Alien Rope Burn posted:

Yeah, Amnesia's main jumps are "something creepy comes in through the door you weren't expecting", but you usually have forewarning. Most of it is just creeping dread that a creepy thing might come in through the door.

HMS Boromir posted:

I can't decide if I feel bad for people who are big ol' scaredy cats about horror games or if I deeply envy them. On the one hand, if you actually get too scared to play the game or have to play it in broad daylight with a friend or something then you're obviously missing out a little but on the other hand the only way horror games really "work" for me is in the dead of night, alone, with headphones and the lights off, and even then it takes a pretty active and sustained effort to suspend my disbelief. Definitely makes me wish I was more susceptible to it, since I love the genre.

HMS Boromir posted:

I don't like jump scares either, but mostly because they're cheap and I have a bad heart. I've definitely heard people say they can't handle the suspense of an atmospheric horror game like Amnesia either, though, which is a shame.

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Andrast posted:

Amnesia doesn't really have jump scares.

Oasx posted:

I am nearing the end of it, the thing people think is a twist is actually an important part of the story, and it is revealed pretty early on

GetWellGamers posted:

On the reverse side, Undertale is an RPG Maker game kickstarted years ago with several lengthy dry spells of no content/communication, yet it came out this month and is absolutely fantastic. Figured I was throwing my money away but was very pleasantly surprised.

RottenK posted:

is this a joke

Hav posted:

I am one such huge pussy. I bought Amnesia for a couple of people with the instructions that they were to tell me about it. I did play through FEAR, so make of that what you will. Resident Evil 2 was enough.

mycot posted:

Why are JRPG Kickstarters all so awful? I mean I know JRPGs come with the implicit obligation to be big and epic, but this is the crowd that would be entirely happy with clones of Final Fantasy 6. They might even prefer the retro pixel art look. It's not that complicated.

Re: Bubbles the brief period of time when any no name project could get funded is over of course but I can't say people are less willing to be parted with their money overall. Shenmue 3 and Bloodstained are pretty recent.

Groovelord Neato posted:

lmao i didn't realize that unsung heroes game got almost 700k. how do you gently caress up with that much.

Groovelord Neato posted:

lmao i didn't realize that unsung heroes game got almost 700k. how do you gently caress up with that much.

Groovelord Neato posted:

lmao i didn't realize that unsung heroes game got almost 700k. how do you gently caress up with that much.

Toxxupation posted:

Memento posted:

I find it interesting that if you browse kickstarter video games, sorted by campaign end time, soonest first, it seems to be that games either fund, or end up on <5%. There seems to be a very limited number of them that end up in the middle, partially funded. It seems all of the ones that end up with single-digit funding percentages (or dollar values) have lovely english and look like Unity Asset Store re-branding, or just have some concept art and nothing to show any potential for there being a game at the end of the process.

I wonder if the ones that are getting some interest, but not enough, are cases of the developers deciding, "Well we gave it a decent shot and we might be in with a chance if we re-tool, let's pull this campaign and work on presenting it again". I've backed a few games that did that, Outward - The Adventure Life Sim being one that comes to mind straight away, and I think it makes me more confident in a project where the developers have enough sense to know when they're not going to make it and go back to the drawing board.

Groovelord Neato posted:

lmao i didn't realize that unsung heroes game got almost 700k. how do you gently caress up with that much.

Lurdiak posted:

At the risk of getting my taint reaped, this is what you look like right now.

Groovelord Neato posted:

i mean you can all dogpile me but at the end of the day those people got more than they asked for and what they asked for was a good deal of dinero!

Trapezium Dave posted:

$700K sounds okay for an agile team of up to half-a-dozen skilled passionate indies. But those types of groups don't have titles like Chief Technology Officer or Chief Creative Officer.

I haven't been keeping up with Unsung Story, how much is Yasumi Matsuno involved?