AMFP Member Review Thread

[Mr. 3vil]

I think the problem was that I played Outlast before AMFP. When I saw the graphics of amnesia again, i had a little trouble getting used to it again. I didn't like most of the color layers they added to the game, instead of black there was blue, weird color changes throughout the game...

It also felt a bit too linear for me, amfp didn't give me any real challenges, whereas Outlast kept me on the tip of my seat the whole time, and had me collecting some stuff to progress through the game.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the "no inventory" type of approach, but it could've been much better.

The story was indeed somewhat predictable, but well written. I will never forget the moment you step outside again and see London riddled with pigs!

I liked the music much more than in TDD! The ending music and mors praematura are my favorite ones, so props to Jessica Curry!

My experience was that after playing Outlast it only made A Machine for Pigs seem like a true horror game. There is a very intense sort of feeling and the tension really builds up so much that I would have to shut the game off with Amnesia. Of course, this was even more obvious with The Dark Descent. The problem, I'm sure is that most of us are comparing it to The Dark Descent and not Outlast.

I could make a gigantic list as to what made Outlast somewhat of a disjointed experience. Here's the stuff that I thought Outlast did entirely wrong. Having a yellow objective text to remind me what to do rather than take advantage of the note page was rather annoying and breaking the immersion. Not to mention everytime it autosaves I see the words "saving" in white in the bottom left-hand corner. Any door you open will automatically be shut in a scripted event, this was especially notable in the security room that required climbing a vent to escape. The door opening and closing mechanics is terrible because standing on the wrong side of the door could cause the character to shut himself in with the monster in the same room. After finding the camcorder and running from three men, plenty of people got stuck because they were supposed to climb the lockers and that was never really possible beforehand. The night-vision camera function is very annoying, they should have thrown that away and stuck with a flashlight with batteries instead.

And the story, the whole spiritual ghost part because of nanotechnology, that almost felt slapped in the very end serving a very poor function to set up a sequel. Honestly, the yellow text is flashing "New Objective: Find a way to escape." Then it flashes later after finding the old man in a wheel chair, "New Objective: Kill Billy." Honestly, I don't remember the original Doom games flashing "New Objective: Kill boss" :New Objective, escape," because it's very annoying and more of a COD mechanic. I also don't understand why he didn't just exit the complex instead, why must I kill Billy to leave when there is an elevator that clearly worked? Where was my choice of actually wanting to survive when clearly the game wanted me to die?

I'd say it's ATDD > AAMFP > Outlast just because I really wanted to get immersed in the games and it was very difficult with Outlast with the reasons I mentioned above. Removing the inventory wasn't a bad idea because it requires picking up scattered objects, where as TDD it would entirely pause the game. Let's think about it for a moment, if a monster is behind me and I look into my inventory, I prolonged my death and I am entirely safe from harm. Although removing the inventory stopped the pausing effect, I'd like to see it implemented in the future so that it doesn't actually pause the game. Dark Souls does it and I think it only helps the immersion process. After all, if I was in real life about to get attacked by a monster, looking into an inventory would be a very dangerous thing to do right? Why look into your inventory when you should run instead?