Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Review by MandaloreGaming

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• mikyopii@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember playing this on my shitty laptop. Even then I immediately noticed the terrible blue fog.

  Then the game kept crashing on me when I entered the elevator after the big, above ground London part, so I never finished it.

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• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s over ten years old, what’s the review for?

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mandalore often does deep dives into older games that he personally enjoys.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Okay, thanks.

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  • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To add to OP’s comment: reviews are not only a means to form an opinion on wether to buy an upcoming title.

    Yeah, the game might be older, but there are still people out there who have not played it. But that’s beside the point - I, for example, watch this channel because I’m interested in Mandalore’s opinion, his take on a game. I have absolutely played A Machine for Pigs back in the day (and found it mediocre compared to the actual Frictional Games titles), so watching the video is akin to taking to a friend over a drink: “hey, remember xyz? that was a (great | crappy | forgettable) game…”

    This kind of content might take me back to a game I haven’t played in ages and makes me mentally engage with the title again - or it might put the spotlight on an obscure title few have ever heard of, or a rare forgotten gem that somehow was overlooked.

    Many players do not have a desire to only play the latest and newest games, but actively look for older titles, maybe due to nostalgia, maybe due to the games having a different focus, structure etc. back then. Not saying that “everything was better” in the olden days, but different strokes for different folks, right.

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s true, I’ve not come across anything like this with reviews many years later, just retrospectives in EDGE and stuff like that. I’m a fan of the Chinese Room and own the game, but I’ve not played it before. I’ll check the video later, least of all as I’ve been playing a lot more indie (and older) stuff of late.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The game still exists, why wouldn’t it be worth reviewing now ? Mandalore has not covered it before

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Usually reviews are for new games as old ones will have been covered in detail already.

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• CharlesReed@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This game gets a lot of (rather justified) flak, but I'll be honest, the first time I played this, it scared the bejeesus out of me. So much so that whenever I would play other games and the lights would start to flicker, my first thought would be "Fuck, the manpigs are coming."

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