As Halloween fast approaches some of us here at Resolution and our friends share with you the horrors we’ve experienced in games: I used to think I was the sort of blubbering ninny who avoided scary games. I watched my cousin playing through the first Resident Evil, whinged to my parents to buy it for me, received it, and gave up after the first zombie. But looking back, perhaps that was because I was about 10.
As I’ve grown into a less blubbery ninny, I’ve come to embrace horror games and am rarely scared by them any more. Gore? Delicious! Psychopaths? Charming! Hideously malformed grotesqueries from the twisted mind of some deviant? Huggable! All the visual stuff is creepy, but its not scary any more.
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
That's standard. Teams are together for a Project, after its done some..and sometimes most devs are fired until the next Project is in the works and people are needed again. Only the core members stay in the time between the hot phase of the game development.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "In one sense, it feels strange to even think Pieces Interactive had big shoes to fill with this series' legacy. Given what's come before, did it really? And yet, even when considering the last two flops over a two-decade span, there's still something about Alone in the Dark emblazoned on a title screen that carries a sense of revered history. In that respect, perhaps this reboot's best accomplishment is in honoring that spirit through its inventive world. It's also fair to emphasize knocks against its survival-horror design, some puzzle-solving, and so on; it certainly won't be considered a trendsetter like the 1992 classic. Still, the amount of goodwill wedded to its brighter qualities makes for something that dawdles the line between unfortunately-flawed and impressively-enticing."
The new Alone in the Dark remake doesn't do anything especially noteworthy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's just... cromulent.
Ugh!- i hate Halloween. Those annoying children going from door to door looking for sweets and money. They then go around the corner, change masks and make another sweep of the same street. Sneaky, Scary little shits.