[Reviews] Amnesia – A Machine For Pigs

[Cuyir]

I find it morbidly amusing how people treat reviews as universal truths.

The vast majority of people view reviews in the wrong way and use them in the wrong way.

"10 OUT OF 10??!!??!?!?! NEED TO PLAY IT. IT'S AMAZING."

"5/10? Meh, it's shit. The reviewer clearly hated it so i'll hate it too."

I wish people would teach the gaming ''scene'' how to interpret reviews.

And a few of the criticisms i've read scream ''Amnesia was my first game and thus this one didn't surprise me."

Frictional Games' scares have ALWAYS been linear and timed. If you aren't looking at the correct area you can easily miss a lot of things. That's the risk they've taken since day ONE.

As for ''being able to see through the seams of the scares''? Puhlease. That was my main issue with A:TDD. These people are experiencing what we, the ones who played Penumbra before Amnesia, experienced during the later chapters of BP and the whole of A:TDD. Ie, this will always happen in games like these, so I would take their opinion with a healthy dose of salt.

So when I see these reviews I know where they're coming from and thus analyze it from there. I don't just have a knee jerk reaction and go "SEE!?!?!?!??! SEEEE!?!?!?!??!!? TCR DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING CAUSE SOME JOURNALIST ON THE INTERNET SAID THIS.''

*rolls eyes*