IGN Reviews – Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs Video Review

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1. You're better off playing SOMA.
   You're welcome.

2. 4 GB ram
   1gb vram on a crappy card
   Meanwhile the processor: i5 or jump out the window!!!

3. So far AMFP is actually my favorite in the series. This is literally one of the best stories I've ever experienced in a video game. Yes, it may not be scary as people say TDD is, but the environment, soundtrack, and the gruesome and heart touching story more than make up for me. While the sanity system and the lantern oil sounded cool, I'm actually kinda glad it is gone in AMFP. And hearing that they made AMFP a lot linear, whereas TDD is more open-ended. Now before you grab your pitchforks and attack me, it made the pacing of the game for me a lot better when I played this and then tried 3-4 hours of TDD. Because you aren't always just scrounging around for supplies or you are stuck because you ran out of fuel and your sanity is low. Or you don't know where to go, which has happened to me a lot with TDD. I can understand why people are upset that those are gone or it isn't scary, but I think you should always even then look for pros, even if the game doesn't truly hold up to it's predecessor. You get an excellent soundtrack, amazing sound design, and one of the best stories ever told in a horror game. I didn't mind this at all though considering I've been becoming more and more a fan of story-focused games to be honest. I love AMFP, and I hope I've at least reached you in some sort of way or capacity. Thanks for reading my comment!

4. Which one do you guys recommend ? The dark descent or a machine for pigs ?

5. Who's here ? After Epic games made it free ..

6. Just so you know this game is free on epic games store

7. It's 2020, play with Gsync or Freesync. The horizontal tearing, omg…

8. Free on epic, right?

9. anyone here in 2020??

10. Is it worth playing the Dark Descent first or should I go for AMFP first?

11. I played the first game and this one. I am a fan of these games and i am ready for amnesia rebirth. I hope frictional games learned what went wrong on soma and create another awesome master craft of a game. ♥️♥️♥️ All hearts and hopes

12. how did outlast get a 7.8 but this get 8.3?

13. Its free tomorrow on epic games

14. 8.3? i think you meant 5.0, the so called psychological horror genre is a terrible genre, and only manics love this.

15. There was this puzzle I couldn’t finish so I gave up on it. 10/10

16. Heads up. The game is free this month (October 2017) for PlayStation Plus users.

17. free in oct ps+…looks worth it ive never actually heard of this game so i guess its def worth a look

18. Screen tearing gallor on this vid, I couldn't play a whole game like that.

19. I can't stand when a reviewer tells you how long a game is or how long the campaign is. You can do a successful review without it. It's a spoiler for me. At least say spoiler warning. Now the entire game I'll keep thinking about that time. My opinion.

20. ManBearPig

21. This game is seriously scary af. Check out my YouTube channel to see me and my roommate Andrew's reaction to Amnesia The Dark Descent. It scared us shitless!

22. i'd say this is a pretty forgettable game.    

23. I think they're both scary, and this was scarier than the dark descent for me. I know that's incredibly different than how everyone else feels but I'm doing both games on my channel and the sequel is scaring me a lot more.

24. I still feel the first Penumbra was the best. Sure, it had clunky controls when it came to fighting, but it was meant to finish the game without fighting a single time. The story was absolutely great, the end was fantastic, the puzzles were awesome, maybe a bit harder, but i liked them very much. The original amnesia came very close to that, but the first Penumbra will always have a special place for me as one of the best games I have ever played. This Amnesia just sucks, imo.

25. I felt this game was pretty disappointing.  I felt the darkness was more annoying than creepy – the point of using darkness to scare people is walking INTO it, not knowing what lurks there and finding your way out.  But when you're always in the dark, it actually becomes less scary.  I was also disappointed about how little action there was.  I wasn't expecting fight scenes, but more often than not, whenever a manpig was near by, there is no active threat.

    The game's story was the only thing that was interesting, and even at that, it was a little bit on the difficult side to figure out, or at least felt a little inconclusive.

26. Can thi reviewer do more? I like his reviews and his voice :p hahahaaha

27. I think this game is greatly underappreciated. I do agree a 100% that the gameplay changes they made were pretty shit and The Dark Descent is still a better game, but the story of A Machine For Pigs was leaps and bounds beyond its predecessor. It's just a shame they the gameplay wasnt on par with the first one.

28. What is wrong with this game… it lags so much, even on lowest settings. … My PC is a beast, it runs all games on highest settings. Can someone tell me a fix to this? 

    4820k overclocked to @4,5 and i have a r9 290x gpu and 16gb ram(not that this matters anything). 

29. If the original amnesia did on medium settings, will this one play on my trashy intel hd 1000 graphics card?

30. amnesia  a machine for pigs is not as god or scarier as the original but is still scarier then dead space or fear because it understands subtlety and the fear of unknown

31. I can see screen tearing on your video review.  I was having the same problem with this game as well as the first Amnesia.  

32. Not as good as the first game. It was less scary too. They took out the whole inventory and item collecting. DOnt need to keep your lantern going with oil and no more sanity potions. Why? 

33. To be fair, the first Amnesia wasn't scary either.

34. So, the puzzles wont all be throw a rock at it? Because I know most of the way thru the original when I came to puzzles I threw a rock at everything and I work sometimes.  

35. Jesus IGN the video quality is terrible! The game shows aliasing, tearing and your controller handling is emberassing. If you review games on pc at least show us what it COULD look and play like with proper settings.

36. The quality of the game really depends on what your personal taste is. If you're wanting a story that is shown to you, this is it. However, if you're wanting something that you participate in and that makes you a key component in the story, this is a bit disappointing. Personally, I didn't find the game all that scary, but again, it's all about what you prefer. 

37. Amnesia isn't a horror game it screws with sanity, not fear

38. You have to agree that, when you first started this game you were excited! I know I was, because I LOVED The Dark Descent, but then as you progress through the game it's more about story less horror, more on the creepy side, and it is pretty calm. It has stupid cheap jump scares as well. In Amnesia The Dark Descent, you actually feared for your life! Remember the prison part? Still am frightened by it to this day! In fact, I still play The Dark Descent to this day! Machine for pigs was a total disappointment. The Dark Descent fans were expecting an even more scare but got a waste of time and money. Think, would you sit down and show your friends Machine for pigs? 

39. It's a great horror, not as scary as the original so give it a try

    Who agree

40. How did this get a higher score than Outlast?!

41. This game really disappoints!! Don't support this shit.

42. bearguy you are calling this game story mediocre? wtf are you talking about it has some of the best writing ever and soundtrack yeah the gameplay sucks but its better than most things we get these days everyone just says "add more guns and explosions and bullet types and godzilla screw the story"

43. It was an AWSOME story but amnesia is about actual horror and this game lacks it. I'm not staying up at night because I fear a PIG is going to kill me.

44. The Dark Decent is 1,000,000x times better than this. I still play it till this day and it's my favorite horror game.

45. This game sucks… Holy shit I actually hate it as a thing on this planet. No fear whatsoever. I got scared once and that was because I was starting to realize I wasted 20 bucks on that pile of shit. No sanity? No items?? And the story was mediocre at best, and I'm being generous with that.

46. They tried way too hard to make the story deep; if they want it deep then get better writers.

47. Also, having those things make it more enjoyable because it's harder.

48. You can have that and those other things. You don't need to flesh out a game to make it good.

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