Well, honestly, I don't get it. I've been playing Amnesia for like thirty minutes and nothing happens. I thought I was going to be eaten alive by surprise monsters but I can only get bored while following the instructions. Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone share the same opinion as me?
It doesn't really kickoff till a bit further then that even so I personally never found it scary or anything..
Oh, so can you tell me what starts happening after a while? Like, will monsters attack you like the Slender Man? I'm curious but can't be bothered to play for hours just to see what happens.
I've never played Amnesia alone because I have always played with a friend or friends. I don't find Amnesia appealing at all when I play alone, it's only fun when I'm with a group of people. I love getting scared and screaming though!
It getting more scary further into the game, because the monsters come at you at more frequent rate. I you played just for thirty minutes then you didn't play enough, in my opinion. You just have to play a little more time so that the game can show to you how scary it can be.
Well, I'd really like to be spoiled on what happens. Monsters? You have to escape from them? They'll kill you? They're like ghosts or solid monsters?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is probably the most terrifying game I have ever seen from an indie developer. The game pressures you to use the one tactic that people hate to use, run and hide. And that is the only option that you have in Amnesia, and that's the scariest thing imaginable. You have to run away from the monster in narrow hallways, open doors with the monster right on your tail and then you have to close the door behind you to stop the monster. Temporarily. Then the monster resumes to break the door and chase you. Hopefully, you're gone by then. The game is the scariest game, playing and watching. Props to indie developers for creating masterpieces.
If you don't escape, the monsters will kill you. You respawn around the time where the monsters find you, and you have to choice either to mess up and the monster kills you, sneak past it successfully, or the monsters finds you and you have to start running again. Trust me, when the monsters start running after you on a long corridor where there is literally no other option then to run and open/close doors, that's when Amnesia hits it's scariest point. Or maybe the water part. *shudder* Yeah, the water part is absolutely scary.
Water part? That's interesting now. And I imagine the pressure of escaping the monster, the music, the graphics, that must be scary. I'll try it out at night some day soon. I thought my version was either bugged or I wasn't playing it right because nothing was showing hehe. I guess the time it takes for things to start happening is for you to adapt to the game and stop being scared and them BUM!!!!
I saw the previews of this game and I ultimately came to the same conclusion, so I didn't purchase the game. I'm sure there's something enjoyable to it since many people seem to like it, but I'm just personally not patient enough to wait until the game picks up.
I played this game for a few times, and I couldn't play more than 15 minutes at a time. The atmosphere in Amnesia is such that it makes you extremely tense for most of the game, and then they scare the bejeezus out of you. I still have it on my computer, but I can't bring myself to keep playing because it's so scary.
It's a slow burn. You are not going to see the monster until later in this game. Keep playing and you'll find that your heart is ready to jump from your body.
Yeah I find a lot of horror games have this as a formula as well and I don't blame them since it's great for building atmosphere. I guess you just have to be in the right mindset to get the full experience.
I have personally only been able to get through 1/3 of the game. If you play it ad midnight with the lights off and alone the atmosphere it creates is absolutely terrifying. I literally had to stop playing because I was afraid I would have a heart attack!
You don't have to be patient mate. You just have to keep playing. The tension is thee from the beginning. It just increases with ever passing moment.
Yeah I guess I may have just been in the wrong mood when I first played it. I know these types of games rely a lot on atmosphere which is a bit too subtle for my mood sometimes. I may give it another try in the future.
