11-14-2011, 04:34 AM
I want to start off this post by saying thank you to Frictional games for creating quite possibly the best survival horror game in the history of gaming. I am an avid player of survival horror games, I have played all of the Silent Hills, Dead Spaces, Resident Evils, Fatal Frames, FEARs, etc. Not a single one of those games even comes close to the sheer terror I feel when I play Amnesia.
Frictional games has achieved something that most developers cannot even touch, they caused the sense of terror. Terror is different than being scared or being afraid. Dead Space can scare you with jump out monsters but it never comes close to instilling true terror in your mind like Amnesia does. When you find yourself afraid to ascend a staircase or turn a corner or even find yourself too afraid to move from the little fort you made in a corner hiding from the shadow; you know that you are playing something special.
Amnesia is a better game than Dead Space and Fear and Resident Evil but it will unfortunately never see the mass acclaim that these games receive. Sure some people have reviewed this game and have reviewed it very well but it isn't big news. I want to make it so this game becomes a game that people remember and know whether they have played it or not. In short I want to thank Amnesia for providing me one of the most terrifying experiences of my life and for giving the gaming community a diamond among coal in survival horror.
Frictional games has achieved something that most developers cannot even touch, they caused the sense of terror. Terror is different than being scared or being afraid. Dead Space can scare you with jump out monsters but it never comes close to instilling true terror in your mind like Amnesia does. When you find yourself afraid to ascend a staircase or turn a corner or even find yourself too afraid to move from the little fort you made in a corner hiding from the shadow; you know that you are playing something special.
Amnesia is a better game than Dead Space and Fear and Resident Evil but it will unfortunately never see the mass acclaim that these games receive. Sure some people have reviewed this game and have reviewed it very well but it isn't big news. I want to make it so this game becomes a game that people remember and know whether they have played it or not. In short I want to thank Amnesia for providing me one of the most terrifying experiences of my life and for giving the gaming community a diamond among coal in survival horror.
