How many of you have played Eternal Darkness?
How many of you remember Eternal Darkness?
And how many of you want a sequel to it?
Personally, I loved it. I still remember it.

I assume you mean Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem? And was this brought on by The Spoony Experiments recent review of it?

OT: Never played it, looks good though.

bodyklok:
I assume you mean Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem? And was this brought on by The Spoony Experiments recent review of it?

OT: Never played it, looks good though.

Whos recent review? And yes Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

I have played it!

And it scared the crap out of me!

Of course I want a sequel!

Man,it was good.

It was pretty good.
If a sequel came out, I might look into it.

I like the game, but oddly I didn't find it all that scary. It seems to me that if you're in control of your Sanity level, then the whole Insanity thing loses its effect.

Mordaci:

bodyklok:
I assume you mean Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem? And was this brought on by The Spoony Experiments recent review of it?

OT: Never played it, looks good though.

Whos recent review? And yes Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Spoonyies site, second one from the top.

He's a good reviewer, those aren't his best so check around the achieves if you want to look at some better ones.

I thought it was a pretty good game although it did fall down a few of the pit falls that puzzle/survival horror games usually fall for.

While most of the puzzles were interesting and clever there were a few that felt a bit arbitrary and there were a few fetch quests to boot. On some occasions the puzzles felt a little bit too simple (namely where a symbol appear on the wall and you've got to cast a spell that's the same alignment/colour) and on other occasions they were a bit too vague or unclear (I'm still stuck on the Monestary level for this very reason).

The insanity meter was interesting and shocking at first but after a while my bursts of insanity became readable and predictable to the point where I found myself laughing when weird shit happened rather than feeling uneasy (this in turn can kill the tension which is ultimately important to a horror game and is a shame considering the great effort that went into the H.P.Lovecraft-esc atmosphere and mood of the game).

I guess a sequel could be good but I get the feeling that it make the same mistake that most sequals make and sacrifice some of it's good aspects to counter the weaknesses of the first game.

I never got the chance to play it :(

Always wanted to, though.

Yes this could use a sequel.
Great game.

Brilliant game, I love it. I leant my copy to someone once and moaned constantly til it was given back..... Never again!

I really loved ED! I always made sure I was a little insane to see the sweet effects. I loved the passive ones like seeing a statue's head turn to watch you and bleeding walls or the sounds of monsters banging on doors. The "flashback" effects were great too. I think my fav was either falling apart or the first time it did the "mute" thing. So great. Story was awesome too.

Remember the part where the two servants get their heads blown open in the mansion? That part was crazy!

NuclearPenguin:
How many of you have played Eternal Darkness?

I HAVE.
I remember Eternal Darkness fondly.

How many of you remember Eternal Darkness?

See: Above

And how many of you want a sequel to it?

I'm still praying that the promo featured in one of the sanity effects was real.
Sanity's Redemption needs to come out now, Silicon Knights. Let's get on it.

ZeroMachine:
I never got the chance to play it :(

Always wanted to, though.

Check it out:
Click me.

The prices are surprisingly reasonable. And it's worth every cent.

Never played the game until recently. Funny this thread came up about a week after I finally found -and purchased- this game at a local game shop.

To say it was a great game for its time is certainly an accurate remark. To say it still holds up to games now-a-days would be a false statement. It has some neat things in it, such as the insanity meter. But why do we get to see it? That just makes it easy to judge how far we've gone. The effects are also sub par, boardering on interesting rather than scary. Overall, a cool concept, but falls short of making a spiritual successor to the Call of Cthulhu video game.

I played it. Finished on all three alignments. Loved every minute of it.

I'd surely want a sequel, but am not quite sure about the story. The game wasn't intended for a sequel I think and forcing one could ruin the fond memories of the original...

Well, here's hoping for a good sequel with Wii Motion plus requirement! (Sorry, I'm a Wii person) :P

I enjoyed it. I don't know if it merits a sequel, though. It was a good game, and maybe bigger environments and a non-fixed camera (in some places) would help a lot to make it better. It's been so long since I played it, though.. I should find it again and play it since I have my gamecube on my desk now, after all.
It was one of the few titles that made having a gamecube worth having.

That game scared the ever living shit out of me when I was a kid. I tried replaying it again recently, but the outdated graphics have finally gotten "too" outdated, and it just doesn't have the same impact anymore. Would love to see a sequel, preferably on a console that could actually get some attention. Would love to see the sequel they've been teasing us with.

Great game.

Not sure about a sequel though, doesn't really need one. Another game with similar themes and writing, with similar sanity effects would be a winner though.

Furburt:
I'm going to say it here, Eternal Darkness is a reason in itself to get a gamecube. If you have not played this game, your life is not complete. Perhaps the greatest survival horror game ever made, as well as one of the greatest games ever made. One of the few games I could legitimately call 'perfect'.

Get it, and die happy.

A sequel is needed, post haste.

Do you think it is OK to judge everyone who doesn't respond to this topic? Or would that be terrible? *puts on thinking hat*

Why did my thread get revived? o_o
Well, yay, people still love Eternal Darkness.

Just poking around on Wikipedia and found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Darkness:_Sanity's_Requiem
Regarding the possibility of a sequel! :-)
Not sure why it won't post the whole link? Ideas?
Well this bit is the important bit
''Denis Dyack, designer of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Too Human, said "absolutely yes" in July 2006 regarding the question of a possible sequel in his Too Human IGN blog. He stated that Silicon Knights intended for Eternal Darkness to be a stand-alone game, but the company has always intended to make more games set in the Eternal Darkness universe involving the Ancients.[33][34]
At Microsoft's Spring 2008 Showcase in San Francisco, Dyack confirmed to TVG that a return to the Eternal Darkness brand could be on the cards: "There is a chance; we love all the games we work on. We don't want to be pigeon-holed [into a genre], we want to be known for strong content...There's a strong chance we'll return to it, but there's no announcements yet."''
From Wikipedia, obviously.

I idn't find it scary at all. It was just a fun little game with a different style of play than most of the games I have and it made it interesting.

I think I got spoilered on all the scary bits though and thta's probalby why I wasn't freaked out though hte bathroom scene... meh that didn't scare me at all I kind of laughed a little.

Now I want to plaly it. I didn't manage to beat it. Only ran through it once and got to the boss but couldn't beat him.

I dont have the game with me but this spring break I'll bring it up.

Eternal Darkness... I never played it.

But Heart of Darkness. Now that was a game. Does anybody remember that?

Awesome game.

I am torn between thinking it works awesome as a stand alone game and sometimes it is better to be left wanting more. For that very reason though I would like another game because the last one left me wanting more. Conundrum. Silicon Knights would have to massively up their game though. A simple case of more of the same wouldn't cut it.

ive played it, beat it at least twice, still have it and obviously remember it. very cool game. i'd buy a sequel for sure, but the first game is enough for me if they never make a sequel.

It was pretty great, although the insanity effects didn't really fool me more than once or twice, perhaps. They should have included more believable "technical difficulties", ones not designed for specific TV huds. It could have done a lot more with audio, "changed the channel" and play a part of some movie, etc.
Effects affecting the game itself would have worked better too, perhaps by creating completely fake levels, bugs, etc.

Yes, I've played it. It was quite the mind fuck. I'd love the chance to play it again.
As for a sequel, no I don't think it needs one. Perhaps another game done in the same style with the same formula (a spiritual sequel maybe), but I think an actual sequel would only ruin it.