Zero Punctuation: Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
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Jesus, that first monologue in that video, it's just... Wow. That practically wants me to get the game all by itself, because that was amazing.ironballs16 said:
What? Game made by The Chinese Room in not a lot of gameplay shocker? Who could have predicted that?
Kinda reminds me of the 3DS game, The Starship Damrey. *Spoilers* It started off scary when every time I turn around I expected a scare, but after a while you realize a fatal flaw with the game:
Fortunately, as soon as I realized that, the game was over. It's a shame because it had the right atmosphere, some good scares, a good twist ending, and a genuinely funny moment.
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Brilliant. I liked the game too...just not as much as The Dark Descent.
But, like you said...so far even at their worst, Frictional's games (Amnesia and Penumbra) remain loads scarier than other games on the market...
And that load I mentioned earlier is measured in dirty cr*p stained adult diapers. In fact, playing either of the Amnesia titles is a pretty accurate way to measure incontinence.
But, like you said...so far even at their worst, Frictional's games (Amnesia and Penumbra) remain loads scarier than other games on the market...
And that load I mentioned earlier is measured in dirty cr*p stained adult diapers. In fact, playing either of the Amnesia titles is a pretty accurate way to measure incontinence.
I watched a Let's Player play through both Outlast and A Machine for Pigs but Outlast, to me, was MUCH more frightening though I won't say AMFP wasn't GOOD. The mechanics were very impressive and the environment was gripping. I'M never gonna play it (I live the life of an eternally broke individual) but I think it'd be cool if Yahtzee decided to play it on a whimwarfjm said:
OT: I'm glad he "liked" it and I agree with what he was saying; it DID have a good story for what it was worth (though it got JUST a bit confusing there for a few moments)
Quite the opposite, actually. Machine was a very modest concept at the beginning, and its highly likely that Frictional urged them to expand on the original concept. [Possibly adding the journey back into the machine?] Machine actually missed an original deadline - with Frictional's blessing - with the disclaimer that they wouldn't release a game that isn't finished.LoathsomePete said:
Of all the games that Yahtzee didn't check the wiki, this was the worst one. Although, even the "official" account of the plot seems to me to be dead wrong in places. The fairest thing to say about it is that TCR was so overanxious to use metaphor, that the resultant narrative was confusing and disjoint.
The *GOOD* news is that while TCR was doing this, Frictional Games have been working on a completely different game, whose name and release date are not yet available.
Go! Go! Gadget sphincter!
I think my problem is that Dear Esther and, say, Bioshock: Infinite are the same thing in the same way that Eraserhead, The Godfather, and The Fast and the Furious are the same thing. There is a benefit to the art itself to have all of those as part of the same basic category: film. Sure, the writing is lacking in Fast, but I guess it has cool effects or something. Some movies don't have a real "plot", but that doesn't mean they aren't movies. It's not a problem to call all of those movies. Nobody goes to see Fast and comes out annoyed that it didn't address the basic impossiblities of communication in absurd world.Lovely Mixture said:
If you want such a strict definiton of "video game" you'll need to come up with some new word to describe the art as a whole. It's absolutely vital to discussion of gaming to be able to consider Dear Esther and Super Mario Bros. at the same time. There's no reason to come up with this phrase since "video games" already is the overwhelmingly accepted name. If you want to break "video game" down into various categories like "racing game" and "shooting game", that's fine.
Sounds good, hopefully will not be too many "let's plays" of it to ruin it.
Yahtzee is going over to the USA to the Escapist Expo next week so that is probably the reason he has not had the time to play GTA V yet and probably won't until afterwards either.
Yahtzee is going over to the USA to the Escapist Expo next week so that is probably the reason he has not had the time to play GTA V yet and probably won't until afterwards either.
Machine for Pigs was never going to live up to Dark Decent; it was a smash hit out of nowhere & it's real hard to do that twice
Search your feelings, you know it to be true
But hey, if all the "Dear Amnesia" rants are being overly critical (which they very likely were/are), I'll pick up a copy
Search your feelings, you know it to be true
But hey, if all the "Dear Amnesia" rants are being overly critical (which they very likely were/are), I'll pick up a copy
Same here; it's one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a zero punctuation. And that's including the time he had that scary horror movie moment in his Little Big Planet review.EHKOS said:
OT: I'm glad to finally hear that someone liked this game; especially since my own gaming tastes usually parallel Yahtzee's. I've enjoyed a number of things from The Chinese Room, and the first Amnesia scares me so much I've barely played it; looking forward to getting A Machine for Pigs on the next Steam sale.
Gotta remember to put a tarp over the furniture beforehand, though.
But those all have something in common. You watch them, they require no input from you and are moving pictures with sound.Clovus said:
The input required for Dear Esther, Gone Home, or AMFP is minimal.
Well technically there already is, they're computer generated media/workClovus said:
There's at least the need for distinction.Clovus said:
True. How about unlaborious games or non-inputive games?Clovus said:
