I must admit an Alone in the dark: the new nightmare remake would've been better

[Zere]

in terms of pure horror i feel like the new nightmare was the best among the first 4 games (yeah we don't want to talk about the next ones)... the setting of the island, the story telling, the music, the radio feature, the gore and the puzzles were done perfectly to describe a dark, questionable and absolutely terrifying mansion on a remote island. So yeah i must admit i was a bit sad they decided to remake the first 3 games in a single one, leaving the remake of the new nightmare as a "we'll see if the first remake will sell good enough" as shown by the resident evil 4 remake a good horror game with a nice setting and nice combat feeling is what people want and i feel like the mansion from the 4 game was a better choise. what do you all think?

[Primitive]

I would totally love a remake or atleast a remaster of the new nightmare, it has the best horror atmospear of them all. I want this game to sell good so perhaps there is a chance for that

[Zere]

Originally posted by Primitive:

I would totally love a remake or atleast a remaster of the new nightmare, it has the best horror atmospear of them all. I want this game to sell good so perhaps there is a chance for that

yeah but again this game has a weak fight style from what everyone are saying... and that's what is scarying me about this game

[Samz]

Since New Nightmare was a different continuity, they could always potentially have them co-exist.

New Nightmare was my introduction to the series, all it'd need is the respawning enemies toned down (or some sort of melee attack) to fix my biggest issue with it.

[Zere]

Originally posted by Samz:

Since New Nightmare was a different continuity, they could always potentially have them co-exist.

New Nightmare was my introduction to the series, all it'd need is the respawning enemies toned down (or some sort of melee attack) to fix my biggest issue with it.

a the new nightmare with the resisent evil 4 movement/gunfight and without parry would be the dream horror game

[Stoibs]

I just wanted this to get properly funded and finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS9cATCSEo

Looks 10x better than *this* reboot and would have been a much more faithful loveletter to Alone in the Dark and its fans. Shame we don't get proper 90's style survival horror anymore these days.

[AHKINE]

i was introduced to survival horror games from the new nightmare from there i jumped to resident evil and obscure i would love to play that game again i miss it so much.

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

I just wanted this to get properly funded and finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS9cATCSEo

Looks 10x better than *this* reboot and would have been a much more faithful loveletter to Alone in the Dark and its fans. Shame we don't get proper 90's style survival horror anymore these days.

It looks 10x better, yes... If we were still in the early 2000.

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

It looks 10x better, yes... If we were still in the early 2000.

This mindset is sadly why everything is an over the shoulder pew pew shooter these days. Even games claiming to be 'Survival horror' like this, the Resident Evil remakes, what Silent Hill 2 Remake is looking like..

I guess gamedevs feel like they need to cater to the newblood and younger audience more and more though. It's just a shame for franchises like these where you'd think that they'd know us ~early 90's gamers would be hanging around, and they still give us arcade shooters instead of 90's survival horror, and trying to pass it off as an "evolution" of the genre or somesuch.

[Zere]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

It looks 10x better, yes... If we were still in the early 2000. :lunar2019grinningpig:

This mindset is sadly why everything is an over the shoulder pew pew shooter these days. Even games claiming to be 'Survival horror' like this, the Resident Evil remakes, what Silent Hill 2 Remake is looking like..

I guess gamedevs feel like they need to cater to the newblood and younger audience more and more though. It's just a shame for franchises like these where you'd think that they'd know us ~early 90's gamers would be hanging around, and they still give us arcade shooters instead of 90's survival horror, and trying to pass it off as an "evolution" of the genre or somesuch.

no man i actually feel like an over the shoulder horror game can be amazing if done right, it's all in the "speed" of the game really.

[patrixilentius]

Originally posted by Zere:

iwe don't want to talk about the next ones

what next ones

[Zere]

Originally posted by patrixilentius:

Originally posted by Zere:

iwe don't want to talk about the next ones

what next ones

the reboot

[peep]

New Nightmare is still my favorite Alone In The Dark game. Had a much darker and serious tone. Atmosphere was great. This one looks great though, I hope this isn't the last game in the series we see, the ip is kinda cursed at this point.

[Яeplicant]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

It looks 10x better, yes... If we were still in the early 2000.

This mindset is sadly why everything is an over the shoulder pew pew shooter these days. Even games claiming to be 'Survival horror' like this, the Resident Evil remakes, what Silent Hill 2 Remake is looking like..

I guess gamedevs feel like they need to cater to the newblood and younger audience more and more though. It's just a shame for franchises like these where you'd think that they'd know us ~early 90's gamers would be hanging around, and they still give us arcade shooters instead of 90's survival horror, and trying to pass it off as an "evolution" of the genre or somesuch.

Being one of the 90s kids myself, I can only give the advice of not being too nostalgic about the past. We just put up with more bad to worse gameplay and mechanics back in the day. I sure as hell wouldn't be able to play AitD 1-3 nowadays.

If done well, the Over-the-Shoulder perspective can do wonders to both the atmosphere and the feel of the game, if done well. Whereas the old ass static camera angles can only do so much; RE2 is a perfect example that, I'd say.

Totally unrelated but I wish Eternal Darkness would get the same treatment or at least getting revived but that's not going to happen at any rate.

[Captain Blud]

What I really want is a remaster of the first four. Give it some modern QOL changes and just up the resolution and smooth out the controls. I've never played any of them and I'd really like to but the sheer age of them intimidates me

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by Яeplicant:

Totally unrelated but I wish Eternal Darkness would get the same treatment or at least getting revived but that's not going to happen at any rate.

A spiritual successor tried to get crowdfunded about 3 times, which I backed but unfortunately saw fail each attempt. Maybe they were a little too ambitious or asking too much? Can't remember.

There are indies who are still keeping the genre alive thankfully, Tormented Souls 2 might be the next biggest one off the top of my head.