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Accordion Man posted:Siren 1 is a bad game gameplaywise. It's got all the worst janky unforgiving bullshit of a survival horror game combined with Sierra tier obtuse as poo poo puzzles that would make Roberta Williams jealous. i've always wondered how things like this happened. you have to test a game quite a bit as you're developing it. did they just have people with broken brains do all the testing?
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Aug 27, 2016 13:08
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Groovelord Neato posted:i've always wondered how things like this happened. you have to test a game quite a bit as you're developing it. did they just have people with broken brains do all the testing? Games like Siren, on the other hand where they weren't trying to nickle and dime you, I have no idea why. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 14:14
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A game like Siren which was probably done on a pretty small budget would likely have used QA for bug testing purposes only, the rest can be put down to a combination of being deliberately obtuse for purposes of atmosphere and the developers not being very good. They did learn however and Siren 2 is a lot more approachable.
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Aug 27, 2016 14:45
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Sakurazuka posted:A game like Siren which was probably done on a pretty small budget would likely have used QA for bug testing purposes only, the rest can be put down to a combination of being deliberately obtuse for purposes of atmosphere and the developers not being very good. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 14:47
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Siren's UK voice acting was hilariously bad. A genuinely creepy game that had me in fits of laughter at them seemingly using SCEE office staff to voice the characters.
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Aug 27, 2016 15:31
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Fil5000 posted:Siren's UK voice acting was hilariously bad. A genuinely creepy game that had me in fits of laughter at them seemingly using SCEE office staff to voice the characters. PROFESSSAH! If you don't love Tamon and Yoriko you have no soul. 
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Aug 27, 2016 15:34
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Accordion Man posted:Well in the case of adventure games like Sierra's they purposely made them bullshit so you'd have to call the Sierra Hint Hotline. It was a purposeful business strategy. oh yeah i know the adventure games i grew up on them. but even on a small budget or whatever siren is inexcusable.
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Aug 27, 2016 15:45
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Fil5000 posted:Siren's UK voice acting was hilariously bad. A genuinely creepy game that had me in fits of laughter at them seemingly using SCEE office staff to voice the characters. The voice acting actively makes that game much better, you're crazy.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:10
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Looking for horror "walking simulators"
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Aug 27, 2016 17:27
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Grapplejack posted:The voice acting actively makes that game much better, you're crazy. I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was bad voice acting. I liked it because at that time the worst you usually got was competent voice actors reading bad scripts, and this was people that didn't seem to be voice actors at all reading a competent script, which was just bizarre.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:47
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Looking for horror "walking simulators" SOMA is good though there are some mild puzzles and bits where you have to avoid things. I enjoyed the Vanishing of Ethan Carter too
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Aug 27, 2016 17:50
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Looking for horror "walking simulators"
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Aug 27, 2016 18:02
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Sakurazuka posted:I enjoyed the Vanishing of Ethan Carter too this game was a huge bummer for me. i wish soma had been more of a game even though i enjoyed it. it's definitely the best "walking simulator" by quite a margin.
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Aug 27, 2016 18:09
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DrSnakeLaser posted:I tried Moirai and the idea is good, but you get out of it what you put in. yeah I agree. I was lucky that I got someone who gave real answers the first time I played instead of stuff like "lol its period blood" and "dont kill me cuz ill kno huehuehuehuehue"
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Aug 27, 2016 18:10
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Looking for horror "walking simulators" Avoid Murdered: Soul Suspect
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Aug 27, 2016 18:27
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exploding mummy posted:Avoid Murdered: Soul Suspect They're some of the best ghost games around.
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Aug 27, 2016 18:41
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I really didn't mind Murdered at all. The stealth sections were supposed to be awful, but I just went around Solid Snaking all the ghosts and didn't stealth a drat thing, so
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Aug 27, 2016 19:30
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DeathChicken posted:I really didn't mind Murdered at all. The stealth sections were supposed to be awful, but I just went around Solid Snaking all the ghosts and didn't stealth a drat thing, so the stealth sections were godawful, the game desperately needed an in game map, and as someone who lives near Salem and has friends who live in Salem, that was like the worst version of Salem I have ever seen
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Aug 27, 2016 20:36
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So why stealth anything? It was far easier to just walk up to every demon silly enough to put its back to you (read: all of them) and kill it dead in one shot. Took like a minute and then you were free to do whatever.
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Aug 27, 2016 20:57
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What are some ''good'' games to watch an LP of in the vein of Phantasmagoria, Harvester, etc? This is the kind of stuff I read about in gaming magazines as a teen but they never brought to the poo poo town I lived in. I only ever played Gabriel Knight and that one wasn't all that good. So I'm talking edgy FMV horror games.
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Aug 27, 2016 21:37
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Looking for horror "walking simulators" The name escapes me, but The Secret World people made just this.
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Aug 27, 2016 21:56
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A. Beaverhausen posted:The name escapes me, but The Secret World people made just this. ravenkult posted:I only ever played Gabriel Knight and that one wasn't all that good. But to fulfill your request Bad Mojo is a legit good game. Also Dark Eye and Bad Day at the Midway, while not FMV are still neat 90's horror-esque multimedia adventure games. Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 22:01
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A. Beaverhausen posted:The name escapes me, but The Secret World people made just this. The Park
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Aug 27, 2016 22:03
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Accordion Man posted:The Park. It was the werewolf one.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:07
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ravenkult posted:It was the werewolf one.  It really doesn't fit your criteria though, as I said Bad Mojo does, that game is grimy as poo poo.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:09
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The other FMV one I got as a kid was Frankenstein with Curry. This was also garbage but god drat it, I tried to finish it.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:11
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Ah poo poo now I remember there is also Ripper. Ripper is definitely worth watching, what with its all star cast of Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith in his final role, John Rhys-Davies, Jimmie Walker, Karen Allen, and Paul Giamatti before he hit it big.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:15
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I actually found that in thrift shop a few days ago, box and all. I wonder if I can run it.
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Aug 27, 2016 22:17
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ravenkult posted:I actually found that in thrift shop a few days ago, box and all. I wonder if I can run it. It's worth a shot though. I thought I wouldn't be able to run John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles on Windows 10 but I can. (Blackstone Chronicles is also a really good horror proto-narrative exploration game by the way.) Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 22:19
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Looking for horror "walking simulators" "Anatomy" by an indie dev named Kitty Horrorshow. Completely underrated imo, but I'm fond of extremely tense storytelling. It's a very confined walking sim in that you retread areas, but there's a reason for it.
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Aug 28, 2016 04:35
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Checking in to say Until Dawn is awesome.
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Aug 28, 2016 05:27
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:"Anatomy" by an indie dev named Kitty Horrorshow. This. Watched someone play it recently and it was one of the few times I'd wished I'd actually played it myself instead.
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Aug 28, 2016 05:35
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Hey guys, I'm trying to remember this game where you investigate a crime that's randomly generated, and you jump through photos to get to different locations. that's all I can remember, sorry.
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Aug 28, 2016 05:43
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How is the game Yomawari, for the Vita? It isn't out in English yet, but maybe I could chance somebody who has played the Japanese version in this thread, maybe
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Aug 28, 2016 06:00
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Can't wait to play RE7
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Aug 28, 2016 09:12
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I'm also gonna recommend Anatomy. It's super tense and has some interesting things going on. If you think her style is neat, she has a patreon where she posts little unity horror games every month. She calls her backers "little birds." 
prahanormal fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Aug 28, 2016 |
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Aug 28, 2016 15:19
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GulagDolls posted:yeah I agree. I got someone who put in strings of racial slurs for every answer. Cool idea but uh, yeah.
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Aug 28, 2016 17:02
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In Inside does the boy still make sounds like shivering/breathing in fear after the water-girl grabs him and makes him be able to breathe underwater? I know some suggest the secret ending and the idea that he is being controlled the whole time is moreso meta-commentary than literal. But I might be more convinced that he had free will up until the point at which he was grabbed, particularly if he is silent afterward.
BOAT SHOWBOAT fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Aug 29, 2016 |
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Aug 29, 2016 13:20
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:In Inside does the boy still make sounds like shivering/breathing in fear after the water-girl grabs him and makes him be able to breathe underwater? I know some suggest the secret ending and the idea that he is being controlled the whole time is moreso meta-commentary than literal. But I might be more convinced that he had free will up until the point at which he was grabbed, particularly if he is silent afterward. I went back and checked and he seems considerably quieter after that point, yeah. The one exception is if he gets grabbed when encountering the Masked People in the garage, but even then I noticed that he doesn't pass out when chloroformed like before - he just keeps thrashing and trying to grab the guy by the throat until the game fades to black.
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