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FirstAidKite posted:No no I knew about that stuff already, I just wasn't sure what was meant by missing a reference in the cat lady by not playing the original non-canon downfall. yeah, the parts where you kill the parasites (aside from the final one, which I found very compelling) are the weaker parts of the story. the first parasite was fine because it's a man whose narcissism comes through in his normal work of controlling the lives of his patients, and then it comes through in his murders too. but the exterminator household was just pretty bad. there is a reason why the scene that sticks out to everyone after playing is the one where you just have to make yourself coffee. Its a weird game because Susan absolutely has some serious depression stemming from the loss of her child and the dissolution of her marriage but its also like "the main antagonist is depression but also it can give you literal superpowers" since the plot is not explainable without her ability to come back to life after dying or pull things out of alternate worlds. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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It hasn't been recommended in here but you could also keep an eye out for the Obscure games, if you like the feeling of B-movie dumb horror stuff- bonus in that the games are built to support couch co-op if that interests you 
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If you wanna start getting into horror games, why not try more "low-stakes" ones first, like horror visual novels or walking sims? Then you can graduate to games with combat or stealth? Play Kuon, if you can find or  it!
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Read After Burning posted:If you wanna start getting into horror games, why not try more "low-stakes" ones first, like horror visual novels or walking sims? Then you can graduate to games with combat or stealth? *posts that webcomic with the girl walking home that autoscrolls when the broken bodied woman chases her down*
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Mode 7 posted:Horror thread, I come to you seeking help. Try the Dread X collections. Each one has a handful of short horror indies with varying degrees of spooky/weird/funny vibes. They're less than  each.
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Thank you so much for the recommendations everyone. I've got a ton to dig through there and plan to document my attempts/efforts/experiences over the course of October. I think Little Nightmares is definitely going to be one of the first I jump into. Thanks for that big list of itch horror games as well, treat - I'll pepper those liberally around bigger games. Also as I love Twin Peaks, how intense/scary are Alan Wake (and should I play the original or the remake?) and Deadly Premonition?
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Deadly Premonition has enough funny stuff to make the horror not hit so hard, and it's a budget game so the horror doesn't really hit in the first place in a lot of cases. Could always watch the SGF lp on it. Can't speak to AW.
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Mode 7 posted:Also as I love Twin Peaks, how intense/scary are Alan Wake (and should I play the original or the remake?) and Deadly Premonition? Deadly Premonition is literally Twin Peaks: The Game, while Alan Wake has some homages. I definitely found the latter to be scarier/more intense, although DP has a little bit of body horror that unsettled me.
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my fear of dp2 is mostly because i hear it's terrible also RightClickSaveAs posted:UPCOMING HORROR GAMES lol. lmao Bogart fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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I still need to play DP2, but I hear it's...not very good. Yet, "Francis York Morgan explores Louisiana" is something I never knew I needed in my life.
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i wouldnt even go so far as to say deadly premonition tries to be scary, its more of a horror-themed magical realist detective adventure game. also, twin peaks.
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I like Alan Wake, but more in a general story sense than as a super fun game. It's fine, its gimmick is nice but just not enough to really hold up for the full game. I would say it goes for more of a general tense/creepy vibe with enemies constantly coming at you in dark areas, but they're frequent enough that it's not particularly scary. The remake's fine, I honestly can't remember if it really changed anything other than just updating the graphics.
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I think Alan Wake loses its scariness about halfway through. It has some homages to Twin Peaks, but it feels like an homage to Stephen King-esque stories. There’s direct references to him in the first 5 minutes. It’s a good game. I would imagine the remaster looks really good.
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Alan Wake imo is a good game in another of those "not scary but has good scary atmophere/themes". It's extremely shlocky and you're either love that for it or find it very annoying. Also it has a great soundtrack and the lore isn't the worst. The connection to Control was lame though E. I just started Lorelai, and there's a baby in the intro that was in a point of danger. Could someone spoil me if I need a trigger warning for anything involving her? CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:E. I just started Lorelai, and there's a baby in the intro that was in a point of danger. Could someone spoil me if I need a trigger warning for anything involving her? Being purposefully vague here with Lorelai spoilers You don't see anything. You control the outcome. And more explicit spoilers for each game in the trilogy A baby dies in each game but you never see it happen, with the Cat Lady being the closest to showing it and the Downfall remake being the furthest from showing it
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Discover my Body Just played this 
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Yames owns. https://youtu.be/xZBWIwY0Xik
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Yeah everything he makes is great. Really fond of Growing My Grandpa.
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FirstAidKite posted:Being purposefully vague here with Lorelai spoilers Thanks for the response, is there a way to avoid it? We already got through the hallucination deaths at the start, we're on the third chapter now. I swear every drat horror game has some sort of dying kid in it, I had to stop playing Amnesia because of that poo poo.
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Luigi's Mansion would be a good gateway horror game imo
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CuddleCryptid posted:Thanks for the response, is there a way to avoid it? There is not
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Captain Hygiene posted:Hmm, I first played the Dead Space games within the last year and I didn't notice anything particularly bad about the first one in PC. It's a little dated, but much like RE4 I thought it was still perfectly playable. It's technically kneecapped, you have to mod it to fix all of the controller/mouse/vsync horseshit that they never fixed. This mod fixes it all: https://www.nexusmods.com/deadspace...ating%20V-Sync. Scorn is out in 2 weeks, going to start up the Prologue thing they sent out to backers to see how it is. It won't even run on the Steam Deck, so RIP.
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Mode 7 posted:I made it through the Ocean House Hotel in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines with gritted teeth while swearing profusely to the amusement of a friend watching me play I played through this segment for the first time a couple months back and as someone who plays a lot of horror games, that place was legit creepy as hell. Although once you know you can't really be hurt by much other than falling due to bad platforming it's a breeze to get through lol.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a good horror adventure game. Its pretty good at building up an atmosphere. There are no really illogical puzzles either.
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Scorn's one of the most visually stunning games I've ever seen, everything is so detailed it looks like rendered concept art when you just stare off at the level design. It's incredible. However I can already see people complaining about it being a slog because the Prologue is slow as hell, there's no combat and everything is slow and labored. I think this was a really dumb move but the first puzzle of the game is an annoying sliding block puzzle. Come on son. I'm eating up the visuals and I can't wait for the full release.
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sigher posted:Scorn's one of the most visually stunning games I've ever seen, everything is so detailed it looks like rendered concept art when you just stare off at the level design. It's incredible. Oh man, that one really does look great. The name never sticks in my head though, I had to look it up to remember it's the one that basically looks like you're on HR Giger World.
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Bizarre to make the first challenge in a deeply alien and unwelcoming world pushing blocks, but maybe it makes sense in context.
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On the other hand, block pushing puzzles may not be alien to me, but they ARE unwelcoming. 
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Bogart posted:Bizarre to make the first challenge in a deeply alien and unwelcoming world pushing blocks, but maybe it makes sense in context. There's a grid on the wall with "nodes" on them and you control, basically an Alien Factory Arm, to slide them around. Two of them are glowing and there's a certain spot you have to slide them to and then use another arm to pick the glowing nodes off of the wall. However, a lot of the nodes are stuck together and have to be moved together so you're using this slow rear end arm to slide poo poo around and make room for the one you actually need. I'm not sure why an alien world would store things on walls that can only be retrieved from a certain point but eeeeehhh, it's a puzzle just to be a puzzle. It doesn't feel "alien" once you realize it's just a sliding block puzzle. It also took way to long for me to finish and I'm pretty drat good at sliding block puzzles.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5EEz3t0Xw New Gameplay trailer for the Dead Space remake and it's looking great, I love recognizing all of the rooms shown, they've done some drat good work here.
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sigher posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5EEz3t0Xw The clear hallway and outer space sections look great, although it does looks like the brown mist from earlier sections is here to stay. Hopefully it's just for the one area.
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Barry Convex posted:I'm considering playing the Devil Came Through Here trilogy for October, but I'm not sure how high my tolerance is for very dated game engines like AGS. I'll at least give Cat Lady a try first, but is it possible to skip to Lorelai, since that one is at least built in Unity? fyi, I did give it a try, but it's definitely not for me - the AGS jank combined with very slow movement speed is just too much, especially when point-and-click adventure games aren't my favorite genre to begin with. I might still give Lorelai a try, though. Started playing In Sound Mind via the EGS freebie. Not the most original first-person horror game, but it seems pretty solid thus far. sigher posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5EEz3t0Xw DS1 had great atmosphere and combat mechanics, but I found the level/mission/encounter design to be awfully repetitive, so I hope the remake isn't overly faithful. It does look great, at least. Barry Convex fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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I can still play the DS1 trailer and Twinkle Twinkle creeps my wife out to no end.
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Well, I’m at like 172 GB of demos downloaded (so far) for the Steam Next Fest, some of the horror titles look legit good but I haven’t started playing anything yet. Any highlights or good first impressions from those of you who’ve had the time to get some stuff going?
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Cat Lady is a mood game, and not the sort of thing you'd want to rush through. It's got some spooky bits I guess but it's definitely not about getting scared, it's about getting sad. also uncomfortable. It'd probably be in my "100 best games" list if I ever cared to make one but I don't really think of it as an adventure game and didn't really treat it as such while I played it. It absolutely plays like an adventure game but I think it fits the mold of an IF/visual novel game a bit better because it wants to convey something heavy and evoke emotion way more than it wants you to be entertained.
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sigher posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE5EEz3t0Xw Looks so good
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i'm racking my brains trying to remember: what is the name of: * an upcoming edgy-as-gently caress horror game where you play as a killer hunting down people and eviscerating them * it's from a controversial studio everyone hates * the announcement trailer was, like, beta footage and the main character looked like the Going to the Store mannequin dude flopping around i keep wanting to say "Tormentum" but it's not coming up with anything. it looks awful but it's been on the tip of my tongue for 24 hours
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Bonaventure posted:i'm racking my brains trying to remember: what is the name of:
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Casimir Radon posted:Hatred? nah it was behind-the-back third person, all the environments were nondescript concrete hallways; the player character was fond of ripping off people's skin from their skulls probably because it was the one animation they had finished iirc
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