Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs thoughts?

Sole thought: Oink.

I'm waiting for the evening/night (darkness, in general) to play it :) 6 more hours to go!

I bought it and it was a major letdown, I didn't get any machines for my pigs and they - all four of them, Piggy, Piggito, Pigglet and Carlos - are very dissapointed. I just wanted to introduce them to the modern pig machinery and all I get is some survival horror. Now I feel like I'll never gona get their trust again. Damn you, Amnesia.

Anyone finished it? i heard it only got about 2-3 hours playtime. if its really that short, i dont think i will buy it for the full price (maybe some day with 75% sale :D)

First off, I haven't played the game yet, but here are a few of my thoughts about what I've seen/read so far.

1.) The lack of features has seriously affected my interest in the game. Removing the sanity meter and tinder boxes felt like thechineseroom were making the simple expansion they originally intended to produce.

2.) The in-game lighting is also unbelievably dim. I find it extremely difficult to make out anything from the promotional screenshots. This game should have an iconic and well defined atmosphere, just like the Dark Descent accomplished.

3.) I've never gotten over the fact that Frictional Games didn't make the game themselves. I know they're working on a "new undisclosed project", but was Amnesia really that unimportant to them? I feel that Frictional Games would have handled it themselves if they really wanted to blow us away with a true successor to The Dark Descent.

Who knows, perhaps I'll enjoy the game when I get around to playing it tonight. Outlast has set a really high bar, so Amnesia has to step it up!

I'm playing it right now, got to a near-heart-attack state by one scene and it's about the same as the old Amnesia so far regarding atmosphere. I love how you don't hav to refuel your lamp, though I don't use it much because I'm too scared of being seen. Those removed features? They might actually help here, though I'm not one to speak since I have yet to finish it. Slender could do it, this can do it too.

My only problem is that the mouse keeps very slowly moving to the left... And I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature. It's pretty annoying...

I am playing it right now and the game is just amazing.

The first Amnesia was the only game that has ever unnerved me which after the trash that was Dead Space was refreshing. Hope they haven't mucked it up.

i was really excited until i heard they removed the stuff that really added fear to the first game, like tinderboxes, worrying about light and sanity etc. I really wish they hadnt given the project to thechineseroom because although the story is great, the gameplay doesnt have that horror scary running feeling as much as the descent captured it.

I just read a Kotaku review and all he say is simply lots of "NOPE"

You should wait for the sales and get it anyway, because it's the closest we'll get to a real horror game for the foreseeable future. Expect the usual array of 'horror' cop-outs and screamers, then whenever it actually does something effectively, you will be both pleasantly surprised and genuinely unnerved. But let's face it, the horror genre is dead, and the startle-scare trope-copycat genre took its place. Anything that isn't a facepalm-worthy silence->startle->silence->startle affair is just paying tribute to a lost art.

Outlast was pretty good though, but it suffered badly with the worst kind of cheap cop-out screamers. Though after a while it tones it down and starts to become creepy (but still occasionally ruining it with precooked startles).

I'm so dissapointed with this game. I'm somewhere halfway through I guess, and not only is it bugged for me and won't let me continue, it's also just plain boring. The first one scared the shit out of me, but this doesn't even come close. I'd say get Outlast instead, cuz that one got me absolutely terrified! D:

Too scared

It pales in comparison to the first Amnesia.

Story was the only good thing about it and will surely entertain some people. However, the Chinese Room wimped out on the scares. I guess that's what you get when your previous effort was a walking simulator.

"...the story is...well, told rather than experienced, which is not cool. That's not Amnesia, that's Dear Esther."

I realize the bulk of the user's understanding of Dear Esther comes from texts, but to say it's not experienced is a little bold. Meandering through the island and finding some of the odd/bizarre settings is part of the experience as well (although again I realize even that relies on the text, but to say you're only told the story and that's it, is wrong). There are plenty of games with far more gameplay that I don't think I "experienced" their stories more than I did with Dear Esther's.

So I've finished it. It's not a game, it's an interactive story. It's a huge step backwards because of that. No puzzles, hiding from enemies for like 5 minutes total... there's no "gaming" here. We just collect notes, listen to audio logs and listen to telephone conversations. Once in a while we take object from place A to place B or we pull a lever. It's Dear Esther in Amnesia world, that's how I'd describe it. It's still good. I liked the plot, atmosphere and music. However, I was expecting even more puzzles, hiding and "gaming" than in the previous one so I'm kind of disappointed.

This game reminds me a lot of Penumbra: Requiem. Yes, it has a lot less interactivity than the previous Amnesia, but Requiem was also EXACTLY like this in the Penumbra series, and it still didn't fail to amaze me and scare the crap out of me at parts. And it didn't even have enemies at all, so that's even less... interactivity than in AAMFP. This game isn't the end of the world, just don't expect the same game as the first and then you'll be good.