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Source of Madness is out in Early Access today. A charming little eurojank roguelite, sort a sidescrolling high-Lovecraftian take on Diablo 2. The gimmick is that the textures are AI-generated, which actually works for the dark hallucinatory vibe. I'm having fun with it but it is definitely an EA game at this point.
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Inscryption demo is out, too -- it's the horror card game from the creator of Pony Island and The Hex that you may have seen the trailer for this summer. Full release October 19th. I've been in the beta for a while now and I'm really impressed with everything I've seen. The demo is just the first 30 minutes or so of the game, it shouldn't spoil anything later on.
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goferchan posted:Inscryption demo is out, too -- it's the horror card game from the creator of Pony Island and The Hex that you may have seen the trailer for this summer. Full release October 19th. I've been in the beta for a while now and I'm really impressed with everything I've seen. The demo is just the first 30 minutes or so of the game, it shouldn't spoil anything later on. Just completed it. Really loving good, can't wait for the full release. One question though. Are you able to do anything with the ring in the demo? I opened the clock I guess by accident (was just messing with the hands and got the right time lol) I saw it on my character's hand but didn't see any option to interact with it before beating the boss.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Just completed it. Really loving good, can't wait for the full release. One question though. Are you able to do anything with the ring in the demo? I opened the clock I guess by accident (was just messing with the hands and got the right time lol) I saw it on my character's hand but didn't see any option to interact with it before beating the boss. Huh, that is actually not an item I recall at all from the beta. I imagine it was either added after I played that part or something just for the demo. edit: Yeah it's looking like several things were added that weren't in the beta 👀👀 Really hyped for full release goferchan fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Sep 26, 2021 |
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Sep 25, 2021 17:44
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Spirit Hunter: Death Mark for PS4 is on sale...anybody got any experience with it? A lot of the screenshots look mighty creepy, but how is the gameplay? The idea of a visual novel with boss battles sounds...weird.
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Spirit Hunter is decent, unless you read fast, then the inability to speed up text in any way will drive you up the wall. The 'boss battles' are more just elaborate puzzles where you have to figure out which items you picked up in your investigation are useful to defend or attack them, they're basically scripted affairs where you try and figure out how to not die. Should also probably warn that's it's somewhat Japanese uh ero horror? The PS4 version is toned down compared to the Steam version but the aspect it still there.
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Sakurazuka posted:Should also probably warn that's it's somewhat Japanese uh ero horror? The PS4 version is toned down compared to the Steam version but the aspect it still there. Yeah, I had poked around in some gameplay videos on Youtube to get a gist for the game, and one of the first things I saw was an image of a naked woman wrapped up in plant vines, including a vine camel-toe'ing her crotch.  I'm slowly running out of visual novels to play on the PS4, so I may pick it up next time it goes on sale (which is pretty often).I also saw mention of a character that may be trans (or at least gender non-conforming)? Is this handled as poorly as most trans folks in anime are?
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Oct 1, 2021 00:01
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Yeah, a kid was held prisoner and eventually murdered for dressing up as a girl. The ghost you fight is their angry spirit. All in all, it's much better than other portrayals.
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Oct 1, 2021 00:43
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Anyone played 'In sound mind'? it has good reviews but the pool is like 96 people, seems like most people are ignoring it
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Oct 1, 2021 15:52
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I played the demo and it's kind of a horror game heartthrob. It's an adventure with a lot of note reading and puzzle solving but there's also rudimentary combat and there's also puzzle-y monster encounters like using a mirror to check if a monster is creeping up behind you and all of that smashed into a 90 minute demo that was messy and inscrutable but never boring. It was well designed but still amateurish but not in a negative way a lot of craft went into the game. The devs worked on Nightmare House 2 a popular Half-Life 2 horror mod. So comparatively I'd put it in that category of Mundaun as a unique horror/adventure hybrid so expect jank but also something more personal and interesting than whatever "you were the demons" high polished wank Bloober puts out annually (anyone up for a Layers of Fear remake??).
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EDIT:  Call off the search! Some kind soul has reached out to me. Thank you, kind goon, you know who you are!  If anyone can help me, it's this thread. I'm looking for Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land for Windows. It's a horror strategy game set in World War I that was released in cooperation with Chaosium in 2012, but the publisher Red Wasp Design has closed shop a few years ago. It was available on Steam for a while, but not anymore. Usually, I'm pretty good at tracking down obsolete software, but this time - nothing. It's neither on gog.com, nor on archive.org, nor on any of the less reputable sites I checked. There are a few old Russian torrents floating around, but with no seeders. The game was first released for Android and iOS, and apparently you can find the installation files for those easily, but I want to play it on a real PC, not via emulation. At this point, it's beginning to feel like the hunt for one of Lovecraft's forbidden tomes: I'm able to catch glimpses here and there, I see traces of those who played it through reviews and YouTube videos, and occasionally I find some dead download links where it used to be available, but it remains ever elusive. eBay has tons of offers for all the other old official Call of Cthulhu games - Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Dark Corners of the Earth and so on - but it's like The Wasted Land never existed. If anyone has the game, I'd be willing to pay good money for it. Feel free to PM me. Thank you. EDIT: Here are some links to prove I'm not crazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu:_The_Wasted_Land https://store.steampowered.com/app/251390/Call_of_Cthulhu_The_Wasted_Land/ https://redwaspdesign.wordpress.com/call-of-cthulhu/ Dave Syndrome fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 18:41
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Dave Syndrome posted:If anyone can help me, it's this thread. Found it, $5 on amazon, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D3TONR6/ref=as_li_tl Though if you're in the EU or anything. "Note: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States." Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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Oct 1, 2021 19:20
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Yardbomb posted:Found it, $5 on amazon, Unfortunately I'm not in the US. Good catch though, thanks!
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Dave Syndrome posted:Unfortunately I'm not in the US. Good catch though, thanks! You might be able to VPN or just browser add-on trick it ideally, cause looking at my other sources for keys, that sucker's like $80+ and up to nearly $100 otherwise. If that's not possible, if you have a discord or something, I could probably just buy it for you and slap it on google drive or something
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Yardbomb posted:You might be able to VPN or just browser add-on trick it ideally, cause looking at my other sources for keys, that sucker's like $80+ and up to nearly $100 otherwise. That's an incredibly kind offer. Thank you. Someone else has reached out in the meantime and managed to help me. It's as true today as it was when I joined in 2007: Goons is good peoples.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:08
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Dave Syndrome posted:That's an incredibly kind offer. Thank you. Someone else has reached out in the meantime and managed to help me. Good poo poo whoever helped.  Game seems neat and it's weird that it's so obscure to get now, apparently a developer replied to questions about why it's not on steam etc. anymore and said something like they're making a new game, but I dunno why that'd mean scrubbing that one.
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Oct 1, 2021 20:10
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It’s real. I’ve got it on iPad. Godspeed.
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normally this thread gets really popular in october. this year its practically dead. sad
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Oct 4, 2021 13:00
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I'm so starved of horror games I'm playing Outlast 2
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Oct 4, 2021 13:33
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A dead thread is perhaps the spookiest reality of them all..
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Oct 4, 2021 13:34
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Mirello posted:normally this thread gets really popular in october. this year its practically dead. sad I mean personally I’ll be checking out House of Ashes as well as the remasters of Fatal Frame 5 and Alan Wake, so. Pretty good October for me!
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Oct 4, 2021 13:38
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Alan wake remaster for me. It'll be fun to go through it again after like a decade.
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Oct 4, 2021 13:48
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A. Wake and Metroid Dread is sort of horror I guess. FF 5 isn't out until the month is almost over and I played through the original WiiU version this time last year.... I'll probably still pick it up though.
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Sorry, we're all watching six shows about Koreans killing each other for money, too busy to make horror games. I didn't know Fatal Frame was getting a remaster though, I'm super into that because I have only been able to play broken emulators of the series.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Sorry, we're all watching six shows about Koreans killing each other for money, too busy to make horror games. Only FF5, unfortunately. If the first three were remastered I'd snap em up but my friends and I weren't as enamored with 5. Would also love to expose my gf to them, she and I met after my friends and I had already played through the series. She would jump right out of her skin with some of the scares in those games (but like in a good way).
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Oct 4, 2021 14:53
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My plan this month is a Dead Space series playthrough of 1-3 and extraction. I’m currently halfway through 1, and the asteroid shooting part was just as bad as I remembered it.
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Mirello posted:normally this thread gets really popular in october. this year its practically dead. sad Funny you say this because the other day I was catching up on this thread and thinking to myself "it'd be nice if someone put out a good horror game".
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ive been playing the gently caress out of phasmophobia. the update with the new models & behaviors really reinvigorated the game for me & theres supposed to be another big content patch this month
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Oct 4, 2021 16:32
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I'm setting up a retropie and I wonder, are there any good horror games for the psx beside Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Parasite Eve? Is Dino Crisis any good?
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Groovelord Neato posted:Funny you say this because the other day I was catching up on this thread and thinking to myself "it'd be nice if someone put out a good horror game". I keep holding out hope that they'll start supporting the Friday the 13th game again and maybe add the stuff that was already finished now that the lawsuit is over.
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I’m taking the time to sit down with the original Fatal Frame. I really enjoyed playing the second one this summer and seeing how they polished things between games is really interesting.
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Mirello posted:normally this thread gets really popular in october. this year its practically dead. sad Probably because the horror community is niche but also incredibly divided on what it actually wants. Why make a horror game?
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Hel posted:I'm setting up a retropie and I wonder, are there any good horror games for the psx beside Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Parasite Eve? Is Dino Crisis any good? Dino Crisis is good. DC 2 is more action-y and also good but less survival horror.
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Nerdietalk posted:I’m taking the time to sit down with the original Fatal Frame. I really enjoyed playing the second one this summer and seeing how they polished things between games is really interesting. One of the things that kept out to me was, if I remember right, the worst film you get is infinite, but still needs to be replenished at the save points. That and how absolutely dark it is. My friends and I played through in an unlit basement and we still had problems seeing the environment.
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Yeah the first game doesn’t have the infinite photos, which adds a bit more stress to my run. It never lets up in its grim tone and the game’s darkness is definitely a part of that. It’s engaging but it’s also pretty suffocating at times
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Hel posted:I'm setting up a retropie and I wonder, are there any good horror games for the psx beside Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Parasite Eve? Is Dino Crisis any good? Japanese horror game Iru got a translation this year. Not a goooood game but an interesting first person relic. Play Echo Night.
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I remember the first game being way harder in general than the sequels too. Re: Fatal Frame Those loving monks. 
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Mirello posted:normally this thread gets really popular in october. this year its practically dead. sad It’s just had its 20th anniversary so I’m back in Solent Hill 2 for spookymonth. Also picked up Bloodwash to play, and maybe doing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice in VR. And more Phasmophobia.
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In Sound Mind looks pretty cool.The levels are varied, for something about mental health it doesn't seem to rely on most of those "oooh mental illness is scary spooky dangerous" kinda stuff, the game is also comedic and goofy with the villain taking some clear inspirations from freddy krueger but more cartoonish in his mannerisms. Dunno if it sticks the landing since the person I've been watching play through it hasn't finished it yet so it might end up like some horror games where I'm really enjoying it and then the ending just ruins the whole thing, but so far it has been pretty great. The weapons are also very varied and unique, each one being useful for both solving puzzles and combat and the powerup pills you can find give a lot of incentive to go exploring and solving optional side puzzles.
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I'll check out the remaster of Fatal Frame 5, but frankly the mission-based gameplay (rather than just...exploring a haunted place) sounds like a change for the worse. Part of the horror of the first three games was the feeling of not being able to escape....the first game was in a giant mansion, the second game was in a haunted village, and the third game was in your dreams (and eventually your apartment). 5's change of "Well, there's this haunted mountain/forest, and we can leave and come back whenever we want" takes a lot of the tension out, for me. I don't play a lot of spooky games by myself (only together with my partner), but I do have Stories Untold on my deck for this month. Maybe a replay of Umineko as well?
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