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Completed Resident Evil 7.
Fun. Better than the last two entries in the series at any rate (Resident Evil 6 and Revelations 2). Exploring a creepy mansion estate, save rooms, limited ammo, not fighting hordes of enemies felt very Resident Evil even though the story was self-contained. As a storyfag I do hope they link it to the rest of the franchise in the story DLC/sequel though.
I enjoyed the gameplay, the atmosphere, and the presentation. Very well optimised too (ran near max settings on my GeForce 960 - had to cap it at 30 FPS because my processor is shit, but no lag or framerate drops). Early sections reminded me of Alien Isolation. Alien Isolation is still the better game, but 7 was a decent effort.
Resolution scaling is godsent when you want to run something on older hardware but yeah, game seems to run pretty well. I'm actually impressed how they managed to sort of translate the clunkiness of old tank control-style games into FPS. You don't feel like Rambo mowing down zombies left and right.
I found capping the FPS at 30 meant I could turn on basically whatever I wanted and was able to maintain a stable framerate at 1920x1080, 1.0 scaling.
Of course, it'll be nice playing this in a few years with a new PC and having it run at 60 FPS.