Is Amnesia overrated?

what the hell did you say about amnesia? amnesia is one of the best games ive played (indie wise) amnesia is a really good and it is a fantastic example of an indie game, how can you not like it. it has some of the best puzzles ever. its fucking awesome nuffsaid

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Also, are you playing it right? (Gamma low, in the dark, 1 AM, headphones, alone, etc.) It's not too scary unless played like that. It also could be you just don't find the game scary.

No, you are just not playing it correctly. Play it at night. headphones. alone. Then you will cry blood.

Play more than 1 hour of it...

play Bastion and EXPERIENCE THE GREATEST INDIE GAME EVER MADE!

Btw how mnay hours have you played? .4?

My computer sucks so I play it in low low graphics, I can barely see anything so I doubt I am getting the "scare" most get.

I'll play it when I upgrade my computer later.

Amnesia is amazing
Dont Hate -.-

I played it in the dead of the night, with lights off and drunk. Was a fun experience :D

I quit the game when i encountered the maneating fish swimming in like a one foot deep water in a silly jumping over boxes puzzle. The mummy or a zombie or what was it that chases you through the castle was avoiding me all the time. I even saw him running in the opposite direction of me. And i wasn't very fond of the times when my character was like scared, but it was more like he was drunk. The Call of Cthulhu was much better with the main character being scared part of the game.

If you haven't encountered a puzzle and you are 53 mins into it, then you obviously aren't playing it.

The word "overrated" implies that somebody's rating is worth more than someone else's.

Also, Amnesia is terrifying. I might like it if it weren't so.

It is a little overrated.

But it is also very good. If it's not your thing, you should at least be able to recognise that.

Being a horror fan I didn't find the game to be that scary. If you want something scary play Scratches, Dark Fall, Fatal Frame II, Clock Tower or Echo Night Beyond.

To be perfectly honest, Amnesia is a great Indie title; but in terms of being terrifying, it's subjective from player to player. Some players will start being jumpy and paranoid right out of the gate due to the ambient noise and the lighting; others will be able to get through the game with little to no scares, and perhaps a tense moment or two. Others will just outright hate the game. If you feel incredibly comfortable in the dark for instance, Amnesia will probably annoy you more than anything else, seeing as your character will have an absolute fit and start freaking out whenever you go into the dark. I think you should play it through the rest of the way, you might not be scared by it, but hell, you might enjoy it regardless.

I've only seen a few gameplay vids, so perhaps the game is in fact all that's is hyped out to be. Truthfully, I'm relieved that at least someone else seems to find it as tedious as it looks to me from a distance. :) Of course, I'd give it a decent shot, but if I could manage to find $20 for a game right now, it would be for Torchlight, not Amnesia.

I got lost and ran out of oil for my lantern and couldn't see anything to solve the puzzle I was at :(

i to scared to get past the 15 minute mark :P
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Amnesia is pretty good up until about the last half hour or so; that's about when the story just falls to pieces.

yes, i agree, its not at all scary xD

1) The first hour of the game is not scary. It's simply building atmosphere.

2) You have yet to encounter your first enemy in the game. No fear of death means you won't really be scared yet.

3) It's not over-rated. Despite it's indie-roots, it's vastly better than what else qualifies for horror these days.

4) Splashes and the storage room. We'll see how manly you are after these sections.

Well, I did enjoy Amnesia. Took me 8 hours on my first run and there are still many well made custom stories to play. That being sad, I do think that the Penumbra series is better. The story is far more interesting, so are the puzzles (no electricity in Amnesia). However, the controls in Amnesia are not as clumsy as in Penumbra. Everyone who tried to kill a wolv in Penumbra knows what I'm talking about. :P

It is indeed very subjective. People I've came across either hate it because it's too "boring" or love/enjoy it overall.

I for one sort of liked it. The store was engaging, it was very good looking and immersive, the atmosphere was really great and some of the mods were fairly entertaining. I didn't really like Penumbra myself due to the whole clunky combat thing, but both stories are so very different.

You should retry playing it and if you do get bored of it just uninstall it. You won't be entertained throughout the rest if the first one and a half hours weren't at least enjoyable to some degree. Again, some people hate it or love it, you're probably one of the ones that hate it.

YOU. HAVN'T PLAY ENOUGH OF IT.

I liked the first parts of the game, after that it was just a series of scripts you could see from a mile away, the monsters were well done and scary, though their incredible ability to run twice as fast or to simply appear in front of you when you made sure there was no other way for them to follow you was a bit.....frustrating, and in the end, boring.

I did enjoy it, but i prefer Penumbra Overture and Black Plague.