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Late to the Party: Eternal Darkness
tarnok
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So. I've had this game for a while but hadn't got around to playing it till recently. Holy shit. I honestly think that walking around the mansion with low sanity is the scariest thing I've done next to reading an actual Lovecraft story.
I do think though, that the spell which restores sanity makes things a little too easy. The chapter where I got the alignment rune to cast that was the scariest one because I spent most of it bat-shit fucking insane. I was walking on the fucking ceiling. It was possibly more scary after I got the rune and restored my sanity because I realized that some of the stuff that I thought had happened was just me being insane.
Perhaps having sanity slowly recover, or give a bit more for finishing off monsters. Something that forces the player to be careful about his sanity and to live with it for at least a little while if he's not.
I just finished the chapter with the architect. Pillar of flesh. If I wasn't scared shitless I'd make a joke about that.
I do think though, that the spell which restores sanity makes things a little too easy. The chapter where I got the alignment rune to cast that was the scariest one because I spent most of it bat-shit fucking insane. I was walking on the fucking ceiling. It was possibly more scary after I got the rune and restored my sanity because I realized that some of the stuff that I thought had happened was just me being insane.
Perhaps having sanity slowly recover, or give a bit more for finishing off monsters. Something that forces the player to be careful about his sanity and to live with it for at least a little while if he's not.
I just finished the chapter with the architect. Pillar of flesh. If I wasn't scared shitless I'd make a joke about that.
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Pillar of Flesh are you serious?
I hope I find this game cheap one day.
eek.
Orange shit!
[spoiler:fcc5e81f3a]I have never seen tubgirl. Go me![/spoiler:fcc5e81f3a]
That's unfortunate because that's the level where I got the rune to restore sanity :P. I think when you get it depends on which artifact you choose in the first chapter.
I saw what you did there LewieP.
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And I thought I was the only one.
So this is what it feels like when doves cry...
Is Too Human human enough to be a human sacrifice? 'Cause that'd finish it pretty quick. And possibly fuel the rift in reality through which the soul-scouring horrors from beyond the stars will pour.
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That really doesn't bother me, but if it's true I'm almost relieved.
It better be. Sega has to do something right to make up for all the trash we've endured.
This thread is just asking for it.
On the subject of Eternal Darkness: This was one of my favorite Gamecube games so I made my friend buy it when he got a Wii and he hates it
Feed him to Cthulhu. It's your only choice.
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PILLAR OF FLESH
Hooray! I just got this game last week, and have been playing it. My girlfriend really likes it because it's got a compelling story. So she hunts out secrets in the mansion, and I fight all the monsters in character(s). It is a very creepy game, but also really, really clever. I enjoy it a lot.
I think the sanity meter is awesome. I never encountered something quite like that in a game before, and it has me mesmorized.
It's such an intense game, and I'm playing Dragon Quest VIII right now as well. The kiddy humor in that game is a breath of fresh air after a few hours battling through Eternal Darkness.
[spoiler:8ba2f78334]Btw, while fighting as the Roivas guy, did anyone else think that damn spider was never going to die? It took me like 25 minutes to beat the fucker with the sword. (I ran out of bullets early on.)[/spoiler:8ba2f78334]
Why must you spoil it for the children?
It has a spell that puts a shield on it, significantly decreasing the damage you deal until it wears off.
Enchant Item is your friend though. You cast the opposing alignment to it on a firearm and its days are numbered.
And you claim to use the internet. Get off my porch.
On topic: I've played the game once. I stopped at the aforementioned tub. Jesus.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
This game has some of the best cutscenes of its generation, which is saying a lot since so many of them are just two character models standing around talking. Despite the age of the models the expressiveness of the model faces holds up today if you ask me.
It's also the only game I've ever played again right after finishing it for the first time.
Actually, I remember firing this game up after my Red Sox lost game 7 of the ALCS a few years back b/c I needed to get the frustration out by destroying some demons as the firefighter.
Goddamn I loved that game.
[spoiler:0b88d07c2d]Especially since GameCubes were supposedly only "for teh kiddies."[/spoiler:0b88d07c2d]
Man, I guess it's just me, but the first thing I complained about (aside from walking so slowly) is that the characters in cutscenes had no facial expressions. :shock:
I rented it when it first came out (wow 5 years ago!), and back then my mom wasn't too keen on violent video games, nor games featuring "occult" stuff. So I was playing it late at night, with the sound low so I was leaning in to the TV, and afraid of getting caught any second. That, along with the sanity meter, made for one of the best gaming experiences of my life.
Scary as a barrell full of hungry clowns.
I would piss myself if we ever got a new one ^_^
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Yes, which tires you out, forcing you to rest from time to time. Walking a bit quicker would be great.
Now Alex wandering all alone through that dark mansion, where everything is just a tiny bit wrong was scary.
"Ah shit I'm in the mansion again, quick, look for the next mission object
FULL SPRINT AHEAD"
I'm in the same boat.
I was playing this a few months back, and when I got the spells to restore life and sanity, I stopped playing. I pictured myself compulsively stopping after each fight to walk around the room in a circle a few times to regen enough mana to top off all my tanks.