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Agony developers Mad Mind Studios presents their new game Paranoid.
- Thread starter IbizaPocholo
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Saw this earlier today... That trailer makes it look damn good, but based on Agony, I will wait and see.
My hope is that since this doesn't take place in Hell and is a lot less "over the top" than Agony was, that they will be able to do a much better job, because I do think it is a talented team.... I am just hoping for a lengthy, Silent Hill inspired Survival Horror game.
My hope is that since this doesn't take place in Hell and is a lot less "over the top" than Agony was, that they will be able to do a much better job, because I do think it is a talented team.... I am just hoping for a lengthy, Silent Hill inspired Survival Horror game.
Yay for zombie hookers...I guess. Hope its better than Agony and they made the controls feel a lot less floaty. This does appear more weighty from the video but we'll see what the final product looks like. Cautiously optimistic.
Wow, I'm not gonna lie. I thought that we are never going to hear of this studio again.
It looks great but Agony also looked good so...
It looks great but Agony also looked good so...
I thought the first trailer for Agony looked good, because I liked their depiction of hell (in that trailer). Not getting duped again.
Agony Unrated (the "director's cut" edition of the original shall we say) corrected a lot of glaring issues was a bit more well received and sold fairly well.
Also Madmind Studio was on the list of studios that received a video game creation subsidy from the CNC in France when it was published last month.
... Does that zombie hooker have a single tit on her back?
Between this and Agony, these dudes have lady issues they need to work out.
Between this and Agony, these dudes have lady issues they need to work out.
I hope this time this game will work without problems. They need to custom modify UE4 to not look like the base generic design. They are barely touching it. I hope it will run well too.
Yeah I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt with Agony because the gameplay concept was so fucking weird already but it definitely seems like they hate women.
Agony made an incredible first impression pre-Kickstarter, but the final game was hardcore garbage on an epic scale with greater-than-average visuals. I don't necessarily share the same extreme interpretation of it as say Patrick Klepek when it comes to it being inherently a women-hating enterprise, but I would absolutely share the criticism that it is one of -- if not *the* worst game -- of 2018.
So, with Paranoid I'll be coming at it from the other end: I expect everything about this game to be garbage, and it will be guilty until proven innocent in terms of quality with me.
This video so far indicates to me that that is the correct approach.
So, with Paranoid I'll be coming at it from the other end: I expect everything about this game to be garbage, and it will be guilty until proven innocent in terms of quality with me.
This video so far indicates to me that that is the correct approach.
Thing is Agony came across as woman hating because the game just wasn't feature complete once you play Agony Unrated and play from the succubus perspective a lot more things make sense. Thing is that should have been in the original release in the first place.
Besides I don't quite appreciate to see an indie studio making me double dip just to get the full picture.
Hence why I hope that this time around once the game hit the shelves everything is in the game.
So yes you guessed it won't buy day one and will wait to see if they try that shit once again.
Besides I don't quite appreciate to see an indie studio making me double dip just to get the full picture.
Hence why I hope that this time around once the game hit the shelves everything is in the game.
So yes you guessed it won't buy day one and will wait to see if they try that shit once again.
Suposedly the Uncut version of Agony is an outright decent game if you're into that sort of thing. They seem to have improved the graphics, game mechanics, level design, and that sort of thing.
I'm curious which side of the fence this new game will fall on. I think the shock value for the sake of shock value content is not a great idea.
I'm hoping this game turns out better then Agony did. Hope they get better voice actors this time around.
Agony Uncut was free fot existing owners on Steam, was it not?
Console owners definetely got the short end of the stick, though. The Uncut version is far more than just "uncut", and it doesn't seem consoles will be getting any of the changes.
Dunno in other countries but over here in "Space France" I had to shell out cash for Unrated despite owning the original.
This. There's clearly a hatred of women at work here.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. I respect them for try it again after the huge mess that was the first one
Basically for those who didn't play the Unrated version of Agony , it adds other modes of play and various other side stories that all gets tied together once you play from the perspective of the Succubus . And flip the entire thing on its head.
Problem is all of that should have been in the original release otherwise they wouldn't have faced the backclash and criticisms about them being misogyny appologists.
Now on the flip side this is their second creation (if you consider Unrated to be the game as it should have been ) in an other setup with complete different world and yet the first characters we see are barely clothed up ladies.
I mean at some point it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt here...
Problem is all of that should have been in the original release otherwise they wouldn't have faced the backclash and criticisms about them being misogyny appologists.
Now on the flip side this is their second creation (if you consider Unrated to be the game as it should have been ) in an other setup with complete different world and yet the first characters we see are barely clothed up ladies.
I mean at some point it's hard to give them the benefit of the doubt here...
I played the first levels of Agony Unrated, after finishing a playthrough of the original release at launch. It definitely feels like a more complete game, now. During my initial playthrough, I just liked walking through and looking at the environments. With Unrated, the gameplay feels more tense and I'm more interested in actually playing.
The problem with the launch of Agony was PlayWay. If Madmind publishes Paranoid on their own, I'll keep an eye on it. If PlayWay is involved, I'm out.
The problem with the launch of Agony was PlayWay. If Madmind publishes Paranoid on their own, I'll keep an eye on it. If PlayWay is involved, I'm out.
Regarding how they seem to portray women, the interplay of sex and violence is a fairly common thing in horror, as is a twisted representation of repressed psychological urges or fears about sex and sexuality.
I think what you're seeing here and in their last game is what happens when someone who doesn't quite understand subtlety or tact attempts to portray that but really only sort of understands the concepts and themes that they're trying to convey so instead you get a lot of nudity and shock value which comes across more as crass and clumsy at best and unfortunate at worst.
I think what you're seeing here and in their last game is what happens when someone who doesn't quite understand subtlety or tact attempts to portray that but really only sort of understands the concepts and themes that they're trying to convey so instead you get a lot of nudity and shock value which comes across more as crass and clumsy at best and unfortunate at worst.
Glancing at the Steam news page, it looks like only KS backers got the unrated version free. Previous owners got a 90% discount instead. I assume that has expired since.
People can at least have the faith that the developers will fix the game if it has a botched launch. Although "fix" can be open to interpretation. But the Steam reviews jumping from 46% positive (old version) to 76% positive (new version) is pretty decent. It reflects a developer listening to feedback and addressing problems people had with their game. Although there is a possibility that reviews are skewed positive by anti-censorship sentiment. But a 30% jump is nothing to sneeze at.
I gotta say, though. I'm surprised Agony Unrated is available for sale on Steam here in Australia. It would never get past Australia's classification board in a million years. I wonder how long before Steam start getting in trouble with governments over their new "pretty much anything goes" policies.
not much different than other developers and the rest of gaming culture, sadly
