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Hmm yes, I'm sure the anime schoolgirl rpgmaker game is good and not skeevy paedo guro wankfodder.
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:Hmm yes, I'm sure the anime schoolgirl rpgmaker game is good and not skeevy paedo guro wankfodder. That's not even the drat worst part of the parts of the game I really wish had never been put in. That would be the main male protagonist's sister 1) Due to be being spoiled, acting more like a 10 year old than a sixteen year old, and 2) Being in romantic love with her brother. It reeks of a writer trying to show 'how close' she is and 'how complicated and varied' human beings are without having anything approaching the skill to try and pull something like that off, if it's not deliberate skeevy paedo INCESTUAL wank fodder (with guro). Honestly, I don't know which one is worse. It's too bad, really. Remove that poo poo and there's a half-decent story under there, but that's sort of like saying 'Here, remove the back of this painting, it'll be fine if you can just see the front of it.'
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Sep 5, 2014 17:25
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Corpse Party is just creepy weeaboo guro porn, its not a horror game. Play Fatal Frame if you actually want Japanese style horror.
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Sep 5, 2014 17:28
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It's too bad, a lot of otherwise worthwhile Japanese games sabotage themselves like that. Though not technically a game, Saya no Uta is one of the most effective, disturbing horror stories I've ever read, but you know let's just throw some porn in there too why not
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Hakkesshu posted:It's too bad, a lot of otherwise worthwhile Japanese games sabotage themselves like that. Hmm yes, she's not actually a child, she's really an eldrich abomination from another dimension whos here to reproduce and just looks like a child because of the protagonists botched brain surgery.
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Sep 5, 2014 17:46
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Yeah, it's too bad there's all this creepy pedophile gore porn in this otherwise good game, it's bringing down this game made by a creepy pedophile who enjoys creating torture and graphic death scenarios for young girls.
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Sep 5, 2014 17:49
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King Vidiot posted:Yeah, it's too bad there's all this creepy pedophile gore porn in this otherwise good game, it's bringing down this game made by a creepy pedophile who enjoys creating torture and graphic death scenarios for young girls. This is the new "I read Playboy for the articles"
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rudecyrus posted:Pledged $25. I'm really excited for this and I hope it succeeds. It seems to have made one hundred thousand dollars in about twelve hours so your wish will probably come true. Icepick Lodge is one of those jank-rear end Western studios that gets a pass because everything they do is unique and at least partially functional. They're also constantly learning from mistakes, so I hope they stay around for a while longer.
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Oxxidation posted:It seems to have made one hundred thousand dollars in about twelve hours so your wish will probably come true. Yeah, they're like maybe two days into their month long kickstarter, and they're already coming up on the halfway mark.
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Sep 5, 2014 18:48
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Nobody who came up with something like The Void could possibly not be worth the money.
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Oxxidation posted:Icepick Lodge is one of those jank-rear end Western studios that gets a pass because everything they do is unique and at least partially functional. They're also constantly learning from mistakes, so I hope they stay around for a while longer. Ice Pick Lodge is Russian (and Pathologic was a much bigger deal there than it was in the West). Everything else in your statement is true though.
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Pathologic would be one of the best games of all time if it didn't play like poo poo and have a poo poo English translation because the atmosphere and writing is almost unparalleled when it comes to video games, but this is going to fix all that so you should all back it.
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Sep 5, 2014 19:03
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Animatronic ghosts (that is to say, ghosts of animatronic characters, not animatronics possessed by ghosts) though, are terrifying. This is from a few pages back now, but I think Dishonored shows that this can be done. In that game players would still opt for the stealth approach because of a meta motivation, and while the implementation had some flaws I think the psychological components still work just as well if you put them in a different setting.
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Quite disappointing that the Executioner mask isn't an addon, I'd be happy to drop a few hundred on it because it looks badass as hell and I loved The Void but there's no way I can afford 3k. Still pumped as gently caress for the game though.
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Accordion Man posted:Pathologic would be one of the best games of all time if it didn't play like poo poo and have a poo poo English translation because the atmosphere and writing is almost unparalleled when it comes to video games, but this is going to fix all that so you should all back it. I still can't tell if not being able to understand a goddamn thing anyone is saying was a huge boon to the game or not. Added to the horrifying feel of everything when everybody in the world talks in word salad and you feel like the only sane person.
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Sep 5, 2014 19:40
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Pathologic was the one with the creepy bird/plague doctor guys that stood in front of the homes of 'essential' NPCs that had died, right?
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poptart_fairy posted:Pathologic was the one with the creepy bird/plague doctor guys that stood in front of the homes of 'essential' NPCs that had died, right? That's the one, yup.
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Crappy Jack posted:I still can't tell if not being able to understand a goddamn thing anyone is saying was a huge boon to the game or not. Added to the horrifying feel of everything when everybody in the world talks in word salad and you feel like the only sane person. It's an Icepick Lodge game, a better translation doesn't mean it's suddenly going to be even remotely cogent or sane. I own the original, but never played it a whole lot. Did they say it took them 3 years to write up the new scripts in the video? There must be an inordinate amount of text in there, I'm assuming the retranslation is mostly to establish strong consistency and tone rather than making it read like a Dan brown novel or something. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Sep 5, 2014 |
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Crabtree posted:The Brothers of the Void are beautiful in an intellectual "someone actually payed attention to how horrifying angels actually looked in the bible" sense. The way they're just these living grotesque collections of objects that may occasionally have functioning hands or a torso or a growth of faces just makes it all the more terrifying to behold. I'll always love when someone knows how to craft abstract creatures correctly. It's funny you say this, because the closest analogue to the Brothers design in games to me is the angels from Bayonetta. Obviously not a horror game, but they did such a great job at recreating the freakiness of biblical angels in that game - one of the bosses is basically just a ball of faces. In a nice touch, the angels start off looking like they're made out of marble or porcelain, all pristine and white, but as you deal damage it chips off and reveals them to be these hideous fleshy things underneath. Regarding the Void, I think one of the things that makes the Brothers so effective is that they're implied to have come from hell, or at least some other horrible place, and they believe the purgatory-like Void is heaven just because it's so much less awful then where they came from. It's such an interesting motivation for them and just makes them come off as both horrifying and at the same time kind of tragic. Ice-Pick is really great at writing layers like that.
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Hello Horror Game thread. I recently acquired a copy of Scratches: Director's Cut through this utterly amazing Arctic Bundle. Anyways, I played through this already years ago and it was loving terrible. There were two times I got scared though, I will admit that. Anyways I don't want this and I figured someone here might get some enjoyment out of it. First person to quote this and give a short blurb as to why they enjoy horror games in particular, in addition to their steam ID, will receive a key for Scratches: Director's Cut.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Hello Horror Game thread. I recently acquired a copy of Scratches: Director's Cut through this utterly amazing Arctic Bundle. Anyways, I played through this already years ago and it was loving terrible. There were two times I got scared though, I will admit that. I like horror games because I enjoy feeling incredibly and horribly alone especially when I am genuinely alone in my apartment, it makes me realise the world is a big horrible place and I'm a tiny unimportant fragment. steamid: snapperiffic
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I like horror games because I enjoy feeling incredibly and horribly alone especially when I am genuinely alone in my apartment, it makes me realise the world is a big horrible place and I'm a tiny unimportant fragment. steamid: snapperiffic Well said, sir. Invite sent!
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Regarding watching people play scary games: Maybe it's because I've watched alot of his Starcraft videos but I liked Day9's playthrough of Amnesia. It starts out with him walking around all cocky and cracking jokes about stuff. But with Amnesia being Amnesia, that attitude does not stay for long. He also alternates alot between getting scared by stupid things and then laughing at himself for getting scared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89GskAdHQ1g For me it was a nice mix between seeing the story of Amnesia and laughing at someone getting scared, as I would probably not be able to play through the game myself.
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Claeaus posted:Regarding watching people play scary games: Maybe it's because I've watched alot of his Starcraft videos but I liked Day9's playthrough of Amnesia. It starts out with him walking around all cocky and cracking jokes about stuff. But with Amnesia being Amnesia, that attitude does not stay for long. Maybe instead you should watch a horror movie?
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Amnesia is of course way over saturated on youtube and stuff, but god drat that game is super stressful. I'm in a weird place where I think horror movies are kinda lovely and not at all scary, but some horror games, first person ones in particular, trigger something primal in me and I just lose my poo poo. Well, I say lose my poo poo, but it's more like "a constant and unending state of stress". I think the worst I've reacted for a horror game was an audible gasp while playing PT. It's more about that constant stress without relief that gets to me.
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Yeah, I think the games that most freak me out are the ones where you are *never* safe. You think you're safe in Amnesia, you barricade the doors with whatever crap you can find, and then *something* is over there knocking your barricade over while you go hide in a closet. That stuff. Same reason Silent Hill 4 got to me, really. You think you're clear of Walter, then you hear him opening a door somewhere off-screen. Dammit.
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Sep 6, 2014 16:00
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i think amnesia is cheap garbage with terrible aesthetic value for easily shocked losers
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Judge Clayjar posted:i think amnesia is cheap garbage with terrible aesthetic value for easily shocked losers same
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I think [GAME CURRENTLY BEING DISCUSSED] is [HYPERBOLIC INSULT] for [BROAD DEROGATORY NAMECALLING].
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So, anyone know if The Suffering is a good horror game? I kind of like the idea of a horror game taking place in the oppressive setting of a prison but haven't really heard of any besides this one.
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King Vidiot posted:I think [GAME CURRENTLY BEING DISCUSSED] is [HYPERBOLIC INSULT] for [BROAD DEROGATORY NAMECALLING]. It's definitely a step down from Penumbra though. Contra Calculus posted:So, anyone know if The Suffering is a good horror game? I kind of like the idea of a horror game taking place in the oppressive setting of a prison but haven't really heard of any besides this one. Do you like Dead Space?
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Contra Calculus posted:So, anyone know if The Suffering is a good horror game? I kind of like the idea of a horror game taking place in the oppressive setting of a prison but haven't really heard of any besides this one. The PC version is also freeware.
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Thought Dead Space was okay as a pseudo-sequel to RE4. If it's freeware, yeah I'm in. Need a more action oriented break after FNAF anyway.
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Judge Clayjar posted:I think amnesia is cheap garbage with terrible aesthetic value for easily shocked losers To be honest Amnesia just didn't do it for me at all. I loved the Penumbra games so when I saw those dudes were making Amnesia, I was pretty hyped for it. I don't regret giving them my money and all cause hey, I like their games and now their new one looks really good, but something about Ye Olde Spooky Castle™ just didn't work for me and I'm always a little disappointed that their game I liked the least blew up harder then the others.
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Contra Calculus posted:Thought Dead Space was okay as a pseudo-sequel to RE4. If it's freeware, yeah I'm in. Dead Space borrows its gameplay heavily from RE4 and System Shock 2 as well as having some of its own unique flavour, it's also a better game than RE4, as beloved as that game is. It's also way more of a pure action-horror than RE4, which is barely horror at times, whereas Dead Space just goes full on Dead Rising Meets Aliens. Dead Space is perhaps the best action horror game ever made.
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Accordion Man posted:As Jimbo referred to, The Suffering is more of an actiony horror like Dead Space but it still is real neat and has some really good atmosphere and more solid writing than you would think. I recommend it, just avoid the sequel, it sucks. To clarify on this, the freeware version of the Suffering that will come up when you search on Google was ad-supported. The game needed to connect to Midway's servers in order to pull those ads and as Midway no longer exists, the game is unplayable. I'm not certain how :files: the whole issue, but you can find functioning versions of the game in the usual places.
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Contra Calculus posted:So, anyone know if The Suffering is a good horror game? I kind of like the idea of a horror game taking place in the oppressive setting of a prison but haven't really heard of any besides this one. It owes a huge stylistic debt to Half-Life and it hasn't aged particularly well, but as was said, it's surprisingly well-written. The sequel, Ties That Bind, has much-improved graphics, the same decent writing, and depicts one of the more memorable apocalypses in recent games history, but it's hard as balls and not in a good way. I don't think I'd have beaten it without an invincibility cheat.
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1stGear posted:To clarify on this, the freeware version of the Suffering that will come up when you search on Google was ad-supported. The game needed to connect to Midway's servers in order to pull those ads and as Midway no longer exists, the game is unplayable. My freeware copy worked fine last year and Midway has been gone longer than that. Wanderer posted:It owes a huge stylistic debt to Half-Life and it hasn't aged particularly well, but as was said, it's surprisingly well-written. No it doesn't. It's Max Payne with monsters.
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cat doter posted:Dead Space borrows its gameplay heavily from RE4 and System Shock 2 as well as having some of its own unique flavour, it's also a better game than RE4, as beloved as that game is.
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