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More Darkness please:)
if you havent done Cursed Mountain (Wii), you totally should
You should really take a look at the PS2 and Wii versions in another video.
If you gonna play the old alone in the dark dont play the psx version the graphics are awful.
If you gonna play the old alone in the dark dont play the psx version the graphics are awful.
The whole "overambitious game that fails at the most basic aspects" thing is something I have a weird fondness for. They just have this unique charm to them that I can't help but appreciate. Most people hate NeverDead, but that's a game I quite enjoy for the same kind of reasons.
ThorHighHeels is here for your fetish
Boiling Point (Xenus) : Far Cry 2 way too soon
@@jimartwork9391 Shame there isn't a modding scene of much at all for Boiling Point
@@jimartwork9391 TehSnakerer's vids about that trilogy are some of my favorite longform vidya essays. To anyone who somehow knows about Boiling Point and NOT 🐍's vids about it, check TehSnakerer for sure. Way more academic-esque, I guess i.e. he uploads really heckin slow.. but his scripts be fire
@@audiosurfarchive There's even more proficient finder of Niche games but even of jankier, obscure and near retro-finding of Accursed farm channel's Ross Game Dungeon, with his knowledge of older gen computers before WIndows 7 eras will prove him to be quite underlooked compared to Sseth, Mandalore and the more "video essay" and less meme'd ones, although Accursed Farm/Ross has been known to slow his uploads too since last year, it's been rough times for so many people
"Carnby is voiced by the same guy as Max Payne"
Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
XD nice callback !!!
A bit closer to F*CKING UNIVERSE
*grabs painkiller immediately and swallowed with whisky*
@@IDHLEB Now imagine adding No More Heroes to the mix...
Nani?
I wish a game would try things like this again I absolutely love this kinda stuff
Honestly yeah I agree a ton of the ideas are really good and interesting. Not all the ideas were good.
Have you tried or played Prey 2017?
yeah me too
i really liked the crafting system and such
SAME! I was so excited seeing this video because I remember some of the control mechanics being interested and enjoyable
@@dylhas1 me too
and i agree
I can understand why companies nowadays don't try those overambitious ideas, but god I wish more popular games tried going to the more experimental side of things instead of the usual safe path.
Even if it's clear that this game is broken, I was amused hearing all this ideas it tried to pull off. It even makes me want to play it myself. But seeing how it turned out, it's understandable why we don't see this much experimentation nowadays. It's truly a double-edged sword.
I think there may be a balance to be struck.
In part, big game companies are always trying to spend less and profit more, which I think impacts the ability for devs to be experimental, as AAA's follow a more strict formula. On the other hand, some of the best regarded games were either laser-focused on improving few mechanics and ideas by other games that were good, or put in the extra work to refine more experimental mechanics and have them shine through.
I think it's understandable, sure, but good management of those ideas can make them happen without having to sacrifice anything and still manage to profit enough, just maybe not as much, and that shouldn't be a problem imo. Thankfully the indie scene still has plenty of that, I'd say.
@@Willie6785 I don't know, as good that the indie scene is full of experimentation, I feel there is some sort of facination when a AAA game that oddball as Alone in the Dark (2008), as you don't see that most of the time.
@@ytfisthisathing Oh yeah, for sure. Whenever big AAA games dare experiment wildly like this it's always fascinating, regardless of the game being good or bad, just on how big an investment they usually are.
I think it's because Hollywood people took over.
Was chatting about this is the pub this weekend about how many great game mechanics have been completely forgotten!! The fire, lighting, destruction in this game. The cutting mechanic in metal gear rising. The ui of dead space or being able to use anything as a weapon in dead rising. The insane amount of features in the mental gear games alone is astonishing red fractions destructive environments etc so many incredible features just left behind
The fact that this game had a blink mechanic should never be forgotten.
I worked at Atari, Inc. as an Assistant Producer in 2008 and on this game. I still have the huge original script. It changed a lot due to budget, time, and feature bloat. Edit: The best way to defeat enemies was to combine your ammo with something flammable and it made flammable bullets.
The E3 previews were giving the image which impressed some game journalists so hard it felt like a fraud scheme when it was reviewed 6/10
Did you really work on this game? I would love to ask you a lot of things about the original script and the development!
@@Press_Release Yes I did. I was the lead producer on My Horse and Me while our VP, Hudson, was in France full-time working on AITD. I'm mentioned on the Wikipedia for My Horse and Me. I'll have to find the original script. Myself and several other producers helped, when we could, on AITD, but it was a mess. I still have it printed out somewhere. It's been awhile since anyone spoke about it.
@@DaneCypel just wanted to say that I actually admired the game a lot, AITD 2008 impressed me on several levels, and the creativity behind it was awesome, I honestly think that there is no such thing as ''too many features'', I mean, with enough time and budget I think it can be implemented right and I admire what the devs were trying to do, but I loved the game anyway, and honestly to this day it gets my blood pumping, it didn't really dissapoint me at the time (of course I was a kid but yeah) so kudos to you guys and the team, gave me some long lasting and very, very, VERY fond memories, it was literally the best time of my life when I started seeing the trailers and tech demos and this game takes me back to those days in a way that I feel like I am there again so I will always hold it dear, and I would actually love to see the original script, if thats possible, thanks dude, be well!
Thank you for adding subtitles. It's great for people like me with a hearing loss
I really miss Community Contributed Captions.
@@thawkade Yeah it was a nice feature but TH-cam tends to remove most things lile these same with annotations and private messages :/
@@thawkade Wait, did they remove the feature entirely?! I thought it was a thing that some channels didn't bother to activate for videos. Another shitty move from YT.
@@GT2OOO Yeah, they removed it around September, their excuse was essentially "lol just use auto generated captions"
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21:51 The composer is Olivier Deriviere, he's known for making incredible soundtracks for mostly average European games. Quite an interesting career
Vampyr. But I liked it.
Just going to also add olivier also worked on most of streets of rage 4's ost as well.
Obscure was legit though!
Love that man! He’s definitely making a name for himself. His score for Get Even was absolutely amazing, using in game sounds and noises to match the music and even the general music was excellent, mixing synth with orchestration. His score for A Plague Tale was also amazing. A more standard, but beautifully subtle score.
Ah, Deriviere is often very good, although not consistently so. Discovered him with Obscure. Really like the main theme of Bound by Flame.
I actually had the PS2 version of this. While it's even more of a mess, it does somehow manage things like the inventory and fire physics.
I had the Wii version and that was a disaster
I was thinking the same this looks like completely different product! I remember playing it on ps2 and thinking that this sucks ass as a kid! :D first stinker i ever got.
@@Hiihtopipa Wii version was worse
@@spider-ham7140 well that's stating the obvious:D
I'll openly admit, this game is a guilty pleasure of mine. Like, it's not good, but I don't hate it. In fact I kinda love it.
I loved it as well
It's weird and quirky and bad in all the right ways
This sounds like a perfect candidate for a remake or an unofficial patch. It sounds great.
A lot of people were pissed off because the game has elements from THAT uwe boll movie.
That film was losely based on Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare
No one saw this movie at all
If you thought that game copied the movie was a bad-move, I remembered Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles copied Paul WS Anderson's laser-room scene...
I still get child-hood dread because of that scene.
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You don't think it might of been inspired in anyway shape or form, right?
@@ChaseMC215 When you see the hallway, it's exactly like the movie.
I hope there's a future game where you can try to drown your ammo in liquor and you lose a hand after your gun explodes
oddly specific
@@mohamedabdelhalim6013 Closest thing in games to that, is "cooking" grenades for too long, then dying in the explosion.
In The Forest, you can wrap a rock in liquor-soaked cloth and light it on fire. This also lights your hands on fire. If you're wearing a ghillie suit, this completely engulfs you in flames.
i bet you 800 dollars that wouldnt happen if you did it in real life.
AitD: The New Nightmare still represents a load of untapped potential for me. That game really stands up as an excellent early 3D survival horror, and could so easily be expanded upon nowadays. New Nightmare with Resi 4 style gameplay would be absolutely mindblowing. Criminally mistreated series.
"I don't have your stone... and f#ck you aniway". Classic
I remember them really building this game up as a cinematic masterpiece, showing off the physics engine and showing off their mechanic of being able to skip forwards and backwards through the game as the player chooses like a dvd! Lol all that talk and nothing about alone in the dark
"last time on dragon ball- alone in the dark"
@@scientificbrony Previously... on Lost. The funny thing is that each chapter is about 40 minutes long. About as long as a TV series episode. This could have been a realy good Netflix original or Amazon show if done 10 years later, especial with the eirie folklore music.
i remember the hype for it as well...it was a huge letdown and sunk the series for good almost....
Surreal seeing how the black liquid light puzzle concept predates plague tale by several years. This game was ahead of its time.
And here I thought _A Plague Tale: Innocence_ took the whole moving lights mechanic to scare away an unstoppable swarm that would consume you instantly from the torch and spiders from _Uncharted 3._
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive dont forget alan wake
Zakary B The mechanic was very different in Alan Wake though compared to Plague Tale and Uncharted. The flashlight in Alan Wake felt more like a traditional laser, and instead of an unstoppable shapeless swarm the enemies were pretty much zombies with a twist.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive To be faire, Plague Tale's light manipulation bits were almost 100% scripted. Whenever things got more complicated than just "go straight ahead through the rats", it was always set up in advance what you needed to do step by step.
@@yarpen26 Plague Tales rats were puzzles and later in the game: weapons. They weren't really dynamic combat encounters.
It funny how a lot of these ideas would probably work pretty well in a VR setting (manipulation of on fire object, on-self inventory, healing system, two hands gameplay, etc.)
Would be fun to do a fan VR remake of this
A friend of mine got this game for free. A local radio station was doing a promotional event outside a Walmart, and they were giving the game away. He invited me over, said "hey, let's check this game out", and we spent the entire night playing through the game (to a point). It was a fascinating mix of good ideas and bad implementation, and the buggy nature of the game was particularly interesting. I think we got to a forced driving chase scene that was infuriatingly difficult before we finally gave up. It wasn't the difficulty, it was that the game decided to not load the finish area. We had been passing the controller back and forth for a while, and I think I was the first to make it to the end, but we both did it a few times with the game just not loading the finish. Eventually, he did get past that part on his own, and while I don't think he ever finished it, he did show me some of the stuff that existed beyond.
It's weird how this game is almost good, but comes just shy. Like, if this had a year to polish it up, it very well could have been a masterpiece. It's too bad that it'll forever be remembered (or, well, forgotten) as a mediocre action horror title.
But after the driving scene the game only starts and the best parts come. I think except the hard as ducn driving scene the game is awesome
You should check out Yakuza Dead Souls. It is a weird Spinn-off of the Yakuza Series, where you instead of fist fighting against Yakuza, like in the main games, you shoot up Zombies with guns.
Left 4 Dead with yakuza characters and charm
It’s no where near as good as any of the mainline yakuza games
@@THL_Jontae but it’s still an amazing game, although it’s frame rate is not so amazing
I really want to see Total Overdose and Marc Ecko's Getting Up on this channel.
Oh yaeh, same.
Put WET and Splatterhouse on that list.
I'm surprised you didn't mention just how much that THIS Edward Carnby does not look like the ORIGINAL Edward Carnby, in spite them supposing to be the same character.
Its the second reboot the first one was alone in the dark a new nightmare
He looks exactly like he looked in alone in the dark new nightmare
@@DJBV It's actually not, there's a scene in an ambulance where they try to look for Carnby's medical records only to find that by some insane logic, Carnby is not only the only Edward Carnby to ever be present in any US medical database, *they flat out say he's the same guy* by having Carnby read out the fact that he went to Derceto in the 20's and he disappeared shortly after.
It's more of a soft reboot in that it was intended to be an easy jump in point for a new arc, rather than the hard reboot A New Nightmare was where it's just a new modern Carnby. 2008 Carnby is the same old trilogy guy, they just never explained how he's suddenly nearly a century into the future.
In that essence, it's comparable to something like Yakuza Like a Dragon where it's the same timeline, but the shift in focus lets it be an easy jumping on point where they don't make too many mandatory-to-understand references to the old stories.
@@UltimaKeyMaster reboot
Although it claims to be a reboot of Alone in the Dark (which it is), it's more or less like a sequel to The New Nightmare, not Alone in the Dark 3. This game likely ignores The New Nightmare and instead chose to continue after AitD 3, but the issue now is with Carnby himself. Edward never had a scar across his eye in the original games, it was only made up here. This version of the dude is more in line with New Nightmare's Edward Carnby. Why? Well The New Nightmare (supposedly) takes place 75 years after Alone in the Dark 3, and the Carnby in TNN was born in 1968, being 33 in that game, so he would have been 39 to 40 in Alone '08, not over 100 years old! Eden Games tried to tie this game in with the original games in some way so it would make sense, but it doesn't make sense, it's nonsense!!! And I have not seen TNN's Carnby with a scar unless something bad happened to him after that game but before Alone '08.
I'm trying my best to make sense of this nonsense but the lore of this game goes so far out the fucking window at this point that I pretty much gave up on trying to make sense of the PLOT!!!
If you like the soundtrack it was composed by Olivier Deriviere, a french composer who is still doing soundtracks to this day and had a very similar style in the Obscure games.
Please do Alone In the Dark: A New Nightmare for us bc it's a game that I grew up trying to play as a really young kid and I could never quite grasp how to play. I've forgotten most everything about it but would love to see you make a video on it! Love your content!
1:45 am. Just let me watch the best Aussie, who is doing game reviews.
He’s an Aussie?! I thought he was a chazzwazza!
1:43 am next night here.
Gmanlives has the edge imo
0:28 oh boy I’m early
This game was def my guilty pleasure. I remember loving it but I was also 16 lol
I relate to this, but with The Darkness
@@Rafathy dude the darkness was amazing tho! The framerate sucked ass but I could look past it since I didn't know any better. I looooved that game too
@@CopperBurrito1 the voice acting in the darkness is awsome in my opinion
as a kid i really wanted to get Alone In The Dark
but i couldn't because i was already busy and distracted by Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time
and also doing a full on completionist run (the first ever game to make me do the completionist run)
@@Rafathy The Darkness is still one of the best linear first person shooters.
That was really cool. I actually remember trying to watch a playthrough of this ages ago and being interested, I didn't know it had so much systemic depth until now. I'm really fascinated - I think given more polish this game could've been legitimately innovative
You definitiely missed out. So much depth I first found again in games like DayZ and such.
The story is nice too and the game back then was at times friggin scary and has complicated puzzles. You need to try it out. The gameplay is not as janky as that dude says especially since youre a normal peasant and not a sekiro warrior. This is not a fighting game as youre supposed to evade them too. I played it 3 times and dont remember issues with the gameplay except the timed driving scene in the beginning where the steeet is falling apart. Expect dropping into holes about 15 times because that part is So hard. Alsi the game is very long and becomes nore linear towards the end again. The design is unique and great. I always hoped for a new game like this
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti nah dude the gameplay is janky as fuck stop wearing your nostalgia google. Also bruh why you even need to brought up sekiro for comparison lmfao
Something I've learned over time, having played games for almost all 28 years of my life:
"A bad game is fine, too."
I can remember some of the worst games of my life, and while some of them were soul crushing "You can't return this game and it's all you're getting, have fun" childhood moments, I can think of so, so many instances of playing terrible games with my brother or people online and laughing at the ridiculousness of it. Whereas a mediocre game leaning closer to good than bad is usually completely forgettable. My brother and I were yelling at each other over Kane and Lynch, but we were laughing and making unfunny observations that had us DYING in Kane and Lynch 2, even though it was a fucking terrible game and much worse than the first.
Having a good time riffing on a game at its expense can be a genuinely good time. especially with a friend.
I feel that is a pretty good summary of this channel too.
In the mass majority of game releases most are roughly a 5/6 on 10, just inflated by over excited ignorant people, trends and ideologies of the time...
@@PinkManGuy
But Kane and lynch2 is not a bad game... It's exactly the same change everybody liked and praised in most "mid gen" games, and frankly in the same average quality... You like "spec ops", Max Payne 3" or most other tps games of the time?
It looks like a survival early access game from the late 2010s.
Quite impressive for 2008 to be honest.
the mechanics were pretty unique at the time it just wasn't fun to play
This game looks very ambitious. I remember seeing the cover on shelves all the time but always imagined it as another generic shooter. This video is the first time I've even seen the gameplay at all, despite knowing of its existence for many years. Maybe if the marketing or artwork was done better, it would've got more attention.
This was a reboot of a very popular game on the PS1. The Alone in the Dark games were well known at the time, so I imagine that’s why there wasn’t better marketing
One of the most fascinating games i ever played. It was always one of these games that seemingly nobody likes but I absolutely adored
I really love games that have intricate button interactions like how you blink, also how you open up your jacket to access shit, just very unique game makes it feel way more immersive
One of my favorite game I love to hate.
Thank you for the work !
Sur Wii! :D
Bonjour!
Oh ! And soundtrack is from Olivier Deriviere (Obscure, Remember Me, Harold)
vous ici quelle coïncidence x)
As someone who is playing around with game engines, I really loved a lot of the mechanics that the dev were going for in this. It's the type of stuff I would love to see done in more titles at least better implemented or more fleshed out.
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I played this game when I was like 8 years old and I just remember the combat being really weird and janky, watching this now honestly just reminds me of how bad it actually was lol
wish this game was 2016 it could have been improved but the ending sucked
Ah, this game... Reminds me of what happened to Silent Hill with Downpour.
Jesus, poor Silent Hill. From Team Silent’s masterpieces to mediocre wank by various jabronis
@@PatrickTCAPIreland I don't entirely agree with that. Downpour (while glitchy) has a lot of heart in it, and I'd recommend it. And Shattered Memories is a great retelling of SH1 (with really weird chase sequences).
@@knoxctry1569 It's okay, it wasn't really a Silent Hill game though.
@@DCGMatthew1 I disagree. Is it scary? Not really. But it's the first game since SH4 that confidently knows how to use Silent Hill (the town) as a plot device. It wasn't tried to be explained or mystified. The events in that took place in the town were used to expand the characters.
@@DCGMatthew1 what is a silent hill game then?
Downpour had a tale set in a weird outerworld town set into relatively modern times with exploration puzzle solving and combat involving guns and melee weapons
Sure it failed to be scary but well they tried and just failed at it its really hard to make people scary of something and i will say most horror media out there isnt very scary but it has that scary atmosphere with is something i think downpour nailed
I remember a demo disc on the 360 that had a bunch of demos on it including this game. I used to play that demo all the time and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Glad to see you cover it even if I never played the full game!
I remember that I was really hyped for this game back in 2008 because of all the trailers so I bought it for PS3 when it launched. I don't have a clear memory from the game itself, I just remember that I was disappointed for many reasons and sold it a few weeks later without finishing it.
The studio that made one of my favorite games ever (TDU1 and TDU2) made this thing. Wow. They really were being ambitious.
This game: INNOVATION
Games nowadays: LOOTER SHOOTER
This game taught me a valuable lesson in tempering expectations and not get hyped.
So it was the Cyberpunk of your generation.
@@Carcosahead ... yeaaaaaaaaaaaaahh. In fact maybe this is why CP2077 didn't hit hard to me. I've been through that burn.
But the game was great and theres no other from the generation like it
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti I wouldn't call it great, even though it does have a place in my heart. It's so lovably weird and ambitious and janky. Plus the soundtrack is a banger.
@@ajeje1996 I wouldnt crap right next to the toilet either but I still happen to think about trying it out at work
All these ideas actually sound awesome. I think someone could definitely make a cool game with all these systems if they had a big enough budget
I’m quite fond of this game. Ever since I was a kid, I was enamored by this game. From its visuals to its amazing soundtrack. After playing it, it’s certainly not what young me expected at all. It certainly has potential. Hopefully THQ Nordic can do the next entry justice. I definitely wouldn’t object to a remake of this game, either.
just wanna express my support for an alone in the dark dreamcast episode. I played it briefly as a kid but I don't remember like anything about it
I never even knew there was a alone in the dark game on the Dreamcast.
@@jeremyroberts8822 It's a port of New Nightmare.
Just played it and in 2023 15 years later it didn't age it's unique and ahead of its time, can't imagine the struggle pcs in 2008 had to run it
Holy crap, I love your channel. All these throw backs are giving me a nostalgia high.
I don't know to play it again but it's cool to see people giving at least a try, back in 2008 we where surprised by this game, mostly for the bugs, but it did a really good job graphically
I wonder if there's a fan made patch for the PC version, it looks like a very interesting experience
Driv3r was so similarly over ambitious, and it’s fitting you mentioned it at the very end.
I only ever played the demo of this game but I remember this and Far Cry 2's fire systems blowing my mind at the time
I love this game so much, I'm so glad you mentioned the soundtrack!
I remember seeing the E3 video of this game, showing off all of the mechanics, I thought that it was the most coolest shit a game has done, and wanted it so badly.
Metal Gear Rising :(((( E3 vs final product....I still have to pay F to pay respects to this day to cope with it. If you want to see something mindblowing for back then look the E3 cutting presentation of mgs Rising up. The concept was too muvh for kojimas team to handle so they gave it to platinum games to turn it into bayonetta
So many great ideas in this, I hope we get a reboot that gives all these ideas the proper level of polish. Imagine looking down at a coat pocket inventory in VR and physically reaching for what you need.
Or running from a hoard of enemies in VR, jumping in a car and hot wiring it before they break through the window.
i absolutely love this game frankly, i think all its small mechanics are charming, useful, and handy. like fighting in BOTW you have so many ways to approach simply fighting a small group of zombies, could craft a molotovs, could shoot alcohol out of mid air, could use your blinking abilities later on and just shoot them in the cracks, could put fire on your bullets, grab a melee and then (admittedly its jank) manually smack enemies with the right stick. the puzzles are challenging but fun, it really took me a bit when in the meuseum i had to tape a time bomb to one of the crabs
Literally all I remember in this game is playing with fire physics and it's enough for me
Like opposite land hydrophobia
I remember having a blast playing this back in the day. I replayed it last month and I still have a soft spot for it. I'm just sad it didn't quite reach its potential. :/
Yo wtf this looks pretty awesome! Beautiful lighting for *2008*
I can tell the devs really put a lot into this game, and that makes me want to play it. Even the inventory is awesome and original for 2022 IMO. Combining puzzles and fighting is always a fun thing, too. The driving is extremely unfortunate, though lmao. I feel like if these guys had like another year to fine tune the mechanics of this game, it would have turned out much better. It’d be nice if it could be updated.
Edit: yeah this 100% reminded me of Alan Wake. I actually just picked up the PS4 remake, haven’t played it yet but it’s definitely one of the classics I remember enjoying, and I wasn’t a fan of a lot of 2010s-2015s games personally.
I remember how amazing this game looked and how many new ideas there were like the inventory system.
This game was phenomenal at the time. It got a lot of attention in magazines and online. The fire spreading was brand-new and physics like that was rare.
Been waiting for another one! As always a great and interesting video.
I totally relate when you talk about your favourites parts being when your back was to the wall and you were forced to fun and make fast decisions. Amazing Games can become average when they don't challenge the player enough and we simply stick to the most powerful weapon
11:32-Holy shit, I remember Spoony saying the car lurched forward at an angle like that and magically went back onto its wheels like it was nothing and regretted not having the footage for it. Glad to see at least part of that process.
Great review, I remember when this came out and all the furore around it, always thought the mechanics looked really interesting. Never finished it but enjoyed what I did play of it. It's not often you see big budget games try things like this anymore.
Oh and props for including one of the greatest lines of dialogue in video game history, no mention of this game is complete without that stone line!
I didn’t know Linkara, The Lightbringer, had his own game
the trenchcoat item screen where you can fuse together items is my favorite idea that no games ever tried to reuse. it feels so immersive
Hey man just wanted to say I really appreciate that you took the time to really harp on about the great technical aspects of the game. I remember being fascinated by the fire and what it could do. I was one of the many who were amazed by that tech video lol. Thank you for looking at the game as a whole and not being negative for the sake of being negative like so many TH-camrs on here. Just keep doing what you're doing and rock on man, you're getting better all the time. Best of luck to you and I'll be here watchin'.
I love how everyone shitttted on this game when it came out, but it was and still IS so innovative, that every other devs stole every piece of the gameplay from it to their own games quietly..... Like literally every innovative gameplay feature was stolen from this game...but thx to game critics the game was dead on arrival, bc they couldn't handle controls
To be fair, he goes over why it was reviewed so poorly.
It has a lot of innovation, yes, but it's horrific to actually *play.* If you're someone like minimme or Uncle Derek and you appreciate ambitious products that aren't necessarily GOOD products, you can get a mile of enjoyment out of even the jankest pieces of crap. If those things being stitched together as poorly as Carnby's "injury" patches bothers you, you're gonna toss the game out the window in half an hour.
There's a reason other devs stole those pieces of gameplay...it's called refining it into something better. Fire? Far Cry 2. Camera switching? Hell, Jedi Knight already did that years earlier between guns and lightsaber perspectives. Open world driving...well, uh, that's been refined for close to three decades now, you can't just point to one game there.
@@UltimaKeyMaster what about TV-series structure? 🤔
@@emulation2369 That's just an admission by the developers that the game is so bad that you would want to skip chunks of it.
@@cookieface80 great, you just made this up on a fly... The dumbest comment I've seen so far.
Big shout out my man. This is such a great example of why I look forward to your videos. Games like this deserve a second glance. I’ll never forget downloading the demo for this and every ten seconds thinking “wait, what... why?” all the while that jarringly well composed epic music playing. And I’m sorry, who settled on Central Park as a location for an Alone In The Dark reboot, because I have your trophy right here
No wonder I kept playing the demo. Between this and the darkness I felt like I was living that next gen life
I remember buying this on PS2, it even included a second disc with the soundtrack. 11 year old me was so confused at the fabulously broken nature of the game and the crazy amount of bugs. Never even beat it, just messed around with the "skip level" cheat. What a mess it was.
That’s not how you pronounce “inventory”...
Good lord, was the screen tearing the game, the recording, or my internet?
If it’s the game. Oooooof
Don't answer that, a rhetorical question.
360/PS3 games had a lot of screen tearing, especially PS3 in my experience, so I think it's the game. (I remember the original Assassin's Creed on PS3, by God was that a screen-tearing nightmare)
@@ChaseMC215 lol jerk
(TH-cam won’t let me say swears)
@@Nobody-hc2bo
It would , but TH-cam is a bitch
@@ChaseMC215 TH-cam DLC: ability to swear in comments
Bonus DLC pack: slurs
This is one of those games I've always owned but never played. Picked it up in one of those 3 for $30 used game sales you used to see a lot of for the 360 / PS3
Wow this looks like it would be a pretty engaging VR game, nice
What happened? There were games like this and Far Cry 2 with really cool fire mechanics and then it was like everyone went “eh we did that pretty well a few times I guess that’s that and we aren’t going to do it anymore”
I guess only one out of the two games being any good turned people away from insane fire physics.
@@UltimaKeyMaster funny how that works
Because recent games put more effort to graphics than mechanics.
@@steffan9415 while simultaneously forgetting to optimize the game and also test for bugs.... or just chose not to.... or maybe they aren’t allowed because the publisher wants what they want and don’t care...
@@UltimaKeyMaster Far Cry 2 was also lambasted at release, don't let let modern revisionism blind you.
Edward, dearest of all my friends.
Was hoping someone would say that! ;)
I can remember renting this game as a kid and being very excited to try it, and I can still remember some of the mechanics that I really thought were cool, like it being one of the first FP games where you could look down and see your body, and your inventory was in your jacket. Really taught me a lot about what makes a game immersive.. but what also can make a game feel broken and torturous to get through. Never finished the game because as a kid it was too obtuse and confusing, but not many other games have stuck with me in the same way, especially for how little of it i played
I feel like this game would be a great candidate for a vr remake. The game has like no UI whatsoever. You could just look down and reach into your jacket. The climbing and stuff are weird to implement in vr but the melee combat and the slower pace of the game in general works well in VR.
Call me crazy, but this game could deserve a second chance.
It has a lot of neat ideas to it that may honestly work better with today's tech.
You're not crazy
True, a remake of this with maybe just a few story changes could be nice.
Nobody is stopping you masochists from playing the game a second time through.
But no resources should be used for a remake. Get. Real.
@@willdiesel8431 why ? whats wrong with a remake ?
@@cappedminer369 Remakes are reserved for titles that people actually rave about. Not to mention Remakes aren't a fix it all solution.
I love how the dude on the cover looks nothing like the actual character in game
People talking positively about crap games they love is a TH-cam subgenre I am 110% here for.
I played the 360 version and loved it. Had no idea about the subway level. Cool to see.
alone in the dark - the original PC resident evil
Alone in the Dark came out before Half-Life... So I don't understand this.
@@DCGMatthew1 my mistake! I was playing some half-life, so, I was thinking about Afraid of Monsters.
tossboi Nice, Afraid of monsters was a cool mod. I remember another cool horror Half-life mod where you start as like a anti terrorist unit or something, then eventually fighting monsters but can’t remember what it’s called.
Dude, I missed your videos!
I remember playing this when it came out and just being absolutely fascinated (and frustrated) with the mechanics. It was impressive how detailed yet monotonous they were. I would love to see them take another shot at these, really master the original vision. I know they’re making a new one but survival horror has been playing it safe for quite some time, at least mechanics wise. I commend them for trying new things, and I hope we see more developers taking risks (and taking their time) with their work.
Wow didn't expect this game to be so ambitious with so many innovative feature. You don't see that kind of innovation in recent games nowadays
Just a few will remember those old days, this game was making a lot of hype of the next gen of consoles at the time, and it looked really good! But of course they show the best parts
When the phrase 'overly ambitious' was in the title but then you realised you didn't want to use that phrase and removed it.
“Overly ambitious” is kind of overused these days even if the use of it is pretty true
The thing that people remember the most about this game is the crazy dialogue like the Stone thing, and the Lightbringer line.
This felt like a 10 min vid hats off to u bro loved this
I remember thinking this was going to be the greatest game ever from all the videos before the game came out. Then it released lol!
Experimental gameplay? Ah it must be the first strand-type game!
strand-type genre
Trying to Hotwire the car while monsters around sacred me as a kid
I really enjoyed the video! Always wondered about this game whether to try it or not but you convinced me to give it a shot. Subscribed.
I don't even read the notifications now, I see your name and click
Ditto, but first i get aroused by the thumbnails
This one's a guilty pleasure of mine. I appreciate all of the mechanics it implemented, even if there's a lot of jank. Too bad I can't ever seem to get the PC poet to actually run.
I was the Main Playthrough QA Tester on this game in Sunnyvale California at ATARI. I spent so much time on this game, about a year and a half. I worked the Game Day at Atari in San Francisco and the GameStop managers Expo in Vegas demoing this game and I still love thinking about those times. Then I worked on Test Drive Unlimited 2, Champions Online , as well as the Official Star Trek MMO on the launch teams while ATARI owned Cryptic Studios in Los Gatos. Life is crazy, enjoy every second you have, because as King Kai says: "Change can Strike like Lightning!"...
The soundtrack in this game is so fucking good. Olivier Deriviere always delivers.
The PS2/Wii version of this game was essentially the same main levels and story beats from the next gen version, with the open Central Park cut. The CG cutscenes are a mix of the next gen scenes and new CGs with the different character designs. The use of fire is still a thing, but it is completely scripted. Funnily enough, it has only one ending as opposed to the 2 endings from the next gen version, but even so it is different. It was made by Hydravision Entertainment, the devs responsible for the Obscure games.
...now, this is pog