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Bogart posted:There's some free game on Steam right now. Fingerpoints? Getting okay reviews. I have never seen a game on steam with so many disclaimers in the description quote:SOME FACTS ABOUT FINGERBONES CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Aug 6, 2015 |
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There shouldn't be so many rules before playing your game.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:25
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It has some decent reviews and I was going to give it a shot until I saw that, then remembered those same reviewers also thought that Slender was the end-all of horror games.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:27
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The Saddest Rhino posted:the quovak LP is worth reading because Yahtzee himself came in to give his own views years after making the games Aside, there's a great comic book called Black Hole by Charles Burns that's about a mutating STD that can only be spread by teenagers. Some kids get things they can hide like little tendrils growing from their chest while another kid has a horrible gibbering throat mouth. A good read.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:48
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I have never seen a game on steam with so many disclaimers in the description It was the very first game made by the guy who did The Moon Sliver and The Music Machine, and it's a lot rougher than either of them. It's gotten more attention in the wake of his later games, so I understand him trying to preface it. It's quite short and the story is pretty hosed up, worth a look if you have 30 minutes for a particularly dark experience.
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Aug 6, 2015 04:19
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al-azad posted:Aside, there's a great comic book called Black Hole by Charles Burns that's about a mutating STD that can only be spread by teenagers. Some kids get things they can hide like little tendrils growing from their chest while another kid has a horrible gibbering throat mouth. A good read. Black Hole is very good. on the same note It Follows is also a good movie but without body horror
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Aug 6, 2015 04:33
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Anybody know anything about Stasis? I've been lurking the thread for a bit but haven't seen any discussion on it. Looks like it's coming out at the end of the month, and is a point and click adventure style game, which is weird because the visual style kind of seems like its cribbing from the newer Shadowrun games. In any case, I'm interested enough to keep an eye on it.
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Aug 9, 2015 19:04
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MockingQuantum posted:Anybody know anything about Stasis? I've been lurking the thread for a bit but haven't seen any discussion on it. Looks like it's coming out at the end of the month, and is a point and click adventure style game, which is weird because the visual style kind of seems like its cribbing from the newer Shadowrun games. In any case, I'm interested enough to keep an eye on it. Based on the alpha demo I played a while ago (still available on the website) it's going to be basically Sanitarium in space. I wasn't as huge a fan of Sanitarium as a lot of people were, but the artwork is really looking good.
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Aug 9, 2015 19:17
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Just got a Surface and I'm wondering what point and click sort of horror games are out there for it
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Aug 9, 2015 19:49
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Len posted:Just got a Surface and I'm wondering what point and click sort of horror games are out there for it Not sure what the thread consensus is, but I just got "The Last Door" and am enjoying it.. also pretty cheap. There is always Waxwork from GOG.com  Edit: Steam streaming from a gaming PC to a Surface works really well too, if you are so inclined
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Aug 9, 2015 23:15
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The Saddest Rhino posted:the quovak LP is worth reading because Yahtzee himself came in to give his own views years after making the games quote:So you agree that having sex would be painful if you were that heavily injured, but you still call it 'taking advantage'? I thought it was fairly clear that Janine was the instigator. She's on top, look. I considered making it seem closer to a sexual assault than anything consensual but that weirded me out even more. What the gently caress Yahtzee. 
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Aug 10, 2015 16:12
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this yahtzee guy sounds like a loving weirdo
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Aug 10, 2015 16:25
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MinibarMatchman posted:this yahtzee guy sounds like a loving weirdo His self-insert character is NAMED "Trilby" I mean... Its like if you went around calling yourself "Fedora McNeckbeard". Its not even that your parents were that cruel, you picked that for yourself? His videogame angry-rant videos are entertaining at times (zero punctuation) but what little else I've seen of him has been pretty weird.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:33
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Zaphod42 posted:His self-insert character is NAMED "Trilby" I had no idea he did those "5 days a whatever" game series. didn't those look pretty good though? that new horror game thing he made lead me to believe he was a novice because it looked like crap
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Aug 10, 2015 16:36
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MinibarMatchman posted:I had no idea he did those "5 days a whatever" game series. didn't those look pretty good though? that new horror game thing he made lead me to believe he was a novice because it looked like crap As a whole the 4 games are great. 7 Days a Skeptic is probably the weakest, but 5 Days a Stranger and Trillby's Notes are pretty solid, and 6 Days a Sacrifice is a good capstone.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:42
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MinibarMatchman posted:I had no idea he did those "5 days a whatever" game series. didn't those look pretty good though? that new horror game thing he made lead me to believe he was a novice because it looked like crap It's a different style which makes it look a lot like an old Newgrounds flash game. The Trilby games look more like an old Sierra/Lucasarts adventure game. I'm not sure why he went with that look for The Consuming Shadow but I guess it made sense at the time.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:43
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Zaphod42 posted:His self-insert character is NAMED "Trilby" You do realize he takes the piss out of himself for this and deliberately made the character a self-absorbed, neurotic, broken wreck in future games as a result right.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:44
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basically Yahtzee was the prototype Trilby dude. you know, the one who says "Excuse me my good Internet friend, the hat you mock with such conviction is in fact in mistaken belief that it be a fedora, for it is a trilby, and I do wear mine (tailored and brushed twice a day) with pride and honour. I bide thee farewell, sir." that one. he existed before makin fun of fedoras was a thing he owns a bar and is also completely asexual, which at least he's self-aware enough to know it's confusing also writes a series of books under the name Yahtzee Croshaw (which I only knew because it came up in a humble bundle). I think they are steampunk
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Aug 10, 2015 16:44
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God forbid Lovecraftian fiction be written by a weird neurotic wreck with dumb opinions.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:48
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poptart_fairy posted:You do realize he takes the piss out of himself for this and deliberately made the character a self-absorbed, neurotic, broken wreck in future games as a result right. Yeah but even still he wears a Trilby all the loving time. Its like his costume, he doesn't go outside without it. Still weird even if he recognizes it.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:49
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The Vosgian Beast posted:God forbid Lovecraftian fiction be written by a weird neurotic wreck with dumb opinions. tbf tilby's notes was not bad and he has a consistently creepy lore around the whole series. the welder's mask serial killer is pretty silly tho so i can recognise the effort put in to legitimise it as part of the lore in that last future trilby clones game
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Aug 10, 2015 16:52
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah but even still he wears a Trilby all the loving time. Its like his costume, he doesn't go outside without it. Hmm, yes, a man known for wearing a hat as part of his persona wears a hat when acting out his persona. Of all the things to get angry about it never fails to impress me that goons consider hats to be the most offensive thing, lol.
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Aug 10, 2015 16:56
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah but even still he wears a Trilby all the loving time. Its like his costume, he doesn't go outside without it. He gave up wearing that hat a good while ago and talks about ti with embarrassment now. Also he has a girlfriend
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Aug 10, 2015 17:01
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EmmyOk posted:a girlfriend Glad we finally got around to talking about REAL horror ITT 
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Aug 10, 2015 18:04
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The Saddest Rhino posted:tbf tilby's notes was not bad and he has a consistently creepy lore around the whole series. the welder's mask serial killer is pretty silly tho so i can recognise the effort put in to legitimise it as part of the lore in that last future trilby clones game Look, obviously a weird super-white nerdlinger is completely unequiped to write Lovecraftian fiction. 
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Aug 10, 2015 18:12
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The Shadow over Innsmouth is about the terror of the gays. He also depicts a black boxer as being a knuckle dragger which even for the time was p bad.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:14
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EmmyOk posted:The Shadow over Innsmouth is about the terror of the gays. Don't be slanderous. It's about the horror of miscegenation corrupting our pure white genes, OBVIOUSLY, DUH.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:17
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I thought I was being unsubtle about how Lovecraft and Yahtzee are both humongous weirdo nerds, but apparently I was being way too subtle.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:18
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I thought I was being unsubtle about how Lovecraft and Yahtzee are both humongous weirdo nerds, but apparently I was being way too subtle. I caught your meaning. I was just saying dear Howard had plenty of 'views' himself.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:21
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EmmyOk posted:He gave up wearing that hat a good while ago and talks about ti with embarrassment now. Also he has a girlfriend Probably completely unrelated events.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:36
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I thought yatzee had some self awareness about things with how in the review I listened to more than half a decade ago he made fun of himself for how dumb his career is when you think about it but given some recent things I've heard I'm not so sure, but going further with this would require dredging up unwelcome drama. At the very least I played this an early version of Consuming Shadow the Hedgehog when it was free and wasn't that impressed (and at the time I was really enjoying its inspiration, FTL) I'd recommend at least watching someone play it on youtube to get an idea if the gameplay is for you or not.
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Aug 10, 2015 18:49
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Yahtzee's best game was the space adventure one.
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Aug 10, 2015 22:15
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EmmyOk posted:I caught your meaning. I was just saying dear Howard had plenty of 'views' himself. NO!!!! It cannot be!
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Aug 11, 2015 02:17
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I remember trolling the gently caress out of the 7 days a stranger LP when the LPer started harping on about how unrealistic the space physics were. No loving poo poo.
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Aug 11, 2015 02:24
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A.o.D. posted:NO!!!! It cannot be! 
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Aug 11, 2015 02:25
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Planetary is so loving good
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Aug 11, 2015 03:19
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Phobophilia posted:I remember trolling the gently caress out of the 7 days a stranger LP when the LPer started harping on about how unrealistic the space physics were. I don't want to spend any time talking to the people who get annoyed at how 7 Days A Stranger is implausible because it would be very unlikely to come across something as small as a coffin in outer space.
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Aug 11, 2015 03:24
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The Vosgian Beast posted:God forbid Lovecraftian fiction be written by a weird neurotic wreck with dumb opinions. I see what you did there...
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Aug 11, 2015 03:41
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I just wanted to go to space.
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Aug 11, 2015 03:42
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More horror games need to be set underwater. Considering that fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have been to space, this is a travesty. It's like when you watch those documentaries about the wreck of the titanic or the deep ocean and you see nothing but blackness further than 5-10 feet out, it is terrifying.
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