Volitions Advocate on 15/10/2013 at 09:20
Hey, System Shock without guns could be VERY cool if done properly. I've thought of the idea myself.
Not in the vein of Frictionals scared-of-everything type of gameplay, but imagine a Half Life where Gordon goes all physicist (think: Walter White) on everybody instead of all Rambo. eh? eh?
Or an engineer protagonist, gotta fix stuff and build stuff to survive. rather than run away or blow crap up. Could be interesting.
N'Al on 15/10/2013 at 09:46
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
...imagine a Half Life where Gordon goes all physicist (think:
MacGyver) on everybody instead of all Rambo.
fixed
How would you model the hair in first person, though?june gloom on 15/10/2013 at 09:55
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If that were the case, I don't think Frictional would be doing as well as they have.
That's really not why the games are successful. They're horror games outside the mainstream (coming about at a time when survival horror as a genre was effectively dead/in transition) for comparatively cheap ($20 for Amnesia compared to $50 for most games) with minimum specs well below the baseline average of non-gamer PCs today (Amnesia requires a GF 6 card, which first came out in 2004) and widespread digital distribution (in confluence with the sharp drop in price for PCs that have at least some level of gaming capability) making accessibility a non-issue. Story, writing, and characters don't really matter. What matters is (
http://i.imgur.com/sIqZM.png) how much the game causes poo to come out, and most people, especially younger players, aren't as inured to horror tropes.
That and PewDiePie really gave Amnesia some visibility.
Jason Moyer on 15/10/2013 at 11:59
They're doing something that is now widely imitated, even by Chinese Room using the HPL engine to make their own Amnesia game, yet no one else has done it well or come particularly close. The only games I've played that are even comparable to what Frictional makes are Gone Home and Miasmata, and neither of them were blatant copies of Penumbra/Amnesia.
faetal on 15/10/2013 at 12:21
If they go all M. Knight Shyamalan and end up becoming a degenerating feedback loop of themselves, then they'll lose their following and sales. Until then, it's still interesting to see where they go. Many studios start off interesting, but weak and end up becoming awesome when they hit their stride. Let's assume they're not stupid and realise at some stage that they need to do more than repeat their games with superficial alterations. Could be good!
Muzman on 16/10/2013 at 17:26
Quote Posted by dethtoll
That and PewDiePie really gave Amnesia some visibility.
Eh, it was kind of the other way around in some sense. Or a co-involved growth. The initial big videos weren't his and he seems to have copied the subtitling and face cam from them.
He did become the big Amnesia guy/toolbox though.
But like the resurgent popularity of Neitzsche and the Nazis we can't truly blame one for the other. We must forgive Amnesia for Pewdiepie, dethy, we must.
june gloom on 12/12/2013 at 22:54
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9x6Ri8jQk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9x6Ri8jQk
New trailer, fears assuaged.
Congratulations, Frictional, you're doing something different and made me give a shit.
Neb on 12/12/2013 at 23:24
You got me, man.
Unless you're serious, in which case - I don't understand.
june gloom on 12/12/2013 at 23:32
What's not to understand?
