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TheWorldsaStage posted:I want this. I adore Edith Finch Such a great game. I want to replay it now.
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I want to play Edith Finch but I dunno if I can handle the bit with the "eating animals in first person" stuff. I'm sensitive to animal death in games. 
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Apr 4, 2022 20:12
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Forget it, I kind of hate Edith Finch but I don't want to yuck someones yum, so to speak
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al-azad posted:Martha is Dead is a series of cool gross out set pieces that coalesces into the protagonist addressing the player and asking “so what do you think the story was about?” The Aristocrats?
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TheWorldsaStage posted:I want this. I adore Edith Finch The ghosts in the lighthouse when you look up are pretty creepy
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The_Doctor posted:The ghosts in the lighthouse when you look up are pretty creepy Do you mean Dear Esther?
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Instead of Martha is Dead more people should check out Who's Lila? That game is creepy AF
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Wow, I messed up enough that Blair Witch wouldn't even start, but then after reinstalling while still keeping the same dglvoodoo settings it just works great, runs butter smooth and no issues with the menus taking ages like in Nocturne. Playing this as a fan of Nocturne, how much will I miss for not knowing anything about the Blair Witch?
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FirstAidKite posted:Do you mean Dear Esther? I was wondering this myself! It definitely creeped the poo poo out of me first time I played Dear Esther....there's actually a few "ghosts" throughout the game.
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Hel posted:Wow, I messed up enough that Blair Witch wouldn't even start, but then after reinstalling while still keeping the same dglvoodoo settings it just works great, runs butter smooth and no issues with the menus taking ages like in Nocturne. I'd actually recommend watching the first movie first. It isn't long and it is, imo, still an interesting watch to this day. The last 15 minutes are especially memorable.
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There was a woman named Elly Kedward who lived in the area of what would become Burkittsvile, MD during colonial times and who was exiled to the woods for being a witch. She seems to have killed some people who went into the woods (there's mention of several men found murdered and arranged as if for a ritual on a large rock), but then there was no activity until a man who lived alone in the woods, Rustin Parr, killed several children in his basement, allegedly at the urging of a cloaked woman, in 1940. In 1994, three film students disappeared in the woods, and their footage suggests they found (and at least one of them died in) the ruins of Parr's home. That's pretty much The Lore. It's not deep.
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Thanks, I'll see if I can dig up a copy of the movie to watch during the weekend or something, even if it isn't strictly necessary for the game.
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Hel posted:Thanks, I'll see if I can dig up a copy of the movie to watch during the weekend or something, even if it isn't strictly necessary for the game. It makes The Woods a little more impactful I think, and what you find there.
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I mostly remember Dear Esther because in one of the early sections there is a chemical diagram of an ester on a wall and I bet a developer thought he was so clever for that Also Blair Witch is one of those movies where I really prefer the largely questionable theory that the witch wasn't real and the boys just teamed up to murder Heather not because it is a solid theory so much as it is just more spooky. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:I mostly remember Dear Esther because in one of the early sections there is a chemical diagram of an ester on a wall and I bet a developer thought he was so clever for that See I love the spookyness of a hateful old witches curse. The implications of the tapes being found in Parr's foundation under decades of poo poo is such a chilling thing. but yeah the movie ended up being designed so that whatever you find most terrifying, there's just as much evidence for it as anything else. The limited comic series was really freaking good too. It never answered anything, just showed the reach and capability of whatever it was. I honestly don't know how I feel about the books and retro games flat out telling you. TheWorldsaStage fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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Hel posted:Thanks, I'll see if I can dig up a copy of the movie to watch during the weekend or something, even if it isn't strictly necessary for the game. The games more or less cover the basic backstory of the first movie anyway, just adds tie ins to Nocturne i.e. the first game covers Rustin Parr and his killings, the second covers Coffin Rock during the civil war and the third goes back to just after the witch was exiled and puts their own spin on the events. The first 10 minutes of the first movie talks about these events and then the rest of the movie is about teenagers getting lost in the woods and spooky things happen to them as they go hysterical.
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Hel posted:Thanks, I'll see if I can dig up a copy of the movie to watch during the weekend or something, even if it isn't strictly necessary for the game. It holds up pretty well for a found footage movie from 99. I watched it this past October for the first time in probably a decade plus and was surprised how good it was.
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Blair Witch also gave us the gift of the softcore porn series The Bare Wench Project
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It also gave us The Scooby-Doo Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdMZm8fAIaY And Two Wuv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ54SA_wa68
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FirstAidKite posted:It also gave us The Scooby-Doo Project I was wondering where I left that tape!
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oldpainless posted:Blair Witch also gave us the gift of the softcore porn series The Bare Wench Project And "The Erotic Witch Project".
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No indie horror title has stuck with me like Water Womb World so you can imagine my delight when developer Yames announced his new little horror project, Growing My Grandpa. For anyone who has played a grandpa growing simulator before, you should know the drill - a point-and-click adventure where you have to nourish both grandpa's body and mind through feeding him his favourite food and teaching him new phrases to mutter through that fleshy hole that resembles a mouth. Play your cards right, and you might just be lucky enough to hold a full conversation - just like the old days!   You can pay and play for the full thing on itch.io - the whole experience lasts about an hour with two endings to discover. Yames' games aren't really 'fun' in the traditional sense but have an atmosphere and writing style like nothing else I've really seen out there. If you can get yourself through the admittedly annoying 'cleaning up' gameplay loop, there's a dark and thought-provoking adventure to be had.
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Yames has the best aesthetic for horror games.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Yames has the best aesthetic for horror games. poo poo, I really liked Discover My Body but never thought to look up anything else by the author-- turns out there are several games including a WIP sequel/expanded version, what a pleasant surprise 
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Been playing through Michigan: Report from Hell with some friends and it's the funniest poo poo we've ever played. Brisco is a hero. As a bonus, we're not using the ideal settings on the emulator so things slow down quite often, resulting in people's voices being drawwwwn ouuuuut just a little bit, making everyone sound just a little bit baked. "Weeee're heeeere investigaaatingggg the sceeeeene..."
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The Closing Shift is a bizarrely compelling short horror game and I'd recommend it.
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abigserve posted:The Closing Shift is a bizarrely compelling short horror game and I'd recommend it. Too bad about the story though
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FirstAidKite posted:Too bad about the story though Sums up a good 90% of horror games pretty well.
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FirstAidKite posted:Too bad about the story though I played it on a discord stream and the boys thought I got the bad ending. Which was true, but also that there was no good ending
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Can indie devs collectively agree to retire the damaged vhs aesthetic?
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The worst is when there is no reason for it to be there, not even the slightest reason given for why your character is walking around looking through a camcorder. Also, been catching up on various vids CJUGames has been uploading and it's kind of amazing how he keeps finding indie horror titles that partway in go "bam you're in a Backrooms game now motherfucker." As lazu as that trend can be, it is definitely appropriate that he keeps getting tricked into playing Backrooms games. He can't escape the Backrooms.
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FirstAidKite posted:Too bad about the story though Horror games: Too bad about the story tho
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Discendo Vox posted:Horror games: Too bad about the story tho
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Eh I should at least correct it. Story itself is fine, it's that the endings feel kinda... idk if it's the right word but I wanna say nihilistic.
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FirstAidKite posted:Eh I should at least correct it. Story itself is fine, it's that the endings feel kinda... idk if it's the right word but I wanna say nihilistic. Sorry, I think that’s too many characters
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Discendo Vox posted:Sorry, I think that’s too many characters The ends are bad dads
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The ending is a bait and switch where you do all the steps needed to win, you know exactly what is going to happen but then you lose in a cutscene anyway Its worth playing though regardless because the story has literally zero impact on the actual game
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