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I snagged that 3 months for $1 Game Pass deal, specifically to play The Medium. If I can stop playing Tetris Effect before May I might even do it too!
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Send a prayer out for the guy that got his shiny new Xbox that almost no one could get (because no way such a masterpiece could be rendered on the Xbox One) so that he could play the critical darling The Medium
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Feb 4, 2021 19:20
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I spent $1500 on a ps5 to play Bugsnax, a game that is probably better horror than The Medium.
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Feb 4, 2021 23:29
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Bugsnax is great, easily a better investment.
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I just finished the medium. it started out okay but goddamn it got so tedious like a third of the way through. there was even a part where a main character says something like "this is getting really tedious" as he slowly jogs .0000001 mph faster than walking. during most of this game I was like "why even have a run button". super easy light horror game, not really sure yet if I'm glad I played it or not.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Send a prayer out for the guy that got his shiny new Xbox that almost no one could get (because no way such a masterpiece could be rendered on the Xbox One) so that he could play the critical darling The Medium HEY! Don't start rumors that I bought an xbox >: (
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bugsnax GOTY 2020
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Actually it's Ghost of Tsushima. It counts as horror too, there's a ghost in it! 
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al-azad posted:I spent $1500 on a ps5 to play Bugsnax, a game that is probably better horror than The Medium. I am so excited to play Bugsnax. Everything I've seen from it looks great. Someday I will own a PS5 and I will snax all the bugs.
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Feb 5, 2021 04:32
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did I mention yet that the medium is super loving tedious
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Feb 5, 2021 15:57
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The tedium
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The Medium - "Press RB to parry childhood molestation." PC Gamer - 9/10 great writing.
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oldpainless posted:The tedium
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Jack Trades posted:The Medium - "Press RB to parry childhood molestation." Looking forward to the "Victim Blaming 100% completion" run at the next GDQ
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Feb 5, 2021 18:55
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Yes, Bugsnax is literally spookier and an actually fun game, which The Medium definitely isn't. God, what a piece of crap.oldpainless posted:The tedium
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Feb 5, 2021 18:58
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The splitscreen effect looks really, really loving dumb when Mariann is talking to someone/picking something up/smoking/being choked out/etc. in one world and just mirroring the gestures in the other. So much effort for something that just looks poo poo. Also can't get over how bad the voice acting is. The plot is dumb and boring enough, but the garbage acting really drives home how shallow it all is.
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Post Ironic Cereal posted:The splitscreen effect looks really, really loving dumb when Mariann is talking to someone/picking something up/smoking/being choked out/etc. in one world and just mirroring the gestures in the other. So much effort for something that just looks poo poo. So, more like an 8/10 then
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oldpainless posted:The tedium Yep. A game you'd rent at Family Video, 2/$1, with something you know you'll like.
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Post Ironic Cereal posted:The splitscreen effect looks really, really loving dumb when Mariann is talking to someone/picking something up/smoking/being choked out/etc. in one world and just mirroring the gestures in the other. So much effort for something that just looks poo poo. What I don't understand is that she is very clearly mirroring what she is interacting with in the spirit world, but when she gets Silent Hill Origins'd into the spirit realm she says she has no idea where she is. Like can you see the other side or not
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:So, more like an 8/10 then it's got a little something for everyone
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I can call it just ok because of game pass, but I feel bad for those that paid full price for Medium.
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here's hoping Little Nightmares 2 won't be a disappointment the first one is just so-so and i'm a little worried they're spreading themselves too thin conceptually in the sequel - the first game had the Maw to tie everything together but here you've got spooky woods, spooky school, spooky hospital, slenderman, it's like a theme park ride of cliches
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The last couple pages read like Bloober Team gave the thread a wedgie and it only makes me like the game a lot more
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treat posted:The last couple pages read like Bloober Team gave the thread a wedgie and it only makes me like the game a lot more Would you agree that victims of abuse should be put down like mad dogs because they will inevitably become abusers themselves then?
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Jack Trades posted:Would you agree that victims of abuse should be put down like mad dogs because they will inevitably become abusers themselves then? that post/av combo rolling tight as always
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al-azad posted:I spent $1500 on a ps5 to play Bugsnax, a game that is probably better horror than The Medium. Hell yeah I’ve gotten a PS5, Series S and a 3070 in the last couple of months and all I’m playing is Phasmophobia. Phasmophobia is still fun.
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treat posted:The last couple pages read like Bloober Team gave the thread a wedgie and it only makes me like the game a lot more I'm sorry for your bad taste.
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treat posted:The last couple pages read like Bloober Team gave the thread a wedgie and it only makes me like the game a lot more It sounds like you might not even be mad atm and are, in fact, laughing.
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It feels like Bloober leans more on gimmicks, and fall flat in story telling and game play. Layers of Fear - non-Euclidean geometry meets bog standard first person horror fare Layers of Fear 2 - basically the first game, but with a more fleshed out story...but not necessarily a better story Observer - a bored Rutger Hauer leads you through a bog standard cyber punk story; nothing amazing but not terrible Blair Witch - found footage aesthetics with the meandering tedium of getting lost in the woods with shallow dog based game play The Medium - a Silent Hill sound track with a split screen game play gimmick, with some child molestation and the Holocaust mixed in At least for me, the only game I've enjoyed from them has been Layers of Fear and Observer. But the rest of their output just consistently falls flat.
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discworld is all I read posted:It feels like Bloober leans more on gimmicks, and fall flat in story telling and game play.  I've been a fan of the Blair witch movies, games, comics etc. since the first movie, regardless of how bad it was, but goddamn that game was just so boring
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discworld is all I read posted:It feels like Bloober leans more on gimmicks, and fall flat in story telling and game play. Observer is not a gimmick, and that game is great. This thread is terrible, however.
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Nobody in this thread actually likes horror games, they just like making fun of them. Or most horror games aren't good and its just more noticeable in a niche genre
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Much like film horror there are some real standouts that explore themes you couldn't really express in any other genre, and a whole lot of schlocky trash made for reaction face thumbnails.
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Where's my dino crisis remake crapcom?
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Hakkesshu posted:Observer is not a gimmick, and that game is great. This thread is terrible, however. Observer wasn't a gimmick. It was tired cyberpunk cliches slapped on top of tired horror game gameplay. Like, woo, hide behind some boxed from a spooky monster but this time in VR! Truly a masterpiece.
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dogstile posted:Nobody in this thread actually likes horror games, they just like making fun of them. Most games in general aren't good. The reason horror games stand out is because streamers play so many of them, and are often desperate for content, grabbing anything that looks horror-themed, so the viewing audience sees a lot more of the trash that they wouldn't see in other genres.
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Horror is also a difficult genre to do right in video games. You have a medium that is all about input and control and a genre that's all about restricting what you know and what you can do. The games I consider to be the best "horror" in the past few years aren't strictly horror games: Night in the Woods is the horror of a dying rust belt town, Diary of a Spaceport Janitor is the horror of having no social support in a hostile capitalist hell city, Outer Wilds is the horror of being completely insignificant in the universe, and then there's Resident Evil 2 which is the horror of your first day on the job as a cop in a corporate town 
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I still think some of the best horror in games is when you're not expecting it. Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway had a hospital level and you start seeing your dead friend in it. Wasn't expecting it after the rest of the game, really threw me off.
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Bugsnax is a game about the horror of realizing that you really are what you eat.
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I absolutely love garbage horror games, the only caveat is they can't be boring. The fact that I'll never be able to play Michigan: Report From Hell greatly pains me.
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