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I guess spoilered because in Rule of Rose it's pretty ambiguous as to whether there was an actual dog to begin with, and even if he is a real, physical pup, you couldn't be too sure he died either way just going off of the dreamlike nature of the game itself. Very good dog game. Bad actual game, 1/Haunting Ground out of 5.
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm gonna have to disagree here mainly because the whole game is already presented up til that point as a misery fest of child abuse so when that is first introduced my thought was basically just "oh they would pull this kind of horse piss wouldn't they." Like, You're Grounded isn't a masterpiece by any means but whoever made it knew their source material and has probably had some experience in the bad dad department.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:wtf. Rule of rose is great. Although selling it got me $600 that I desperately needed to pay bills, so I'm not complaining there. Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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I've heard a lot of good things about the story, but I've never heard a single person say a good thing about the gameplay of Rule of Rose, so I guess it falls into that wide range of "horror games that would be good if only they didn't try to be games." Haunting Ground is actually fun, though.
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y'all acting like "horror game with bad gameplay and good everything else" doesn't describe every horror game up until, like, I dunno. RE4.
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Rule of Rose was way outside of Punchline’s territory as they spawned from love-de-lic which had a pedigree of postmodern games. But Rule of Rose is like ps1-era survival horror played straight except everything is obfuscated one extra step. Imagine if every item in Resident Evil was invisible unless you sprayed powder in the air but the powder only covered a 5x5 area. And you’re only equipped with a knife. If they had gone for more of a puzzle adventure style like their previous titles it would be remembered for more than just its story.
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As far as dumb manipulative horror titles go involving animals, I wanna say that one of the ones I hate the most is Neko No Hi because it is quite literally just a game where you hold left until you get jumpscared by lovely "spooky" cat pictures and then the cat dies from being haunted by ghost cats and then you see missing posters looking for the cat and the cat is one of the ghosts now. The entire thing just frustrated me because the entire thing felt like garbage and it getting under my skin at all felt like when you get annoyed over being spooked by something that isn't even scary, it's just something clearly designed to manipulate you and it's so poorly thrown together and yet it still worked not on its own merits but because of the manipulation aspect. I apologize if I'm offending or bothering anybody, that kind of stuff just really gets on my nerves and that game was using it less as a crutch and more as the entire foundation of its existence.
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Rule of Rose as a game gets much less annoying once you realize you can cancel out of any fight animation, so combat can be totally cheesed whenever you feel like it. Slash block slash block slash block die
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Similar deal with Illbleed, an amazing game that’s annoying to play. Mash invincibility dodge until you can escape every fight.
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Illbleed, divorced from historical context,  Illbleed, in 2000 or whatever, with my new Dreamcast,  also see: carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_(video_game) and the original (real!) RE CV tbh
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Carrier gets a lot of poo poo, but I think I would have really liked that game if I had played it at a time when it was new. Also, it has some of the most enthusiastic voice acting I've ever heard. I think every single person who worked on that game was having a complete ball with it, and they managed to communicate that feeling very well.
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0 rows returned posted:no game will ever top the killerman reveal every few years that comes back to me and I start laughing
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Lani Minella needs a medal or some poo poo for managing to be in pretty much every low-budget horror game released in the past 20 years like some kind of screen scream queen.
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Miraculously, I had never heard that name before, so I was amazed to see in how many games I've definitely heard her. She's the Subnatica Sea Emperor! Along with a crazy amount of other things. Not bad for a 70 year old.
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0 rows returned posted:no game will ever top the killerman reveal Everything in D2
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D2 was weirder, but absolutely not funnier.
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God I wish that D4 had ever had a chance.
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Cardiovorax posted:D2 was weirder, but absolutely not funnier. D2's got loads of funny poo poo though, whether it's starting the game off with "SHADOW THE FINAL DESTROYER" on loop or a character at the start going on a monologue about how you need to be careful because monsters bleed differently and you'll never know if someone is a human or a monster and then that never comes again, or when you're fighting an early boss and a giant pigeon appears from nowhere to pick him up during the fight That game goes some places. A lot of places.
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D2 is legit terrifying to me, for some reason. A lot of games try to capture the feeling of having really weird dreams but it's the only one where I had to go back and look at it to make sure I hadn't just hallucinated parts of it. The grandpa boss skeeves me right the hell out, I still think about that sometimes and get real creeped.
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D2 has a lot of funny stuff but its tucked between a lot of very tedious monologues that go nowhere
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FirstAidKite posted:D2's got loads of funny poo poo though, whether it's starting the game off with "SHADOW THE FINAL DESTROYER" on loop or a character at the start going on a monologue about how you need to be careful because monsters bleed differently and you'll never know if someone is a human or a monster and then that never comes again, or when you're fighting an early boss and a giant pigeon appears from nowhere to pick him up during the fight
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I actually enjoyed D2 quite a bit, exploring the different locales was pretty creepy and fun. The gunplay was not like anything else I had played up to that point, the tradeoff between being able to run away or shooting a jerk was interesting. Also the final boss was some seriously bugfuck weirdness, which I always like.
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I was watching manlybadasshero's video of this cyberpunk horror adventure game called Sense and I decided to look at the steam page and hoo boy it has an awful lot of positive reviews that can more or less be summed up as people saying they bought the game to make sjws mad, so spending money to trigger the libs. I guess there was some criticism or drama or something about it because its character designs are very sexualized, like ridiculously so, like the women all look like someone thought "what if I could go higher than the maximum on a character creator boob slider"
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FirstAidKite posted:I was watching manlybadasshero's video of this cyberpunk horror adventure game called Sense and I decided to look at the steam page and hoo boy it has an awful lot of positive reviews that can more or less be summed up as people saying they bought the game to make sjws mad, so spending money to trigger the libs. I guess there was some criticism or drama or something about it because its character designs are very sexualized, like ridiculously so, like the women all look like someone thought "what if I could go higher than the maximum on a character creator boob slider" Seems there was a backlash at their art style and receiving death threats over it, though in their proof of the death threats, there's a bunch of homophobic and transphobic slurs also being thrown about so the whole thing entirely reeks of manufactured outrage because, uh, it's not SJWs calling people f*gs or tr*nnys.
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Horny Games Megathread is next door
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Lifeglug posted:Seems there was a backlash at their art style and receiving death threats over it, though in their proof of the death threats, there's a bunch of homophobic and transphobic slurs also being thrown about so the whole thing entirely reeks of manufactured outrage because, uh, it's not SJWs calling people f*gs or tr*nnys. Yeah it seemed very manufactured , even before that the game had a comment a few minutes into the game where it complained about people not liking titty games, and how sjws(though it didn't use the word) don't actually support and play games, they only complain about them.
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Hel posted:Yeah it seemed very manufactured , even before that the game had a comment a few minutes into the game where it complained about people not liking titty games, and how sjws(though it didn't use the word) don't actually support and play games, they only complain about them. Sounds similar to that one shooter Ion Fury where the devs made a really bad joke, apologized and pulled it, and then put it back in and really leaned into "free expression" when the hate purchases started rolling in. Yeah having scruples is nice but you know what is better than scruples? Fifteen dollars
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That one bums me out a lot too because Ion Fury is super good. Why can't more devs be like the DUSK guy, who's both a good person and makes incredibly good games.
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Lifeglug posted:Seems there was a backlash at their art style and receiving death threats over it, though in their proof of the death threats, there's a bunch of homophobic and transphobic slurs also being thrown about so the whole thing entirely reeks of manufactured outrage because, uh, it's not SJWs calling people f*gs or tr*nnys. I haven't seen any of the social media backlash because I haven't gone looking for it but it is pretty believable that those kinds of people (the "anti-sjw" types, not necessarily the devs but it could be the devs too because again I haven't gone looking for the backlash they say has been happening so I can't say one way or the other what it was) would basically manufacture their own enemy strawman argument against the game as a reason to buy it. This is what the dev said.  Here's that early line that is mocking this kind of thing   And some other screenshots I saw while looking for those that I thought the thread might enjoy    The reviews also mention that the game isn't very cyberpunk-ish at all past the opening, that very quickly you end up in a mostly modern abandoned building dealing with ghosts and that the cyberpunk stuff becomes very minor set dressing. e: pffft I looked up dankula thinking maybe it was like a kickstarter backer kinda situation where they just populated the game with backers or patrons or supporters and found this article. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/count-dankula-nazi-pug-video-mark-meechan-court-appeal-fund-latest-a9245541.html  Real quality here lol FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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Wow those titties are real dumb looking. Also the people that habitually use "UGH THESE FAGS DON'T EVEN BUY GAMES" can lick my gay rear end, from all my experience, it's often the people actually critical that bought and played games while a bunch of channers pirate it, if they even do anything at all other than use it for their moron culture war crap. A bunch of that popped up around Brigador when what's his name lead dev got outed as a nazi, a bunch of those remarks came out because only insert all the stupid names would be upset by the dev posting a bunch of violent bigotry and then people posted receipts and the people most upset were people who had heaps of hours in the game and even owned merch. THE NAZI CHEERLEADERS NOT SO MUCH, COINCIDENTALLY.
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Mar 8, 2021 19:37
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Ah, so a game featuring a character named after the guy who taught his dog to heil Hitler will soon be available on the Nintendo Switch eShop.
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FirstAidKite posted:I haven't seen any of the social media backlash because I haven't gone looking for it but it is pretty believable that those kinds of people (the "anti-sjw" types, not necessarily the devs but it could be the devs too because again I haven't gone looking for the backlash they say has been happening so I can't say one way or the other what it was) would basically manufacture their own enemy strawman argument against the game as a reason to buy it. They really leaned into that poo poo. I have no horse in the race I wrote the game off however long ago as some weird horny game that is not for me because that’s not my poo poo, so the only stuff I’ve seen about the backlash is me checking the controversy right now. The devs themselves posted “receipts” of the death threats and it’s really clearly not SJWs or whatever menace they have invented, but also I don’t at all think it’s manufactured by the devs to sell more titty games, more that 4chan or some other dumb hellhole has decided to stir up poo poo. The devs have clearly run with it so gently caress them, though. Anyway who cares about stupid horny game for gamergaters.
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Eox posted:Ah, so a game featuring a character named after the guy who taught his dog to heil Hitler will soon be available on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Honestly not surprising considering Scotland also spawned Frankie Boyle, who's sole contribution to comedy is saying lovely things with a scottish accent. This is mostly a throwaway post so i can poo poo on Frankie Boyle don't take it too seriously dogstile fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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Lifeglug posted:The devs themselves posted “receipts” of the death threats and it’s really clearly not SJWs or whatever menace they have invented Yeah like, I think you don't know what the words you're using mean if you think the ~essjays~ are sending you uh, threats loaded with homophobia and transphobia!
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Stepping away from the horny game one moment, I'm not sure where to post this but here sounds good I suppose. I watched a YouTube video about the "scariest picture on the scp site" and it made me laugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwkbewYbSRA The secret of this photo? Some scp editor put filters on two girls screaming when they are on a Rollercoaster. But the unintentionally funny part which if you don't want to watch the video : The youtuber recorded himself staring at the photograph for 4 hours to see if the picture will change like those viral heritage fake cam videos
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Started playing Control and it's weird and dumb and makes all kinds of bad decisions (lol at the awkward internal monologue and live action actors) but I also kind of love it precisely for those bad decisions? If nothing else it's got some interesting ideas and is having fun with them. I really witsh it were actually scary though or at least had enemies that were more interesting than random dudes with glowing bits. I mean come on, you have the entire multiverse at your disposal. Give me some eldritch abominations!
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Definitely wouldn't consider Control a horror game, or even an amazing game. But I have a huge soft spot for it. It's so much fun after you open up certain movements, and the live action videos get very good.
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