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the original siren is unforgettable imagine me saying that with completely flat affect and a thousand-yard stare
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I really liked the Siren remake for ps3. Its really flawed but the graphical update was great. Seeing the most memorable scenes like the shibito family in "HD" was great.
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Jul 23, 2021 17:35
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I tried to play the Siren remake last year after I finished the original and whatever combination of motion blur and film grain effect they used made it impossible to tell what was going on at any time on my TV.
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Jul 23, 2021 18:11
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I kinda find the Siren remake worse just because of the changes to the sightjacking making it really disorienting and dropping the PS3 framerate to single digits. In some ways it plays worse than the original.
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Jul 24, 2021 00:15
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I'm playing Stories Untold and Observation again this weekend. Not what you would call classic horror per say, but both games know how to make you feel 'off' while being really interesting and I love it. Looks like the devs are working on an unannounced project, that'll be cool!
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Jul 24, 2021 14:57
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Morpheus posted:Crushed a former crewmate's head under his steel boot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wafhDIMU6w
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Jul 24, 2021 15:28
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TheWorldsaStage posted:I'm playing Stories Untold and Observation again this weekend. Not what you would call classic horror per say, but both games know how to make you feel 'off' while being really interesting and I love it. The first part of Stories Untold had me alt-tabbing to look up whether there were jump scares. Very effective.
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Jul 24, 2021 19:51
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Stories Untold is great but boy do they not stick the landing at the end. When you're in it, it's great, but when they got to That Plot again, I was seriously bummed. Really liked the text adventure and object surgery, but the signal transmission was just a biiit too esoteric for its own good. Observation I found pretty terrible throughout, unfortunately. Hopefully they can get past the sophomore slump, I would still take three Stories Untold over one The Medium.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:38
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I want another Obra Dinn where you see some bad poo poo go down, and there's no big twist at the end that tries be clever or invalidates the whole experience.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:58
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I kinda find the Siren remake worse just because of the changes to the sightjacking making it really disorienting and dropping the PS3 framerate to single digits. In some ways it plays worse than the original. Yeah, the original one is the correct one to play.
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Jul 25, 2021 00:28
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Is the one on PsNow the remake that's bad? I see that and also Siren: Blood...Curse or something and I dunno what the diff is.
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Jul 25, 2021 02:12
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al-azad posted:The remaster of Zombies Ate My Neighbors reignited my love of comedy horror which we just don't see a lot of. I'm not even talking about an MST3K style parody but something like Slither in video game form would be wonderful. ILLBLEED
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Jul 25, 2021 02:26
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Morpheus posted:Is the one on PsNow the remake that's bad? I see that and also Siren: Blood...Curse or something and I dunno what the diff is. Blood Curse is the remake.
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Jul 25, 2021 07:57
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So I watched IGP play some of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAD_n9Q-QLs I didn't see it checking back a few pages so I thought I'd post. Yeah it's an amnesia-like/silent hill-looking game and relies kinda heavily on LOUD poo poo but at least it's an interesting setting plus a one-man dev team. I am an extreme weenie about horror sound design even more than the visuals and this is pretty good if mixed a little high.
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Jul 25, 2021 09:24
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Morpheus posted:Is the one on PsNow the remake that's bad? I see that and also Siren: Blood...Curse or something and I dunno what the diff is. The one titled Siren is the original running in an emulator that HDifies the game and adds trophy support. Blood Curse is the remake. I actually think Siren 2 is the best of the three games but it was never released in the US, only Japan and Europe.
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Jul 25, 2021 11:42
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Pope Guilty posted:The first part of Stories Untold had me alt-tabbing to look up whether there were jump scares. Very effective. Out of curiosity, does it? LegionAreI posted:Trenches game I saw this thumbnail the other day, and assumed it was this long-since-forgotten game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIoPwfd_z_I ...Except it's apparently something different, but this one ALSO just finally popped back up again a couple weeks ago. Weird! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcCIPvCdD70
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Jul 26, 2021 07:08
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Read After Burning posted:Out of curiosity, does it? Nope! Creepy things happen, but they want to unnerve you, not startle you.
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Jul 26, 2021 08:05
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Bogart posted:Stories Untold is great but boy do they not stick the landing at the end. When you're in it, it's great, but when they got to That Plot again, I was seriously bummed. Really liked the text adventure and object surgery, but the signal transmission was just a biiit too esoteric for its own good. Observation I found pretty terrible throughout, unfortunately. Hopefully they can get past the sophomore slump, I would still take three Stories Untold over one The Medium. Stories Untold was a great anthology and really could have been the kind of thing that indie horror really needs: short, self contained horror that ends with a "wow wasn't that hosed up, anyways I'm Rod Sterling". But, as you said, they needed the overarching plot for some reason, maybe for Game Theory types.
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Jul 28, 2021 18:00
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I had only glanced at Stories Untold before, but the talk of it in this thread got me to add it to my PS4 wishlist, so thanks! Also: https://twitter.com/KoeiTecmoUS/status/1420353341821968390
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Jul 28, 2021 20:27
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Replayed through Dead Space 2 again after picking it up after the summer sale and man stabbing yourself in the eye is legit still so extremely disturbing every time.
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Jul 29, 2021 01:59
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CuddleCryptid posted:Stories Untold was a great anthology and really could have been the kind of thing that indie horror really needs: short, self contained horror that ends with a "wow wasn't that hosed up, anyways I'm Rod Sterling". But, as you said, they needed the overarching plot for some reason, maybe for Game Theory types. As much as I'm a fan, yeah I did not care for the overarching story. Then again, seeing the writing on the wall in act 4 and typing no, stop. don't, etc to no avail did feel like it hit its mark. I'm just a total slut for atmosphere and God does that game nail it.
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Jul 29, 2021 02:00
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Between Stories Untold and Night in the Woods I feel like I've seen enough "your character is about to make a very bad decision and you can't make them stop" for awhile. (Stories Untold having your parents pressure you into it was extra oof.)
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Jul 29, 2021 02:12
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Pope Guilty posted:Between Stories Untold and Night in the Woods I feel like I've seen enough "your character is about to make a very bad decision and you can't make them stop" for awhile. Imo NITW gets away with it more because Mae is a far better developed character. She does stupid, dangerous stuff because she's a kid with a whole bundle of issues, versus SU where you make the bad decisions immediately after being given a character to play as.
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Read After Burning posted:I had only glanced at Stories Untold before, but the talk of it in this thread got me to add it to my PS4 wishlist, so thanks! Huh...I might actually want to get this, even though I played it via homebrew many years ago. Maybe I'm just in the mood for a fatal frame game. Really though they should just remaster/remake the first three games. Edit: wait they released this in the west? I must be thinking of the previous game, in that case. Double edit: Yeah, that was the Wii one I'm thinking of. The one with the last boss that was...not great. Morpheus fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jul 29, 2021 |
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Jul 29, 2021 04:20
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Fatal Frame on PC makes me happy. I never actually played this one so hopefully it's not terrible! 
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It's okay, the only thing I didnt really like about it was the mission based structure instead of the usual exploring a cohesive area you slowly unlock (think Liugi's Mansion 2 compared to the first one) and theres not much survival element because you get so many items, I think I finished the game with like 50+ healing items and that was without buying any like you can. But it's still pretty spooky and the ghost shooting stuff fairly fun. It'll be nice to play without my dodgy WiiU controller losing signal every five seconds lol
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Sakurazuka posted:It's okay, the only thing I didnt really like about it was the mission based structure instead of the usual exploring a cohesive area you slowly unlock (think Liugi's Mansion 2 compared to the first one) Well drat 
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Sakurazuka posted:It's okay, the only thing I didnt really like about it was the mission based structure instead of the usual exploring a cohesive area you slowly unlock (think Liugi's Mansion 2 compared to the first one) Oh, BOO. That's incredibly lame.
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Sakurazuka posted:It's okay, the only thing I didnt really like about it was the mission based structure instead of the usual exploring a cohesive area you slowly unlock Man I had to look this up, I completely forgot the different structure of the game. I had to look up a let's play as a reminder for it. Its weird, since it also does stuff like mark what difficulty you did it at and the score you got for it, which is great for people who want to get everything without having to replay the game over and over again, but...yeah. Though it's less like a 'mission' structure and more like the game asking you which chapter of the game you'd like to play every time you leave your home. Its not like Mission 1: Capture 4 ghosts! Mission 2: Find the haunted urn Mission 3: Find Yukiko in the time limit Though it really does hammer home the 'why the gently caress do you keep going back to the haunted mountain full of ghosts that can kill you???' questions that my friends and I kept telling at the screen. Like, the first two games had characters stuck where they were, the third game had a home.base but the person was forced to return to the dream world every night, the fourth was....uh, a hospital or something I dunno. But in this one they keep making the conscious choice to leave their place of relative safety to return to hell mountain.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:46
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Morpheus posted:the third game had a home.base but the person was forced to return to the dream world every night For folks that have played both, were y'all more creeped out by the apartment in Silent Hill 4, or the apartment in Fatal Frame 3? For me, it was the latter, but I'm curious if folks feel otherwise. The doll's hair growing... 
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Read After Burning posted:For folks that have played both, were y'all more creeped out by the apartment in Silent Hill 4, or the apartment in Fatal Frame 3? For me, it was the latter, but I'm curious if folks feel otherwise. Hmm, probably Silent Hill 4 - the apartment in FF3 had more of a reprieve between locations, where your you can talk to people and get photos developed and stuff. SH4's place felt more like a prison, an unnatural location that just resembled where you live. Of course both places get creepier over time (and SH4's place gets actually hostile, forget if FF3 place does) but since SH4 puts you in first person and removes almost all your tools for fighting back, it's easy to feel even more helpless. Then, of course, opening the locked door and seeing what's outside is one of my favourite singular moments in games, it just absolutely nails that feeling of utter helplessness.
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Jul 30, 2021 02:40
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It wasn't a single apartment but I really liked how Trilby's Notes handled the horror shifts. The main world was my safe haven away from all of the creepy poo poo and I found myself popping pills all the time when I didn't need to be in the other world and then the hallucinations started kicking in and I found myself staying in the other world because of how scary the normal world had gotten.
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I'm happy that Game Grumps is doing a playthrough of the Doki Doki Literature Club dlc. Playing the game the first time left me feeling pretty hollow and uneasy for days and their playthrough of the base game was definitely the thing I needed to balance out feeling morose with their dumbass humor.
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I thought this was amusing: So we've all seen the mobile game ads where a match 3 candy crush clone markets itself as some weird rod-pulling logic puzzle. Evertale, which is a generic gacha rpg, has gone full court press depicting itself as a pokemon creepypasta horror game (On mobile so this was the best video I could find) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZE0SeAtfg
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'm happy that Game Grumps is doing a playthrough of the Doki Doki Literature Club dlc. Playing the game the first time left me feeling pretty hollow and uneasy for days and their playthrough of the base game was definitely the thing I needed to balance out feeling morose with their dumbass humor. Yeah I definitely was going to end up watching it on YouTube to see the extra stuff. I like the game, but I already played it, and also already bought it since I shelled out cash for the supporter pack. Buying it again for a little extra content is serious Born From A Wish energy.
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The Chad Jihad posted:I thought this was amusing: So we've all seen the mobile game ads where a match 3 candy crush clone markets itself as some weird rod-pulling logic puzzle. This is amazing (and by that I mean horrible) and should not be missed. I'm gonna show this to my partner later tonight. Stealing art from Pokemon was very obvious, but looks like they stole from Omori too! Arcsquad12 posted:I'm happy that Game Grumps is doing a playthrough of the Doki Doki Literature Club dlc. Playing the game the first time left me feeling pretty hollow and uneasy for days and their playthrough of the base game was definitely the thing I needed to balance out feeling morose with their dumbass humor. I'm running through different scenarios trying to get the 100% achievement, and even though I've seen the other weird poo poo the game has to offer, last night I just saw Natsuki's "PLAY WITH ME" scene and it made me jump. Her glitched-out portrait zooming towards the screen....
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Read After Burning posted:This is amazing (and by that I mean horrible) and should not be missed. I'm gonna show this to my partner later tonight. That scene happens in their original play through and their reactions are amazing.
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Aug 3, 2021 19:17
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I've realized while playing horror visual novels like DDLC or Higurashi....subtle (or sudden) character portrait changes in a VN are such a great (if easy!) scare tactic, at least for me. You've spent hours staring at the same portrait of "happy anime girl! Slightly frowny anime boy!" that when suddenly that familiar portrait gets a psycho grin or crazy eyes, it's genuinely startling. My partner doesn't play visual novels and I've played a ton, so it's been hard to talk about DDLC with him, since he doesn't understand most of the tropes, much less which are being subverted. :P Although I did show him the start screen and song glitching out after Sayori's suicide and he said that was pretty cool.
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DDLC starts by presenting the tropes well enough at the start that you can recognize their subversion imo. Certainly by Sayonara.
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The Chad Jihad posted:I thought this was amusing: So we've all seen the mobile game ads where a match 3 candy crush clone markets itself as some weird rod-pulling logic puzzle. It gets more disgusting than that, one of the ads they used straight up stole assets from the HPS1 demo disc game WALK that went viral in Japan. If they’re just lifting seiken densetsu and Pokémon art then someone should bring it up with square and Nintendo although I don’t know what they could do beyond taking the ads down since the game itself is a completely different beast.
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