Is Amnesia overrated?

It is scary enough. Even dying would sometimes move monsters around. I thought the Kaernk was gone at one point and then it broke the door in my face.

When you play the game with the lights off and headphones (although I played most of it on speakers) the game is eerie. It's not scary like omgwtfbbq i just shit myself, but it's scary in an atmospheric way. I found myself easily immersed into the game and it left me a little creeped out so I only play like 10 or 15 minutes at a time. But that's just me

It's crap.

Yes.

play custom stories,they are scarier

Its one of the best indie games I have ever tried... its not overrated, but it might not be your taste.

Seemed to hyped up and kinda got dissppointed. After watching Asian Japanese, Korean, and Thai horror half my life...the game was pretty much just a walk in the park to me lol. Played in the pitch dark, the part close to the ending was cool though had a good min of being chased.

Yes.

It probably might be a little over rated. But it's definitely not crap!

There's a kinda certain way you have to play the game.
1) At night
2) With earphones in
3) No one else around
4) Low gamma setting

You also have to try and immerse yourself in the game. As it say the first time you start the game, don't try to fight the monsters, don't try and make yourself manly by saying "pff, this isn't scary" and then walking right into the darkness. You have to sort of get into character, be the person in the game, TRY to be scared (if you aren't already :P).

ATTENTION READ THIS:
First off its not a cheap shock scare game, any game maker can create something that makes you jump.
Secondly, you are playing it wrong. You are supposed to get focused on the game and feel a sense of weakness, obviously you didn't read that it said that at the start of the so you only have yourself to blame.
If you are looking for a game with cheap shock scares (that are effective) play the first f.e.a.r. game.

Hell no! You probably haven't gotten very far :P Just don't be negative while playing it and I'm sure you'll enjoy it

I think it's fine,ofc it could be better,but this is probably just the beginning and it was pretty scary at some parts,but it also depends on the person playing it,not everybody might find things scary as others do.

NO, it's not overrated.

Play Amnesia Custom Stories!

not overrated but it definitely isn't a game for everyone. I loved the atmosphere and enjoyed being scared but would never have bothered getting past some of the later puzzles/item hunts without a walkthrough.

Download ALL the custom stories and try again :)

It's one of the best games I've ever played. Great story, great gameplay, and scary in a way that is ACTUALLY scary, none of that "oh god a monster just jumped out from behind that bush, I guess I'll just mow him down with my gigantic chaingun" crap. It's an atmospheric game, you have to be involved in the game to understand it. Also, if you're playing it with any lights on in the room, you're doing it wrong.

i really got into it a little after the invisible water monster, having got frustrated and quit a couple times before getting that far. it has a slow start, but as more of the story is revealed and you put larger chunks of time into the game where you truly focus on the game you might find that you really like it. there were a couple points that actually did manage to startle me, but for the most part it was just disturbing (in an interesting / good way). it starts to make sense why the main character is so mentally fragile once you learn more about what he'd been through before deciding he needed to forget. of course not everyone enjoys a well-written story and a journey into disturbing subjects most of us don't actually experience. i wrote up more about it on my website so feel free to click on that if you want to read more of my opinion.

"It's just like that: Quiet......quiet.....quiet....LOUD NOISE....quiet......quiet....quiet....LOUD NOISE AND SCREEN FLASH....quiet......quiet....boring....quiet....etc, etc."
here u described every horror movie I have watched since alien (1).

heres the thing i dont get scared playing a video game ever tried amneisa penumbra series doom3 resident evil 1-4 dead space 1-2 the list goes on and yes i am a human being i get scared while watching a movie or anything else scary but dunno why horror in video games doesnt work for me but regardless i loved Amneisa

I think the problem here is that you actively do not want to like the game. If you're bored of everything and aren't willing to do a bit of backtracking, I'm sorry, just give up now. If you haven't noticed, there's no minimap, the game doesn't tell you where to go in a linear fashion. You either put up with it because the game is an atmospheric gem, or you don't.

So you'd rather have Dead space? A game solely based around annoying jump scares? I mean granted Amneisia is certainly over rated and people need to stop treating it like it's the second coming of christ or something but i'd take it over any so called "Horror" games that have come out in reason years from the major studios.

And here we have another great example of people arguing about opinions. If someone doesn't find amnesia scary, you don't go and say "wtfff ur playing it wrong!!" because they aren't playing it wrong, they just don't find it scary.

Amnesia is great game.Ive seen people saying they peed themselves from fear.Well thats funny.I think its not scary....its just stressful and gets you out of your nerves sometimes .But still an awesome game.xD