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el oso posted:What's the best way to play SH2 these days on PC? http://www.enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
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I made it to the final chapter of The Sinking City, if ever there was a game that would be 100% better if it wasn't open world, it's that.
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Cyberdud posted:New chapter of Visage is out. And it nailed Something Awful thread darling Youtuber John Wolfe pretty good. He's usually pretty resistant to those things. (except in VR) And then later in that same video the game decides to stop trying to be scary and just go full comedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-roC3wV3DeM&t=2905s What a way to destroy any and all tension lol
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Jul 13, 2019 19:00
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The part with the ghost grandpa pulling the knifes from his chest and stabbing you with them is some primo horror imagery.
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Jul 13, 2019 19:17
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quote:New chapter of Visage is out. And it nailed Something Awful thread darling Youtuber John Wolfe pretty good. He's usually pretty resistant to those things. (except in VR) @JohnWolfeYT posted:Oh my god so many SERIOUS 🧐replies, this is a JOKE Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jul 13, 2019 |
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Jul 13, 2019 20:19
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He's one of the most acceptable YouTubers. I don't go digging for Twitter drama though
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Jul 13, 2019 20:27
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Cardiovorax posted:As in full "no you shut the up, I'm internet famous and plebs don't get to disagree with me" public meltdown and five minutes of angry ranting in the middle of a recording. what are you talking about
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Jul 13, 2019 20:54
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Well, it's kind of hard to just not hear it when a guy starts going off on a big angry rant about that one time someone told him in a comment that they disliked the movie avatar and literally says "yeah, well, are you famous for making an internationally succcessful movie that made millions of dollars? No? Then shut the gently caress up, who do you think you are that your opinion matters." And then you just kind of can't take the guy seriously anymore ever again.
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Jul 13, 2019 20:57
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Cardiovorax posted:lol, yeah, for a guy who literally picked "harshly critical'' for a brand name, the guy is just hilariously poo poo at taking it. As in full "no you shut the up, I'm internet famous and plebs don't get to disagree with me" public meltdown and five minutes of angry ranting in the middle of a recording. Like. the type where you sort where you almost think it just has some kind of joke at his own expense, except he just keep doing it and it's always about the stupidest poo poo. Just, you know, the type of self-important dumbass goons are usually on like white on rice. The context of that tweet was him posting about thinking it was funny that rotten tomatoes was saying that lion king is good but then saying lion king isn't good and nobody really caring what RT said, then I guess that thread turned into people arguing over whether it's good or not when all John was doing was just posting a funny pic Cardiovorax posted:Well, it's kind of hard to just not hear it when a guy starts going off on a big angry rant about that one time someone told him in a comment that they disliked the movie avatar and literally says "yeah, well, are you famous for making an internationally succcessful movie that made millions of dollars? No? Then shut the gently caress up, who do you think you are that your opinion matters." What?
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Jul 13, 2019 21:00
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FirstAidKite posted:What? VVV Hey, I believe you. I'm sure the guy is a perfectly pleasant person to be around for a few hours if you just sort of bump into him somewhere. Really, though, most people are. Right up until you spend enough time around them to actually get to know them. Then all bets are off, though. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 13, 2019 |
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Jul 13, 2019 21:08
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I really don't give a poo poo about Twitter drama, especially about something as nonsense as movie reviews. From his videos and a brief meeting I had with him at Pax South, he's a swell guy
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Jul 13, 2019 21:29
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FirstAidKite posted:And then later in that same video the game decides to stop trying to be scary and just go full comedy What the gently caress?
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Jul 13, 2019 21:52
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John Wolfe is good because he is willing to poo poo on his lovely fans, and refuses to pretend his followers are his friends.
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Jul 13, 2019 22:03
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Pathologic 2 is pretty good.
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Edit: Oh God I definitely posted in the wrong thread.
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Jul 13, 2019 23:05
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FirstAidKite posted:And then later in that same video the game decides to stop trying to be scary and just go full comedy You know, if you wanna be Evil Dead, just start that way.
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Jul 13, 2019 23:43
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I wonder what my appliances say about me when I'm not home
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Jul 13, 2019 23:49
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I want to like Visage but it's been very so-so, certainly this chapter. It has some really good, startling horror imagery and certain creepy moments show the developers have an idea what they're doing but (this chapter in particular) there's some really blatant homages to P.T and Silent Hill it's trying to make just for an indulgent reference. Going "oh I remember this when it was in another game" completely removes the immersion.
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Jul 14, 2019 00:25
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FirstAidKite posted:And then later in that same video the game decides to stop trying to be scary and just go full comedy That is thousand times more entertaining than another cookie cutter lovely "horror" game that takes place inside a suburban house composed of Unity prefabs. Props to the devs.
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Jul 14, 2019 01:01
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The problem, as always, is reading the youtube comments and people say some pretty rude poo poo. Kravin gets it worse for being gay and anxious. There was one game Kravin was playing (forgot that name) that literally sits the player in a chair to show them pictures of real dead bodies and then cuts to a picture of John calling him a human being and Kravin just nopes the gently caress out.
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Jul 14, 2019 01:03
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If it was always as serious as talking kitchenware I might play it.
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FirstAidKite posted:And then later in that same video the game decides to stop trying to be scary and just go full comedy Lmao sorry this is pretty tight even if it goes on a little too long. More horror games need intentional comic relief IMO, it's something I don't really remember seeing outside of like occasional "darkly humorous" journal entries laying around and poo poo . It's a good break from scares and it also softens you up for the next one -- it's a trick that movies learned really early on but I'd love to see more games lean into it, even if the execution here isn't great edit: like basically IMO you have only a few ways to have direct power over the player/viewers reactions . You can TRY to make them feel sad, or make them feel joyful, or make them feel introspective or whatever, but it's not always gonna work and it's not going to work on everyone . Horror games have figured out that you CAN however directly force most people to jump with a well-implemented scare or make them cringe a little with a gory or disturbing image. What I havent seen taken advantage of very often though, is making somebody laugh, which is really powerful and underrated . It's an involuntary physical reaction you can induce in players if you do it right and that in and of itself makes it a really meaningful tool. Again, the implementation here isn't perfect, but yeah props to the devs for going for it goferchan fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jul 14, 2019 |
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Jul 14, 2019 06:15
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Humor and Horror are easy to intertwine. You can't maintain a good level of tension throughout an entire multi-hour experience like a game, so a little variety is great. Even classics of the genre have goofy moments, like SH2s "killin' a person ain't no big deal" or everything involving Jack in RE7.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:14
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Alan Wake's 'flaming eye of Mordor' scene comes to mind. 
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Jul 15, 2019 17:24
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The Dark Pictures: Man from Medan is up for preoder on Steam, $30 and it's out in 6 weeks. Looks pretty good and since I never got to play Until Dawn I'm excited to try this out.
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So a heads up on man of medan. It's sounding like it's a 4 hour game but it can do in some wider directions than until dawn did.
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Ineffiable posted:So a heads up on man of medan. It's sounding like it's a 4 hour game but it can do in some wider directions than until dawn did. I really like Until Dawn and Hidden Agenda. Most people in this thread have probably already played Until Dawn but HA was really fun and handled branching paths quite well. We've only played through it three times but we have yet to hit the same ending and even the middle bits are different enough that it's been fun. It also had multiplayer built in. Instead of controllers it linked to smart devices. The QTEs were done as a group and as long as one person succeeded you got the well done scene, plus the person who did it first got a veto chip. Veto chips were used during voting sections. For the choice sections for where the story would go next it was a group vote. If you had a chip you could just say gently caress you and take control of the vote. You could be counter chipped There was also a pvp mode which I'm a little fuzzy on but everyone had their own goal to pull off and had to sway votes accordingly
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Jul 15, 2019 22:24
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I like John Wolfe and usually watch his stuff but he does have issues with being "wrong" sometimes and he does say some dumb stuff. He would probably come across better if he just relaxed about it but yeah reading his YouTube comments probably doesn't help with that at all.
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Jul 15, 2019 22:40
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Ineffiable posted:So a heads up on man of medan. It's sounding like it's a 4 hour game but it can do in some wider directions than until dawn did. If it's really high quality, $30 ain't too bad for a 4 hour experience. I don't mind something shorter if it's really well done and if it has a lot of replayability. They also said they want to do a new entry in the series every 6 months so hopefully they can keep to that and we'll be getting two new titles a year.
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Jul 15, 2019 22:48
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I don't know how streaming works but don't you have to? Or do the view counts tell you everything you need to know?
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Jul 15, 2019 22:49
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s.i.r.e. posted:If it's really high quality, $30 ain't too bad for a 4 hour experience. I don't mind something shorter if it's really well done and if it has a lot of replayability. They also said they want to do a new entry in the series every 6 months so hopefully they can keep to that and we'll be getting two new titles a year. And you just know know that some people will want the "full experience" and throw out hundreds of dollars on a series that probably would've been published all at once a few years ago, and for a fraction of the price.
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Jul 16, 2019 07:07
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Man of Medan is the first game in what the devs call Dark Pictures anthology. I doubt theres any connecting story beyond common themes like in Black Mirror or Love, Death and Robots anthology
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Jul 16, 2019 09:43
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The phrasing in the article I saw made it sound more connected, but fair enough. It wouldn't surprise me if there turns out to be some kind of metaplot you need to Collect Them All in order to follow, though. That's like marketing 101 these days. If a franchise can get away with it at all, they typically at least try.
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Cardiovorax posted:The phrasing in the article I saw made it sound more connected, but fair enough. It wouldn't surprise me if there turns out to be some kind of metaplot you need to Collect Them All in order to follow, though. That's like marketing 101 these days. If a franchise can get away with it at all, they typically at least try. Remember how at the beginning of the year you were telling everyone that there was only one plotline through RE2 remake and there were no a/b games? https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/24/man-of-medan-dark-pictures-anthology-hands-on/ quote:As the name suggests, The Dark Pictures Anthology isn't a game, but rather a new interactive horror series -- think Tales of the Crypt or The Twilight Zone. Each game within the anthology will be set in the same universe, but entirely self-contained, the intention being that you could play the stories in any order you choose. Supermassive has committed to making four games so far, with three of them actively in development. The first title is Man of Medan, which will be released some time in 2019, and after that the intention is to release a new game every six months.
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Len posted:Remember how at the beginning of the year you were telling everyone that there was only one plotline through RE2 remake and there were no a/b games? Seriously, are you honestly still pissy about that? Because that's sad. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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Jul 16, 2019 12:41
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I think people are just tired of your constant doomsaying
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Jul 16, 2019 13:12
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I'm a big believer in the idea that if you expect the worst, then you either get a pleasant surprise or at least the satisfaction of having been right all along. What can I say? It tends to work out for me.
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Jul 16, 2019 13:24
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Cardiovorax posted:I'm pretty sure what I said was something to the effect of "it has been reported that Leon and Claire will be less different than they used to and there won't be an immediate relationship like A and B where what you do in one will actually have even just a minor effect on the other." And what do you know, I was completely right. Nothing you do in one scenario affects the other at all and they're practically the same except for some minor differences in the middle. I've played the game for twenty hours now. Loved it to hell, but suprise me it didn't. Actually you said Cardiovorax posted:supergreatfriend is pretty definite about it that it won't. He quoted something about them deciding to forego it in exchange for making the main campaign a better and more complete experience. Because a guy who plays videogames for YouTube and doesn't work for Capcom knew what he was talking about
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Ferrous posted:I like John Wolfe and usually watch his stuff but he does have issues with being "wrong" sometimes and he does say some dumb stuff. There was a part where i was watching his visage thing where he just talked and talked about how the lighter thing was wrong and the way he talked about it was really dismissive, but as someone who's never watched his stuff before I kinda just wanted to turn it off when he did that. Also good grief man SCREW IN SOME FUCKINGLIGHT BULBS THEY'RE RIGHT THERE.
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That sounds amaze and I think it’s going to make my wife even happier than me.
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