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[Toots]

Condemned for the detective gameplay, The Darkness for the story and comic book style

 

[Cryio]

Both Condemned games and both Darkness games are great.

Condemned 1 can be played at 4K120 and it even had a widescreen UI mod and AI enhanced textures mod. It's absolutely playable. Condemned 2 is stuck on consoles, but can be emulated at higher resolutons and unlocked fps nowadays, like 120 fps.

Darkness 1 is stuck on consoles. It can be played at 60 fps on RPCS3, but resolution scaling isn't possible. It would benefit more from a remaster.

 

[808mate]

Condemned.

Condemned 2 in particular, was batshit crazy. I loved that game.

 

[bender]

I was going to say neither, but I like this answer:

Condemned 2 because it was never released on PC/Steam, strangely enough.

 

[Mister Wolf]

 

[Negotiator101]

Condemned and it's not close.

 

[SnapShot]

Condemned 1 could use a remake

Condemned 2 doesn't need a remake it just needs a PC port

 

[P:axMagellanic]

I don't remember much about the darkness 1. Other than some fella called Jackie(?) chatting absolute shite about his-a momma's a spicy meatballs, or concrete shoes during the loading screens.

 

[McGILLAZ]

Condemned 1 & 2 - very cool games

 

[rm082e]

Condemned for sure. I played through both of those games twice on the 360 and really enjoyed the atmosphere. I think it was Yahtzee who said something like "You can feel that this game hates you" - Perfect encapsulation.

I thought The Darkness was forgettable aside from Mike Paton's voice work (which was fantastic).

 

[nnytk]

Both series. But Condemned 2 really hit the spot for me, I'm not sure exactly why but I loved the weirdness of that game and how brutal it was.

A real rollercoaster. The Darkness was incredible too, Condemned 1 didn't click as much.

If I had to choose, Condemned 2.

 

[Tiamat2san]

Condemned especially the first game.
It has the only in game jumpscare that worked on me.
I loved the brutality and intensity of the fights.
The second game was good but had too much guns.

the only thing I remember from the darkness games is that it was violent and somewhat cartoonish.

Condemned with 2025 graphics would be nuts!

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

I liked The Darkness 1 a lot, despite not being faithful to the comics.

Condemned 2 was also a great game. I'd dig a Darkness reboot with realistic graphics and closer plot-wise to the source material, with a crossover with Witchblade.

I loved it specifically because it moved away from the comics. I remember reading through some of the comics included as bonus material and thinking, "yeah, they did right tossing this."

I prefer tragic and empathetic Jackie over supreme edgelord sitting-on-a-throne-surrounded-by-trophy-women Jackie. The plot hit hard because I felt bad for the poor idiot and his doomed romance with the saccharine-sweet Jenny.

The simple things we want get ruined by forces that we cannot control. It's an effective setup that pulls the heartstrings.

Both Condemned and The Darkness got rancid sequels. It'd be nice to completely redo both of those games, honestly. There's a happy compromise.

 

[Memati187]

Darkness 1 was awesome. 2 was shit.

 

[consoul]

I never played Condemned 2, so dunno about that.

You did it right.
Condemned 1 is the only Condemned.

 

[joey Dubs]

Neither. Make something new.

(And I loved the first Condemned which is saying something, as that is NOT my type of game usually.)

 

[CokeDiet]

I'd want condemned remade and a third entry to be more similar in tone to the first one. So many memorable moments in the condemned games!

 

[Pimpollo818]

100% Condemned

 

[raduque]

The Darkness games. I didn't care for the Condemned games, the movement sucked, the combat was awful (seriously, a lead pipe breaking after two swipes? who comes up with this shit?) and the story was boring.

I'd actually like a 3rd Darkness game, cause IIRC the 2nd one ended on a cliffhanger.

Another game series I'd like to see a remaster or remake of would the Suffering games. Now those were excellent.

 

[Rocky_Balboa]

Condemned for sure. Darkness was great too, but I think Condemned was more unique. Also for some reason the first Condemned had only 970 gamerscore so it would be nice to get a full 1000 from it.

 

[Sticks]

You did it right.
Condemned 1 is the only Condemned.

Yeah, I remember getting 2 a few days before heading to Afghanistan and wanting to finish it but gave up in some kind of circus. I just didnt like how they changed up Ethan and how dark some areas were with those stupid oil monsters. 1 is one of the best horror games ever made.

 

[Ellis]

Condemned 1 is incredible. Truly a special game.

For first time players now looking at it, I highly recommend playing on Xbox, or emulating that version with Xenia (this game runs perfectly). The PC port was shit. Broken spacial audio that can't be fixed with EAX plugins, missing or replacement PC graphical effects that looks worse and glitch out, and no controller support (at least not very good support, anyway).
Even with the few community fixes available, the emulated 360 game is better.

Haven't played The Darkness since release, but I remember loving the atmosphere and stellar storytelling.

 

[Parazels]

I didn't get into The Darkness despite the good feedback it received at the time.

 

[Peroroncino]

Condemned is great, but I want them to bring back The Darkness series more.

 

[GymWolf]

It's hard to choose, lol. I'd just want the first of both. But the more I think about it, if I had to choose, maybe The Darkness more so...


I'm genuinely shocked. The first Darkness and Condemned were talked about for a long while. The sequels, however, were pretty eh. I personally feel like the Condemned one was better than the Darkness one.

Both sequels are inferior games but the pure gameplay aspect was better and more varied.

They felt like ps5 era sony sequels.