The Darkness sequel confirmed!

Akai XIII wrote:The Darkness was **** Why do people want another slow, boring, trudge through a couple train stations, alley ways and dingy suburbia? Add to that the 18 (something) year old with the voice of a 35 year old chronic laryngitis sufferer and his inability to keep his hands still for even a millisecond... I love the way he continually said '****' every other word too. He was a great main character

Nevermind the lights that were suddenly replaced when you went back to an area moments later... Or the crap gunplay... Or the shitty 'powers' you acquired along the way.

Yes, I hate The Darkness... Yahtzee was right about this game.

Admittedly, I completely agree with you. Starbreeze's Riddick games were far superior IMO.

The Darkness was rubbish. Just like Bad Company and Left4Dead.

Clearly, anyone who thought the Darkness powers were gooseberry fool was Doing It Wrong.

Screw the little imps, but creating a black hole, impaling coppers on those tentacles while shooting your regular weapons? Win, win, win.

Sneaking up behind people and shredding them with the stealth tentacle? Win.

Watching The Darkness fight over the hearts? Win.

New York wasn't a particularly interesting environment, no, but it was chock full of atmosphere. Those subway stations were brilliant.

The Darkness got me angry like no other game ever has, and that is a good thing. That certain scene did it for me. Best game of 07.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Rik** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:44 pm

Very pleased but concerned that Starbreeze aren't doing it

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I personally found the original game to be horribly overrated. The powers were cool as was just chilling with the girlfriend and watching "To kill A Mockingbird". The other stuff though was just so damn dull. The New York setting, the characters and plot were gooseberry fool. And don't get me started on the final confrontation with "the boss". Load of bollocks!

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Avon** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:19 am

Interesting comments particularly as I have just started playing this now for the first time after picking it up for a fiver and now knowing anything about it.

At the moment, I've not been blown away by the game by I've only just started it. The environments do seem to be a bit bland and lacking "life" and they could offer some more obvious prompts in terms of where you should be heading.

However, the darkness powers are interesting and probably the angle which separates it from other fps type games.

My only concern is that I will be meeting the same type of enemies (i.e. gangsters with guns) throughout the whole game. I hope there's some evil monsters lurking about somewhere to spice things up.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Dante** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:51 am

samoza wrote:The first was a decent game that was blown out of the water by Bioshock a few weeks later (hindsight is a powerful thing). With a base foundation I hope a new developer can come in and expand on what is already there.

A few weeks, try 2 months later (Hindsight is a misleading thing)

Darkness > Bioshock, Darkness had much more character too it and had the odd occasional duff bit (WW2) where as Bioshock ahd an entire duff second half too it.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Raide** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:51 am

I remember meeting up with some of the Devs from Starbreeze to see The Darkness and it was looking really good. It is a shame they are not on-board for the sequel.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Henke** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:11 pm

Brerlappins little hat wrote:
Dante wrote:
samoza wrote:The first was a decent game that was blown out of the water by Bioshock a few weeks later (hindsight is a powerful thing). With a base foundation I hope a new developer can come in and expand on what is already there.

A few weeks, try 2 months later (Hindsight is a misleading thing)

Darkness > Bioshock, Darkness had much more character too it and had the odd occasional duff bit (WW2) where as Bioshock ahd an entire duff second half too it.

I think im the only person in the world who loved the hell levels. They were just so atmospheric, and really felt like you were in a kind of waking nightmare, all the totrured soldierd who wanted nothing more than to die but were forced to fight on, and on, and on forever..

I loved them, and waxed lyrical about them in Currently Playing at the start of the year. The WWI sections were incredible, especially the Germans all sewn up together again and the maimed British troops holed up in that wee village. And there was the Johnny Got His Gun dude in the infirmary with his limbs and face blown off. Amazing scenes.

I read this thread as Eternal Darkness sequel confirmed. Colour me disapointed.

Although I loved The Darkness, it did get very boring towards the end. I never finished it.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Jax** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:44 pm

The Darkness, I thought, was a much better game than Bioshock. Sure the world is impressive in Bioshock, but it's all the same in its own unique way. The Darkness just has some awesome gameplay in there, and some of the set pieces (like trying to get your capturers in front of the light so you can use your powers were fantastic.

Just played the demo of the original game and quite enjoyed it. Charlie from Fringe was the main character ! Amazon research shows me it's currently available for £8.99 as well.

http://www.gamestracker.com/buy-the-darkness-compare-prices-xbox-360.htm

It's cheaper on some of those places, one I believe is £4.90-something. New.

Cheers mayne.

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Well my opinion clearly differs from some others on this thread as I think The Darkness isn't fit to wipe Bioshocks bum. Bioshock, for me, is almost the perfect singleplayer FPS adventure game. The only issue for me was the final boss battle. Even the proceeding levels such as Hephaestus, Olympus Heights, Apollo Square and Point Prometheus were brilliant. The characters were all wonderful too. Tennenbaum, Atlas, Fontain, Andrew Ryan, Sander Cohen, Peach Wilkins, Dr Suchong, Diane McClintock and even all the individual splicers had more individuality and character than any of the hackneyed 2D mafia goons that populated the majority of The Darkness.
Technically The Darkness is a bit hit and miss and I found the controls could be smoother. The A.I. was poor too, with enemies being quite contend to stand around while being shot at. The hub system of the underground was dull and all looked the same. Jesus I got sick of seeing that bloody cut scene of the main character going into a train. I did like the otherworld WWI setting though.

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Oh and the lamentable end of the game of finally confronting the main boss only to end up watching a strawberry floating cut scene of the player causing havock and killing him and his men was utter utter gooseberry fool. Worse even than Bioshocks.

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The Darkness is amazing. The gunplay was just so strawberry floating brutal. Putting a gun in someone's mouth and shooting them through the face is just.... ahhhh!

I'm finding myself wanting to go back and play The Darkness again now. I also have the advantage of not seeing it in HD before as I only had my SDTV when I originally played through it, so another playthrough could be rather sweet. :mrgreen:

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