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There’s no way SH 2’s themes and subtext won’t be obnoxiously crammed down your throat in this remake. The trailer shot with him staring at the noose and very anxiously reaching towards it had my eyes rolling out of my head and down the street.
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man nurse posted:There’s no way SH 2’s themes and subtext won’t be obnoxiously crammed down your throat in this remake. The trailer shot with him staring at the noose and very anxiously reaching towards it had my eyes rolling out of my head and down the street. That's a scene in the original. He pulls on the noose to open a hole to jump down, as James is wont to do
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Dec 19, 2022 19:21
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TheWorldsaStage posted:That's a scene in the original. He pulls on the noose to open a hole to jump down, as James is wont to do I know. But the way they embellished it for the trailer was very on the nose.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:25
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man nurse posted:I know. But the way they embellished it for the trailer was very on the noose.
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Dec 19, 2022 19:32
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Vermain posted:it's actually kind of surprising that companies haven't branched out more into doing indie collabs, where they loan out the IP and some resources and get solid lower rent titles out of the deal. if i were konami, i'd absolutely trust handing out the license to a team that's already proven that they know how to make classic style survival horror and can tell an interesting, cerebral story to boot Didn't they do this twice? 
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Dec 19, 2022 20:24
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man nurse posted:I know. But the way they embellished it for the trailer was very on the nose. Not really? I don't like Bloober Team either but that scene takes about the same amount of time in the trailer and original and I feel like you're reading into it too much. The only difference is that James has a blank facial expression when he does it in the original, but he has a blank expression for most of the game in the original, while that wouldn't fly in a modern remake. In the making of Silent Hill 3 video, they talk about advances in technology which make characters more expressive and giving a greater variety of facial animations; if Silent Hill 2 was made using the tech from Silent Hill 3 he'd probably have a similar expression as he does in the remake trailer.
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Dec 19, 2022 20:37
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That's a fair point. I've seen bits from that Crisis Core remake that has the models and stuff from the FF7R remake, but it's clear that they didn't have the budget to do motion capture or whatever, so Tifa's there with a completely blank expression and it definitely sets off the uncanny valley ouvre.
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Dec 19, 2022 20:47
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Bogart posted:That's a fair point. I've seen bits from that Crisis Core remake that has the models and stuff from the FF7R remake, but it's clear that they didn't have the budget to do motion capture or whatever, so Tifa's there with a completely blank expression and it definitely sets off the uncanny valley ouvre. Crisis Core is more or less running off the old code from the PSP version and Square just updated the graphics and did other fixes. It's mentioned in an interview somewhere.
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Dec 19, 2022 21:00
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While my little heart can't really handle being stalked gameplay-wise, I love the yandere vibes of "lady really wants to kill you", so my partner and I will be playing this together over the holidays: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067790/Crimson_Snow/ 
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I am more than a little annoyed that, atrocious writing aside, the Outlast Trials closed beta footage I'm seeing floating around youtube makes the co-op gameplay seem fairly competently designed. I don't particularly want Red Barrels to have any kind of success with OutDongs.
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Dec 20, 2022 03:39
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You can now experience the horror of cock with a friend! Anyways I am playing Fear & Hunger and weeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp
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Read After Burning posted:While my little heart can't really handle being stalked gameplay-wise, I love the yandere vibes of "lady really wants to kill you", so my partner and I will be playing this together over the holidays: I watched a video of this game, seemed ok actually
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I watched a video of this game, seemed ok actually I like how she seems to actually double back to check rooms again. We'll be playing it over the holidays this weekend/next week, I'll let y'all know how it is!
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Vermain posted:it's actually kind of surprising that companies haven't branched out more into doing indie collabs, where they loan out the IP and some resources and get solid lower rent titles out of the deal. if i were konami, i'd absolutely trust handing out the license to a team that's already proven that they know how to make classic style survival horror and can tell an interesting, cerebral story to boot SH meanwhile is a very notorious wiki sperg IP. Nobody is like “hell, I won’t love any of the three janky Homecoming clones this year, but I’ll play them”. They’ll get even more demoralized about the state of things, get more toxic about how no one is doing the series justice. Indie devs are better off keeping their two-steps-above-shovelware walking sims and PT clones generic.
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Put another way, you’re going to get a thousand Bloober Team-caliber efforts for every one that is pretty good but still judged harshly for not being SH2 (Shattered Memories) Let Star Wars be a lesson - don’t give the nerds what they want
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Vermain posted:it's actually kind of surprising that companies haven't branched out more into doing indie collabs, where they loan out the IP and some resources and get solid lower rent titles out of the deal. if i were konami, i'd absolutely trust handing out the license to a team that's already proven that they know how to make classic style survival horror and can tell an interesting, cerebral story to boot Isn't this what the original idea for Square Enix's Collective was, let indies try to crowd fund stuff of their less used IPs? though I think only Fear Effect Sedna was actually an existing IP, but they also let the people behind GNOG/GoodBye Volcano High do an expansion for Lara Croft GO.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Put another way, you’re going to get a thousand Bloober Team-caliber efforts for every one that is pretty good but still judged harshly for not being SH2 (Shattered Memories) It's funny you say that but I can't really think of any strictly bad Star Wars games, despite a lot of them being weird fanboy games. Galaxies was probably the biggest of all and it had a lot of issues but it was still well liked. But even random games like Star Wars Bounty Hunter kicked rear end.
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CuddleCryptid posted:It's funny you say that but I can't really think of any strictly bad Star Wars games, despite a lot of them being weird fanboy games. Galaxies was probably the biggest of all and it had a lot of issues but it was still well liked. But even random games like Star Wars Bounty Hunter kicked rear end. Star Wars Kinect? Which I'm now realising is made by the same company that did Nocturne and BloodRayne.
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Hel posted:Star Wars Kinect? Which I'm now realising is made by the same company that did Nocturne and BloodRayne. I really liked Nocturne at the time, no idea if it would be any good these days though.
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Iron Crowned posted:I really liked Nocturne at the time, no idea if it would be any good these days though. I replayed it earlier this year, it absolutely still hold up.
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Hel posted:Isn't this what the original idea for Square Enix's Collective was, let indies try to crowd fund stuff of their less used IPs? though I think only Fear Effect Sedna was actually an existing IP, but they also let the people behind GNOG/GoodBye Volcano High do an expansion for Lara Croft GO. riot did it with the league IP, but it was one of those "time to launch this program immediately before covid" situations, so the most we've gotten is an actually pretty good JRPG (ruined king) and another platformer title that might see the light of day eventually i do think it requires a good amount of quality control to make sure you're not cranking out turkeys, but handing off the property to diverse interests can produce surprising results. like, yeah, disney star wars is mostly loving drivel, but then they handed it off to tony gilroy and got probably the biggest shot in the arm to the franchise's longevity in years out of it
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Hel posted:Star Wars Kinect? Which I'm now realising is made by the same company that did Nocturne and BloodRayne. I'm sorry, I cannot hear this slander against the game that brought us "Hologram Girl"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A I think about this video at least once a week
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CuddleCryptid posted:It's funny you say that but I can't really think of any strictly bad Star Wars games, despite a lot of them being weird fanboy games. Galaxies was probably the biggest of all and it had a lot of issues but it was still well liked. But even random games like Star Wars Bounty Hunter kicked rear end. I think he was talking more about the final trilogy, which was full of fan service and pleased no one.
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Professor Wayne posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A I'm sitting here, mouth wide open as Han Solo does the Trash Compactor. What the gently caress did I just watch. This is actually some kind of horror game isn't it.
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Star Wars Kinect is a treasure.
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The extended universe was amazing and Star Wars actively got worse the more Disney tried to rein it in. Even now the best Star Wars material is discount boba fett who is cooler than boba fett and discount Han Solo from a footnote movie.
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The game where you're a rancor just destroying the poo poo out of things is also a radical time imo
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Professor Wayne posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A I'm so happy the carbonite is gone I'm moving on That game was a trip, maybe the only
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CuddleCryptid posted:It's funny you say that but I can't really think of any strictly bad Star Wars games, despite a lot of them being weird fanboy games. Galaxies was probably the biggest of all and it had a lot of issues but it was still well liked. But even random games like Star Wars Bounty Hunter kicked rear end. I remember thinking Force Unleashed II was hot garbage, but it turned out it got pretty thoroughly screwed by behind-the-scenes drama.
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I played both Force Unleashed games in the last year or so, the second one definitely had its share of flaws but I still enjoyed it. I think because it felt small enough in scale that running around doing over-the-top force stuff as Badass Mcgee for a couple afternoons worked fine despite the issues. If it was anything more than that, they problems would've started to bug me a lot more.
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TheAnomaly posted:I think he was talking more about the final trilogy, which was full of fan service and pleased no one. This basically! Star Wars games haven’t been terrible by and large, I’m just saying that in terms of “IP support” and “brand health” we could be getting worse than the nothing we’ve had with Silent Hill, here.
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Played through the rest of Who's Lila? and got all but 3 achievements so I'm calling it done. Really enjoyed the game, though trying to get the last few endings got a little annoying and I looked up how to get them. I missed a few secrets but I don't really care to get them.
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I've now watched a bunch of playthroughs of the Outlast Trials beta and am far, far less impressed. It's too early to be certain, but I also think the devs appear likely to be pursuing an even worse line of narrative than the previous games, which I didn't think was possible.
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I'm getting around to finishing some games I didn't get to before the New Year and Signalis has been really good so far. Immediately gripping story, decidedly retro aesthetic while not using that as an excuse to look like a total piece of crap, begins as most great survival horror games do looking at a photograph in a bathroom. However, I do think that if you need a letter in the pump room explaining exactly how to do the puzzle, then maybe just come up with a new puzzle IDK. I heard there are multiple endings depending on how you play the game ala SH2 so I'm looking forward to seeing which one I get based on my usual style of hoarding ammo and never fighting anything in case I need it later.
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exquisite tea posted:I'm getting around to finishing some games I didn't get to before the New Year and Signalis has been really good so far. Immediately gripping story, decidedly retro aesthetic while not using that as an excuse to look like a total piece of crap, begins as most great survival horror games do looking at a photograph in a bathroom. However, I do think that if you need a letter in the pump room explaining exactly how to do the puzzle, then maybe just come up with a new puzzle IDK. I heard there are multiple endings depending on how you play the game ala SH2 so I'm looking forward to seeing which one I get based on my usual style of hoarding ammo and never fighting anything in case I need it later. That letter must have been added after playtesting or something. It makes it such a complete non-puzzle entirely.
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I am glad they added that, because that is one of those puzzles I have never been able to get the hang of. I dunno, that particular one is just. Incompatible with my brain's OS or something, and every time it appears in a game I groan.
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more like Towers of Oh Boy
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Morpheus posted:That letter must have been added after playtesting or something. It makes it such a complete non-puzzle entirely. it's the kind of thing you'd only ever find in an indie game with a shoestring budget where they can hire on a couple of people to rigorously playtest it after everything's been largely completed, and it would require a bunch of awkward reshuffling of assets and pacing to repair it, so slapping a prima guide page on the desk next to it is your next best bet
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Discendo Vox posted:I've now watched a bunch of playthroughs of the Outlast Trials beta and am far, far less impressed. It's too early to be certain, but I also think the devs appear likely to be pursuing an even worse line of narrative than the previous games, which I didn't think was possible. It seems like they’ve given up on storytelling completely and just went with a barebones excuse to throw spooky poo poo at the player. Which, considering how Outlast 2 went, is an improvement in every possible way
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