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Glagha posted:I don't wanna hear about it unless I get to gently caress a shoggoth. A crossover with song of saya then? AngryRobotsInc posted:In my experience, 9 times out of 10, these themes are handled in the most hamfisted, "I don't know what I'm actually talking about" way. Especially in outright horror games. There are certainly games out there that handle themes of mental illness in an interesting, well-done way, but the "Author trying and failing to be deep" and "ISN'T MENTAL ILLNESS SO ~SCAAAAAARY~!" camps far outnumber them. Yeah it uhhh doesn't really handle the material that well lol, then has the balls to end the game with "THE END?" lmao
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Lust For Darkness 2: Dual Penetration Already exists and is in development. Seems to be tripling down on the Lovecraftian themes.
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FirstAidKite posted:It is a game about the horrors of mental illness and multiple personalities that seems to think it is far more clever and subtle than it, a game where one of the playable characters has the surname Hyde, actually is. They went so far as to give one of the guys in the note the last game 'Capgras.' That's how loving stupid it is.
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Lifeglug posted:Oh boy apparently there's a sequel to Lust for Darkness coming out! Hahahahaha I knew about this but never checked the store page, they actually put up a screenshot of the steam-powered dildo being used.
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Nov 4, 2019 05:14
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Song of Horror, a good modern love letter to classic Alone in the Dark
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Which classic, the oddly scary lovecraft horror from the original, the hilarious wacky action movie thriller of the 2nd one, or the similarly wacky-but-not-quite-as-wacky-as-the-2nd jew's harp-filled action movie western of the 3rd?
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I hope there's dressing up as Santa.
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FirstAidKite posted:Which classic, the oddly scary lovecraft horror from the original, the hilarious wacky action movie thriller of the 2nd one, or the similarly wacky-but-not-quite-as-wacky-as-the-2nd jew's harp-filled action movie western of the 3rd? First
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Basic Chunnel posted:Song of Horror, a good modern love letter to classic Alone in the Dark i am unironically twitching in excitement to learn that someone has attempted to fully realize the potential in Friday the 13th NES' death mechanic
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Blockhouse posted:I watched Scary Game Squad play through the recent Beast Inside demo and the only memorable part of it to me was when you find the corpse of JAMES WILKES BOOTH, JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S (fictional) BROTHER directly next a letter he wrote but never sent that establishes this fact And then he drops the heated gamer moment word in that letter. Game has edge, yo.
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After watching a playthrough of The Beast Inside, all I can say is the twist of "it was YOU all along" needs to die, quick.
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rudecyrus posted:After watching a playthrough of The Beast Inside, all I can say is the twist of "it was YOU all along" needs to die, quick. But until that point played as if it would be that usual twist instead of "Well OBVIOUSLY I'm being framed or some other explanation! I'm a good boy who would never do a murder!" from step one Clear My Name Mysteries. Section Z fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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Nov 5, 2019 09:24
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I feel like "you were the killer all along!" is so overplayed in these $5 trash horror games at least partly because you don't have to spend the time modeling a secondary antagonist that way.
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Nov 5, 2019 10:09
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The current situation with the overuse of twist endings is like that of a lovely restaurant that puts way too much salt on everything they cook. An already good story can be made excellent by using a surprise twist well, buf your story is already crap then it won't save your game to have one, though. Too many devs just don't understand that, it's like people who have heard that "there's no such thing as bad pizza" witticism once and just took it at face value.
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Nov 5, 2019 13:00
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In this constantly online world everyone is now aware that all psychological horror stole from Jacob's Ladder and Solaris including Silent Hill. And I Am Legend which is the "you were the villain all along" twist perfected almost 70 years ago.
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Even Jacob's Ladder, which embodies the quintessential "it was all a dying dream" horror trope, is made more complex by the various timelines from Jacob's memory interfering and overlapping with one another.
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Jacob's Ladder gets a pass on it by virtue of it not really being a dream as such, see the iconic Meister Eckhart quote. There's some actual meaning to what happens instead of merely a cop-out "and then everything was fine again and nobody got hurt at all" happy ending at the last moment.
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drat has anyone checked out Lakeview Valley yet? Seems like a massively expanded version of the Lakeview Cabin games with like life simulator elements. Even though I never legitimately "solved" any of the cabin games they were delightfully reactive and fun to mess around in
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i absolutely love Song of Horror, instant-kill bullshit deaths and all, so thank you thread for letting me know about its existence i still have no idea what the fuse box puzzle wanted from me but that's what youtubers are for and every other puzzle has been fun to solve
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Nov 5, 2019 15:39
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Yeah they kind of played themselves by giving the fuses themselves colors, I spent about five minutes saying "which of these is supposed to be blue" before realizing that it was a math problem and not a color matching puzzle
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rudecyrus posted:After watching a playthrough of The Beast Inside, all I can say is the twist of "it was YOU all along" needs to die, quick. I returned Blair Witch 30 minutes in cause the writing was on the wall in 400 font.
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It would honestly be more surprising at this point to have a horror game where the protagonist turns out to be a reasonably well adjusted person who is just trying to help when they get exposed to insane horrors from beyond. A Blair Witch game where you really are just a sheriff's deputy looking for a little kid would have had everyone waiting for the "IT'S YOU, YOU'RE EVIL" twist and astonished when you aren't.
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I mean the original Blair Witch was all just a bunch of young people in the wrong place at the wrong time anyway right? I dunno why a Blair Witch game would do the "this is your penance!" thing or "you're the monster all along".
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Glagha posted:I mean the original Blair Witch was all just a bunch of young people in the wrong place at the wrong time anyway right? I dunno why a Blair Witch game would do the "this is your penance!" thing or "you're the monster all along". It's more psychological that way.
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Wow posters in this thread really not shy about having not seen Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows
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Basic Chunnel posted:Wow posters in this thread really not shy about having not seen Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows
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Kinda wishing there was a horror game that reveals early on before the 2nd act that you are a / the murderer, surprise, and the rest of the game is dealing with the fallout thereafter
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Basic Chunnel posted:Wow posters in this thread really not shy about having not seen Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows This isn't a bad thing
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Kinda wishing there was a horror game that reveals early on before the 2nd act that you are a / the murderer, surprise, and the rest of the game is dealing with the fallout thereafter Not quit the same thing, but I would play the poo poo out of a game based on The Vanishing.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Kinda wishing there was a horror game that reveals early on before the 2nd act that you are a / the murderer, surprise, and the rest of the game is dealing with the fallout thereafter END ROLL is kind of like that. You figure out early on (like, very beginning of the game early) that your MC was...not a great person, and the main push of the game is if he comes to feel guilt for what he did, or not. It's mostly decided through finding optional scenes.
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The Suffering's take on that twist was great because if you acted like a person who didn't kill your ex-wife and kids, it turned out you didn't. If you acted like a psycho, you did. Etc. But then, The Suffering will always be an inexplicably excellent game.
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Night10194 posted:The Suffering's take on that twist was great because if you acted like a person who didn't kill your ex-wife and kids, it turned out you didn't. If you acted like a psycho, you did. Etc. It's a shame The Suffering 2 happened
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Suffering 2 was still pretty all right. I like how it'd read your ending save from the first if you had one and change the intro and story accordingly, it'd even slightly acknowledge if you changed your alignment from one game to another. I don't think I've seen any games do that other than Mass Effect.
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Suffering 2 is so bland, not even Dr. Hamsitup communicating with you via TV can save it
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Game where you’re the murderer from the very start, and the thrust of it is that some supernatural hopped up HUSSY is trying to muscle in on your territory, so you gotta set aside your usual deal to take this fucker downtown for a groundpound
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Black August posted:Game where you’re the murderer from the very start, and the thrust of it is that some supernatural hopped up HUSSY is trying to muscle in on your territory, so you gotta set aside your usual deal to take this fucker downtown for a groundpound Painkiller?
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A game where you play as the killer, and the twist is that it wasnt actually you
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Black August posted:Game where you’re the murderer from the very start, and the thrust of it is that some supernatural hopped up HUSSY is trying to muscle in on your territory, so you gotta set aside your usual deal to take this fucker downtown for a groundpound That's basically the Darkness. szary posted:A game where you play as the killer, and the twist is that it wasnt actually you And so is this.
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Black August posted:Game where you’re the murderer from the very start, and the thrust of it is that some supernatural hopped up HUSSY is trying to muscle in on your territory, so you gotta set aside your usual deal to take this fucker downtown for a groundpound Jason vs Sadako?
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