Disappointed with AAMFP

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I didn't mention universe or story anywhere in my post. I said mechanics as in game mechanics.

Take the Far Cry series. Each game has a totally unrelated story, but each game is a shooter with similar gameplay mechanics.

Again, upon reading interviews and such, you'd see that they were toying the mechanics, as in, changing them. They never promised the exact same experience. The mechanics aren't the same because the game emphasizes story instead of survival.

That's not my point, my point is that they removed mechanics from the game and didn't bother adding anything to replace them. For those of us who liked the mechanics of the original game, this was disappointing. This is is the reason people are complaining.

See above.

That's not a clear parallel.

The Shadow is making noise as it hunts Daniel. The noise means something because we know what it represents.

The Machine is making noise, we don't know what it's doing, does it make more pig-men? does it inconvenience us by destroying a walkway? As such the noise doesn't mean anything, it's just a noise maker.

The Machine is a living slaughterhouse. When you learn what it is and why it was built, you realize that its movement means death. Sure, it's vague in the beginning, but so is the Shadow in the beginning of TDD (and still is at the end).