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Alone in the Dark trailer makes me happy in the pants
9:38 PM on 04.23.2007, Colette Bennett 43 comments

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Damn right it's time for a new Alone in the Dark game! Now this is a reason to want a PlayStation 3 ... except it's coming out for 360 too, so I guess I don't need a PS3 after all. Oh snap! Better work on those exclusives, Sony. All snark aside, this title looks creepy fantastic. Still no solid release date yet, but it looks well worth the wait. At the very least, it ought to tide me over until Silent Hill 5: Rape Festival.
 
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Dexter345 at 04/23/2007 22:02
Note to self... get a copy of Alone in the Dark... Invite Nagiko over... Bow chicka bow wow...
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Ignignokt01 at 04/23/2007 22:06
something about that trailer didn't seem right. maybe the singing near the end, i don't know..

the trailer didn't portray it like a horror genre game
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joepekula at 04/23/2007 22:15
Is there some rule about video games where it says games involving guns/aliens/explosions than the protagonist has to have a scruffy 5 o'clock shadow, bags under his eyes, buzzed hair, square chin, 95 percent muscle, and 250 pounds? And for fantasy games the protagonist has to look like a girl no matter what with long spiked out blonde hair.
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Husky Hog at 04/23/2007 22:17
Holy shit, if that's live game footage I hella wanna play

thus the warning in the video

thus

want to play
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synce at 04/23/2007 22:22
I'm not feeling this game's concept, but the graphics are pretty impressive.
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ghnvt at 04/23/2007 22:23
Looks good, doesn't make me want to buy either of the next gen systems I don't have.
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broham at 04/23/2007 22:23
Man, looking good. Makes me want RE5 even more. I wish Capcom hired like 5000 people to do nothing but make RE games. We could have about 100 a year and I still wouldn't be happy.
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Cycophuk at 04/23/2007 22:37
I'm digging it. Definatly on my rent list.
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ArrestedDeveloper at 04/23/2007 22:40
umm Broham that's Alone in the dark, not RE5. Alone in the Dark also predates resident evil. I remember playing the original Lord of the Rings rpg from Interplay on pc and the box had a catalouge with the first Alone in the dark in it, looked creepy then looks creepy now
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DrRockso at 04/23/2007 22:46
DO WANT
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Roryzilla at 04/23/2007 23:22
looks pretty good, I'll probably rent it as survivor-horror/ 5 o' clock shadow games aren't my forte'. Now have the CSI Miami guy in this and it will be a definite buy in my book. "Central park? This crime had to be committed in... CENTRAL DARK." (Cue the who song and shots of miami)
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Niero at 04/23/2007 23:42
Tits. I also really appreciate that they qualified it as real-time gameplay; it's about FUCKING TIME the industry started doing that.
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Adamska at 04/24/2007 00:10
I love that video games are starting to adopt a strong narrative now. This didn't have the campy theme of the previous Alone in the Dark games, but that's not a bad thing. It looked a bit like Indigo Prophecy.

*Actually, this makes me want to get Alan Wake even more.
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moclippa at 04/24/2007 00:14
So let me get this straight, its a big ass highly detailed park in the middle, surrounded by a bunch of generic looking buildings. While the graphics look good and all at some points, I'm really hoping they make a game that interests me, and fix up all the bloody crap play elements Silent Hill is plauged by. RE4 did a good job cleaning the series up, but in the process went very arcade... starting to look like SH is on the same path. When are these developers going to get off their collective asses and make me a genuine fright fest game?? I have yet to pee my pants or scream out in genuine fright, and dammit I WANT TO!!!!

Horror game, which relies on more adventure then action elements, and doesnt use on stupid gimicks like a Camera or Flashlight to be the only real gameplay element. Terrorize me people, make me cry myself to sleep holding a pillow and sucking my thumb while I repeatedly reassure myself between sobs that "I'm a good boy"
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gitrooman at 04/24/2007 00:29
I'll never understand how a game company can release a game trailer for their game and not include any gameplay footage.

Those were all cinematics. for all we know the game could be nothing but puzzles. For all we know all you do is press the up button and you trigger the end of the game.

Trailers like this tell us absolutly nothing. Its something marketing puts together to generate hype. Sad part is, it works.
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Niero at 04/24/2007 00:32
I think the message at the beginning implied run-time graphics, but I could see how they could say that rendered cinematics could be snuck past that wording. I hope thats not the case.
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Maclintok at 04/24/2007 00:34
The trailer made the game seem too sweeping and epic. Sweeping and epic are usually good things but in the case of survival horror, I prefer dark, isolated and terrifying.
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gitrooman at 04/24/2007 00:42
Hey mocloppa,

theres this great game called penumbra for PC. It was released about a month ago. Its made by an independent developer and is only about 3-8 hours long depending on how intelligent you are. I think its sold in some stores, but i know you could by it online for like $20. Its in episodic form, like half life. I assure you you'll love the game. Youll thank me. Also, be aware that the graphics/physics are amazing. And only 4ooish megs.

you can get the demo at fileplanet or wherever.

http://frictionalgames.com/penumbra
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gitrooman at 04/24/2007 00:58
Im not questioning the graphics, im questing the lack of actual gameplay style.

Im sorry, but if you want me to shell out 60 bucks for you're game, you've got to show me more then some crazy griddy camera angles, cliche' hero type figure and supposed real-time pretty graphics.

I consider myself to be an educated gamer. Itll take more then pretty pictures to make me dish out 60 bucks for a game. thats the problem with the industry, too muchshit producing not enough quality stuff.

Invest enough time and effort into putting a solid original game together and people will buy it.

But to use the same fucking unreal engine in every fucking noobbox360 and watch braindead people Ooohhh and ahhhh, like zombies to fireworks over it, encourages the recylcing of crap. EA eats it up.

rant off.
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ran24 at 04/24/2007 01:06
Anyone else think that the song at the end seemed like it came straight out of ghost in the shell?
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Mxyzptlk at 04/24/2007 01:13
I was thinking more Battlestar Galactica, but Ghost in the Shell works too.

This looks pretty rad. Is it coming out for PC, or am I SOL?
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Harvey at 04/24/2007 01:22
...and hoping each time, that his next leap - will be the leap home!
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Aequitas at 04/24/2007 02:29
Yeah, I was thinking Ghost in the Shell as well. And re: graphics: I also think that was 100% cinematic. I'll start getting worked up if actual gameplay videos indicate a thoughtful and worthwhile game.

PS: Need next-gen Ghost in the Shell game. I cannot stress that enough.
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topgeargorilla at 04/24/2007 04:39
BTW doesn't anybody else ADORE the use of africa/latin/islamic chanting in reference to any trailer for any for of media that wants to bill itself as "Epic"? Holy shit was that overblown
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Gameboi at 04/24/2007 04:46
*jaw drops*

Now that got my attention. I had high hopes for this game, and they just got a bit higher.
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digiwalsh at 04/24/2007 05:44
Whats with all the bashing, that looks fantastic. Also, it's good to see the title try a slightly new type of narrative, Fuck the haunted house cliches. It worked for RE4 to ditch it's old mainstays. I'll be keeping my eye on this.
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digiwalsh at 04/24/2007 05:52
Whats with all the bashing, that looks fantastic. Also, it's good to see the title try a slightly new type of narrative, Fuck the haunted house cliches. It worked for RE4 to ditch it's old mainstays. I'll be keeping my eye on this.
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neshill at 04/24/2007 05:59
Awesome awesome trailer. Too bad it's from the last E3 ever (it's the E3 2006 trailer of the game)
As for the feel, I agree with Adamska. Gets that Indigo Prophecy feel.
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BlindsideDork at 04/24/2007 07:26
Anoter OLD trailer...hooray Destructoid for posting video clips more than a month old! (Baby movie)
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GuitarAtomik at 04/24/2007 07:31
"Silent Hill 5: Rape Festival"

ROFLCOPTER!!
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ShinAmano at 04/24/2007 08:06
Fantastic...looks like a winner...and I was thinking Akira and Ghost in the Shell at the end...that is a good thing :)
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Pepillou2 at 04/24/2007 09:20
Colette makes me happy in the pants. The trailer just a little.
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MusashiX2 at 04/24/2007 09:34
hey Nagiko, you know there is also a Silent Hill coming out for PSP right?

http://pspupdates.qj.net/Silent-Hill-Origins-gameplay-videos/pg/49/aid/90216
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Salamande at 04/24/2007 11:29
There've been a few previews for this one.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/732/732102p1.html

http://preview.tinyurl.com/26xqax

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ywu9dn

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Salamande at 04/24/2007 11:32
Whoops. Wish there was a preview function.

A few previews.
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moclippa at 04/24/2007 12:03
Thanks a lot Gitrooman!

I'll defiantly be looking into that.
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AdamPski at 04/24/2007 13:07
@moclippa:

"So let me get this straight, its a big ass highly detailed park in the middle, surrounded by a bunch of generic looking buildings."

Uh.. that's Central Park in NYC. And as "generic" looking as those buildings may be, I think the game is accurate.

Talk to the architects.
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Prodigium at 04/24/2007 15:27
I'm positive this is actual gameplay footage. There might be a debate if the trailer contained absolutely amazing, unbelievable graphics, but that ain't the case here. The video doesn't show anything more detailed than, say, Gears of War, and we know the 360 is able to pull that off just fine.
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Cyberxion at 04/24/2007 17:46
So....underwhelming.
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Nocturnal XVIII at 04/24/2007 18:28
Why do game trailers always seem to have such lame narration?
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boxhound at 04/24/2007 23:16
Looks interesting... :)
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