Amnesia Rebirth

Original Amnesia is a huge hit. Makes some let's players rich.
Rebirth is so bad that no one cares about it.

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le S O Y face

they should've put in some effort and maybe started a third horror franchise with all new assets

>and maybe started a third horror franchise
>third
They already have 3 though - Penumbra, Amnesia and Soma

It's not that Rebirth were a shit game, it's because the reason that the vast majority of people even cared about Dark Descent was because of le funny streamers. They want that experience again, but don't realize that the charade has long been played out and going through the same motions won't create the same feeling for them, so they falsely attribute their own jadedness as a gauge of the game quality. Fucking normies. I was a Frictional Games fan since the tech-demo for Penumra.

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The devs probably hate Amnesia The dark descent. There is no other explaination to why they have done those herendous sequels, tarnishing the name of the first game.

>sequels
>plural
Machine for Pigs was a fangame that bought the license

That might be part of it, but I genuinely think its of much lower quality. Even if you go back and play the 10-year-old game today, its much better.
There are so many issues with rebirth, like enemies despawning after one fail, no health or sanity meters so you're always returned to neutral after an encounter = hardly any stakes.
Those grab animations that clearly show you the monster in your face, ruining all the intrigue you might have had about their design. It's just ass.

>watching Jeese Cox's Scary Game Squad playthrough of it
>quit watching half-way through because nothing is fucking happening
>even when a monster is nearby it's not a threat

>like enemies despawning after one fail
why the FUCK is that a thing
ive only died once as i was in a vent thing and i didnt even know what called me, she freaks out, and i had no idea if it was intentional or not but the enemy was gone
i seriously hoped i had just made a mistake and they didnt genuinely despawn enemies after death, but if they do thats so retarded
i hope to god they never touch penumbra again, its too dear to my heart

>ruining all the intrigue you might have had about their design
you mean sort of like how the dark descent went to shit the moment you actually look at any of the monsters?
I much prefer rebirths walking sim style to the TDS style where monsters stop being scary, and just becomes annoying things that are in the way of progressing.

That's why they make it very hard to look at them.

Also when you realize you can goomba stomp the water monster if you have enough HP.

Rebirth is shit compared to soma

I still think TDD handled it much better. How much you actually looked at the monster was largly determined by the players choice and how much they want to buy into the sanity mechanic.
Rebirth just shoves it in your face, whether you want to or not. If you really found the monsters in TDD annoying then I can see why you preferred Rebirths way of handling them. But me and many others liked them and are pretty disappointed with Rebirth.

>soma
I don't get the praise this game gets. It's the worst one by far.

>you mean sort of like how the dark descent went to shit the moment you actually look at any of the monsters?

TDD is probably the horror game making the most active efforts to avoid showing you the monsters directly too much.

Yeah its pretty stupid. My guess is that they don't want to frustrate the player by having them repeat sections over and over.
Its like baby's first horror game. Do you remember the maze?
If you died in there then it teleports you to the end and the entire thing (which I think was the best part of Rebirth) is skipped.

>Rebirth just shoves it in your face

God that grab mechanic is so fucking unbelievably stupid

It's especially funny with the games "death" mechanic. After the grab they just drop you down without killing you, which makes them look even more like a joke.
It's like the game is just one big haunted house from an amusement park.

God that's such a low effort "look at me I'm quirky" edit face that its genuinely embarrassing to even see it. I hope he's deeply ashamed.

I'm not even saying Rebirth is great, but I think it's far from bad.

did frictional lose a lot of money/talent on soma or something? it's amazing how low quality rebirth looks in comparison.

>Frictional is still pursuing the walking sim meme

Literally why? Why do they keep regressing as a developer?

Original Amnesia was back when "can't defend yourself from the monsters, just run and hide" was a novel concept, now every other fucking horror game uses this mechanic.

dark descent had actual scary looking monsters though..

true

I've never in my life watched any let's plays.
Rebirth is straight up worse than TDD in basically every way though. Worse story with retarded MC who won't shut the fuck up, QTE enemies, flashing png jumpscares, less interesting locations, the rollercoaste-type pacing. Even puzzles are somehow worse because they're artifically forced into the game as opposed to tdd, where they made sense in-universe.
I don't know if it's a bad game, as I'm not really a horror-game person, but it's certainly worse than tdd or soma.

So does Clive Barkers Jericho
Doesn't make it scary.
Alot of indie horror games have scary looking monsters but they just shove it in your face and OOGABOOGABOOGA

There is more to scares than just design of the monster.

Le “I’ll never have 2 million viewers On every video or fun friends to help make me popular” post

Honestly having sat on it a while all I can conclude is that Rebirth is a game for women. I just cannot project into it and it annoys me intensely, but all the girls I've spoken to thoroughly enjoyed it.