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New Eternal Darkness Titles Promised
1up reports that Silicon Knights, maker of the Too Human and Eternal Darkness games, have promised they plan to return to Eternal Darkness at some point in the future. I wouldn't hold your breath for it, though. Any sequel to the Lovecraft-inspired horror title will be some time in coming. From the article: "'Although this [Eternal Darkness 1] is just one story we had in mind for the Eternal Darkness universe, there are even more manipulations, great ancients, and numerous other stories to tell...' The outspoken developer continues on by describing how their plans for Eternal Darkness tie into Too Human, as well; the upcoming trilogy represents an evolution of the studio's concept for Eternal Darkness. Instead of holding off on sequel treatments, however, they've instead decided to plan an overarching three-part story from day one. "
SEQUELS! THIS IS A FIRST IN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY! No, but seriously: sequels should never be heralded as something great.
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How many of us have even played it? Frankly, they shot themselves in the foot (with a rather large gun) when they chose to make it 100% exclusively Nintendo. Then, while they were at it, they shot themselves in the other foot by choosing quite possibly the least popular Nintendo system ever, the Gamecube (N64 sucked, but, a lot of people bought them just because it was Nintendo and prior to that it felt like they could do no wrong, so they should have stuck with their original plans there.) Anyone want to bet that they'll make Eternal Darkness 2 (or whatever it will be called) for the Nintendo Pee (oh wait, Wii just SOUNDS like it means pee, sorry.) The jury is still out on what will happen there, but, the fact is, every time a company chooses exclusivity, they are pulling out a gun and shooting themselves in a foot. Seriously, how many people really have every system? Sure there are a few, but, most of us just get whichever one has the most games we like and don't buy every single console ever made.)
Oh, and before anyone decides I'm a Nintendo hater, I've personally owned a NES and a SNES (crap, I still play SNES games every now and then,) played a friend's N64 fairly often (though there wasn't much worth playing, so I tended to play my own PSX a heck of a lot more.) I also think that the GBA actually has its merits (like a mini SNES, but, more importantly, it has some decent games a few of which I have enjoyed.) It's not from lack of experience that I judge. I saw firsthand that the N64 and its games basically consisted 100% of "oh lookie at the shiny ultra-low polygon 3D graphics version of a game you used to play in 2D and please be distracted by the 64-bit graphics long enough to not notice that the 2D version of the game was 10x better than the 3D-ized version. From what I've heard Gamecube wasn't much better (but then I never cared enough to get one since it has basically nothing I want. Yeah, I bought a PS2 instead.)
If they decide to remake Eternal Darkness (and its possible sequals) for PC, we'll talk. Until then, I'll never even SEE the game. Now I have seen a lot of old games get remade for PC (Fable TLC anyone?) but it is true that usually it's just the XBox games since they are so easy to convert to PC and rather a few PSX games (many of which I would swear are just using a built-in emulation) which is usually just because they are so popular (or at least the company making them thinks they will be.) I think I recall having heard of some N64 game a while back, but, certainly you don't see many at all, and I don't think I can recall having heard of one GC game ported to PC. I don't care how good Eternal Darkness and its sequals may have been if I never get to play any of them...