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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs |OT| - This Little Piggy Cried AAHHH All the Way to Hell
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Wow just finished it, a friend had a review copy and I played it at his. Can absolutely see how this game would get polarising reviews, you will either love it or hate it.
Personally - I love it! The game doesn't need monsters or jump scares to creep the fuck out of you. Hard to explain but it's an experience you have to try.
If you like the psychological aspect horror of the old Silent Hill games you will love it.
The ending, the ending! That was incredible! I haven't seen narrative closure like that for a long time!
Keeping the puzzles simple and in world works quite well in never pulling you out of that atmosphere. And there's a reason the atmosphere gets bought up in the reviews, it's unforgiving, horrible and amazing. There were a few points where I was physically sweating. Anyway, you might love it, you might hate it. But if this is where indie narratives are going then count me in!
Personally - I love it! The game doesn't need monsters or jump scares to creep the fuck out of you. Hard to explain but it's an experience you have to try.
If you like the psychological aspect horror of the old Silent Hill games you will love it.
The ending, the ending! That was incredible! I haven't seen narrative closure like that for a long time!
Keeping the puzzles simple and in world works quite well in never pulling you out of that atmosphere. And there's a reason the atmosphere gets bought up in the reviews, it's unforgiving, horrible and amazing. There were a few points where I was physically sweating. Anyway, you might love it, you might hate it. But if this is where indie narratives are going then count me in!
Dog Problems
Banned
All of the comparisons to Dear Esther have sold me on it. The first was just way too scary for me so it sounds like I may be able to finish this one, haha.
It isn't jump out scary, but it's truly disturbing.
Deputy Dangle
Member
I was a bit put off earlier by the word of TCR removing the sanity effects, timber boxes, and oil, but I've come around to it over the past few hours. I've sadly never played the first Amnesia, but I did really like Dear Esther. Seeing the reveal of The Chinese Room developing the game back when it was announced was the main reason why I got excited along with the praise of the first game. I'm totally game for them wanting to make a more atmospheric, disturbing horror game that wants to focus on its story and less on moment to moment scares. Despite my issues with Outlast, I pretty much got a straight haunted house style of horror game out of that so I'm hoping to get something a bit different out of Amnesia: AMFP now.
Alcotholic
Banned
I'm buying this now.
What is the problem with that?
Weird, the file size now says 2.2GB on GOG. Before it was over 4GB.
SlasherJPC
Banned
The sound design in this game just nails it. Part 3 of my walkthrough. I literally freak the fuck out at 16 minutes in. O_O
Chance Hale
Member
One more hour! I should be sleeping but oh well, I'm terrible at making wise decisions with my rest habits.
Krappadizzle
Member
It's unpacking now. Finally after so long. I'm gonna play for about 3 or 4 hours and hit the bed around midnight. I can't wait. It's gonna be fun. I'll post a Stream link when I get it up and going if anyone wants to watch.
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I love your review style, but I'm actively avoiding your videos as to be spoiler free as possible.
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I love your review style, but I'm actively avoiding your videos as to be spoiler free as possible.
Rev3 (Adam Sessler's site) gave it a really positive review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWLzSn_SxU4
Chance Hale
Member
Game is currently broken on steam at least. Game loads with a blue haze, and even the overlay itself is not black but grey. Changing settings doesn't fix the issue, but the first load of the game didn't have these issues. Interestingly enough the menu graphics are unaffected.
Chance Hale
Member
Vsync doesn't work at the moment, you have to force it through the Nvidia control panel.
Sounds amazing, loved Silent Hill.
I just watched a playthrough of it.
The buildup to the end was pretty fantastic.
I agree with what some people are saying when they say it isn't as scary as the first, but more deeply disturbing. Narrative, sound design, and voice performances were pretty goddamn good.
I would call it the Mass Effect 2 of the Amnesia games, it's pared down from the first (more linear) and a bit easier to make it more accessible (infinite lantern) but the story is still good.
Although I'm a bit lost on some of the story...
Can someone please explain to me what exactly happened in
Also, at the end:
What was the cause of his
Or I don't know, explain the whole thing to me like I'm slow if I didn't get anything right.
The buildup to the end was pretty fantastic.
I agree with what some people are saying when they say it isn't as scary as the first, but more deeply disturbing. Narrative, sound design, and voice performances were pretty goddamn good.
I would call it the Mass Effect 2 of the Amnesia games, it's pared down from the first (more linear) and a bit easier to make it more accessible (infinite lantern) but the story is still good.
Although I'm a bit lost on some of the story...
Can someone please explain to me what exactly happened in
Mexico? All I was able to discern was that an Aztec Jaguar god invaded Magnus' mind showing him visions of the 20th century and the death of his sons in battle in WWI and constructed the machine to finish what the Aztecs tried to accomplish by human sacrifice before they died off (or did they die off because they made a similar machine?/pigmen?). Also, what the hell why pigmen? Did they help him build the machine?/pigs because it's under a slaughterhouse?
Also, at the end:
What was the cause of his
space/time/memory loss jumps nearing the end of the game as he was journeying to the heart of the machine? And what exactly was the heart of the machine? ie: those prongs holding the heart/stone before he teleports. What was in the purple room where the Jaguar diety was talking to him?? Were the orbs from the first game hooked up to his sons? How did he stop the machine/Did hooking himself into it overload it and kill the energy field keeping the pigmen alive?
Or I don't know, explain the whole thing to me like I'm slow if I didn't get anything right.
What I gathered this is where it
pays homage to TDD, Mandus at Mexico discovered the Orb (TDD) which gave him visions of the future, the 20th century. Overcome by the visions, he INSERT MAJOR SPOILER and left back for London. The machine from what I gathered was the orb indoctrination talking to you. I think himself and the orb were intertwined in some way, so him sacrificing himself destroyed the machine
Mr. Enigma
Member
A lot of people reporting launch crashes with the Steam version. What's the deal?
But I thought that the
orbs had protectors that prevented anyone from abusing their power? There isn't really anything like that in this game, unless you successfully abused its power and you have to shut yourself down... so there's nothing protecting the orb? lashdksljahdkasjhdkljgsahd
Krappadizzle
Member
I was getting crashes myself. Tried 6 times to get it running, with different settings chosen. It always crashes at the load screen after clicking new game. I'm pretty disappointed. I deleted and redownloaded, I'll give it a try again tomorrow. I have more than enough muscle. i7-920@3.8Ghz/12Gb Ddr3/GTX 680/W7. Dunno, hopefully tomorrow is better after a fresh install.
The official forum over at frictionalgames.com is worth posting on, the developers are quick to reply
Anyone played around with the controller settings?
For some reason if I have RT set for throw, when I actually use it the item in hand just falls to the floor instead of throwing it. Same with trying to "slam" open/close doors - nothing happens.
As some have mentioned already set VSync in Nvidia control panel (assuming you have an Nvidia card of course) as the in-game VSync setting is busted.
Also appears to be a lot of "stuttering" going on but I've not been able to really test anything regarding this yet.
For some reason if I have RT set for throw, when I actually use it the item in hand just falls to the floor instead of throwing it. Same with trying to "slam" open/close doors - nothing happens.
As some have mentioned already set VSync in Nvidia control panel (assuming you have an Nvidia card of course) as the in-game VSync setting is busted.
Also appears to be a lot of "stuttering" going on but I've not been able to really test anything regarding this yet.
Chance Hale
Member
No, it's a glitch. The game is screwed up, check your in-game overlay(open a chat window for example) and you'll see the color is messed up there as well. When you load a game you'll also notice that it actually looks normal for a second or two before the haze pops into existence. Hopefully they fix it soon. The first time I loaded the game there was no issue, and now it's every time no matter the setting. Others are experiencing similar issues.
The haze went away after the first "level" so it might be worth just pushing through. It was only the first half hour or so and before much really happened.
Wait, does this game not have you running from danger like in the first game (spoiler the answer if you want)? I was interested in the original Amnesia for its narrative and atmosphere but I really can't handle running sequences, Pac-Man is stressful enough, so if that's not here I might actually be interested in checking this out.
cascardian
Member
So, in summary:
So, they concentrated more on story instead of scariness? Given the lesser reviews, couldn't they have done both? Also, why lose all the interactivity? It made the environment in TDD feel alive. Losing the ingenious mechanics is also woeful, because they provided the perfect survival horror storm. There still could have been that kind of panicked resource management and at the same time providing some more Silent-Hill-esque psychological horror. It's all a matter of good design. Why they forego one for the other completely is beyond me. They've Dear-Esther-ised it.
Don't get me wrong, I like a good story and it appears that they've delivered exactly that. But they also appear to have made the game... there is that dreadful phrase... more accessible to the mainstream. I'll have to play it for myself, for sure, but all that seems, as people before me put it, mildly disappointing (which doesn't translate to "bad" by any stretch of the imagination, of course).
Judging by people's posts in here, there also seem to be quite a few bugs.
So, they concentrated more on story instead of scariness? Given the lesser reviews, couldn't they have done both? Also, why lose all the interactivity? It made the environment in TDD feel alive. Losing the ingenious mechanics is also woeful, because they provided the perfect survival horror storm. There still could have been that kind of panicked resource management and at the same time providing some more Silent-Hill-esque psychological horror. It's all a matter of good design. Why they forego one for the other completely is beyond me. They've Dear-Esther-ised it.
Don't get me wrong, I like a good story and it appears that they've delivered exactly that. But they also appear to have made the game... there is that dreadful phrase... more accessible to the mainstream. I'll have to play it for myself, for sure, but all that seems, as people before me put it, mildly disappointing (which doesn't translate to "bad" by any stretch of the imagination, of course).
Judging by people's posts in here, there also seem to be quite a few bugs.
I don't get this, the game is fucking scary as hell, it just doesn't rely on jump scares (there are a few, at least a couple per level). It also tells a disturbing story. Also I found myself running away from monsters numerous times. They just aren't in abundance that you'll come across them every 10minutes like other games
thesuperfunk
Member
cascardian
Member
Good to hear, then. I'm not trying to get onto the game's case or anything, I just tried to summarise the sentiment of the thread and maybe did a bad job. You decide! I'll be getting into it and judging it for myself momentarily. I'm a survival horror maniac, so I'll probably binge-play it until I'm through. Hopefully, though, the ruminations about it only being a five-hour journey aren't true. In any case, see you on the other side.
cascardian
Member
Oh boy, back here again already. The game crashes for me when I have my XBOX 360 controller plugged in. VSYNC also doesn't work and has to be forced via the driver panel. There's no FOV slider, too, and thus it has to be adjusted in the .ini.
Good thing is that they appear to be already working on fixes.
Just a heads-up, guys.
Good thing is that they appear to be already working on fixes.
Just a heads-up, guys.
That is a poor description. You are getting a game that is very similar to the first Amnesia sans inventory and resource management, with enemy encounters that are not nearly as well implemented, but with a much improved story.
Bluemercury
Member
Hows the linux version?that's where im going to play this.