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Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
February 23 2012 14:08 GMT
#61
Dear Frictional games

Please keep the Amnesia feel intact. Don't pollute it with crappy cutscenes and hollywood style storyline.

A big fan!

Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
February 23 2012 14:19 GMT
#62
They're really going to call it A Machine for Pigs? Come on, seriously.
bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
February 23 2012 14:24 GMT
#63
That's definitely an inelegant name, but maybe it'll grow on us.
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ZackAttack
Profile Joined June 2011
United States884 Posts
February 23 2012 14:31 GMT
#64
I asolutely love the title, and I want to get my brother to play this cause he's really scared of this sort of thing.
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Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9221 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-23 15:10:38
February 23 2012 15:08 GMT
#65
I love the title! Sounds so weird and interesting.
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parkin
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
1082 Posts
February 23 2012 15:55 GMT
#66
The concept art is nice and the name is intriguing. I'm trying to imagine what a machine for pigs is. Maybe its a self sustaining machinery for breeding and slaughtering pigs for meat and something went wrong. Or maybe industry that is run by semi-intelligent pigs instead of humans for some reason. Probably not but will be fun(creepy) to find out!
mostly harmless
alypse
Profile Joined May 2010
2771 Posts
February 23 2012 16:00 GMT
#67
FUCK. YES.

Got you right from the title.

And I think we may need a petition to get day9 play it
KT Violet 1988 - 2012
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
February 23 2012 16:01 GMT
#68
I have a feeling that this "machine for pigs" doesn't have to do with pigs at all, but is rather a metaphor for something. Either way, I am amped as hell to play this game... though I'll need to purchase some new pants if I'm going to play, since my current ones will undoubtedly be soiled.
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Barteh
Profile Joined July 2011
Netherlands108 Posts
February 23 2012 16:10 GMT
#69
It doesn't have anything to do with pigs. Another quote that was given by the developers to explain the title was "This world is a machine fit only for pigs. Fit for the slaughtering of pigs."

Sounds great, in my opinion. First one was great, have high hopes for the second.
Chibithor
Profile Joined April 2011
Brazil514 Posts
February 23 2012 16:21 GMT
#70
Love the title. Pretty interesting how it's not developed by Frictional Games, makes me wonder what they're doing in the meantime.
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
February 23 2012 16:42 GMT
#71
Lol.

Please Day[9], contact the developer and organise a release stream
I think esports is pretty nice.
Hyren
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States817 Posts
February 23 2012 16:55 GMT
#72
On February 24 2012 01:01 Aeres wrote:
I have a feeling that this "machine for pigs" doesn't have to do with pigs at all, but is rather a metaphor for something.

Agreed.


"It's called Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs," he says. There's silence.

"A Machine for Pigs?" I ask. The pair start to laugh. I'm not sure if they're having a laugh at first. Grip hears the hesitation in my voice -- primarily because I wanted to make sure I got the name right -- and speaks up. He explains the first time he heard it, he was against it. "But Dan said, 'No. This is the name.' Now it has just grown on me. Now it can't be called anything else."

Pinchbeck, who is acting as lead writer and designer on the project at developer thechineseroom, explains the title and in one fell swoop my confusion in its selection is assuaged. There's a purpose to it both in a narrative sense and as a staple of Amnesia's theme: get people out of their comfort zone.
(from Joystiq.com)

^ Reading this helped me give them the benefit of the doubt on the name. At first the name sounds silly, but the more I think about it (and look at a few of the concept art pics) I get a more sinister vibe from the title. It's actually kind of fun to tell people there's a new Amnesia game coming out this year and see the look on their face when you tell them the title. "A Machine for Pigs" is definitely growing on me
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Omsomsoms
Profile Joined September 2011
Croatia194 Posts
February 23 2012 17:15 GMT
#73
The title definitely has an eerie feeling when you think about it in conjunction with Amnesia, and it's pretty smart that they named it something that will keep people thinking about it, rather than "AMNESIA 2: EVEN DARKLIER"
JethroSC
Profile Joined October 2011
Sweden83 Posts
February 23 2012 17:25 GMT
#74
Go swedish game developers! :3
NaNiwa, CranK, SaSe
killa_robot
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada1884 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-23 20:10:31
February 23 2012 20:08 GMT
#75
On February 24 2012 01:01 Aeres wrote:
I have a feeling that this "machine for pigs" doesn't have to do with pigs at all, but is rather a metaphor for something. Either way, I am amped as hell to play this game... though I'll need to purchase some new pants if I'm going to play, since my current ones will undoubtedly be soiled.


Agreed.

I think that it's a metaphor for greed (greedy as a pig) and the machine part is a literal machine. Given that it's about an industrialist, and that he wakes up inside a machine, the latter we can be almost sure of. Nature of the machine is anyone's guess, mine would be it creates some sort of fuel out of people, like the previous one did to an extent.
Candadar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
2049 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-24 02:06:44
February 24 2012 02:03 GMT
#76
TEASER



Kind of silly, but the "Ozy Mandias" thing as the video title has me intrigued.
Razakel
Profile Joined April 2011
Ireland466 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-24 02:32:30
February 24 2012 02:26 GMT
#77
On February 24 2012 11:03 Candadar wrote:
TEASER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHtkZjnNWk

Kind of silly, but the "Ozy Mandias" thing as the video title has me intrigued.


Thanks for the link, the name of the titular character of this game is Oswald Mandus. It nearly seems like a shorthand for his name, although some of the letters are clearly switched around (Mandus to Mandias) so that could just be bullshit.

Edit: Yeah nvm, after googling for a minute, I found that Ozymandias is a poem from the 19th century. Quote from wikipedia: "The central theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable complete decline of all leaders, and of the empires they build, however mighty in their own time.[4]"

The central character is an industry tycoon who goes on a failed expedition to Mexico, and contracts a mysterious illness that puts him into a fever for months. Could be a sly way of indicating this tycoons empire is going to fall down around him. Also one of the youtube comments suggested the scream in the video could be a pigs scream. I've never heard a pig scream, so I can't attest to that, but I think the phenomenon does exist.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
Supamang
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2298 Posts
February 24 2012 06:38 GMT
#78
On February 23 2012 23:19 Talin wrote:
They're really going to call it A Machine for Pigs? Come on, seriously.

I like the title. I mean it might sound a little clunky, but at least its not melodramatic, cliched, or pretentious. So many video game names are just played out, we get shit like "Dark Descending Shadow of Fallen Blackness Night" all the time. "A Machine for Pigs" is refreshingly simple and it actually makes me more curious as to whats gonna make it so scary.
matiK23
Profile Joined May 2011
United States963 Posts
February 24 2012 06:51 GMT
#79
hey pig piggy pig pig pig

all of my fears came true
Without a paddle up shit creek.
Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
February 24 2012 07:43 GMT
#80
Fantastic, another game by frictional games which will probably be great quality.

Looks cool.
I liked the setting of Penumbra better than Amnesia though.
"Then he told me to tell you that he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire" — "Well, you tell him that I said that I wouldn't piss on him if he was on Jeopardy!"
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