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Len posted:A friend of mine asked if someone has made a Saw style coop game where you guys are basically cooping through a booby trapped house to learn life lessons or whatever the gently caress the plot of that series was. There's actually a bit of a dearth of co-op horror games. One that I'd really enjoy is one where the players are only allowed to communicate via radio when they get separated, but the game fucks with it by adding static or distortion, changing the volume, cutting it off entirely, or making scary noises play from the radio that the other person can't hear.
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Friday the 13th did a great job with radios, in that if you have one, your voice chat can be heard by other dudes with radios as well as the people around you. I once coordinated a boat escape since a guy with a radio had the fuel, and the guy with the propeller was with me. It's also fun because I've played several games where you hear something along the lines of "Head north along the shore, we've got OH gently caress" followed by deathly silence for the rest of the round. I'm so drat excited for the engine update 
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We Were Here and We Were Here Too are co-op games where two partners are separated and must work together to get one through a series of deadly puzzles. They aren't particularly horrifying, but they are quite fun.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's actually a bit of a dearth of co-op horror games. Ive never used the in game chat but apparently l4d2 does that on the map with the storm. When the storm picks up it fuzzes all the talking so you cant hear or see
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catlord posted:FEAR's supposed to get a live-action (web?)series, apparently. The rational part of me wants to temper expectations for obvious reasons, but the FEAR fan part of me is incredibly giddy. from what i understand atari is basically clinging to whatever ips they own in the hopes of them getting bought so i doubt it means anything
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catlord posted:FEAR's supposed to get a live-action (web?)series, apparently. The rational part of me wants to temper expectations for obvious reasons, but the FEAR fan part of me is incredibly giddy. Please no.
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exploded mummy posted:its about how we need to embrace universal healthcare and enjoy the company of our fellow man Did anybody ever call anyone out in those movies about how lovely the jigsaw killers were about their whole morality thing, about how their whole "we're giving you a chance to live" thing doesn't actually give anyone a chance to live because of how often it requires sacrificing other peoples' lives because that poo poo is dumb There were those two Saw games though, those were certainly things that existed. They had you completing little minigames and puzzles to get through jigsaw puzzles as well as fighting other trapped people along the way because saw is dumb
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catlord posted:FEAR's supposed to get a live-action (web?)series, apparently. The rational part of me wants to temper expectations for obvious reasons, but the FEAR fan part of me is incredibly giddy. I'm interested in this only if they use the same people who did the weapon effects for "The Walking Dead", and spend maybe $800 on developing each episode.  
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May 18, 2018 09:51
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I'm interested in this only if they use the same people who did the weapon effects for "The Walking Dead", and spend maybe $800 on developing each episode. Wow, that is embarrassingly terrible! I wouldn't hire anyone to choreograph a FEAR show unless they worked on John Wick or Sicario.
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May 18, 2018 10:23
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Unloaded or airsoft guns using digital firing effects cut down heavily on insurance and noise permits, which drives down the per-episode cost. Having your teenage son do the effects drives the cost down even more.
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Personally I like the second gif's cleverly applied dynamic of "throwing rocks through windows" VVV Makes sense, I didnt see the flash at first. Doesn't make sense unless they are shooting grenades lol CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 14:12 on May 18, 2018 |
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May 18, 2018 13:24
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Personally I like the second gif's cleverly applied dynamic of "throwing rocks through windows" I think that flash on the breaking window is actually a small pyro charge blowing a hole in it. Actually throwing a rock through the window would have been more realistic. Those little explosions are a Michael Bay thing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Unloaded or airsoft guns using digital firing effects cut down heavily on insurance and noise permits, which drives down the per-episode cost. They could’ve sprung for air soft guns with working slides.
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al-azad posted:They could’ve sprung for air soft guns with working slides. It would have driven up the budget to buy propane.
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al-azad posted:They could’ve sprung for air soft guns with working slides. Oh God I didnt even notice that.
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catlord posted:FEAR's supposed to get a live-action (web?)series, apparently. The rational part of me wants to temper expectations for obvious reasons, but the FEAR fan part of me is incredibly giddy. I wish it would get a sequel that isn't F3AR, but this is nice too.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I'm interested in this only if they use the same people who did the weapon effects for "The Walking Dead", and spend maybe $800 on developing each episode. God, the actors don't even blink when it fires
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MockingQuantum posted:I can always hope it's a secret sleeper surprise hit that I've never heard of until now. That totally happens, right? ... right? There are so many great mini horror games that nobody ever talks about. Off the top of my head: Camp Sunshine, Count Lucanor, Dark Fear, Dead End Road, Distraint, Fibrillation, Into the Gloom, Knock Knock, Masochisia, Music Machine, My Lovely Daughter, Silence of the Sleep, They Breathe.
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Yancy_Street posted:There are so many great mini horror games that nobody ever talks about. Off the top of my head: Camp Sunshine, Count Lucanor, Dark Fear, Dead End Road, Distraint, Fibrillation, Into the Gloom, Knock Knock, Masochisia, Music Machine, My Lovely Daughter, Silence of the Sleep, They Breathe. Even games with thoroughly awful design can be good. Mad Father and The Crooked Man are good, despite being absolutely tortured RPG Maker games.
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I'd like to see more games in the style of Stories Untold. It did a lot of neat things with a text-based interface.
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Yancy_Street posted:They Breathe.  Just thinking about that game still makes me extremely uncomfortable
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SardonicTyrant posted:I'd like to see more games in the style of Stories Untold. It did a lot of neat things with a text-based interface. Stories Untold blew my loving mind. I was in from word one when it was just the 80s style text adventure F2P about family house with the dark secret. But then, when you played the full release, and you're in Ice Station Zebra decoding end of the world messages sent via Morse code and poo poo and it's dawning on you what happened... holy loving God.
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Len posted:A friend of mine asked if someone has made a Saw style coop game where you guys are basically cooping through a booby trapped house to learn life lessons or whatever the gently caress the plot of that series was. I actually feel like this would be fun as gently caress, and you could really, really easily do it using the Saw movies as inspiration. Essentially, instead of it being direct co-op with both players in the same area, each player runs their own "gauntlet" of sorts; some puzzles require both people to communicate through a lovely radio or something and coordinate their actions, others are solo but affect the other player's traps (by making them harder, easier, or simply just changing them to other things). Also, have a random chance that one player is working against the other and that the win state for that player is making it to the end alone.
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I did not like They Breathe at all, tbh, I just found it plodding and boring and the twist didn't really change much for me and I didn't even realize until today that it was meant to be a horror game, sorry 
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Yancy_Street posted:Looks like Cultist Simulator will be dropping soon. I have high hopes for it. Cultist Simulator is awesome. The gameplay is an odd (in a good way) hybrid of card game and almost idle clicker style cooldown management but the atmosphere is really good and it has a ton of depth and interesting things you can do. The flavour text on cards and events really captures the creepy Lovecraftian atmosphere and there are a variety of ways to end the game (some good, some bad) It can be pretty hard to work out what to do though, so for people who don't enjoy puzzling out mechanics, it might not be so fun since that exploration is a large part of the charm. Playing it with a faq alongside to tell you exactly what to do would really just make it an RNG simulator until you get the cards you want.
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I'm not sure how many folks here are already aware of these, but I played through the free Flash horror adventure series Don't Escape recently and really enjoyed it. It's a trilogy where the point is to NOT escape from whatever horrible predicament you're in. They're a unique mix of point-and-click adventuring and time management, and each one has very different themes and mechanics. I wrote a review of the series here, or you can jump right into them yourself: Don't Escape, Don't Escape 2, Don't Escape 3. I also found that the cleverly-titled fourth one will release on Steam sometime this year. It's been in development for ages but the creator has been demoing it recently, which hopefully means a release is forthcoming.
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Looks more like Oblivion from elder scrolls 4 than hell. Also not really scary at all. Some of the levels are pretty but it's too GORE GUTS poo poo BLOOD PISS DEAD BABIES AM I FREAKING YOU OUT YET? to actually be anything but unpleasant. Anybody else getting massive Outlast II vibes from the cultist who talks about dead babies and having people's kids murdered? Holy poo poo I cannot wait for that 'fad' to pass.
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Are there any good multiplayer horror games around these days? The three I know of are all plagued with issues, with the Friday the 13th game apparently having tons of hackers, Dead By Daylight apparently being killed slowly by its devs, and Damned having... no players left, the genre seems kinda dead.
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The only hackers I've seen on F13 is people editing in Uber Jason, and IIRC that was just aesthetic anyway. It has its fair share of issues but I haven't seen any hackers on PC. Also holy crap I forgot Damned was even a game 
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The whole 'sex is evil and scary' morality thing in these depictions of Hell is really tired and gross in ways that probably aren't intended but the game seems ...fine? other than that. I'm kinda curious if it goes anywhere interesting or if 'These naked demon ladies are sexy and dangerous' is the only card it's got
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Danaru posted:The only hackers I've seen on F13 is people editing in Uber Jason, and IIRC that was just aesthetic anyway. It has its fair share of issues but I haven't seen any hackers on PC. Oh. Well, I guess I should give even less thought to the Steam reviews than I normally do. The most recent reviews were all stuff like "everyone is hacking and the devs are doing nothing help us, my family is dying" so nevermind. I'll probably try to save up for F13 then 
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Gloomy Rube posted:Are there any good multiplayer horror games around these days? The three I know of are all plagued with issues, with the Friday the 13th game apparently having tons of hackers, Dead By Daylight apparently being killed slowly by its devs, and Damned having... no players left, the genre seems kinda dead. It wasn't horror at all except for the last puzzle having some mystery marionette that acts as a timer before you die but me and a friend just went through We Were Here it's actually a pretty neat concept where you two never meet and have to solve puzzles by describing to each other what your surroundings are via voice chat.
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Gloomy Rube posted:Oh. Well, I guess I should give even less thought to the Steam reviews than I normally do. The most recent reviews were all stuff like "everyone is hacking and the devs are doing nothing help us, my family is dying" so nevermind. I'll probably try to save up for F13 then 1stGear posted:Steam reviews are barely more trustworthy than YouTube comments. Yeah like 100+ hours person here, I've seen a whopping 1 hacker and a handful of people who bugged out mostly on accident and a couple douches on purpose, it's definitely an overblown issue. On that wider front though yeah a lot MP horror games have come and gone, Damned is dead, the thing that was really similar to Damned I forget is dead, White Noise is dead, Deceit is alive because they had the sense to restart as a free game with cosmetics and it's fun enough now, DbD practically only persists because of sunk cost and so people can gang up and abuse the lone player, F13 doesn't have a massive playerbase but it's plenty more than enough to find games at any time, people are putting a lot of stock into Last Year coming out soon but the devs seem crummy and go radio silent for long spans at a time so I'm waiting to see on it, hopefully that turns out fun. Also Agony's problem is the same gripe I had with Outlast 2, shock gets trite pretty quick in a game, "Yep there's another trench full of burned bodies, oh another group of skinned and crucified people how novel, ah yes some more of sexual assault monster who's definitely handled very well and not fuckin moronically, great I love it." like your game either needs to be SHORT so everything doesn't wear thin, needs to be a really diverse experience so you're not seeing the same atrocities on repeat, needs to have something really compelling so the whole game isn't just the samey atrocity tourism, but they never learn from this stuff. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 12:04 on May 27, 2018 |
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I didn't want to literally call out that Agony feels like an Outlast II mod but yeah that's like the easiest way to sum up why it seems like it's gonna be stupid. Nothing seems... Awful, yet, but there has been zero content shown so far that makes me think it'll be anything other than walking through an extremely boring death metal video and occasionally having to Amnesia-stealth past Giant Titty Demon With Vagina Face and Normal Lady But She Has Wings And poo poo. All this "the red goddess is powerful and will make candlesticks from your bones" thing combined with all the monsters having tits just makes me think the dude who designed the monsters fears women. Anybody else remember the Year Of The Ladybug monster that was gonna be, like, a bodybuilder with knives for hands and a spotlight(?) head, but his legs are like, three women with dog faces? I want more poo poo like that, please Jesus make these monsters look weird, not just sexy titty ladies with hosed up faces, that's not even remotely scary anymore.
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Jukebox Hero posted:Anybody else remember the Year Of The Ladybug monster that was gonna be, like, a bodybuilder with knives for hands and a spotlight(?) head, but his legs are like, three women with dog faces? I want more poo poo like that, please Jesus make these monsters look weird, not just sexy titty ladies with hosed up faces, that's not even remotely scary anymore. Sorry, I only remember "Woman with Giant Scissors Riding a Unicycle on the Ceiling" and "Man in a Suit but with a Bonsai Tree for a Head".
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