The Darkness sequel confirmed!

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Henke** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:34 am

Good news indeed, I really enjoyed the first one. I'm not sure if picking it up for only a fiver had anything to do with that though.

The girlfriend scene in the first one! :shock:

strawberry floating yes! :mrgreen:

Chalk me up as another interested party, the first one was actually rather special despite it being well overshadowed by bigger (but not necessarily better) titles.

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.

It was my game of the summer and to be honest I enjoyed it infinitely more than Halo 3 and probably about the same as Bioshock.

The powers were very cool indeed and I liked the story a lot.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:The darkness has easily, 2 of the best scenes in modern gaming. The orphanage scene, and the couch scene. Also a possible third best with the drill scene. Its criminally underrated and if you ask me 99% of devs out there trying to get emotion into games could learn a thing or two from those 3 scenes alone. I dont think theyve been bettered by any game yet, especially the couch scene

Not sure I'd go that far, but it certainly was memorable and worked really well - the drill scene especially sticks with you. I'd say that I prefer this more involved approach to Half-Life's "floating gun that just silently watches everything happen" approach.

And before you go grab your pitchforks for the lynching, I'm not actually saying the Darkness is better than Half-Life, what I'm saying is that Half-Life could learn a thing or two about interactivity from the way The Darkness tells its story.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Seven** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:49 pm

Hooooray! I loved The Darkness (shame multiplayer sucks balls) and sequel will be great if new developers do it right

I was half expecting Chenny to suck Jackie off during the couch bit.

Also brer, post some epic Japanese boobies and you will have made my month.

Another 'YAAAAYYY!' from me - I thought the first game was excellent in many ways, comfortably one of the most enjoyable and interesting games of the last couple of years in my view. It's a shame Starbreeze aren't involved, but hopefully the new devs will work from a similar template.

PostRe: The Darkness sequel confirmed! by **Henke** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:53 pm

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.

I disagree. In hindsight Bioshock is a tremendous letdown after an epic first half hour.

The Darkness was gooseberry fool

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 'strawberry float' every other word too. He was a great main character :roll:

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.

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.

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