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Chev posted:Which one was that, Catherine? Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Aug 31, 2016 |
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I played Anatomy with ~my girlfriend~ in a dark room and by the end we were both yelling at the monitor begging for it to stop Afterwards the message of the game was totally wasted on us sorry mister house im just gonna go ahead and be terrified of you now
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Speaking of underwater horror, what are peoples thoughts on Narcosis?
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DrSnakeLaser posted:Speaking of underwater horror, what are peoples thoughts on Narcosis? Is it even out yet? It looks neat but still up for preorder. Hope it comes to PSVR since that's the only VR set I'll have. Basically Soma and Dark Souls are the only games where I ever wish I could wipe my memory of every playing them, and then continue to play them again complete new for the first time.
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Anatomy is a surprisingly creepy game, there's just something inherently off putting in a dark suburban hallway.
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Ineffiable posted:Basically Soma and Dark Souls are the only games where I ever wish I could wipe my memory of every playing them, and then continue to play them again complete new for the first time. i'd add bloodborne to the list cuz the twist in the setting is pretty awesome. plus in all the souls games fighting the bosses especially the final bosses for the first time is the best thing in video games.
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I need to check out those Kitty Horror Show games. That Anatomy game really got to Harshlycritical who smirks at basically everything he plays.
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One of the designers on Alien: Isolation made a little horror prototype called The House Abandon that you can try for free. It's a game about playing a text adventure, so I'm pretty sure there's some spooky fuckery that goes on between the layers.
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Ineffiable posted:Is it even out yet? It looks neat but still up for preorder. Hope it comes to PSVR since that's the only VR set I'll have. Not yet, it is supposed to be out this summer but given that it's September and they are still putting "we're dev testing!" notes on Twitter I wouldn't expect it soon. I will look forward to it, even if it has underwater spiders.
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If you want a chuckle, here's me getting tricked by that one scare we were all spoiler-chatting about in SOMA (no screaming or anything, headphone-safe.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFmK7FKLgXg&t=4592s (If the timestamp doesn't work, it's 1:16:32)
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Sep 1, 2016 19:31
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al-azad posted:I need to check out those Kitty Horror Show games. That Anatomy game really got to Harshlycritical who smirks at basically everything he plays. That's where I learned about it and I'm thrilled it's spooking other folks in this thread.
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Just finished up my first play through of Until Dawn for my let's play series and drat what a great god drat game. I really want to go back and replay the chapters but I also want to just replay from the beginning with a new game. Has anyone played "Emily Wants to Play"? I picked it up on the PS store because it was cheap and I need stuff to stream, and I've avoided trailers and such so I'm going into it blind as possible.
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IDK I didn't have much of a reaction to anatomy. these are just stream of consciousness thoughts there are some moments that feel tense when you're just, you know, sitting in the dark, but I feel like those moments exist in every 'walking simulator' game ever. I was expecting something mindblowing from the narrative based on what people were saying here but it really fell flat for me. Maybe it would have felt more powerful if I hadn't played Imscared, which I feel did the "the game's not over..restart" thing a lot better. I also felt like the game got significantly less tense once things started 'breaking down. I don't really like intentional 'glitches' in games. they feel really lazy at best and immersion-breaking at worst. I would have really preferred if like, the layout of the house was just subtly changing or something.
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"Emily Wants to Play" is garbage. The sound mix is loving awful and either too quiet or too loving loud when the jump scares happen which happen entirely too frequently. What a waste of time
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Despite the monsters being modded to be "passive", SOMA still got a scream out of me when the teleporting guys with lightbulb headscame to say hello. I'm really enjoying it, though, and with the mod it's striking the right balance of creeping horror and exploration with having to worry about jump scares. I love horror but man do I hate jump scares. Edit: days late but sorry about the busted tags. Hellburger99 fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Sep 3, 2016 |
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Hellburger99 posted:Despite the monsters being modded to be "passive", SOMA still got a scream out of me when the Yeah that spoiler tag didn't turn out. I hadn't gotten there yet.
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Jump scares have completely overstayed their welcome for me at this point. It just feels like the creator's are indirectly admitting that they aren't sure how to properly make the player freak so they're falling back on invoking a physical reflex instead.
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Despite being reviled by certain folk, I still think that (at least the first of) the Five Nights games made great use of jump scares. That poo poo didn't just happen at random, but because you done hosed up. Git gud. Yes, I genuinely like the Five Nights games and am looking forward to seeing Sister Location. What of it?
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FNAF did jumpscares well because there was a process to them rather than just having them dumped on you in the middle of a random hallway. You sometimes know they are coming because you can hear something or even see something (in the case of losing power), and that is what makes it all the worse. I have never actually beaten any of the games because I don't like jumpscares, even if they are well done, just because my poor heart can't handle hours of that stuff.
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Zombie Samurai posted:One of the designers on Alien: Isolation made a little horror prototype called The House Abandon that you can try for free. It's a game about playing a text adventure, so I'm pretty sure there's some spooky fuckery that goes on between the layers. This was p fun for a 30 minute game!
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Kokoro Wish posted:Despite being reviled by certain folk, I still think that (at least the first of) the Five Nights games made great use of jump scares. That poo poo didn't just happen at random, but because you done hosed up. Git gud. I do like that Scott reinvents it with every entry and doesn't just do the same thing over and over again in regards to gameplay. FNAF 4 is genuinely pretty nervewracking
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I do like that Scott reinvents it with every entry and doesn't just do the same thing over and over again in regards to gameplay. FNAF 4 is genius because it makes you strain to hear the audio cues for the monsters, setting you up to get blasted full-force in the face if you gently caress it up. You have to lean into the jumpscares to avoid them, it's brilliant.
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Mindblast posted:Jump scares have completely overstayed their welcome for me at this point. It just feels like the creator's are indirectly admitting that they aren't sure how to properly make the player freak so they're falling back on invoking a physical reflex instead. Yes. Absolutely yes. I have an example of pro and con jump scares because I was just thinking about this yesterday. Pro: Until Dawn. Plays with the jump scares and feels like they're trying to have fun and get a rise out of you without it being just LOUD NOISE THING IN YOUR FACE. Not to mention the game itself is gorgeous and all around fun so when a jump scare happens it's more like a fun house. Con: Emily Wants to Play. Aimlessly wander around a house with no real directions on how the mechanics work or what you're supposed to do then LOUD NOISE JITTERY DOLL IN YOUR FACE deaths. It's infuriating because there's nothing else to the game to engage with other than "Well I guess I'll wander around for a while and wait to trigger the doll to kill me" 99% of jump scares in movies and games annoy me because they are either too obviously set up, or they're just the loud noise/thing fills the screen jumps.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:This was p fun for a 30 minute game! 30 minutes? Is there more than just the second trip through the house?
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Kokoro Wish posted:Despite being reviled by certain folk, I still think that (at least the first of) the Five Nights games made great use of jump scares. That poo poo didn't just happen at random, but because you done hosed up. Git gud. It makes me kind of sad that the people who sprung up around the game have led to it becoming so widely hated. The first one was good fun and while I myself at least got pretty done with them, I can appreciate that the game's productions have never relied on just being the exact same shtick every time, when god knows people would still buy a billion copies of every sequel even if they were. The dude actually puts work into mixing up and developing his creepy animatronic games, when he could easily rehash for the same payouts.
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I think rabid fanbases are the downfall of At least there isn't a significant amount of pyramid head x James porn.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:
Oh my sweet summer child..............
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WaywardWoodwose posted:Oh my sweet summer child.............. I said significant, that is a very relative word
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the jump scare in deep blue sea is the only good thing in the movie.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I think rabid fanbases are the downfall of My favorite ever insane franchise 'fan' story was that Silent Hill wiki moderator dude that had a mental break and vandalized a bunch of pages asserting that there were circumcision metaphors everywhere, and how evil circumcision is, and how the characters had circumcision impact them somehow, complete with nonsensical tangential rants and opinion pieces. Here's an article detailing it, as tweeted by our own forums' Void Burger!
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al-azad posted:Satire has to walk a fine line and in the end Harvester really doesn't have anything to say about its message. It almost gets there but it's too blunt and eager to gross out. It's kind of an early look at the "Would you kindly" twist where you're trying to reach this nebulous goal while performing seemingly innocuous tasks moving from simple vandalism to straight up arson. At its core it's a fun commentary on adventure game logic where the main character is often a destructive trickster (like Monkey Island 2 where you imprison a woman to solve a puzzle) but meanwhile the secondary characters are murdering, raping, and loving each other from the start which immediately destroys the illusion. On the other hand the "1950s neighbourhood is secretly bad" cliche is really tired and having everything be bizarre and awful from the start helps make Harvester feel a little more unique.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the jump scare in deep blue sea is the only good thing in the movie. Counterpoint- my hat is like a sharks fin
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Not yet, it is supposed to be out this summer but given that it's September and they are still putting "we're dev testing!" notes on Twitter I wouldn't expect it soon. I will look forward to it, even if it has underwater spiders. Sea Spiders are real and super weird and also only like 2 or 3 millimetres at the absolute biggest
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largest sea spider has a leg span of over 2 feet.
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VoidBurger posted:I'm a weirdo who liked the monster designs in SOMA so much that I ran up to a monster to see it up close and to see how quickly it could kill me. thanks to the wuss mod i can now witness the true monster of SOMA, the technicolour dick 
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I said significant, that is a very relative word I'm sorry, but the majority is James x Pyramid Head. Henry x Walter was maybe as big for a time though.
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SOMA: Technicolour nudity at its finest.
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I've been playing through Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon on 3DS lately. The controls took me a while to get used to, but what a fun, goofy spookfest. I liked the original Luigi's Mansion on Gamecube but haven't played it in like 10 years, so I forgot all the personality these games have. Luigi is constantly terrified, which is hilarious, and he does a lot of slapstick pratfalls when poo poo goes down. Even then, there are some legit creepy moments. I think this would be a good gateway game for kids or people who aren't necessarily into horror games.
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