What would you like to see from Frictional next?

[bufalo1973]

But seriously, I'd love to see something similar to this story adapted as a survival horror from the point of view of an average Joe (unarmed and easily killable, shocked and confused, hungry and desperate, with no other property left than his clothes and a few items in his pockets). Trying to survive an unexpected invasion of bizzare and terrifying alien creatures during the early months of WWI, all on your own, could be a pretty intriguing theme if done well, and in a painfully realistic fashion (no running and gunning or "playing hero", or any straightforward Hollywood happy endings for either you or humanity - instead, evasion like in Penumbra or Amnesia, and multiple endings, with maybe only one of them showing a small glimmer of hope at the end of the storyline, etc.).

Why would I like to see something like that ? Because I've never seen a movie or a game with the by-now clichéd theme of "mysterious alien monsters invade Earth, ZOMG !" done right : You almost always get a happy ending, where humanity triumphs, everyone is A-Okay and nobody pauses for even a minute to think about the possible psychological damage of such an event on the mind of an average human, let alone society as a whole.

Maybe you'd like In the mouth of madness. IIRC it's close to what you want about "alien monsters invade Earth" except those monsters are from hell and not from outer space.
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About a new game: what about a game where there are no "usual monsters" (zombies, vampires, creepy things, ...) but just humans... the worst monsters on Earth Maybe you are a jew in nazi Germany, or a black running out of civil war Loussiana, or an heretic running from the inquisition. Something like that, were you are just a human trying to survive without knowing who is a friend and who is a monster. Something like the feeling you get at the end of 1984. Or maybe you are a urban wo/man that gets lost in a strange island (no black smoke, thank you ) and some canivals want you to be their dinner.

Or even another step more: why do you have to be human? Why not be an animal running away from human hunters or an alien (think more of ET and not in THE alien or the predator) hiding from human military? Or maybe you are not even organic but a robot set to be destroyed if found.

Think about it: a horror movie is a horror movie because you see it from the POV of the prey. If you look at them from the POV of the hunter they are just action movies. A clear example is the difference between Lestat in "interview with a vampire" (novel) and "lestat the vampire". Louis sees Lestat's actions as demonic because he doesn't know why he does what he does. But Lestat explains himself and the demonic actions become justice (or something like that): the poor man dead by bleeding was a killer, the poor old woman was a children kidnapper (IIRC).

So, if you take a normal hunt and flip the POV you get a horror story, being it the hunt of a deer, a pig going to the slaughterhouse, a person running from a wolfpack, an alien stranded in Earth and hunted to be cut in pieces, ...