Disappointed with AAMFP

[ZyLogicX]

I believe people are tending to forget the fact that The Chinese Room developed AAMFP. Knowing TCR's background (Dear Esther), a game that revolted around telling a very serious and saddening story-- at the cost of ithe gameplay being somewhat passive, was bound to happen (and was infact stated by both companies on several occassions). Is this wrong? In terms of what we're used to when playing Amnesia: yes. However, people have to remember that AMFP was initially planned to be an 'experimental' game.

I don't want to be blunt, but it seems like the majority of the audience claims, or perhaps wants to, that a horror-game has to make you scared à la Slender. However, what makes a horror-game is the setting, atmosphere and, most importantly, the story.

Although alot of Frictional Games' products revolt heavily around H.P. Lovecraft (hence they named their engine HPL), his stories do not directly scare you. It's about the terror of what 'decent' or perhaps 'fair' humans can do to eachother when their deepest emotions are affected.

That is what makes a horror-game; which AMFP succeeded vastly in.