Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[crisosphinx]

Am i the only one who thinks this game won't live up to the original i.e. Amnesia Dark Descent?
In gaming they usually make the first game brilliant( example- Suffering,Wolfenstein,Fear,Dead space etc..) but the second one is in a lot of cases a shadow of the first game.
I could be wrong but screaming pigs in chinatown just don't cut it for me.

Are you slow? Independent games don't do that. Take for example, Penumbra was before Amnesia. Same basic idea, the interaction and the AI has been dumbed down in Amnesia, but the scares are better.

The games you mentioned are "mainstream". They are made by big companies to better suit the entire population. Well, Wolfenstein was independent, the first one at least. Eventually, DOOM was created out of Wolfenstein (much scarier), but the mechanics were dumbed down. Doom 3 was the epitome of scare fest, but it was repetitive so it was lame (I really like that game, by the way, fan of the series right here).

Dead Space and Doom/ Wolfenstein, FEAR are the climax of repetitive shooters. They are exactly the same but with new graphics and overused functions. Nothing is unique in those. Suffering was at least a little different, but again, mainstream - when I say mainstream, I mean the company like ID software is mainstream, not the game itself.

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but the second one is in a lot of cases a shadow of the first game.
I could be wrong but screaming pigs in chinatown just don't cut it for me.

Could you tell me what you are basing this off of besides your gut feeling? The "screaming pigs in chinatown" which was shown is basically just a monster encounter like the one we're all so familiar with in the original Amnesia.

Instict hasn't fooled me before.Don't underestimate your instincts.I watched the dark knight rises trailer and i knew the movie would be absolute shit, and then when i watched i realised i was right.I said i could be wrong, would like to be wrong on this one.

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but the second one is in a lot of cases a shadow of the first game.
I could be wrong but screaming pigs in chinatown just don't cut it for me.

Could you tell me what you are basing this off of besides your gut feeling? The "screaming pigs in chinatown" which was shown is basically just a monster encounter like the one we're all so familiar with in the original Amnesia.

I don't think this game will suck, it just won't live up to the original nor surpass it.
My insticts have been fairly accurate in the past, i would love to be wrong but we shall see.

If your instincts were as good as your spelling, grammar and typing, I don't think I'd like to trust your instincts and I don't think you should either.