Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 1

[Kman]

The only purpose of putting out screenshots, trailers, news articles, really any form of media for a game is to advertise the game and give people an idea of the quality they're going to be seeing when the product is release. When you release a screenshot where you can't see anything, that's what people are going to think it's going to look like in game, it doesn't matter if that's what it really will look like or not. And it doesn't matter if you're going to have a lantern or not, if they're depending on the player using their lantern the whole time then they should have taken the screenshots with the lantern turned on so people actually know what the game is intended to look like. Let me ask you, if a restaurant put out an advertisement where their food was spoiled and looked terrible, would you want to go there regardless of how good the food may be? No, because they did a bad job of advertising it. Sorry for judging a screenshot based on the actual purpose of releasing a fucking screenshot, I guess that's a no go.

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Can't Really see how this is anyones fault but your own. I and anyone I know have had no problems with the game's lighting

Was I blaming it on anyone else? No. I'm fully aware that it was my system's fault and I got it sorted out within a couple of hours. My point is people saying shit like "wtf you guys are complaining about it being dark in a horror game horror games are supposed to be dark you dummies!!1" are being dumb. Yes darkness is a key factor in any horror game in setting the atmosphere and everything but when it's so dark that you literally can't even make out the environment that's not scary, it's just obnoxious.