Not bad, I played some of the first game back in the day and enjoyed it.
I mostly remember Amnesia due to the amount of popularity it got on YouTube channels.
I mostly remember Amnesia due to the amount of popularity it got on YouTube channels.
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Amnesia: Collection just stealth dropped on Switch! Out now, $29.99. Includes Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Amnesia: Justine, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
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It was such a surprise release that I doubt if any reviewers have played it yet, many non-reviewers won't have either of course.
I've always wanted to play these games, so now I will!
You know what horror game is absolutely amazing? SOMA. The entire concept is incredibly unsettling. I hope these guys are able to bring that to Switch as well.
You know what horror game is absolutely amazing? SOMA. The entire concept is incredibly unsettling. I hope these guys are able to bring that to Switch as well.
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I too hope for a physical release but there's been no official word on the matter. You could always tweet Frictional Games and ask:
Does Justine dump you back to the Switch menu and force you to reload the game when you die?
Because it should.
Because it should.
A Machine for Pigs is not a good game, let alone a good Amnesia game, but it is still a worthwhile experience, and it has more to say than most games.
This is still incredible:
(Massive spoilers, obviously.)
This is still incredible:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcsi3hU-rX8(Massive spoilers, obviously.)
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Here's 25 minutes of gameplay from Amnesia: The Dark Descent -
I enjoyed it. It's like a fascinating short story. The gameplay is terrible though.
I'd honestly just skip the lot. Amnesia was interesting a lot of years ago, its very dated now though and virtually everyone has played it. A machine fo pigs was just awful and should have never been made. Absolute waste of a good IP. Tbh I never even new the Justin thing existed since AMFP took the series straight off the map for me. Genuinely thought they just gave up on it and made SOMA instead
Ah, fuck, why'd you have to go and link that? Reminds me of just how much of a missed opportunity that damned game was. One of the most interesting stories and themes in gaming stymied by a game that fails utterly to live up to the actual horror of its premise. If there's any game that needs a remake it's this one; get The Chinese Room back to improve the story and get Irrational or someone else to make the actual game part.
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It's still excellent.
I disagree.
Have they? Do you have any facts to back that up?
Not awful but could have been a lot better. The Chinese Room designed that and made a bit of a pig's ear of it.
It's called Justine, it's an expansion for the original game. Takes about an hour to play.
Okay.
Man you've made this a really hard format to try and respond to you in. So I'll try. Fair that you disagree but it's a decade old game. The reason I feel like everyone has played it because this thing was the kickstarter of PewDiePie's success on YT. Virtually everyone had seemingly seen or played this game in some way over the coming months especially as every YT'er jumped on that train. Its had and incredible amount of exposure for a small indie.
Yeah Chinese Room ruined it for me. It just wasnt what I wanted it to be at all. And while the idea of a bit more closer to the original concept is cool I guess an hour of it for a decade old game isn't enough to pull me back around after AMFP
Never understood the negativity about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs: I thoroughly enjoyed it, I'd say at times even more than the already great Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I recommend everyone who gets this collection and/or is generally curious about A Machine for Pigs to give it a try to form their own impressions.
It was PC exclusive for years, plenty of people didnt play it. It released on console a couple years ago, but for the height of it's popularity it was limited to people with PC's. I remember trying to run it off the integrated graphics on my laptop in like 2013 but it couldnt hang at all.
It took all of the more interesting aspects of the original (sanity, resource management) and removed them because... Who even knows why? Plus I don't think the story is especially worthwhile.
The story is extremely worthwhile! One of the few games that nearly made me cry! It made me reflect on
the entire 20th century, on capitalism, on the military-industrial complex, on modernity. To play a man driven mad by his vision of the century I was born into and lived through—to the point that he would sacrifice his own sons to spare them death at the Somme—was weirdly moving.
The Dark Descent is a better game, and Machine is a bad, stripped-down retread of its mechanics, but the latter has so much more to say.
Yeah that's a damn good point actually I'd forgotten how long it was exclusive for. One thing I was really happy about with SOMA was being able to go straight for ps4.
I wanted SOMA...
But man, never played any of this games, because I am a pussy, but I wanted so much...
But man, never played any of this games, because I am a pussy, but I wanted so much...
I'm with you on the story. Story-wise, it's actually a top notch piece of weird literature.
