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I tried the Sylvio 2 demo recently and I'm pretty disappointed it didn't get funded. Adding the video element along with deciphering the audio makes you feel rewarded for spotting something eerie that doesn't get written down by Juliet.
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Clock tower 1 and 2 (aka the snes game and the first ps1 game) are good, clock tower 2/ghost head (the 2nd ps1 game) is not good because it has a lot of bullshit logic in it, clock tower 3 is amazingly bad with some legit cool designs and also a ton of parts where they try to be scary, but aren't, because the character models are constantly in a state of having a seizure. Haunting ground I don't know much about other than it was originally gonna be another clock tower game but they changed that later on. Night Cry looks like it will be fun because the same guy who worked on the good clock tower games is pretty into giallo stuff, and the good clock tower games are just a japanese person's take on the giallo genre. It won't be a game for everyone, but it looks like it will be entertaining even if it won't necessarily be designed well. GulagDolls posted:clock tower 3 has simply the greatest fax-machine related scare in the genre What was that?
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Mar 24, 2016 22:38
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Mar 24, 2016 22:40
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Oh ok you said 3 so I got confused. Yeah that's great, especially since while clock tower has supernatural elements to it, they're kinda "low" supernatural, at the end of the day the scissorman is still usually just some person in a mask with some big scissors. So in all likelihood, he went and scrawled that message out and faxed it just in case you ever found it. Stuff like that and the computer screens with KILL on them are just wonderful, just lovely.
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Mar 24, 2016 22:52
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The fax machine reminds me of One Late Night. I never played the sequel and I hear it's awful, but the original has some really neat atmosphere. And it's free! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S5QJCYyfI4
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Mar 24, 2016 23:08
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm honestly not sure where the Clock Tower nostalgia comes from. Every time I've tried one it was really bad to actually play and the writing was never good enough to make up for it. For me, Clock Tower is the closest thing adventure games got to Maniac Manson strangely enough (granted I've only played the first two). You're thrown into a non-linear environment, the puzzles are mostly simple, the bad guy is ever present, and the game is short/simple enough to warrant multiple plays. And nothing really took the style of gameplay further. In the West adventure games jumped on the fully open 3D bandwagon and went to poo poo or didn't learn any lessons from LucasArts. In the East it got merged with visual novels and the closest thing to Clock Tower is Twilight Syndrome (also made by Human) which is Clock Tower made completely linear with visual novel story sequences. Last year I brought up Tokyo Twilight Busters which is one of the coolest games in the survival horror genre we never got. It's Maniac Mansion + Clock Tower + Sweet Home + Big Visual Novel rolled into one crazy rear end game. If it got a 3DS remake instead of a DS one in 2010 I think Namco would've localized it. There's really nothing else like it then Wolf Team turned into the Tales Of studio.
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Mar 24, 2016 23:15
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oops. I thought fax game was 3. (apparently there is two clock tower 2??) anyways clock tower for snes was not great to play, but it still had some very unique 'scares' as well as some badass pixel art.
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Mar 24, 2016 23:34
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chitoryu12 posted:The fax machine reminds me of One Late Night. I never played the sequel and I hear it's awful, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psHjUaQb5-k A real good time. Also features a fax machine that shows you news items that make no sense (SUN FLIPS UPSIDE DOWN).
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Mar 24, 2016 23:43
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GulagDolls posted:(apparently there is two clock tower 2??) Yeah SNES Clock Tower (Japan Only) Clock Tower PS1 (A sequel to the SNES clock tower, basically Clock Tower 2) Clock Tower: The First Fear (a japan only ps1 port of the snes clock tower with the unused stuff from the snes game enabled and fully implemented, tho that content amounted to like 1 item and 1 monster so not much of a difference there) Clock Tower Ghost Head (released as Clock Tower 2 in the US, but really it was a spin-off involving one of the items you could find and interact with from the SNES game iirc and it was the first clock tower game the head clock tower dude didn't direct or whatevs) Clock Tower 3 (the first clock tower game by Capcom, also didn't involve the original director, not a very good game, but an entertaining one, and I will defend Corroder as being an amazing design for a stalker character and I wish he was in a better game) Haunting Ground (not a clock tower game, but was originally developed as one, and it basically plays like a clock tower game, I hear this one is actually pretty good) Night Cry (the creator of clock tower making a new game with his own original character, the Scissor Walker, totally not a Scissor Man, looks like it attempts to go back to the SNES & PS1 style of play of being an adventure game)
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Haunting Ground actually IS pretty good, yeah. It's bizarre and has a lot of stuff to do with historical alchemy as part of its setting.
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Mar 25, 2016 19:22
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Speedball posted:Haunting Ground actually IS pretty good, yeah. It's bizarre and has a lot of stuff to do with historical alchemy as part of its setting.
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Mar 25, 2016 23:01
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Oh, right, some of it is skeezy. ...I must have put that part out of my mind.
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Mar 25, 2016 23:18
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There's a great LP of haunting ground here. Seriously go watch if I you haven't seen it.
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Mar 25, 2016 23:25
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The skeezy parts are the best parts!
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Mar 26, 2016 00:45
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Trying Oxenfree, so far Clarissa is a bitch. Thats my impression so far. E: Voice acting is good.
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Mar 26, 2016 02:51
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Played Pony Island. Maybe not quite horror but goddamn was it fun. Also unnerving a little cause I'm a huge puss
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Mar 26, 2016 08:12
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At the Mountains of Madness just entered early access. http://store.steampowered.com/app/393820
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Mar 26, 2016 09:00
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Crashbee posted:At the Mountains of Madness just entered early access. Surprise, it's gonna be poo poo
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Mar 26, 2016 09:55
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Saw the dude shoot a penguin. Closed the video.
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Mar 26, 2016 15:00
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Aw, I was hoping it would be like an Ice-Pick Lodge game where it's clunky and weird but strangely good. Seems the major issues are tech related so maybe it'll shape up into at least something interesting? Anyway, the real Mountains of Madness game.
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Mar 26, 2016 16:07
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Kokoro Wish posted:Saw the dude shoot a penguin. Closed the video. did the penguin have a racist name
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Mar 26, 2016 18:11
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Normal Adult Human posted:did the penguin have a racist name It was a ridiculous looking mutant penguin of some sort, but the guys making the game are too dense to realise that Lovecraft was describing regular old natural penguins as "hideous and abhorrent" because he was afraid of anything new and weird. Conservative little freakshow that he was.
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Mar 26, 2016 18:16
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aquatic birds are not part of a loving god's plan
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Mar 26, 2016 18:21
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al-azad posted:Aw, I was hoping it would be like an Ice-Pick Lodge game where it's clunky and weird but strangely good. Seems the major issues are tech related so maybe it'll shape up into at least something interesting? I apparently already own this, huh
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Mar 26, 2016 18:23
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:I apparently already own this, huh Play Eldritch, it's good. The first area is easy and unexciting but they ramp it up with neat enemies and clever tricks.
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Mar 26, 2016 18:58
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Kokoro Wish posted:It was a ridiculous looking mutant penguin of some sort, but the guys making the game are too dense to realise that Lovecraft was describing regular old natural penguins as "hideous and abhorrent" because he was afraid of anything new and weird. Conservative little freakshow that he was. The penguins in the story were six feet tall, albino and eyeless.
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Dave Angel posted:The penguins in the story were six feet tall, albino and eyeless. Only once they ventured into the underground. Before that he were just calling the overworld penguins and the despicible Esquimaux twisted and abhorrent.
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Mar 26, 2016 20:39
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Esquimaux aren't mentioned at all in At The Mountains of Madness. The story is set in Antarctica, there are no people there. Are you confusing it with Polaris?
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Mar 26, 2016 20:54
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Kokoro Wish posted:It was a ridiculous looking mutant penguin of some sort, but the guys making the game are too dense to realise that Lovecraft was describing regular old natural penguins as "hideous and abhorrent" because he was afraid of anything new and weird. Conservative little freakshow that he was. To be fair Lovecraft was violently phobic of everything.
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Mar 26, 2016 21:22
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It's kind of sad that Lovecraft did actually stop being a paranoid racist shithead but he did it not too long before he ended up dying an early death.
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VoidBurger posted:I love John Carpenter's The Thing and ran into/bought the game version over the weekend. The paranoia system isn't all that bad, but the main problem is that some thing-outs are scripted.
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Mar 26, 2016 21:56
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Surprise, it's gonna be poo poo Oh hey, that's a flashlight and not actually a toilet plunger. I'm disappointed.
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Mar 26, 2016 23:48
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Gromit posted:Oh hey, that's a flashlight and not actually a toilet plunger. I'm disappointed. A game wherein you have to periodically move your bowels, but spooky shits will plug toilets and haunt them.
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Mar 27, 2016 00:02
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:A game wherein you have to periodically move your bowels, but spooky shits will plug toilets and haunt them.
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Mar 27, 2016 00:15
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:A game wherein you have to periodically move your bowels, but spooky shits will plug toilets and haunt them. I bet you thought you were making a joke.
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Mar 27, 2016 01:12
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Well, there is a myth about a Japanese toilet monster.
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Dave Angel posted:Esquimaux aren't mentioned at all in At The Mountains of Madness. The story is set in Antarctica, there are no people there. Are you confusing it with Polaris? Actually you are correct, no eskimos in that one, had to reread, but on regular overworld penguins he said: "On the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins, while many fat seals were visible on the water, swimming or sprawling across large cakes of slowly drifting ice." and " All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins." Before the albino, eyeless ones are even introduced. THE ABHORRENT PENGIEN! Penguins are cute as gently caress and totally unafraid of people, what kind of man could call them "grotesque", Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Mar 27, 2016 |
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Penguins are mulattos so naturally they are the grossest thing to Lovecraft. He probably pissed his pants when he saw an Oreo.
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Never "twisted and abhorrent" though, you're projecting a bit there. But really, are you struggling with this game featuring giant, deformed penguins as enemies when it's based on a story featuring giant, deformed penguins?
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Dave Angel posted:Never "twisted and abhorrent" though, you're projecting a bit there. But really, are you struggling with this game featuring giant, deformed penguins as enemies when it's based on a story featuring giant, deformed penguins? I am actually against battling anything in a Lovecraft game over running away in screaming, blind terror or avoiding things lest it leads to running away in blind terror. The best parts of, say, the Shadow Over Innsmouth Game was fleeing in blind panic through the hotel. The worst parts were when you had a pistol and shot at things. Plus the stealth was garbage-weak.
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