Inspirations found in Black Plague

[Nephil]

I really miss the Silent Hill series, and it appears that the new installment will be nothing but a slasher with some quasi-Silent Hillian flavour. So long, Silent Hill.

When it comes to Penumbra, Black Plague didn't directly remind me of any other games. But yes, I kept thinking about Silent Hill, and about The Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, especially when I played Overture.

Another thing about Silent Hill I'd like to mention: it had great atmospheric cutscenes with nice music, but I've never been able to make it work correctly on a PC. The sound was stuttering all the way.

Penumbra isn't a masterpiece, neither is The Call of Cthulhu. At the same time, the former is a very nice deviation from the regular resident-evil style action-based pattern and I want to see more games following in the footsteps of Penumbra, which is a suspense-based horror. The latter, CoC: DCOTE, also had too much action in it and was kinda... lacking. In the design, too. But it had lots of promise. Such games as DCOTE and Penumbra are the best you can expect from game developers. Sadly, it shows that computer games is a substandard form of art in general. Wonder if anyone will read this message through the end.