Special Edition with extra goodies now available for pre-order on GOG!

Timo

Thanks, Timo.

Commented gameplay on The Vanishing of Ethan Carter by one of the developers, stuff you haven't seen before, I think, on how the game works.
Beautiful, gruesome, I hope it's as good as it looks as if it will be from these trailers.

Gil.

Thank you for the link, Gil.

I have this on pre-order with GOG

Traveler (Gil),

That was a very interesting video. Thank you for posting the link.

I was saddened to see the thoughtless comments by you tube viewers about the game looking boring. It's a shame that (younger) (?) folks seem to think a game can only be interesting if it is fast paced and full of hack and slash battles.

These folks have worked months or years to produce a thoughtful, provoking, investigative game with beautiful graphics where one can travel at their own pace to discover new things and people. I think there are innovative elements of gameplay here and I very much look forward to this game.

LadyCav, I am all for a no comments allowed section on most informational postings. I think the anonymity of the internet gives people a license to be cruel and rude.

Ana

I agree completely.

The comments on YouTube are hardly worth the bother, LadyCav, though sometimes they are useful and not loaded with words that would have earned me a mouthful of soap.
You're right; a great many of the people commenting don't seem to be able to slow down and think even if they might be whizzes about battle strategy.
Who and what and why don't seem to interest them.

I do wonder if the game doesn't hold your hand a little too much with the indications of what to look for and where to look, but we'll see.
I agree with you that the graphics are beautiful and it looks as if it's going to be a very interesting game.
For sure I'm pre-ordering as soon as I can.

Gil.

I agree with the person who posted this --
That bit with the bludgeoning was a complete turnoff.
Though I wouldn't put the blame on the person who shot the trailer if it's indicative of what the rest of the game is like.

I'm not sure I agree with you or the person who said, "Blech".
Didn't the bludgeoning turn your stomach, fill you with horror?
It certainly did me.
Making you jump at every creak of a floorboard as your tension builds without actually seeing any gore is one way of making you feel frightened, queasy, afraid of what might lie ahead, but there are other ways and these devs have decided to explore them.

Granted, they can easily overdo the graphic violence (and I realize you think once was too much) but your comment makes me wonder what you would have thought of The Awakened if the graphics back then had been up to showing you with more realism what happened to the detective slaughtered in front of the idol underneath the warehouse and Frogwares had used that for the trailer.
They certainly did the best they could with the tools they had then to make you want to retch.
But that wasn't the entirety of that game and a lot of people say The Awakened is one of their favorite Sherlock Holmes games.
Maybe scenes like the one in this game's trailer aren't the entirety of Ethan Carter either.

Gil.

Horror? Not at all. Just disgust.

I think I've seen enough.
I'm not interested in seeing any more.

I hope you guys who've pre-ordered enjoy your purchase.
But it's definitely not for me.

What I've seen, read and heard so far was enough for me to per-order my copy and look forward to the release date.

I believe it brings us something new visually, in content and game mechanics under this genre.

Some are gonna like it, some not. But it comes anyway.

Timo

I very rarely watch trailers and didn't watch the one for this game.
I tend to go more by whether or not I think I will enjoy the story

In previous years, I didn't either.
But so many games with 3D movement are being made that I have to check them out ahead of time to make sure they're not going to give me motion sickness -- or more specifically, ***simulation sickness***. Trailers that include actual gameplay footage are more helpful than those that only include cut scenes, since cut scenes rarely give me simulation sickness.

I can well understand that, Jenny100

I don't suffer from that problem myself but I realise how horrible it must be for all of you that do

Wow!! thats my first reaction

Exactly like TJL my first thought was also Twin Peaks.

I have not heard or read anything before about this game but after watching this video I searched for more and found a gameplay video with comments by the designer

AND NOW I'M HOOKED This could be an absolute HIT this year

Superb graphics, great story, interesting new gameplay, mooody !

It's been a long time since I felt this excited about a new "adv"game.

Cheers

Hi,

while waiting for "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" to be released (Soon, September 25th) I have put this picture on my PC desktop.

I like this picture a lot and I became curious whether this stave church actually exists or whether it is just combined taking one part here and one part there. After a quick research I found it actually exists in real life and has very interesting history. It was originally built at the turn of 12th century by lake Wang in Norway but when it later became too small for the parish it was sold, put in boxes 1841 and shipped to Berlin where it was never erected but was later shipped to Karkonosze Mountains in Poland where the corner stone was laid in 1842 and the church completely re-erected in 1844.

You can read about the history of the church here.

Timo

I think I bought the game but I don't know where I bought it from. Is GOG the only one that sells it? If it is than I guess I must have bought it there. Thank you
Richard

Hi Richard,

as far as I know it's available for pre-order only on GOG or Steam.

Timo

I guess I had better check on steam. GamersGate will have it to, requires steam activation. Thanks
Richard

What an amazing story about the church... Thanks, TJL.

Old churches fascinate me too, thanks for the background Timo.

Ana

Just wondering where everybody is going to buy the game from. As far as I know there are three sites,GamersGate\GOG\Steam. If I'm wrong just let me know. There all good sites as far as I know. You still have to use Steam to download the game. I don't know where I will be getting mine from.
Beautiful looking church. Looks like it will be a fun game.
Richard

I prefer Steam.

Ana