Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[PutraenusAlivius]

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.

Very good example. I've got another one. When you are chased and the monster goes away, have the monster go back with an iron bar or something. And it just bangs on the door, stabbing it.