Facebook Twitter YouTube Frictional Games | Forum | Privacy Policy | Dev Blog | Dev Wiki | Support | Gametee


Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?
Bek Offline
Senior Member

Posts: 390
Threads: 4
Joined: May 2010
Reputation: 1
#11
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

Can't you fail that mental part though and continue as normal? Or am I totally wrong?
04-12-2011, 06:53 AM
Find
hollowleviathan Offline
Posting Freak

Posts: 863
Threads: 2
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation: 2
#12
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

If you fail the mental obstacle, which is an allusion to your fortitude against the virus, it consumes you immediately and Clarence would take full control of your body and be just another nameless drone.
04-12-2011, 09:04 AM
Find
Yuhaney Offline
Hello Friends!

Posts: 3,466
Threads: 100
Joined: Mar 2007
Reputation: 64
#13
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

Is this "mental obstacle" the end part in Black Plague where Hive mind puts you through those tests in your mind before it reveals it's true nature?

Actually, I just rechecked one thing and must say that I told one thing wrong... The end of Requiem do offer you two endings, but the other ending is not the beginning of Overture, it just means that you left the place instead of dying with Red.

Someone correct me if I got something wrong either in this or some other thing in my earlier post.

(This post was last modified: 04-12-2011, 01:01 PM by Yuhaney.)
04-12-2011, 12:58 PM
Website Find
gandalf91 Offline
Senior Member

Posts: 439
Threads: 13
Joined: Feb 2011
Reputation: 0
#14
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

(04-12-2011, 09:04 AM)hollowleviathan Wrote: If you fail the mental obstacle, which is an allusion to your fortitude against the virus, it consumes you immediately and Clarence would take full control of your body and be just another nameless drone.

How many times does it take to fail?...I got most of those on the third to fourth try. Normal difficulty.
04-12-2011, 03:26 PM
Find
hollowleviathan Offline
Posting Freak

Posts: 863
Threads: 2
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation: 2
#15
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

I thought we were talking about the mental obstacle course in Black Plague immediately prior to Clarence appearing in your head. Zoridium JackL mentioned that's why we develop a second personality in our head, and Bek wanted to know if you can fail that portion of the game and still continue; you cannot.
04-12-2011, 08:38 PM
Find
Phil66b Offline
Junior Member

Posts: 5
Threads: 1
Joined: Sep 2010
Reputation: 0
#16
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

Between BP and Requiem is so hard to understand, because when the Tuurngait brings you back to the Examination Room at the end of BP, it looks like a moment back in time, but if you throw objects at walls, they just disappear. I'm flip-flopping between if it's an illusion, hallucination, or real? The computer's obviously real.
05-07-2011, 04:36 AM
Find
Ssschah Offline
Junior Member

Posts: 13
Threads: 4
Joined: Apr 2011
Reputation: 0
#17
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

I had a lol moment in Penumbra overture... At the end when you see the shadow figure, i ran towards it as fast as i could and actually managed to run through it, and there were no doors on either side of me, but there was a script to end the game with you getting knocked out so I still got knocked out even though there were no doorsTongue lol
05-07-2011, 04:43 AM
Find
Phil66b Offline
Junior Member

Posts: 5
Threads: 1
Joined: Sep 2010
Reputation: 0
#18
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

i have nothing to say
(04-12-2011, 12:58 PM)Scraper Wrote: Is this "mental obstacle" the end part in Black Plague where Hive mind puts you through those tests in your mind before it reveals it's true nature?

Actually, I just rechecked one thing and must say that I told one thing wrong... The end of Requiem do offer you two endings, but the other ending is not the beginning of Overture, it just means that you left the place instead of dying with Red.

Someone correct me if I got something wrong either in this or some other thing in my earlier post.

The boat scene actually is the place that happens during the first part of the out-of-body experience from Black Plague. Except nothing happens when you get the parts matched to the picture. The white flash and ringing ears probably means Philip is waking up or something.
(This post was last modified: 05-07-2011, 05:11 AM by Phil66b.)
05-07-2011, 05:09 AM
Find
Googolplex Offline
Banned

Posts: 2,340
Threads: 246
Joined: Oct 2008
#19
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

Why can nobody clear it up from Frictional Games?
I have not understand all the story, too and wanted to knew it.
And it seems that nobody really recognize the story.

Jens or Thomas, please say us something about the story.
Or do you want, that the player not recognize it?
Is it right, that all the story is not clear?
(This post was last modified: 05-14-2011, 01:30 PM by Googolplex.)
05-14-2011, 01:29 PM
Find
hollowleviathan Offline
Posting Freak

Posts: 863
Threads: 2
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation: 2
#20
RE: Penumbra overall storyline and a few questions?

It's likely their intent that the story be murky and open to interpretation/wonder. While I don't like stories with major untied plots, mysterious elements or ambiguous elements keep things from getting stale or mundane.
05-14-2011, 10:09 PM
Find




Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)