(08-11-2013, 09:26 PM)bluel0bster Wrote: I really hope people's opinions on jack the ripper are wrong... I as long as we've been theorizing about the plot of this game, I can't imagine the devs would make it revolve around something as shallow as a serial killer.

(08-11-2013, 08:24 PM)maarten12100 Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 08:17 PM)droog Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 07:57 PM)Kotch Wrote: I just had a thought about the story. What if the monsters in the game are killing people and everyone thinks it is Jack the Ripper? He was never identified so people just thought it was a guy but it was actually the monsters. Just a thought

Hmm.. the ripper only killed whores and that in the year 1888. AMFP is set in the year 1899. Don't know if they will take the events so accurate, but I think it will play a underling role in the game.

inb4 bestiality.

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(08-11-2013, 07:42 PM)Geoff Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 05:55 PM)maarten12100 Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 05:24 PM)Magnum66 Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 02:12 PM)Rederkki Wrote: You play as Oswald?...

Since hearing about other NPC's in the game, I honestly hoped this wasn't true. I pray we don't have other people in the game we're talking to and interacting with. It would COMPLETELY take away the feeling of being alone and stranded, desperate without nothing but you and your own mind in the darkness. I would be 90% less scared if I had people around me the whole time, it's a huge mistake. Now if it's just us running into someone every so often, like the little kid you see running through a hall in one of the teasers, trying to get away from you. Or mysteriously showing up every so often even, I think that would be kind of creepy and cool.

How so?
We had Red to talk to us in Overture
We had the lovely redhead doctores in Black Plague
We had dr Emenis talking to us in Requim
We had Agripa talk to us but the game was called amnesia so we also had Daniel himself and Alexander talking to us.

It wouldn't be anything strange

I think he meant more along the lines of someone who just stood in one area who you could constantly talk to in the game.

I concur that would suck

• Hanbury Street and Buck's Row are referenced in screenshots. These were two places in which victims of the Ripper were killed/found and are proximate with the infamous Whitechapel. You can check it out on Google Maps (note that Buck's Row is now called Durward Street) or you can click this awesome image I made.

• The game is set in 1899; the ripper was active in 1888. If the game takes place in the same streets the Ripper frequented so soon after the murders it seems likely to me he'll be referenced in some way.

• Dan mentions the Ripper in passing in the following article from NowGamer on the 6th of March 2012:
  http://www.nowgamer.com/features/1272894/amnesia_a_machine_for_pigs_interview_steam_survival_horror_consoles_and_anteaters.html
  
  

  Dan Pinchbeck Wrote:That was really the tone, Victorian fiction with fogs, gas lamps and Jack the Ripper lurking off in the mist... and how we bring the Amnesia universe into that.

(08-11-2013, 09:47 PM)Bridge Wrote:

(08-11-2013, 09:26 PM)bluel0bster Wrote: I really hope people's opinions on jack the ripper are wrong... I as long as we've been theorizing about the plot of this game, I can't imagine the devs would make it revolve around something as shallow as a serial killer.

Shallow?

(08-12-2013, 01:32 AM)bluel0bster Wrote: I'm sorry, how's that not clear? I meant in comparison to deeper, more philosophical, more interesting theories about a plot revolving around the allegory of worthless mankind as "pigs," jack the ripper seems a little lame. The story was one of (if not the single most) favorite aspect of TDD, and Dear Esther. The jack the ripper story isn't exactly an engaging, thought-provoking, meaningful story. In other words, it's shallow. If there's anything more than a subtle reference to him I'd be disappointed.