ED Impressions (spoiler free)

[gekko]

I've been playing this game for a little bit now. I need to mow the lawn, lunch was sitting in front of me, and I just killed myself. Good time to stop, huh?

This game is freaky. If you were scared by Resident Evil, you will probably **** your pants. The music is just freaky. I'm still getting the chills, honestly. It's... the voices *shakes*

I don't want to say too much, but insanity killed me. I lost my sanity in this one room, left cause I was low on health, and it distracted me enough where I triggered the trap with the giant swinging blades, and walked straight into it. Somehow, the game got me to a point where I was no longer thinking, but just was scared.

Anyway, this game looks really deep. I've barely scratched the surface. I haven't even used magick yet.

I haven't had enough time to play it to give you full impressions, but that'll come soon enough.

Play the game alone, in a dark room, with the volume turned up. This game r0x0rz.

[-apu-]

try playing clive barkers undying.....u might like it:D

[Jonbo298]

Will be waiting for more!:D

[BlueFire]

I've really got to buy this game. RE really wasn't scary..it was like...BOO! :p

[Shadow_Link]

Originally posted by -apu-
try playing clive barkers undying.....u might like it:D

Well... Er, these two games are totally different. First and foremost, Clive Barker's Undying is in first person. Even though the game is good, I doubt it will touch Eternal Darkness in terms of fright factor and immersion.

[gekko]

2 and a half hours through the game. Story is very interesting. But it's hard to to put all the pieces together, at least for now, but it feels like it's supposed to be that way.

As for the sanity effects... Denis you're sick! Those things are not even funny. :mad: They ended up killing me a few times, and I even fell for one I knew was in the game.

And that mansion is creepy man. Seriously, I'm scared to walk down the hall. You'll understand soon enough.

Graphics are great, sound is awesome, story is really deep. I think Fran said you need to really put at least 6 hours into this game.

Trust me, you want this game.

[Night Stormer]

HELL YEAH!! I'm SOOO psyched for it!! i haven't been freaked out for a long time and i'm realllly wanting this!!! So ur sayin that when an insanity effect happens, your characters mind thinks its really real and it kills ya? even tho u hadn't even gone thru that door u were gonna? or is it just u were so freaked out u were runnin away and ran into a trap u knew was there but didn't even think bout it? Hehe, i heard a voice chanting a spell on the ED website and i just bout pissed myself right there! I can't wait to be pissed outa my shorts :p! :eek:























Hehe...... BOO!:bat:

[bobcat]

Damn sounds good.

You guys are lucky.

Can you believe RE hasn't been released here yet. It will b in September:eek:

Maybe I'll get my Cube modded, and import.

Dunno :unsure:

[DeathsHand]

I think you're just a wuss... :p

RE isn't scary.... like BF said, it's just like things pop out and startle you... that's not scary.... and it didn't even really happen that much in RE :p

I doubt ED will scare me... but I dunno... I don't have that giant HDTV that takes up the whole wall along with a sound system that makes it feel like there's an earthquake going on like gekko has so... :rolleyes:

:sneaky:

Can anybody spare 50 bucks? :(

[bobcat]

Originally posted by DeathsHand
I think you're just a wuss... :p

RE isn't scary.... like BF said, it's just like things pop out and startle you... that's not scary.... and it didn't even really happen that much in RE :p

I doubt ED will scare me... but I dunno... I don't have that giant HDTV that takes up the whole wall along with a sound system that makes it feel like there's an earthquake going on like gekko has so... :rolleyes:

:sneaky:

Can anybody spare 50 bucks? :(

I got scared when I played RE2 (well only played it for a while). Those things that jump out and scare you are the worst.

Like RE has all that type of stuff, SH is just freaky, I'm sure ED will be different from both, and I'm highly anticipating this title.

I got $100 for u.

But I don't like sending money via the mail. You can't trust ne1 nowadays :sneaky:

If you can find a way to get to my house within the next day or so, the $100 is urs...........:cool:

[Jonbo298]

Originally posted by bobcat
Damn sounds good.

You guys are lucky.

Can you believe RE hasn't been released here yet. It will b in September:eek:

Maybe I'll get my Cube modded, and import.

Dunno :unsure:

http://www.goblindirect.com/MainContent/prodDetail.asp?prodID=464&AffiliateID=63

If you can hold off, you can just get this. It makes your European(I think that is what you have) 'Cube region free. I wish they would make a U.S. one, unless some other company has.:unsure:

[gekko]

Originally posted by Night Stormer
HELL YEAH!! I'm SOOO psyched for it!! i haven't been freaked out for a long time and i'm realllly wanting this!!! So ur sayin that when an insanity effect happens, your characters mind thinks its really real and it kills ya? even tho u hadn't even gone thru that door u were gonna? or is it just u were so freaked out u were runnin away and ran into a trap u knew was there but didn't even think bout it? Hehe, i heard a voice chanting a spell on the ED website and i just bout pissed myself right there! I can't wait to be pissed outa my shorts :p! :eek:

There's so many different sanity effects. I'm trying not to spoil anything in this thread. I've encountered quite a few, some made me laugh, some made me want to kill Denis. Some you barely notice.

[Jason1]

Ill agree that RE wasnt all that scary. Silent Hill on the other hand...that was scary. I only played a little of it, but those babies might have been the scariest thing in a videogame ever. You never knew where they would appear, why they were there, you couldnt kill them...they didnt do anything...they were just plain spooky...

Im thinking ED prolly has scary stuff like that...more stuff that messes with your head, makes you think, not like RE stuff, that is just like crap jumping out at you.

[gekko]

Originally posted by DeathsHand
I think you're just a wuss... :p

RE isn't scary.... like BF said, it's just like things pop out and startle you... that's not scary.... and it didn't even really happen that much in RE :p

I doubt ED will scare me... but I dunno... I don't have that giant HDTV that takes up the whole wall along with a sound system that makes it feel like there's an earthquake going on like gekko has so... :rolleyes:

:sneaky:

Can anybody spare 50 bucks? :(

Actually, I only got a 27" HDTV. Not worth spending thousands considering they don't even know what the standards for digital broadcasts will be yet. But I am playing in 16:9 and it's sweet.

And if you want to experience ED, you need to play alone, with no light, the sound turned up as loud as you can have it (or wear headphones), and without a guide. It be fun.

As for Ed scaring you, RE didn't scare me. Only that once when the dog jumps through the window in the original game. But ED... ED is another story all together. ED won't scare you? Two words for you: Bath tub. Ok, so I made it two words, so what? :mad:

[DeathsHand]

Originally posted by gekko
As for Ed scaring you, RE didn't scare me. Only that once when the dog jumps through the window in the original game. But ED... ED is another story all together. ED won't scare you? Two words for you: Bath tub. Ok, so I made it two words, so what? :mad:


You mean...

*spoiler or something*






*presses examine* *camera swoops down to tub* * screaming noise as you see yourself lying dead in the tub*.....





*end that spoiler thing*


Didn't scare me, if that's what you're talking about ;) I saw it in a movie... That's just another jump out at you thing... only it does it with sounds only and the screen flashes too, right? That's sorta like the noises in Silent Hill that come from nowhere... only in Silent Hill, they're meant to come from nowhere.... "People are afraid of what they can't see" or whatever the hell that lead developer dude said :p

[Night Stormer]

NOOO! i never meant to read that spoiler! Dammit, i was misslead... i didn't realise u were givin a spoiler warning untill i finished reading it :p Please tell me he's wrong... he's wrong right? yeah... of course he's wrong ;)

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Jonbo298


http://www.goblindirect.com/MainContent/prodDetail.asp?prodID=464&AffiliateID=63

If you can hold off, you can just get this. It makes your European(I think that is what you have) 'Cube region free. I wish they would make a U.S. one, unless some other company has.:unsure:
Thanks for that!!

Is it out yet?

And why do you want one for the US cube??

I will definetly look into this!

BTW who's in the avatar?

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Jonbo298


http://www.goblindirect.com/MainContent/prodDetail.asp?prodID=464&AffiliateID=63

If you can hold off, you can just get this. It makes your European(I think that is what you have) 'Cube region free. I wish they would make a U.S. one, unless some other company has.:unsure:
Thanks for that!!

Is it out yet?

And why do you want one for the US cube??

I will definetly look into this!

BTW who's in the avatar?

[quiet mike]

DsH please edit your spoiler warning because it's not clear enough that it really is. Luckly I already passed that, but I haven't read one single real spoiler on the game because I want to expierence it myself. I knew that game was going to be good so I haven't watched any videos and didn't read any previews or reviews in order not to spoil it.


I had a few insanity effects myself. Only one got me killed, the others were funny and one spooked me.

[Drunk Hobbit]

:( I read the spoiler... *sticks pencil into ear to kill short term memory*

[JamesDark]

Originally posted by gekko

ED won't scare you? Two words for you: Bath tub. Ok, so I made it two words, so what? :mad:

DAMNIT BRIAN I DIDN'T GET THERE YET! :mad: STOP SPOILING!

;)

This game r0x0rs my b0x0rs.

I didn't experience many sanity effects because only after I finished playing for 2 hours did I realize that FINISHING ENEMIES OFF MAKES YOU REGAIN SANITY!!!!

*pouts* I wanna go crazy. :(

[Drunk Hobbit]

Originally posted by JamesDark
*pouts* I wanna go crazy. :(

But didn't you- oh, you mean in the game...

[Jonbo298]

Originally posted by bobcat

Thanks for that!!

Is it out yet?

And why do you want one for the US cube??

I will definetly look into this!

BTW who's in the avatar?

It says release date 7/20/02. But I'm not sure if its out yet. I want one for the US one so I can play all region games(since I am in the US). Well, I can't find a good close up of Stacy Keibler's face or something like that, so I resized a pic and made it resize to look the best quality. Plus, I got it down to the max. GT allows for pixel size, thats why it didn't turn out too great:unsure:. But I will change it eventually:D

[The_Dunadan]

how can sanity affects kill you:unsure: i've been playing it and it hasn't happened to me. do you mean when the sanity get really low that it starts taking your health too?

the game is pretty sweet. i have a feeling its going to be shorter than i expected though:( i think i'm already half way through it but i dunno. i'm the archeologist right now. haven't had much sanity affects cause i'm just too good:D definately my favorite cube game so far though.

[Zen]

Originally posted by Night Stormer
HELL YEAH!! I'm SOOO psyched for it!! i haven't been freaked out for a long time and i'm realllly wanting this!!! So ur sayin that when an insanity effect happens, your characters mind thinks its really real and it kills ya? even tho u hadn't even gone thru that door u were gonna? or is it just u were so freaked out u were runnin away and ran into a trap u knew was there but didn't even think bout it? Hehe, i heard a voice chanting a spell on the ED website and i just bout pissed myself right there! I can't wait to be pissed outa my shorts :p! :eek:



heh, that voice in the site is actually backwards talk, if you record it and reverse it back to normal your whole "creepy spell thing" will turn into a guy saying "I gotta take a leek so bad i can taste it!"

you should try that out.

[gekko]

Originally posted by JamesDark
*pouts* I wanna go crazy. :(

No you don't, trust me. And if you wanna go insane more, choose the green path.

[gekko]

Originally posted by The_Dunadan
how can sanity affects kill you:unsure: i've been playing it and it hasn't happened to me. do you mean when the sanity get really low that it starts taking your health too?

the game is pretty sweet. i have a feeling its going to be shorter than i expected though:( i think i'm already half way through it but i dunno. i'm the archeologist right now. haven't had much sanity affects cause i'm just too good:D definately my favorite cube game so far though.

Ya, low sanity can take your health too. And you're only on Chapter 6. And the game keeps getting longer and longer with each character.

[quiet mike]

Liesten to Gekko. The sanity meter can go down really fast with the first (young) characters since they don't have a lot of life experience and get spooked easier. And finishing monsters off recover sanity but not as fast as it goes down. Plus maybe you haven't reached the sanity meter start up yet since you played only 2 hours. It beginis only when you meet the first blue zombie.

[Night Stormer]

Originally posted by Zen



heh, that voice in the site is actually backwards talk, if you record it and reverse it back to normal your whole "creepy spell thing" will turn into a guy saying "I gotta take a leek so bad i can taste it!"

you should try that out.

LOL!!! ya right! really? :lol:

[DeathsHand]

It's just one very short insanity effect meant to make you jump... jeez yous guys... It's like saying that dogs are gonna jump out of the windows in RE... but nobody would say "OH YOU RUINED IT!" about that... :p

Now if you went down and listed every single thing place that things pop out, that would be annoying..... but still.. :sneaky:

But you guys have moved on... :D

yeah uhh... ED... umm... r0x0rz?

[Drunk Hobbit]

Originally posted by Night Stormer


LOL!!! ya right! really? :lol:

LMAO!!! Zen was right.

"Geez (might be please), I gotta take a leak so bad i can taste it!"

hehehehhe

[The_Dunadan]

*SPOILERS (SORT OF)*











the game did get long with dr lindsey, the archeologist. i think i was insane the entire time! the affects were pretty cool. my limbs started falling off and stuff. my head fell off and started quoting hamlet too. then i thought i accidently reset the game once! um.....i went through a door and came out a zombie! i was one till i got killed as him, then back to normal. then he was always yelling and shooting at things not there:unsure: but what irony that he was the only one to survive! i wish more would survive. the guy who said damn a lot and went kind of crazy was a cool chapter. saw his ghost running around the mansion earlier. the statue with the turning head is feaking me out! and whoever is calling the mansion needs to quit it!!! the paul luther one was disturbing:eek: one of his hallucinations was pretty weird. i'm on the big fat blue guy now. i was also wondering if there are any hidden characters. i read after you beat it twice you get a character select, so maybe some hidden ones appear there.














*SPOILERS OVER (SO IS THE POST:))

[Night Stormer]

Originally posted by gekko


No you don't, trust me. And if you wanna go insane more, choose the green path.

No, no more please ;) i'm prolly reading into this a bit too much but i'm guessin that red is the easier since green is harder and the meanings of the colors are reversed... *Noo, i'm to smart for my own good ;) that is if i'm right... *

[gekko]

Umm... not really. The green path makes it harder to keep your green meter up. Red makes it harder to keep your red meter up. Blue makes it harder to keep your blue meter up.

Now think about it, what meter would red deal with? :p

And actually, I heard blue is hardest, for reasons you'll understand a little ways into the game.

[cubeman420]

I choose blue and it hasn't been too bad so far, although I just cleared chapter 4.

[gekko]

Originally posted by cubeman420
I choose blue and it hasn't been too bad so far, although I just cleared chapter 4.

Well keep in mind, chapter 4 isn't too far into the game. I'm trying to make this thread spoiler free, otherwise I'd explain why blue is the hardest.

[quiet mike]

Well Gekko I got the red path and you are right. I've had to use the amulet and the recovery quite a few times just to keep it up to survive trough battles. So I just can't immagine how a guy low on blue can go up against a boss.

[cubeman420]

Well I guess I'll find out why when I get further into it. At least I can get the hardest one outta the way first.

[manasecret]

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Yeah, gekko, with the girl in the second chapter and all those blades, my sanity was long gone and I just wanted to run run run.. Then I realized the game (!) was messing with my head, and I knew I might die, so I took it slower.

Then in the Charlemagne chapter when I was about to fight the final boss is when that sanity effect that empties your inventory hit. Of course I think everyone knows that effect, yet while I was getting my ass kicked I just wasn't thinking and I thought maybe all my stuff had disappeared when I died (for some reason with that boss it let me die and come back to life, twice). Then the screen flashed and even then I didn't realize what the insanity effect was... I thought maybe the whole boss fight was an insanity effect. Finally figured it out... but, damn, this game is messing with my head. Those knocks on doors are really creepy, too.



















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[JamesDark]

Originally posted by gekko


No you don't, trust me. And if you wanna go insane more, choose the green path.

I did orginally choose the green path, and I went freakin' bonkers in Karim's level.

Insanity = :D

[Night Stormer]

ok, so i'm not too smart for my own good *phew, i wuz gettin worried there for a sec ;)* Anyways.. i dun know wut one to choose! i dun wanna loose health or magick... i guess insanity wouldn't be too hard to manage... as long as i hacked away at everything i saw :D... Do you gain back sanity if u just hurt em and run away or do u have to kill the little bastards?

[Mushlafa]

Originally posted by Night Stormer
ok, so i'm not too smart for my own good *phew, i wuz gettin worried there for a sec ;)* Anyways.. i dun know wut one to choose! i dun wanna loose health or magick... i guess insanity wouldn't be too hard to manage... as long as i hacked away at everything i saw :D... Do you gain back sanity if u just hurt em and run away or do u have to kill the little bastards?

Well first you chop off some body parts.. or blow them off in the ase of using a gun... then they fall on the ground and you have to press the B button and it finishes them.. and once you finish them.. you get your sanity back

So the answer to your question is no...

[Night Stormer]

does that gun she has, have unlimited amo?

[gekko]

No.

[quiet mike]

Sanity is very hard to regain since some enemies take more of your sanity meter than you get back after you finsih them. I can barely keep it in the 3/4 of the bottom up to 1/2. And I'm on the red path. Also I haven't found any spells that help you gain sanity back.

[gekko]

Recover using the green alignment. Or purple, which does health too.

[Mushlafa]

my friends sanity hardly ever gets below half.. he kills every guy he sees and never ever just runs past someone... thats not fun.. IMO :p

We're playin as the monk now

[Plastic0006]

I really wanna buy this game now I rented it and got the blockbuster game pass I'm only to Karim's Level and then

*Spoiler Alert dont read this unless you've passed chapter 4*





The three head guy made me lose my sanity and my head and everything came off and i came back then right when i came back he just started killing me and I died... :(




*end of spoiler continue to read*


That is really weird and it was driving me crazy in real life so i took a break from the game to see what everyone else was saying about it. Well now i need a favor can i have 50 bucks nebody??

Well newayz this game is way scarier than resident evil but alot easier if you run up and attack the head first then whack off the arms of everything you see.

Then do your finishing move which is sweet.



I 4got to ask how many chapters are there?

[quiet mike]

Well since there are 12 playable characters I'm guessing there are 11 chapters unless there are repeats of characters. Also since you barely started you haven't seen much Starting with chapter 6 the levels are at least 3X bigger than before and they probably will get even longer since I just started 7. And you get new BIG enemies and stuff.

[Night Stormer]

WAAAA :baby: I didn't get it yet :( i never got to the store this week :( *sigh*

[Nine Inch Nail]

I'm still deciding which I like better...Eternal Darkness or Resident Evil. :hmm:

[thatmariolover]

Originally posted by Biohazard
I'm still deciding which I like better...Eternal Darkness or Resident Evil. :hmm:

........Err........

I guess you're welcome to your opinion :snickers:

Anyway, I actually can't get the game for the time being, but I've played it at some friends houses. I've gotten to like.. Chapter 9 in like... 9 hours. So.... I'm kinda moving through the game like lightning. I guess that's what happens when you've prepared yourself for a game for so long.

But I've watched my friends play for hours on end... I've seen about 5 chapters of red and blue, and then I got to mine in green. I think that just because of the sanity effects, green is the most worthwhile path to go on. It's just fun to go insane.

If you play the game right, you'll never die. You just have to be smart. There are many ways to defeat enemies (magick is a lot of fun), and each one is going to have incredibly different degrees of effectiveness in different situations. The battle system is awesome. In fact, it's one of the best I've ever used.

Anyway, that's just my little bit. I could go on for about 12 pages, but I won't.

[Blix]

Originally posted by Shadow_Link


Well... Er, these two games are totally different. First and foremost, Clive Barker's Undying is in first person. Even though the game is good, I doubt it will touch Eternal Darkness in terms of fright factor and immersion. Just what I wanted to know. Cuase I own Undying and it's the closest comparison I can make.

[Night Stormer]

hehe, i've been playin this game for bout an hour or so and i came up to a couple of insanity effects :D one where i went into a room and i wuz really tiny and the other where it looked like my tv turned off for 2 seconds... also another where i wuz just standin there and it flashed.... i dunno wut happened there. its weird, when u go insane the camera tilts... Wut happened to the centurian after he took an artifact? didn't quite catch that... did he stop that weird lookin thing with the teeth or did he help it? it squeeled a bit :p but i had the volume low cuz its late and i dun want to wake the parents so i missed sum stuff...

[DeathsHand]

I renteded ze game..... 'tis a good game... better than I thought it would be at first, but not as quite good as I thought it would be leading up to it's released (^_^... and not as good as some peoplez wuz making it out to be...

I dunno what the hell gekko was talking about about it being so scary cuz I don't find it the slightest bit scary :p And when I was playing as Max he was going freaky jeaky crazy, lemme tell you (@_@

And so far the combat is (surprise) repetitive... like I thought it'd be... At least to me it is... I guess maybe I don't have any big offensive magick spells (if there are any)...

And I heard a bunch of peoples talking like "OOOooOoOo you can make your own spells and sh*t!" but really it's like there's no point in making them until you get the little paper that tells you what it is... because you don't even need it until then... :unsure:

And I thought sanity would play a bigger role... I picked the green path, and I don't go insane very much (except for that time as max and some other time as some other guy)... I kill all the enemies I see and use recover spells... *shrugs* some might say "OH THAT'S BORING!" but umm isn't like the point of games to do good and get through them? I mean aside from having fun... And intentionally running from enemies just because it screws you up is stupid, IMO... Although I've had to run from enemies a few times... and erm... nothing really INSAAAAANE happened :unsure:

And they were talking about how there are more subtle ones... well that's nice, but for every character, the subtle ones are the SAME DAMN THING EVERYTIME!...

Bah... I think the people making this game out to be soooo amazingly good were just desperate for another gamecube game... :unsure:

Still though I give it like an 8 out of 10 :D

There were no spoilers in that were there? *checks post*... Don't see any (^_^

[JamesDark]

I gotta admit, this game is fun and all... But if the EB's in Canada had the "take back after 10 days for another game or your money back" that the US ones do, I'd take advantage of it.

To put it simply... it doesn't hold my interest. Maybe that's because I hate Karim's level, or because I've been continuously having to repeat parts of it... I don't know.

It's very similar to Danny's predicament. He bought a Cube and rented RL, and is playing Pokemon Gold instead. I bought Eternal Darkness, and know I'm playing Oracle of Seasons and Mario Golf on GBA instead.

Only time will tell.

[quiet mike]

DeathsHand! How far are you into it?

The combat is indeed repetitive, if you use the same weapon. But you can use magic on the weapons and that affects how you kill an enemie.

Also the magic you actually need right before you get the scrools in most cases. But first time you don't realize that, so you go backwords. That's why time is cut in half the second time people play. They make the spell on their own and use it at the right times so they don't need to backtrack. But the game is made in such way that the first time it doesen't even seem you backtrack since you just explore. But then you know where you have to go and all.

[DeathsHand]

Errrmmmmmmm I am at like.... Chapter 10 maybe? Edward.... yep.... I been playing like 8 and a half hours methinks...

"The combat is indeed repetitive, if you use the same weapon. But you can use magic on the weapons and that affects how you kill an enemie."

But I usually find one weapon that's better than the others and stick to it... and don't cast magic on weapons because err... usually I don't need to :p

[Night Stormer]

heh, i usually chop off all the guys heads in the room so their not chasin after me and i finish em all of and i find u can do that and loose minimal health. how do u guys kill em?

[Blade Runner]

Originally posted by Night Stormer
how do u guys kill em?

I cut off their heads, let them hit each other, play marco polo with them, dress them in funny clothes, pin them to the wall, then I tickle them to death! Er....but thats just me:p