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Amnesia: The Dark Descent |OT|
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"God's Beard!"
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No, I'm gonna hit him.Zeliard said:Are you gonna angle that rock around the corner to try and bait the monster away? But then what, since you presumably still have to go down that hall? I'm curious to see how this turns out.
"God's Beard!"
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Observation: Monsters are scary and bad
Hypothesis: Monsters can be stopped
Experiment:
Note: I turned the game off again after the screenshot was taken from on top of the statue, so it's yet to be seen whether I'll survive the encounter. The beast is no longer in rage mode, is now in depressed, longing, child-missing-it's-mother-and-about-to-cry mode. Chances are, I can hide behind the statue and avoid untimely death. I'll probably log back on again, but I have work in 20 minutes.
Hypothesis: Monsters can be stopped
Experiment:
- High roadblock, light weight.
- Light weight door. No support.
- Low roadblock, heavy weight.
- Rock, medium weight, distraction.
- Rock, light weight, attack.
- Light weight rock proved useful for slowing down the monster.
- MONSTERS CANNOT BE FUCKING STOPPED
Note: I turned the game off again after the screenshot was taken from on top of the statue, so it's yet to be seen whether I'll survive the encounter. The beast is no longer in rage mode, is now in depressed, longing, child-missing-it's-mother-and-about-to-cry mode. Chances are, I can hide behind the statue and avoid untimely death. I'll probably log back on again, but I have work in 20 minutes.
I made the mistake of actually running into a monster just to see what they look like, holy FUCK. Whoever was working on the monster designs is a master.
They're deliciously scary/freaky so I'm not ever going to ever try to look at them ever again.
Go Frictional you kick ass
They're deliciously scary/freaky so I'm not ever going to ever try to look at them ever again.
Go Frictional you kick ass
Keep finding reasons not to play/it's daylight and I want to play at night. Been playing in small chunks, slowly (I tend to explore areas fully).
Was in the study
and heard the music come on, had something up against the closed door. So I ran into the closet and closed it quick, monster came in and I though yeah, I'm safe. It broke the closet open and killed me. Nearly gave me a heart attack :lol When the game resumed I took like 5 minutes in that room because I was so convinced the monster would come back, in the end I made it out without it returning. Game does a freaking amazing job making you assume you're going to run into them.
Was in the study
that you get the machine room key
Holy hell this game is nuts. I just played from the beginning to the back hall just passed the flooded cellar in one sitting. I had to turn it off and watch some happy anime or something to regain my nerves. I'm not going to want to go swimming for a long time. I haven't been this freaked out by a game since Silent Hill 1 when I was 12.
HOLY SHIT A HUGE COCKROACH IS CRAWLING ACROSS MY SCRE...oh it's the game. Hahaha fuck you game
jim-jam bongs
Member
Really enjoying this now. I'm taking a very stealthy approach -- crouching in new areas and leaning around corners with my lantern off -- and haven't had any major problems with monsters yet, but I've only just made it to the Refinery.
I did have a moment of whimpering in the corner behind some shelves in the Wine Cellar. A monster just stood there for a couple of minutes with me averting my eyes and taking quick peeks to see if it was going away while I slowly went insane in the dark. By the time it walked off in the other direction I was batshit crazy and staggering all over the place.
The thing that's fantastic about it from a design perspective is that it's both the same as every other survival horror game and entirely unique at the same time. Your main resources are light and your eyes, but using either of those when a monster is around will send you bonkers. But if you don't use them, you'll either die or go bonkers anyway. Really clever.
I did have a moment of whimpering in the corner behind some shelves in the Wine Cellar. A monster just stood there for a couple of minutes with me averting my eyes and taking quick peeks to see if it was going away while I slowly went insane in the dark. By the time it walked off in the other direction I was batshit crazy and staggering all over the place.
The thing that's fantastic about it from a design perspective is that it's both the same as every other survival horror game and entirely unique at the same time. Your main resources are light and your eyes, but using either of those when a monster is around will send you bonkers. But if you don't use them, you'll either die or go bonkers anyway. Really clever.
Yeah it has a great light & dark dynamic going. Each of those are both helpful and harmful to you.
Light keeps your character (and at times, you) from losing sanity in the darkness, but it can attract things you don't want to attract, and it's also a limited resource. Darkness can keep the monsters from finding you but it also causes you to lose sanity the longer you stay in it, and it can also impede your progress because you can't see shit. Not only is it a great gameplay and story mechanic but it also makes logical sense, and they don't even need any exposition to explain it.
Light keeps your character (and at times, you) from losing sanity in the darkness, but it can attract things you don't want to attract, and it's also a limited resource. Darkness can keep the monsters from finding you but it also causes you to lose sanity the longer you stay in it, and it can also impede your progress because you can't see shit. Not only is it a great gameplay and story mechanic but it also makes logical sense, and they don't even need any exposition to explain it.
Visualante
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After the first time I saw one roaming free I've wanted to trap it. It's human nature. But I'll wait until the game is over.
Besides level designer is coming soon, we can build a platform with no stairs and let the fucker run around after us.
Besides level designer is coming soon, we can build a platform with no stairs and let the fucker run around after us.
"God's Beard!"
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More conclusions:
even if you're clearly in their sight path
bread + acid = ???
Low heavy barriers seem to stop monsters while they're in search mode. They can climb them in attack mode, however.
Monsters don't seem to be able to attack over low(waist/chest high) barriers, even if they're aiming up.
Monsters don't seem to be able to see you if you're above them while they're in search mode,
Monsters don't seem to be able to attack over low(waist/chest high) barriers, even if they're aiming up.
Monsters don't seem to be able to see you if you're above them while they're in search mode,
bread + acid = ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1nY_5-UrY4
Hey look, an actual trailer, with editing and everything!
Hey look, an actual trailer, with editing and everything!
"God's Beard!"
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A MAN CHOOSES
A SLAVE OBEYS
I'm telling you guys, this game is pac-man.
A SLAVE OBEYS
Draft said:
I'm telling you guys, this game is pac-man.
Crescendo170
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I think I've realized that I can't play this game. Not on my own at least. I keep trying, but just end up shutting it off after a couple of minutes. Doesn't matter if it's broad daylight or I got no sound on or whatever - the fact that you have no means of defending yourself other than lurking around in shadows while Daniel is turning insane is so goddamn effective. Without a doubt the most nerve-wracking game I have ever played.
It's a great game though and I'm determined to finish it, I just have to find some way to cope.
It's a great game though and I'm determined to finish it, I just have to find some way to cope.
theinfinityissue
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Yeah, I'm really struggling to play for more than 5 mins at a time as well. I've actually resorted to doing something I find really reprehensible: I'm watching that hamst3r dude's giant bomb walkthrough from a few pages back before I play. It's a really funny, well done walkthrough, but I feel like I'm cheating myself out of a large part of the experience. If I just go in blind though, I'll seriously like go down a hallway and exit the game.
I think where this game really succeeds is it really makes you feel as if you ARE your avatar. Many games try to do this, but this one succeeds, and that's shitty because your guy is in this horrible nightmare. Things like opening doors and drawers, picking up boxes, this stuff could have been wonky and distracting as hell, but it's not. It's really, really tactile.
I think where this game really succeeds is it really makes you feel as if you ARE your avatar. Many games try to do this, but this one succeeds, and that's shitty because your guy is in this horrible nightmare. Things like opening doors and drawers, picking up boxes, this stuff could have been wonky and distracting as hell, but it's not. It's really, really tactile.
Siebzehn50
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I'm having trouble even getting this game to start. I'm running it on a laptop with Intel integrated graphics. When I try to run the game an error pops up that says "Fatal Error: RENDERER #0"
I updated my drivers but that didn't do anything. Not sure if anybody else had this problem.
I updated my drivers but that didn't do anything. Not sure if anybody else had this problem.
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-3754.html No fix at the moment regarding integrated graphics, but the same error did pop up with a possible solution: http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-4135.htmlSiebzehn50 said:
Don't count on it working, though.
Siebzehn50
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Well that's pretty terrible. My PC is out of commission at the moment.
Baloonatic
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Just got to the cellar archives and had to just turn the game off almost instantly. Fuck that.
indigo-cyclops
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I'm procrastinating playing this because earlier I was fucking terrified, out of tinderboxes, and running low on lamp oil in the Wine Cellar, part 2. Fucking holy FUCK.
<3 Frictional.
<3 Frictional.
Visualante
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I'm at the cistern, drained the sewers but there's green shit everywhere- what am I supposed to do now, go through that heavy, seemingly one way gate?
Visualante said:
You have to become immune to the gas by injecting yourself with the blood of someone who is immune. You need to find the copper pipe somewhere around and then go to the fresh corpse in the morgue. To spoil a bit more if you need it, you'll need to use the hand drill thing and a hollow needle in solving the puzzle.
Visualante
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Read the first part of the spoiler.. I can see where this is going knowing that there is a
area later on :I thanks
morgue
"God's Beard!"
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Well so much for the game being scary.
With the golden luck charm, I might as well be invincible.
With the golden luck charm, I might as well be invincible.
eXistor
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Fuck this game. I never, never get remotely scared playing games or watching movies. This game has me screaming like a little girl.
So yeah it's safe to say I love this game. I mentioned earlier that I'd have liked to see more puzzles, but I take it back, the puzzles are simple but logical and don't ever get frustrating.
So yeah it's safe to say I love this game. I mentioned earlier that I'd have liked to see more puzzles, but I take it back, the puzzles are simple but logical and don't ever get frustrating.
I finished this game last night.
Endgame spoilers for this AND Penumbra: Black Plague abound, be warned.
Other than that, really good game through and through. Though the monsters lost some of their effect on me the general dank atmosphere, sanity effects and the literal dark descent towards the inner sanctum really did a number on me spiritually. I'd never noticed that
and that in particular really gave me a fright. Another one was
It was a decent length, the puzzles were quite good, the story deep and I had a great time. Definitely recommended.
Oh yeah. Fuck you
, and fuck you
.
Endgame spoilers for this AND Penumbra: Black Plague abound, be warned.
Meeting Alexander was quite a letdown, in light of the trippy and utterly overpowering end sequence the Tuurngait has prepared for you at the end of Penumbra. I always find it a bit lame when a game has multiple endings and they can all be obtained by simply reloading that save point and doing something different just before the ending, and I feel all three endings are a bit, well, short, though the bad and "best" (if you can call it that) endings were rather cool.
Other than that, really good game through and through. Though the monsters lost some of their effect on me the general dank atmosphere, sanity effects and the literal dark descent towards the inner sanctum really did a number on me spiritually. I'd never noticed that
the portraits of Alexander morph into nightmarish twisted faces when you're insane enough,
crouching to let a monster walk past me in the middle of a corridor, then when I turn around to see if it spotted me or not it wasn't even in the corridor anymore. Like, it had just disappeared literally the moment it walked out of my line of sight.
Oh yeah. Fuck you
Iron Maiden
metal-limb monster
"God's Beard!"
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Beaten.
It was pretty good, I got some solid scares in.
I didn't like that there weren't nearly as many physics puzzles as in the Penumbra series, that was a huge part of the appeal to me. Still, a great spiritual sequel to Pac-Man.
Horror games don't need ratings, they need scare rankings.
It was pretty good, I got some solid scares in.
Last 3rd of the game wasn't as good, too much talky talky and the ending sucked.
Horror games don't need ratings, they need scare rankings.
- Fatal Frame
- Fatal Frame 2
- Amnesia
- Silent Hill 2
- Penumbra: Black Plague
- Silent Hill 3
- REmake
- System Shock 2
- Condemned
- Mrs. Pac-Man
"God's Beard!"
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shuyin_ said:
That ranking is more out of respect for the best story in videogames. I should have just said it was a ranking of the best horror games, with bonus points for scare factor.
lorebringer
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Yeah so I'm slowly working my way through this thing. Finally settled on a technique for making progress which involves running around the halls like a maniac to get to the next room so at least if I get chased by something I can hide in the corner and cry before it breaks the door down.
Spoilers for about 4-5 hours in, after the puzzle with the spinning thingy in the water:
, I feel like I'm approaching the end at this point, anyone able to tell me how many more areas (roughly) I have left to do? I feel like knowing that will give me a little bit more motivation to keep going, I totally love this game but I have such a hard time sitting down to get stuck into it because I let my hyperactive imagination get the better of me before I even load the game up.
Spoilers for about 4-5 hours in, after the puzzle with the spinning thingy in the water:
just escaped from the dude in the sewers and up the big ladder
"God's Beard!"
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lorebringer said:
You're about 20 minutes from the end. Push it out.
dgenx
Made an agreement with another GAF member, refused to honor it because he was broke, but then had no problem continuing to buy video games.
So System Req lab says my pc can run this game, so I get it, update the drivers and run it.
When I hit start new game it shows me the loading screen the its stuck in a black screen with music, am I screwed?
When I hit start new game it shows me the loading screen the its stuck in a black screen with music, am I screwed?
jim-jam bongs
Member
Near the end now. How many pieces does
have? I found
and wanted to make sure I didn't miss any before I move on to the other bit.
the orb
3 pieces in the choir
"God's Beard!"
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jim-jam bongs said:
6.