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King Vidiot posted:Yeah but they didn't call Shovel Knight "Back in 1992". Also it was a good game. My point being that even if they did I wouldn't have taken it as a red flag right off the bat because there have been enough good games blatantly cashing on nostalgia.
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Parachute posted:Just give me Alone in the Dark with a microtransaction system and maybe hats. TF2 is v spooky
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May 1, 2016 00:46
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You guys know of any pixelated horror games that are as good as Lone Survivor? I really like that one and I need something to freak me out this summer.
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May 1, 2016 00:50
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Claire was pretty good for the couple of hours I've put into it so far. Can't speak for the quality of the late game but the early game is spooky enough. Very obviously inspired by Lone Survivor. Dreaming Mary is also pretty good, although trying to describe it would honestly spoil it. It's free and super short.
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May 1, 2016 01:26
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I feel it was a design mishap to make the pistol in Alien: Isolation so beefy looking when it's actually a peashooter. Also, The Medical bay. I'll get you eventually, you xeno bastard.  
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May 1, 2016 01:39
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prahanormal posted:Claire was pretty good for the couple of hours I've put into it so far. Can't speak for the quality of the late game but the early game is spooky enough. Very obviously inspired by Lone Survivor. rpgmaker.net is down, but I'm going to play Claire Monday after finals
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May 1, 2016 01:49
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:You guys know of any pixelated horror games that are as good as Lone Survivor? I really like that one and I need something to freak me out this summer. The Last Door is a personal favorite of mine if you like point & click adventure games, Lovecraftian themes, and ultra-chunky graphics. You can also take a look at my post history in the thread for a lot of reviews of pixelly indie horror games, both good and bad.
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May 1, 2016 01:57
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Zombie Samurai posted:The Last Door is a personal favorite of mine if you like point & click adventure games, Lovecraftian themes, and ultra-chunky graphics. Wow I can't believe I forgot this. A high water mark in pixeled horror.
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May 1, 2016 04:04
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:You guys know of any pixelated horror games that are as good as Lone Survivor? I really like that one and I need something to freak me out this summer. Stray Cat Crossing was pretty solid, it's not very long though. The Count Lucanor is sorta horror, I haven't played it myself but a lot of people have recommended it to me.
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May 1, 2016 04:27
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Mr. Sunabouzu posted:Stray Cat Crossing was pretty solid, it's not very long though. The Count Lucanor is sorta horror, I haven't played it myself but a lot of people have recommended it to me. Yeah I'll vouch for both of these as well. I realize I never posted my review of The Count Lucanor in this thread, and I wrote about Stray Cat Crossing last October.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:rpgmaker.net is down, but I'm going to play Claire Monday after finals
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May 1, 2016 09:50
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My favorite rpgmaker horror game is Ib, because Ib has the ability to get a nice, happy ending, and I like when horror games let the cast end on a happy note Also, I remember Ib just being fairly well made. It had an interesting aesthetic and unique atmosphere
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May 1, 2016 09:54
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Relin posted:i wouldnt, its an abandoned project that isnt worth playing in its current state
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May 1, 2016 10:24
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i didn't say it wasnt finished. you can play to the end, but changes proposed two years ago never came to fruition. mainly the horrible map that makes it a chore to play. the dev also hasnt played a game on steam since january 2015
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May 1, 2016 10:53
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This is why I never pay attention to anything devs say post release regarding updates. It does nothing but set up expectations that will probably never be fulfilled, and makes any flaws the game has hurt a whole lot more. I also don't read lists of wanted features in early access type things. Game development is tricky yo.
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May 1, 2016 14:07
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:You guys know of any pixelated horror games that are as good as Lone Survivor? I really like that one and I need something to freak me out this summer.
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May 1, 2016 16:02
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Klaus88 posted:I feel it was a design mishap to make the pistol in Alien: Isolation so beefy looking when it's actually a peashooter. I think you could justify the relative power of guns in that game by the need to not have weapons that might accidentally shatter windows while out in space.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Y'all like point and clicks? I only suffered through Part 1 but that was all I needed to see, really. Horrendous, nonsensical, forced sequence pixel hunting. Inconsistent, confused tone. Long, drawn out and pointless scenes. The whole thing felt like some kind of self-masturbatory attempt at combining a bunch of disjointed UrbEx photos with a song somebody really wanted to show off.
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May 1, 2016 22:04
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treat posted:I only suffered through Part 1 but that was all I needed to see, really. Horrendous, nonsensical, forced sequence pixel hunting. Inconsistent, confused tone. Long, drawn out and pointless scenes. The whole thing felt like some kind of self-masturbatory attempt at combining a bunch of disjointed UrbEx photos with a song somebody really wanted to show off. To be fair I liked the tone and can suffer through the most drawn out anything so I thought it was good. I get why you didn't like it though.
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FirstAidKite posted:My favorite rpgmaker horror game is Ib, because Ib has the ability to get a nice, happy ending, and I like when horror games let the cast end on a happy note Being able to end in something less than a complete downer is an interesting aesthetic in and of itself. I agree that's Cool and Good, though, if for no other reason than half of the tension of a horror game comes from the struggle, and the struggle loses something if the outcome is foregone.
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Coolguye posted:Being able to end in something less than a complete downer is an interesting aesthetic in and of itself. I agree that's Cool and Good, though, if for no other reason than half of the tension of a horror game comes from the struggle, and the struggle loses something if the outcome is foregone. I think the worst thing is when a game has a happy ending and then there is something real quick at the end going "nah jk" and you have no control over it. IIRC, Mad Father and Witch's House both did that (sorry to spoil for people who haven't played it) and it's kind of a lovely way to ruin the mood they set imo It'd be like if every ending of the first silent hill game was the same as they are now, except with some text at the end saying "Harry Mason left and was happy, but then he became a serial killer and killed and tortured a ton of people" FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 07:22 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 07:19
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My mood swings on that, it really depends on the execution. Sometimes it feels cheap where you see it coming a mile away like "camera zooms out to happy music before a hand rises from a grave!" But every so often you get an amazing shocker like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.
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I think it works better in film since in film you are just watching it, but in a game you have enough involvement to potentially influence the story, so it's weird when games give you some degree of control over the story but then wrench the story in a different direction at the end regardless of whatever you did. This is more of a problem with games in general, it is just something I notice more with story-based horror games since those kinds of games are pretty much carried entirely by how well they do the horror and how well they do the plot
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May 2, 2016 12:16
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:You guys know of any pixelated horror games that are as good as Lone Survivor? I really like that one and I need something to freak me out this summer. I don't know what your anime tolerance is but Corpse Party is up on GOG.
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Corpse Party is real bad, though. At some point, it loses the tenseness and scariness and just becomes a weird fetish guro visual novel wrapped up in its story. In my opinion, anyway.  Just play Lone Survivor again! 
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May 3, 2016 17:38
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There's no opinion about it, the creator seems to have a thinly veiled gore fetish to go with his actual admitted piss fetish
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May 3, 2016 17:53
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I don't think that's an issue in the original. It's the sequels that get weird.
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May 3, 2016 17:54
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The further you go into Corpse Party sequels the longer and more frequent Piss Quest™ happens in them. The pc version that just got released on GoG and Steam is pretty much fine though.
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May 3, 2016 20:02
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I thought the anime was pretty spooky.
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May 3, 2016 23:24
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Corpse Party also has a gross scene where a sister molests her younger brother.
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May 4, 2016 00:11
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So did people actually have 'fun' playing Lone Survivor? Like I got what it was going for and it was fine up until a point, and then it just became a tedious mess of keeping up invisible status meters and endless backtracking. I ended up just watching an LP to realize how much annoyance still waited for me in the basement and outside of the apartments.
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Niggurath posted:So did people actually have 'fun' playing Lone Survivor? Like I got what it was going for and it was fine up until a point, and then it just became a tedious mess of keeping up invisible status meters and endless backtracking. I ended up just watching an LP to realize how much annoyance still waited for me in the basement and outside of the apartments.
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FirstAidKite posted:I think the worst thing is when a game has a happy ending and then there is something real quick at the end going "nah jk" and you have no control over it. IIRC, Mad Father and Witch's House both did that (sorry to spoil for people who haven't played it) and it's kind of a lovely way to ruin the mood they set imo I thought it was really annoying when Dead Space did it. I guess they thought it was pretty dumb too because they seemed to retcon it for the sequel I enjoyed Lone Survivor up until I got outside and then it just felt like too much of a slog. Still meaning to go back to it as I generally liked its presentation and gameplay.
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VoidBurger posted:I just hope every horror game is good, really. v Me too. Anyone remember an anime-looking point and click pc horror game that took place on a space station? I played it ages ago but I barely remember anything about it.
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May 4, 2016 01:40
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The White Chamber. I remember it being not that great.
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May 4, 2016 01:44
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0 rows returned posted:The White Chamber. I remember it being not that great. The plot was pretty dull. The art was at its best when they were just being grotesque and gross, but usually the art was just deviantart style anime and the endings were pretty dumb too
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May 4, 2016 01:47
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I feel like there's a real fine line you have to walk if you want any type of anime horror. Corpse Party is about the best in terms of balance of creepy anime bullshit versus actual horror. It's certainly not as bad as Saya no Uta. I'd really like to play White Day, but at this point I'm gonna wait for the remake.
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Niggurath posted:So did people actually have 'fun' playing Lone Survivor? Like I got what it was going for and it was fine up until a point, and then it just became a tedious mess of keeping up invisible status meters and endless backtracking. I ended up just watching an LP to realize how much annoyance still waited for me in the basement and outside of the apartments. I spent an hour on a pixel hunt trying to figure out where to go next in the apartments and gave up. Shame, it was really fun up til that point. Maybe I'll give it another shot some day.
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