Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Kreekakon]

A certain glitch was brought up regarding holding an object infront of you would sometimes result in a monster not noticing your presence. Has this really even been confirmed as a glitch, though? Even so, if I am to be brutally honest, I do not really see it as a glitch myself, and not at all less immersive. Why would it be that unrealistic? All we know about the gatherers that roam the world of Amnesia is the saying that they are known to be spirits of another world placed in malformed bodies with faces that do not express having the best of eye sight, and the gatherers are not said to be anything but featherbrained servants, by our dearest Agrippa, when it comes to intelligence. When you see something that obviously looks heavily malformed and dead, it is not a given that all of its senses are top notch. They are not from this world, so they may not even be too used to the concept of gravity. They may attack when they see a human face or something that resembles a body, but if they only see a floating barrel or a dark partial silhouette standing completely still, well yeah.

Strictly speaking though, even if your explanation is plausible, I'd say it is still leaning towards justifying the glitch rather than it being a legit aspect of the monster. No offense.

Hey! Imagine if we are chased down by one of the creatures, we hide in a room, and the creature plays the weak card and pretends that it is unable to break down the door, then wanders off, but then comes very silently sneaking back and hides in a dark corner near the door. The music and atmosphere easens, changes or becomes completely still and silent. The unspeakable has gone away. You open the door, take a step or two, and you hear a big squeel, steps closing in, and you run right back into the room and close the door. I am sure I saw someone make a similar suggestion in another topic here at some point. Would make you think twice, and certainly would make things much less predictable. Discuss!

Hmm...that could very much work, but it would need some clever tweaking to make the player think the monster was being intelligent.

If I encountered your exact scenario in game, my mind would instinctively first go to that the monster is merely still looking for me randomly rather than being purely a trick born out of his intelligence.

However if you were somehow to witness, or know somehow, that the monster was doing something blatantly intelligent to blow you out of cover, then I would have my mind go to the monster being intelligent on instinct.

A very good example of this is in the movie Aliens, where the Alien queen is first frustrated that she lost Ripely, but then sees the elevator, and it dawns on her that she can use it. The whole execution of that scene conveyed perfectly that the Alien Queen is a very intelligent being, and that she can use that intelligence very well against her enemies.