AMFP Member Review Thread

[Kman]

A Machine For Pigs story and imagery was far more horrific than a cheap sanity meter where your vision blurs and you get terrible mouse smoothing.

A Machine For Pigs was also much better than The Dark Descent imo.

this person gets it

i don't get why it's getting so much shit for taking out the sanity meter when that was such a small gameplay element that literally contributed to maybe like 3% of the scariness in the game. like seriously when it came up i didn't think "wow i'm so terrified of the dark and monsters" no i thought "what the fuck is that annoying screen effect - oh it's for your sanity i guess i should just stand in the light for a bit"

seriously it was so basic don't even try to say that the sanity effect had any major effect on the horror in that game

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Then obviously you didn't play TDD.

The sanity meter was in no way "cheap". It showed that Daniel was only human, and his fears effected him in a huge sense. Staring at the monsters, or staying in the dark too long frightened Daniel to the point of tears, nervous panting, and eventually, pretty much passing out. Tell me, if you were in a similar situation, with similar fears, would you not react in a similar fashion that Daniel did?

Without the sanity meter, you're pretty much a superman, who is afraid of nothing and can just run through anything no matter how terrifying/horrible, which is completely unrealistic.

And also, ah found almost nothing absolutely "horrific" in AMFP, just gross/gruesome/gory.

To say AMFP was better than TDD is to say that you've never played TDD at all.

it's a good idea in concept but they literally just slapped a screen effect on that made everything look blurry and then went "THIS MEANS YOU ARE VERY VERY AFRAID OF THE DARK AND MONSTERS OKAY NOW BELIEVE IT AND BE SCARED OF THEM". if they somehow actually did implement that idea without forcing it down the players throat then it could be cool but it literally just made the game hard to control.

if you properly immerse yourself you shouldn't need some dumb screen effect like that to tell you that you're scared of the monsters - you'd just be scared of the monsters cause they're fucking monsters and they're terrifying looking

without the sanity meter the monsters would still be fucking terrifying and intimidating and could easily overpower you, how would that make you a superhero

i don't know where you're getting any of this