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I'm curious if anyone here has played this game?

First off, if you have yet to play this game STAY AWAY FROM THIS TOPIC if you plan on playing it. In fact, the best favor you can do for yourself would be to read absolutely nothing about the game and play it blind. It's also best played on older, non HD TVs's, and I can't say why without spoiling it.

So, this game has aged very poorly as far as the visuals and controls, but the story and atmosphere are still compelling enough for me to love it. Any other Eternal Darkness fans on RFG?

One of the best games of the last generation of games. There aren't many (if any) games that mess with the player the way Eternal Darkness does...it's really a unique and amazing experience.

Easily one of my favorite Gamecube titles, and I disagree that it hasn't aged well. I played it waaaay after the fact and still though it was fantastic.

This game is one of the only ones that ever legitimately scared me. I'm talking "I'm not getting chips because I ain't going down the dark hall way to the dark kitchen to get them" scared.

I never had a Gamecube until recently but the more I hear about this game the more I want to play it.

To me the scariest games I played growing up were Silent Hill and  Thief: The Dark Project.

I've played this game every year since it was released and can say that it is still a relevant and frightening gaming experience.  Sure, the visuals don't seem to have the same sheen that Super Mario Sunshine and Wind Waker seem to have, but I have to disagree with you as far as the controls are concerned.  The was one of the first survival/horror experiences that made me seriously question the validity of tank controls in the genre.  In fact, I don't think I ever looked back since (though I still enjoy playing through RE 2 and 3 every once in a while).

I still get chills when the head on the bust turns to follow you down the hallway. 

I suggest we use spoiler tags for stuff like what you just mentioned. It will keep it a surprise for people such as sirpsycho.

Tanks controls kick ass!

Finished it back in the day, never played it again. Good game, has a really good background plot, some nice characters and i liked the rune system mechanic. However i didn't think it was one of the best horror games ever, in my opinion Resident Evil Remake was and still is far better.

I've always wanted to play this, but I've never been able to find a nice, cheap copy.

This is the game that made me buy a GameCube.

I think you accidentally typed 'kick' instead of 'are,' but its ok.  ;)

Tank controls are really the reason I don't go back and play many of these games, or at least don't enjoy them nearly as much.  Some gaming buddies and I started back through the RE series in anticipation of RE6, and... we just lost interest because of the controls.  Call me a wimp or heathen, I just didn't have fun.  And I played all these when they came out, so it's not a situation of a modern gamer not knowing his history.

Back to ED:SR though, it is one of my favorite games of the genre for many reasons, including how much better I found the controls and combat system compared to its contemporaries.  I never did finish all three paths to get to the true ending, though I did cheat and view it on YouTube.  And before I get blasted for doing so, I do have a legit excuse;

My initial playthrough was with my good friend Josh.  We always intended to finish it completely, but he passed away suddenly at 21.  I haven't touched our save file since.  Not that I think its haunted, or even because it is emotional, its just simply a way to honor him in my mind.

Unfortunately, I have many games I haven't played in years because of the same situation for other friends who passed away.  But I don't consider it tragic; really, I have a few personal memoirs in our media collection of time we spent together. :)

This touched me deeply.

It would be cool to go back and load up those old save files to see what you and your friend were up to back then. But maybe Eternal Darkness isn't the best game to do that with. I'd freak if that one trick that seemingly "deletes" your save file started up :)

And I so didn't misspeak when I said Tank Controls Kick Ass!! I really miss them. I wish they stuck around in some form.

I remember buying the game for about $10 about a year and a half after its release. One of the better purchases I ever made, because not a few years later the price shot up to around $30 to $40. No idea what it goes for these days, but I was glad to get it as cheap as I did as early as I did.

I got mine for about $12 maybe 2 and a half  years ago.

I'm pretty sure I got it at the same sale you did, because that's what I paid for mine.

I remember sitting down one day and playing through it.  I got probably 5 or 6 chapters in and I was absolutely transfixed.  Then I was trying to get some space between a monster I was fighting and myself and I ran right into another monster.  I tried to find a safe spot to start attackign them both and got disoriented and wound up in a corner where they both hacked me into little peices.

I went to go restart when I relized that I was so taken with the game and storyline that I forgot to save.  At all.  4 hours right down the tube.  I was so pissed off at myself that I still haven't picked this game back up.

One of favorite scary games if all time. Def one of my fave GC games.

I've been toying around with playing through this again, but I just can't motivate myself to.