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Doom Goon
Sep 18, 2008


Help Im Alive posted:

A former dreamworks animator was a design teacher at my university and the advice he gave me was to stop sucking dick down at the docks for petty cash
Smh. Those who can't, teach.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

After my Bloodborne playthrough I want to go play Dark Souls for the first time. I feel like at this point I should wait for the remaster though
:same: Was literally going to play it after Nioh (which is a very good game but I think goes on way too long in a detrimental way. If I have to face one more boss that can hyper armor even out of back attacks...) and maybe Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

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Samuringa
Mar 27, 2017

Best advice I was ever given?

"Ticker, you'll be a lot happier once you stop caring about the opinions of a culture that is beneath you."

I learned my worth, learned the places and people that matter.

Opened my eyes.

Zetsubou-san posted:

add me on steam, fam

My PC is currently crippled with only 4GB of RAM, I can barely run Firefox, but sure.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
In my continuing activity where I play increasingly lovely RPGmaker horror games while my friends watch I just played one where the twist was that the whole thing was just a haunted house made for fun...but by actual monsters with actual magic, and also the protagonist is a pumpkin homunculus and the other main character is a witch so this leaves them completely unfazed. The witch even goes "yeah your puzzles and jump scares were fun for me but my friend is really ditzy so she'll definitely be in trouble" and then it turned out that when you thought a spell was taking hold of her or something it was just that she has a bad habit of falling asleep in random places

It was kind of incredible. Ib and Witch's House were better but this is my third favorite RPGmaker horror game (though "horror" goes in scare quotes for this one)

Macaluso
Sep 23, 2005

I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG, BROTHER!
I don't mean to sound too extreme but I would commit murder for a Celeste level editor

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
Do any of you mess around with sous vide cooking? Is it as useful as it seems to be? I imagine we'd use it to just prepare a bunch of meals ahead of time. Meh.com has a cooker for $49 and we're tempted to order it.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
How do you make a horror game in RPGmaker?

EDIT: Though I'm forgetting that RPGmaker can be used to make more than your traditional turn-based FF style RPGs. I was trying to figure out how you'd make one of those scary.

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



FirstAidKite posted:

Do any of you mess around with sous vide cooking? Is it as useful as it seems to be? I imagine we'd use it to just prepare a bunch of meals ahead of time. Meh.com has a cooker for $49 and we're tempted to order it.

Sous vide makes preparing cuts of meat like steaks a snap. You plop the cuts in, get it near the right temperature, then sear it on high heat to brown.

Also it is exceptionally good for eggs.

If you don't eat of lot of those two things it might not get enough use though

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Internet Kraken posted:

How do you make a horror game in RPGmaker?

EDIT: Though I'm forgetting that RPGmaker can be used to make more than your traditional turn-based FF style RPGs. I was trying to figure out how you'd make one of those scary.

basically you just use RPGmaker assets to make a walking simulator with a creepy atmosphere

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Internet Kraken posted:

How do you make a horror game in RPGmaker?

EDIT: Though I'm forgetting that RPGmaker can be used to make more than your traditional turn-based FF style RPGs. I was trying to figure out how you'd make one of those scary.

Generally a combination of gore (corpse party, mad father), being stalked (ao oni, from next door), or just surreal imagery (yume nikki, ib). Think of it less as "an rpg maker title that is a horror game" and more as "a top down adventure game" since a majority of them are just adventure games where you walk around to gather key items or hit specific plot triggers or solve puzzles while getting spooked.

Also consider that one of, if not the, first horror games was a top down rpg called Sweet Home.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Sous vide makes preparing cuts of meat like steaks a snap. You plop the cuts in, get it near the right temperature, then sear it on high heat to brown.

Also it is exceptionally good for eggs.

If you don't eat of lot of those two things it might not get enough use though

What about Chicken and Fish? We don't use a lot of steak but we go through chicken and fish like nobody's business.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
None of them have been scary in the slightest so far except Witch's House but that was also the first one I played so I dunno if it's legitimately more spooky or if I was just less used to it

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!
I replayed FF6 for the first time in like six years, my soul feels cleansed

Looper
Mar 1, 2012

cheetah7071 posted:

In my continuing activity where I play increasingly lovely RPGmaker horror games while my friends watch I just played one where the twist was that the whole thing was just a haunted house made for fun...but by actual monsters with actual magic, and also the protagonist is a pumpkin homunculus and the other main character is a witch so this leaves them completely unfazed. The witch even goes "yeah your puzzles and jump scares were fun for me but my friend is really ditzy so she'll definitely be in trouble" and then it turned out that when you thought a spell was taking hold of her or something it was just that she has a bad habit of falling asleep in random places

It was kind of incredible. Ib and Witch's House were better but this is my third favorite RPGmaker horror game (though "horror" goes in scare quotes for this one)

someone made an rpg about Deneb??

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

None of them have been scary in the slightest so far except Witch's House but that was also the first one I played so I dunno if it's legitimately more spooky or if I was just less used to it

Which ones have you played?


I could make some recommendations depending on the ones you've played. I really like "From Next Door" but that game is literally just a video game version of Junji Ito's The Window Next Door so if you aren't up for Junji Ito-style horror but as a short RPG maker game then it probably isn't gonna be for you.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
Witch's House, Mad Father, Hello Hell...o, Ib, and Trick&Treat. I thought it was more but I guess I haven't played that many. I think our group is kinda tired of them though and we'll be moving to other things to do as a group. Probably a mystery game we can try to solve together.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

In my continuing activity where I play increasingly lovely RPGmaker horror games while my friends watch I just played one where the twist was that the whole thing was just a haunted house made for fun...but by actual monsters with actual magic, and also the protagonist is a pumpkin homunculus and the other main character is a witch so this leaves them completely unfazed. The witch even goes "yeah your puzzles and jump scares were fun for me but my friend is really ditzy so she'll definitely be in trouble" and then it turned out that when you thought a spell was taking hold of her or something it was just that she has a bad habit of falling asleep in random places

It was kind of incredible. Ib and Witch's House were better but this is my third favorite RPGmaker horror game (though "horror" goes in scare quotes for this one)

For a second I thought that you were describing an rpgmaker adaptation of Junji Ito's Secret of the Haunted Mansion



Man, now I need to go read me some Junji Ito stuff. I don't always like it and sometimes I think it suffers from everything being overexplained but the dude does good art and I think he's one of the better horror manga people out there, especially when compared to something like, say, Franken Fran where it just kinda feels overly mean spirited.

I guess I'd compare Junji Ito to Stephen King where they both are pretty good with the horror and some of their best works are just short one-offs and some of their longer works suffer from going too in-depth into the weirdness and the horror.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
I obviously just spoiled the ending but it's Trick & Treat free on steam if you wanna play it

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



FirstAidKite posted:


What about Chicken and Fish? We don't use a lot of steak but we go through chicken and fish like nobody's business.

Yeah, I was including chicken in the broad cuts of meat category. Fish actually works even better since most fish doesn't need to be seared after

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

Witch's House, Mad Father, Hello Hell...o, Ib, and Trick&Treat. I thought it was more but I guess I haven't played that many. I think our group is kinda tired of them though and we'll be moving to other things to do as a group. Probably a mystery game we can try to solve together.

I don't recall Ib being super scary outside of one super tense sequence where you play as Garry (you probably know what I'm talking about) but, imo, Ib is probably the best of that bunch since it provides an all-around spooky, surreal, dreamlike world to play through and doesn't force a gutpunch ending on you where it's like "haha you wasted your time, everything's bad, nothing's good" like a couple of the other games you mentioned.

What ending did you get in Ib? That sucker's got a bunch of them based on choices you make throughout so I'm curious which one you ended up with.

CharlieFoxtrot
Mar 27, 2007

organize digital employees



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDDGtm58fg8

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

FirstAidKite posted:

I don't recall Ib being super scary outside of one super tense sequence where you play as Garry (you probably know what I'm talking about) but, imo, Ib is probably the best of that bunch since it provides an all-around spooky, surreal, dreamlike world to play through and doesn't force a gutpunch ending on you where it's like "haha you wasted your time, everything's bad, nothing's good" like a couple of the other games you mentioned.

What ending did you get in Ib? That sucker's got a bunch of them based on choices you make throughout so I'm curious which one you ended up with.

We played through twice and then looked up an all ending video on youtube. I got the one where you escape with Garry but don't have enough points for him to remember you on the first one

Ib owns incredibly hard for how simplistic it is. Apparently there's a corner of the internet that will (or did) argue endlessly on Garry vs Mary. I'm firmly on team Mary, myself.

e: the gutpunch ending of Mad Father was the only remotely good part. I really did not like that game.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Yeah, I was including chicken in the broad cuts of meat category. Fish actually works even better since most fish doesn't need to be seared after

Ok cool, thank you for the recommendation! :) I'll definitely pass this info on to KCB when she wakes up tomorrow. Maybe we'll pick up the Meh one since it seems to be the cheapest available one (and it is discounted to $49 from $88) :D





Hey cheetah7071, if you want, I know of an rpgmaker horror game you could play if you want something funny-bad. It's called Creepypasta Land. Basically, some kid from Brazil made an rpgmaker game where all the creepypasta characters come together for a HUGE party and you're a kid going through and helping your friends and collecting special custom yugioh cards and it's just kind of adorable and endearing in its badness.


Alternatively, if you are curious about a free rpgmaker title fangame that has a lot of love and effort put into it, there is the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure rpgmaker title. That game has a lot of love put into it, like, crazy amounts of dedication to making a game that suffers from difficulty (so imo just do what I did and cheat your level to max from the start) but it just has so many details and so much love put into it and its plot is really good too (the original parts of the plot, not the parts where you're just following what happened in Part 3 of JJBA).

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
The former sounds kinda funny, maybe I'll check it out. Looking for things mostly in the 60-120 minute range since that's what works for my group to play through a game together so the jojo one doesn't sound so good for that.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

We played through twice and then looked up an all ending video on youtube. I got the one where you escape with Garry but don't have enough points for him to remember you on the first one

Ib owns incredibly hard for how simplistic it is. Apparently there's a corner of the internet that will (or did) argue endlessly on Garry vs Mary. I'm firmly on team Mary, myself.

e: the gutpunch ending of Mad Father was the only remotely good part. I really did not like that game.

Man, gently caress Mary, she's a jerk. Garry is a good guy and deserves to escape.

For Mad Father, I didn't mind the leadup since the whole game was basically "girl learns that her beloved father is actually a monster and that he is the cause of so much pain for so many people" but then the ending is just "oh well I guess the girl grew up and decided to be just like her dad even though she hates what he did to people" and it just annoys me to no end.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
The problems with Mad Father were mostly gameplay related not story related. I mostly like the twist ending because I was able to call it from hints throughout the game.

e: I'm not also sure your read on the ending is completely right. There's bits and pieces throughout that say that what she didn't like about her dad wasn't the evil stuff he did, it was forcing her mom away and trying to murder her, personally. Murdering everyone else was A-OK

Mary is a sweet child and it's not her fault she's a painting golem thing

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

The former sounds kinda funny, maybe I'll check it out. Looking for things mostly in the 60-120 minute range since that's what works for my group to play through a game together so the jojo one doesn't sound so good for that.

Yeah, the jojo one is neat and you could probably do it in 60 to 120 minutes but a lot of the game is gonna be spent exploring due to how the game is set up (you have X number of days to get to your destination, if you're following a guide then you'll want to be at certain hub areas before certain days so that you can trigger certain events, some events are tied to triggering events in previous hubs, and there are various character events spread throughout the hubs that are based around having a specific character in your party when you go to interact with something). Enough of your time is gonna be spent exploring the hubs probably that you'll end up going over that 120 mark.

The first one is relatively short though, it can definitely fit into that mark. That's about how long the LP on youtube I watched took to complete it.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

cheetah7071 posted:

Mary is a sweet child and it's not her fault she's a painting golem thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzBQhQIarc&t=15s

MysticalMachineGun
Apr 5, 2005

FirstAidKite posted:

Man, gently caress Mary, she's a jerk. Garry is a good guy and deserves to escape.

For Mad Father, I didn't mind the leadup since the whole game was basically "girl learns that her beloved father is actually a monster and that he is the cause of so much pain for so many people" but then the ending is just "oh well I guess the girl grew up and decided to be just like her dad even though she hates what he did to people" and it just annoys me to no end.

But you've gotta have a tweeeeest

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Sous vide is basically the only way to cook skinless chicken breast that doesn’t suck.

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

MysticalMachineGun posted:

But you've gotta have a tweeeeest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFOJ18x-XU

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?

2smoov

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

Didn’t watch the Oscars but I assume they showed sick trailers for upcoming big-budget movies, I gotta watch them all to stay current

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

Help Im Alive posted:

A former dreamworks animator was a design teacher at my university and the advice he gave me was to stop sucking dick down at the docks for petty cash

Dire dire docks.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

there are probably much better places to suck dick

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

https://twitter.com/MOOMANiBE/status/970476969287598080

Help Im Alive
Nov 8, 2009

I should maybe clarify he was talking about freelance work

I was pricing myself too low and needed to seek out high end dicks to suck

this was all literal of course

LawfulWaffle
Mar 11, 2014

Well, that aligns with the vibes I was getting. Which was, like, "normal" kinda vibes.

Is this Brandish 3? Did you skip over 2?

Miguel Prado
Nov 5, 2008

Don't worry, like they say " It's all good! "

I am excited for A Way Out, which comes out the 23rd or 24th of March on the PS4. BUT there has been zero promotion since E3.

What gives?

Miguel Prado fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Mar 5, 2018

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

What's The Sexy Brutale. I heard it namedropped a few times and after clicking that casino song I'm actually interested in looking into it more.

Is it PC only?

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oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

it's a murder mystery time travel puzzle thing i think

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