I replayed The Suffering and I've often wished this lost Midway property would make a resurgence. Does anyone else remember this game or is it just me?
Does anyone remember the PS2 game The Suffering?
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Yes. Borrowed it from a friend back in the day. Never played the sequel, but saw a play through of it on YouTube back in 2007.
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Yeah, it was pretty neat and weird because they had a picture of what was supposed to be your character with his family and they were black, but in game he looked white with a tan.
It implied that Torque is mixed race. He's even voiced by Michael Duncan Clarke. May he rest in peace.
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Yeah, but in the pic he looks like a black guy and has a totally different face in game.
Torque is not in the first photo. Those are his two sons and wife. You can still have husband or wife that is mixed, and have children that are dark. Ask my aunts on my mom's side of the family.Yeah, but in the pic he looks like a black guy and has a totally different face in game.
Yes, but it's more action oriented.
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No, he had two. Cory is the one in the bottom pic, and Malcolm is the youngest he's carrying on his shoulder.
Cory
Cory is Torque's oldest son, who was born before Torque's incarceration in Eastern State Penitentary. While Torque was doing time in Eastern for a fight in a bar (set up by Blackmore), Cory lived with his pregnant mother Carmen. Out of shame, Carmen refused to let Cory visit his father in jail...
Malcolm
Malcolm is Torque's youngest son, born during Torque's incarceration in Eastern Correctional. He was killed by drowning in the bathtub of Torque's apartment; however, his killer depends on the morality of Torque during The Suffering. He appears as a ghost that haunts Torque in both games. Unlike...
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I remember playing either a demo of that or The Ties That Bind. It started with shootout in a movie theater IIRC (no, not the Batman kind) or maybe it was a prison, and the main character had a bunch of weird visions or hallucinations. It was a neat, gritty psycho-violent TPS that was probably underrated and became long forgotten, but a remaster would be very worthwhile.
Yep. Played them both back in the day. They don't necessarily stand out for me after all these years but I definitely enjoyed them.
Yeah, the first game was great, if easy. I really liked the monster designs and Clem's descriptions of them. The sequel was kinda rocky for me though, the new scientist woman's descriptions of the monsters was rather flat and uninteresting. While The Creeper was an interesting ghost, the rest of the new ones were kinda meh for me. I also feel like the game suffered from them forcing you to have only two weapons at any one time.