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VoidBurger posted:Year of the Ladybug has a pitch trailer which includes some new, intensely stupid monster concepts drawn gorgeously. quote:A full story that was completed before anything else. How many idea guys are working on this game
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1stGear posted:How many idea guys are working on this game I just think that if I were a concept art teacher, I would give this guy a C or something. He's incredibly talented at rendering but god, so many of the ideas are trying soooo hard or are just laughable instead of scary. It's like a highschooler's ideas for Silent Hill monsters. It's just cringey for me??
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Sep 26, 2016 05:14
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I kind of get the feeling like this is one of those horror games where the lead developer has an intense fear of one very specific thing (messed up heads, I guess) and it comes out in everything that they make because it is what is scary to -them-. It's still creepy in a general sense, but doesn't really ring the same bell with everyone else.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:16
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oh do watch the video, the monster designs are lovingly dumb. my fav is the one voidburger linked and also the unicycle nancy
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Sep 26, 2016 06:38
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year of the ladybug should get a patreon.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:04
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VoidBurger posted:I'm under the impression that it's exclusively idea guys (one who is a concept artist for games, though.) Not even the first time I've seen "Guy with spider-legs made out of women" as a monster concept, and it was better then too. (One of the bad guys from Condemned 2, I think). Still pretty iffy either way. I've definitely seen way better body horror than this.
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Sep 26, 2016 07:31
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Speedball posted:Not even the first time I've seen "Guy with spider-legs made out of women" as a monster concept, and it was better then too. (One of the bad guys from Condemned 2, I think). Still pretty iffy either way. There was one in the suffering 2 too
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Sep 26, 2016 07:55
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The powerful symbolism of a man with a bonsai tree for a head.
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Sep 26, 2016 08:28
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unpacked robinhood posted:There was one in the suffering 2 too gently caress, that's what I meant. Cheese for brains tonight.
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Sep 26, 2016 08:29
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VoidBurger posted:Year of the Ladybug has a pitch trailer which includes some new, intensely stupid monster concepts drawn gorgeously. "Something positive" is having a very masculine muscle monster controlling clearly all-female victims, also lets make sure to really arch her spine so her rear end sticks out in the stick figure. Isn't that spooky? Cringe is an understatement, oi vey. Did anyone see the Arrival in Hell remake got greenlit? Their Kickstarter isn't going too well though.
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Sep 26, 2016 14:23
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My grotty, piss stained kickstarter
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Sep 26, 2016 14:59
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Speedball posted:I've definitely seen way better body horror than this. i have too, and i agree its not the greatest, but it's pretty unsettling still and i'm down for it as an idea ive got a weird fear of razors and whatnot so seeing the dudes finger get pencil-sharpened is really unnerving for me
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Sep 26, 2016 15:04
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CharlestonJew posted:My grotty, piss stained kickstarter Grotty, Piss Stained Head
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Sep 26, 2016 15:12
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Man that monster design just screams controversial, I mean there is really no way to defend that.
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Sep 26, 2016 18:00
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I feel like it's not quite that bad; admittedly, it's pretty on the drat nose about it's imagery but I feel more of a '14 year old aping sh2' vibe from it. It's not exactly portraying any of the parties involved in a positive light, at least.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:51
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VoidBurger posted:I'm under the impression that it's exclusively idea guys (one who is a concept artist for games, though.) Are we sure the entire team just isn't perfectly preserved Silent Hill turbo nerds fresh from/still in high school? HALL OF FISH HEADS PUZZLE IDEA! WEIRD BOX CUTTER IN GAME ART. NURSES AND BUG TONGUES! We thought up the story ahead of time, so it isn't just a bunch of weird pictures. Maybe these guy(s?) should make this a horror text game if they're so proud of their story. It isn't like that could be significantly easier on their end to make, be slightly different potentially and put their name out there as a group that can do something.
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Sep 28, 2016 13:51
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It was like that with the Silent Hill comics too from what I remember. Like a gang of street punks end up in Silent Hill, meet Pyramid Head NATURALLY and ultimately end up with a military cache's worth of uzi's and AK's moving down crap nurse rip-offs.
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Sep 28, 2016 13:59
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They should have a patreon to sell the art
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Sep 28, 2016 14:30
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Mind you, a lot of people on my Facebook have been talking about it and saying how creepy and craaaazy it is. So maybe we're just a bunch of deranged lunatics who have been desensitised.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:43
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Drunken Baker posted:It was like that with the Silent Hill comics too from what I remember. Like a gang of street punks end up in Silent Hill, meet Pyramid Head NATURALLY and ultimately end up with a military cache's worth of uzi's and AK's moving down crap nurse rip-offs. Dear god I completely forgot those existed. Somewhere between the teenager death cults and the Punk Army they went completely insane.
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Sep 28, 2016 14:55
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Drunken Baker posted:Mind you, a lot of people on my Facebook have been talking about it and saying how creepy and craaaazy it is. So maybe we're just a bunch of deranged lunatics who have been desensitised. I think it looks pretty great. People like to find things to be offended by.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:11
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I think it looks pretty great. People like to find things to be offended by. Sounds like you're offended by people who think it looks spooky I guess?
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Sep 28, 2016 16:34
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Improbable Lobster posted:Sounds like you're offended by people who think it looks spooky I guess? No, I think it looks very spooky and I enjoy how it looks 
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Sep 28, 2016 16:39
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I mean, it doesn't look /horrible/ and for all we know if it was made into an actual game it'd be great, but it doesn't change the fact that the monster design is 99% one single gimmick applied in like 30 different ways, and that the monsters people have been talking about liking the most are all the ones that didn't follow that gimmick, like the pooping butt monster.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:52
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I'll probably play it assuming the gameplay isn't too poo poo, I'm pretty into "way over the top, look how hosed up this is guys" monster design, ranging from The Suffering having dudes with needles for eyes and a monster that's a firing squad, to "This man has a tree for a head and a head for a tree(!!!)", it looks dumb and great and good.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:53
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I wasn't saying anyone was offended by it. Just saying for as many people there are who don't think it looks scary there are people who are really freaked out by it.  edit: To be fair whilst none of it seems spooky in the slightest I do like the floating people. I'm a fan of casual floaters (fnar fnar) like the ghosts in Silent Hill 4, so there is that. Drunken Baker fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 16:52
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When I think of "messed up head enemies" my mind now snaps to the uh crystal zombies(?) in Metal Gear Survive and that's not something I want to associate anything with ever.
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Sep 28, 2016 17:01
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So how did nightcry end up? Worth the cash?
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Sep 28, 2016 20:01
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Sea Sponge Run posted:So how did nightcry end up? Worth the cash?
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Sep 28, 2016 20:05
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Sea Sponge Run posted:So how did nightcry end up? Worth the cash? I enjoyed it, but don't get it unless you love the clock tower games.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:06
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I'm looking for a recommendation for October scary game series to go through. My choices at the moment are: Silent Hill 2-4. I've finished SH1 and 2 but haven't done 3 and only watched the into to 4. Fatal Frame 1-2: I quit FF1 at the hangman part because I got scared, and I ran out of film. Amnesia: I don't know anything about these but I've heard good things about dark descent and machine for pigs Any recommendations would be super helpful. Siren: I don't know anything about this. The evil within: I got this cheap. I've heard mixed things at best
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Sep 28, 2016 20:27
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Play Amnesia. If you like Amnesia then play Soma. If you're still hungry for more then play Penumbra which is that company's first game about a decade back so it's rough but still playable. Machine for Pigs is a different direction from Amnesia, some liked it more but majority seems to think it's inferior. Add Alien Isolation to that list. It'll inevitably be on sale for cheap in October. If you have PS4 then Until Dawn is good.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:31
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Silent Hill 3 and both the Fatal Frame games, imo they're some of my favourite horror stuff of all time. FF1 is pretty unforgiving in places though and tough to play.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:31
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In terms of series, the dead space series would be a pretty good one to go straight through, especially if you know a
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Sep 28, 2016 20:32
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Oscar Wild posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for October scary game series to go through. My choices at the moment are: I assume you have a console, so redboxing Until Dawn and Soma are solid choices, as well at the Resident Evil REmake. Machine for Pigs is completely different to Amnesia 1 and it kind of overwrought and bad, so grain of salt. Layers of Fear might be better if you want walking sims.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:35
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the ps3 Siren (Blood Curse?) is very good and worth it. its stealth in that if you get seen, you can often only defend yourself by running and hiding. there are a few gun parts but the shibito never die and will resurrect after a few seconds. the older siren games are tough to play imo Silent Hills 2-4 are good, the Fatal Frames 1-3 are good, alien isolation is good, i usually try to do a playthrough of RE2-4 during october as well condemned 1 and 2 up to a certain point is okay if you haven't played it and don't mind a bit of jank, dark corners of the earth is a good lovecraftian game
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Sep 28, 2016 20:40
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NightCry ended up like an incredibly goodbad b-movie. Ridiculous and not scary. Here's a stream I was on of it, some pretty funny poo poo happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FgT4pov3s4 A. Beaverhausen posted:I think it looks pretty great. People like to find things to be offended by. When I see monsters like that, I think of a Deviantartist who played Silent Hill 2 maybe 10 years ago and is misremembering just how many titties were really on those monsters. And "Everyone loves PyramidHead! Better incorporate "head is actually an odd object" into 90% of my monster concepts!" It's just cliché conceptually, taking something that was once new and exciting conceptually and recycling it because, hey, it was successful in that other game. Oscar Wild posted:I'm looking for a recommendation for October scary game series to go through. My choices at the moment are: I'm biased but Silent Hill 3 is a real good spooky time after the first two levels, imo. Silent Hill 4 is the scariest one for me, but it's a pain in the rear end gameplay-wise. Amnesia is a pretty nerve-wracking one too (for me, at least). The sequel, A Machine for Pigs was way less scary to me though?? The enemies were kinda cute.  The Evil Within I might skip if I were you. It was more frustrating than scary, and has pretty annoying storytelling (as in, I played 13 hours of it and had no idea what the plot was, ended up quitting cuz I just plain didn't care about anything going on in it  )Additional Recommendations (some are franchises, some not): SOMA: Good, ambient, very few jump scares. A good time. Until Dawn: The funnest time I've had with jump scares (which I normally loving hate.) A really interesting story/experience with some genuinely scary bits. Dead Space 1-2: I consider the Dead Spaces to be action games with horror themes, but they're pretty dang fun, honestly. Not very scary, has only a few "good" or frightening jumpscare moments. Dead Space 3: Only ironically, to laugh at it in a b-movie way. Resident Evil 5, 6, Revelations 1 + 2: Generally really fun action games with horror veneers. Revelations 2's co-op was actually extremely fun for me. Resi 6 was dumb as hell but still mostly a fun time (I only played it co-op though. Ada's campaign was still awful.) I don't have much of an opinion/experience with the others, but I've heard good things about them.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:46
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If you're up for horror/horror themed adventure games Fran Bow, Scratches, the Gabriel Knights, and Walking Dead Season 1 are all real good. I've also heard good things about the Dark Falls and The Lost Crown, though I haven't really gotten to playing my Steam copies yet. (Though I did play some of Dark Fall 1 and it actually managed to creep me out.) Not scary, but the Blackwell series would be still really good to shotgun during October.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:48
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Accordion Man posted:If you're up for horror/horror themed adventure games Fran Bow, Scratches, the Gabriel Knights, and Walking Dead Season 1 are all real good. this reminded me, story based horror game The Cat Lady is extremely good with a very weird, interesting art style
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Thanks, I'm going to start with amnesia, and then work through silent hill. Fatal Frame can slip to November or december. For silent Hill 2 I've done the water and leave endings. I'm playing on a "new" version so should I go for the maria ending or just do the water ending again? Is there a preferred ending to SH3?
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