Resident Evil 7's self-contained demo experience Beginning Hour has set the record for PlayStation 4 demo downloads in North America, becoming the most coveted slice of sampler content in its first week of release. There are a lot of stipulations here, so we're going to attempt that sentence again: more people in North America downloaded Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour within its first week available than any other demo on the PS4. Did that make sense the second time around?
The teaser has been tried out a whopping two million times globally, which sounds like a success to us. Much like the P.T. taster that it was so clearly inspired by, the Internet's been trying to figure out its many mysteries for quite some time now. In fact, publisher Capcom recently had to debunk one hypothesis which centred upon a dummy's finger. "The path is now closed, but patience," it wrote in an email to Ambassador Members.
This means that an Easter egg involving the enigmatic digit is hurriedly being shoehorned into the final game, which is due out on 24th January.
[source gamespot.com]
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I didn't really like the demo but I can see why some did, I didn't bother with the easter egg's I just finished and deleted it the Nioh demo was much better (if we're comparing demo's ) but tbh demo's are for SP game's so I rarely try em.
I was to scared to play it
Not surprised really, even my little teen sister who doesn't like gaming played it as I walked her through the demo. Admittedly I had more fun watching her struggling to move as she would only move one analog stick at a time, but I did like the demo.
Hope RE7 has the same atmosphere and feel to it as the demo. There's just too many run and gun style zombie/infected games.
... regardless..... it was absolute crap!!!
It was a good demo, and I'm looking forward to RE7. I struggle to believe it was ever really designed to be a Resi game from the get go and think more likely it's just been adapted to the universe to fall in line with Sony VR but that doesn't really matter at the end of the day.
First of all hasn't it already been reported that this game was in development before the PT demo was released?So it can't of been inspired by PT then could it?
The demo itself I really enjoyed although to be honest I gave up on it the first time cuz I got too scared lol,went back and finished it eventually though.
Am so looking forward to the new Resi,looks like it's going to be a big improvement over the last few.
I enjoyed this free short fun demo. Watching youtubers was part of the fun as they attempted to also solve the finger mystery. Much shared frustration among all from that finger.
I played this demo after playing Gone Home. So i went from a creepy empty house to a very much more creepy house that has a guy punching me in my face. It was so nice then to return to the world of Fallout 4.
@Wazeddie22 yeah right, PT came out a full 2 years ago, whether RE7 was in full development before then or not is a moot point, there is no way they havnt looked at PT (and the void it left) and decided not to capitalise on it.
@kyleforrester87 totally agree,but that's the latest news I heard about PT and Resident Evil so just thought I'd bring it up.And to be honest if I had to choose between the new Resident Evil or Silent Hills development being resurrected,S.Hs would win hands down..PT was such an unusual and terrifying experience.
@Wazeddie22 For sure, SH looked to be the better horror game. No doubt it would have properly messed me up!
RE7 is the record demo download todate for the PS4. Anyone know the PS3 record? Mafia 2 i remember as being a popular demo so that is my guess.
Silly Konami.
As others have said, this wasn't on the level of PT, but good fun regardless. I'm encouraged by the fact that they say the final game will very much still be Resident Evil at its core, so I don't think it's going to end up too derivative, but it does also make me wish I could go back in time and slap Konami round the chops before they canned Silent Hills. Dangit.
That's cool. It pretty well thought out by Capcom. I enjoyed the demo, and looking forward to the full game.
Not for me found it boring tbh trying to be PT and it wasnt half as good as that demo
It wasn't P.T., but it was a decent little demo. If nothing else, it's nice to have this confirmation that Capcom is devoted to making horror-based RE games again.
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