Will there ever be another AAA survival horror game?

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Hawk said:

KylieDog said:

Showertea said:
Anyway, I'm glad that we are getting more 'fake' survival horror games like RE4 compared to 'real' ones like RE1-3. I used to own RE2 and I couldn't get past the very beginning. It was a terrible game. The controls sucked, and even if you got over the clunky as hell controls you would still never be able to kill anything because you only get like 3 bullets in the entire game. OTOH, I've beaten RE4 at least 3 times, and gotten all the extra unlockable stuff.

 

Yes, hence the 'Survival horror', there is no worry of dying when you get the weapons and ammo to blast away pretty much everything you face like in RE4.  In survival horror you actually have to run from some encounters and not kill them, or risk death.

 

RE4 is an action shooter.

Oh Geez, I'll reference this again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_horror

The mechanics, the type of gameplay, is not what defines the survival horror genre.  And if you read the link, survival horror games often include adventure and action elements.  On top of the fact that I think the inability to move while shooting takes a bit of the action away.

What defines survival horror is the theme.  RE4 has a complete horror situation, that Leon and Ashley are trying to survive.

And the explination that it isn't survival horror because it didn't scare you specifically, is down right wrong.  If that were the case, then there has not been a survival horror game released in the past ten years.  It's been over a decade since a game scared the Hawk, so I guess survival horror genre has been dead for 10 years already.  Are all these game really scaring you?  More specifically are the horror fans really getting scared by these games?

 

Again, every game since the begining of time is a survival game. No game encourages dying. So a "survival" premise doesn't mean the game is a survival horror game at all. Is Umbrella Chronicles a survival horror game? It has the same premise...

And while resident evil 4 has a survival horror premise and setup, the execution is not survival horror.

Imagine a horror movie setup...teenagers in the woods, surrounded by small japanese girls that come out of TV's, zombies and all kinds of other creatures.  The only problem is tha those teenagers are packing Uzi's grenades and snipers and are blasting away through these creatures until the very end...

Would this be a horror movie?