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Uninvited came to mind but after looking it up she's not tall   I wonder if whoever designed tall lady was inspired by that Japanese urban legend that's basically just female slenderman in a sunhat.
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FirstAidKite posted:I wonder if whoever designed tall lady was inspired by that Japanese urban legend that's basically just female slenderman in a sunhat. Hachishaku? Yeah, I could see that, they're both 8 feet tall ladies with big hats who eat people.
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Jan 24, 2021 09:53
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I've seen it suggested that it's in fact intentionally leaning on that, yes.
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Jan 24, 2021 12:04
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Phew, godzilla v kong trailer dropped. They do fight you guys! No reason to think that it's a movie where they try to diplomatically solve their problems Are there any good spooky games for Switch that aren't Resident Evil titles?
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Jan 24, 2021 19:24
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Len posted:Phew, godzilla v kong trailer dropped. They do fight you guys! No reason to think that it's a movie where they try to diplomatically solve their problems should we bring up the evil within so you can get a few more whacks in on that horse or are you done
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Jan 24, 2021 19:32
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1stGear posted:should we bring up the evil within so you can get a few more whacks in on that horse or are you done It did have that invincible ghost that chased you through the entire game and one hit killed you. But are there any good non-RE horror games for Switch?
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Jan 24, 2021 19:34
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Len posted:It did have that invincible ghost that chased you through the entire game and one hit killed you. Detention, Little Nightmares, Observer, Other stuff.
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Jan 24, 2021 19:41
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Darkwood is available for Switch, as is Amnesia.
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Jan 24, 2021 19:42
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The Coma is Korean Detention.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:13
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Does Omori count as a horror game? If so I'm going to make this post: play Omori. It's real good!
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Len posted:Phew, godzilla v kong trailer dropped. They do fight you guys! No reason to think that it's a movie where they try to diplomatically solve their problems did you watch the 2014 Godzilla, because the chief complaint about that movie was in fact the lack of monsters fighting that and Bryan Cranston getting killed off early, but I digress
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Jan 24, 2021 21:33
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Lunatic Sledge posted:did you watch the 2014 Godzilla, because the chief complaint about that movie was in fact the lack of monsters fighting 
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Jan 24, 2021 21:35
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ohhh I read it as a different kind of passive aggressive irony in the fifth time I'm seeing this argument, that's on me carry on folks I'm dumb edit: that's not me being sarcastic I'm an actual idiot
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Jan 24, 2021 21:37
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Blockhouse posted:Does Omori count as a horror game? If so I'm going to make this post: play Omori. It's real good! Sure, its as horror as any of those kinds of RPGMaker horror games like Mad Father or whatever.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:49
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You could also call it Yume Nikki-style spookiness rather than straight horror, because it's not really like there's a sharp dividing line between the two.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:51
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The writer on Paratopic had a decent article arguing horror and terror are incorrectly used, that terror is when you’re waiting for the scary thing to happen and horror is when it’s happening. The distinction is that in a lot of “horror” stories the payoff doesn’t match the buildup, like telling a joke with no punchline: Halloween and the first Friday are effective horror because the killer is always present but not revealed until the climax while the sequels put the monster front and center. Jason doesn’t take manhattan, he just walks into frame and waves at the camera. https://docseuss.medium.com/you-are-capable-of-writing-better-horror-stories-311ed334080f This is all to say that Yume Nikki and Omori are horror. Arguably they’re not scary but every directorial decision is meant to elicit primal emotions in the audience. Compare that to Bendy which is just “you’re in a creepy studio and ink monsters keep attacking, here’s 5 episodes of why.”
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Yeah, that's basically the distinction between the terms as White Wolf has been printing it in the foreword to its RPG core books for like thirty years now. Whether they're the ones who came up with it or not, I'm not surprised to see it echoed elsewhere, because it's a very functional way to frame the difference. As I remember them putting it in one of their books, "finding a torn-off human arm in an alley is terror. Watching a 9-foot-tall werewolf tear apart a hobo is horror." Or something to that tune, anyway.
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Terror is the fear you feel when something horrible is happening, dread is the fear that something horrible is going to happen, horror is the disruption of your understanding of the correct order of the universe. You think somebody is about to jump you with a knife: dread. You're being chased by somebody with a knife: terror. The guy with the knife is dead and rotting and is shouting your secret shames that nobody could possibly know: horror.
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Played through the entirety of Visage. Had a good time with it overall! The main reason for playing(spooping) was done really well for the most part. There's plenty to critique though. Some things definitely need work: Breadcrumbing from one part to another in the house was mostly good but occasionally it would be a bit confusing where you had to go. In a similar vein if the game locks you in a certain place, it is hard to figure out sometimes if the game demands you to figure something out or if you gotta wait out a spoop. Don't know what the point is of some of the aspects of the inventory system. The two-hand mechanic for some items just got in the way without adding anything. Some of the items felt superfluous. I had a fuckton of bulbs lying around and I literally only used one. The entire house was properly lit and I was swimming in lighters and sanity pills. I pre-planted all the candles I found in positions that I figured could make sense later, never kept one on my person. In the end, the only things I wanted consistently on me were two lighters and two boxes of pills with two flex slots for whatever. Dunno what order the chapters were originally made in, but I think I lucked in a decent order; Dolores, Rakan, Lucy. Rakan's is not as good as the others, but that oddly turns it into a breather that was kinda welcome? Odd how that worked out. But it remains something they could've improved quite a bit. Especially the stealth section. in Rakan's. You need more mechanics than what this game provides to make that kind of gameplay enjoyable! Ending was utterly unsatisfying. But I can live with that. I got a good haunted house experience out of this. Definitely worth picking up if you get find a discount. It's been sold for <=20 and that's a good deal imo.
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Cardiovorax posted:You could also call it Yume Nikki-style spookiness rather than straight horror, because it's not really like there's a sharp dividing line between the two. It feels like it's going for that look, but with all the rpg stuff it's a lot more cohesive so I'm not sure it matches up. It definitely looks like they are going for a specific plot
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Omori is infinitely more narratively focused than Yume Nikki is, except for a segment in the back third of the game that is just straight up on some YN/.flow poo poo.
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https://twitter.com/alienmelon/status/1352830813289627649 Good article about indie horror games, although I could have done without the opening rant. I had never heard about the "Dread X Collection" before, but it seems really interesting; very Kitty Horrorshowish.
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The Dread X Collection is a really cool idea and very well-executed from a presentation standpoint but unfortunately all the games in it are poo poo lol
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Nah, all of the Dread X Collections have more good games than bad, and Dread X 3 only has one game that I wouldn't call "good". Dread X 1 has that fantastic Airdorf LCD game, so I have no idea where you're coming from.
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So the recommended way to play Thief 3 is with the Sneaky Upgrade because it's a janky piece of poo poo without? Is the game scary beyond the fact it's on the same crap version of Unreal as the horror-show Invisible War?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:So the recommended way to play Thief 3 is with the Sneaky Upgrade because it's a janky piece of poo poo without? Is the game scary beyond the fact it's on the same crap version of Unreal as the horror-show Invisible War? I remember the Shalebridge Cradle or whatever it is called to be real spooky but I’ve not played it since the game first came out so don’t know if it holds up in 2021
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Lifeglug posted:I remember the Shalebridge Cradle or whatever it is called to be real spooky but I’ve not played it since the game first came out so don’t know if it holds up in 2021 It's highly scripted and the levels are tiny so no.
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Played Thief 3 ten-ish years ago and I didn't think Shalebridge Cradle was all that scary, much like that hotel level in Vampire. Game's fine though, a Thief fan would rip into its mild shortcomings, but as a casual I thought it played fine, and the atmosphere was top notch. It's the same batshit awesome universe as the first two games, but realized in more modern graphics, worth experiencing imo.
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Idk the hotel level got me but it was also practically the very first of its kind and set the groundwork for haunted house indie games.
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Jan 25, 2021 22:15
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Too Shy Guy posted:Nah, all of the Dread X Collections have more good games than bad, and Dread X 3 only has one game that I wouldn't call "good". Is the bad one the Wario Ware one? Because that one was the first one I tried and the first stage was so frustrating for me
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Is the bad one the Wario Ware one? Because that one was the first one I tried and the first stage was so frustrating for me Warioware is good, though the difficulty is all over the place. I wasn’t real hot on the angel racing one... it’s not bad, but it’s tedious and has no horror aside from the general weirdness of the presentation.
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Is re8 a reboot? It doesn't look like it to me but I remember that being a thing people said it was after Resident Evil VIIIage was announced even though the 8 is clearly stylized right in the title
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Len posted:Is re8 a reboot? It doesn't look like it to me but I remember that being a thing people said it was after Resident Evil VIIIage was announced even though the 8 is clearly stylized right in the title Nah, it's a direct sequel with the same characters.
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Jan 26, 2021 01:27
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No, it's pretty much a direct sequel to 7 and features Ethan Winters again as well as Mia and their abducted child.
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Jan 26, 2021 01:27
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Developers think that having a number in the title can be off-putting ("I didn't play 7 so I probably wouldn't enjoy 8") so they just give it a Word instead
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Too Shy Guy posted:Nah, all of the Dread X Collections have more good games than bad, and Dread X 3 only has one game that I wouldn't call "good". Sorry I actually confused it with that haunted PS1 Demo Disc collection. I will check out Dread X as repentance.
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