Hmm. Interesting.

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hi! That video isn't mine. Mine is the one with the foul-mouthed commentary.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hi! That video isn't mine. Mine is the one with the foul-mouthed commentary.

In reply to this comment by ant:
Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hey. How come you put your video to private? Now, my video submission is dead in http://videosift.com/video/Moonbase-Alpha-Video ...

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Cool and welcome aboard. I have never heard of those other games.

In reply to this comment by hamsteralliance:
Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Hey, Ant.

You sifted my Moonbase Alpha playthrough video a few months ago. Thanks for that!

I've done quite a few playthroughs since then, but I want to link you to one in particular as it's a small indie game I think could use some more love. It's Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Frictional Games, who also did the Penumbra series.

Here's the playlist of my playthrough so far http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64CEA90FBE63FACD

The best part is probably 24:00 in to Part 2, if you just wanna watch me be absolutely terrified.

Thanks again!

Bought, played (at night with headphones) and beaten.

Just get the negatives out of the way first: too short & I still found Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 3 scarier/moodier/ more atmospheric than anything this game had to offer.

Positives: Just about everything else. I did enjoy this game better than anything from Penumbra. For me it's no Shalebridge, but damn for $20 and so many years after that experience in Thief 3 this was a joy. I'm glad there are developers out there willing to take risks with these kinds of games.

This game was almost canceled several times, for more information please visit the Frictional Games forums. This game seriously nearly died a number of times. I'm thankful it didn't.

Support Frictional, buy this game and enjoy it. Play at night, with headphones as suggested by the development team. Let yourself get immersed by this game, and don't try playing it like an FPS. Support them, and hopefully they continue to make games of this quality at such a bargain price.

Support Frictional Games! The Penumbra series scared the bejeezus out of me. If you find yourself liking Amnesia, definitely also buy the Penumbra games. The mechanics and atmosphere give the game a great feeling of "presence" if you will. Like an above poster said, its exactly the infrequency with which you find monsters that makes you so cautious, because when they finally do come they scare the piss out of you. Like any great horror film, it's all about the anticipation. Also, they develop for linux, which is very cool for an indy developer. There are few high quality games I can play on my primary tower boot.

Sweeeeeeeeet. The Penumbra games were great (well, mainly the second one), so if this game is half as good, it will be fantastic.

edited to add: Just read a news article that this game was almost canceled and that if it's not a success, it could spell trouble for the studio. So hopefully people will actually buy this game instead of pirating it.

how random just got this , randomly stumbeld on the deel whalst telling sumone to get penumbra ,

>> ^spoco2:
Nope, no sarcasm at all... I hate online play. Although, with friends, on a LAN, that is fun, and as such, I can see that you could eventually get to that point on general online play... I guess.
I don't have the time, patience, or inclination to build up the teams/organize times to play together etc. only to end up playing a fast twitch game where this sort of bullshit taunting goes on.
I enjoy single player games with stories, I enjoy playing through crafted experiences like Bioshock, HL2 and it's sequels, Arkham Asylum etc. Or, just fun puzzle games like World of Goo. Westy, you either have an unrealistically high bar for single player games, or just don't play good ones. Personally... I'd rather AI that's trying to fit into the world, rather than playing a WW2 game and have the enemy tea bag me, or yelling 'die fags'... that breaks me out of the immersion far more than a bit of dodgy AI.
That's where my enjoyment comes from I'm afraid... I just don't find enjoyment in online gaming.
I can SEE the attraction, especially in games like Eve Online etc. where it's like living in a futuristic world... but really, that's a time investment of a few orders of magnitude higher than I can give to anything that's not productive.



I enjoy both multilayer and single player , Its just that the the story telling in single player games is UTTER SHIT . compare the stories and emotoinal impact in games to a good film or book its just depressing. also the fact that the game play in single player games is often so predictable its just annoying. I really enjoy single player games as a peace of art of a mideum thats still in its black and white without sound stage.

Evan coop instantly makes any single player game infinitely better. the technology is not really there to deliver engrossing single player games of a high sophistication , Maby as a games Designer things stick out to me more than they do other people but I can still recognize fantastic single player games but Evan the really good ones the plot is that of a TV BMovi


Here is a list of some single player games that were really good.
Half life 1 , operation flash point , shadow of the colossus. The Penumbra Series , max Payne 1 and 2. portal ,
System Shock 2, myst series.

I always find it Amusing that still Half life 1 is more advanced and natural in the way it tells its story than modern FPS games. Mirrors edge has really nice environments and some well designed levels (in terms of game play) but the story is badly written and the cut scenes are annoying.

>> ^spoco2:
And that my friends, is why I don't play online games.
Because there is nothing fun about playing with a bunch of dicks who find humour in relentlessly killing the weak.
Bah and humbug.
Give me single player, or give me death




You must play the really challenging single player games that are never predictable.

Id rather be called a fag and tee bagged than watch my AI companions walk into walls , get in the way and generally act like one of them BBC micro robots that kids learn programming with.

And really the stories and Design in single player is god awful 90% of the time. Probably only 30 or so single player games worth playing. the only one I can see being of any good coming out in the near future is the new ICO/shadow of the colossus game.

every single player game i have played recently has been embarrassingly pore. aside from that penumbra game but that's years old now.

Maby in 10-15 years time when AI is better and Developers can consistently produce quality interactive story telling that is not some quasi cinematic exsperance with game play sellotaped on then ill realy enjoy single player games. at the moment for the most part multilayer games provide far better game play , and cinema , books , TV shows provide far better story.

the only ganra that works constantly well as single player is the casual/arcade ganra but in many cases those games end up evan better with multiplayer.

also there is no denying the pc version of this is a really pore console port.

I wish games developers realized that its unacceptable to litraly port the game over with no changes.
so many games are utter shit on pc but are fine as console games.

What's frustrating is that publishers will blame the lack of pc sales on piracy and not the fact that they keep churning out shit conversions.

I only recently got a 360 and now i am using that as an arcade/traditional games platform , and I use my pc as a driving simulator. + for games like penumbra or pc specific titles and mods.

>> ^StukaFox:
And Antarctica. But who wants endless random encounters with Leopard Seals and bored NOAA meteorologists?


Check out Penumbra: Overture. I think its actually set in the arctic, but its suprisingly fun and scary.

>> ^bamdrew:
I'm sorry, could someone point me to federal laws prohibiting infrared imaging into private property?
I can imagine California having a state law about it, maybe Oregon and Washington...


Bamdrew in order to get a warrant there needs to be a clear Images of evidence. Beyond a doubt. If these officers could not see in from a window, and get a clear concise picture of the "weed" then they did not uphold the standards for a search warrant.

Concerning privacy laws of the United States, privacy is not guaranteed per se by the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States has found that other guarantees have "penumbras" that implicitly grant a right to privacy against government intrusion, for example in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). In the United States, the right of freedom of speech granted in the First Amendment has limited the effects of lawsuits for breach of privacy. Privacy is regulated in the U.S. by the Privacy Act of 1974, and various state laws.

cited=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy#An_individual_right

You can argue tit for tat over laws, but judging by your comment I can gather that you either are ignorant (its non colloquial form) of the laws, or do not care for privacy.

If no one enforces their rights to privacy then there are no rights at all. I cannot believe that we are arguing over an innate right that all free people should have. Even if that freedom is relative, or imaginary.

As to private property, they cannot be on said property when they took the photos, because that would be a violation of the law. Assuming that they took images from public property, then the likelihood of them getting the images they need for a lawful warrant is very unlikely.

When it comes to the law, the cards are stacked against you, they always are.

Police should not be held up to such a high standard, they are people just like you and me. They have bad days and good days, and their shirts get wrinkles in them just like ours. There are bad apples among the good apples.

But when it comes to drugs and fame, you can always count for the basest of human emotion to come out.