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Penumbra not as scary anymore?
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Penumbra not as scary anymore?

After I played Amnesia, I went back and played the Penumbra series again. I was completely underwhelmed, only feeling a hint of adrenaline during sequences with the worm. Even when trying to get around the infected humans in BP, I didn't have the same kind of heart-pounding fear that I got in Amnesia. Eventually, I just stopped crawling around and ran through everywhere. The enemies are very simple to dodge and run past.

Has anyone else felt this way, that the games just aren't scary anymore?
01-06-2011, 08:45 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

After you realise you can generally out-run them or have died a few times it does get a little less scary, yeah. Not much you can do about that though, except.. get amnesia :O
01-06-2011, 08:55 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

I'm pretty sure somethings going to be less scary if you played it before.

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01-06-2011, 08:59 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

If you play on easy it takes like 20 hits from the monsters to actually kill you, after i figured out that in my 3rd playthrough i just made a run for it :3

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01-06-2011, 10:52 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

(01-06-2011, 10:52 AM)Doctorcheese Wrote: If you play on easy it takes like 20 hits from the monsters to actually kill you, after i figured out that in my 3rd playthrough i just made a run for it :3

You're playing on easy on your third run?
01-07-2011, 04:59 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

(01-07-2011, 04:59 AM)hollowleviathan Wrote: You're playing on easy on your third run?

I lol'd.

Anyways, playing on Easy is... well, too easy. Tongue
Enemies can hit you million times before you die and then they are very slow as well.

01-07-2011, 01:02 PM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

You mean people actually play on easy difficulty? Mein Gott... Dodgy

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01-07-2011, 03:31 PM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

(01-07-2011, 01:02 PM)Scraper Wrote:
(01-07-2011, 04:59 AM)hollowleviathan Wrote: You're playing on easy on your third run?

I lol'd.

Anyways, playing on Easy is... well, too easy. Tongue
Enemies can hit you million times before you die and then they are very slow as well.

oh my god, a million times? :O
kidding ;D
01-07-2011, 09:16 PM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

Play on hard! It makes the scary scarier! DUH! I set it to hard before I knew how scary Penumbra was, back in the day. Now I know I would not have wanted to experience it any other way.
01-08-2011, 05:40 AM
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RE: Penumbra not as scary anymore?

mm... i always play my games (the first time) on normal... it's just the "standard" anyway..
Amnesia is really freaky, yeah, but my pc doesn't run it so well... Sad(
but the part
Spoiler below!
where there was the "unnaturally dark" basement and the freaking monsterzombie, i almost lost conciousness when i saw it! i was like what the...... pheew, no way!
now i'm stuck on amnesia because a bug won't let me get along anymore -.-
Spoiler below!
i will NOT go through the basement ever again.
01-11-2011, 08:08 AM
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