Mod insanity back into the game?

[Trialtrex21]

Do you really miss that useless meter?

It only filled up during scripted sequences, which made it useless.

Outside of those sequences, staring at the creatures for too long only caused you to get discovered, like in the Penumbra games which had no insanity meter.

So what's the point of the meter then? I spent 80 percent of A:TDD crouching and with the lantern off and all it did was cause visual effects and the crackling sounds. Nothing else. Useless mechanic when you realize that it has no penalty for filling it up (besides wobbly controls and distorted vision) and that it can only be filled up when the game is scripted to do so.

Yes, thank you for this post. This is something I noticed a lot in The Dark Decent. The idea of sanity was very much abused throughout the whole game. I mean, sure sometimes you would hear voices and a few visual effects would appear, but overall the mechanic was unused. I am dumbfounded by the claims that A Machine For Pigs is a lesser game because of the removal of the sanity mechanic. It is not a lesser game at all because of this because The Dark Decent never used the mechanic to it's potential.