Is this game really that bad? Honest opinion please.

[Tepion]

Still havent bouoght the game so im curious. I really enjoyed DD but even more Soma, because the story was just so much better.
Now im curious about this one. I heard that this is not that scary? I mean Soma was not that scary as DD aswelll but still i was terrified. And also heard that Rebirth takes forever until it gets interesting and again if i remember in DD it also took a while until there were proper encounters and sh*t.
So is there someone who for example thinks that this is actually better than DD? From what ive seen from trailers i cant really believe that this one has worse story telling or enemy encounters or environment...
I would bought it but there are other games you know so i need to make good choice.

[Rorque]

+good story
+some nicely designed things that look ugly by the renderer
-bad visuals bcoz of crappy renderer (they should have switched to unreal long ago)
-annoying main character and poorly built relationship with her child/husband, with complete absence of building a relationship with the expedition team
-poor game mechanics
-predictable jumpscars

[Blackburn]

it is pretty good, solid game. Not perfect like Soma,

[John Fallout]

It's worth playing but that being said it's a game that you probably will play once and forget about it tomorrow. I really enjoy story driven games I'm not one of those people that only enjoy action based games but this story is just your average nothing special thing. As a sequel to the Dark Descent it's very bad but as a standalone without Amnesia name in it just like I said before: good to play once. It's nowhere near as scary as the first Amnesia but it has it's moments. Big reason for why it's not is simply because they created 2 enemies for this game. The first one is generic looking ghoul and the second one is more annoying than scary and seems silent hill inspired. Compare this to the grunt from the Dark Descent which is one of the reasons why this game is so scary to play.

I dont understand why people say the story is good. In my opinion Frictional completed ♥♥♥♥♥♥ themselves over with revealing most of thing that were mysteries until now. Like about Tin Hinan or the otherworld that Alexander lived in.

So yeah if I would give it a rating as a sequel it would be like 4/10 and 7/10 as if The Dark Descent would never exist.

[MrTomppa]

buggy as hell ( search game breaking bug)

[Blackburn]

nonsense. found 0 bugs in my two playthrough

[MrTomppa]

YHAHAHAHA

[Whitey]

Originally posted by MrTomppa:

YHAHAHAHA

How about you just tell us about this game-breaking bug? I also didn't encounter one.

[loveforfire]

The game is good just don't get super high expectations or try to compare it to DD.

+Good Storytelling
+Gameplay mechanics that IMO are better than Soma
+Better Puzzles than Soma or Machine for Pigs
+The environments are still dark and compelling (scarier in this dept than Soma)

-not as scary monster encounters as TDD or Soma
-Not as memorable as any of Frictional games previous efforts.

The lighting effects are incredible, the art is very HR Giger
Story is HP Lovecraftian and Philip K ♥♥♥♥ esque as usual

[John Outlast]

It's the most disappointing game Frictional's made, and the dip in quality is very noticeable coming after what I thought was Frictional's best. Pretty much got all my annoyance at this game out of my system by this point, but it basically killed any hype I have for Frictional's future games.

[John Fallout]

I think if it wasn't then this forum would be thriving. Meanwhile there's no one in here.

[TitanMK6GLX]

rebirth was a flop maybe watch it on youtube or get it when its on sale because im so dissapointed i bought it theres very little character development i wasnt able to find anything relating to DD apart from the orb the shadow and algiers going insane for every 3 seconds of being in the dark cheap jumpscares and even seperate dimensions? plus the ending doesnt feel like an ending by the time i realised i finished the game (its only like maybe 4-5 hours worth of gameplay) i felt like it was all pointless at the end and was hoping for maybe something semi good to happen but it was a let down i would not reccomend playing as i said maybe just watch it on youtube?

[Fourlamas]

Rebirth looks better but Dark Descent has better monster encounters, thats my opinion obviously. I wrote a review for Rebirth a while ago, if you want to, feel free to read it, might give you more info on the game.

[J2342]

I hated it gameplay-wise but it also scared me more than The Dark Descent.

[Joker]

I wasn't sure I would like this at first. The more I played the more I enjoyed it. I can't wait to see what happens next. It's pretty good in my opinion. I still think the first Amnesia is the best.

[Sotomar0]

The topic "i play a pregnant woman who's talking permanently to ther unborn child while touching her belly" turns the basically very good game into a total disaster. It's a shame about this project.