The Evil Within: Some May Call It an Evil that is Resident

[Tron Bonne]

I'm literally stuck there. The screen is only about half loaded, and it stays there.

 

[Travesty]

Have you tried hitting the home button on your gamepad(the Xbox button) go to your game, hit start, then go down to quit, and then start up your game again.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yes, done so multiple times, as well as restarting the console and restarting the game. I've tried pretty much everything at this point, it's just...broken.

 

[HauntedKnight]

Yes, done so multiple times, as well as restarting the console and restarting the game. I've tried pretty much everything at this point, it's just...broken.

I'd recommend deleting the data and moving your save file to a USB stick. Get the game going again and then trying move your save back in place after you start a new generic game. If that fails, indeed its a corrupted save file.

 

[Naked Shia]

I've finally ordered it, because amazon made an interesting offer just for halloween!

 

[Tron Bonne]

I'd recommend deleting the data and moving your save file to a USB stick. Get the game going again and then trying move your save back in place after you start a new generic game. If that fails, indeed its a corrupted save file.

Well, I actually deleted the save data from the console. Shouldn't that have fixed it if it was save corruption?

 

[Travesty]

Well, I actually deleted the save data from the console. Shouldn't that have fixed it if it was save corruption?

Yeah, this is odd. I've never heard of anything like this before. You got a new game, deleted everything, including saves, and it's still not working?

I have no idea what is wrong?

 

[Tron Bonne]

Me neither. I'm totally stumped. I feel like it has to be something with the Xbone itself at this point, but all other games and features are functioning normally.

 

[Travesty]

You may have to send in your X1 to get a new one. I've never heard of anything like this before.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, the thought crossed my mind, but I hate to send it in for literally one thing like this. I don't even know how one would explain this to customer service.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Well, I downloaded a system wide update today and it apparently fixed the problem. The only issue I had is that it seems to have randomly deleted my last checkpoint save (or maybe over the save room files transfer to the cloud? Not 100%). But either way, it's functioning again. It's funny, because I was honestly thinking of just giving it to a friend who got a Xbone recently. Glad I checked it out before I did that haha. Well, looking forward to finishing this finally.

 

[Travesty]

I need to finish this game. I stopped to play COD. I'm on Chp 11, so I think I'm getting close. Not sure how many chapters are left?

 

[Tron Bonne]

There's 15, I believe. I'm just so happy I'm going to get to finish this. I just finished my first run through Bayonetta 2 as well and doing a bit of a cooldown, so this is good timing.

 

[Naked Shia]

I bought it, and I love it. It's a great game.

Iµ made two videos so far, and I've 3 more on the way:

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I made a thread to post everyone's ps4 videos too, the link is in my sig.

 

[Tron Bonne]

At the final chapter now, hoping to finish it by day's end. I really do love this game, no joke at all, but it really wore me down by the end here.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Finsihed it. Lol, that last boss was so easy. I think that has to be some kind of reward for getting as fair as you did without pulling your hair out. I ended up beating it just under 16 hours and 137 deaths. Probably half of those were from damn spike traps, can't even begin to count how many times one of those ****ing things killed me.

Going through New Game+ now, getting the collectibles. Part of me wants to go through Akumu, part of me doesn't. I don't know if I'll ever try to do the cheevo about going through without upgrading anything.

 

[Naked Shia]

lol; they do tell you how many times you died? Thank you for telling me, that way, I can be prepared for the humiliation.

 

[Tron Bonne]

So, some final thoughts:

I think the thing that stands out the most about The Evil Within outside the high difficulty and learning curve is the variety. It seems just about every other chapter has some new approach or setting. You never really know what's coming, or where you'll end up. It's both a weakness and a strength, because consistency is always a huge virtue (as long as it's a good, of course). It's pacing is similar to RE4 in that the game seems to be bigger and bigger as it goes, from sneaking in a dingy basement to battling essentially in the center of reality itself. It's something a lot of games just miss nowadays.

Overall, I'd give the game a solid 9. It definitely has some flaws, but I appreciate the ambitiousness of the whole thing.

 

[TheVileOne]

The game is not a walk in the park, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I'm glad this game and Alien: Isolation constantly don't hold your hand through the whole thing.

 

[Travesty]

I finally finished this game yesterday, and to tell you the truth, I just think it's an ok game. Its not horrible, but I really didn't like it. I was just happy to be done with it by the time it was over. I was hoping for a more survival game, and it was mainly an action game. Felt much more like RE4 than RE1-2. I think my biggest gripe with the game, is the camera and the lag when picking up items or throwing down the matches. That camera was a joke to me, and I hated when you were fighting more than 2 zombies, and you would knock one down, try to throw a match down to kill it, to only be hit by the second or third zombie, and it wouldn't let you use the match. It got so annoying at times. Or when you were in a battle, and needed to pick up ammo, and you would most likely get hit by something by trying to pick up ammo. It got annoying a LOT.

If I had to rate it, I would give it a 7. Not bad, but not a game I would want to play through again. If they fixed the camera and that lag between actions, I would've easily rated it higher.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Interesting, I never had lag between actions like that. Outside that weird glitch that killed my entire game for a month, I never really ran into any technical issues that apparently plagued everyone else. I understand the hate for the camera, though. It was pretty weird reinvention of the old RE style, not 100% sure how I feel about it, though it never caused me any issue.

But I can't say I agree it was much like RE4. I see the similarities, but I honestly don't think it played all that much like RE4. Nor the older REs, either. I honestly don't know what I would compare it to, honestly.

 

[Travesty]

It's just the closest I could compare it to. RE4 was more action oriented like this, but it's not exactly the same. I thought it was going to be more of a survival game, and it really wasn't. Other than getting low on ammo at times, you kept fighting waves and waves of zombies/monsters.

The game could seriously be relentless at times.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, relentless is a good word to describe it. It feels like the game never really let up on you at any point. Even down sequences had some type of danger hiding around the corner it seems.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Got my ps4 with this today... its kinda janky.

 

[Benstamania]

I got this spankin' new at GameStop for 15 bucks...