Amnesia: The Dark Descent

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Tiq

Can we talk about this game?


So umm... SHIT BE SCARY, YO'.


Thoughts?
 
Bought it on Steam during the last Potato Sack sale. Played it for about 40 minutes. Got too scared, closed it down, never played it again.

It's a good game, and I want to play it some more, I just need to get braver first. Cause seriously, this is the first and thus far only game I've been too scared to play.
 
I have it waiting on my steam list, but it's yet another in the long list of games that I'm working my way to.

On a related note, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has been announced.
 
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Tiq

Bought it on Steam during the last Potato Sack sale. Played it for about 40 minutes. Got too scared, closed it down, never played it again.

It's a good game, and I want to play it some more, I just need to get braver first. Cause seriously, this is the first and thus far only game I've been too scared to play.
Sounds like you need some sort of wonderful bravery inducing montage.
 
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Tiq

Ooh, Rocky-style training montage? Set to the same music?
I was thinking more like a montage of you running down a hallway filled with the echo's of screaming monsters, actually... and maybe at the end, you have to go hand to hand with a zombie, or something.


You'd feel braver after that, right?
 
I was thinking more like a montage of you running down a hallway filled with the echo's of screaming monsters, actually... and maybe at the end, you have to go hand to hand with a zombie, or something.


You'd feel braver after that, right?
... Can't reply, busy pissing myself.
 
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Tiq

In all seriousness, I think amnesia is the perfect example of what the survival horror genre needs more of.

Resi 4 will always hold a special place in my heart, but I don't think the evolution of survival horror games lies in "SHOOTY BANG, BANG" and amnesia is really refreshing to play. I just wish more developers were making truly terrifying games like this, instead of turning them into FAST PACED ACTION MOVIES WITH SOME ZOMBIES FLUNG IN FOR GOOD MEASURE!!!

You... you guys still like zombies, right?



.....right?
 
I agree that Amnesia is definitely one of the pinnacle of survival horror games, but the fact that I (and some others, I'm sure) find it too scary to play might turn off developers, who want their product to reach as wide an audience as possible. And apparently more people like shooting fast paced zombies than dark claustrophobic corridors with shadowy monsters lurking behind you.
 
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Tiq

And apparently more people like shooting fast paced zombies than dark claustrophobic corridors with shadowy monsters lurking behind you.
Well I hope you don't mind me saying this, but literally fuck all of those people with a rake.
 
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Tiq

Amnesia is an awesome game. I made the mistake of playing it in my room at night.

Not doing that shit ever again.
Did you spontaneously wet yourself with fear?
It's ok you can tell us... this is a safe place.
 
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SeraRelm

After how unimpressed I was with the "ooo scary web comic" thread, I've serious doubts as to the level of terror I'll find in this game.
 
Not knowing what was in that thread, I will just ask:

Did you ever play Eternal Darkness, and did you find it at least moderately intense?

If yes, you will like this game. It's like someone took most of the physical monsters out of Eternal Darkness (they're there, but it's not about facing them and gunning them down anymore, it's about running the fuck away because you have no weapons) and added in atmosphere.
 
From what I've heard, the Fatal Frame series makes this look like nothing. Sadly the only videos I can find of it have random dudes with their recording equipment on and they're all screaming like scared children. Kind of kills the atmosphere.
 
From what I've heard, the Fatal Frame series makes this look like nothing. Sadly the only videos I can find of it have random dudes with their recording equipment on and they're all screaming like scared children. Kind of kills the atmosphere.
If they really wanted to sell me on the Wii U, it would be by making a new Fatal Frame game, using the gamepad as the camera.
 
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SeraRelm

Fatal Frame is where it's fucking AT! Crimson Butterfly was amazing.
 
Amnesia > FF in the scariness department in my opinion.

You have a weapon in FF. Amnesia affords you no such luxury.

 
A camera that defeats or at least slows down the ghosteses. All you have in Amnesia is whatever you can throw in the path of whatever it is is chasing you until you can lose it and find a place to hide it out.
 
No offense Sera, but you watch gore movies like they're porn, so I'd have to say your scary gauge is a little on the skewed side.
 
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SeraRelm

That or I've seen enough real shit that supernatural fantasy stuff doesn't phase me.
 
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