The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Weird Fiction Horror Adventure Game

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first person "weird fiction" horror adventure game. You are Paul Prospero, a detective who is in Red Creek Valley to try to find out what has happened to Ethan Carter and why people are being murdered. Also you have "supernatural skills.

Here is a prequel mini-comic to help set the scene.




I'm glad you asked! The developers are using magical technology to scan the world and turn it into a computer game. It's called photogrammetry (aka witchcraft) and this post explains how it works. Basically by magic.




This is being made by people who used to work at People Can Fly, who you may remember from Painkiller and/or Bulletstorm. Or not. I'm not really sure what you remember. They call themselves The Astronauts now.




The game is coming out for PC and maybe other stuff. The goal is to bring the game to next gen platforms. I don't think there's a release date yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4sMtzeVqYc

• Offical website
• Official tumblr blog
• Eurogamer preview
• PC Gamer preview
• Blog post: Losing a Gamer's Mind
• Blog post: Disagreeing with David Cage
• Blog post: Captain Obvious Reports on the Benefits of Not Making a Game for Everyone
• Blog post: How to Kill Immersion with a Pack of Cigarettes

Drake

This looks completely different than anything People Can Fly have done. I'm not complaining, this is just a pretty radical departure from hyperbolic first person shooters.

But then again, this isn't PFC, this is The Astronauts. Anyway, I'm super intrigued!

surrealitycheck

yeah this shit is going to fkin own

my boners are ready

TychoCelchuuu

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LoveIsUnity

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

New blog post: On Violence and Macabre in 2014.

Umf, they're saying all the right things...

AkimboEG

Bulletstorm had a dumb plot, but was super solid gameplay-wise. And this thing looks gorgeous. All in all, Looking forward to this one.

Also, you're not fooling anyone, you know. You only started this thread for the double bird crow-on-pigeon action you've got going in the OP.

Krathoon

It seems like these guys have been working for a while. I am not shocked they can jump genres so easily.

TychoCelchuuu

Trailer post mortem blog post. My favorite detail is how vastly they overestimated the average gamer's intelligence. Attributing thoughts, feelings, and logical patterns of reasoning to someone is else far beyond the capacities of the average person posting YouTube comments on a video game trailer.

TychoCelchuuu

There's a poll up on their site where they're asking what people want the game to be like. There are 47 votes right now and one option is way ahead of the other two.

joshofalltrades

I voted for "both" but yeah, it's not winning.

TychoCelchuuu

This game will have a boxed copy sold in stores, interestingly enough.

TychoCelchuuu

Interview with the devs at "Bloody Disgusting" which is certainly a name for a website.

surrealitycheck

man i am hyped as shit for this shiz

i cannot wait to run around moodily in a beautiful valley

also i echo this fair maidens sentiment

Man why there is no fight in this game, i love weird fiction and lovecraft but walking is so boring, i am no scary ifi cant die, i am not happy if i cant fight, you game will be so boring man, do better game, i want gun, knife man not just walking and thinking it is so boring.

TychoCelchuuu

Why Paul Prospero has no hands in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, in which the developers reveal that you play as a double amputee.

TychoCelchuuu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7COdzLPyeT0

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Nocren

Aegeri wrote: »

TychoCelchuuu wrote: »

Why Paul Prospero has no hands in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, in which the developers reveal that you play as a double amputee.

That's an interesting solution.

Ok, that last line/question of that bit. My mind's blown.

TychoCelchuuu

Preview at Gamespot.

Retaba

Anyone playing/played this has anything to say on it?

AlphaRomero

Ending ruined it. The twist was predictable from the off and the ending of it just goes nowhere interesting, I don't really understand the reviews praising the plot element of it. I appreciate the relative freedom, and the ghost recreations, but they switch off what was an interesting story element for a bland resolution that ignores everything that came before.