October Game Chat Thread Ghost House

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Jay Rust: Sep 27, 2011

What's the term for that thing where the dialogue plays one letter at a time and each letter gets a sound effect attached to it? Because I don't like that

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Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Read the dialogue out loud. Bonus if you do an impression of the character

Oh you bet your rear end I've done this before. But you're not always in the mood / have the energy.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:07

Olive!: Mar 16, 2015; It's not a ghost, but probably a 'living corpse'. The 'living dead' with a hell of a lot of bloodlust...

Jay Rust posted:

What's the term for that thing where the dialogue plays one letter at a time and each letter gets a sound effect attached to it? Because I don't like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9K4N328OI8

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:24

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

I am watching Escape from New York for the first time. This movie seems pretty neat.

Also I think it's really cool that John Carpenter's producing partner wanted to sue Kojima for copyright infringement but Carpenter was like "Nah, that guy is cool"

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:31

Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

It's the only Carpenter movie I kind of like.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:34

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Raxivace posted:

It's the only Carpenter movie I kind of like.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:36

Ostentatious: Sep 29, 2010

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I am watching Escape from New York for the first time. This movie seems pretty neat.

Also I think it's really cool that John Carpenter's producing partner wanted to sue Kojima for copyright infringement but Carpenter was like "Nah, that guy is cool"

https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/382605068026904576

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:41

Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I am watching Escape from New York for the first time. This movie seems pretty neat.

Also I think it's really cool that John Carpenter's producing partner wanted to sue Kojima for copyright infringement but Carpenter was like "Nah, that guy is cool"

Its great. But Escape from LA is a completely different sort of film.

Raxivace posted:

It's the only Carpenter movie I kind of like.

what

# ? Oct 10, 2017 06:59

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Pretty much everything Carpenter did up until 1994 was gold.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:22

Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Oh and my favorite bit of Escape from NY trivia

This "wireframe" digital computer scan of the city of NY was going to use up the entire film budget if they actually CG'd it back in the day.

So what did they do? They built a scale model of NY and then covered the corners of the buildings in reflective tape and filmed it in the dark.

It totally works!

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:30

Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

I just find a lot of his stuff boringly explicit. :shrug:

Zaphod42 posted:

Oh and my favorite bit of Escape from NY trivia

IIRC James Cameron was a huge part of the special effects team for this sequence (If that's from the part with the glider that I'm thinking of anyways).

Raxivace fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Oct 10, 2017

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:31

Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Oh and this theme is mega-rad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JYDmo19to :krad:

Raxivace posted:

IIRC James Cameron was a huge part of the special effects team for this sequence (If that's from the part with the glider that I'm thinking of anyways).

Yep that's the one.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:35

Taintrunner: Apr 10, 2017; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The orc generator in Shadow of War is really great this time around, you get some fantastically rowdy boys out of it.

This guy had a hatred of bugs but then he died due to bugs so he embraced them and they live in him now apparently

These two large adult sons share a body and they have a fantastic little monologue

And this scrappy little rascal is just beautifully terrifying.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:35

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

Raxivace posted:

IIRC James Cameron was a huge part of the special effects team for this sequence (If that's from the part with the glider that I'm thinking of anyways).

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:37

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Matte painting, the lost art. I would love to have someone paint the Indiana Jones warehouse on my glass door.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 07:55

mutata: Mar 1, 2003

There are a lot of insanely talented matte painters still working. It's often cheaper than extending the set that far in cg.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 08:08

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

I enjoyed Escape from New York. I earnestly love how slow and uncoordinated American action heroes were in this era, like there will be a ten second shot of them clumsily scaling a brick wall and then almost falling over.

And yeah, John Carpenter music is always rad

# ? Oct 10, 2017 08:14

The Colonel: Jun 8, 2013; I commute by bike!

# ? Oct 10, 2017 08:30

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I enjoyed Escape from New York. I earnestly love how slow and uncoordinated American action heroes were in this era, like there will be a ten second shot of them clumsily scaling a brick wall and then almost falling over.

And yeah, John Carpenter music is always rad

The alley fight in They Live is one of the best six minutes in cinematic history.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 08:33

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

I LOVE The Thing.

Probably 6th favourite movie of all time!

# ? Oct 10, 2017 09:26

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The Thing is really good and much like the ending to Blade Runner, it always annoys me when people try to figure out which of MacReady and Childs is human and/or the Thing. It's like man, the ambiguity is what makes that conversation interesting (it's better thematically if they're both human though).

# ? Oct 10, 2017 09:38

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

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# ? Oct 10, 2017 09:43

Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

In Evil Within, can I stealth kill the Ruvik clone in Chapter 13?

It seems like any time I try and sneak up on him he immediately turns around.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:02

Sefal: Nov 8, 2011; Fun Shoe

I loved escape from New York.
Tbf, at the time i was very biased because his name was Snake Pliskin and i had already played MGS1 and MGS2

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:06

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

Raxivace posted:

In Evil Within, can I stealth kill the Ruvik clone in Chapter 13?

It seems like any time I try and sneak up on him he immediately turns around.

Which is chapter 13?

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:14

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Raxivace posted:

In Evil Within, can I stealth kill the Ruvik clone in Chapter 13?

It seems like any time I try and sneak up on him he immediately turns around.

No, Ruvik clones can't be stealth killed, I don't think they even have heads to stab under the hoods. You can knock them over and burn them just like any other enemy though.

Sakurazuka posted:

Which is chapter 13?

The first city chapter.

edit: Scratch that it's the second one, after the bus ride.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:14

Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

I messed around with it some more and it turns out you CAN stealth kill them (At least on whatever this game's Normal Mode is called, maybe its different on the harder difficulties you have to unlock), but there has to be literally nothing other than you crouching making noise and also you have to mash the assassinate button fuckin' fast.

Sakurazuka posted:

Which is chapter 13?

It's a part where it has me sneaking through an apartment building with a bunch of acid traps installed.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:32

CJacobs: Apr 17, 2011; Reach for the moon!

Huh, neat, I didn't think it was possible even with flash bolt stuns (which I think don't affect them at all??). Do you just stab the knife into the hood? There's straight up no face under there so I wonder what happens if you go for the jaw instead.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:46

Raxivace: Sep 9, 2014

Yeah the knife just goes into his hood.

Honestly it's kind of a pain to set up- normally I would have just shot him but I wasted a bit too much ammo earlier and had to rely on the stealth here.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 10:49

Nate RFB: Jan 17, 2005; Clapping Larry

John Carpenter's The Thing is one of two horror movies that I can say I legitimately love (the other being Alien). That movie is so freaking cool.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 13:02

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Another great aspect about The Thing (1982) is that there's not a single unnecessary scene. Less than two hours long, same as the original Blade Runner. Somehow in the last 35 years Hollywood has completely forgotten how to make a well-paced movie that does not waste the audience's time. Anybody who makes a dumb comic book movie lasting over 120 minutes should be fired.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 13:41

homeless snail: Mar 14, 2007

tfw you stay up all night to buy a house in a video game and don't get the one you want but still love the house you ended up with even though it's tiny and in the worst location in the game. yeah, that feel.

# ? Oct 10, 2017 13:46