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Blattdorf posted:That's the scariest thing about it. It will come out in the dead of winter. I'm mostly annoyed because it looks fun as hell and I want it now.
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Hello Neighbour was so off the rails from its original concept because the devs learnt the wrong lessons from streamer reactions and thought building lore without actual game play or writing would make them a billion. There's a series of tweets by the publisher miniclip asking desperately for mat pat to game theory their game and by all accounts it is a huge surprise he banned that game from his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vgufcGckI8 Bendy and the ink machine is similar but with devs who cannot keep their private life from being made public, and then banked on the paper thin lore and stuffed toys market but failed to make a game that works Extremely long video but after skipping around you kinda get the gist, this guy apparently was the first people who promoted it heavily due to all the perceived lore too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyHkdxxoVKQ
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exquisite tea posted:Fear not horror games thread, I've found an upcoming release that will save the Halloween season. Huh, I'm weirdly reminded of Miasmata while watching this. The Saddest Rhino posted:Bendy and the ink machine is similar but with devs who cannot keep their private life from being made public, and then banked on the paper thin lore and stuffed toys market but failed to make a game that works Oh wow, I had no idea there was behind-the-scenes drama with that Ink Machine game. I'll give this a watch later. I randomly skipped to the section about the GlassDoor reviews, and... 
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The Bendy company having enough employees they could lay off 50 is blowing my mind.Hakkesshu posted:Do you mean Beware? Probably still a ways off but they put out a new demo in July That's the one thanks. Loving what I'm seeing with Beware and the train game because they're so different.
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For Halloween season I just hope that my order of white greasepaint comes in before the end of the month, I need to complete my clown costume before I press the button to buy the new Dark Pictures Anthology game. It's become a small tradition for my wife and I to play something in that style of game every Halloween, but if I go through it again and find out the devs saying "the monsters are real, we super swear" was some sort of dodge then I'm going to lose my poo poo
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I think I'm going to beat Echo Night this month. I just discovered that Overblood 2 exists so I'll be going through the first one as well.
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CuddleCryptid posted:For Halloween season I just hope that my order of white greasepaint comes in before the end of the month, I need to complete my clown costume before I press the button to buy the new Dark Pictures Anthology game. I played through Until Dawn with some friends and it was one of the best video game experiences we've ever had. Then Man of Medan was... just fine but didn't capture the magic. My friends all urged me to get Little Hope as soon as it came out, so we found a couple of nights to play it. I said early on that I didn't really want to be the one actually playing the game (which was the case for the first two) mostly because I just wanted a break from being the one in the hot seat. I think I spaced out the story about two or three hours in and never really started paying attention for the rest of it. By all accounts I missed effectively nothing of interest. I have basically zero interest in House of Ashes at this point, I'd rather just re-play Until Dawn instead.
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MockingQuantum posted:I played through Until Dawn with some friends and it was one of the best video game experiences we've ever had. Then Man of Medan was... just fine but didn't capture the magic. My friends all urged me to get Little Hope as soon as it came out, so we found a couple of nights to play it. I said early on that I didn't really want to be the one actually playing the game (which was the case for the first two) mostly because I just wanted a break from being the one in the hot seat. I think I spaced out the story about two or three hours in and never really started paying attention for the rest of it. By all accounts I missed effectively nothing of interest. I have basically zero interest in House of Ashes at this point, I'd rather just re-play Until Dawn instead. The whole Dark Pictures series so far (so two games) has been "great in the moment, absolutely terrible endings". Living up to Until Dawn is hard and I try not to compare them as hard, and Man of Medan wasn't *that* bad, even though you could pretty definitively call the ending 2/3rds of the way into the plot. Little Hope threw in some extremely weird themes, but they weren't even there until the very end. Up until then it was pretty good, in a silent hill kind of way. Themed monsters? Spooky ghost town? Stupid cult poo poo? That's silent hill baybeee. But then not only was the ending all just a dream, but the game literally kills off characters at the very last second if you didn't play every single one like a Saint, against their established personality, because the whole thing was this guy trying to wash away the problems of his abusive household. So it's easy to win so long as you do the exact opposite of what any therapist in the world would want you to do. It was pretty hosed up. So hey, maybe the backlash has taught the devs a lesson. Maybe?
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if i figure out a horror game or movie is going towards a it was all a dream/in the protagonist's head type of ending, i just sigh. it is not a very interesting trope and its been done way, way too many times. even when done well, its still the same old same old edit: spoilered as it would invalidate previous post's spoiler tag otherwise lmao
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SpiritOfLenin posted:if i figure out a horror game or movie is going towards a it was all a dream/in the protagonist's head type of ending, i just sigh. it is not a very interesting trope and its been done way, way too many times. even when done well, its still the same old same old Besides just being enormously played out, the thing that absolutely drives me up the wall about it was all a dream! endings is that I the player, by actively engaging in your work of fiction, am already participating in the willing suspension of disbelief that permits me to acknowledge that the events happening onscreen are not real. By turning around and saying none of it was real + it was a dying dream + it was all a simulation at the end, you have accomplished NOTHING to further my understanding of the work. I already know it's not real! We all do. You are not that clever!
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Oct 5, 2021 19:23
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Visage is good, right? Coming to Xbox Game Pass this week and might work that into my horror gaming for October. Currently playing through Call of Cthulhu (the 2018 one). distinctly low-budget but enjoyable for what it is, also has great moments like the protagonist stumbling onto a green glowing symbol painted on the floor, ominously surrounded by candles and commenting, with no trace of irony, "could these people have been interested in the occult?"
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Oct 5, 2021 19:26
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Dead Space 2 "Your Mom's Gonna Hate This" led directly to Outlast 2 "we're Kickstarting gamer diapers."
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Oct 5, 2021 19:33
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Bogart posted:Dead Space 2 "Your Mom's Gonna Hate This" led directly to Outlast 2 "we're Kickstarting gamer diapers." You can draw a straight line back to Shadowman 2's "let us advertise our game on your grandma's tombstone" promo.
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Oct 5, 2021 19:39
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Oct 5, 2021 19:40
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Alan Wake looks exactly like I remember it looking 11 years ago which I guess is good in this age of people loving up remasters by trying to improve stuff
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CuddleCryptid posted:I'd be kinda into it if the games they feature are games from all over the world, it would be neat to see people trying out the games for the first time and making new strategies as adults. Razor wire jump rope you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcqyH-5KT4U
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Oct 5, 2021 20:10
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Visage will be on xbox gamepass so I'm gonna play that and give it a whirl
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Oct 5, 2021 21:00
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Only one spooky game for October game pass Shameful Pathetic
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Oct 5, 2021 21:11
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Barry Convex posted:Visage is good, right? I remember people saying the story is embarrassing.
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Groovelord Neato posted:I remember people saying the story is embarrassing. deeply so it’s decent otherwise
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I disliked it but I dislike anything that makes me wander around aimless trying to figure out what to do while randomly spawning one hit kill ghosts. I ended up using a guide just to finish it.
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Bogart posted:Dead Space 2 "Your Mom's Gonna Hate This" led directly to Outlast 2 "we're Kickstarting gamer diapers." And even that is a ripoff of Alien Versus Predator (1999)'s promotional for Big Dogs Underwear: quote:Big Dogs (Nasdaq:BDOG) and Fox Interactive will kick-off a promotion titled "A game so scary, we're giving you a free pair of underwear." Slated to run from April 13 to May 13, the first 10,000 people who purchase the game will receive a coupon for a free pair of BIG DOGS underwear, redeemable at any of Big Dogs 175 stores nationwide or via mail. Big Dogs will also create in-store displays using oversized boxes of the game and posters, as well as point of entry for the "Win the Ultimate ALIENS VS. PREDATOR Experience" Sweepstakes.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:And even that is a ripoff of Alien Versus Predator (1999)'s promotional for Big Dogs Underwear: Do I even want to know what would be written across the rear end of Big Dogs brand underwear
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You could probably trace it further back to the Screaming Skull which started off with the movie telling the audience that it's such a scary movie that you may very well die of fright but not to worry, if you do die, they'll cover the burial costs.
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Sakurazuka posted:Alan Wake looks exactly like I remember it looking 11 years ago which I guess is good in this age of people loving up remasters by trying to improve stuff And so far with a very light touch on the retroactive Control nods. Good devs.
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TheWorldsaStage posted:And so far with a very light touch on the retroactive Control nods. Good devs. I don't know if I'm misreading this, are there actual changes to the game? I absolutely loved when Control started dropping the tie-ins to Alan Wake as a big leap forward in the Remedyverse, but I assumed this rerelease was just updating graphics and such.
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Captain DIEgiene posted:I don't know if I'm misreading this, are there actual changes to the game? I absolutely loved when Control started dropping the tie-ins to Alan Wake as a big leap forward in the Remedyverse, but I assumed this rerelease was just updating graphics and such. So far I just caught a legible letter in the sherrifs office.
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I appreciate Dark Corners of the Earth portraying J. Edgar Hoover as a shitheaded sociopath.
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I have persevered through my first (ever) playthrough of Resident Evil 2 Remake w/Leon. Took it extremely slow, with lots of backtracking, a little bit of screwing around/achievement hunting, etc. Definitely gives me a new appreciation for the people who perform a run with limited (or no) saves, limited storage box access, etc. for sure.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I have persevered through my first (ever) playthrough of Resident Evil 2 Remake w/Leon. Took it extremely slow, with lots of backtracking, a little bit of screwing around/achievement hunting, etc. Definitely gives me a new appreciation for the people who perform a run with limited (or no) saves, limited storage box access, etc. for sure. I think it's also one of the easiest REs to go back through and route for S ranks and other achievements fwiw, your second time through just knowing all the codes to everything will save you hrs of backtracking through the station and especially labs.
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The ending of In Sound Mind had me tearing up. There's no way I would have expected that game to have a hard hitting emotional ending like it did. A good game. Everyone with the nerves to actually play through horror games instead of just watching playthroughs of them should definitely go pick it up.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1273260/Corpse_Party_2021/ Corpse Party is getting yet another release. It's a port of an enhanced port of an enhanced port of a semi-remake of a remake of the original. TI-83 version when?
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no go on Quiznos posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1273260/Corpse_Party_2021/  how is there ANOTHER remake and yet CP2 has barely been touched since its first chapter lmao, what is this
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I like CP1 and all but each remake is slightly worse than the PSP release so lol at the devs going for the money pump again. Try finishing and selling CP2 you dopes!
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I watched some video essay (bad) on the corpse party franchise and it feels that after that popular "I'm gonna butter my pooper" game almost every next entry is an exercise in either futility, misery or both
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