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SelenicMartian posted:Necrovision, but ghosts? And also maybe good, unlike Necrovision.
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The Longest Dark but with horror would be really cool It'd be so easy to mod the entire deal into "Mythos end of the world, you're surviving in the arctic, don't let the shoggoth smell your campfire"
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Dec 14, 2019 17:55
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People always complain about survival mechanics even as it is. Shifting that to snow instead of having to drink and eat would probably just annoy people in a different way. I also think it just generally doesn't mesh that well with horror. Horror is too dependent on tight and well-planned timing and pacing. Making there be a simulation aspect centered around waiting for stuff to dry sounds inimical to that.
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Dec 14, 2019 18:21
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Night10194 posted:And also maybe good, unlike Necrovision. Booooo!
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https://twitter.com/adsk4/status/1205915655691620352?s=21
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Dec 14, 2019 19:52
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Wtf I didn’t know that was a thing. Maria’s not real, why does she have her own adventure?? Ugh and now I’m realizing how young all the Silent Hill protagonists actually are. Hard to tell with their melty PS2 cgi graphics.
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It is kind of hilarious how Angela is supposed to be, like, 18 or something but looks to be in her early 40s if you just go by her in-game graphics.
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al-azad posted:Wtf I didn’t know that was a thing. Maria’s not real, why does she have her own adventure?? It was on the Xbox and I believe ps2 greatest hits version
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I thought everyone was in their 30s and near 40s when I played 2, I only ever saw Heather as young since it's blatant
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You're not the only one, I only learned how old they were supposed to be (aside from the literal little kid) years and years later.
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Oh, are we talking about good/bad horror settings? My turn. Settings that need to be done more: Pre-20th century. As mentioned, Southern Gothic settings are ripe for horror. Caves. A ship. An alien planet where the flora and fauna are your enemies. Somewhere cold and mountainous, like in Kholat, except done way better. Settings that need to gently caress off: Haunted houses Forests Hospitals/mental asylums Any "dreamscape" setting that's weird and off-putting for no reason Hell, especially if it's full of fire and blood.
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rudecyrus posted:Caves.
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They also tend to be pretty unpopular whenever they do appear, though. I've seen people say that "a cave or mine is just a dry sewer level" more than once.
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Cryostasis was a pretty good ice-themed horror-esque title. As for dreamscape stuff, The Void nailed that pretty damned well. Overdone settings I wish would take a breather: hospitals and asylums Concepts I'd like to see handled well: depictions of the horror of homelessness, the horror of anxiety and depression, the horror of being a victim of emotional abuse. I'd prefer if they were treated realistically and not as some supernatural metaphor for it. Something that makes the player feel hopeless and helpless but with no other means of surviving other than to just keep on going. al-azad posted:Wtf I didn’t know that was a thing. Maria’s not real, why does she have her own adventure?? It is basically about Maria coming to exist and learning what she's there for and what she is, like Lisa from the first game.
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al-azad posted:Wtf I didn’t know that was a thing. Maria’s not real, why does she have her own adventure?? It was actually pretty neat as a post-main-game bonus. Makes you feel better or worse about how you treated her in the main game. Plus in the versions of the game that have this story it sets the scene for the Rebirth ending.
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haunted houses are evergreen, but it all comes down to how they’re implemented hospitals are played out though
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FirstAidKite posted:Concepts I'd like to see handled well: depictions of the horror of homelessness, the horror of anxiety and depression, the horror of being a victim of emotional abuse. I'd prefer if they were treated realistically and not as some supernatural metaphor for it. Something that makes the player feel hopeless and helpless but with no other means of surviving other than to just keep on going. I don't know if it's all you mention, but have you tried Cart Life? I've heard a few people say that it really got to them.
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I've always wanted to see a cave game in VR, just to really grind in the claustrophobia and darkness. Basically that scene in The Descent when someone gets stuck in the tunnel.
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DrSnakeLaser posted:I've always wanted to see a cave game in VR, just to really grind in the claustrophobia and darkness. Basically that scene in The Descent when someone gets stuck in the tunnel.
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Cardiovorax posted:They also tend to be pretty unpopular whenever they do appear, though. I've seen people say that "a cave or mine is just a dry sewer level" more than once. I think this is just correlation != causation thing. It’s unpopular because people aren’t making it. If Penumbra hadn’t been completely overshadowed by Amnesia we’d probably see more cave horror like how the next three years post-Amnesia was dark ruins. We’re still feeling the effects of Slender and the lazy rear end dark forest.
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A horror game set in a restaurant/hotel. Part cooking simulator, part the Shining. Oh, a new take on the cosmic horror thing that relies on the inherent mystery of Old Bay Seasoning. Maybe tie it in to the horrors of a decaying transport infrastructure and the superfoods trend. 
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I still think proper horror VR is going to take poo poo to a level we never expected I want to see real time monster avoidance with some terrified tool squirming on their floor to simulate keeping under a table
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Dec 15, 2019 02:47
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There is a stealth game called "GTFO" that showed up on my Steam list, looks like Prometheus??
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Zushio posted:A horror game set in a restaurant/hotel. Part cooking simulator, part the Shining.
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Zushio posted:A horror game set in a restaurant/hotel. Part cooking simulator, part the Shining. The real nightmare and mystery is why people go with Old Bay. JO #2 or get out of my town!
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Let me tell you why Old Bay is bad news, the horror word you want for that is ‘Sysco’
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Black August posted:I still think proper horror VR is going to take poo poo to a level we never expected Boneworks has been making strides in VR. It fully simulates everything as a physics body, including the player character. This is mostly used to let you climb and use anything as a weapon (and other extrapolations like struggling to hold doors closed against charging enemies), but you can also crawl under stuff by actually crouching and it has a system for NPCs seeing the player’s body. Wouldn’t take much to get a horror game out of that.
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Basic Chunnel posted:There is a stealth game called "GTFO" that showed up on my Steam list, looks like Prometheus?? GTFO's a co-op stealth/shooter game by a bunch of former staff from overkill software who jumped ship early on when they realized the CEO was running the company into the dirt. Overkill had a rocky history, but current word on GTFO is it's very, very good, hitting a gameplay loop structure that past co-op stealth/horror games have only sort of gestured at. Rough plot: The players are strapped into machines and sent down into a horrifying maze of technology called "the complex" on missions at the behest of a mysterious "warden". Standout features include a lot of ongoing support promises, really nice graphics, some quite impressive randomization factors, and some really deep puzzle/planning elements.
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FirstAidKite posted:Concepts I'd like to see handled well: depictions of the horror of homelessness, the horror of anxiety and depression, the horror of being a victim of emotional abuse. I'd prefer if they were treated realistically and not as some supernatural metaphor for it. Something that makes the player feel hopeless and helpless but with no other means of surviving other than to just keep on going. I saw this advertised recently, the demo is very promising: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/ quote:Mick Carter's been drifting a while now - never staying one place long, moving from job to job. Forced to return to his old home town, he witnesses a violent murder, is pursued by mysterious armed men, and killed.
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Discendo Vox posted:GTFO's a co-op stealth/shooter game by a bunch of former staff from overkill software who jumped ship early on when they realized the CEO was running the company into the dirt. Overkill had a rocky history, but current word on GTFO is it's very, very good, hitting a gameplay loop structure that past co-op stealth/horror games have only sort of gestured at. It's a lot of fun and has elicited multiple "gently caress THAT noise" reactions from me in the first few hours of play. It's very much a "try to deal with things quietly but be ready for it to get loud" style of play, with some sections forcing it to get loud but most bring down to whether or not you're good at sneaking up to things and dismembering them with hammers. I'm looking forward to playing more of it, really my only worry at this point is how the enemies don't seem to be that diverse.
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The devs have indicated they have more enemies prepped for release. I am concerned that multiple statements from them make it sound like they've not got a clear monetization path.
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Yeah that's a worry. They could go the Payday 2 route of missions and weapons I guess but the fact they've not planned it out doesn't speak volumes for the longevity.
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There is a cave diving game I saw on the channel AlphaBetaGamer, a relatively short game that focuses on rappelling down a cave shaft. Not a whole lot of horror, except for the claustrophobic nature of the setting, and some stuff later on, but it's neat.
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Section Z posted:...Man, Wild West Horror is now making me imagine a from the inside out version of a horror settlement simulator. Where you are just another cog in a well established midgame town going through the motions of grinding up before the Big Endgame Disaster. I've been reading a lot of Thomas Ligotti stuff lately and he writes some really really good horror stories around stuff like factories and office buildings and bureaucracies . I guess there's that one FNAF game but more horror related sim/management games would be really cool
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A horror game where you switch between characters (a patient, the janitor, a young doctor, a overworked nurse) in what starts out as fully functional and full of people but slowly becomes more derelict as the story progresses and the supernatural takes over. Basically Pathologic except inside one building and not as Slavic. A game where you play as a servant in a manor house around the turn of the last century. You need to both fulfill your duties to your unhinged and inbred aristocratic masters and solve the mystery the manor's haunted history. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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goferchan posted:I've been reading a lot of Thomas Ligotti stuff lately and he writes some really really good horror stories around stuff like factories and office buildings and bureaucracies . I guess there's that one FNAF game but more horror related sim/management games would be really cool FreudianSlippers posted:A horror game where you switch between characters (a patient, the janitor, a young doctor, a overworked nurse) in what starts out as fully functional and full of people but slowly becomes more derelict as the story progresses and the supernatural takes over. Basically Pathologic except inside one building and not as Slavic. Which could be it's own form of crushing isolation. If you are just that one guy that keeps getting ordered to scout or loot tiles. While everyone else researches The Cure, fend off the big push hordes, puts a stop to doomsday cultists opening portals to hell, and all the other more impressive looking aspects of the apocalypse while you are stuck with the nine to five. "Look, SOMEBODY has to sort these cans of beans between Vegan and Not Vegan" Butler just trying to do his goddamned job while his master grows more and more tendrils that thirst for blood and bloody marys does sound loving amazing though 
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Discendo Vox posted:GTFO's a co-op stealth/shooter game by a bunch of former staff from overkill software who jumped ship early on when they realized the CEO was running the company into the dirt. Overkill had a rocky history, but current word on GTFO is it's very, very good, hitting a gameplay loop structure that past co-op stealth/horror games have only sort of gestured at. Though it's a multiplayer game without any matchmaking at present, so that's not a great start to be honest.
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Apparently it’s not the kind of game (at least currently) that really lends itself to pub games. It’s not as forgiving as like L4D
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A game taking place in an office could be interesting, especially if you tied it into that ‘backrooms’ creepypasta thing.
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just play FEAR
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