Look, that stuff is obviously dark to you but not me. Maybe we have different definitions of dark here. But blood sucking vampires and sacrificing kittens is not dark in my book. That’s just murder and animal cruelty.
My kind of dark is like Eternal’s world, which I just recently read or an even better example is the prince of nothing trilogy. Dark, unforgiving, cruel and brutally realistic. This type of dark just doesn’t kill your family at the beginning like Unnatural, it lets you get to know them, get to love them as characters and then and only then do these characters die off in the most heart-wrenching way.
Other than that, I don’t really know how to explain it. We all have our own definitions of dark and that makes it hard to put to words.
@Suede, think your definition of dark requires the world as whole to be screwed up without a chance to improve sood while @FairyGodfeather has a much broader sees things as dark if there are a few bad things in it although the setting as a whole is not bad/dark.
Of course the second view gets much more games categorized as dark, but I am more on your side, for me a dark game is one where the dak stuff is part of the unavoidable reality and not the result of own choices or individual characters as in @FairyGodfeather’s examples, (at least the first two, I haven’t played the last parts of Heroes)
@From_Beginnings, @Suede and everyone else, @FairyGodfeather has just created a new thread on Darkness in Games, If you want to continue this discussion we should do it there.
. I am very glad you think that way, cheers!