITH TYPEWRITERS AND ITEM BOXES!! This is kind of a way to see what older Resident Evil's were like (Except not really kind of..)