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Len posted:I feel like I played a demo of this in the past and it was different The previous one was 3 different scenarios, so you probably did.
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I ask this periodically, did Routine ever amount to anything or did that game die a quiet death?
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Xenomrph posted:I ask this periodically, did Routine ever amount to anything or did that game die a quiet death? Last I heard they were fading into obscurity and blaming Alien Isolation
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Xenomrph posted:I ask this periodically, did Routine ever amount to anything or did that game die a quiet death? For all we know it's still being worked on, but there hasn't been an update since... 2017 I think. So yeah, the game's dead.
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I randomly played a neat indie horror survival game at E3 called Undying, by a Chinese-Australian team, that could turn out to be cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOjq-djqc8 The show floor demo had an infection timer at the top of the screen which was always slowly ticking down, which made everything feel urgent.
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It was a one eye, multi-thorned flying crimson people eater.
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Wanderer posted:I randomly played a neat indie horror survival game at E3 called Undying, by a Chinese-Australian team, that could turn out to be cool. Mombie... protec... Also wondering if you can go through Carrion only killing hostiles.
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Kokoro Wish posted:Mombie... protec... I hope it has a bunch of sequels if it does well - like Carrion Camping, Carrion up the Khyber etc.
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Wanderer posted:I randomly played a neat indie horror survival game at E3 called Undying, by a Chinese-Australian team, that could turn out to be cool.  Hopefully it doesn't double down on "PS your son was also infected the whole time".Well, unless there is NG+ where you then teach them how to be the best zombie in town.
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So since no one is posting I'm gonna guess Sinking City is either extremely good or real bad. Almost certainly the latter.
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Jun 28, 2019 21:22
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59% in a local Euro magazine. That's pretty drat harsh by video game journalist standards, so presumably the real rating is "the discs would do the world more good in a landfill."
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It’s a Eurojank open world RPG so the reviews are extreme on both ends in the same way Deadly Premonition had 2s and 10s from major outlets. Same deal with Pathalogic 2. So yeah, if the idea of an Eldritch horror L.A. Noire sounds appealing to you then you’ll probably really like it.
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Jun 28, 2019 21:47
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weekly font posted:So since no one is posting I'm gonna guess Sinking City is either extremely good or real bad. Almost certainly the latter. I know the contrarian jackass at one of my outlets really liked it, but Neil at Bloody Disgusting did too, so it's probably like al-azad's saying.
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weekly font posted:So since no one is posting I'm gonna guess Sinking City is either extremely good or real bad. Almost certainly the latter. Feedback I have from reviews and friends is it's real bad but also really likeable. An interesting mess to wade through where you can see the parallel dimension ghost of the good game it could have been if you have eyes inside your brain.
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I have a bunch of Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games. They are solid, middle budget games with some clever puzzles. I've been looking forward to Sinking City since I found out they were doing it. Will probably buy it on sale no matter the reviews. For reference, I also own the new Black Mirror (remake of the old game, unrelated to the TV show) and it was awful dogshit from almost every perspective I could look at it. Except for the fact that it's like The Room of video games and hilarious. It is currently $32.99 (Canadian) on Steam or $53.49 on PSN. I paid $10 on a PSN sale and feel I might have been ripped off.
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Section Z posted:Teaching your son how to gun down zombies and sharpen a fire axe before you go I'm guessing the endgame will be "you have turned, now your son has to kill you before you kill him. How well you taught him before turning determines if he survives or you become a human-munching tag team in undeath"
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Jun 28, 2019 23:38
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Didn't The Walking Dead already do that one?
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Jun 28, 2019 23:56
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True but the kid becomes a zombie slaying machine no matter what your choices
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weekly font posted:So since no one is posting I'm gonna guess Sinking City is either extremely good or real bad. Almost certainly the latter. My understanding is that it’s kinda buggy and not a good game in the main but the story and some of the investigation gimmicks are interesting. Basically a lot of the stuff that seems really clever and novel during hour one have aggravated reviewers by hour two. I’m waiting for it to get a bunch of patches and hit like $19 on sale, so that if it’s charms bounce off me it won’t be too much of a loss
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Chev posted:Feedback I have from reviews and friends is it's real bad but also really likeable. An interesting mess to wade through where you can see the parallel dimension ghost of the good game it could have been if you have eyes inside your brain. This was Jim Sterling's review too. I love that kinda jank but I think I'll wait for a sale/Steam.
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My main question about the game is it literal fishmen and other lovecraftian entities walking around with other people acknowledging this, or is the protagonist just being "delusional"? The former sounds a lot more interesting than the latter.
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Jun 29, 2019 15:41
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The beginning of Dark Corners of the Earth was interesting in that sort of way. You were just wandering around Innsmouth and there was no particular explanation as to why the townpeople were all creepy half-monsters who yelled at you to go away with voices that sounded like they had been gargling rocks, it was just creepy as poo poo. Then the rest of the game couldn't keep up, but that sums up Dark Corners, really.
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DeathChicken posted:The beginning of Dark Corners of the Earth was interesting in that sort of way. You were just wandering around Innsmouth and there was no particular explanation as to why the townpeople were all creepy half-monsters who yelled at you to go away with voices that sounded like they had been gargling rocks, it was just creepy as poo poo. Well that game gets kind of ridiculous, because the protagonist decided to spend the night in a hotel despite knowing its run by a psychopathic murder. He already paid for a room, and he is going to use it goddammit it!
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Well that game gets kind of ridiculous, because the protagonist decided to spend the night in a hotel despite knowing its run by a psychopathic murder. He already paid for a room, and he is going to use it goddammit it! It's been a while since I played it, but didn't they do the Shadow over Innsmouth thing where the bus "broke down" so he had to stay the night? Admittedly, if I'd seen what he'd seen, I'd loving walk back to Newburyport, gently caress that poo poo.
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Fish Woman In A Night Dress redeems all the bad parts of Dark Corners for me.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:My main question about the game is it literal fishmen and other lovecraftian entities walking around with other people acknowledging this, or is the protagonist just being "delusional"? The former sounds a lot more interesting than the latter. The former. The setting is kind of like Night Vale where the supernatural clearly exists but people are resolved to live a civilized life. It also has a Silent Hill 2 like power where it attracts tortured souls including the refugees of Innsmouth whom a lot of people hate because they’re “blessed by the sea.”
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Every lovecraft game only remembering CoC and Innsmouth as stories are why these games stink and why games that are inspired by H.P. vs directly sourced are better (Eternal Darkness, Sunless S__, Darkest Dungeon, Night in the Woods, etc.)
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I would like to see a game based on The Color out of Space someday. You could create all kinds of novel and color-based visual gameplay mechanics for a game like that.
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Jun 29, 2019 19:06
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weekly font posted:Sunless S__, Why this?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Why this?
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weekly font posted:Every lovecraft game only remembering CoC and Innsmouth as stories are why these games stink and why games that are inspired by H.P. vs directly sourced are better (Eternal Darkness, Sunless S__, Darkest Dungeon, Night in the Woods, etc.) It definitely draws inspiration from other Lovecraft stories like Arthur Jermyn, Dream Cycle series, and the first person you meet is a weirdo in a yellow suit.
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The Last Door is very cool for that reason. It's a Hastur story without any of the fishpeople or poo poo. It really nails the mood of a cosmic horror story without feeling like a straight retread of a prexisting narrative.
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Glukeose posted:The Last Door is very cool for that reason. It's a Hastur story without any of the fishpeople or poo poo. It really nails the mood of a cosmic horror story without feeling like a straight retread of a prexisting narrative. I think you just sold me on that game
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Yeah I don't disagree. I like Innsmouth just fine but drat am I sick of Cthulu and fish people.
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Cardiovorax posted:Lots of tentacles, space monster and cthonic horrors. With the heavy Victorian era-critical elements added to it and the deep undertones of an uncaring racial over-class that defines all laws and frowns on miscegenation of any sort, the Lovecraftian tones are definitely very noticeable. Played heavily for humor and maybe a bit too far up its own butt, but you can certainly draw some clear parallels. I get the weird tales connection but not why he blanked out the name
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That's where the sinking city is kinda interesting, though, everyone in the city is sick of those degenerate fish people and their darn squid cult. Well, all respectable people that matter and have proper opinions about how things ought to be and how strangers should stay out of the city if you catch my meaning, stranger. Everything was much better before the fish people came. And the smell! So that's kind of an interesting angle.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I get the weird tales connection but not why he blanked out the name Sunless Skies/Sunless Seas
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Jun 29, 2019 20:20
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What Len said. It's just because there's two of them now.
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The Sinking City is definitely unique because its focus is very much on building its setting as opposed to telling a linear narrative. It feels closer to Pathologic in this way (although not as meandering and free roaming) in that the game wants to sell you on its city lost to time and space. People are trying to live their lives motivated by the politics and prejudices you might expect from a New England post-industrial poor town, it's just amplified by monsters and nightmares. FreudianSlippers posted:I get the weird tales connection but not why he blanked out the name Sunless Sea/Sky
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Chev posted:That's where the sinking city is kinda interesting, though, everyone in the city is sick of those degenerate fish people and their darn squid cult. Well, all respectable people that matter and have proper opinions about how things ought to be and how strangers should stay out of the city if you catch my meaning, stranger. Everything was much better before the fish people came. And the smell! So that's kind of an interesting angle. Wasn't that kind of the original point of the deep ones in the original story except in that the reader was supposed to agree that yes, miscegenation with outsiders is indeed horrifying and awful. Also doesn't it kind of undermine the message if the fish people actually ARE a hostile, corrupting force?
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