{"id":4377,"date":"2016-06-17T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/17\/resident-evil-vii-is-scary-in-first-person-and-scarier-in-vr\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:30:30","slug":"resident-evil-vii-is-scary-in-first-person-and-scarier-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/17\/resident-evil-vii-is-scary-in-first-person-and-scarier-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Resident Evil VII&#8217; is scary in first person and scarier in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f118932%2fre7\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/WRhE9PKW8M19LdmRYaSMGju8_UM=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F118932%2Fre7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=%E2%80%98Resident+Evil+VII%E2%80%99+is+scary+in+first+person+and+scarier+in+VR&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F16%2Fresident-evil-vr-e3%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F16%2Fresident-evil-vr-e3%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s just a game.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I told myself, repeatedly, as I experienced the <i>Resident Evil <\/i>series in virtual reality for the first time. It was just a game, it couldn\u2019t hurt me. I wasn\u2019t really in a creepy, decrepit old farmhouse\u2014just in a press demo room that happened to be modeled after the rooms in said creepy house. I knew it was just a game. I knew I was safe.<\/p>\n<p>So why was I gripped with fear every time I looked over my shoulder?<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/13\/star-wars-battlefront-x-wing-vr-mission-trailer\/\">&#8216;Star Wars: Battlefront&#8217; goes VR with &#8216;X-Wing VR Mission&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Resident Evil VII <\/i>is both a return to the series\u2019 roots and a new chapter in its history. For the first time ever, the entire game is in first-person, eschewing the traditional third-person view the <i>Resident Evil <\/i>games have generally used for two decades. It takes place within the series&#8217; canon a few years after the events of <i>Resident Evil VI<\/i>, so it\u2019s not a reboot or reimagining. 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This is what I told myself, repeatedly, as I experienced the Resident Evil series in virtual reality for the first time. It was just a game, it couldn\u2019t hurt me. I wasn\u2019t really in a creepy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/17\/resident-evil-vii-is-scary-in-first-person-and-scarier-in-vr\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3381,3325,739,863,3339],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-capcom","tag-e3","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-resident-evil-7"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}