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Have you ever been trapped in a nightmare?

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a gripping first-person perspective horror story full of mystery, darkness, and demons lurking in the shadows inducing a constant sense of dread, is available 75% off on GOG.com. That's only $4.99 only for the first 48 hours, to get your DRM-free copy!

Thousands of pages have been written on the anatomy of fear. It's one of the most basic emotions shaping the human psyche and dictating our actions. But how many of us actually know fear? Not the tingling sensation that something's wrong and you should be worried, but actual terror that's caused by constant, lethal, and very real, yet unfamiliar threat. This is a game that, according to many, comes as close to inducing that state, as possible for a computer game. Praised for its gripping atmosphere, perfect pacing, and involving gameplay, it's one of the most prominent--in not the most prominent--modern achievements in terror fiction.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts you in a situation with no escape and the only thing you can do is to push forward, deeper into the nightmare that's becoming more morbid and terrifying by the minute. You will find yourself exploring a half-ruined castle, that witnessed many acts of madness and inhumane cruelty. Deprived of all memories, hunted by spawns of evil, forced to behold sights that shatter your sanity, you will venture into the darkness with no real hope of ever emerging victorious. Mixing a fascinating story, terrifying setting, and well-executed design, this title deserves a place in every horror fan collection.

Are you ready to inject your mind with an excess dose of poisonous terrors? Empty your bladder, switch off the lights, put on your headphones, and throw yourself head-first into Amnesia: The Dark Descent, for only $4.99 on GOG.com. The 75% discount offer lasts until Saturday, July 27, at 9:59AM GMT.
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SCPM: The dev just wrote this today:
"Just going through the motions with GOG, I spoke a little quickly before, but it will be with them soon…"
http://thelordsofmidnight.com/blog/2013/07/12/arise-midnight/#comments
Well, as I said last week:

Maybe next week. :/
Now that's an introductory bargain! Bought without hesitation, and it looks like a real peach of a game. Thanks GOG!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS! Thankyou, GOG!

Wishlisted for now, gonna buy it eventually :)
Post edited July 25, 2013 by Tarhiel
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Ghorpm: It's definitely not the type of games I love and therefore I would like to learn a bit about it. Could somebody answer a few questions? Thanks a lot:
1) How difficult is this game?
2) How is the level designs? Is it something more like a maze where you will get lost constantly or is it rather small and uncomplicated?
3) Is there a lot of backtracking here?
4) How about quick time events?
1) I would say its quite easy, dying actually makes that section of the game more easier.

2) There may be one or two levels that may confuse you but most of the areas are fairly easy not to get lost and some are small.

3) Apart from entering the main big room hubs that leads to the different areas of the game there isn't really any backtracking in my opinion.

4) From what I remember there are no quick time events.


Also for anyone thinking of trying the Justine DLC. Just be warned it has no save points and dying closes the game. It is quite short though. :)
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SCPM: The dev just wrote this today:
"Just going through the motions with GOG, I spoke a little quickly before, but it will be with them soon…"
http://thelordsofmidnight.com/blog/2013/07/12/arise-midnight/#comments
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Shaolin_sKunk: Well, as I said last week:

Maybe next week. :/
Bah, that would have been nice to see today.
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Ghorpm: It's definitely not the type of games I love and therefore I would like to learn a bit about it. Could somebody answer a few questions? Thanks a lot:
1) How difficult is this game?
2) How is the level designs? Is it something more like a maze where you will get lost constantly or is it rather small and uncomplicated?
3) Is there a lot of backtracking here?
4) How about quick time events?
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xxxIndyxxx: 1)It's not really difficult. A couple of section might get you stumped but the game is rather forgiving and obivious in what needs to be done. In puzzle section you can't put things in wrong so even if you don't understand it you will find it by trying stuff. Pro tip: you cannot fight monsters in any way.

2)You probably won't get lost. it's basicly a string of small hubs where you have to solve the main puzzle by getting puzzle pieces in de adjacent rooms. When you solve the puzzle you go to the next hub.

3) No real backtracking. If you can't progress in a new room you'll know fast enough. Going back to a hub doesn't count ;)

4) As far as i know: no QTE's
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G-Doc: I'll try to answer to the best of my memory.

1. Not that difficult once you get the hang of do's and don'ts. Some puzzles I found challenging, but not impossible.
2. It's not very linear, but I wouldn't call the castle a maze. There are hubs with a number corridors leading out, but they pretty simple to explore.
3. Some. I didn't find it tedious.
4. I don't remember any. The game tries for natural, intuitive interaction.
Thanks guys! I wanted to make it clear because those four factors usually frustrate me a lot. I think I will give it a try. I like new things and believe it or not - I've never played this game. I've seen people mentioning it here or there but I've never checked up what they are actually talking about - I'm not really up to date with games ;)
great game, but so scary I haven't played it much
not a chance...

I had serious problems even with the first Penumbra and its first area where there were no enemies... just the sounds made me turn the game off...
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timppu: Does the HiB bundle version include the same DLC? I can't really tell from my HiB page as it has no description for the game. How do you tell after installation, whether the DLC is there?
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jamyskis: The HIB bundle version has the Justine DLC. So does the Desura version.
Ok thanks for the confirmation. So I guess I'm not in a hurry to get the GOG version.

As it happens, when I recently checked the version I had downloaded from the developer's page a long time ago, it was corrupted. (The Penumbra Trilogy was fine, though.). No matter, the downloaded HiB version of Amnesia was fine, and apparently even newer version (I think 1.2.1 vs 1.2).

At the same time I noticed that quite a few games I had downloaded from GOG were also corrupted... I think they were corrupted already upon download, ie. the downloader client didn't detect the corruption. Highly irritating.

All my downloaded HiB games in my local repository were fine though, possibly because I've always used the Bittorrent client option to download them from HiB. I've always found the torrent p2p technology to be the most fool-proof method to guarantee that a download comes to you totally uncorrupted. All other methods seem to be more or less "cross your fingers and hope for the best", even the ones which claim to have integrity checking during downloads (like the GOG downloader client)..
Post edited July 25, 2013 by timppu
Sad to say I own this on Steam. But I don't have any of the Penumbra games. Bring them to GOG and I will buy them. That's a promise.
Well done guys. Looks like I'll be getting this. :)
I LOVE YOU GOG!!!
Damned it! I bought that one ages ago for peanuts together with Penumbra Collection... The game is totally worth its price just for the creepy atmosphere and the fact that you have to figure out what to do... However with my backlog I haven't played it much... But anyway I'm happy this game is here - it's the scariest game out there according to PCPowerPlay (Aussie gaming mag).
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tfishell: But everyone who wants it has bought it already from a ton of different places, DRM-free.
Nope.

[And it's an argument that comes up time and again; but there's definitely a few people that will not yet have bought every game they might eventually want even if they have been released for a long while. I am on a 6 year old laptop. When I upgrade the next time - still might be a while - there's plenty of stuff out there that I haven't bought but might then.]
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JMich: Probably one of my few instabuys, but it's due to the discount.
Same here.

I've missed the Humble Bundle it was in, I missed it during the Steam summer sale, so now that it's released on gog (and with a discount), I've finally picked it up.
Post edited July 25, 2013 by DrYaboll