Will there be any kind of combat in Agony?

[Linus Hyper]

Or will we just run away from the enemy like cowards?
I know about the possession thingie, but it's that all there is?
I'm so tired of these horror games where you can't really defend yourself other than to run away and hide.

[Linus Hyper]

Bump

[Aphotep]

But that's the premise of actual, proper horror titles.
They are all about being in a situation out of your control, unlike most other games that are about empowering the character and player.

The 'horror' games where you can fight back properly are more like action games with a horror themed skin.

[Linus Hyper]

So no then.

[Aphotep]

I don't know, I'm not one of the devs.
I just think that large scale combat doesn't fit into a proper horror game.

[Linus Hyper]

Have you played F.E.A.R.? Doom? (Not the new Doom)

[Goof]

You're a damned soul in hell, how do you expect to be able to fight back?

[Linus Hyper]

Your fists
Weapons from enemies
Crafting
Etc etc

[Scatter dust]

Actually I think there will be combat. There's magic and taking over actual demons in the game.

[the2ndSign]

Originally posted by Phobos⛧Anomaly:

Your fists
Weapons from enemies
Crafting
Etc etc

Ugh please no crafting. I'm so sick of it.

[Linus Hyper]

Depends

[Ebon Wolf]

One of the gameplaus showed a gun so I assume so.

[Linus Hyper]

Originally posted by Ebon Wolf:

One of the gameplaus showed a gun so I assume so.

What? Where?

[Burguul]

One of the trailers showed that, as a possessed demon, you could kill and even burn a few humans in hell. But about other demons, I don't know, the footage didn't show demon-demon combat, just demon-humans.

[Linus Hyper]

Originally posted by Burguul:

One of the trailers showed that, as a possessed demon, you could kill and even burn a few humans in hell. But about other demons, I don't know, the footage didn't show demon-demon combat, just demon-humans.

Sounds cool!

[Donut Steel]

Knowing nothing about the setting, we can just speculate. It's possible that this version of Hell is less a physical place and more metaphysical: trying to fight is like trying to run on water or swim through the air. If the demons are not simply 'other-dimensional beings' with flesh and blood of their own but embodied ideas of sin, then they are literal Demons and completely immune to anything inside their own realm except for what they want. This would lend some explanation as to why it is only the simple-minded which can be posessed and this is likely not an ability inherent in player character but something he is given or steals.

The gun shown is also likely symbolic. Firearms are strongly dependent on the atmosphere they are in to work and we don't know anything about this Hell. If there's not enough oxygen it won't fire and if there's too much it will explode and I expect methane and sulphur to be high in concentration too given that what we've been shown is constructed entirely from the remains of people who have fallen into Hell. Assuming everyone in Hell is dead and are not longer relying on normal biological functions, an atmosphere like Earth would be a luxury that wouldn't be encouraged. Like the fertility statue, the gun's purpose is rooted in what it represents instead of it's expected function I reckon.