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SaviorX on 11 April 2010
NightDragon83 said:
SaviorX said:
Riachu said:
SaviorX said:
I have it....didn't like it.
Graphics are pretty poor, combat was wonky.
the sanity effects were original, and I do find myself randomly saying "PARGON" at times, but overall it was mediocre IMO

For a game released in 2002, they were really good.

Nah, games like Melee, Onimusha, Dead or Alive, and GTA3 were released around that time and they kicked this game's tail.

Dude what are you smoking?  Sure, Melee looked good... considering it's a 2-D brawler, and the environments were low poly and lacked textures... only the character models were somewhat impressive.  DoA had some nice character models and environments as did Onimusha, but neither were at the top of the Xbox's library in the visuals department... that distinction belonged to Halo.

And GTA3?  Seriously?!?  Just because it had a vast open city didn't make it visually impressive... it lacked textures and many advanced effects to keep the framerate from turning the game into a slide show... in fact, it was one of the worst offenders of the notorious blurry "washed-out" look and lack of anti-aliasing that plaqued most of the PS2's library early on in its life.  It looked like an N64 game without all the fog!

Eternal Darkness still looked really lame though. I'll admit, it held up better than Freedom Fighters....but like mentioned before, Star Fox also outclassed it (Fox had fur!) and Luigi's Mansion. I didn't want to mention Halo because it was the main Xbox thing. IDK it doesn't really make much sense but yea I didn't want to mention it.

Eternal Darkness had relatively small areas to work with and low amounts of on-screen enemies (never remember more than 6 people on screen at once, including the main characters) I couldn't really care for the story either.

Those games I mentioned were not the best of their respective consoles, but during 2002 they were top chef, or at least better than Eternal Darkness, in animation (maybe not GTA3 lol) and graphics. The options menu for ED had good music though.



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Killy_Vorkosigan on 11 April 2010

Yeah, but those game had no soul-screaming floor. And they didn't have a cinematic with your hero dying in an horrrific way :D

It's the first time I was really scared in a game, when I looked in the bath. I only played at night, and I thought I would have a heartbreak.

This is my favourite Lovecraft related game. And I am a huge Lovecraft game since that game ^^



MasterZack on 11 April 2010

Gametrailers has rated it in their TOP 10 horror games. I think in the 6th place.



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Khuutra on 11 April 2010

It's one of my favorite game narratives. Rather nice blend of adventure genre tropes and non-linear narrative in a lot of places.

Great game. What a great game. I may play it soon.



bdbdbd on 12 April 2010
NightDragon83 said:
bdbdbd said:
Definately an awesome game and best survival horror game ever made.

Brilliant graphics? It was a ported N64 game with N64 graphics, though the textures are better. It had only one animation made for GC (loading screen before the final boss).

N64 graphics?  Are you serious?!?  Eternal Darkness was one of the best looking GC games at the time of its release... only the Resident Evil remake and perhaps Rogue Squadron II topped it in the visuals department up to that point!

Is there a joke considering the game that i'm not aware of...? If there is, please share.

 

ED is the worst looking GC game there is. As a fixed angle game, it's easilly what N64 could do, sans the textures. In graphics department, it rivals Majora's Mask and Goldeneye. If you want to say the game is visually the most atmospheric game on Gamecube, i definately agree, but a good looking game... No.



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d21lewis on 12 April 2010

I got it pretty close to day 1. At the time, I was dying for a mature Gamecube game. It was brilliantly done (despite having crappy graphics, even then). I got the true ending, deleted my save, and got the true ending again. Definitely worth my money.



WereKitten on 12 April 2010

Played it to full completion and loved it. The graphics didn't bother me, the sanity meter was so much fun and the episodic narrative was great.
As for the overall setting, I'm a long-time Lovecraft reader - and old player of the Call of Cthulhu rpg - so it was a given.



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scottie on 12 April 2010

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Khuutra on 12 April 2010
bdbdbd said:
NightDragon83 said:

N64 graphics?  Are you serious?!?  Eternal Darkness was one of the best looking GC games at the time of its release... only the Resident Evil remake and perhaps Rogue Squadron II topped it in the visuals department up to that point!

Is there a joke considering the game that i'm not aware of...? If there is, please share.

 

ED is the worst looking GC game there is. As a fixed angle game, it's easilly what N64 could do, sans the textures. In graphics department, it rivals Majora's Mask and Goldeneye. If you want to say the game is visually the most atmospheric game on Gamecube, i definately agree, but a good looking game... No.

The graphics were not even close to N64-level. The rolling fog alone would have been too much for that system to handnle, and the character models - at the time - looked pretty damn good.

Technically speaking it wasn't the best-looking game, but on a technical level it was good enough to carry the art style, which left a very positive impression.

It wasn't the best-looking Gamecube game that year - not even close, as Starfox Adventures and Metroid Prime both released that year - but it was far from the worst-looking in the Gamecube's library. It wasn't even in that neighborhood.

Edit: It wasn't fixed angle, either, the camera would follow your character.



scottie on 12 April 2010
Khuutra said:
bdbdbd said:
NightDragon83 said:

N64 graphics?  Are you serious?!?  Eternal Darkness was one of the best looking GC games at the time of its release... only the Resident Evil remake and perhaps Rogue Squadron II topped it in the visuals department up to that point!

Is there a joke considering the game that i'm not aware of...? If there is, please share.

 

ED is the worst looking GC game there is. As a fixed angle game, it's easilly what N64 could do, sans the textures. In graphics department, it rivals Majora's Mask and Goldeneye. If you want to say the game is visually the most atmospheric game on Gamecube, i definately agree, but a good looking game... No.

The graphics were not even close to N64-level. The rolling fog alone would have been too much for that system to handnle, and the character models - at the time - looked pretty damn good.

Technically speaking it wasn't the best-looking game, but on a technical level it was good enough to carry the art style, which left a very positive impression.

It wasn't the best-looking Gamecube game that year - not even close, as Starfox Adventures and Metroid Prime both released that year - but it was far from the worst-looking in the Gamecube's library. It wasn't even in that neighborhood.

Edit: It wasn't fixed angle, either, the camera would follow your character.

 

It started its life as a N64 game, btw. But it got delayed so they then changed it to a GC game