Zero Punctuation: Amnesia: The Dark Descent

[notevenhere]

Loved the video. I still can hardly bring myself to play the damned thing, scares me to no end. The splishy splashy monster was bad enough =.=, and now I'm really feeling the whole "Go into a room to get an object and immediately expect a monster to have appeared behind the door you just closed" that was emphasized.

I'm glad that I get little surprises like this, I was honestly expecting something like Reach this week. ^^

 

[Rad Party God]

Wicked, anyone know if it is available for macs through steam too?

Yes indeed, it has the Steam Play label and it does work on Macs indeed.

Although I'd prefer on buying it directly from Frictional Games as I did with Penumbra, if you buy it from there, you get the game for windows, mac and linux.

I can't still get the courage to even start playing Penumbra, only looking at it scares the shit out of me and Amnesia looks just as scary if not even more.

On a side note, this would be the second game I'd buy after watching a review of ZP. The first one was Painkiller and I still think it was a worth buy.

 

[beema]

hehehe, monsters spawned by autosave. That's a good one.
I played the demo on steam, and I have to say, what scared me the most was the insanely low framerate for a game that looks like it was made 5 years ago. What gives?

The fact that you can't defend yourself at all did make it frightening, but since I'm not used to that in games, I found myself more often going "what the shit am I supposed to do here!?!"

It was interesting, but didn't really hook me. I'll put it on my "to do" list. Since I have yet to play any of the Penumbra games, I would like to get those under my belt first.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

The game looks interesting, if I had the money I'd check it out (if this computer can run it), but this is the first ZP I didn't even crack a smile to. Oh well, I'm sure next week will get me.

Edit: Nope, can't run it anyway.

 

[Jimmybobjr]

Best ZP in so long.

Two Thumbs Up.

 

[Crayzor]

I love this game, none other has made me run at the first sight of an enemy and cower behind a table in the corner of a room for a few minutes hoping they go away.(in the game, not real life).

 

[esperandote]

Which game pretends to erase your save files? Penumbra?

 

[PurpleSky]

Yahtzee you had better fucking love this game *clicks play*

 

[Aithan]

Haha, "Faster than you can say Cthulu Ftaghn", classic.

 

[notevenhere]

Which game pretends to erase your save files? Penumbra?

Now this reference I did not really get. I played Overture, Black Plague and Requiem (I regret the latter) and I can't recall it, but it was a while ago.. Maybe Yahtzee was just going crazy from Amnesia?

 

[RaikuFA]

The game looks interesting, if I had the money I'd check it out (if this computer can run it), but this is the first ZP I didn't even crack a smile to. Oh well, I'm sure next week will get me.

it probably wont. i contacted frictional games a week or so ago about it refusing to work and still havent gotton a response. plus their support forums dont help

 

[vanthebaron]

cthulhu fhta...oh shit *eaten by moster*


and wall jam is delsh.

 

[CronoT]

Not to be a jerk, but to the best of my knowledge, when Nintendo released Eternal Darkness, they copyrighted the use of a sanity meter mechanic in a video game. I'm wondering how it works in this game, and also if Frictional Games are going to end up getting sued.

Here's hoping not. The DMCA is already enough of a stain on software production. We don't need any more EA/ESPN borsefeathers stunts hampering creativity.

 

[Furyaki12]

And I got really angre first time I played Eternal Darkness and screen went black and told you your save files were corrupt and started deleting, geez I was angry...and felt quite dumb when the screen returned to normal and I had just thrown the GC controller in the couch...

That sanity effect honestly scared me more than the horror in the game. Seeing it the first time made me go...insane, thinking that my GameCube was somehow being hacked from somewhere and that they could see what I was doing through my TV.

OT: Funny review, game definitely might be worth a look or two.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Which game pretends to erase your save files? Penumbra?

Now this reference I did not really get. I played Overture, Black Plague and Requiem (I regret the latter) and I can't recall it, but it was a while ago.. Maybe Yahtzee was just going crazy from Amnesia?

Eternal Darkness, the awesome game that could've been a great series had the developer not gone crazy and make Too Human.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Snip

What do you think is the line between "independent" and "Mainstream?"

Take for example Minecraft, a game that is basically Legos of an entire world that is addictive as crack being sold for 14 bucks online is now making 350,000 dollars a day since a person is downloading it every 3 seconds.

 

[notevenhere]

Not to be a jerk, but to the best of my knowledge, when Nintendo released Eternal Darkness, they copyrighted the use of a sanity meter mechanic in a video game.

I'm not even going to try and dig that up, but the idea just seems silly to me. Woo, copyrighting stuff!

 

[Jonci]

Damn you Yahtzee. I was all nice and content trying to forget this game existed until I had money to spend again, and here you come along actually praising what I viewed as the finest looking horror game I've seen in years! I STILL DON'T HAVE MONEY TO SPEND! It's in my head...calling me....

 

[Darenus]

Amnesia is marked as "Steam Play", meaning you can play it on either machine.