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If someone wants to make an edgelord game that's actually cool they should just make a Devilman game or some poo poo.
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Old Boot posted:That's Scorn, yes, which basically looks like a straight-up loveletter to body horror, and the aforementioned artistic aesthetic. It was announced at roughly the same time as Agony, I think, which made mixing up the two even easier. Scorn sadly looks extremely dull and generic in the gameplay department. The aesthetics are amazing though,
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Jun 11, 2018 20:13
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Light Gun Man posted:If someone wants to make an edgelord game that's actually cool they should just make a Devilman game or some poo poo. They could call it "Tekken" or something.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:32
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Shadow the Hedgehog already exists (although I would desperately like to see it on Steam)
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Jun 11, 2018 20:37
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Quicksilver6 posted:Just curious, can you defend yourself at all in Agony or is it yet another "You can't defend yourself because that's what Outlast did even though it makes no sense here" horror game? It's Outlast, up until the point that, yes, you can possess a demon. I don't know how early on you can manage that, though (I get the sense you're locked out of that particular feature in the first hour or so?-- I didn't watch for that long, only for long enough to form an opinion, and we've seen more or less how that ended). Mokinokaro posted:Scorn sadly looks extremely dull and generic in the gameplay department. So-- yet another reason that people have difficulty telling the two apart.  quote:The aesthetics are amazing though, In all seriousness, I liken it to seeing AvP for free in theaters. My only expectation going in was seeing the Queen turn everything into a bag of smashed rear end in a top hat. I got facehugger bullet time as a bonus. So, while I won't say it was time well spent, it cleared one hurdle and added a (hilarious) consolation prize in for good measure. By my absurdly low metric, it could have been a lot worse. My expectations are similarly low with this, since I can't imagine there's a gripping narrative surrounding the game, or (as noted) crazy-innovative gameplay. It's clear their main focus is the aesthetic itself, which is fine. For me personally, the wall-to-wall weird is enough. For others, though, I'd completely understand why it wasn't.
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Jun 12, 2018 02:34
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Old Boot posted:It's Outlast, up until the point that, yes, you can possess a demon. I don't know how early on you can manage that, though (I get the sense you're locked out of that particular feature in the first hour or so?-- I didn't watch for that long, only for long enough to form an opinion, and we've seen more or less how that ended). Well that makes the game even more confusing to me - it's a power fantasy with no power but a lot of misogynistic overtones instead? Odd mix.
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Jun 12, 2018 04:14
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Quicksilver6 posted:Well that makes the game even more confusing to me - it's a power fantasy with no power but a lot of misogynistic overtones instead? Odd mix. You just described meninism/redpill.
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Jun 12, 2018 04:15
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A big, weird contradiction of the alt-right redpill etc ideology is there's a weird quasi-ironic, absolutely sincere embrace of one's own failure that lets the believer indulge in nihilism and reject any effort at good faith...well, anything, really. It's a really screwed up self-and-other-defeatism. This article, which develops into a great insight into the whole toxic mess, calls it "steering into the skid" - the performative, self-harming embrace of personal failure- self-identification with the notion that any hope for improvement is a lie. There's a reason these games are relentlessly negative and entirely mired in poo poo. It's how these people see the entire world, including themselves. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 04:41
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Come on, someone spent good money on  Gotta take the opportunity to use it whenever it's even slightly appropriate!
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Jun 12, 2018 05:24
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Come on, someone spent good money on It's one of my favorite emotes and I've never seen it in the wild.
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Jun 12, 2018 06:11
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It was a meme on D&D, 'til the emote killed it.
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Jun 12, 2018 06:16
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Pigbuster posted:It's one of my favorite emotes and I've never seen it in the wild. Mak0rz posted:Gonna be straight with you: I've never heard of Umberto Eco before now and had to Google the legible text in that gif to find out where it comes from.  " but not out of malice, just ignorance 
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Jun 12, 2018 07:32
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All I know is that Umberto Eco wrote The Name of the Rose that got made into a movie starring Jesuit Priest Sean Connery also there was a game inspired from that work called the Abbey of Crime available for free. Very much not a terrible game... though it uses dated game design elements like isometric perspective.
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Quicksilver6 posted:also there was a game inspired from that work called the Abbey of Crime available for free. Very much not a terrible game... though it uses dated game design elements like isometric perspective. 
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Jun 12, 2018 19:56
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Quicksilver6 posted:All I know is that Umberto Eco wrote The Name of the Rose that got made into a movie starring Jesuit Priest Sean Connery I know this is kinda far afield from terrible awful games but I won't stop recommending good books because I'm a goon 
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Jun 12, 2018 20:38
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I'm still no closer to understanding the joke of the emote.
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Jun 12, 2018 20:46
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I'm still no closer to understanding the joke of the emote. To the extent that there's a joke, it's just the fact that the essay is applicable often enough that you need an emote for it.
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Jun 12, 2018 21:42
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Thuryl posted:To the extent that there's a joke, it's just the fact that the essay is applicable often enough that you need an emote for it. Yeah it's literally just a case where the essay was being brought up so often in D&D due to it being so topical in our modern blasted political hellscape that it just made sense to turn it into an emote to save time.
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Jun 12, 2018 23:50
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Quicksilver6 posted:All I know is that Umberto Eco wrote The Name of the Rose that got made into a movie starring Jesuit Priest Sean Connery He wrote many other good books, like Foucault's Pendulum!
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Jun 13, 2018 01:15
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I'm still no closer to understanding the joke of the emote. To be more specific, one of the points of the essay is that fascists portray their enemies as craven, lowly worms to emphasize the fascist's own inherent superiority and masculinity; but they also portray those same enemies as having unlimited power and fingers in every pie, so that constant vigilance, complete submission to the state, and the state's constant paranoia and war footing are required. Eco's example in his essay uses the example of how Nazi propaganda referred to the British as useless, feckless shopkeepers controlled by the Jews and a love of money and without the stomach or backbone for a fight, but also stalwart imperialists who held most of the world's resources and would destroy Germany if they were ever given half a chance. This kind of paradox gets used a lot by American right-wing pundits (e.g., Muslims are backwards idiots who gently caress goats and turn their countries into poo poo-heaps; also, Muslims are perfect spies infiltrating all levels of the government in secret so that they can unleash Sharia Law when we let our guard down), and Eco's essay would get re-posted every time that came up, and eventually someone came up with the emote as a shorthand.
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Jun 13, 2018 03:01
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Notice, too, the parallel between that whole simultaneously omnipotent and inherently inferior enemy framing thing, and the modern alt-right pseudo-ironic self-derogation, with stuff like the chad/virgin comparison meme.
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Jun 13, 2018 04:34
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Aaaand we've come full circle. But this isn't debate and discussion, so, anyone got some terrible games?
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Jun 13, 2018 05:03
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It's not on Steam, but I recently saw some kind of import at a somewhat distant arcade that might fit here. Apparently there's some kind of AKB48 House of the Dead esque lightgun game? At least it had the letters AKB48 pasted all over the cabinet. I can't read Japanese so I couldn't tell much besides the demo seeming to show the player characters were shooting zombified schoolgirls, whilst also being schoolgirls themselves, and I think it was supposed to be cute..? But it wasn't and just made me rather confused. Lightguns + Idols seems like an odd mix, to say the least.
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Jun 13, 2018 07:17
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Quicksilver6 posted:It's not on Steam, but I recently saw some kind of import at a somewhat distant arcade that might fit here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVooE_GKU6k 
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Jun 13, 2018 07:25
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I don’t get the appeal of visual novels. If you want to whack off, a visual novel probably the shittiest porn material. There’s nothing to them, just static images of characters standing and not doing anything. I got zero boners from visual novels. Complete trash. The worst porn material. Ace attorney was fun. Didn’t get me a boner though.
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Jun 13, 2018 16:23
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I get zero boners from cartoons but I believe there may be a few websites that cater to those people. Just because you don't....
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Jun 13, 2018 16:30
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Quicksilver6 posted:It's not on Steam, but I recently saw some kind of import at a somewhat distant arcade that might fit here. It was just some silly tie-in, because their company overmerchandizes them, even more so than other idol industry stuff. Also, 48/46 groups tend to show up in a lot of random horror things. Like, Nogizaka46, I believe, is in some random Netflix horror film.
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Jun 13, 2018 17:21
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:I get zero boners from cartoons but I believe there may be a few websites that cater to those people. Well it's like they say, any ground you don't take, your enemies sure will.
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Jun 13, 2018 17:45
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This is currently on the front page new and trending releases list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/705280/Hakoniwa_Explorer_Plus/ 
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The Skeleton King posted:I don’t get the appeal of visual novels. If you want to whack off, a visual novel probably the shittiest porn material. There’s nothing to them, just static images of characters standing and not doing anything. Some of them, whether or not they have boobies, are on par with good books*, I guess That said, I fully agree with you on reading them just for porn.*I'm not saying they're high literature or the like, but sometimes you're just in the mood for a good story. CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jun 13, 2018 |
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Jun 13, 2018 19:43
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Largepotato posted:This is currently on the front page new and trending releases list. if it was just an isometric dungeon-crawler, that'd be great if
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Jun 13, 2018 20:28
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Largepotato posted:This is currently on the front page new and trending releases list.  My first thought was "This isn't so bad" then I scrolled down to the description and .gif
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Jun 13, 2018 21:23
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Exact loving same. They say voxel but it doesn't look voxel...
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Jun 13, 2018 21:40
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Exact loving same. 'Voxel' as far as I know is just a term describing how information is stored, so it could very well use voxels to store its maps or somthing. Also, that game kinda dissapoints me because I would really enjoy some kind of a more aporachable Elona style title. But whenever I hear the term 'Monster girls' I turn away because I know exactly the kinda crap thats gonna be in it..
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Jun 13, 2018 22:14
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Largepotato posted:This is currently on the front page new and trending releases list. Stylistically it's pretty cool with the isometric cutaway cubes that vanish/reorient when you move around, shame about literally everything else. Eghh.
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Tombot posted:'Voxel' as far as I know is just a term describing how information is stored, so it could very well use voxels to store its maps or somthing. Wikipedia posted:A voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. As with pixels in a bitmap, voxels themselves do not typically have their position (their coordinates) explicitly encoded along with their values.
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The Skeleton King posted:I don’t get the appeal of visual novels. If you want to whack off, a visual novel probably the shittiest porn material. There’s nothing to them, just static images of characters standing and not doing anything. If there isn’t already a VN called Zero Boners, there absolutely should be one.
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Jun 13, 2018 22:35
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Dewgy posted:If there isn’t already a VN called Zero Boners, there absolutely should be one. Zero Bone Dilemma
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