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AnonSpore posted:I don't suppose there's a podcast of any kind about horror games in specific, whether it's about review/analysis or development? Mark Kish had one until she left to join Twitch. Since then, none I've seen. I would love a new one. Horror movie podcasts are a dime a dozen.
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Yup, this looks awesome as all gently caress and I'm in. Can't wait for this.
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Yancy_Street posted:Mark Kish had one until she left to join Twitch. Since then, none I've seen. The tricky part is that so many horror games are such garbage that analyzing them is a waste of time. I've tinkered with the idea of a horror game podcast but if you do it with any regularity then you end up rehashing a lot from the actual good games. Still, might be worth a good look.
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idk how a horror game podcast would work other than talking about the flood of walking simulators in steam
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Sep 5, 2017 16:36
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A friend of mine did his BA thesis on horror games and how their interactive nature makes them function differently from horror in other mediums. It is pretty good. Took him ages though since he was majoring in literature but had to get really deep into video game studies something he knew basically nothing about beforehand.
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FreudianSlippers posted:A friend of mine did his BA thesis on horror games and how their interactive nature makes them function differently from horror in other mediums. It is pretty good. Took him ages though since he was majoring in literature but had to get really deep into video game studies something he knew basically nothing about beforehand. Of all games, I think that horror game enthusiasts are probably the best at analysis of them just because explaining why a game is good is so much more difficult than other types. After all, horror games almost universally have awful controls and mediocre gameplay, so explaining why it's good is all in the deep dive.
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The video for Scorn is cool, but I don't know about the protagonist also being a Giger man with weird lobster guns. I really want to check out the story here. E: I guess if he was Space Marine guy it'd be too generic, but also his weapons right down to the sound seemed pretty "normal" in function. Needs weird guns that don't just look weird. The "thrown into a weird world" would be a little more poignant if maybe the main character was a normal dude instead of a dude in a super bio-mech suit with a spike hand. 
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I don't remember if the Duckfeed goons had a podcast or just a blog called The Hexcrank, but they occasionally play classic horror (and Souls games) on their show. e: Scorn looks like the proper continuation of Prey. al-azad fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Sep 5, 2017 22:19
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al-azad posted:e: Scorn looks like the proper continuation of Prey. If we don't get sphincter-doors it'll be a missed opportunity.
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Firstborn posted:The video for Scorn is cool, but I don't know about the protagonist also being a Giger man with weird lobster guns. I really want to check out the story here. I think the main character was a normal dude, and he's been altered somehow, and he's finding his way around this new bizarre new world. So there's that body horror element of no longer being recognisably you.
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speaking of giger it'd be cool if someone made a well designed first person game that was like dark seed. i say well designed because holy poo poo is the original impossible without having a walk through.
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Sep 5, 2017 23:40
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Unrelated to anything, Resident Evil Revelations 2 is a big arguement against episodic content for me. I am so glad that I got it as a bundle because if would have been pissed if I got all excited for a new episode just to find out it was the requisite sewer level.
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Firstborn posted:The video for Scorn is cool, but I don't know about the protagonist also being a Giger man with weird lobster guns. I really want to check out the story here. I wonder if there's even going to be a story, not having one would be pretty Beksinski and I think would fit.
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s.i.r.e. posted:I wonder if there's even going to be a story, not having one would be pretty Beksinski and I think would fit. At the end you find a mirror and in its reflection you gaze upon true horror. You see Mike Dawson.
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Groovelord Neato posted:speaking of giger it'd be cool if someone made a well designed first person game that was like dark seed. i say well designed because holy poo poo is the original impossible without having a walk through. Yeah, between the stuff that you can miss if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and the fact that even aside from that you can wind up in a dead end super easily, it's a real shitter to try and play that game these days. It's a good looking game though. Blattdorf posted:At the end you find a mirror and in its reflection you gaze upon true horror. You see Mike Dawson. Well, that would explain everything.
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Sep 6, 2017 09:55
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Hahaha if there's a snake with a buzzsaw top hat in Scorn I'll buy a million copies. please don't doxx me.
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Blattdorf posted:At the end you find a mirror and in its reflection you gaze upon true horror. You see Mike Dawson. Fil5000 posted:Well, that would explain everything. Drunken Baker posted:Hahaha if there's a snake with a buzzsaw top hat in Scorn I'll buy a million copies. Scorn, did you kill Rita?
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Sep 6, 2017 16:27
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I don't get it.
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s.i.r.e. posted:I don't get it.
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s.i.r.e. posted:I don't get it. https://youtu.be/dxGJXsgB65A
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Ok now what about the buzzsaw thing 
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FirstAidKite posted:Ok now what about the buzzsaw thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV1awQwAf2g&t=106s The 'villain' of Darkseed II.
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The developers didn't really have 'Hey, Really' Giger doing art for them, they only licensed his artwork for it, right?
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I think the devs working on Scorn understand visual design miles better than the team working on Agony. Scorn is weird fleshy biotech true, but they give you areas to "rest" visually between all the weirdness. Agony is just busy and hard to look at for more than a few minutes. The guns in Scorn make me physically uncomfortable, the sound alone is pretty well done squishy crunch noises. Blergh.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:The developers didn't really have 'Hey, Really' Giger doing art for them, they only licensed his artwork for it, right? i'm pretty sure giger was involved directly for darkseed 1 but not the sequel
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Johnny Joestar posted:i'm pretty sure giger was involved directly for darkseed 1 but not the sequel EDIT: After digging up some more, the man did have some artistic input into the first game, in that he selected the paintings to be used for the various elements and locations. Chev fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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The sequel is noticeably lazy about it. One area is a Giger sculpture except there's a poorly modeled zigzagging CGI bridge through the scenery. You can tell in the original they built the game with the art in mind while the sequel they built the game around the art with no thought to perspective or anything.
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What other adventure games are as bonkers as dark seed 2 or harvester?
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The Saddest Rhino posted:What other adventure games are as bonkers as dark seed 2 or harvester? The Phantasmagoria games are pretty out there, I think.
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Sanitarium is a bit more serious but has its moments
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The Saddest Rhino posted:What other adventure games are as bonkers as dark seed 2 or harvester? Armed and Delirious is out there and Full Pipe is intentionally obtuse with a Liquid TV aesthetic.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:What other adventure games are as bonkers as dark seed 2 or harvester? Hopkins FBI
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If anything else, phantasmagoria 2 presents a gay character in a remarkably even handed way for the time. Shame about their portrayal of bi folks and, uh, all of bdsm.
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Fran Bow was pretty off the rails, albiet in an Alice in Wonderland way more than Harvester.
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Bogart posted:If anything else, phantasmagoria 2 presents a gay character in a remarkably even handed way for the time. Shame about their portrayal of bi folks and, uh, all of bdsm. Racism too, the primary detective is "angry black lady stereotype" mixed with the skeptic cop trope. Oh, and even though the main character visiting a psychologist is framed as positive the portrayal of asylum patients is offensive. That can all be fairly critiqued as "this was a product of the time (which does not excuse it's presence)" but what really kills Phantasmagoria 2 is the completely dense last area/puzzle section, afaik there's nothing in-game that clues you in about what to do.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:What other adventure games are as bonkers as dark seed 2 or harvester? If they don't have to be point and click adventure games specifically, I'd recommend Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy) and Deadly Premonition, I enjoyed both for being completely insane.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Fran Bow was pretty off the rails, albiet in an Alice in Wonderland way more than Harvester. Fran Bow got to me at times just out of sheer weirdness and how it would take sudden turns into really dark territory. It's not often that games give me the creeps anymore but that one did, and often.
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FirstAidKite posted:Hopkins FBI That was a weird game. Spooktober is coming soon and I'm going to power through a few horror games that have been sitting on the backburner, FNAF included (I wussed out by Day 3).
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the best part about dark seed 2 is the character is still mike dawson but they didn't use the real mike dawson and made him into a giant wimp. the twist in the second game is so goddamn bad. i wish there were more freaky games like harvester. what a trip.
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