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Blockhouse posted:Gone Home was never presented as a horror game by the devs so sorry someone lied to you I guess? The previews with Riot Grrl music and Christmas Duck were truly the stuff of nightmares.
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You can beat the video game Myst in about a minute
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You can beat Monkey Island 2 by hitting Ctrl-W at any point. And you can finish any movie in just a couple of minutes by skipping to the last scene.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:48
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Life hacks: watch everything at 1.2x speed
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Sep 18, 2017 13:49
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I remember the old Monty Python game from 7th level let you win on the menu screen if you selected Get the Grail.
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Sep 18, 2017 13:53
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Sakurazuka posted:Life hacks: watch everything at 1.2x speed Amateur. I set things running at 10x speed and then leave the house to do something else.
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Blockhouse posted:Gone Home was never presented as a horror game by the devs so sorry someone lied to you I guess? Sorry Gone Home was such pretentious trash that it didn't know what it wanted to be and it gave me a lot of conflicting vibes I guess? No really tho it felt like it was trying to be a ghost story sometimes and I probably just invented some memory of a trailer or something. The answer to the mystery of "why is your house empty" being "family vacation, nobody's home" was stupid as gently caress. Whoever called it out about the girl stealing everything in the house being hosed up; agreed; also stupid how the lesbians were clearly written by straight people. The one girl is a big stompy tough military girl and the other one is the 'wife' because that's totally how gay people work, ones the boy and ones the girl Fil5000 posted:Amateur. I set things running at 10x speed and then leave the house to do something else. I don't even watch the video or leave my house ever for max efficiency
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Sep 18, 2017 13:59
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Nice meltdown
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Oxxidation posted:Gone Home annoyed me because it's about a girl burglarizing her family's home and running off and it's supposed to be heartwarming because ~*~young love~*~ Maybe that's the real horror? I got Gone Home cheaply and went into it completely blind, and I *loved* the bait and switch from "haunted house" to "oh its just old and creaky", but if I'd gone in expecting a proper horror game I think I'd have been pretty pissy about it.
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Sakurazuka posted:Nice meltdown So you bought it for full price then?
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I got it on PS+ last year
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exquisite tea posted:I remember the old Monty Python game from 7th level let you win on the menu screen if you selected Get the Grail. Hahahaha That's just great. I love it
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Jukebox Hero posted:also stupid how the lesbians were clearly written by straight people. The one girl is a big stompy tough military girl and the other one is the 'wife' because that's totally how gay people work, ones the boy and ones the girl are you a lesbian
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If you can't write a 3-page essay on the dad's childhood trauma and how he's dealing with it in Gone Home, you haven't beaten it.
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Sep 18, 2017 14:30
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Gone Home is good. It is not horror. You people are pants making GBS threads babies
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Sep 18, 2017 14:33
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Me to straight people:Jukebox Hero posted:
Me to other gay people: 
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Sep 18, 2017 14:33
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One thing Gone Home did right: walking around an empty house where everything's been ransacked during a thunderstorm was really atmospheric and if that dev did something more horror-y I'd probably check it out based on my experiences of playing Gone Home, so I think that's a point in its favor.
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I went to look for how Gone Home was actually presented before release, and holy wow Evardread's mock horror trailer for it is the second hit for a trailer of the game and that's pretty great. Anyways, I think the backlash at launch was kind of understandable because the game ABSOLUTELY does a bait-and-switch with the horror-y atmosphere, if you don't know what kind of a game it's going to be that is. I'd imagine most people playing it when it was new were constantly expecting something to jump out or something, and the last time I played it for a bit I actually did pay attention to how much they gently caress with you and man, there are like footsteps, sounds of furniture being moved, and all sorts of spooky poo poo going on with the audio. Claiming that it never presented itself as a horror game is nuts That said nowadays everyone knows what it really is so whether you like getting duped doesn't really matter anymore anyways.
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Doesn't it end with you finding a satanic altar in a hidden room in the attic or something? Or am i getting my wires crossed?
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If Gone Home had kept that creepy vibe and gone in a different, horror direction, even with the exact same mechanics and gameplay I'd defend it and probably love it. Even the title has that horror tone. I'd probably only sell it for five bucks or thereabouts though. The story's homosexual component felt almost calculated to deter criticism considering the defined gender roles of the couple; the 'masculine' one could have been a man and very little would change, but it still got praised for it. If you ever saw any of them in person it might be different but that would also require it to be basically a different genre. I'm not upset it had gay people in it, I just wish the writing made it matter more than it did. So I guess I don't hate Gone Home and that's why it pissed me off so much, because it was an accidental bait and switch(because I thought the game about abandoned house + thunderstorm + 'where is my family' was at least a thriller for some reason) by the developers, who should make a horror game and if they have somebody should show me it. Jukebox Hero fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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Drunken Baker posted:Doesn't it end with you finding a satanic altar in a hidden room in the attic or something? Or am i getting my wires crossed? Lonnie and Sam believe the house is haunted and make a seance altar behind the staircase to commune with the spirit of their dead uncle. It's not presented in a scary way however.
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Ah, I'm glad I wasn't going completely bonkers there.
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did some of y'all really get so mad that there wasn't a 2 second jumpscare at the end of a game that wasn't even marketed as a horror game, lmaoJukebox Hero posted:The story's homosexual component you sound like you're straight and i'm not sure what you're trying to get at here, especially when lgbt people barely have anything to lay claim to when it comes to videogames that don't arbitrarily kill off the gay or bisexual people
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Jukebox Hero posted:The one girl is a big stompy tough military girl and the other one is the 'wife' because that's totally how gay people work, ones the boy and ones the girl I don't understand this complaint, the game isn't stating that this is every gay couple in the world, it's just the way the couple in the game are portrayed. Do couples like this not exist or something?
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Oxxidation posted:Gone Home annoyed me because it's about a girl burglarizing her family's home and running off and it's supposed to be heartwarming because ~*~young love~*~ That point was fairly believable and was a common early 90s trope. The military girl hosed up though because she literally deserts which I don't think the authors intended. I enjoyed Gone Home but I don't know how the writers meant for you to relate to the truly awful characters. The main girl has a college scholarship, her parents pass off her sexuality as a fad but still love her and want to connect, and the first person she comes out to, someone whose video game she stole, instantly accepts her. Am I supposed to sympathize with these people? Because they are the poster children of privileged spoiled brats.
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HOT TAKE: Playing Gone Home is better than watching e-sports.
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al-azad posted:That point was fairly believable and was a common early 90s trope. The military girl hosed up though because she literally deserts which I don't think the authors intended. That was kind of a point of the story though, how they threw their lives to the wind for the sake of love but it really wasn't sustainable. They got money by jacking a lot of her parent's stuff, the military girl is on the run, and none of it was sustainable. It was a bit of a note on the stupid romance of teenaged years, how it seems so pure and perfect when you don't have to deal with reality.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:That was kind of a point of the story though, how they threw their lives to the wind for the sake of love but it really wasn't sustainable. They got money by jacking a lot of her parent's stuff, the military girl is on the run, and none of it was sustainable. It was a bit of a note on the stupid romance of teenaged years, how it seems so pure and perfect when you don't have to deal with reality. I don't feel like that was the intention, though. Especially when it ends on the positive note. It builds up as the story of a troubled teen who feels out of place and runs away with her girlfriend but it really comes off as an obnoxious prick who has EVERYTHING and runs away from it all and the writing makes it seem like we're supposed to applaud this. Meanwhile everyone else is not only struggling, they're overcoming their issues. The father finds new life when his book is republished. Their marriage is strengthened by what we assume to be successful counciling, and the mother rejects a coworker's advances. Everyone else is doing well and they're repaid with thievery and lies.
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Jukebox Hero posted:Don't poo poo Your Pants: A Survival Horror Adventure has an ending for losing before you start by typing "poo poo" instead of typing "start" You can beat Far Cry 4 in 15 minutes if you just sit at the dinner table and wait for Pagan Min to come back.
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the story is entirely meant to be about a couple of teenagers who make a spur of the moment decision because they feel they don't have any other chance at what they have, you goddamn goons
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I'm trying to recall, but did someone in this thread say that LocalHost was an entertaining horror experience? I was poking around on itch.io and thought someone had brought up that game in here. Also has anyone ever played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMlANGsxbU cause it looks pretty interesting as well. Sadly, outside of kittyhorrorshow's games, I don't hear much in the way of horror games off itch.io that aren't terrible.
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That was me who brought up local host. 
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I've never played Gone Home and boy every time it comes up it sounds like the most boring and pointless thing ever so I'm glad I made that decision.
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If I wanted to play a game about some kids loving up and destroying their parents work I'd play Myst.
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Bogart posted:Anatomy is pretty good Pro-buy. The game really knew how to make the mundane really unsettling. EDIT: LocalHost seems interesting, I think I'll give it a try. Is the game really only half an hour long? Blattdorf fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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exploded mummy posted:If I wanted to play a game about some kids loving up and destroying their parents work I'd play Myst. Personally I'd go with God of War. 
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Gone Home had good atmosphere and I wish the devs would follow up with a genuine horror title because they have good instincts regarding that. Otherwise it's can be hard to sympathize with upper middle class kids running away from home especially with the US's current economic problems.
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I thought Fullbright nailed the ambiance of nosing through a house when nobody was home pretty dead-on, theres nothing spooky at all it's just an empty house. The second game they made, Tacoma, is yet more walkin and nosing through peoples' stuff. It's like when people thought Firewatch was a horror game.
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