ALONE IN THE DARK (1992) | Origins of Survival Horror

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• KO

  @kosmosyche · 3 years ago · pinned

  Just started to watch the video, and immediately stumbled upon this factually incorrect statement - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3KBObD_LF8&amp;t=150">2:30</a>. Shinji Mikami was never transparent about Alone in the Dark influences until he left Capcom. For years he claimed he had never even seen Alone in the Dark, before starting to work on Biohazard, claimed that the main influence was Capcom&apos;s old game Sweet Home for Famicom (even though there are much more similarities between AitD and RE than RE and Sweet Home). Just wanted to set this fact straight. I remember the time when there were lots of people among RE and survival horror fans who completely dismissed AitD as one of the main pillars of the genre that influenced all later games, based specifically on his claims. So, yeah, not only was Franck de Girolami right about Capcom&apos;s &quot;borrowing of ideas&quot; boarding on plagiarism, they were also actively denying it and Shinji Mikami was one of the guys actively participating in this.

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• HE

  @Heyoka86 · 3 years ago

  These graphics were outstanding for 1992. Running this on a 486 as a kid made my jaw drop, I kept thinking &quot;if this is possible, how come all games aren&apos;t like this?&quot;.

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• JE

  @jeremycourville7282 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I was eight when Alone in the Dark released. I spotted it entirely by chance at a time when my parents were offering to buy me one new game for good behavior. They got it for me because back then they only saw games as children&apos;s toys and, really, how scary could a children&apos;s toy be? It was my introduction to horror in video games.<br><br>My eight-year-old self had no idea how groundbreaking the game was at the time. I just knew I loved it, and went on to play it multiple times. I am so very glad that I never played any other game in the franchise, if only because it has kept my view of it unspoiled.

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• GE

  @GeorgGreat_GameReviews · 3 years ago

  Alone in the Dark is such an underappreciated game nowadays, too many people are too quick to dismiss it. It&apos;s great seeing someone (other than myself * lonely sobs *) showing this game some love!

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• GG

  @GGsVids01 · 3 years ago

  I was in college when Alone in the Dark came out. &nbsp;Across the hall in my dorm were a couple of ROTC &nbsp;guys who had a copy &nbsp;and one of my other friends and I went over to &quot;help&quot; (read &quot;watch and comment&quot;) with a playthrough. &nbsp;<br><br>At the time we were really impressed with the graphics and taken in by the atmosphere and even had a jumpscare moment that startled all of us enough to pause the game a bit afterwards to laugh it off. &nbsp;That slow movement was the source of so much tension, like in the ballroom dancer puzzle, trying to dodge the dancers and all. &nbsp;The book &quot;puzzle&quot; was out least favorite, as while we &nbsp;knew one of the books would kill us, we didn&apos;t know which one and there wasn&apos;t really an indicator, so we&apos;d open a book, go through it, SAVE, move on to the next.<br><br>Fond memories.<br><br>sidenote: AitD Illumination was hilarious to me as it missed the point SO MUCH! &nbsp;The title is &quot;ALONE in the DARK&quot;, naturally, you think of 4 PEOPLE having to use LIGHT for combat reasons as much as possible. &nbsp;[facepalm]. &nbsp;The buggy playthroughs I watched were highly entertaining, but not for intended reasons.

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• JA

  @jamesvivian2855 · 3 years ago

  As someone who has played Chaosiums’ Call of Cthulhu rpg, someone dying from reading the wrong book, especially out loud, is totally fitting. Accidentally summoning a Dimensional Shambler is almost always fatal

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• IN

  @IntegerDevourer · 3 years ago

  One thing I was surprised to learn is that even back in 1992, Alone in the Dark had a versions WITH VOICE ACTING in several languages, including Japanese.

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• CH

  @chucklecat6358 · 3 years ago

  Im a simple creature, I see a new Ragnar video I cease everything to listen to survival horror game history narrated by a smooth voice.

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• HE

  @HeisenbergFam · 3 years ago

  It puts a smile on my face to see people still appreciating classics from 3 decades ago

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• BJ

  @bjrnnielsen7552 · 3 years ago

  Ragnar is a true man of culture for featuring so many Massive Attack tracks in one video!

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• PI

  @pious83 · 3 years ago

  I like that AITD tonally went from RE1 to RE5 in it&apos;s first two entries. Capcom really do have a lot of connective tissue with this series.

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• SP

  @spartan3924 · 3 years ago

  I would totally like a full video on the two remakes of Alone in the Dark, I was always confused about how different everything with the Alone in the dark name turns out and really would like to see more of the setting and creatures without actually playing them lol, you could mention the differences and similarities to the movies too without doing a full video and i&apos;d be satisfied for the same reason lol

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