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al-azad posted:That reminds me, the backrooms fan videos are taking off on YouTube because I guess people discovered you can do it all in Blender. Some are good, most are people being chased by jiggly tube armed monsters. Not even video is safe from asset flips. It's largely people all biting off the style of Kane Pixels, who has been doing these insanely high production value Backrooms videos that blend (ha ha) CG and live action
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SkeletonHero posted:Listening to Tom Waits and I think "What's He Building?" is a good basis for a horror game. You're new to the area, probably foreign, it's the height of Cold War paranoia, and you're just trying to innocuously perform basic home repair/maintenance on the creepy old house you've moved into while your neighbors peep and snoop and assume the worst and eventually whip themselves into a full murderous mob if they gather enough "evidence." I guess it would kind of be a reversal of Hello Neighbor. Except good, hopefully. That would be a good twist on the base-building genre: what you can build, and how quickly, is limited by the suspicions of your extremely snoopy and paranoid neighbors. It's not that you CAN'T build a dungeon in your basement, you just have to do it inconspicuously, one brick at a time so nobody can guess what you're doing.
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Mix. posted:no i mean like paranatural 'this is a closed off dimension that escape from is incredibly hard on account of there literally being nothing outside of this specific location' type horror. in corpse party the school is literally the entirety of the dimension they've been sucked into, same for calling which is a series of isolated locations but there was something about using a cell phone frequency to transport yourself between them. another underutilized flavor imo (mostly because it's hard to pull off in a satisfying way) is the inexplicable death game like, a lot of what was cool about Cube was that all the characters had theories on why it existed and why they were there, but no concrete answer was ever given- it was clearly designed but whether it was fulfilling its original purpose, alien in nature or some sick government project that got out of control was left in the air, with the sequels if anything just raising more questions
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FreudianSlippers posted:Something like I am Legend would make a decent base for a survival horror game. That was pretty much what the original plan for Alan Wake was before Remedy realised they'd never done a game of that scope before and had no idea how to
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Lunatic Sledge posted:like, a lot of what was cool about Cube was that all the characters had theories on why it existed and why they were there, but no concrete answer was ever given- it was clearly designed but whether it was fulfilling its original purpose, alien in nature or some sick government project that got out of control was left in the air, with the sequels if anything just raising more questions I mean I can understand if you refused to retain anything you saw of the Cube sequels but: Hypercube doesn't answer any questions about Cube but it does very directly explain itself as "The hypercube is a US military project designed to test the creation of a real 4-dimensional space and the 'traps' are just components of the hypercube breaking down under the stress of being an object that shouldn't exist." It's also an awful movie but in a way that's very funny to watch with friends. A case of film makers obviously going for something specific and missing the mark by miles through sheer and obvious incompetence or lack of experience. Cube Zero is probably the most painfully awful movie I've ever seen. It'd be unwatchably bad if it wasn't recontextualizing Cube, but the half-explanation it gives for poo poo is insultingly stupid. "Okay, Cube but this time the main character is a guy in a control booth. The people in the cube are death row inmates put in for experiments. We've added a main villain which is a quirky fedora wearing cyborg who quips about poo poo. The math savant in the original Cube is the main character in this one, punished for helping an innocent woman escape the cube with brain surgery that makes him in to a math savant." Like drat dude the savant works in the original Cube because he serves as a 100% sure indication that at least some of the people in the cube are in there for reasons unrelated to their history, because there's nothing he could have done to 'deserve' being put in the cube. That they felt the need to add an actual like supervillain-esque antagonist to a Cube movie is stupider, but it's just awful all around. Cube is a very good concept that the sequels don't understand the appeal of at all  I mean Hypercube kinda does but gives a little too much explanation and is also loving bonkers in how badly it's made.
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Count Uvula posted:I mean I can understand if you refused to retain anything you saw of the Cube sequels but: Cube Zero also implies that the death row inmates aren't actually that, though- that it may just be the story being told to the dudes in the booth so they won't feel guilty about being in the booth. The whole thing kicks off with one of the booth guys discovering the woman is in fact innocent, or at least, doesn't have a consent form available to the booth. His buddy brushes it off as a clerical error iirc but I always got the impression it was a bullshit story made up by whoever cyborg guy works for (if he even actually knows). I absolutely did just black out on that line from Hypercube, though, and will fully cop to both sequels being total garbage (apparently worse than I remembered, thanks for loving my point up Hypercube), I just like the idea of the cube operators being in their own metaphorical cube, where despite running the logistics of the operation they are also being heavily monitored and have no idea what's going on edit: see also, the reveal at the end of the original SAW where you find out the guy you think is Jigsaw is actually being forced to play a game where he runs one of the games etc Lunatic Sledge fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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I like cube and also the sequels even though they are dumb
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Yeah, I suddenly need to watch Cube again, and also the sequels but for different reasons.
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i enjoyed the timefuckeries in cube 2 but the guy killed by a screensaver was some  '00s bullshit
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cube 4 where it's revealed to be a part of the hellraiser canon
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with Cube Zero being Cube Zero I'm not even sure the fourth Cube would be Cube 4 they might have to call it like, Cube X, The Cube, or Cube 2.5 Final Mix
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Did any of you ever play My Lovely Daughter? I'm not gonna play it but a person I follow on youtube did a playthrough, but it is long. The game concept sounded like it would be leaning way towards being grimdark edgy and pointlessly cruel. Especially with stuff like this on the steam page.quote:ATTENTION I wasn't sure if the game actually had anything to say or if it'd be worth watching someone's playthrough of it. It just kinda sounds exploitative to me. What doesn't help their case is that the devs have a followup releasing in a few days called My Lovely Wife which has such descriptions as these. quote:My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators. quote:Play as Jake, a loving husband and grieving widower who is granted the knowledge to summon dozens of succubi by a mysterious man. Work with those succubi, make them fall in love with you… and sacrifice them to create a vessel for your wife’s soul. quote:MATURE CONTENT DESCRIPTION quote:My Lovely Wife’s Beta is live! The vibe that the followup game gives me is just "tasteless edgy sexploitation." I have serious doubts about it being anything other than that based on the store page. That said, I'm still curious if their previous game had anything of merit to it or if it was also just an edgy premise tacked to a bad game.
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My Lovely Daughter interested me when it released but very quickly picked up mixed reviews that stick around to this day, citing that it's one of Those Sims where the loop is an unpleasant chore that you suffer because the setting/story tie you down with Stockholm syndome. Or you paid full price and your brain demands "value", painful as it may be. Combined with a $15 price tag or "the point of regret" for indie games I can't see trying it without a sale dropping it to $5. Gives off the same aura as The Shrouded Isle, which also has an interesting premise that boils down to the most tedious busywork in the world.
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Doomykins posted:Gives off the same aura as The Shrouded Isle, which also has an interesting premise that boils down to the most tedious busywork in the world. I want a cult sim with that Uber Gothic aesthetic so bad that doesn't make me hate myself for playing it.
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FirstAidKite posted:Did any of you ever play My Lovely Daughter? I'm not gonna play it but a person I follow on youtube did a playthrough, but it is long. The game concept sounded like it would be leaning way towards being grimdark edgy and pointlessly cruel. Especially with stuff like this on the steam page. I watched a Let's Play of My Lovely Daughter a long time ago. There wasn't any sexual creepiness. The story was mediocre, and it seemed like it didn't have great gameplay either.
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I'm a simple woman and all it'd take for me to be happy is a horror visual novel that's not a) absolute rear end and b) probably going to put me on a watch list. I liked The House in Fata Morgana a lot but I think that might be the only one out there.
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Post Ironic Cereal posted:I'm a simple woman and all it'd take for me to be happy is a horror visual novel that's not a) absolute rear end and b) probably going to put me on a watch list. I liked The House in Fata Morgana a lot but I think that might be the only one out there. There is Raging Loop which is basically the Mafia/Werewolf forum game as a visual novel, and I was surprised at how good it was. I was admittedly not a fan of the ending, but I seem to be in minority for that. There isn't any creepy stuff in the main story, but I can't 100% guarantee that there isn't any in the bonus chapters because I didn't play them.
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Post Ironic Cereal posted:I'm a simple woman and all it'd take for me to be happy is a horror visual novel that's not a) absolute rear end and b) probably going to put me on a watch list. I liked The House in Fata Morgana a lot but I think that might be the only one out there. I picked up "The Letter" fairly recently as it's a horror VN, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I did play through the first chapter or two of Fata Morgana and good God what a depressing game. Absolutely my jam but drat. Also maybe not super heavy on horror but the recent Vampire the Masquerade "Choice of Games" range from really really good (Night Road) to not as good (the other 3) and there are two VNs, Coteries of New York and Shadows of New York. Coteries is a pretty good intro to the VtM setting if you're not up on it, but Shadows blows it's predecessor out of the water storywise.
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The demo for SIGNALIS came out in the last day or two. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/SIGNALIS/ It's about 20 mins long, but I really dig the art style, and I love to see more sci-fi horror. Looking forward to the full thing. Piss Witch fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Lifeglug posted:The demo for SIGNALIS came out in the last day or two. For some reason I thought this game was dead--but I apparently only added it to my watch/wishlist a little over 2 years ago, which is practically nothing in terms of EA games.
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joylessdivision posted:I picked up "The Letter" fairly recently as it's a horror VN, but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I did play through the first chapter or two of Fata Morgana and good God what a depressing game. Absolutely my jam but drat. I remember playing Bloodlines way back when that came out and enjoying it, I'll stick the VtM games on my wishlist and see how long it takes for them to go on sale.
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Lifeglug posted:The demo for SIGNALIS came out in the last day or two. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/SIGNALIS/
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The Letter had a backer designed character as a major character, and its pretty obvious who that character is once that fact is known.
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yeah lmao I have no idea how i copied the wrong url that badly
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Was my mind playing tricks on me or was The Letter also the VN that had some white guy drop the hard R upon encountering the sole playable black man
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FirstAidKite posted:Did any of you ever play My Lovely Daughter? I'm not gonna play it but a person I follow on youtube did a playthrough, but it is long. The game concept sounded like it would be leaning way towards being grimdark edgy and pointlessly cruel. Especially with stuff like this on the steam page. I played it when it came out and it wasn't sexually creepy, iirc it was basically a team manager thing where you made and then sent out on jobs dolls with something "spooky" messed up about them that altered their abilities. It was mostly creepy because the dollmaker tries to use a fake family bond to make the dolls work for him. I just didn't find it very compelling as a game more than anything else.
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Lifeglug posted:The demo for SIGNALIS came out in the last day or two. oh my god, I have been waiting for this game for so loving long
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The Letter is a boring slog and I hated it, The end
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Nyoro posted:The Letter is a boring slog and I hated it, It took me a while to remember if it was the game I was thinking of but yeah these were my feelings too. I can't remember much of the plot but I do remember the characters talking interminably about nothing.
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Playing the original Siren and I need to go to the hospital from the difficulty whiplash in this game. Level as a priest with no weapons, four or five missions in: tense nightmare of a level I failed several times on. Next level, where there is a random fire poker sticking out of the ground? Call me a phlebotomist because some zombies are getting POKED.
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