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Anyone's given the Pathologic demo that came out today a try?
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Probably nothing new here most of us didn't know already, but ArsTechnica did a video feature with Thomas Grip talking about the haunted house mechanics in Amnesia: Dark Descent: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/video-amnesia-the-dark-descents-horror-relied-on-a-bit-of-cheating/ZearothK posted:Anyone's given the Pathologic demo that came out today a try?
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Apr 25, 2019 03:33
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Watching some puppet combo videos got the juices flowing and the more or less complete design for a manhunt sequel has invaded my brain. I don't know what to do with this.
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Apr 25, 2019 04:48
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Cross-post from the General Chat Thread as this seems the most likely place for people to have played the game in all of Games. Mod Approved Shameless Goon Self-promotion I've officially 'Done A Thing' and put one of my favorite game soundtracks on vinyl: The Cat Lady. Yeah, the dead format your grandpa used to play Bing Crosby on. https://twitter.com/stumpyfrogrecs/status/1120219084950396928 Anyway, this project means a lot to me. The Cat Lady means a lot to me. And from the emails I've been getting, it seems to mean a lot to other people as well. The music is a huge part of that.    I've made 500 copies and geeze, I really don't want to end up with 450 copies stashed in my garage over the coming years, so if you're interested at all in the niche of a niche of a niche that is Indie Horror Game Soundtrack On Vinyl, please do pre-order. I've kept the price as low as I possibly could for a double LP and every purchase helps. You can pre-order here: https://www.stumpyfrog.com/ I have a couple of other fantastic soundtracks to indie games that I'd really like to give a beautiful release but it would take about 250 copies of The Cat Lady sold for me to be able to do that. You can listen to the full soundtrack on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msg_DMtuXVE You can get The Cat Lady game here (I highly recommend it): https://www.gog.com/game/the_cat_lady And the sequel, Lorelai, comes out tomorrow here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/593960/Lorelai/ Thanks for reading and thank you very much Palpek for letting me post this here!
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Apr 25, 2019 06:02
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I've been playing Infliction lately and I gotta say, that game is actually really good. It sounds like it would be your standard "walk around the haunted house because you murdered your family" kind of game and on the most basic level it kind of is, but it makes up for it by being really creative and much more interactive than you'd expect from that genre. It plays a lot like a roguelike, really. You're expected to die and you will die, in a lot of different ways and plenty of interesting, spooky situations. Little things will be different every time you die, though, from things like items appearing in places they previously weren't to entire room changing up their layout. Your overall goal is to find the necessary ingredients for a ritual to banish the angry ghost of your wife, who you murdered because you're a horrible, no-good alcoholic devil-worshipper who sacrificed his newborn son to demons to obtain... something, it's a bit vague. You will keep getting fed snippets of the player character's life both in the form of well-written (and illustrated) diary entries and voice-acted flashbacks, which are a whole lot better than your typical indie game. The game is completely up-front about the fact that you are a goddamn horrible person and you deserve every single thing that happens to you, which makes the difficulty of avoiding the angry ghost much less frustrating than it could have been - and the amusing variety of horrible deaths and injuries you can suffer much more enjoyable. It's very honest about being a "make the rear end in a top hat die in a million different ways" simulator and I kind of love it for that. There's also a surprising variety of environments, including some that you definitely won't be expecting and that I don't want to spoil here. The ending is very satisfying and exactly what you'll want it to be by that point. This is really an unusually good game of its type and I recommend it.
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Apr 25, 2019 11:40
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How are the horror elements in Stellaris? Saw there were some crazy cosmic horror scenarios and I used to enjoy playing Civ4. Half tempted to give it a go... but only if the random horror bits are decent.
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Apr 25, 2019 12:07
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Drunken Baker posted:How are the horror elements in Stellaris? Saw there were some crazy cosmic horror scenarios and I used to enjoy playing Civ4. Half tempted to give it a go... but only if the random horror bits are decent. I love Stellaris but i really wouldn’t get it for the horror.
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Apr 25, 2019 12:18
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It's a grand strategy game, so it's really more that elements inspired by cosmic horror are present. There are some end-game threats that are kind of unsettling if you think about them for a bit, but don't expect them to really be scary. I think they're fairly decent, but it's just not that kind of game.
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Apr 25, 2019 12:19
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Cross-post from the General Chat Thread as this seems the most likely place for people to have played the game in all of Games. Upload the album's information to Discogs. There's a very ravenous group of people that buy video game vinyls and I've seen the nichest of the niche recessed within recesses sell out overnight.
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Apr 25, 2019 13:38
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al-azad posted:Upload the album's information to Discogs. There's a very ravenous group of people that buy video game vinyls and I've seen the nichest of the niche recessed within recesses sell out overnight. Excellent suggestion! Thank you 
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Apr 25, 2019 15:56
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Oh hey, Layers of Fear 2 is a thing. Starring Tony Todd of Candyman fame, presumably as the protagonist - an actor in a film being made on a cruise ship out at sea. Interesting premise and setting, for sure.
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Apr 26, 2019 22:50
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Agent Escalus posted:Oh hey, Layers of Fear 2 is a thing. Starring Tony Todd of Candyman fame, presumably as the protagonist - an actor in a film being made on a cruise ship out at sea. I'm excited for the sequel version of the little girl ghost slamming face first into a cupboard and flying backwards
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Apr 26, 2019 22:52
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I wasn't really very impressed with Layers of Fear and I'd personally recommend to wait for and watch some decent gameplay videos before buying that.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:00
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Layers of Fear was lame but Observer was a big improvement, so if they continue learning from their mistakes this one could be great.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:08
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Agent Escalus posted:Oh hey, Layers of Fear 2 is a thing. Starring Tony Todd of Candyman fame, presumably as the protagonist - an actor in a film being made on a cruise ship out at sea. I really liked the atmosphere of the first, so I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for the heads up!
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Apr 26, 2019 23:09
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Too Shy Guy posted:Layers of Fear was lame but Observer was a big improvement, so if they continue learning from their mistakes this one could be great.
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Apr 26, 2019 23:19
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I hope we're passed the "bad dad" era of horror games tbh
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Apr 27, 2019 00:35
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That Devotion game is probably never going to see the light of day again is it? It's been over two months since they took it down, can't imagine a relatively small dev can handle losing the ability to sell a game they've spent a significant amount of money developing for that long. That's a bummer, literally went to buy it after reading a review on the day it got taken down. Must have been a couple hours too late.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:48
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thebardyspoon posted:That Devotion game is probably never going to see the light of day again is it? It's been over two months since they took it down, can't imagine a relatively small dev can handle losing the ability to sell a game they've spent a significant amount of money developing for that long. That's a bummer, literally went to buy it after reading a review on the day it got taken down. Must have been a couple hours too late. As long as Winnie the Pooh and his cronies are running China, it will never see the light of day.
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Apr 27, 2019 02:37
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The third game in the series that is Downfall, The Cat Lady, and Lorelai is out on GOG & Steam. Pretty excited. Downfall was good, The Cat Lady was great. Hoping Lorelai gets some more attention.
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Apr 27, 2019 03:25
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Cross-post from the General Chat Thread as this seems the most likely place for people to have played the game in all of Games. This is really cool! I don't know exactly when I'll be able to grab one but I'm planning to
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Apr 27, 2019 07:28
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Yuppie Psycho came out yesterday, the second game from the makers of The Count Lucanor. I got it from the developers and played the first 90 minutes of it just now, and it's off to a really promising start, I was expecting it to open in a normal office and then things get gradually weirder but no, like Count Lucanor it gets going with the horror and weirdness almost immediately. You've got a really interesting goal for the game, and it takes you all over this super hosed up office building full of unsettling coworkers and stuff that should not be there. The writing is surprisingly good and the atmosphere is great, so I'd say definitely check it out if it looks at all interesting to you.
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Apr 27, 2019 08:18
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Observer really felt like some sort of short story set in the Blade Runner universe, I really enjoyed that game a lot.
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Apr 27, 2019 13:11
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That's a good description. Seriously, that game is cyberpunk as hell, it's great.
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Apr 27, 2019 13:21
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Knorth posted:This is really cool! I don't know exactly when I'll be able to grab one but I'm planning to Hey, awesome! If you want a special color vinyl, I’d just pre-order it to reserve a copy. Won’t be sending invoices until May anyway. Too Shy Guy posted:Yuppie Psycho came out yesterday, the second game from the makers of The Count Lucanor. I got it from the developers and played the first 90 minutes of it just now, and it's off to a really promising start, I was expecting it to open in a normal office and then things get gradually weirder but no, like Count Lucanor it gets going with the horror and weirdness almost immediately. You've got a really interesting goal for the game, and it takes you all over this super hosed up office building full of unsettling coworkers and stuff that should not be there. The writing is surprisingly good and the atmosphere is great, so I'd say definitely check it out if it looks at all interesting to you. Oh drat, this came out? Count Lucanor was rough but teeming was excellent ideas. I was pretty hype for this like, a year ago. Picking this up as soon as it hits GOG.
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Apr 27, 2019 14:22
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So that’s why I got the 25% coupon for Yuppie. Should probably finish Count Lucanor first tho.
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Apr 27, 2019 17:51
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Thread question: what parts of Manhunt's design are worth preserving in other games?
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Apr 27, 2019 17:55
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Discendo Vox posted:Thread question: what parts of Manhunt's design are worth preserving in other games? I only played the first game but all I remember was it being a mediocre stealth game with a grindhouse aesthetic which was novel in 2003 but Metal Gear Solid 2 and Splinter Cell came out years prior. I think if you were doing Manhunt today it would work best as a Hitman style game where the levels are huge sandboxes but where Hitman rewards for being stealthy and clean, Manhunt rewards you for being tortuously violent. Encourage the player to be as creative and cruel as possible as that is basically the most fun parts of Hitman despite being penalized for collateral damage.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:35
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I don't know, man. That sounds like an invitation for a bunch of Daikatana-style "your mom will hate this" advertising with a horrible game tacked to it as an afterthought.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:39
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Cardiovorax posted:I don't know, man. That sounds like an invitation for a bunch of Daikatana-style "your mom will hate this" advertising with a horrible game tacked to it as an afterthought. Yeah, Manhunt.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:44
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lol, ok, fair point.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:45
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IShallRiseAgain posted:As long as Winnie the Pooh and his cronies are running China, it will never see the light of day. This loving bums me out because I loved Detention. Isn't it enough to just take the Winnie the Pooh joke out?
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Apr 27, 2019 18:48
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If you were to make a Manhunt game, set it in the same time period. I feel like a lot of the interesting parts of the aesthetic are tied to the early 2000s.
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Apr 27, 2019 18:50
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Only part of Manhunt worth plucking was the dude in your ear ordering you around and very clearly getting off to it.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:32
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RichterIX posted:This loving bums me out because I loved Detention. Isn't it enough to just take the Winnie the Pooh joke out? They did that immediately, and have not been heard from since.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:35
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Grab a torrent while you can, I guess. 
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Too Shy Guy posted:Yuppie Psycho came out yesterday, the second game from the makers of The Count Lucanor. I got it from the developers and played the first 90 minutes of it just now, and it's off to a really promising start, I was expecting it to open in a normal office and then things get gradually weirder but no, like Count Lucanor it gets going with the horror and weirdness almost immediately. You've got a really interesting goal for the game, and it takes you all over this super hosed up office building full of unsettling coworkers and stuff that should not be there. The writing is surprisingly good and the atmosphere is great, so I'd say definitely check it out if it looks at all interesting to you. How does it compare to Lucanor, gameplay/mechanics-wise? I thought Lucanor had awesome atmosphere and some really cool ideas, but in practice felt pretty janky and frustrating to play, at least when it came to some of the rooms in the castle.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:46
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MockingQuantum posted:How does it compare to Lucanor, gameplay/mechanics-wise? I thought Lucanor had awesome atmosphere and some really cool ideas, but in practice felt pretty janky and frustrating to play, at least when it came to some of the rooms in the castle. So far, much better. Instead of discrete puzzle rooms like Lucanor had, Yuppie Psycho has more logical tasks that fit the setting. For example, right now I need to get a book from the company library. I have to fill out a form just to access the library, which requires me to go to the archives. The info for the form is found in different departments, each of which has a different puzzle to solve like re-arranging stacks to get to a file. It still uses a limited save mechanic, and I can't say how restrictive it'll be yet but I also haven't been in danger as often as I was just trying to get around the halls in Lucanor. Really Yuppie feels like an all-around improvement.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:52
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chitoryu12 posted:If you were to make a Manhunt game, set it in the same time period. I feel like a lot of the interesting parts of the aesthetic are tied to the early 2000s. So bad poo poo happened to me, time to do worse poo poo to anyone I think is responsible for it?
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Crabtree posted:So bad poo poo happened to me, time to do worse poo poo to anyone I think is responsible for it?
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