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    The Darkness

    Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Jun 25, 2007

    On his 21st birthday, Jackie Estacado gets possessed by an entity known as The Darkness. After getting into trouble with the Mafia, Jackie finds himself on the run, trying to protect the people most important to him.

    What was your favorite thing about the game?

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    Radical_little_Girl

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    I think mine is the gun scene at Aunt Sarah's. That was fun.

    Or at the end with the lighthouse mansion, the scenes there were amazing.



    Also, I really liked the game's song choices, they did good with those.
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    #2  Edited By TheGTAvaccine

    The story in general.

    I also liked little details in the game, such as Jackie extending his arm around cover he is ducking behind.

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    Yeah, this game has one of the best story line/plot that I have ever played. I will never get rid of this game.

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    #4  Edited By jakob187

    Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.

    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
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    #5  Edited By SpecTackle

    I liked the really fucked up take on hell. WW2 for eternity... nice.

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    jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    The favorite part of the game, is for people who have finished the game. This doesn't need spoiler alerts if you have finished it. 
    And I love the darkness. Best game ever, in my opinion, anyway.
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    #7  Edited By TheGTAvaccine
    jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    There's no real spoilers there anyways. Oh, the end with the lighthouse? RUINED THE GAAAAME! :P
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    #8  Edited By Jayge_
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    The favorite part of the game, is for people who have finished the game. This doesn't need spoiler alerts if you have finished it. 
    And I love the darkness. Best game ever, in my opinion, anyway.
    "
    You don't need spoiler tags in a game's forum discussing (obviously) story and gameplay elements from the whole game. Don't listen to him.

    My favorite part (non-gameplay) was the whole being corrupted thing. From a story standpoint. That was well done, I thought.
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    TheGTAvaccine said:
    "jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    There's no real spoilers there anyways. Oh, the end with the lighthouse? RUINED THE GAAAAME! :P"
    What you mean by "ruined the game?"
    Which part?

    I liked the scenes in that part. 

    I also liked how Darklings randomly popped up for you.
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    #10  Edited By TheGTAvaccine
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "TheGTAvaccine said:
    "jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    There's no real spoilers there anyways. Oh, the end with the lighthouse? RUINED THE GAAAAME! :P"
    What you mean by "ruined the game?"
    Which part?

    I liked the scenes in that part. 

    I also liked how Darklings randomly popped up for you.
    "
    Heh, I was just saying that you didnt really spoil anything anyways.
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    I know, I'm asking what you didn't like about the last part. I know I didn't really reveal anything.

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    #12  Edited By TheGTAvaccine
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "I know, I'm asking what you didn't like about the last part. I know I didn't really reveal anything."
    Oh, I loved the final moments of the game, really cinematic.
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    #13  Edited By Jayge_

    He was saying that you "ruined the game" by revealing that the ending took place in a lighthouse. The joke didn't come across too well.

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    @Jayge Ooooooh, I get it now.

    Like it matters that bad I said it ends at the light house. xD


    I still hate the darkness though, fun to play as though, I just hate it in general, and how it wouldn't let Jackie do anything to help jenny.
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    #15  Edited By Jayge_
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "
    I still hate the darkness though, fun to play as though, I just hate it in general, and how it wouldn't let Jackie do anything to help jenny.
    "
    That's kinda what I liked about the story. You both liked the main character and hated where you were going at the same time. So you play to try to help him, while hating him more and more. It's interesting.
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    Yeah. That made it interesting.

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    #17  Edited By clubsandwich
    jakob187 said:
    "Dood, you seriously have a hard-on for The Darkness.
    And you seriously need to start putting up some fucking spoiler tags when you put topics up.
    "
    that's not even a spoiler, you want a spoiler? Jenny (Jackie's girlfriend) get's killed, how about that moron. seriously, you're fucking annoying.
    on topic: I really enjoyed the story, TD was my favorite game of 2007, fantastic game, one of my favorites.
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    Yup. I have OCD, and I organize my games by favorites. This has been number one for 5 months.

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    #19  Edited By jakob187

    WOW!  Maybe I should point out that my comment on here said topicS up.  This isn't the first topic, and he's spilt spoilers on the others.  Meanwhile, you guys want to complain about me at least trying to be courteous for other people that might venture into the thread.  SOOOOOOOOORRRRYYYYY!!!  = P

    Since I'm a bit more courteous:

    *******POSSIBLE SPOILER********

    My favorite part of the game is still when Jenny gets killed and the whole area leading up to it.  You see the little ghosts of them roaming around and playing out past memories, and then you get to Schrote and Paulie with Jenny in the room and you're completely helpless.  Moments like that are far and few between in video games.

    I also enjoy the gameplay sequence where you've gotta fight all the SWAT guys in the tunnels or wherever the hell that was (been a while since I played it, so can't remember where exactly that was at...keep wanting to say The Narrows, but that's Batman Begins, lol).
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    I'm a she, not a he. Just clarifying.

    And yeah, the SWAT guys were in the city hall subway tunnels. That was a good part.
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    #21  Edited By jakob187
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "I'm a she, not a he. Just clarifying.
    And yeah, the SWAT guys were in the city hall subway tunnels. That was a good part.
    "
    Sorry for the gender mistake.  lol  Hard to tell through all these wires.  Name should've given it away, though.
    And I was just generally trying to say that anyone could've come on here and dropped a spoiler, especially something like (*SPOILER*) Jenny getting ghosted, and without a spoiler tag in the header or something...it would've just sucked.  That's a pretty central point of the game, and I knew it would be something that would come up in the thread.  That's all.
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    #22  Edited By RHCPfan24

    I think the Darkness was a really cool game.  I still have it and occasionally whip it out for a few minutes of bloody awesome carnage.  Good game and I love the abilities.  

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    #23  Edited By jakob187

    I had rented it just to check it out because I dug the comics and because Starbreeze is the shit.  I just rented it because I had seen that it had some fairly easy achievements, and I was hardcore achievement whoring for a couple weeks.  The game definitely had a laundry basket of problems, but it made up for it all in story...and well-written, well-implemented story at that.  Now that you can find it in pretty much any bargain bin at Wal-Mart (at least you can here) or elsewhere for about $15-$20, it's a good time to pick it up for those that didn't check it out the first time around.  It doesn't have the greatest shooting mechanics ever (far from it in many cases), but it's definitely something to play for the story.

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    I had a very hard time finding it in a store, since it is rather old and they don't stock them a lot anymore. I had to order it off eBay.

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    #25  Edited By clubsandwich

    My only complain about The Darkness is the online. Even though I bought it only for the single player, I wanted to try the online... it was by far the worst online game I have ever played, it was laggy as fuck, it got to the point that the game became unplayable online for me, it was just terrible.

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    I don't have LIVE right now, I was going to buy it for this game, but I don't think I will buy it right away, I will save for 13 months or membership. I'd only play online for the easy achievements.

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    #27  Edited By Tanuki

    I really loved the story in general and how when you talked to people you'd have different dialouge options.  I also liked when Jenny gets killed... well... I mean I hated it, but it was done really well.  And I probably enjoyed the part were the SWAT team comes in to kill you, (where you have the chance to destroy the chopper with the black-hole).

    My main gripes with the game though are not having a map.  (I got lost, like, a million times!) and probably the ending.  *Spoiler! even though this topic is totally going to contain spoilers anyway!* - I hated not being able to choose whether or not I let the Darkness consume me and take revenge.  I wanted to be able to choose to walk away, and be the better man.  But alas... I had to shoot the bastard.

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    The lack of light was easily the best thing.  Easily. 

    No light.

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    I like, how in this one game, you can still see in the dark if you have the darkness out.

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    #30  Edited By clubsandwich
    Radical_little_Girl said:
    "I don't have LIVE right now, I was going to buy it for this game, but I don't think I will buy it right away, I will save for 13 months or membership. I'd only play online for the easy achievements."
    It's not worth it, believe me, The Darkness online is unplayable, I tried to get some of the achievemtns as well but it's seriously not worth the time, the game is laggy as hell.
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    #31  Edited By TheGreatGuero

    I don't know if I can pick one favorite thing. It all amazed me quite a bit. I really loved how much the characters came to life. The gameplay was cool, the city design was very well done. Superb voice acting. The story was great as well.

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    #32  Edited By Dimsey

    I liked watching Popeye on the TV. Uh, yeah.

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    #33  Edited By Death_Burnout

    The fact that i can watch sonny chiba on a TV

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    #34  Edited By Black_Rose

    The story in general and the fantastic plot twists.

    Oh and eating hearts, who doesnt like that.

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    #35  Edited By daniel_beck_90

    The mood and atmosphere of the game , it was totally believable

    May favorite scene was Jenny’s execution , that was touching man  , at that moment the controller fell of my hands !!!!

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    #36  Edited By Doomsayer
    TheGTAvaccine said:
    "The story in general. I also liked little details in the game, such as Jackie extending his arm around cover he is ducking behind."
    ^ This exactly. Starbreeze are pretty much experts when it comes to making a great storyline and adding numerous little details that make the game that much better.

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