Alone in the Dark

[Anonymous No.9815571]

I'm 90% sure that when you invent the fucking genre, the copycats do not get to call YOU the rip-off.

[Anonymous No.9815576]

Alone In The Dark chiseled an oval wheel and threw it away, Resident Evil took the oval wheel and made it round.

[Anonymous No.9815582]

>>9815576
>made it round
>by being less fun and more generic

What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.9815679]

>>9815582
>generic
do zoomllennials even know what this word means?

[Anonymous No.9815684]

>>9815571
>so upset about people ignoring this slop in favor of RE he makes a seethe thread about it

[Anonymous No.9815701]

>>9815576
Well put. And I say this as an AitD fan

[Anonymous No.9815710]

>>9815576
>>9815701
>surviving some horror

I can do that too.
"Oh no, look out for le ebin sandwich-maker in the residents of evil!"

[Anonymous No.9815724]

>>9815710
But you couldn't, at least without the embarrassing boardspeek phrasing to validate it apparently.

[Anonymous No.9815743]

>>9815724
>at least without the embarrassing boardspeek phrasing to validate it apparently

You mean like you had to phrase the title of that gif to try and make it seem like that's all the horror in it is summed up as? Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

[Anonymous No.9815747]

>>9815571
It's still a ripoff, but in that case it's a morally right ripoff.

[Anonymous No.9815756]

>>9815743
Is "surviving some horror" a 4channel meme I'm not aware of? I honestly don't know since I don't spend as much time here as you obviously do.

[Anonymous No.9815761]

Alone in the dark didn’t even invent survival horror

[Anonymous No.9815771]

>>9815756
>I clearly don't spend as much time here as you do

Oh snap anon, you mean you browse a website forum slightly less than someone else?

https://youtu.be/BFIqR8VtL10?t=34

Always gotta love the shitter back-fire arguments, moving goalposts.

[Anonymous No.9815781]

>>9815771
Greentext, devastating video replay AND final buzzword barrage for good measure in a single post. And he's single, ladies.

[Anonymous No.9815784]

I honestly can’t think of a single good game in this series
>1: probably the best one but has terrible controls and the ui is atrocious
>2: can’t get past the first screen bad
>3: like a mix of the worst parts of 1 and 2
>TNN: plays like a mediocre RE ripoff at this point
>2008: what doesn’t it do wrong?
>illuminator: somehow it’s worse than 2

If the new remake is actually good, i’ll eat my mattress

[Anonymous No.9815797]

>>9815761
That looks pretty pretty pretty good

[Anonymous No.9815804]

>>9815781
>now he's trying to desperately seem hip and cool to the 7 people in this thread by copying my schtick
>while also trying to project his virgin status despite me being married

I would feel embarrassed for you, but that would take away from the lesson you are clearly learning, albeit slowly, on this Sumerian noodle-making website.

[Anonymous No.9815808]

>>9815797
It’s quite a bit of fun actually, it’s an isometric like survival horror game with multiple endings and everything

[Anonymous No.9815810]

>>9815571
I think the realtime ligh/darkness mechanics in this game are pretty clever and impressive, specially for a game that had a PS1 release. Still, the setting and creatures were boring and the structure too linear.

In general the game is clearly guilty of lowering itself to copy its own imitator rather than developing the unique traits of its original concept (dropping the period setting was a baffling creative choice to begin with)

>>9815784
1 is fine, but it's basically designed like a point-and-click adventure in terms of structure and puzzles (and then turns into an awkward action game for the last stretch), which relieves a little too much of the potential atmosphere of dread and, yeah, "survival" aspects. But the controls really aren't that bad at all (basically on par with RE1's imo).

It was just plain pointless to make 2 a straight action game. 3 was also a missed opportunity since the horror/Weird West setting was really cool potentially as well.

[Anonymous No.9815823]

>>9815804
Oh sweetheart don't hurt yourself. Just let it go and dream of an easier reality featuring unlimited save/load mechanics like Alone in the Dark.

[Anonymous No.9815845]

>>9815823
You okay anon? Where did my savage posts hurt you? You're clearly trying to cope with your ego being shattered. Why else would you feign indifference using feminine passive aggressive phrasings like a tranny from ResetEra?

[Anonymous No.9815858]

>>9815823
>>9815845
Get a fucking room already you weirdos

[Anonymous No.9815869]

>>9815810
I don't see what the problem with 2 or 3 is. They got decent/good reviews on PC. Maybe the console versions were trash? I don't get why idiots play PC games ported to consoles, they are guaranteed to be inferior.

[Anonymous No.9815873]

>>9815869
You have no idea how awful 2 is until you’ve played it. It’s like superman 64 tier bad.

[Anonymous No.9815892]

>>9815845
It feels like you're exploring undiscovered dimensions of pure-thought beyond mere garden-variety lack of self awareness, but observing you in your journey is unironically entertaining so by all means go on.

>>9815858
Lovecraftian mental breakdowns are absolutely on topic in an AitD thread anon.

[Anonymous No.9815905]

>>9815873
>It's superman 64 tier bad
I already know you're lying, since for starters, nothing is Superman 64 bad except Superman 64, and secondly, it had moderate ratings at the time of its release, Mobygames listing it as being around 77% overall.

[Anonymous No.9815912]

>>9815905
Dude the game has been completely stripped of all horror elements, the combat is atrocious and the controls are horrible. Go and play it. It’s horrendous

[Anonymous No.9815925]

>>9815892
>he's so mindbroken he's just rephrasing my exact sentences and pretending he isn't mindbroken

I've still got it.

[Anonymous No.9815939]

>>9815912
>the combat is atrocious
Literally identical to the first games.

>the controls are horrible
Literally identical to the first games.

>stripped of all horror elements
It went for more of a scooby-doo esque style, which I can appreciate. There were still horror elements in it though.

[Anonymous No.9815972]

>>9815939
>Literally identical to the first games
Exactly; that was serviceable (at best) for a game in which combat was just an ancillary aspect, but doubling down on in as the focus of the sequel/s was a recipe for disaster. Also, the best thing about AitD in comparison to RE imo is how open it felt (except for the final part), and that's another thing they simply dumped for the sequels, which are essentially corridor games.

Or to put it another way: it's not as much as a matter of an "oval wheel" as this anon put it >>9815576, but about a maybe too heavy and a little wonky but still serviceable basketball that they proceeded to try and use for lacross, for two matches in a row too. Capcom took that same ball and pulled a Harlem Globetrotters lol

[Anonymous No.9815993]

>>9815925
I'm sure they'll name "it" after you eventually.

[Anonymous No.9815997]

New Nightmare is blatantly RE inspired. I dont see that as horrible though, RE is good and it doesnt hurt to have more of a good thing. The game has great atmosphere and graphics.

Not retro but it reminds me of how Shadow Warrior 2013 did arena/wave FPS before Doom 2016, which probably took cues from it, then the latest Shadow Warrior obviously took cues from what Doom 2016 added to the formula. Its a give & take relationship.

[Anonymous No.9816007]

>>9815997
>New Nightmare is blatantly RE inspired
True, but it at least tried to do its own thing by recovering the original light/darkness gameplay concept they wanted for the original game but couldn't pull off at the time.

It really didn't amount to much, but they saved some face for me since they weren't as lazy as they could have been.

[Anonymous No.9816019]

>>9815571
I found the enemies to be really annoying to fight in this game. They all seem to have some annoying gimmick. And I think they respawn. I don't know, maybe I'm just bad but I enjoy fighting the enemies in RE way more. Maybe you're supposed to run away most of the time in New Nightmare.

[Anonymous No.9816046]

>>9816019
Yeah I'm an indie developer and NN is one of my go-to cautionary tales: even if you have what sounds like a really clever and unique concept you need to avoid falling in love with it and make sure it makes for an actually fun game to play.

[Anonymous No.9816058]

>>9815784
>>2008: what doesn’t it do wrong?
This one had a lot of really cool ideas. They were all extremely half assed though, and the game has no idea if it wants to be linear or open world. It cant even decide if it wants to be first person or third person.
The inventory system is really cool and should be attempted in other games, and it's the only game I ever played where I was required to manually blink because the main character is too stupid to do it on his own and will go blind after long enough (this one wasnt a cool feature, its just so ridiculous that it's always worth noting).

[Anonymous No.9816086]

[Anonymous No.9816117]

>>9815993
Dude, you lost, just give up. It's getting sad now.

[Anonymous No.9816120]

>>9815972
Uh, no. The thing that AITD had going for it was its puzzles, which were miles ahead of Resident Evil. Hell, AITD even had fucking platforming segments in it. Alone in the Dark 2 still has a shit ton of puzzles and many reviewers said they thought it had even better puzzles. The reliance on using traps and baiting enemies while playing as the kid was also kino.

[Anonymous No.9816127]

>>9815997
>Not retro but it reminds me of how Shadow Warrior 2013 did arena/wave FPS before Doom 2016

What the fuck are you even talking about.

[Anonymous No.9816132]

>>9815781
>>9815892
lol
>>9815771
get some fresh air

[Anonymous No.9816135]

>>9816120
Then silent hill came and instantly made those puzzles look retarded by comparison

[Anonymous No.9816137]

>>9816120
Which AitD1 puzzle would you use as an example of a "miles ahead" puzzle? I liked little things like using an amulet to protect yourself when checking out some cursed book but otherwise I can't think of anything that wasn't simply get-item-and-find-spot-to-use-it stuff.

[Anonymous No.9816159]

>>9816137
Not him but using the mirrors to defeat those monsters is way more complex than anything in RE

[Anonymous No.9816265]

>>9816046
I’m interested in playing that now.

[Anonymous No.9816282]

>>9816265
I'm playing it right now iykwim

[Anonymous No.9816437]

>>9815571
>RE
the fug is this? I played the first game and I always saw it as belonging to an Oddworld-esque genre. I never thought to connect it to RE of all things-Isn't that a shooter? The sequels now play on a RE aspect? That's pretty crazy. I always saw it as more akin to a Oddworld-lite with the cool puzzles in my mind.

[Anonymous No.9816475]

>>9816437
>What is survival horror

[Anonymous No.9816479]

>>9816282
>>9816046
That ass is pretty fucking ridiculous

[Anonymous No.9816602]

>>9816475
>muh gay surface-level theming
don't care, aitd is a PUZZLE ADVENTURE. It's got nothing, NOTHING to do with your zombie shooters!

[Anonymous No.9816716]

>>9816602
YWNBAW

[Anonymous No.9817724]

>>9816046
>>9816282
This has to be a mod, right?

[Anonymous No.9817796]

>>9816159
Well that's sort of interesting in concept but in execution it's literally finding items and placing them (in an early constrained area of the game that doesn't really give you much leeway too). That's a recurring problem with the game for me: the concepts of the puzzles are usually interesting but get botched in execution.

Like the portrait gallery puzzles >>9815701, which are somewhat goofy but interesting. In the end the difficulty comes from navigating the awkward set of cameras to position yourself and shoot the arrow at the portrait more than any clever conceptual riddle.

[Anonymous No.9817923]

>>9815571
this game goes from kino to garbage consistently as you progress through it.
don't believe me? play it

[Anonymous No.9818118]

>>9816135
>then this thing happened that didn't actually happen but my schizo-brain has convinced me it did

Uhuh

[Anonymous No.9818121]

>>9816135
>then this thing happened that didn't actually happen but I'm a schizo retard so don't contradict me or I'll spaz

Wew

[Anonymous No.9818126]

>>9815571
enevr played the original trilogy. my friend brings a new nightmare ps1 to me, we start playing, monsters re-spawn, we drop the game. Still to thisday never played that trash.

[Anonymous No.9818129]

>>9815756
> since I don't spend as much time here as you obviously do.
Seeing as you posted a gif that is regularly posted whenever someone mentions Alone in the Dark on /vr/, I highly doubt that.

[Anonymous No.9818147]

>>9818126
you wasted $60-80 of 90s kid money because you got triggered by respawning? sure buddy

[Anonymous No.9818156]

to this day this game is Alone in the Dark 4 to me.
Until a few years ago I was convinced '4' was in the title, but apparently it's simply an old memory I have of seeing previews in magazines for the game, where the '4' was still being used

[Anonymous No.9818159]

>>9815571
I remember having played Resident Evil 3 at the time and thinking it was the scariest game ever. Then I grew up a couple years later, and my dad bought this for me out of the blue, and then this became the scariest game I ever played, and I could only ever get to the water tunnel part as Carnby before I couldn't progress any further.

[Anonymous No.9818165]

>>9815761
>>9815797
Composition and colors also make it look like Alien Breed 3D cover.

[Anonymous No.9818173]

>>9818129
>What is google

[Anonymous No.9818231]

How come noone ever talks about Ecstatica (1994)?

[Anonymous No.9818525]

>>9818147
I know zoomers can't grasp this but you could actually rent games in the past.

[Anonymous No.9818543]

>>9815756
God, what a bucket of dogshit. They ought to be ashamed of themselves after Capcom Special Tactics and rescued the formula and made it not only palatable but gotyay.

[Anonymous No.9818673]

>>9818147
No actually 1 TL (or try) which was like 1 USD per CD if you bought in bulk from Karşıyaka. In Konak they were 1.5 USD per CD.
Oh wait, you actually paid 80 usd 90s kid money for that crap?

[Anonymous No.9820349]

>>9818231
I've seen it mentioned recently

[Anonymous No.9820367]

>>9818147
>mutts actually pay more than 5 bucks for a game

[Anonymous No.9820567]

Explain how Alone in the Dark the inventor of survival horror and not Sweet Home?

[Anonymous No.9820671]

>>9820367
>filthy chink obsessed with americans

Many such cases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1s_M2tgcY

[Anonymous No.9820678]

>>9820671
that's literally me omg how did you know?

[Anonymous No.9820680]

>>9820567
Survival Horror = action-adventure with a horror theme.

Sweet Home has no action, therefore it can't be survival horror. If you include Sweet Home in the definition fo survival horror, then you also need to include point&click horror games.

[Anonymous No.9820692]

>>9820567
If it's not Alone in the Dark, then it's Project Firestart.

[Anonymous No.9821204]

>>9815869
>Maybe the console versions were trash?
I never played 2 or it's ports, but what I remember from watching videos of them was load times every few screens. At least the ps1 version gave the models a facelift.