What do you think is the #1 monster in the Frictional Games Penumbra & Amnesia?

[spukrian]

(06-20-2012 10:30 PM)Bridge Wrote:  Seriously, if a Kaernk had ever been in an area where there was no water and you had to sneak past totally silent it would have topped everybody's list easily. It obviously isn't aquatic because it only walks on the water and it makes no real sense why they are only found in water other than because the game says so. I would have been scared as fuck. Without the ripples to see where it is, you could very well be walking right towards it without knowing… now that's horrifying.

If they were out of the water then there would be no way of detecting them, they're in water to give the player a chance. A totally invisible monster would perhaps be a bit unfair.

First time I encountered the Kaernk I just about died from fear. But due to my terrible jumping skills, fear gave way to frustration.

[The Rock Worm]

(06-23-2012 10:27 PM)spukrian Wrote:  

(06-20-2012 10:30 PM)Bridge Wrote:  Seriously, if a Kaernk had ever been in an area where there was no water and you had to sneak past totally silent it would have topped everybody's list easily. It obviously isn't aquatic because it only walks on the water and it makes no real sense why they are only found in water other than because the game says so. I would have been scared as fuck. Without the ripples to see where it is, you could very well be walking right towards it without knowing… now that's horrifying.

If they were out of the water then there would be no way of detecting them, they're in water to give the player a chance. A totally invisible monster would perhaps be a bit unfair.

First time I encountered the Kaernk I just about died from fear. But due to my terrible jumping skills, fear gave way to frustration.

That's when your running skills take place, when jumping fails. Now freezing the water would be good, then the Kaernk would be frozen solid!

[spukrian]

(07-04-2012 05:07 PM)The Rock Worm Wrote:  That's when your running skills take place, when jumping fails. Now freezing the water would be good, then the Kaernk would be frozen solid!

Hehe... can't run away if the timed gate already closed

Freezing water would be cool but I assume it would very difficult to implement.

[The Rock Worm]

(07-04-2012 11:52 PM)spukrian Wrote:  

(07-04-2012 05:07 PM)The Rock Worm Wrote:  That's when your running skills take place, when jumping fails. Now freezing the water would be good, then the Kaernk would be frozen solid!

Hehe... can't run away if the timed gate already closed

Freezing water would be cool but I assume it would very difficult to implement.

Implementing Freezing would be difficult, so instead we would electrocute the water, this killing the Kaernk (assuming you are out of the water)

[Damascus Rose]

Those fucking SPIDERS man. God I hated those things!

[The Rock Worm]

(07-05-2012 02:03 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote:  Those fucking SPIDERS man. God I hated those things!

Extremely annoying little bugs aren't they? Difficult to hit too! Makes you wish Phillip had a can of Bug Spray doesn't it?

[Damascus Rose]

Actually those things weren't just annoying. They horrified me and made me cry. They are the main reason why I am reluctant to play through penumbra again.

[The Rock Worm]

(07-05-2012 03:14 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote:  Actually those things weren't just annoying. They horrified me and made me cry. They are the main reason why I am reluctant to play through penumbra again.

Sorry to hear that. It should make you happy that Penumbra: Black Plague has 0% spiders (well, maybe 1 hallucination, but it is only 2 or so seconds). What's also good is that it sums up the first game in its intro.

[Damascus Rose]

Aha yeah, I just remembered that hallucination. I almost died in real life on that part. Dear lord I thought I was done with the little bastards. And yeah, black plague is much more worth playing than overture if you had to pick one ;p

[The Rock Worm]

(07-05-2012 03:25 AM)Damascus Rose Wrote:  Aha yeah, I just remembered that hallucination. I almost died in real life on that part. Dear lord I thought I was done with the little bastards. And yeah, black plague is much more worth playing than overture if you had to pick one ;p

I enjoyed both, though personally Black Plague made me more nervous than Overture. Requim, the Penumbra expansion pack, to me was more of an optional gameplay.

After playing Black PLague and Amnesia TDD, I've wondered what would happen if the Tuurngait/Clarnence and Alexander of Brennenburg Castle (and his forces) fought each other... who would win?