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Amnesia: Rebirth Announced (PC / PS4, sequel, not a remake)
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Seeing as how the trailer opens on a crashed airplane, it should be pretty obvious this isn't a remake. Also, this is a perfect opportunity to rewatch a couple of great Amnesia videos
As I recall, Frictional currently have two titles in development, this is just one of them ...........
PC and PS4 according to the main Announcement Trailer, no mention of Xbox One:
Amnesia: Rebirth - Announcement Trailer | PS4
Amnesia: Rebirth, a new descent into darkness from the creators of the iconic Amnesia series. A harrowing journey through desolation and despair, exploring t...
youtu.be
I actually cannot believe nearly every theory I had on the game from the ARG seems to be right, but definitely on board! Amnesia was actually my least favorite Frictional game, but I think a modern day sequel can do wonders for it.
Was A Machine for Pigs any good? I've blasted through all of Frictional Games' titles but never picked this one up.
I liked it a lot. It's a bit different, but it has some neat tricks and the overall setting and plot is really cool.
I'm interested in this too. I own the whole collection on PS4 and planned to play all 2.5 games but ended up stopping after the first one. People seem pretty down on the Machine for Pigs - it seems like something that doesn't have as much enduring popularity. I'd be interested to hear what people think now. The game seems more like a sequel to the first game, which makes sense since Frictional didn't make the second one.
I hope this goes back to Dark Descent style gameplay and expands on that. I fucking love SOMA but the gameplay is too bare bones.
It's more reminiscent of the "walking simulator" roots of The Chinese Room's games than Amnesia original puzzle hide 'n seek gameplay. It was ok, but worse than Frictional games and The Chinese Room other works (Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture).
Frictional talked a lot a few years ago that their horror game was going to try and move forward horror mechanics as a whole, they want to be innovators to inspire other games. So my guess is the gameplay mechanics will be quite different than Dark Descent, and try to reinvent the hide'n'sneak horror genre and experiment a lot with what mechanics can benefit horror games.
Frictional didn't make A Machine for Pigs, Chinese Room (the creators of Dear Esther and Everbody's Gone to Rapture) did. This is the sequel by the original developers and creators of SOMA and Penumbra as well.
They've also talked how they want this game to innovate the horror genre, so it'll probably have a lot of new mechanical stuff to it.
Excited for this, wonder what elements they have in store.
Wasn't A Machine for Pigs made by Chinese Room?
Wasn't A Machine for Pigs made by Chinese Room?
Probably but could take a while, I believe SOMA came around two years later for the Xbox.
Good. I really hope it has some solid gameplay mechanics.
Nope, that's made by The Chinese Room and it's a boring a** walking game, it has nothing to do with Frictional Games titles.
Having finished SOMA a few days ago and now replaying A Machine for Pigs as I type its....not as good as Amnesia its more akin to an older Walking Sim with little gameplay besides some light puzzle solving and hide and seek with monsters, its *decent* enough IF you can get it on sale and I think the initial bad reviews and super negativity when it came out was mainly due to it sharing the same Amnesia name while not being made by the same studio and reaching anywhere close to being as good as the previous. Did came out 7 years ago and walking sims have evolved way beyond it since then so temper your expectations.
They said the contrary
Frictional Games Reveals Horror Sequel Amnesia: Rebirth
First details on the follow-up to the cult-classic Amnesia: The Dark Descent, coming to PS4 this fall.
blog.us.playstation.com
I'm so proud of this community. For some reason when I played through a machine for pigs I thought the word of mouth and ratings were high. Then I played it and it was a dog turd. Looks like most did not enjoy it either.
I loved dark descent after playing through soma so I'm really looking forward to this.
I loved dark descent after playing through soma so I'm really looking forward to this.
I'm guessing that the Amnesia branding probably has more to do with name recognition than anything else. The 2010 game was monumentally influential in the horror space and basically kicked off a massive resurgence of the genre thanks to the coinciding rise of Youtube/Twitch. Let's not forget that this game is what put PewDiePie on the map originally 😯.
I don't think what you quoted is contrary to what I said, actually. I think it can directly be Amnesia but also not be the same, I take the sentence to mean more to people it's not like a Machine for Pigs, IE it's a hide'n'sneak horror game.They said the contrary
Frictional Games Reveals Horror Sequel Amnesia: Rebirth
First details on the follow-up to the cult-classic Amnesia: The Dark Descent, coming to PS4 this fall.
But that doesn't mean it's the same either. They even say they're building on what Amnesia did already and want to defy expectations a bit.
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Seem kinda contradictory to me...
I think the gameplay mechanics will pretty much be the same, but expanded on. They will innovate in other avenues -
Also the Steam Store page basically lists the same mechanics...
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Not angry, just trying to be transparent to the others since we're dealing with a traditionally multiplat series. Iam myself gonna play it on steam :).
Although on a different note i would say that announcing it on PS Blog can sometimes give the wrong idea when we're dealing with multiplats and I personally don't like it since the press materials there are for playstation only but I can see why the devs would make an announcement there since its a place where they can get the max visibility for their game at the time of the announcement.
There is also an announcement trailer by the devs with PS4 and PC at the end.
