The whole "you aren't walking around a creepy place with more firepower than Rambo, Plissken, Robocop, and that manly chick from Aliens combined" thing sure does make videgames scarier, huh?
Can't say that I've ever played anything with Penumbra in the title before, but people seem to like those games. Why yes, Amnesia: The Dark Descent is being made by those same folks at Frictional Games. What gave it away?
The game is set for a simultaneous release on PC, Mac, and Linux later this year; August seems likely at this point. It's already up for pre-order, where you can save a few bucks. Otherwise, it'll cost $20 when it hits Steam.
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BRAVO, here I was thinking that games can't scare me anymore because all survival horror games have turned into bullets spewing action against countless hordes of zombies and here we have coming an awesome atmospheric game from the guys that brought Penumbra. When I was watching this video I almost felt like I was there and running scared of that apparition. Amazing job this guys are doing there. Hat's off to them.
The two games play nothing alike, nothing. Have you played either games? I've played some of both and they're not in the least similar control scheme or otherwise.
Wow. They are always topping themselves!! That looks incredible!! Pre-order here I come! It is so rare these days for games to be genuinely scary or emotionally engaging at all, so this looks to be a breath of fresh air as is Heavy Rain. :)
Looks like surround sound would help; if you can't see what you're running from, you'll need to hear it.
Petty dumping of the day: The player's lantern shouldn't lean when he does, it looks silly.
As a fan of old-style PC adventure games, I rather enjoyed Penumbra. I mean, it makes a blatant Half-Life reference. For the love of Gordon Freeman, how can you not love that?
This looks great. I've been rather critical of many self-professed horror games because of the domination of RE4-style horror (not saying that was a bad gaem; but like the article noted, you're walking in armed to the teeth).
Hopefully we can get some more Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners style games going (which was very Cthulhu-esque, riiiiight up until the end ): ). Or Penumbra.
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What? o_O
The two games play nothing alike, nothing. Have you played either games? I've played some of both and they're not in the least similar control scheme or otherwise.
Petty dumping of the day: The player's lantern shouldn't lean when he does, it looks silly.
Now that was some scary shit.
Hopefully we can get some more Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners style games going (which was very Cthulhu-esque, riiiiight up until the end ): ). Or Penumbra.