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This looks good... I finally ended up playing the original. Scary as shit!

I beat the original, took me a couple of days of non-stop playing. I was so scared, hold me.

I am glad Frictional are finally getting the recognition they deserve. I was into their Penumbra series long ago and it was great too.

It was released today! I can't wait to get home and play it.

Let the nightmares begin...

I just downloaded Dark Descent last night, so I'll prob play that one first. The reviews have been solid though.

I've only played up to the first part where it then has to load again. I guess that's level one. It's already creeping me out, but in a slightly different way than Amnesia: The Dark Descent did. Now I'm more concerned about the actual goings on inside this house. It's interesting to see what The Chinese Room has done with this series because this has more contextual storytelling, like Dear Esther. It doesn't outright tell you anything, but if you pay attention, you start putting a puzzle together in your mind of what it's all about. It's clearly something not right. I haven't even been attacked yet and I'm already feeling unnerved. I love this series.

I wanted to start so bad last night. I ended up conking out early. Tonight's the night!

Haven't played this yet, but I've read reviews and it seems like this games is a lot easier than the original, and as a result, not nearly as scary. Enemies are too slow and easy to dodge, there is regenerating health, thanks to your lantern you always have light and there's no resource management from what I can tell. Sounds very disappointing.

I find the premise of this story to be a really good one though, and the reviews I read all praised the story, so it's not all bad.

Kinda funny that all their prior games are known for interactivity, and now that the Dear Esther folks got involved in the new game, they took most of the interactivity out. Again, I'm basing this stuff on stuff I've read from the internet, so correct me if I'm wrong
http://steamcommunity.com/app/239200/di ... 202594467/
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.ph ... dev.69693/ (page 5+ onwards)

loved the first one.. Cant wait to pick this one up.

OOOKAYY it's time for shooby's rant time about this game I guess....Don't waste your time on it, unless you're prepared to SERIOUSLY be disappointed, or if you completely lower your expectations.

The game is mostly reading...then reading some more...then reading some more...oh look, a SINGLE SOLUTARY PIG that I just slipped by in two seconds. and yes, the dark descent did have reading...but not so much that it practically WAS the game...

The game would honestly be fine if it didn't have the name "amnesia" in front of it.

yeah you do get to see plenty of pigs...behind areas you can't get to. There's not even an ending boss battle, and the only one there is involves hitting two switches and that's it.

The original amnesia would make you search and use your head in order to get past certain puzzles, or would make you get lost in the mansion. All this game does is hold your hand the entire way... There's no backtracking...nothing that you can physically collect...basically the game takes a step back from the first amnesia all together...It got rid of everything we loved about it, and it wasn't scary at all (in my honest opinion).

The story was interesting....but all it did was explain...and explain...and explain...and yet all that explaining didn't make the story any less confusing. in my opinion, a good story shouldn't HAVE to be explained to such an overbearing extent. By the end of the story...You still don't understand. The monsters are BARELY a threat....and the puzzles are literally the most obvious boring things in the world.

Honestly i would just suggest you to watch a playthrough instead of buying the game...and if you do plan on doing just that, I suggest watching markiplier's playthrough.