Hi all

I just want to say that this game is improving for me....but that certainly wasn't the case to start with.

I usually play new games on the easiest level first to get full immersion in the story. Then go back and ramp up the difficulty. Bioshock was a prime example for me. Damn .... I love that game.
Playing it on the hardest difficulty was like a punch in the stomach and a wake up call.
Every move had to be thought through then executed with dexterity...especially the Big Daddies.
First time I took the first one I met on....he was soon wiping my entrails off his diving suit...haha.

So, playing games on easy has always been exactly that....easy.
Then I bought TEW.
Popped it in the ps4 and set off. All started fine and I must admit I was pretty unsettled and more jumpy than I have been before when playing a game
Suddenly though....I wasn't finding it easy....I was finding it damn hard if I'm honest.

My instant reaction was to start moaning about the mechanics, the graphics, the load times the absolute nerve of the devs to dare make a game this difficult. How was I EVER going to play this on the harder difficulties.....this is a joke.....the game was a 7 out of 10 for me at the start but after meeting The Keeper for the first time.....it sank to 3 out of 10.
I have not been so frustrated with a game in as long as I can remember.

It was going on ebay the very next day.

The next day I said....I'll give it one more go and try something different....and lo and behold....did it first time.

My point is, all the people that are dissing the game, I think, are doing so because they thought they could breeze through it like Uncharted on base level.
I think, like me, they got a shock as to how hard a game like this can be if you don't take your time and think a little.

Also.....a basic human reaction to something that frightens you is to belittle it....that way it becomes less frightening.
I really think the people that are saying it wasn't scary in the slightest....then go on to rip the game to shreds....are just using their defence mechanisms to stop them feeling unsettled.... and not being able to "do the game"

Just my thoughts on the matter.....what are yours?

For info, I'm at chapter 15 on survival and then going to hell in a handcart on nightmare.
Whether I have the saintly patience to do Akumu is yet to be seen....

...besides......I think Akumu is impossible because of all the glitches, graphics, mechanics.....how dare the devs make a game as hard as this.....rant rant....grrrr....hahah

This game clearly shows how different gaming generations are. Take gaming of late 90s and early 2000 and a lot of those games was like dark souls and TEW, it was normal thing to challenge a gamer. Now it's just 90% of cinematic BS fast food. And of course young gamers today find the TEW sooo damn hard and unfair....while gamers of 90s take this game as just what they used to play back in the day)

I totally agree id.dav and I'm older than I care to mention

I started gaming in the early 90's but I too have been completely spoilt in recent years.
I mean, how hard were games in those days? ... answer .... very.

Remember the first Abe's Odyssey on PS1....How many times did we die on that...sheesh.
Or what about the first Tomb Raider? I must have spent 2 days trying to make that jump to the secret area at the start of the first level.....for a large medi pack and a relic...haha...and no saving until you found that floating blue diamond either.

TEW is a call from the past with a few modern twists.
I now think, after playing it for as long as I have, it's a survival horror classic that doesn't deserve the stick people are giving it.

Sure it has a few problems .... but don't all games?
We learn and adapt to live with them.....job done.

Cheers.