Author Topic: A really good read about Eternal Darkness. (Read 6433 times)

Termin8Anakin · « **on:** June 12, 2003, 06:31:46 PM »

I came across this editorial while looking for material for my critque of my Alice in Wonderland remake.
It's a really good analysis on Eternal Darkness by Sal Serio from Next Level Gaming.
Read it. It's really interesting. Well written too.
There are 5 parts, and you can access them by the bar on the left.

Into the Darkness

Grey Ninja · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2003, 06:51:41 PM »

I only had time to read the first two parts, but that IS good. He caught a couple things that I missed, and I think there's probably a little more that I missed. I never read "The Raven" for one thing, and I am sure that there are more Lovecraft references that I missed too, but I did catch the "Call of Cthulhu" references that he missed.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2003, 06:56:14 PM »

'The Raven' was in The Simpsons!
Nevermore! Nevermore!
And it was narrated by who else but James Earl Jones!

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2003, 08:26:50 PM »

Once upon a midnight deary,
while I pondered weak and weary,
over volumes of forgotten lore....

I love that poam. My mom use to read it to me when I was in grade school.

mojorizin · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2003, 08:37:13 PM »

Good Lord, who was your mother - Lily Munster? And I thought mom taking me to see Alice Cooper in '78 was freaky...

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2003, 08:47:50 PM »

No she wanted to expose me to as much literature as possible. And it worked.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2003, 09:49:53 PM »

Oh Edgar Allan Poe, is there anyone you haven't touched?

"Well, PS2 and Xbox fanboys would be a couple of examples."

Oh....yeah.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2003, 12:27:38 AM »

That was a nice read.

I'll try to make a [good] trailer for ED hopefully by the end of the month; it's first anniversary is coming up.

boggy b · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2003, 12:46:29 AM »

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Oh Edgar Allan Poe, is there anyone you haven't touched?

"Well, PS2 and Xbox fanboys would be a couple of examples."

Oh....yeah.

Au contraire, Silent Hill 3 seems to take big cues from AAP in parts. I like Edgar Alan Poe. He was a very good writer.

Oh yeah, and the article is very interesting too. I wasn't a huge fan of ED's storyline but it's nice to see that some people still care about giving a deep, multilayered storyline for their games.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2003, 02:53:12 AM »

I'm guessing most things use Poe for something.
Just that Poe was quoted in ED, is all, so even if Poe cues were in SH3, people wouldn't know unless it was quoted.
I mean, Carl Jung was a name I'd never heard of until Eternal Darkness, and we studied him a few weeks ago at Uni.
Games and Uni, a perfect match. Haha.

Mario · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2003, 03:32:07 AM »

Great read. Eternal Darkness is a game that i will never forget, a true classic, one of the best games on gamecube and one of the best games of all time. I feel like playing through it again after having read that

Berny · « **Reply #11 on:** June 13, 2003, 09:38:24 AM »

Thanks for finding that, Termin8. I've only read a couple of Poe's works and nothing by Lovecraft. I saw a collection of Poe's story's at Barnes and Noble. I'm gonna buy it; I am intrigued. I'd also like to find that "Call of Cthulu". Does anyone know if this is something I could also find at B&N? Or will I have to find some antique book store? Well, I'm gonna go do stuff. Like maybe play ED. Or buy that collection of Poe's stories. Or something. Ok, bye.

Grey Ninja · « **Reply #12 on:** June 13, 2003, 03:07:25 PM »

Lovecraft's Stories are all collected in HTML format at www.hplovecraft.com

It's where I have read Call of Cthulhu, and I read a few others from there too. Someday when I have time (and internet access), I will try to finish the job I started.

Come to think of it though, I did read "The Raven", but I read it in Grade 9, and that was a LONG time ago. My memory on it was almost extinguished until people started quoting it. I really do mean to read all of Poe's poems again one day though, as "The Tell-Tale Hand" and "The Raven" were the only required reading I did in school that I actually liked.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2003, 03:15:16 PM »

I have a book of collected works of Poe and it contains "The Raven" I read it from time to time because it has always interested me, even now. When ever I think of Poe I conjure of the voice of Vincent Price reading it.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2003, 05:36:45 PM »

I've heard that name before.
Who's Vincent Price?

Ninja X · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2003, 05:38:50 PM »

NIce read. ED's story gets props. IMO, it should be way more appreciated than the half-assed love stories of Final Fantasy.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2003, 05:56:25 PM »

I like half-assed love stories!
Especially when they do em all pretty in the FMV, and they have their own voices (unlike Zelda's yelps and screams), it's so nice!

*ahem*
*lowers voice*
Er...I mean....I like footy, cricket, boxing, motorcycle racing, and F1, and most of all, girls. Can't be a man if you don't like girls!

KDR_11k · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2003, 08:29:26 PM »

Uh? FF has voice acting?

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #18 on:** June 13, 2003, 08:58:24 PM »

Poe's thesis on Poetry is still used today to create poetry. He is both loved and hated by the literary world.

(I love that story he wrote about the doctor who hypnotised a man about to die. And when he was brought out of the trance he turned to dust. A lot of people killed them selves when it was first published because he used paper that was used primarily for medical texts. Much like when War of the Worlds was broadcast. It frightening how much power the media has over people.

Berny · « **Reply #19 on:** June 14, 2003, 05:33:10 AM »

Thank you, Grey Ninja. I'll be sure to read "Call of Cthulu". I don't have time to read it now; it's very long. (I skimmed over it and did I catch the name Inspector Legrasse?) Oh, it's too bad I'm so "busy". Over and out.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #20 on:** June 14, 2003, 06:11:29 AM »

"I love that story he wrote about the doctor who hypnotised a man about to die. And when he was brought out of the trance he turned to dust."

Whoa-ho.
That's some seriously weird stuff.

mojorizin · « **Reply #21 on:** June 14, 2003, 08:04:25 AM »

Bit of a shame that piece wasn't on a more traveled site. There was obviously a lot of research and attention that went into the game, and I was attracted to it more for the familiar Lovecraftian themes than anything. ED did a great job of capturing the eerie, creeping dread type of horror so common to Poe and Lovecraft, and I appreciate the effort it took to do that over the modern "shock and gore" scares of an RE (not that RE isn't a great series). At anywhere from 10-15 bucks, it should be mandatory for GC owners to have this one.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #22 on:** June 14, 2003, 11:54:01 AM »

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Originally posted by: Termin8Anakin
I've heard that name before.
Who's Vincent Price?

Vincent Price was an actor (The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, Theater of Blood; just to name a few.) He had a very distinct voice, and if you are familiar with Michael Jackson's Thriller video then you have heard him. He does the "Thriller Rap" or whatever it's called.

Vincent Price

BlkPaladin · « **Reply #23 on:** June 14, 2003, 04:36:13 PM »

The meat of the story is pretty messed up, the guy described what was happening as he was dying and begged to released to go into the "next world". It was just a though that wigged most people out at the time.

Termin8Anakin · « **Reply #24 on:** June 15, 2003, 05:38:44 PM »

Ahh, Thriller. That was a good clip.

I know who the guy is now, but I haven't heard of him other than for Thriller.

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