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RatheadSyndicate

Okay, so I've been on board with pretty much everything that has happened in EMH so far. I dig that they're so damn ambitious. It's nice to see somebody striving for complexity, even if it falls a little short. Never understood the perpetual gripe about the writing or the acting, I thought both were fine. And the accusation that they went too far with the third trial is ridiculous. This is an ARG, and you need to be aware of its falseness. Accusing of EMH of breaking up friendships in real life is like accusing Grand Theft Auto of inspiring real violence. Blaming some piece of media narrative for the negative behavior of others is ridiculous.

That having been said? My EMH-Disappointment cherry has officially been popped.

That fucking poem is terrible. Seriously, guys, did you go with your first draft on this one? Did you purposefully co-opt shitty Metallica lyrics? Is it supposed to sound like something scrawled in the notebook of a Korn-loving nu-metal 15 year old from 1999?

Look, I'm not giving up on EMH or anything, but dude... seriously?

*edited to fix a hasty typo. Don't rage and type, kids*

**Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:23 am

Verdett

**Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:55 am

Lewa

**Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:36 am

Verdett

**Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:15 pm

ifsogirl · Boot Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 47

I won't say the poem is the first embarrassing/disappointing thing to appear on EMH, but it is really bad.

However, I think some of their earlier stuff was worse, to me at least, in the acting department. Although, I suppose their whole gig was a fitness vlog, so camp sort of WAS in order.

I don't exactly think it fair to call their complexity disappointing, however. I'm inclined to agree with RatHeadSyndicate in that complexity is the meat and potatoes of a good ARG. And as a game designer, I also agree with the statement that EMH can in no way be held responsible for the behavior of its viewers.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:16 pm

KamenZero · Entrenched Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Posts: 860

Are people really complaining about the poem of all things? From what I've heard, the trial wouldn't exactly be hard to do if it was a literary masterpiece.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:19 am

RatheadSyndicate

See, I didn't see anything that suggested the poem was purposefully awful. I thought it was supposed to be spooky-scary, a means by which to spread Habit's awful Nyarlathotepian chaos throughout the world by announcing it from the rooftops. My apologies if I'm wrong, but I don't really think I am. I think it's just a shitty poem.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:20 am

justabill1985 · Boot Joined: 28 Jan 2011 Posts: 12

I gotta say I'm a little disappointed that they've went a bit over board with using the multiple medias available because I just don't find them very viable to telling a scary story like some others, but I can't disagree more about the series as a whole being a disappointment. It's still my second favorite after MH and really the only one whose held a candle to it in anyway.

TT is a rip-off and others either starting getting good and the author forgets them or they've just not reached the classic status of MH and EMH. Dark Harvest, MLAnderson0, both have potential and likeable characters/lead, but they are so fresh and new that only time we'll tell who will feel that third spot in the my Slendy loving heart.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 5:03 am

Lewa

**Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:41 am

ifsogirl · Boot Joined: 25 Jan 2011 Posts: 47

SickSlickMan

Yeah, I will agree that I don't really watch EMH for the thrills and chills. Like, I've never watched a video at 1 in the morning and propped things against my door because of it (unlike MH, which has made me do that on several occasions). At the same time, from the beginning you kind of had the feeling that this wasn't the point of EMH, to be scary. It could be freaky at times, sure, but not genuinely be scary.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:21 am

Guest · Guest

I'm not going to go through the troubles of making a username for this, just wanted to comment this and then go back to my eternal lurk.

Every trail was easy to do in a way which meant no lose for you. You didn't even had to get your item dirty in the first one if you didn't want to.

The poem was awful. But it was made worse by the people reading it either as fancy poetry or as if they didn't care. It seemed meant to be yell with anger in a street preacher way. Which is strange.
If people get so much in the game as to truly destroy friendships, why can't they read a fucking poem with a little by of feeling?

That. Now back to the non existence.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:31 am

Bansky · Guest

These 'trials' are the worst thing they ever did.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:12 pm