Oh, thanks. I didn't want to be the first one to draw the obvious but ultimately false parallel to The Thing.
Yeah, I sort of Like The Thing. The old movie of it is pretty good and everyonce in a while I think to myself that someone should remake it nowadays, but then I realize that would probably suck since the original is pretty cool already.
They made a game of it as well, I think, where you had to shoot the alien things and maintain good standing with the sanity meters of the other humans in the station. I don't know if it was any good or not. It seemed pretty generic to me.
But yeah, in this there's no infection and no sort of social cabin fever thing going on. Although later in the game there may be the aspect of meeting other human characters and always having to think twice about trusting them or being fearful of them.
Not so keen on the false choice at the start, and if there aren't irate ninjas in the submarine, then I will be disappointed.
A big part of the feel of the game that I'd want to have is the feeling of isolation and freedom as well as the harshness of the environment. I want to force you to cling to whatever oppurtunities seem to arise hungerly because I've made you realize that too much hesitation or fucking around in the wrong way is quickly unfruitful.
As for Ninjas in the sub well, the sub itself will not hold any hostile encounters, at least not with creatures. If you try to leave the sub once you have entered it for any significant length of time, you will step out of the hatch to find that the whole crash site is now surrounded rather spookily by a group of inuits. They look like the Inuk of old, their wooden slit-snow-googles coving most of their faces. Approaching them or attempting to talk to them will only get you pushed back forcefully or a warning spear thrown at you. They will slowly encroach on you to force you back into the sub if you stay out there long enough and if you try to stay out there past that, they will just club you to death or maybe just club you and you will awaken in the sub with only hatch out sealed.
Other than the sub, the arctic barrens around it, and the
main area of the game, there will be four other main areas; a tropical forrest in South America, a mountain range in asia, and an area in that dried up sea in the Ukrane.